Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-01
OCTOBER.

6-Twelve-year-old Louis Fisher, of Columbus,
o., dies from hydrophobla, having be n bitten
by a dog several mouths previous to the at
tack. Mother, son and daughter perish by the
burning o: their home at Dubuque. Louise
Essinger, a bride of few hours, suicides at
Redwood, California.
s-1he five great Dupont powder mills, na. near
killing Il and wounding macy others, the loss
s-Rube burrows. the notorious Alabama outlaw
shot down while attempting to escape; me
only son of ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island commits suicide ut Seattle.
l0-Mary Anderson's crazy lover. James d.
Dougherty, shoots and kills DIR. George w.
Insane Asylum. A Frencnman shoots his
sweetheart because she would not allow him to
11-Mrs. saunders, tollgale keeper, near Washing
ton, Pa, attacked by thieves, and fatally SHOT
Alexander Bal and his son found r1ddled
with bullets in the Menomnee Iron Range,
Mimi.
l2-West found guilty of the murder of the Crouch
1S-Walter y. kernochan: wealthy young New
Yorker, blows out his brains All while suffering
killed by Il Lake Shore train.
l4-Mrs. Saunders, the tollgate keeper near
Washington, Pa, who was shot, dies, and one
other assailants confesses. -Four lives lost by
:. the burning OF a Chicago o lodging-house;
kills Oscar Barringer for being too intimate
with his wife; Eight deaths result from an
Paris.
16-A number of lives lost by the burning of the
Leland House at syracuse.
1S-James Maxwell hanged at Morris. ILL.,. for the
murder of Charles Decker. Antonio Scofidt
identified as one of the assassins cf Chief
Hennessey, of ew orleans, shot and killed in
jail bv one of the latters friends. At Ohio
CITY, o., two robbers caught breaking bank.
shoot and kill two citizens while one of the
thieves is also killed.
I'D. q. Price shot and killed by Miss Lizzie
Booth at Quincy. H.. the latter receiyinE
commits suicide because hiswife deserted him
and his daughter eloped. Fourteen-yeai -old
Fred Long of Lockport, N. y, dies from
cigarette smoking,
20-At Coshocton, o.. Carl Vender shot his wife
aud killed himself. young girl at Manitowac,
Wis.,, kills herself to escape marriage to man
whom she dIsliked.
21-Nine men perish while escaping from the
burning barge Annie Young, in Lake Huron.
a. B. Mullet Tor many years Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, suicides at WASH
ington.
23-A collision IN a tunnel near Sloan's Valley
station, Ky, kills six persons and Injuries
many others. Two killed and "a injured in
an Alabama collisioh.
A-Business rcverses cause j. L. Creighton,
New J ork stock broker. to commit suicide.
25-Two lives lost in freight wreck near Ok
ford, ..
26-Attempt made to burn up Mrs. George Minket
in her home in Mcclellan dtown, where she had
been robbed and tortured three months before.
Mrs.William GARFIELD suicides at Washington.
Pa, without any apparent cause
27-TEe town of Temple, Tex. flooded by the
bursting of n water pipe, and much damage
done TO prop erty. Two killed and two hurt by
an accident to a freight train ut Du Bois. En-
Alderman z. Whelan of Chicago shot and
3l-Four lives lost by the explosion of a boiler at
POrtagetown Mills. near Altoona. Oscar
Galuiski, New York business man, owing
TO reverses suicides in Philadelphia.