The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-02-23
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 18th an accident to stock train
| on the Lackawanna railroad, near Strous
burg, Pa, caused by a broken rail- re-
| suited in the wrecking of twenty cars and
the xii ling of many cattle.
| OK the night of the 18th Charles
| Chandler and Miss Susan Gates were
suffocated in the burning of st. Albans
| (Vt.) Hospital, of which they were in
mates,
OK the 18th j. w. Hacker, of Evans
| vilIe ILL.,, shot and Killed his sweetheart,
Mabel Steike, of Belle Plaine, Ia, at Ber-
| lin. Wis, and then shot himself dead.
| On the 14th John Calm and Ed. McCon-
vile were held for further hearing, on a
charge of having thrown Henry Brandt
| from third.story window at No. 445 West
Thirtieth street, New York, on the 18th.
Brandt was killed by the fall.
On the 14th nine pers ons were injured in
the wreck of passenger train on the
Manitoba railr Dad.
AT Quebec, Can, six persons have been
arrested in connection with the murder Of
young Pousant, who was stabbed through
| the lungs on the 18th. The murder was
prompted by jealousy.
On the 16th William Patterson, coIored,
who is confined in the Louisville (Ky.)
| Jail under sentence of death, for the
murder of Jennie Bowman, was again re-
| spited by Governor Buckner--this time
for ninety days
Ok the 10th forty persons were killed
| in mine explosion in the Krenzgra ban
coal mine. near Kaiserlantern. Bavaria.
On the 18th the mulatto Cardonna, who
killed Byrnes and Teehan in New Y ork
! tenement house. as the result of quarrel
between his white wife and her neighbors,
| T.. l..k. q xI.
murder of Byrnes. 1t has not yet been
decided to try him for the murder of Tee
han.
OK the 17th Mrs. Joseph Franklin, of
Meadville, Pa, was seriously burned, and
otherwise injured by a natural gas ex-
plosion, which wrecked the house. A sick
son was considerably burned on one
hand, but the other members Of the fam
lily escaped without injury.
On the morning of the 18th the wooden
mill owned by T. L. Robertson, at Malli-
son Falls, South Windham, Me-, was
burned to the ground. The loss was COW
cred by an insurance of $50, 600.
On the morning of the 18th one of he
greatest fires that ever visited Westerly
r. l., ragged for three hours, destroying
several business buildings and causing a
loss of about $3.50, 000 f r
AT Detroit, Mich, Annie Hedtke, an
orphan Polish girl, died recently from
the effects of brutal assault by negro
The fact was kept secret by the family
until the 18th.
On the 18th Richard Cassibone was
sent to the Ohio State penitentiary for
six years, on a thirty.two-year old sem
tence, for manslaughter, received in Mus
kingum County in 1850. He broke Jail
after sentence was passed, and was not
discovered until two months ago, liv-
ing at Chillicothe under an assumed
name.
AT Chicago the young man captured by
the police as an accomplice in the murder
of Millionaire Smell is namsd VIM. B. Tas
colt. The police are confident Of his con-
viction.
On the 18th three rollcking railroaders
who had been making night of it among
the sporting houses at Columbus, O.,
called at late hour at Doctors Office in
a drunken and demoralized condition,
and exhibited bleeding wounds of the re-
ceiving of which they could give no ac-
count. One of them will die.
On the 18th an effort was made to blow
up an Irish inspector or of police.