The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-14
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL THURSDAY IL 1885,

still standing, but fears entertained not only
for its safety, but for the safety of other build
ings in the neigh borhood, and the people of that
section of the borough are terribly excited.
A south bound passenger train and north
bound freight on the Wisconsin Central railroad
collided atfAmherst, yesterday morning, wreck
ing both engines and severely injuring Engineer
Mullen, of the freight train. The track is block
AIDED by the wreck.
While the town marshal of fremont, O., was
returning from Toledo with prisoner named
McVicker, the latter jumped through the car
window. The train was stopped and the prison
or found to be insensible. He was taken to Ire
mont and died soon afterward from internal In
juries.
An armed mob of fifty masked men attempted
to take negro charged with the attempted rape
of a white woman from the New Castle Ky
Jail early yesterday morning. The jailer refused
TO give the prisoner I'D and stood guard man
fully until the mob was induced to ride away,
after firing q volley from their pistols at the
Jail.
Hugh Edwards. jeff Jarrett and Bud Crout-
cher arrested at Mount Vernon. KY,
charged with numbering and robbing Elias
Searcy, blacksmith. 1t is thought the men
gave him glass of poisoned whisky and took
$50 he was known to have on his person Searcy's
dead body was found lying outside of the sa-
loon.
A scaffold at the new building Of the Allegheny
County Electric light Company. at Pittsburg
fell yesterday, precipitating five men to the
ground, distance Of fifty feet All were dan
gerously hurt, and two of them Alexander Free
man and Cyrus Stewart, received fatal injuries.
The names of the others were j. j. Dwyer,
Robert Aston and William Hays The men
were moving heavy timber when the accident
occurred.
At Byron, Shiawassee county, Mich, on
Tuesday evening, Sam Hadden, a crippled sol
der, quarreled with his father, and the son. who
is a hottempered fellow went to the house, Sc
cured revolver, and returned to the scene of
the quarrel Aiming at his father, he shot him
five times, every shot striking a vital spot. Had
den was Immediately arrested and placed in
Jail. He claims that he acted in self-defense,
and expresses no sorrow for the killing.
Joseph Freese, of West Stratford, Conn,
yesterday morning threw himself in front of an
express train on the Consolidated road, by which
his head was severed from his body When the
neighDors who had been disturbed by the quar-
rel went to Freese's house, they found his
wife lying on the floor with four wounds in her
abdomen. one in each thigh, and one in the wrist,
inflicted with dagger seven inches long She
cannot live.
Rev f. r. Lawrence Murphy, of Cleveland, a
Catholic priest. was arrested in Boston, yester-
day. for the larceny of three-dollar coat. He
acknowledged having been on an extended spree,
and that womans sack found in his possession
had been taken by him. out of revenge, from
strange woman with whom he had stopped at
the Boston Hotel, Tuesday night. and who had
tried to beat him out of $40. Father Murphy
said he had been suspended by the archbishop,
but did not state on what ground.