People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

In a quarrel at East Greenville, Ohio, John Garger stabbed August Bitty, who will die. In a fight at a country dance at Reynoldsville, 111., C. A. Spann was killed by Adam and Tom Horton. They are held for murder. James Ayres, a restaurant proprietor, was shot by a burglar at Atchison, Kas. Ayres retaliated and hit his assailant, but he escaped. Ayres will recover. The town of St. Albans in Vermont was visited by a fire Sunday afternoon and night which caused a loss of $500.000. Five hundred people are homeless. Three negroes were lynched near Ellaville, Fla., for assault on a white girl. It is reported that they were flayed alive and then burned. J. P. Foley, traveling salesman for the Laidlaw, Dunn, Gordon Company, killed.himself with a revolver in a Cincinnati hotel. Patrick Carmody, sentenced to be hanged in Sorocco county, New Mexico, in 1888, has been captured at Salomon Valley, Ari., and brought to Sorocco. Mike King was hanged at Helenwood, Tenn., for the murder of W. A. Beck. Henry Bier, a leading financier, was convicted of perjury at New Orleans in a municipal investigation. While bis nurse was absent from his bedside for a moment, William Rusberg, of Davenport, lowa, an invalid, shot himself and died instantly. George Floyd, a detective employed by the Valley Railroad Company, was slot and probably mortally wounded by his wife at Cleveland. Floyd was formerly an officer at the world’s fair. Burglars robbed the Anderson. W. Va.. bank of $5,000 and are uncaught. A mob lynched John W. Howerton in "ullerton county, Ky., for assaulting a farmer’s daughter. W. H. Thompson, alias "Kid,” was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin, Cal., tor the Roscoe train robbery.