Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-07
A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.
Crushed TO Death-Fell from Scaiiold-
Residence Observation-Disclosures
Assn ssins. etc.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch. !

CHARLOTTE, n. c., September G.-News is
received here to-day OF the very sad death
of Monroe Brown. which occurred day be-
fore yesterday about two miles from Dali
las. While engaged in tearing down an old
barn he was caught under some heavy tim
Der and horribly crushed. He died III a
couple Of hours afterwards.
Yesterday James Wclch, n carpenter,
while at work on q new house IN Anson
county. fell from the scafoldlng and was
badly if not fatally hurt. The fall was
twenty-six feet.
Fire Yesterday destroyed the handsome
residence of William NJ. Peters, in Catawba
county. The fire was discovered about
midnight blazing through the floor of the
front piazza. Some of the furniture was
saved, but the loss is $4,000, with $500
insurance.
A very sad drowning occurred in Davis
county Wednesday. Two youths. Johnnie
Perry and Willie Thomas. were sitting on
the bank of a creek fishing, when suddenly
the turf gave way and Perry was precipi-
tated head foremost into the creek. The
water was deep and he went under, but
soon came up. Being unable. to SWIM he
was gradually carried out and again went
down. finally drowning. His little COM
panion reached out his fshing-rod and
tried bv every possible means torescue his
companion.
Night before last rs some parties were
passing by the home of James Underwood,
IN Allegheny county. they began to FIRE
through his window. and Underwood
jumped from his bed and, scizing his heavy
loaded musket, returned the fire. The
musket was loaded with buckshOt, and
when he fired scream was heard. Under
wood went out, but could find no one.
His daughter, Miss Emma, who was lying
in bed near the window, was struck by the
parties from the outside. The ball en-
tered her left arm. She was not danger
ously hurt.
John Emery and Thomas Butt engaged
in rather a serious affray in CASTOR county
last night. They quarrelled about per-
sonal matter and soon came to blows.
Both used knives and slaves, the cOnse-
quence being both are badly gashed and
banged up. Butt is the worst hurt and
reports say he may not recover.
The body of Joseph Culbertson, young
man who has been missing in Stanley
county, was found day before yesterday in
stood there. but had been burned and the
well covered with planks, which had be-
come rotten. and over them grass had
grown. 1t is evident that Culbertson,
while walking through the field, accident
ally fell into the we'll He had been miss
ing four days.
There is much dissatisfaction expressed
at the manner in which the pOst-Oflce Is
managed under Republican Postmaster
Brady. 1t is charged that many of his APP
pointees are incompetent, rs there Is gen.
eral growing about the careless manner in
which mail is handled. There are three
negro clerks in the Office.
John Porter, an old man, while walking
on public road in Union county yester-
day, dropped dead. He was seventy-nine
years old. Heart-disease is supposed 10
have been the cause.
In Burke county yesterday Thomas An
derson (colored) was kicked by mule and
died from his injuries. He was kicked
down and then as he went to raise up was
kicked again on the side of his head. His
skull was crushed.