Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

ON the 9th Mrs. Mary Slower, blind
woman at Benton Bridge, Hancock County,
o., was burned to death, her clothing
stove. Her husband, also blind, was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
wife.
On the 9th James Dana, brother Of
Chas. A. Dana, of the New York Sun, was
out hunting on North Fork, near Thorpe,
Wis, with E. Vantrot, a prominent mer-
chant Of Durant. The hunters separated
for time and Dana mistook Vantrot for q
deer and shot him in the back, the ball
coming out in front. He will recover.
PETER MCCARTHY was fatally injured
and Michael Wood quite seriously burned
by an explosion of natural gas at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 9th. The men were dig
ging trench and had just lit a lamp to
work by when the accident occurred. The
explosion was caused by the light coming
in contact with gas leak from the pipes
along the street.
ON the 9th fire in the Farwell building,
Chicago, caused loss of 100000.
ON the 9th robbers boarded a train be-
tween Naples and Benvento, shot the
guard, and secured 1000 francs in money.
ON the night of the 9th DR.. j.. A. Mona
maker and his wife committed suicide to-
gether at Salido, Col.
j. r. HoGLE has been arrested at Chi
cago on charge of robbing D. G. Sterling
on Lake Shore train.
JOHN KNELL and his whole family at
Baltimore, Md, came near losing their
lives by escaping gas. One child died.
On the 9th collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Road at Akron, o.,
caused by an operator falling asleep, de-
molished 1000 worth of property.
THE steamer Mountain Girl was sunk in
a collision with the James w. Gaff ON the
Ohio River below Lawrenceburg, Ind. A
lot of circus property was destroyed and
two lives were lost.
ON the Sth two Germans were carried
over Niagara Falls in boat.
On the evening of the Sth State Auditor
Keisewetter Of Ohio shot and wounded W.
j. Elliott, editor of the Columbus Sunday
Capital
udNt DCch lOuul ny Vuc
Grand Jury in the Superior Criminal Court
at Boston, Mass, against A. j. Mellen, of
Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. Emma Coolidge,
of Boston, for conspiracy to kill the wife of
the son of Mellen.
REV. r. d. PHILLIPS was arrested at
Branchport, Yates County, N. Y, on the
It'll, for forging two notes of 1000 each
against his father-in law, and other notes
aggregating $4,000.
c. e. LEWIS salt works at West Bay
City, Mich, burned on the It'll; loss, $1O,.
| 600.
On the It'll the McMicken University
building at Cincinnati, o., was DANCED by
fire to the extent of $4,000.
A SEVERE cyclone devastated portions OF
Illinois on the afternoon and night of the
9th, accompanied by serious destruction Of
property and loss of life.
On the 9th the wife of Hon. Charles R
Pratt, of New York, was killed in rail
road wreck on the West Shore Road, ant
her husband and number of others wer,
injured.
THE steamer Algoma, of the Canadian
Pacific line, struck reef during fog of
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, on the morning
of the 9th, and went down with all OF
board, some thirty-seven persons.
| A FREIGHT train on the Northern Pacific
Railway was wrecked at Fargo, OAK, OF
| the 10th.
ROGER O'BRrEN, a prominent member o.
the National League, was shot at Athlone
Ireland, on the 10th.
Two lives were lost by the wrecking o
the schooner R. B. King, at Muskegon
Mich, on the 10th.
THoMPsoN's foundry and the Duquesn'
furniture factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, wer,
| burned out on the 10th.