The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 11th J. Colby Drew, the self
confessed forger, was arraigned at Lynn,
Mass, and pleaded 'tNot guilty" He
was held in 1000 bail for the grand jury.
BY the collapse of a wall of the old
hospital building at the Soldiers Home
in Dayton, O., which workmen were en-
gagged in tearing down, two men were
killed and several severely injured, on
the 11th.
FIRE destroyed the entire business por-
ton of the town of Harper, Ia, with the
exception of one store and an implement
house, on the 18th.
INFORMATION has been received that the
steamer Laurania, while entering the
harbor OF Port Luz, Canary islands, came
into collision with the Italian steamer
Sud America, from Montevideo, which
was lying at anchor. The latter, which
had on board ZIG passengers and a crew
of sixty sank almost Immediately.
One hundred and eighty Of the passen-
gers and sixty three Of the crew were
rescued and safely landed. Only nine
bodies were recovered.
FIRE destroyed the Grand Opera House
block in Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th.
THE man who was run over and killed
by a Rapid Transit train on the Long
Island road was identified, on the 18th, as
John Ogden, a retired hotel keeper Of
Norristown, Pa. Engineer Edward Locke
has been held on a charge Of homicide.
NEAR Tlgerton, Wis, on the 18th pas
senger train on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore g. Western railroad was wrecked
by a broken wheel
THE steamer NepauI, bound for China
from London, went ashore, on the night
Of 18th, near Marseilles, France. All
hands were saved. The captain, however,
died shortly after from stroke Of apo
plexy, which resulted from the severe
shock the accident to his vessel caused
him.
NEAR Wichita, Kas., the body Of J. c..
Treboul, who disappeared two months
ago, was found in thicket, on the 18th,
with a bullet-hole in the head. It is
thought that Treboul was murdered, as he
was known to have money when last cen,
and none was found on the body.
THE losses sustained by the recent
cyclone in Cuba foot up fully S10,000,000.
Eight hundred lives were lost, and 10000
people are left homeless.
FIRE destroyed the St James Hotel at
Point Pleasant N. J., on the 18th. The
wife Of Rev. H. r Nye is supposed to
have perished in the flames. Many guests
narrowly escaped with their lives.
FIRE destroyed two hundred buildings
at Washburn, Wis, on the 14th-
PETER RAAIENsoN, of Racine, Wis.,, beat
his daughter so badly, on the 18th, that il
was thought she would not recover.
For attempting to blsckmau Rev.
Dominiok Skunk, Catholic priest at San
Pierre, Ind, Harry Golden, alias Louis
p. Meyers, an ex-convict, was sentenced.
on the 14th, to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, Charles Klein
attempted, on the 14th, to shoot his wife,
and failing in this, beat her head into q
| jelly with the butt end of his revolver
| He then went into the yard and shot him.
| self through the temple.
Ex-TELLER CHARLES A PITCHER of the
| Union Bank of Providence, r. l., was
| convicted at Montrea al, on the 14th, on 6
charge OF taking stolen goods into Cam
ada
AT Dubuque, Ia, J. Below and L. Mar
/ tin, eighteen and twenty-five years of
| age, respectively, we're arraigned, on the
| 18th, before the United States Commits
sioner, for robbing the post-ofice a
| Hazleton. They were unable to furnish
bail, and were committed to Jail. Below
claims to be the son of a Colorado judge
NEAR Hastings, N. Y, on the 18th, five
persons were drowned in the Hudson
river, while out In SAIL boat which wa;
| sWamped half q mile from shore.
A PARTY of four, composed Of yOuni
men and women, were carried over Fair
mount dam in the Schuylkill river, a
| Philadelphia, on the night of the 18th, an
two OF them, Frank Caffrey and Minnie
Luffty, were drowned
On the 14th one of the two men struck
| by Lackawanna train in Buffalo, on the
9th, recovered consciousness and gave hi,
name as Thomas Hughes, and said tha
his companion, who was killed outright
was Charles Tully, of Providence, r. I.
On the 14th Alex. J. Goldensen, tn
young murderer Of his betrothed, wa
hanged in San Francisco. He was to
drunk to know what W as going on at tn
time.