The Russellville Democrat., 1888-11-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

| MATTHEW BAKER, a we'll to- do farmer
residing between Venice and New Balti-
more, Hamilton County, O., hanged HIM
self, on the 22d, in his barn.
| A CLERK in the City National Bank Of
| Springfield, Mass, detected in a plot
to rob the bank of $4,000, upon making a
written confession, was, on the I'D, dis
charged. He made confdante of a man
whom he supposed to be crook but who
| turned out TO be detective.
| DURING their mothers absence, seeking
aid of charitable society, two children
of Yetta Greenberg, of New York City,
we're burned to death, on the 22d. She
! had been deserted by her husband, and
| three little ones.
| DURING violent quarrel, on the 22d,
H. II. Scott ex-village president and
county surveyor of Hinckley, Mimi, shot
and killed Sidney K Cruin, an engineer
at the Eastern Minnesota railway water
| tank.
! NEAR the mouth of the Little Chop
| tank river, Maryland, battle, lasting
| two hours and resulting in one fatal cas-
ualty. occurred on the 22d, between the
man Of war Governor Thomas and four
teen oyster dre1gers The man-of- war
was driven off.
| CHARLES TINKER, the nineteen-year-
! old forger, who successfully feeced the
| Citizens, Merchants and First National
| banks of Cincinnati out of 5000 each, q
| few weeks since, has been arrested in
| L ondon, England, in company with
| Matilda Meier, the young girl who left
| Cincinnati with him.
BEFORE retiring, on the DIST Fred Dost
and his wife, Amelia, of Cleveland, o.,
| turned down the damper in the stove
pipe, and, gas escaping into the room,
both were asphyxiated. The woman Is
| dead, but the man may possibly recover.
OK the 22t Emil Iseldriver, of Buff alo,
and Augustus Smith, of Binghampton,
N. Y, were killed tg train on the
Lackawanna road at Wilkesbarre, Pa
AN inmate of the National Soldiers
Home 1t Hampton, Va, named Simon
birmingham committed suicide, on the
22d, by cutting an artery and bleeding to
death.
FIRE in school building at Long ISL
and City, N. Y, on the 22d, caused pam
ic among the children, but was extin
guished with slight loss, an none of the
children were injured.
H. II. SCOTT killed Sidney K Irwin at
Hinckley, Mich, on the 231.
FIRE at Duluth, Mimi, on the 23d, de-
stroyed property to the value Of S25, 900.
| On the 23d Philip j. Goss, the New York
policy dealer, in whose place James E..
Bedell, the forger, lost $125.ooo, pleaded
| guilty to felony, and was fined $1,000.
| On the 23d, fire in the Crescent Avenue
Presbyterian Church of Plainield, N. j.,
| caused loss of S. 000; fully insured,
On the night of the 22d nearly all the
| business section of Pocomoke City, Md,
| a village in the southern part of Wor-
cester County, on the eastern shore OF
Chesapeake Bay, was destroyed by fire.
ON the 23d Albert Shnltz, at Altoona,
| Pa, fred gun, which he thought was
not loaded, and killed his eight months
old brother.
NEAR Tralee, County Kerry, an Irish
farmer, recently returned from America,
took farm from which a former tenant
| had been eyicted. On the 23d his dead
body was found, pierced with four bull
let's.
ENGINEER WHIrTAKER's legs were
crushed in railroad collision at Ham
| mondsville, o., on the 23d
HENRY JONES, OF Petersburg, Va, was
frozen to death on the night of the 22d.
He went home at late hour intoxicated,
and laid down on the porch, where he was
found in the morning by some OF his
neighbors, frozen stiff.
ADAM BERKEs, who was whipped. re-
Gently. at Sardinia o., by White Caps,
has lost his reason, aud is now a maniac.
MRS. MARY DORIAN, of Columbus, Ind,
who murdered her husband by pouring
| carbolic acid into his mouth while asleep,
was, on the 23d, acquitted by jury on
| the ground of insanity.
FIRE destroyed the extensive works of
| the Ft. Wayne Qnd.) Jenney Electric
Light Company on the % Loss, $500, 600;
| insurance, Sl5S, 900 Three hundred en-
ployes are temporarily thrown out Of
work.
| AFTER reaching an altitude of half q
mile the balloon in which Prof Vandegrift
made an ascension from the Exposition
| Park, at Columbus, Ga, on the 22d, sud-
| denly burst and the eronaut descending
| by parachute, alighted in the Chatta-
hoochie river, and was drowned.
| ON the 23d Recorder Smythe OF New
York City sentenced James E. Bedell, the
| forger, to State prison for twenty five
| years and four months