The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-03
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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Lewis Stroman, colored, near Springfield,
on the Barnwell and Alston Railroad,
was burned one night last week, and four
of Stroman's children, who were sleeping
in the upper story, perished in the
flames.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 2S.-Near
Richmond, Ky, tonight, Arch stoltz,
a farmer, committed suicide by taking
trough on rats" His brother, William,
seeing the corpse, took the remainder of
the poison, leaving note, saying he
wished both to be buried in the same
coffin.
CHICAGO, April 27.-An explosion
tbss pitched seventy people into the
air, throwing one man fifty feet, wrecked
sixteen plate glass windows, and ruined
.$35, 900 worth of clothing, occurred in
basement at State and Jackson streets last
evening. A couple of workmen we're
attempting to drill hole under the street
for conduit, when the gas main was
inadvertently punctured. One of. the
men lit q candle to examine the pipe and
an explosion Immediately followed.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, April 27.-
Harry Burrow, a little four.year.old
orphan boy, was shot and probably fatal.
ly wounded to-day by an eight.year.old
boy named Harry Johnson. Young
johnson was playing with Flebeit tar:
get rife, which was loaded. He pulled
the hammer back and in trying to let it
down it slipped from his grasp and dis.
charged the gun. The ball struck Harry
Burrow in the mouth and lodged in the
neck. The wounded boy is in critical
condition. The ball passed entirely
through his tongue.
BELLE FoNTAINE, OHIO, April 28.-
A terrible accident occurred last night at
the school exhibition at Rushhylyania.
Brockermor's Hall, in the second story
:of a brick building, with a seating capac.
|ity of four hundred, was crowded, and
suddenly the floor gave way with q
frightful crash. The entire audience
went down in the surging mass to the
ground, q distance of twenty feet. Many
women and children we're killed and
wounded. Several were taken out dead
and at least fifty were wounded, many
seriously. a number of ladies and
children were taken out:unhurt, but with
their clothing torn completely of. The
wells did not fall in or the consequences
would have been much more serious.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 22.-Henry
and John Hill, bachelor farmers, lodged
in Jail at jamestown, KY, two weeks
ago for the murder of two peddlers named
Burton early in March, were brought to
trial Saturday. The principal witness
against them was Mary Smith, their
former servant. Her story was supported.
by the finding of the remains OF two
bodies in q cave near the Hill farmhouse.
While she was telling on the stand how
she had been. compelled, on the peril Of
her life, to cut the throats of the peddlers
while they were asleepht her employers
house, and catch their blood in bucket,
the Bnrtons walked into the court room.
The case was at once discontinued and
the Hills dismissed. The remains found,
upon close examination, proved to be
parts of the carcasses of two sheep.
GREENv1LLE, s. O., April 27.--San.
ford Fant, who drank q large quantity
ofliquor yesterday, and was picked up
on the street unconscious, died to-day at
10 O'Clock. His death was one of the
saddest this city has ever known. Fant
was young man twenty.one years old,
and come here from his home in Pickens
county. Yestesday, to have several teeth
extracted and 8 plate put in, he drank
five glasses of whisky and went to DR..
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