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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1880
Page
1
A Kansan recounts an ineffectual lynching and brutal torture at Drum Creek Timber. He describes rope strangulation, a riverbank fight with assailants including Bill Buckle, a pistol duel, and a nocturnal escape aided by staying with a darkey hut resident who notes his hair had turned white. He never learned the Benders' whereabouts.
A Gazette interview recounts Slocumville resident Mr Slocum a youthful figure with snowy hair who explains a past peril during an 1872 journey through Western Arkansas. He describes robbers near Little River and Fort Smith with $1700 in saddle-bags and a tense escape on a hot day by the riverbank.
In Tioga District, a donkey mourns his jackass companion after a prospecting trip accident. The bereaved animal refuses to move, droops beside the scene, and is last seen nibbling at a quartz ledge while weeping for his friend.
Berks County officials report Benjamin Fechler aged fifty five left chained in a log hut for twenty seven years. He is described as a mental wreck with a rusty iron restraint, fed but unwashed, while Joseph Fechler kept him confined awaiting possible recovery with aid from his father’s estate.
A young man in Dublin awoke last Wednesday morning deaf and dumb after a night of restful sleep. He could talk and hear the previous night and recalls no distress or injury. He is about twenty-one or twenty-two, intelligent and well regarded. sympathy is offered from the community.
A German worker at Western Electrical Works murdered his wife then shot himself in Chicago at 6 AM. Their two young children were locked with them. The incident followed earlier domestic strife but neither spouse was deemed dangerous. In New Albany a heater fingertip fatality occurred at the rail mill as flames enveloped endangering worker Kis man. Barnum's Bridgeport home features a year round flag and a public burgee when present. A Kentucky heir, Hiram Berry, parted from Mollie Taylor after serious family quarrels and financial pressure. West Philadelphia Catholics were shocked by a priest impostor Dr James Welsh denounced by Archbishop Wood. Cincinnati Bishop Elder bans frizzed hair for women in his congregation.
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