The Russellville Democrat., 1888-11-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JOHN W. WILKIN, in charge Of Pitts
burgh and New York mail car, was de-
tected opening letters in Philadelphia on
the 23d, and arrested.
JOHN S. HALLER, of Cincinnati, on the
oath. cut his wife's throat from ear 10 ear
with razor, with which he then cut hls
own throat, severing the iugular.
1T is estimated that the loss to the
Pennsylvania railroad by the freight
collision near Tyrone, on the 23l, will
reach 100000.
BY the falling of soaffold at the new
soldiers home building, located neal
Minnehaha Falls, Mimi, on the 2ith, Hen
ry Rietzell was 50 seriously injured that
he died three hours afterward. Three
others were badly hurt but were expect
ed to recover.
THE National Republican committee
paid $1,000, on the 25th, for the arrest and
conviction Of one George Gordon, for
false registration in New York City.
SEVEN persons were poisoned, on the
25th, at a wedding party in the Bohe mian
Flats, Minneapolis, Mimi, with "Rough on
Rats" sprinkled on the dumplings, pre-
sumably by former lover whose suit had
been rejected.
In the case of the murdered paymaster
and his guard near Wllkesbarre, Pa, the
coroner's jury returned a rdict, on the
25th, that Mcclure aud Flanagan came to
their deaths by gunshot wounds and some
blunt instrument in the hands of some
person or persons unknown to the jury.
IT is said that two hundred warrants are
to be issued for the arrest of perso ille-
gally registering in Jersey City, N. j.
SCHOOL BOYS found Paymaster Nc
Clure's sachel in the woods near Taylor
vile, Pa, on the 25th twelve miles from
the spot where the murdered paymaster's
body was found.
A CLUBHOUSE at Moscow, Russia, COL
lapsed, on the 25th, and sixteen corpses
have been taken from the ruins. Twenty
four persons were injured.
On the 25th Charles Warren, chief clerk
and cashier of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
freight office at Columbus, o., was arres t
ed, charged with embezzing 50, 0)0 of the
company's money.
MRS. P. j. LYNCH, wife OF wealthy
retired New York merchant jumped
from third story window of the Hotel
Bristol, on the 26.h and was killed. She
was suffering from mental trouble caused
by an injury to her head, sustained dur
ing recent voyage from Europe.
1T is announced that the Babvlonian
expedition of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, which left Philadelphia early last
summer, was shipwrecked in the Medi-
terranean sea, on the night of September
49, on a rock off the Island of Samas.
Passengers and crew were rescued by q
Turkish brigantine.
JOHN JONES night watchman, was
burned to death in the partial destructi on
of Platt & Co.'s oyster and fruit packing
house at Baltimore Md, ana Frank
Welthy was shot and probably fatally
wounded by the supposed incendiary.
DEPUTY POSTMASTER MICHAEL SHELDON
of Hudson, N. ", was arrested on the
26th for mail pilfering.
For manufacturing and passing coun-
terfeit money Gaetauo Russo and his wife
Para were sentenced to twelve and four
years respectively in New York, on the
26th. Both are notorious counterieiters,
and have been Showing the queer" in 9
number of towns throughout the United
States.
AT Baltimore, Md, Mrs. Henrietta Spiel
aged seventy-tive, and Mrs. Marth5
Beckel, aged sixty five, inmates of the
German Home for the Aged, were found
ueau III tuelT room On tIe -otiA AuSy Aae
been suffocated by gas.
In the trial of John c. Keegan, oi
Scranton, Pa, for the murder of Mrs. +
NJ. Barrett, in May last the jury brought
in verdict on the 26th, of guilty of mur'
der in the second degree.
ANNIE CONRAD, three years old of Ft
Wayne, Ind, fell into kettle Of boiling
apple butter, on the 25th, and was not
discovered for several minutes. She was
taken out dead.
On the 25th Henry Garnet was narrowly
saved from lynching by the indignan
villagers Of Sheepshead, N. Y, for strik'
ing STRIPPING a murderous blow with q
base ball bat. The police who arrested
him were compelled to draw their revolv'
ers to keep the crowd at bay.
A JEALOUS bar tender, of Colfax, w. T..
named David Vestor, shot and killed hi'
wife and himself on the 2Gth