Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-01
ONE YEARS HISTORY.


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bodies of the Johnstown disaster recovered in
the Conemaugh. Fietta Weaver sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary at Bellefonte
for the murder o: her father-in-law.
pute. John ii. Winstead Killed his wife at
Ouray, COL, and then suicided. An entire
family of coiored people, near Bronwood, Ga,
poisoned by strychpine used in mistake for
y, Detective Lynch shot and killed Samuel
Stoadard and his wife while attempting TO ar
kills his his %ie and child iii % and then suicides Kei-
lar Merriam. of Cllntonville, Pa, being con-
fronted byhis wife with proofs Of his inf
deity. confessed and blew out his brains A
Young woman who arrived at Washington Z.
IL. Ohio. from Dayton took supper at q hotel,
went out into the street and shot herself dead.
n-AEdrew Dean, of Kansas. City, commits
snicide in London by drowning himself In the
Thames. A tornado at Akron. o., destroyed
great deal of property and injured a number
of people. while another at Fredonia, Kan.
mill, at Peckville. Pa. blows up, killing Will
lam MiiletL an employe.
I2-Oliver W. Olsen Killed at La Crosse Wis. by
single blow in the neck struck es William
Dewey. George Pearl. engineer, and Henry
}. o'Connor, fireman. blown to atoms by the
explosion OF a locomotive on the Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad, near Buffalo Mrs Sarah
Rabaugh, of Lima, Kills herself with rough ON
buildings and injured IS people.
IA midwife in Russia confesscs that she has for
years been in the habit OF killing infants and
hiding their bodies in wells During a battle
between farmers and cowboys in oklahoma
uNC mca were kllleu. 1nrce cOlOreu DfdhC-
men Killed in railroad wreck near Chatta-
noora. Nenango county Coroner jury de-
eIdes that Jonn @ Sud,er, VINO clea ~ III ibc
Murganza Reform School. A storm In Done
gal township. Butler county, demolishes
building and atally Injuries two inmates,
14-Mrs. George Thornton, living near Point
Pleasant VI. Va, falls into the fireplace and
is burned TO death in presence of her children.
ia caisson at the bridge at Loui i,ville cap
sized. killing one man and iniurtng several
others. John Crouch. wealthy farmer, his
wife and Andrew aged found muir
dered in their home at Gentleysville, near
mashington Ia 'e Mis- and Se ired
into the crowd, killing one man and woundlng
TWO others
rying house with it Twenty-eight miners
were at work at the time and the csc pc OF all
cut of. Three of them. badly injured,
weSe rescued soon after the accident, and later
10 bodies were recovered. Explosion OF
fire damp WAS the cause. Clinton u. Reynolds,
New York lawyer. shot and fatally injured
by Alphonse j. Stephaqie. a negro namea
1amiv Philip Dyke killed by lightning near
la Liverpool y. Mrs. William McClcIlaGd,
of Union near Eric, browns herself because
of loss of property by fire.
1T-Five Italians smothered under 3 culm heap AT
Scranton
1s-Nathaniel Gore dies at Lima. o., the result of
having iour teeth pulled out by new process.
Mrs. Jacob Kerb, OF kcnton county. KY.
supposed to be dead rose from her coffin, and
falling back. expired. Sebastian lppolote
leans from Il window in New ork, touches an
electric-light wire and is instantly Killed.
fire and explosion 1T Havana, Cuba. Seven
year-old Thomas Moore beaten to death by a
music teacher 1T Philadelphia.
20-Panc caused at Shamokin by burning mines
beneath the city, aud many people leave their
homes. Samuel Hazen, of New York, com
mits suicide because he couId not ret 4 license
for his new restaurant. William West re-
Inanded to jail for the murder OF the Crouch
family.
22-Jean Paul Sequest convicted at Ashland,
Winnebago county. of the murder of his Sec
ond wife, is credited with having committed
six murders. Two en- gineers on the Lake Erie
killed by freight wrecks.
26-Fire destroys business block at Mansfield. o..
and subsequent explosion of dynamite Kills
two men,.
y7--Boys in Chicago found the remains of a man
in sewer. and the police suspect murder.
Nicholas Parel of Juniata county, dies In the
penitentiary while serving time for a robbery
lie had never committed.
29-J. Higginbotham, of Confluence, near Union
town. crushed to death py cars.
3J-EXccsSive smoking causes the death OF l3- year
old George Dingler az Philadelphia
3l-A bursting dam above Gunnison. Utah, de-
stroys much property and causes the loss of
several lives. Paul GebhardI, Il cripple,
whipped 80 badly by Principal John u. Lewis,
Of the Webster school. New Haven, Conn,
that he dies. Two women and two children
Killed on the Chicago, st. Louis and Pittsburg
road near Marion. Ind. Thomas and jackson,
the two conyicts who escaped from the Newton
jail run down in Philadelphia: they kill a
policeman and jackson is then shot dead. At
Oakland, Cali. crowded train plunges
through an open drawer, and Is people are
killed.