The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

"A terrible head-end collision occurred
between a Georgia Pacific train frou
Greenville. Miss. and a freight from At
,anta, at Nickajack. twenty miles from At
,anta One passenger Is dead and others
ire wounded. Engineers Warwick and
Dunlap Of the colliding trains arc mortal
~ wounded
"A daring robbery occurred In Elwood.
Ind. Friday morning. During tho alb
sence of tho husband Two men entered the
house and ro!n ting . revolver at his wife's
head, made her disclose where tho money
waa They secured $500 aud made their
escape and the police have been unable to
apprebend them
AT Delano. MINI. Alfred Johnson. who
had been an honest hard working swede.
attacked his wife with a razor. cutting her
throat In two places but without serious
results He afterward cut his own throat.
and died within an hoaE There had boon
no quarrel. johnson stopped to kis. his
wife. and at tho same time slashed her
with the razor. He recently lost money in
q land deal. which is supposed 70 have
driven him crazy.
Nj. L Andrews. auditor of the Codahy
Packing Company. at Omaha. was drowned
whiie bathing In the Platte River
Clusker. and Thomas Seaman were drosn-
ed by the upsetting of . boat at Brewster.
n Y.
Mile. Beatrice. a Coney Island lion
tanner. Was attacked and fri2htfully man.
sled by one Of the beasts while going
though her performance In the cage
Fearing that his raft would be de-
molished. Gustave Lasson. Of West su-
perior. Wis. leaped into the river and was
drowned.
Eleven persons were injured in q COL
lision between two trains near Saltwater.
r The property damage is heavy.
Ramon Coronal. q CHILEAN prospector
about so years of age, was found murdered
half a mile west Of PhRnix. a. I. War
rants have been issued for Vincente France
and wife, on whose ranch the murder was
committed.
Peter CLANCY. the Chicago counter
feiter, has been arrested at Tahlequah. l.
T., by United States oficera
-Ex- State Representative Bond, OF Dun
kirk, La. was killed in difficulty with q
negro on Bayou des Galizes
| Captain Dunlap. An evangelist hal
been arrested at Nyack. n. Y, charged
with embezzliny several thousand dollars
while employed by the Government al
| Washington.
Mrs l. &. Cisco, of Kew York City. q
patient In an eye infrmary at Glenn Falls.
| foil down u flight OF eighteen steps Mon
day night and died In two hours. She wal
eighty years old
Three men are reported to have been
drowned by the overturuin2 OF q boat be-
longing to the United States coast survey
steamer Patterson at Tonga NarrOws
Alaska
An unknown Chinaman committed sui
! eide by shooting on u train near Boon Vile
Mo
George NJ Van Leuven. the Lin,
Springs Iowa) pension agent languishe
| In Jail at St Paul, having been unable u
secure bail OF $1,000. His promised bonds
men failed to come and he has now bee,
imprisoned u week. 1t Is believed tn at h
will plead guilty Of pension frauds at tn,
July term OF court II light sentence Cal
thus be secured
Lars Christensen. OF Alma. Neb,, fatal
ly shot his wife and blew his own brain
out when the woman threatened to leav'
him because of his abuse
Two men were nstantly killed ant
two fatally injured by h boiler explosio,
near Linneus, Mo
AT Charlottesville. Ind, little CIR
swallowed q screw and died. Fastening
to her assistance. man fell from pum
tower and was fatally injured
Charles Chapman, President of tn
National Bank at Great Bend. Kan. sho
himself while Respondent because Of IL
health and an invalid wife
Edward II. Grove. formerly an en-
ploye Of the Fourth National Bank At St
| Louis, Is under arrest on tho charge o
having embezzled IS. 900 from the bank
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