The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-27
cRIAfFs AND CAsUALTrEs,

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
S.MP exploded in the house OF Mrs.
), ~ Floss, at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
night OF the 18th, and Mrs. Floss and her
sister r-in-law, Mrs. Mary Whiting, were
burned to death, and Mr.. Kuhn, Mr..
Beech and a sister Of Mrs. Floss were
badly burned.
On the 10th Thomas Perfect, a promf-
nent citizen of Springfield, o.. while eat
ing dinner, choked TO death on a mouth
ful OF potato.
On the 10th a terrific explosion occurred
in the vault of the county clerks Office ia
the City Hall building at Detroit Mich,
which did considerable damage. 1t is
thought the explosion was the work CT
robbers, who expected to get some plunder
during the confusion following the ex-
plosion. Some OF the records are ire
parably damaged.
AT JellIcO, Tenn, two cOlOred women
OF bad character fell out over dusky
lover, on the 18th. After one had retired
to the shanty the other broke the door
down and began firing and killed her
enemy. She was arrested, but negroes in
camp rescued her from the officers.
NEAR Montgomery, on the nth, Ed Q.
ClOptou, son of Judge David ClOpton, of
the Alabama Supreme Court was shot
by a neighbor named DR.. Bibb. Young
Clopton and DR.. Blbb were in a party
chasing a burglar, when Bibb mistoOk
CIOpton for the man wanted, and shot
him.
AT Hudson's Mills, Miss, John P. Mar
tin, wealthy planter, offended the
friends of young man who had eloped
with his pretty daughter by cursing the
Young man in their presence. They
armed themselves and hunted up Martin,
wOunding him seriously.
On the 18th Jacob Daucher who was ar
rested at DaggOtt, Cal, for the murder OF
Louis Schoenberg at D ,nver, Col, and
taken to San BernardinO for safe keeping,
committed suicide by hanging himself in
his cell. He left a letter saying he was
innocent of the crime with which he was
charged.
TuE gang Of highwaymen known as the
Sawyer brothers, who recently killed a
man named James Carter, at Nashville,
Tenn, has been broken up by the arrest
of the leaders.
On the 18th a farmer OF MillersvilIe,
Wis, named Schecher, with his two sons,
assassinated a neighbor named Blatt
while he was moving in field on his own
farm.
s. s. HALL met John Rose, his son-in-
law, on tho streets of Stanton, KY, on the
18th, aud they commenced firing at each
other with pistols. Rose fatally wounded
his sOn-in-law.
INCENDIARIEs set fire TO a business
block in the center Of Aberdeen, Oak, on
the nth, and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to break open a safe during the
fire.
AT Evansville, Ind, on the 18th, Joseph
Thomas, with team OF fine horses, drove
over the bluffs in front of the city, and all
were drowned
NEAR San Francisco collision be-
tween a work train and freight train on
the Central Pacific road, on the 18th,
killed one man and injured a number of
others.
On the Goth, while attempting to raise a
derrick at Circle Park, indianapolis, Ind,
it fell to the ground catching Abraham
Jones and Elijah Middleton in the fall,
and instantly killing them. Several 9TH
ers engaged upon the soldiers monu-
ment narrowly escaped death.
AT his home in Cornwall N. Y, Rev. E.
z. Roe, novelist and author of Barriers
Burned Away" Opening OF a Chestnut
Burr" and dozens of other popular works,
died suddenly on the 10Th OF neuralgia Of
the heart He had been in the best of
health, and the attack and death were
simultaneous.
on the Goth collision Occurre I, in a
tunnel in the mountains, near White
haven, Pa, between coal train and the
New York fast freight by which con-
duotOr was killed and five train hands
we're badly injured.
1T is said that the richest discovery of
gold ever made outside of the COmstock
lode, was made at the Lake Superior Iron
Company's shaft seven miles from Ish-
peming, Mich, on the 2Oth.
OK the 20th tho position of assistant
secretary of the National Republican
committee was offered to Joel p. Heat
woiR nveSpnt SaCrpfarNy OP the MiuuaSota
Republican State committee and editor of
the Northheld Nei0S. He was obliged to
decline for business reasons, and some
other Minnesota man will be selected.
WHILE lying at the Commercial wharf,
New York City, the steamer Thos. P.
Way, owned by Messrs. Stevens & Con-
dit, and run as ala excursion boat to
Staten Island and Coney Island, was
burned to the waters edge on the 20th.
Loss, S3l, 900; partially insured.
AT New York City the furniture factory
of Frederick Bolle, a six-story brick
building, was burned on the 20th Loss,
S25 600.
OK the Goth DR.. Ridley, the medical Of
f Ger of Tullumorc Jail in which the late
Mr.. Vaudeville was confined, aud who is
said to have died from the result of treat
MISCELLANEOUS.
AT the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md, six'een cases of hazing
are under investigation.
On the 10th the new tariff of rates sub
mitted by the commissioner of the Texas
Traffic Association, at Denver, Col, went
into effect the Pan Handle and Eastern
through lines having accepted them. The
rates affect all the lines west from New
York, Chicago, st. Louis and Kansas City
more or less directly.
In the case Of Daniel Lyons, the muir
derer of athlete Joseph Quinn, a motion
for a stay of proceedings, pending an ap-
plication for n new trial on the ground Of
newly discovered evidence, was denied
by Recorder Smyth of New York, on tn Q
18th. The recorder said the nature OF the
evidence was not of such character as to
admit of his granting the motion.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will open the
annual tri- State Grangers' exhibition at
Williams grove, Carlisle, Pa, on Au-
gust 2S
on the nth the North Chicago Rolling
Mill, OF Milwaukee, Wis, employing
I,GOO men, signed the scale, and work was
resumed Immediately.
THE Grant Locomotive works at Pater-
son, n. j., have shut down, being unable
to compete with similar esta blishments
elsewhere.
NEAR Penmar, Md, the engine of an
excursion train on the Shenandoah VAL
ley railroad was taken possession OF by a
maniac, on the 18th, who drove the engi-
neer and fireman out with a pistol All
the brakes we're put down hard, and
before tbs lunatic got the train we'll
started the conductor bOwled him over
with a we'll aimed stone.
OK the 18th the House aud Senate con-
ference committee on the River and Har-
Dor bill reached an agreement but re-
fused to make the tenor OF il public.
The first break AMONG the manufact-
urers in the Mahouiny Valley was an