The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-05-03
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the night of the oath the negroes of
Bessemer, Ala, took possession of the
town and attempted to burn the place, in
revenge for the lynching of one of their
people charged with attempted outrage.
In fit OF jealousy William Butler, a
car inspector, of Newark, N. j., shot his
wife and killed himself, on the 25th.
AT New York the machine and pattern
shops of the De la Mater Iron-works were
burned on the 25th, entailing a loss OF
100000
On the 25th N. B. Wells, the Seneca
Falls IN W bank defaulter, was jailed,
in default of 5000 bail.
WHILE President Carnot was laying the
cornerstone of new lyeeum at Agen, on
the 26th, twenty persons were injured by
the collapse of a platform.
AT Dayton, Tenn, on the Goth, piece
Of slate weighing ten tons tell on a miner,
crushing his body into a jelly.
AT Denver, on the 26th, B. S. Robbins,
assistant United States district attorney
for Colorado, cuth his throat but will prob
ably recover. He was respondent over
private troubles. Mr.. Robbins was for
merly q prominent politician in Ken
lucky.
On the 26th the Indiana (Pa.) town
election officers were sentenced to one
years imprisonment for election frauds
SHORTLY after midnight on the morning
of the 26th General Abraham Merritt, of
Nyack, N. Y, committed suicide by swal-
lowing dose of laudanum at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel
NEAR Yardly, Pa, on the Goth, Conduct
or w Westham and brakeman were killed
in a collision between two coal trains on
the Reading railroad.
OK the 26th Mrs. Julia Raynor, of Brook
lyn, was thrown from her carriage, run
over and killed by train on the Atlantic
Avenue railroad
NEAR O'Fallon, Mo-, on the 2Tth, Ernst
Kleeschulte shot and killed his wife and
one of her sons, and desperately wounded
the remaining lat their secluded coun-
try home. The murderer soon after took
his own life. The couple had lived apart
for two years.
On the Northern Pacific railroad over
one thousand feet of snow-sheds were
burned near Mullen Tunnel, Mont, on the
9th. The fire was started by sparks from
passing engine.
on the 9th three negroes were hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark.
OK the 9th Herbert j. aHoxie, on trial at
New Bedford, Mass, for the murder of his
infant child, was declared not guilty by
the jury.
On the 9th the Ft Madison Qa.) Lum-
Der Company's saw-mills were burned,
entailing loss of So, 900. The fire caught
from sparks from locomotive.
NEAR Cooper, Tex, Young Boydston,
who recently shot Miss Lulu Frazier, and
then committed suicide, left a letter in
which he said it was desperate love and
evil tongues that caused him TO commit
the awful deed.
ON the 27th Jack Prater, colored, was
hanged at Orangeburgh, S. c., for the
murder of Andrew Jackson, also colored.
On the 9th, in overruling the motion for
new trial in the Billings murder case, at
Waverly, Ia, Judge Rudick said: 81
think the jury made a mistake in the ver-
dict; it should have been murder in the
first instead of the second degree" He
then sentenced the prisoner to the peni-
tentiary for life at hard labor.
NEAR Orleans, Neb., on the 9th, one
man was killed and five persons were
seriously injured by the derailing of a
sleeping car.
AT Anderson, S. c., on the 2Tth, Jasper
Davis was hanged for the murder OF his
wife. He was undoubtedly insane before,
If not at the time of committing the deed.