The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-05-10
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT huSnVllle, lnd., on Une oUbn, Dy inc
explosion of lime mill, VIM. Caldwell,
the proprietor, N. E. Conde and Joseph
Laken were fatally Allen Laken and
Alonzo Rea seriously, and three others
slightly hurt.
OK the LIST the town of Trentc n, KY, was
visited by a disastrous fire and a large
number of buildings were consumed.
ASSISTANT CASHIER CHARLES l.. DE-
BAUM, by an ingenious system of falsifying
the books of which he had control, sue
ceeded in robbing the National Park
Bank of New York of 100000. He had
been connected with the bank for twenty
years.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 1st, Geo
Seibert, VIM. Bitler and Kate Durkin were
arrested, charged with completely in the
Berwick tragedy, in which ANNE Nagel
was burned to death
AT Summeryille, Ga, a negro named
Henry Pope, under sentence of death, but
who had been several times respited by
the Governor, was taken from jail and
hanged by mob, on the Both.
NEAR Elko Neb., two section men were
killed and three seriously wounded, on the
30th, in a collision between a locomotive
and hand car.
NEAR Paris, on the I'd, the Due DeGra-
mont was slightly wounded in duel with
NJ. Rambeaud The duel grew out of q
dispute over turf matters.
On the I'd John Steiner, Cleveland CO.,
saloon keeper, was fined S25 and costs and
sentenced to thirty days in the work
house. for violating the Sunday law.
AT Erie, Pa, the residence of Mr.. Frank
McClintock, a lawyer, was blown up by
dynamite on the night of the 1st The
crime is attributed to saloon keepers or
roughs whom he had prosecuted.
THE judgment of the trial court, in the
case of William George, the murderer,
was affirmed by the Supreme Court of
Ohio, and he was sentenced to hang on the
18th.
On the Sd the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts confirmed the conviction of Mrs.
Robinson, the wholesale poisoner.
AT Columbus, o., an arch in the new
Board of Trade building in course Of erec-
ton fell and killed two workmen, on the
Cd.
AT Fort Garland, Col, on the Sd, Billy
Carson shot, in self-defense, and killed
Thomas j. Tobius, former companion
of his father-the famous scout Kit Car
son.
On the Sd Minnie Forsythe, Mt. Ver-
non (O.) girl, eighteen years old, tried to
murder her father by beating him over
the head with club She broke his arm
and fractured his skull.
On the 4th Thomas G.. Woodford, chief
clerk in the State Comptroler's office, at
Annapolis, Md, hanged himself.
RECENTLY, Robert NJ. Thompson, an alb
sconding guardian, convicted at Memphis,
in May, 1856, of withholding II, $40 pension
money from the children of Thomas Nc
Call, was arrested near Goldberg, N. c.,
and on the 4th was committed TO Jail in
Washington by United States Commits
sioner Bundy.
OK the ith James H. Hunting, an un-
successful stock broker of New York, shot
himself dead after inditing request to
Cyrus w. Field, his only friend to send
his body home for burial as cheaply as
possible.
NEAR Messina, Italy, on the 4th, an ex-
plosion occurred in tunnel in process of
excavation in which six workmen were
killed outright, and large number in
jured, some fatally.
AT Rye, N. Y, on the 4th, George SUIT
ton, master mechanic was killed, and
Michael Curran, laborer, had his jaw
and back broken by being struck by a
train on the New York, New Haven q
Hartford railroad, while working on the
new bridge.
On the Sd L. w. Holman, Of Boston, was
arrested, charged with conspiracy to MUIR
der his half sister Miss Emeline d. Hol-
man, of Worcester, Mass.
On the 4th +. l.. Grouse, of Easton, o.,
committed suicide in Cincinnati, by hang
ing.