Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.
S. L. Williams, a farmer living near Red
Key, 1Dd., was murdered and robbed OF
his money.
| Milton Skinner, q wealthy farmer near
Elmira, New York, having recently been
adjudged incompetent to transact business,
set FIRE to his house and barns.
Thos. Waters, book agent, committed
suicide at Quincy, ILL.,, by sticking his head
in hole in the ice, with water only ten
inches deep.
The boiler of Earnsst's saw mill at Coed
| Spring Station, on the Lebanon & Fremont
railroad, exploded, killing three employees
and ipjuring three others.
At Jackson, Michigan, hack containing
Jud Crouch, the murderer, was demolished
and the horses killed by locomotive, but
the passenger escaped tninjured.
The steamer Belle Shreveport sunk about
sixty miles above Arkansas City. Two
lives were lost. The other passengers were
rescued by the steamer Kate Adams.
Flames swept away large building at
Yonkers, New York, occupied by manu-
fscturers, valued at $500, 900, and Parnel's
malt-house at Auburn, in the same state.
The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one
thousand feet long, near New Lexington,
Ohio, were set on fire by incen1iaries, and
its speedy destruction seems quite certain.
A cyclone passed through the counties of
Hale, Perry and Bibb, Ala, blowing down
houses, barns, fences and everything in its
way. One man was killed and several
wounded.
special from Collinsville, ILL.,, says: The
oldest and most extensive stock bell factory
burned to the ground recently. Fifteen
thousand dozen bells were destroyed. Loss,
$50 600; no insurance.
Five hundred pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded at Somerset, Pa, killing two men
and wounding several others. Window
glass was broken in houses half mile from
the scene of the accident.
A fire at Mount Vernon, Ind, destroyed
A. J. Clarks jewelry store, VIM. Gueiss'
confectionery, the Weston Union Tele-
graph Office, L. w. Jones' photograph
gallery and VOLTS meat shop.
| Robert Brewster State Register of Votes,
was shot and killed il an ARRAY at the Mas
colt Office in New Orleans. Brewster had
been a prominent ward politician and ct
one time was criminal sheriff.
Since the recent arrest OF Miles Oele, the
couuterfeiter, at Memphis, officers OF the
Secret Service have traced out bis plates
and paper, and found So, 900 in bill, neal
Louisville, and 5000 at the Cincinn ati
stock yards.
A Special Grand Jury, appointed by the
Cock county, ILL.,, Criminal Court, returned
| sy,l, &c o. M.B Eo1l ~,
| Shields, HansbrOugh, Sullivan, Biehl and
Gleason, for participation in the Eighteenth
Ward election frauds. Mackin was also in
dicted separately for perjury, in swearing
that he did not order the printing of bogus
| tickets.
John Stapleton was taken from Jail at
Sailorsville, KY, by a mob and hanged to a
| tree. StapletOn shot and killed Callihar
Whit last November and was in Jail at Mt
Sterling. StapletOn, ST., was arrested few
days ago and jailed at Sailorsville. There
is much Indignation at the hanging. Many
believe that Stapletop had nothing to do
with the killing OF Whit.
Near Midd!esex five miles from Sharon,
Pa, James kirsch, a wealthy farmer, was
murdered by farm hand, James Hillands.
The two had quarreled early in the day,
but were parted, and Hillands went away.
In the afternoon he returned, and entering
the house, struck kirsch between the neck
and right shoulder with an axe, severiEg
the iugular vein and killing him almost in
stanuy.
VIM. Neal will hang at Louisville, KY.
February 81. for murder. Neal is the last
of the perpetrators of the awful Ashland
murder, when Gibson's family were killed,
after two of his young girls were outraged.
| The mob at Ashland, in which number
of persons were killed and wounded by the
troops, will be remembered as one Of the
| results of the crime. William E lis wss
hanged by the mob after confessing his
guilt.
Pinkerton's detective agency effected the
arrest recently of David E.Swan at Sutton's
Bay, Mich, where he was living under the
alias of D. T. Ellington, and had only re-
| Gently been elected Prosecuting Attorney.
Swan was the former local cashier of the
Northern Pacific railroad, at st. Paul, and
by forgery succeeded in embezz!ing $1,000
of the company's funds, which was lost in
speculation. He disappeared last July.
A special from Bridgeport. Conn, Jan,
| II, saws: An attempt was made at IL O'Clock
| last night by unknown persons to blow up
Crofut g. Knapp's hat store, No. 2 South
| Norwalk street with dynamite. The shock
was felt all over the city and attracted great
crowds of people to the scene. One end of
the structure was completely blown out.
There were seventeen employees asleep in
the building at the time who escaped in
Jury. 1t is supposed to be the work of dis
satisfied strikers or their friends. The
men in the building were thrown from
| their COTS The windows throughout the
building were shattered and broken.
The District Attorney and Coroner are
conducting an examination into the death
of William Druse, the farmer who was
murdered by his wife in the town OF War
rem. four miles from Richfield Spring, N. Y.
Frank Gates, aged fourteen, a nephew OF
Druss, and living in the family, made an
artless confession, showing that the crime
was committed December 10, and that Mrs.
Druse compelled him to shoot her husband
the second time, and aid her to dispose OF
the body. They boiled it and fed the flesh
to the hogs, and burned the bones, the
ashes of which were buried in swamp.
The boy says the woman cut her husbands
head of, and put it first in the stove. The
boy acted as fireman and had terrible
time destroying evidences of the crime.
The neighbors, who noticed an unusual
smoke and odor, were refused admittance,
and papers were Kept over the Windows.
Since then the house has been repapered.
FOREIGN.
The King of Spain is camping in the
earthquake region.
The arrival is reported in Tohquin OF
1920 fresh French troops.
England is taking steps to secure the neu-
| trality of the Samoan Islands.
| The adjournment of the French Cham
bers will be extended to January %.
| A bill has been passed by the Italian Sen