Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-18

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRES April 49,: Large barn OF Thomas Gurnett dairy armer near Cedar Rapids,
Ia, ten cows persisted in flames; sclrt block, Kansas City, loss 100000 insurance
$4,000 April 49,: Moresque building, occupied b. b j.. dontgomcr Furniture COM
pay and John auches Sons crockery, at New Orleans. also Washington hotel
German Gazette office, Evening Telegram and j. A !. Akenss store, total lossS5 100000
April 49,: College agriculture building at University of california; Berkeley, loss $4,000
FTOODS-Aprn IL: Government steamer Ogdena sunk in Red river neal Grand
Forks D. while on relief expedition. April 1: Levee gives way at Davis Island
Warren connty, mississippi, flooding about $4,000 acres inhabited by $500 people. April
49,: Mechan dam at ThRfr river carried away m with it over 100000 feet OF logs which
we're floating toward Crookson and Grand Forks. April IA: Bottom lands at North
Omaha and portions of East Omaha submerged many families driven from home;
dep on principal streets; Missouri over four miles wide at Hamburg, Ii. April TO-
Refugees from Davis Island eport varously from three to fifteen persons drowned;
Missouri at Omaha beginning to subsde
ACCIDENTS April He Eight personsk killed while saying mass in church at
CaTres, France through collapse of rof; railroad collision at Harrisburg, n re-
suited in three dead and several wounded April 49,: Otto and John Snyder cousins at
EIdora,Ia Ia, drowned by caphzng of boat river April IA: SnowsIde nearK etchanL
1daho,r resulted in deaths Of Fred ulfod an1 6year-od son and man named White;
Claus Wulf, deaf run down and killed by Enhorn freiEht train neal Blair; ten
Julian; five men badly injured two dangerously, b. explodono of abhst in Republican
Iron works. at Fitsbur.
MURDERS April IL: JACKIE COX fatally wounded after killing Bob Daily in shoot
ing ARRAY at Altman, Colo. April 1: J. w. Fezer arrested at Dillon, Mont, for
making dynamite bombs, confesses killing of Dr. c H. Nhhonsat Washington. D c..
in 1875; Lewis KeIihan, bank robber. sentenced to ham, August for murder com
mhteda al sherburne MINI. last November. April IL: Martini owery ravng maniac,
house at Oakland, r l. April 1: Deputy Sheriff William .Dennl killed W stock
thieves on Lower Povdar river in Wyoming. April 1; Mrs. Wilbur Crouch and Miss
May DAILY kcd and George Allen fatally wounded at Sacket's Tarbor N. Y it
Isl thought by Wilbur Crouch.
SUICIDES April 49,: Herman oseka, formerly of She'll Creek Nb, hangs him
self in htsb arn; John w. Boydston. Otumwa, Ia hangs himself April 49,: Frank
Coat blows his brains out at Cedar Rapids, Ia April IS: r. L. Runey of Council
shootsh hmsefn a State street hotel at Chicago; Charles Hoffman. Brunswick. ia,
shootsh msefn chapel april n: Two boysn named Hesson at Greenland, 10, aged
and Is years take strychnine while parents were away trading:
OTHER CRIMES Aprl Al: ". w. Taylor eX-ueasurer of south Dakota released
rom reniteniary at Sioux Falls April la: important fence discovered at Webster
City, Ia, in barr OF Charles Bowen, son of Banker owe of Mendoza ILL., April 49,:
Governor Lee OF South Dakota pardons Otto Kexnger. under sentence for grand
N. H., killed by tive robbers who escaped wth$ MN in cash; cracksmenb blew open
safe and secured lage amount of money at Iatham Kan fugitive bank cashier
George A. Taylor returned to Kansas City INC submitted to arrest on charge of
Illegal banking.