Epitome of the Week.

April 25, 1889

Interesting News Compilation.

Domestic

While Perry Wine, of Brockton County, W. VA., was felling a tree on the 17th broke across the stump and fell, demolishing his house and killing his wife and three children.

Felicity Wart, aged seventy-two years, a professional beggar, died in New Orleans on the 17th of debility and neglect in an old shanty where she had lived twenty years. She was supposed to be very poor, but the coroner in inspecting the circumstances of her death discovered hidden around her shanty $38,500.

Frederic Broderick and Charles Collins were arrested on the 18th at Rondout, N. Y., for making and circulating counterfeit coin. A bag containing about seventy-five dollars in bogus nickels, together with dimes, ect., was captured.

At Jacksonville, Fla. On the 18th Isaac Jones (colored) broke nearly every bone in the body of his four-year-old child with an iron bar then beat his wife to death. He claimed to be subject to fits, and that he had one at the time.

Five Mormon missionaries were whipped, tarred and feathered and driven out of Dale County, Ala., on the 19th.

Malachi Allen, a one-armed negro, and James Mills, a half Indian and half negro, were hanged for murder on the 19th at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder.

Charles Barker, of Boston, checker champion of the world, and James Reed, of Pittsburgh, Pa., agreed on the 19th to play a series of fifty games at Chicago, commencing June 3, for the championship and $250 a side.

A fight occurred on the 20th between a party of Oklahoma boomers and a number of United States deputy marshals, near Purcell, I. T., two men being fatally wounded and a number of others seriously hurt.

A fire on the 21st in the Denn’s Hotel at Detroit caused the death of three men form suffocation.

The two little sons of Michael Cunningham, aged nine and ten years, of Dunham, Pa., ate some wild parsips on the 20th and died in great agony.

The street-car strike in Minneapolis was the cause of a riot on the 21st, during which policemen and drivers were seriously injured by stones thrown by a mob.

source: The Oxford Mirror
location: Oxford Junction, Iowa