Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — Chopped Off His Wife’s Head. [ARTICLE]

Chopped Off His Wife’s Head.

At Wheeling, W. Va., Peter Richmond ordered his wife to pick up a pair of scissors. When she refused he seized an ax and chopped her head off. He then attacked his mother, but was overpowered by neighbors. He is supposed to be insane. Kansas City has an organization of colored men called the Attucks Club. The club’s name is from Crispus Attucks, the negro shot with other people in the streets of Boston by the soldiers of King George. The first French breach of promise case has just been tried at Beziers. The intended bridegroom was sentenced to pay £l5O damages “for the moral injury of the family.” Warm bread “packs” the stomach. Don’t eat it.