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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1890
Page
7
A massive fire at Longue Pointe lunatic asylum near Montreal engulfed the facility. Witnesses describe horror as inmates perished or escaped, with estimates ranging from 100 to 200 dead and about 1100 accounted for among the ruins.
In St Louis on May 7 a train crew faced gunfire as three tramps were challenged on a south bound freight. Conductor J J Nelson was wounded in the hands while James Collins is arrested for the shooting. Conductor William Bohmie was shot in the left breast and lies dying at Missouri Pacific hospital as coroner records his ante mortem statement. A tramp named Charles Denison of Reynolds County, Mo, has been captured at DeSoto and admits the shootings.
In Ricamonp Virginia a large crowd gathered as trucks bearing the Lee statue were moved to the unveiling site. Thousands waved flags and pulled ropes as women and children joined the line of march while decorated trucks featured images of Gen Lee and Confederate flags. In Memphis Tennessee a grocer Nash S Grant was arrested on abduction charges involving fourteen year old Milrietta Hooker who vanished after being seen in a buggy. Grant, aged by report, denies involvement.
Charles Grutzmacher was arrested in Dyersville while in bed with his wife for stealing a team of horses from Jacob Gollicoffer of Peru township. He sold the horses in Galena for $200, used the money to marry and start a new home, with Gollicoffer among the wedding guests.
Raweren North Carolina May 6 Avery Butler fourteen year old boy who shot and killed his father at Clinton was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang June 10 In his testimony he said his mother urged him to assassinate his father.
AsaGana Fatus New York May 4 At about 5 oclock J Athey of Marios Arkansas fell from the upper suspension into a small boat waiting on the river below The fall was about 200 feet and Athey was aided by natives and boatmen at the scene
Senator James B. Beck of Kentucky collapsed at Baltimore and Potomac station on a Saturday afternoon after arriving from New York. He and his daughter Mrs. Goodloe were escorted to a carriage when he suddenly felt dizzy and fell. physicians attributed his death to heart paralysis.
Anna Murray of Mrs. Wentz's boarding house vanished after a midnight trek through South Broad street in a night robe and bare feet. She reappeared minutes later in her mother’s parlor, unable to explain how she reached home or entered the house, and she suffers a cold from the journey.
Mary Stang, 27, from Meripen, is sent to Middletown insane asylum after the fiancé James Schmitt fled moments before their wedding. She had worked as a domestic for J. H. White. Schmitt obtained a license and appeared at 5 but left before the 6 oclock ceremony, never to be seen again. Since then Miss Stang has shown severe mental distress and grew violently mad last Thursday.
Mrs. John Fitzpatrick suffers mental collapse after a tragic Sunday crash that killed eight year old Willie and severely injured six year old Clara and two nieces as the cart toppled on a road to Oakland cemetery. Mr. Fitzpatrick was dragged by the carriage wheel for 200 yards while trying to stop the runaway horse.
A remarkable wedding occurred near Laurel Fork in Boone county on Saturday night. Groom James Sevale aged 101, a widower who outlived his children, married widow Amy Terrence aged 88 who also has no living heirs. Best man was 81 and bridesmaid 78. The bride wore a silk gown crafted 64 years ago for a former marriage.
Ballinger votes for incorporation while Lampasas and Pottsboro report crop and rail disruptions. Sweetwater notes cattle shipping and possible boom from rains amid floods near Navasota, Denison corn prices spike, and Dallas area rail projects and bank construction proceed. Numerous local incidents include shootings near Navasota, a minstrel group in Lovelady, and civic events.
Pall Mall Gazette sketches a range of grotesque novelties from London shops. Bronze inkstands shaped like insects hide the ink, knife fishers with wire nets, and a beer barrel model for bachelors. Also described are card baskets, tobacco drawers, and dress accessories in luxury skins, with collapsible racks and other playful items.
The Troy Press notes a new women s shirt echoing four hundred era style. A delicate fusion of feminine ease and masculine detail features collar and cuff attachments, muslin body, linen bosom, and a front open length with a waist gathering string.
A Sunday Mercury excerpt recounts a public figure with two sons, one nearly twenty one and the other about thirteen. The elder partakes in society during winter but stops at Lent, and a dinner conversation reveals a joke about marriage and society girls being out late and indisposed or exposed half the time.
Herr Krupp the gunmaker stands as Prussia's heaviest taxpayer after being assessed at 1 400 000 dollars. The figure highlights Krupp’s wartime production ties and industrial prominence in the region.
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