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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1880
Page
1
In JerfFensonville Clark County Mrs. Thornbury fired through her door when two men demanded entry at nine pm. A man cried out that he was shot and was carried away in a wagon. Neighbors pursued but the assailants escaped. search continues.
A four or five year old boy, son of Thomas Pimm, an engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was attacked by an enraged sow while playing outside his Depot street home. The animal gored and tore the scalp, inflicting severe wounds on the head and body. Neighbors freed him, a physician was summoned, and the boy remained alive but critically injured.
Thieves used chloroform to enter the Thompson home on Michigan Avenue and Spring Street in Jeffersonville and stole about 1456 dollars in cash. Mundso, a partner in the business, was found unconscious from the gas this morning. Police suspect ex-convicts behind the break in and a suspicious man and another seen near the scene remain under scrutiny.
Archie Kelley of Cincinnati, a Western Union Telegraph Company employee, fell ninety feet from the Louisville bridge over the Ohio River while crossing wires, landing on jagged rocks. He died instantly, his body crushed by the impact.
A catastrophic boiler explosion at the Cox and Fairbanks distillery in Havre Syp Oct 20 caused six deaths and many injuries. Fire crews saved lives as families gathered amid the wreckage and a coroner's inquest will follow.
In Braprorp Pennsylvania two 1816 born twin brothers John and Daniel Miller were separated as children after their mother became widowed. John stayed in Westmoreland County and later became a toll gate keeper on the Butler turnpike in Alleghany County. Daniel lived in Washington and Bradford before a chance meeting last week revealed their kinship, the first since age four. An earlier reference notes a cattle and farming sale by Will Albaugh on October 27.
A Cincinnati factory fire at the Benjamin Hey shoddy works on Second and Broadway traps five women on the third floor. Rescue efforts fail as flames spread among clothing and rags. five deaths are confirmed, with relatives and ages listed for each victim.
Mrs Mamie Hastings confronted Frank I Hastings in a Cincinnati style city store during an election day visit. The attempted shooting ended when Hastings’ brother restrained the gun. Public sympathy rests with the distressed wife after her husband deserted her shortly after their marriage and a birth followed.
New Aupany reports a German family found the remains of an infant gnawed by rats in an old three story brick house on Main Street. The German wife discovered the bundle of rags and fears identifying the mother will be difficult as the building housed women of doubtful character. The incident is likely to be investigated.
A young boy, about fourteen, with blue eyes and light hair, was found dead on a levee near the Kennedy plantation on the New Orleans riverbank. An autopsy showed two wounds, one in the breast and one in the head, and a Derringer pistol found by the body. Police and the coroner concluded he died by his own actions, after possibly firing the first shot and then reloading. The body was buried on the river bank with no identification, hope held for matching clothing to a name.
A Lewiston Maine Journal tale recounts Mrs. Winship waking her husband during a North Furner Bridge fire to save nearby buildings. He claims total amnesia after the event. The report also covers Belknap and Mrs. Greene eloping from Melrose Wisconsin with a pistol pursuit over a dollar and a half.
An old fashioned highway stage robbery occurred last Wednesday between Pearce City Missouri and Fayetteville Arkansas. Four robbers plus two assisting men halted the stage at gunpoint and demanded money from passengers totaling about two thousand three hundred dollars while the cattle man lost two thousand dollars by misplacing it among bushes. The mail and express were not touched and the robbers thanked passengers for their polite attention before the stage moved on.
Charlie Owen, a Tennessee express messenger, refused whisky after a wreck near Big Lick. Despite injuries, he stayed by his box of silver, recalling a mother’s vow to never drink. He is about nineteen, a Knoxville area native, with a rising record at Southern Express Company.
The Rochester Astronomical Society reports a new comet discovered by Prof. Swift. It lies in Pegasus and moves slowly toward Earth, with a bright tail visible to naked eye near the sun. If true, it could rival the great comet seen before the 1812 war, though past year forecasts caution patience.
The Drovers Journal reports today receipts 28 000 hogs with 4 800 shipped and prices 10 cents lower per hundred weight. Best hogs 4.40 to 4.65, mixed 4.70 to 4.80, light bacon 4.60 to 4.75, heavy 4.90 to 5.00. 8 000 hogs unsold. Cattle receipts 6 000. shipments 5 000. Export cattle 5.20 to 5.65 per 100 pounds. shipping cattle 4.60 to 4.85. stockers 2.80 to 3.25. natives 5.25 to 3.40. Texans 2.90 to 3.10. Sheep 3.40 to 4.25 per 100 pounds. Wheat quiet 98 to 99 1/2 cents. corn 40 1/2 to 41 cents. oats 90 2/3 to 92 cents. Market dull in Ispraxa with 9 000 head receipts and 5 010 head shipped.
A 25 year old barber, Neal, shot himself on the sidewalk in front of his father’s East Broadway home just before leaving to Rushville. He had bid friends farewell, telegraphed his brother, and spoke of marriage the next morning, with the act attributed to a disap pointed love. He also implicated a prior street fight with Jack Isaacs, but the brother did not respond.
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