People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — CASUALTIES. [ARTICLE]

CASUALTIES.

William Cowart’s team took fright at a dog fight while returning from church near Moulton, Ala., and ran away. Cowart and his two children were killed. An explosion in the city of Parkersburg, W. Va., did immense damage to the city. A cloudburst in lowa caused Curtis Lake to burst its bounds, inundating thirty miles of territory and sweeping away railroad tracks and bridges. It is feared much loss of life has been caused. The intense heat throughout the country seemed to reach its height Sunday, many deaths from it being reported. George Daley and Mabel Moore were fatally burned in a fire at Portland, Ore. The boiler at Deal’s sawmill, near Downsville, N. C., exploded, killink Ed Deal, Pender Oxford and Gordon Oxford, and fatally injuring Reuben Jones. The steel steamer Norma was sunk in Lake Huron by a collision with the Canadian propeller Jack. Three of the Norma's crew were drowned.

CRIME. Private Watchman Joe Ketchum was set upon by thugs in St. Louis. He shot at them, killing Edwin Lorenz. Miss Mattie Robinson, of Moulton, Ala., committed suicide by cutting her throat because she was not permitted to marry. John R. Harmon was murdered by Mary, his wife, at Fairfax, Va. He attacked her. but she didn’t think the gun was loaded. Angell Mathews, president of the City, bank of Parsons, Kan., which failed in June, 1893, was found not guilty of the charge of fraudulent banking. During a row in Justice Eubank’s court at Snyder, Texas, James Dickson was killed and Tom Dean and a man named Chapman were fatally wounded. Dickson’s son was also badly hurt. At Colorado Springs, Colo., the jury in the case of Sylvester Yeoman, accused of being an accessory in the murder of Richard Newell, Jr., reported a disagreement after being out eighteen hours. A brutal murder occurred in Walnut Bottom, Ky., opposite Mount Vernon, Ind., Sunday morning, Morgan Slack shot George R. Fisher five times while in bed, killing him instantly. Mrs. Martha M. Elias and her daughter Annie were found murdered in their house at Minneapolis Saturday. A son of Mrs. Elias is suspected of the murder. A negro at St. Paul, Minn., who had criminally assaulted a girl of 14, was strung up to a tree, but was let down before life was extinct. He pleaded guilty and will receive a heavy sentence. Two brothers named Deballs fought a duel on the street at Littles, Pike county, Ind., in which several bystanders were injured. Both the brothers will die. Ex-Senator E. R. Cassell, president of the First National bank of Pella, lowa, attempted to commit suicide. He had been speculating on the Chicago board of trade and is thought to be ruined. The keeper of a San Francisco lodging house, Miss Harrington, was found murdered in her home, and ex-Senator Buck, a wealthy fruit grower, has been a^rested for the. crime. Major William Hardiman, aged 74, Was shot from ambush and killed on a lonely road near Esculapia Springs, Ky. A mob took James Freeman, colored, from a guard of four men at Columbus City, Fla., and shot him to death. He had tried to assault Mrs. Consel. Almede Chattels, who murdered little Jessie Keith last October, was hanged at Stratford, Ont. The murdered girl's father attended the execution. John Beck, a prominent and wealthy Mormon at Salt Lake, Utah, was indicted by the United States grand Jury for unlawful cohabitation. Beck is president of the Beck Bullion Mining company. John Swanagan, colored, was killed while attempting to break jail at Henderson, Ky. Janie Caldwell, the 18-year-old daughter of Farmer Josiah Caldwell, living near Birmingham, Ala., cut her throat in the presence of Joe Jennings because he took another girl to a dance. She died in his arms. I Will Owen, who murdered his wife at 1 Noble Lake one year ago, was hanged at Verner, Ark. Gulsseppe Bernagio has disappeared from Hastings, Colo. His friends say he may be a victim of the Mafia. John Albright, an engineer, was arrested st St. Joseph, Mo., charged with forgery.