OBTIS: 1893 Louiville, Jefferson Co., KY submitted by: Judy Matlock Date: 3-20-1998 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1893 FIVE BLOWN TO DEATH A Blast Accidentally Discharged at the Buck-Ivanhoe Tunnel. Leadville, April 18. At the Buck-Ivanhoe Tunnel, on the line of the Colorado, Midland railroad, eighteen miles west of here, a terrible explosion occurred at an early hour this morning. The explosion shook the earth for quite a distance around. It was due to an accidental discharge of a blast, which it is said, communicated with other powder. Five men were killed and four seriously injured. The injured were brought to the hospital here this afternoon. The dead are: George Young, John Collins, E. Rolley and M. McGovern, an unknown minor. Four others, it is thought are fatally hurt. DIED A THIEF The Late Charles Pischopaik, of Covington, Left a Shortage of $950. Covington, Ky., April 18. (Special) This city is again brought face to face with a shortage in its delinquent Tax Collector's accounts. The Collector was Charles Pischopaik and he died a few _____. His accounts _____that they were not all right. It was found that they are $950 short. It was only a few months ago that Pischopaik was found short and forces to a settlement. His predecessor in the office was short also, ad a suit for settlement was filed last week against him for $10,000. Pischopaik's bondsmen will have to pay the shortage as he has left no property of his own. CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO CARS Ed Earle, a Brakeman, Almost Instantly Killed at Bedford, Ind. Bedford, Ind., April 18 Special Ed Earle, a brakeman on the Evansville and Richmond railroad, was caught between two cars this afternoon and almost instantly killed. He was in the act of coupling the advertising car of Sall Bros' Circus to the passenger train, The draw-bar of the advertising car was too low for the coach, allowing the ends of the cars to come together. When the train was pulled up, Earle stepped out from between the cars, picked up his hat, which had fallen, walked to the side of the track and sat down and was dead in less than five minutes. His breast was crushed, though the skin was not broken. This is the second man who has been caught between the cars here during the past week, Earle lived at Westport and has a wife and two small children. The body of the man found in the Ohio river, near Aurora, Ind., was identified yesterday as Charles Ingersoll Maury by Mr. Edward Berkeley, Jr., his cousin. The following deaths were officially reported yesterday to Health Officer Galt: James R. Meunier, fifty-eight years, appendicitis, 853 Nineteenth; Eliza Susan Bowles, forty-three, cerebral apoplexy, 2508 Crop; Mrs. Maggie Willinger, forty years, alcoholism, 435 East Main; Peter Selgrath, forty-six years; C.C. Coggins, thirty-three years, typhoid fever, St. Joseph Infirmary; Samuel J. Foree, sixty-eight years, pneumonia, 1042 Third; Mrs. A. Stewart, fifty-nine years, cancer, 239 Stoll avenue; Sallie Hulsee, four years, diphtheria, Home of the Innocent. Colored: Berry Crenshaw, forty-nine years, typhoid fever, 1602, in alley, between Madison and Chestnut; Edward Curry, nineteen years, dropsy, 713 Hancock; Lina Johnson, three years, convulsions, Floyd and Pirtle. DIED THIS MORNING Mrs. Mary E. Gray Passes Away at an Advanced Age. Mrs. Mary E. Gray, wife of Mr. Henry W. Gray, died about 1:30 o'clock this morning at Miss Belle S. Peers' Home School for Girls, 717 Third street. Mrs. Gray was sixty-four years old and was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Orr Peers. Her husband and four children survive her. They are Robert C. Gray, Mary O. Gray, Henry W. Gray, Jr., and Benjamin P. Gray. GOOD DAY FOR THE CORONER Three Suicides and Two Murders In St. Louis Yesterday. St. Louis, April 18. Suicide and crime seemed to be in the air here for a short time to-day. F.E. Hargraves, aged twenty-one, blew his brains out with a revolver at his boarding-house, 2212 Olive street, leaving as an explanation of the fact a letter in which some mysterious trouble was referred to. Charles Heitzberg, manager of the St. Louis Dressed BeefCompany's slaughter-house, on Prairie and Garfield avenues, hung himself to a rafter of the slaughter-house in a fit ofdespondency caused by heavy drinking. William O'Brien, an engineer employed on the Merchants' Terminal railroad, committed suicide by eating a box of"rough on rats." Cause unknown. The three suicides all occurred at near the same time and in different parts of the city. At about the same hour during a quarrel Stella Gray was fatally stabbed by Clara Gray in a house of ill-repute, and Charles Hamilton, colored, was fatally shot by some unknown person near the corner of Eleventh and Spruce streets. DEATHS Moore April 19, 1893, at 12:30 a.m., Mrs. P.F. Moore, at her