The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-03-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

TOLEDO, OHIO, Feb. %, 1885, Charles
Martindale, a young man, was stricken
with apoplexys five years ago and to all
appearances died. He was buried, &C.
5cording to=the statement of his family
and neighbors, but yesterday surprised
his father and mother by walking into the
house. The young man says that he
was not dead, but knew when he was
being laid out and when he was buried.
He could not, however, let those about
him know that he was alive. On the
night following the burial his grave was
opened BY medical students, who took
him out, dressed him up in a suit of black,
took him to the Office Of college profes.
sor and bolstererd him up, intending to
frighten the doctor and then dissect the
body. The horrible situation had the
effect to bring young Martindale out of
his trance, as he calls it. As he was
deeply in debt and his father had refused
to help him he left the town and went
West, leaving his parents to suppose him
still in the grave.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Februarye22.
a terrible tragedy took place on the base
ball grounds of the Chattanooga univer-
;sity this afternoon. While game of
ball Twas in progress between the students,
j. c.. Johnston, of Soddy, Tenn, a spec
tator, and also a student took exception
to ruling of the umpire, Ben Magill,
who resides at Half Moon Island, Tenn,
when Magill picked up baseball bat
and hit Johnston terrible blow On the
left side of the head, fracturing his skull
from the temple to the back part OF the
head. Johnston is barely alive, but the
doctors say he will die before midnight.
The killing has caused the most intense
excitement, and Deputy Sheriff Raser i'm
mediately started in pursuit of Magill,
who fled to Georgia, which is only four
miles distant from the city. Johnston
died this evening at o'clock. He never
regained consciousness. His parents
were telegraphed for, but cannot arrive
before morning. Magill, his murderer,
is still at large, having left the city on
foot. He is only about Is years Of age.
It, is thought he will make -his way to
Soddy, his home, and officers have gone
to that point to watch for him.
CEDAR HILL, Tenn, Feb. 25.-A Sc.
we're wind and hail storm passed through
here last night. The cyclone struck
Robert Sherrod's farm, sweeping it bare
for space fifty yards wide. On the nd.
joining farm otSamuel Sayers it carried
away all fences and outhouses. Barnes
and outhouses throughout the section
were destroyed. The family residence of
Mr.. VIM. Cum, q large two story build
ing, was moved fifteen feet from its posi-.
tiOn.
SHERMAN, Tex, February 26.-An
other terrible dynamite accident has
taken place, this time at Elmont, a
suburb. John Henderson attempted to
remove dynmite from the hull of q car
fridge of the kind used in killing fish.
The explosion which followed deprived
him of two fingers and a thumb of the
left hand, and the awl with which he was
removing the preparation was blown
from his right hand. The fragments of
the copper hull flew into his face and
gashed it in number of places. He is
in critical condition and may die.
Stewart Scott, the little boy hurt in
similar manner the day before, is doing as
we'll as could be expected.
MILWAUKEE. February. 26.-Gustave
Winkler, a fresco painter residing i'll the
rear of No. 100 Cedar street, shot his
wife this morning and then committed
suicide by shooting himself in the mouth,
the ball entering his brain. Both we're
instantly killed and were discovered late
this afternoon by an officer, who was
obliged to force the door open. The
three children, two boys respectively two
and three years of age, and baby two
months old, had been in the house to.
gether with their dead parents for over
FIVE hours. Winkler is a German and
came from the old country two years ago.
Family troubles and extreme poverty
seem to have been the cause of the deed.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 2G.-At Colum-
bia PLEAS Poster, colored, died in awful
agony. He was bitten by mad dog
three months ago. A dozen others were
bitten by the same animal, and it is
thought that several will die through
fright.
SHREVEPORT, La, Feb. 26.-The
Tilly hotel was barned last night. There
were about twenty-five guests in the
building, all ofwaom escaped, except r.
G. Cray, commercial traveller, from
His remains were found
buried under the debris of fallen wall.