The Springdale news., 1888-12-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

in Washington.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. ALEXANDER MCPHETERs, a rich farmer of Yigo County. Ind, recognized in the photographs Of Henry Rice and Charles Watson. under arrest at Detroit Mich, for confidence work, the men who swindled him out of >2. GOO year ago last October An indictment has been found against them i'll Indiana and the Governor has issued a requisition on the Governor Of Michigan for the men. ON tine 18th John Myers Deremus was hanged in the Jail at Hackensack, \. J., for the murder of his nineteen-year -old son, while the latter was defending his mother from the abuse of the murderer. IT Is reported that six farmers, together with the wives Of two and a son each of the other four comprising a party en route from Boucherville to Montreal, Can, with loaded teams of Christmas supplies, were lost in the breaking up of the ice in the river on the 18th.
 ON the 18th nine workmen were carried down with falling bridge spanning the Merrimac river at Hookset, \. H. Three of them were drowned, and the remaining six were rescued in an injured condition, but none were hurt fatally.
 OS the night Of the 18th. during heavy squall. the oyster schooner Charles Ow- ens, of Portsmouth, Va, capsized in the James river. of White Shoal Light house, and Captain Hemy Beaman and the cook, eolored boy, named Ridley, were drowned.
 IT was reported on the 18th that Ticket Agent Harris. at the Grand Central Depot. New York. for the New York, New Haven X Hartford railroad. was an absconder. The amount 0f his dedication had not been aseertained.
 OS the 2oth Edward Meredith. who planned the badger game" in which Phil Daly was murderously assaulted in New York City fat. recently, pleaded guilty. and was sentenced to eight years and ten months in State prison. Henry Hermann, hi, aceemPiee, got six years and eleven months.
 THE Warren House at Warren Sburgh. S. Y., a Well known summer resort. was destroyed by fire on the 2oth. Loss, S6,e65 It was erected about century ago.
 FIVE prisoners confined in the Port Townsend ". T. iail, on the 20th. over powered Th-s. Huner, the jailer, gagged him, took his keys and pistol. opened the doors and fled. They left Huller and one
 
 men are marderers and highwaymen.
 0N the 20th two elegantly-dre ladies lifted" diamond bracelet, valued at 500, from Buffalo \. N iewelry store. Parties answering to their de- scriptien were atterward arrested at Cleveland. c.
 THE propeller Lake Ontario. recently purchased by o'Malley. of Windsor, Ont, was burned at Charlotte, N. Y, on the 2lst The fire originated from a stove n the cabin. Loss. s.e)1: no insurance.
 ON the night e the 20th Captain Wishart. special agent .. the Pittsburgh IPa.l Law and Order Society, was assaulted on the street and knocked down by an unknown ruftian.
 THE Scranton Pa Match Factory, es- tabli~hed about year ago, was burned on the 21st. Loss. >25.o0J; partly insured. Se7eutyhve hands are thrown out os en- ploymeut.
 OS the 21st five white men and two ne- eroes were arrested in Haralson Coun Y, Ga. for the murder ot Adam Golden, a colored man who was brained with fence rail while defending a helpless woman from a mob.
 BETWEEN the 16th and 20th six men were killed by locomotives ill and near Wheel ing. ". Va.
 ON the 23d Henry D. Schoonmaker. aged twentE-three years, a salesman, shot and fatally wounded his wife Filth. aged twenty-two. and then shot himself dead, al their residence iu Brooklyn.
 OX the 22d Ezra Teetzel. of Eass ar. Mich. was shot and instantly killed at Vest Bay City by q negro named Peter Saunders, with whom he had a difficulty. Saunders was stabbed and otherwise in- jured. The murderer escaped, but was arrested later in the day.
 0S the night 4f tae 22l Mrs. John Stone, residing near Albion, Ia, who had her bus -band arrested ea the 20th for beating her and then sued him for divorce, drowned herself IE the river. She was the mother Of six children.
 ON the 22d. al Cucharas. Col. on the Denver < Rio Grand railroad, Conductor Wm. E. Comstock and Brakeman Henry Borst were turning brake when the chain broke and both men were thrown under the cars and instantly killed.
 FIVE Columbia College students were arrested for creating a disturbance at the Bijou New York City Theater on the 22d. and were subsequently, fined SIC each.
 THE magnificent Lower Mississippi steamer Kate Adams. plying between Memphis, Tenn, and Arkansas City, Ark, was butned on the morning Of the e3d near Commerce. Miss. Thirtytwo people lost thel. lives.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 THE cable announces that the French Minister Of Marine contradicts the report that his government is about to send sev- eral iron-c -clads 10 Panama to watch United States vessels of war there. He says two