The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-03-22
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

Three tramps who held M J. C. COBB
in the railroad yards at Alliance, Ohio.
we're captured after long chase. but
made their escape before the jail was
reached.
Hawkins Hawkins. . prominent road
contractor Of Brazil. Ind. was fatally ia
jured while working under an embank-
mont A heavy fall OF dirt crushed him
to tho ground. m1shing him horribly.
j. X. stratton. a crimina! for whom
tho police OF many cities have been search
Ing. was located In prison at Huntsville,
Texas
John Carroll. who held up man In an
Iud ian apolis street In broad daylight was
captured by = citizen after o two mile
chase.
John Humphrey. OF ST. Joseph. Mo.
% ant the greater portion OF Monday night
whipping his wife. and had threatened to
give her another beating in the morning.
About o'clock he told her that he was
tempted to cut her throat but when he
made move to strike her his stepson.
John Tombs. shot him in the back. infiict-
ing a wound that will probab bly, prove fatal
Humphrey is known as IL very tough man
and was shot in a saloon row about a year
ago
The Montreal express and Quebec ex-
press met in head on collision It Caple-
ton. near Sherbrooke. Que. Monday night
The engineer of one OF the trains and Il
train hand. who was in the cab with him.
were killed None OF the passengers was
seriously injured
AT Denver. Colo. James Young. a
gambler. while drunk, struck Ed Marcs.
an intimate friend. who refused him u
n,,1
struck him "A terrible bow under the left
ear. Young dropped 60 the floor and died
inside OF five minutes Of hemorhage OF the
brain. Mapes was arrested.
Three highwaymen held mp two men at
Pueblo, Colo. Monday night. Policeman
stewart fred four shots without hitting
the robbers and was then knocked down
and his watch. revolver and club stolen.
An hour afterward three masked men
went into John Regan's saloon and ordered
him to throw up his hands He treated
the demand as Il joke. and they fred five
shots without hitting him. after which
they walked out
Andrew Sauer. formerly cashier OF the
failed Defiance (Ohio) Savings Bank. who
Is charged with embezzling $4,000. gave
himself up and was released on bail
"A disastrous storm devastated a small
section OF country In the Cherokee strip.
southwest Of Pawnee. Sunday evening.
After q heavy rain the cyclone blew terri-
bly, for about ten minutes. levelin; every
thing before it. Sixteen houses were
wrecked and Il large number OF barns and
other buildings were destroyed A man
named Johnson was badly injured.
Indian Creek Reservoir. in Idaho, burst
Its banks and fifty houses In Nampa we're
ruined. Loss OF life is feared.
POSTMASTER Hesing OF Chicago alighted
from a Car and in going to the sidewalk
slipped aud fell He got up and walked to
his home. and while the arm gave him con-
siderable pain. he did not know until
morning that the bone was broken in the
Def no
Suicides: At Des MoineS George
Griffith. morphine; dependency, AT
kansa, City-Ernst Woyt. laudanum; des-
pondency. At La Crosse. WI. Mrs. Long
bauer. razor: cray from illness. At Bry-
an. TcXas-W. a. Anslin. pistol; disap-
pointed In love.
Ernst WOyt committed suicide with
poison In his uphOlstering establishment It
Kansas City. Mo- He left note to his
wife and daughter. saying desperation had
driven him to the act
Mrs. Bridget Prunty and her daughter
| Maggie positively identified McNally as
the man who killed their husband and
father at Chicago.
II. 7. Hcrvey. OF Pine Bluff. Ark. was
shot in the head by an unknown assassin
while riding In street car and will prob
ably die