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Near Thurman, 0-, on the 7th, two sons of Philip Wagoner, aged 9 and 12, were drowned while bathing.Hiss Bettie Crawford, residing with Mr. Spencer, at Sewell, on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad, undertook to light a fire with a can filled with kerosene oil. The result was the can exploded, setting the house on fire, and burning Miss Crawford so seriously that she died a few hours afterward.Near Bucyrus, O., on the 8th, John Kart-ner fell inf front of a reaper in a field and was horribly mutilated, being disemboweled and haring his arms severed.Edwin jL. Smith, a prominent lawyer of Tuseola, Bl., cut his throat with a yazor, and when found was dead. Trouble with his wife wasJhe cause.Mnjor w. W. Williams, editor of the Logan Counjty (O.) Index, placed himself in. front of the night express train near Belle-fontaine, |on the morning of the 8th, and was instantly killed. Family troubles are thought to hare instigated him to commit the deed, jMr. Qeorge S. Appleton, of the publishing house of D. Appleton A Co., New - York, died on tlie 8th.Thirty {prisoners were ltilled at Lyons, France, on the 8tb, by the {explosion of a petroleum factory.George Bullitt, a negro; was lynched at Vine Grove, fiardin County, Ky., on the fth. He was charged with having assaulted a white woman. iBobert M. Ostrander a well known river pilot, committed suidde at Louisville, on the 5th, by taking laudanum. Family troubles, brought on by his pwn dissipated habits, was the cause.
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Iola Register
Iola, Kansas, US
Sat, Jul 13, 1878
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