The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-12-28
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

Farmer Jacob Fox. living near Lima.
Ohio. signed a thirty-day note for $4,000
believing it was a contract for piano
Determined to see the hanging OF
Courtney and Taylor at Princess Anne.
Md the crowd demolished the jail-yard
fence.
in free fight in a saloon near jack
sonville. Ohio, Charles Hauser was stabbed
to death and Gus Fushon fatally wounded.
Richard Robinson. colored. who siran-
gled his white sweetheart. was hanged at
Eedalia, Mo He had recently confessed
"A stone wrecked an express train at
Bamford Station. Pa. and sixteen persons
were njured
lie B.anc. who murdered John Wilson
at Winnipeg. has had the death sentence
committed to fifteen years imprisonment
Out OF work and Respondent. Henry
Weber. New York tailor, hanged himself
in sight Of his three motherless children.
"A Chesapeake and Ohio Southwestern
freight train was hurled 135 feet down an
embank ment south of Louisville Three
mon were killed and four injured. thirteen
cars wrecked and 400 head OF hogs and 100
head Of cattle killed. The men killed were
Engineer Thomas keegan. Fireman John
Downs and an unknown passenger
Robert Mortour. sentenced to hang at
Pineville. ky.. for the murder of Miss
Mary F. Bowden. was granted stay OF
execution.
Efforts are making to save the neck OF
Wilson Howard. hold at Jefferson. Mo. for
over thirty murders
General Datus E Coon. who was acci-
dentally shot by friend. died at San
Diego. Cal He was a gallant soldier.
-Crazed by the burning of her two chill
dren, a colored woman cast herself into
the Cumberland at Burkesville. CT.
On the witness stand at Indianapolis
Anna Wagner protested that she did not
poison the koesterA
j. W. Fuller. alias Hardwick, alias
Curtis. forger and crock. was sentenced at
Richmond. Ind. to three years In the
| penitentiary
david Stout, a farmer living near In
dianapolis. was robbed Of $4,000 In gold
| which he had buried in his cellar.
Two more bodies of victims OF the
| Louisville bridge wreck have been recov-
cred. Search for the dead Is being pushed.
| Actuated by Jealousy. Birnie Patrick. OF
Fort Smith. Ark. killed Ida Dodson and
fatally shot another woman and himself.
| AT New York William II. Dowling. who
was shot during a disturban ce after a ball
In the Grand Opera House Building. died.
| -Four robbers gained admittance to the
gambling house at II Quincy street. Chi
cago. at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. held
up the attendants, o. Baer. Harry Dale
John Keefe. and James Roberts, at the
points of revOlvers and got safely away
with $4,000. 1t was as bold a piece of
| work as criminals ever accomplished in
Chicago. Investigation shows that the
plan was laid with remarkable ingenuity
| and that 1t was carried out perfectly. The
thieves got away without leaving a clue.
| and the Central Station detectives have
| little or nothing to work upon The man
! ayers OF the place were about to turn
off the lights and close up when the rob-
beBy was committed. Suddenly four men
| entered. They made no attack until they
had "sized up the room. Then the last
man in closed the door and stood with his
back to it. His companions drew their re-
volvers and ordered GLANDS up" The
sleepy sports woke up with start, bu,
there was thought of resistance. The
robbers had the drop and looked deter
mined enough to stop at nothing. Keeping
the barrels OF their pistols we'll up. the
thieves moved from table to table anG
scoOped into their pockets the bank notes.
gold and silver which lay in plain sight
Then they backed out OF the room. anc
that's the last seen OF them 50 far
| An explosion that shook the country
for miles around occurred in the grinding
! mill OF the Dupont & De Nemourna DO del
yards on the outskirts of Wilmin ton, Del
on Tuesday. Edward Gallagher. one O
the men employed in the mill. was killed
and three others slightly injured. The ex-
plosiOn did conSiderab bic damage to win
dOws of houses in the city. and caused
panic among the people. who thought the
town had been visited by an earthquake
An explosion in the same mill a few week
ago killed two men
| Tuesday m rning about 3 o'clock
when about fifty miles from Houston
Texas. near Richmond, Southern Pacific
express train was held up by robbers. The
reported killed The express safe wa
blown to atoms and completely looted OF
large sum OF money. The passengers wer
also robbed The bandits made their es
cape. The number comprising the gang i
not exactly known. though it Is thong h
there were half a dozen
dick Edwards motion Tor a new trsa
, for the murder OF Mrs Haynes has bee,
overruled by the District Judge at Sher
decision. Edwards Is alleged to be the ma
> who murdered Alice Martin. for who's
death Painter is under sentence to b
hanged at Chicago