residence, 605 West Broadway, aged seventy-six years. Due notice will be given when the funeral will take place. Gray Entered into the rest of Paradise, about 1:35 o'clock a.m., April 19, Mrs. Mary E. Gray, wife of Henry W. Gray, and daughter of Rev. Benjamin Orr Peers. Due notice of funeral will be given. HORACE O'DONOGHUE'S SUICIDE Not An Insane Impulse, But the Result of Financial Embarrassment. His Customers Had Endorsed His Notes For $100,000, Which He Could Not Pay. Chicago, April 18. The remarkable suicide of wealthy Horace O'Donoghue, supposed to be due solely to a sudden insane impulse on hearing his wife read an account of the death of Eliott E. Shepard, was revealed to-day as probably the result of large financial embarrassment involving a number of Chicago publishing houses. O'Donoghue was standing before a mirror, and, while his wife was intently reading, picked up a razor and practically beheaded himself. The general impression at the time of O'Donohue's death was that he was in easy circumstances. The failures last week of H.J. Smith & Co., subscription book publishers, the Melbourne Publishing Company, whose specialty was in reprints, and the Nile C. Smith Publishing Company, who were giving their attention to getting out translations from the French, have, it is said, put a different face upon ) O'Donoghue's affairs. Both the Chicago and Philadelphia houses of H.J. Smith & Co. confessed judgment. The firms of Charles H. Sergel & Co., F.J. Schulte & Co., and the Nile Publishing Co. are also involved, but are making arrangements for financial assistance which will enable them to continue. It is also the intention of H. J. Smith to organize a new company, of which he will be managerand in which it is said W. B. Conkey will figure. The relation of these firms to O'Donoghue is explained as follows: O'Donoghue printed and bound their books. He did first-class work, was an amiable man to do business with, and when a time came that O'Donoghue needed quite a sum of money it was easy to ask these customers of his, whom he had repeatedly assisted, for "accommodation notes." He got them as a matter of course, and in amounts twice and thrice the size of their indebtedness to him. The total amount of these "accommodation notes" is said to be about $100,000, but even with this heavy load upon him others in the same line of business say O'Donoghue could have pulled through and might have done so but for the worry incident to this large indebtedness, secured on personal relationships, and the temporary mental derangement caused thereby. It is believed that O'Donoghue's estate will be found sufficient to take care of all the indebtedness in time, but the demands of the banks upon those endorsers of "accommodation notes" which he floated is making the best of them squirm. He had real estate valued at about 300,000, on which there is about $100,000 encumbrance. His mother has a dower right in one-third of the remainder. His printing and binding plant is worth about $150,000. MISS LUCY LARCOM DEAD One of the Leading Literary Women of Massachusetts No More Boston, Aril 18. Miss Lucy Larcom, the poet, died last evening. She had been ill for some time. The day on which Dr. Phillipe Brooks was taken ill he received a letter from Miss Larcom in which she said she had a presentiment that she would never see him again until they met "beyond the river." Miss Larcom was born in Beverly, Mass. in 1826. As a child of seven years she wrote poems and stories that attracted great attention. When ten years of age she went to work in the mills of Lowell, contributing largely to the Lowell offering. Her writings in this publication attracted the attention of John G. Whittier, who was then conducting a paper in Lowell. She moved to Illinois when twenty years of age and for a while taught school there. When "Our Young Folks" was established in Boston in 1865 she became its editor-in-chief, holding the position till 1876. Since thenshe had resided at Beverly, Mass. Her published works have been popularly received, particularly a complete collection of her poems, which was published in 1884. Death of George Stoll, Sr. Lexington, Ky., April 18. (Special) George Stoll, Sr., aged seventy-four, died at his home here today, after an illness of two weeks' duration. He had been United States Commissioner at Lexington for years, and was held in highesteem in business circles. He was the father of George Stoll, Jr., R.P. Stoll and Charles H. Stoll, all prominentin politics and business. His son, James Stoll, is a well-known breeder of fine horses. Prominent Georgian Dead.Atlanta, Ga., April 18. Major Daniel M. Speer, President of the Exposition Cotton Mills, died today. He was prominent in business and political circles of Georgia. Driftwood The funeral of Capt. James Prather took place in Cincinnati Sunday.