The Osceola times., 1888-07-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

University. on the 3lth, in memory OF his
dead pupil, friend and patron.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JONI MoNERIgF, night Waterman Tor the
Ohio a Mississippi Railroad Company az
North Vernon. Ind, was seriously wound
ed in the breast by ball from pistol IN
a valise which he was throwing into
baggage-car, on the 26th.
OS the night before he was executed
Geo~ce Wilson, who was hanged at Ale
bion. y. Y, on the 27th. for wife murder,
said: II am feeling first rate. and shall
walk to the scaffold an innocent man"
Tbs Union Wind Mil Compsny's shops
Mt Albion. Mich, were partially destroyed
By fire on the night Of the 2ith, causing
loss of $4,000; insurance 5000.
AT Anderson, S. C., a great sensation
was caused, on the a7th, by the arrest Of
Mrs. NJ. f. Reese, one OF the most repu-
table ladies' o. the place, on a charge OF
arson. The detectives claim that she is
the author Of several attempts 10 burn the
town.
NEAR Wilkesbarre, Pa, United States
officers succeeded, on the Goth, in arrest
ing Wilson Kline, alias Henry Smith, and
Clarke Bellies, said to have been connected
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post-offices throughout the country.
Ar Marc uette, Mich, Louis Nicoli,
stone cutter. who had been discharsedfor
drunkenness by Smith & Wilson, con-
tractors, appeared at the works, on the
26th, and shot Mr.. Wilson, with probably
fatal effect He then walked home, and
shot himself in the mouth. inhicting a
mortal wound.
FAILING TO receive his wed ding suit on
time George II. Gobson, who was to have
been married in Boston, on the 2sth, was
so disappointed that he shot himself, in
fiicting wound from which he died the
next day.
oy the morning Of the 2sth Prof. Francis
T. Lantry, of Maulius, n. v, was found
dead, with his throat cut, in a room at the
Aston House, New York City. The suicide
had swallowed several grains Of morphine
before using the razor.
THEODORE CASTER, a farmer, who had
Just sold u team OF horses, was attacked
near Kingsley, Mich, on the 9th, by
three brothers named Droste. He shot
one dead fatally injured another, and
thinks he got some lead into the third,
who escaped
JoHNsoN's block Of two stories, at Dun
dee Mich, occupied by 4. G. Kenyon, dry
goods, and l.. |. Flint, groceries, was
burned on the 2sth. Loss, si5, coo; insur.
ance small.
Mrs. GEo. MARSHALL, aged sixty-eight,
living in Council Bluffs, Ia, committed
suicide, on the 2sth, by shooting De-
ceased remarked a few days previous that
she thought she had cancer, and it is
thought that brooding over this caused
her to commit the act.
JOSEPH greenfield, who stole furs
valued at $500 from his fathers store at
90 Broadway, New York, was charged
with theft in court, on the 2Sth, by his
father, and committed in default OF bail
for trial.
DURING the Republican National con-
vention Hon. NJ. s. Smith, ex-mayCr of
the city of Philadelphia, was robbed of his
watch, cham and diamond stud at the Tre-
mont House, Chicago. The stolen prop
erty was valued at about sl.20).
A FEW weeks ago Albert +. Krane,
cashier for Hrrsch & Co., importers of but
tons at Nos. i27 and i29 Broadway, New
York City, disappeared. Investigation OF
his accounts revealed that he had appro.
priated 50 600 Of the FIRMS money. De-
tectives were put on his track, and he was
traced TO Montreal, where he is now under
arrest awaiting extradition.
On the 2sth Mrs. J. j. Griffith and Mrs
/ DR.. Walker, OF Jennertown, Pa, started
/ in buggy to visit relatives in the coun.
/ try. Each lady was accompanied by 9
/ little daughter. While descending a steer
hill the horse ran away. The Griffith
child was killed by being thrown from the
buggy, and both ladies were probably
fatally injured.
Tue American burglars, Porter and
Buck, who are wanted in Zurich, Switzer.
land for robbery, were arraigned at the
Bow Street police court, London, on The
29th, where they were identified by the
owners OF the estab' ishment at Munich
Bavaria, which they robbed some time
ago. The prisoners were remanded until
the 30th.
DAVID SrRAroS, notorious desperate.
and one OF the leaders in the Hatfield
Mccoy feud, was captured by Captain
Burnett. detective of Charlestown, W
Va, and is now in jail.
on the 2sth, at Melville Gardens, Hing
ham, Mass, where a thousand East Bos-
ton people had gathered for picnic, a
boat containing party of four was upset
aged nineteen. was drowned.
NEAR Marley, Tenn, Wendell Whit
comb, while engaged in killing rats In his
barn, on the 2Sih, with a shotgun, acct
dcntally shot his two young daughters
who were looking on. One of them was
instantly killed and the other fatally
wounded. The father is Frustrated with
grief.
WHILE umpiring game OF ball il
Brooklyn, on The Goth, VIM Graineyi was
hit on the neck by the pitched ball and
died shortly after.
| IN New York City James Kent, twenty
| five years OF age, was overcome by illu-
minating gas, on the 3)th. and was taken
TO the Presbyterian Hospital, where he
died on the LIST
AT Reading, Pa, Joseph Autenbach, an
Ice dealer, hanged himself in his
cellar, on the Goth, because his ice cream
had turned sour.
AT New York City, William Parkinson
a 'longshoreman, took rough on rats. on
the lst with fatal results. Dependency
aud poverty were the causes which led to
the deed. He leaves a wife and one child.
Ar Pittsburgh, Pa, James Jordan, a
| young colored man who was at work on
the fourth floor at Hamilton's casket fac
tory, fell through a skyheht, on the 30th,
TO the ground, distance Of sixty feet.
He was terribly mangled and will die.
AN Aspen junction Coli special says
| Charles Whitehead sho, aud instantly
killed Minnie Hill, on the 2ath. and then
blew out his own brains. No cause for the
| act was assigned.
THE recent fires Mt Sundsval aud Umea.
| Sweden, rendered twelve thousand peo-
pie homeless. The destruction of prop
erty amounted 10 4j,000,oo0 trousers.