The Russellville Democrat., 1888-06-07


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT New Lexington, o., Smiths Opera
House, the Catholic Church and st. Alloy
sius' Academy, were unroofed by the ter
rife ind-storm that occurred in that
town on the 2Sth.
AT Hillsboro, O., Hon. John T. Hughes
was fatally injured and his wife seriously
hurt, by being thrown from their buggy
which was blown over by the cyclone
which struck that town on the 2Sth.
On the 2Sth C. Schoenet, cigar maker,
was murdered at Minneapolis, Mimi.
AT Wellsville, N. Y, on the 2Sth, twenty
business houses were unroofed by a
cyclone.
On the Doth, Chamberlain, the Monticel-
10 Qnd) murderer, was taken from the
Wabash Jail and spirited to the State
penltentiary at Michigan City for safe
keeping. 1t was feared that an effort
would be made to lynch him.
AT Lyons, Pa, on the Goth, the dead
body of Brakeman Jas. B. Hunsberger
was found on the top OF car. 1t is sup
posed he was killed by lightning during
the awful storm of the previous night.
WHILE fording Sappa creek, in Furnas
County, Neb., on the 2Sth, the bed of a
wagon containing a farmer named Album
and his family floated from the truck and
capsized. four -year-old daughter of
the farmer, and Bertha Burger, an orphan
child, we're drowned.
AT Ralston, Tenn, a young man named
Spier was shot and killed, on the 30th,
by two men named Arnau and Coving-
ton.
AT Trenton, N. j., p. S. Moore, editor
of the Ringoes Monitor, religious paper,
was arrested on the 30th for stealing a
horse from Rev. Charles w. Pitcher, of
the Ringoes Presbyterian Church. Moore
attempted to jump into the canal when ar
rested, and has since threatened to commit
suicide. He admitted the theft, and has
been expelled from the church.
AT Wyandotte, Mich, on the 1st an
explosion from an unknown cause oc-
Cured in the Eureka Iron works, by
which three employees lost their lives.
AT Bristol, Pa, on the 1st, Mrs. Ellen
Martin and her sixteen-year-o r-old daughter
were struck by a train and instantly
killed
IT is reported that w. III. Moore, cashier
and general manager of the Bank of
Socorro, N. NJ, is short in his accounts
and has gone to Mexico. The bank has
closed its doors. The amount of the
defalcation is not known.
DURING gu arrel with his wife, on the
LIST, John NJ. Scott, a molder, of Il eading,
Pa, cut her throat, and then drew the
blade of the same weapon-a large butch
er knife-across his own throat. Both are
in critical condition.
On the 31st the boiler of the steamer
Fulton exploded Will e the steamer was in
the gulf, at the mouth of the Mississippi
river, Instantly killing the pilot, Edward
Perkins, fatally wounding Captain w. H.
Riddle and two colored deck hands, and
demolishing the boat.
On the 31st Brakeman Wolf was killed
and Conductor Everett seriously injured
in wreck on the Philadelphia 81 Read
ing railroad near Shamokin, Pa. Forty
cars of merchandise were smashed to
pieces.
3AT Sharon, Pa, Samuel Clark, in a fit OF
drunken frenzy, on the Both, fred into a
room containing three ladies, shooting his
sister -in-law, Mrs. James Clark, in the
side. She was found, some time after, in
her own room, dead.
On the 3lst the body of Miss Adele Men
ard, of Minneapolis, Mimi, who COM
mitted suicide, on the 2Sth, because her
father had whipped her, was found float
ing in the Mississippi river.
MISCELLANEOUS