Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — CRIMES AND CASUALTIES [ARTICLE]

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

One Day’* Grlat of Haman Woe eed Miseries. An Alabama farmer mistook his sob coming home from a dance for a burglar, snd shot him dead. At Cincinnati, April 19; J. E, Elrieh, a Jewelry peddler, stood on the foot-rail of tn electric car. He leanedsoJar ouf afl* crossed a bridge that he struck the iron work, his skull beii.g crushed and rib* broken. He fell dead in the street. An old farmer who hanged himself, near Norwalk, Ohio, carefully tied his bands so that he could not help himself should he thange his mind while choking. Miss Owen, who lives near Hickman, ty.. was killed, April 18, by being kicked *nder the chin by d horse. Four charred corpses, supposed of Iramps, were found at Columbus, Ohio, in khe ruins of a barn burned last fall. AtChicago,Rupert.Tohnson,anexpresstnan, and George Holden, a three-year-old boy, died from drinking beer which had been poured into a glass which had contained nitric acid. Adolph Scheuderick, a member of tho Boy land protective police in New Orleans, April 19, shot and killed Mattie Francisco, knd then killed himself. He leaves a wife ind four children. She bad deserted ber husband. ~- 7 - ■ - - ■ The marshal of Kutttawa, Ky., arrested tn aged woman without a warrant, and lespite ber protest that she had heart disease, put her in the lock-up, where sh* lied. Two of tho stamp counterfeiters, whose speratlons were recently discovered at Chicago, have been arrested. One Is C. O. J6nes, a newspaper artist of Chicago. Theother is a Mrs. McMillen, of Hamilton, Ont.