AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3050, 12 August 1893, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Charles Miller, a negro, who ravisbcd and murdered two young girls at Sikestown, Missouri, was lynched on July 8, He was first hanged, and the body afterwards burned. Miller died protesting his innocence. Pomeroy, in lowa, a town of 1000 inhabitants, was struck by a cyclone on July 6, which swept away all buildings, i and injured a la'-ge number of people. The latest returns show 100 persons killed in the town, and 200 injured. Fonda and Manson also suffered. In the place first nimed five entire families were I blown away fend lost, as no trace have been found of them. The quaker sttfement of Falsington, New Jersey, was the tcene of a shocking whitecap outrage on Friday, June 30, prompted, it; is said, by jealousy. One of the victims was Mrs Hannah Church, a comely widow ; the other was James O'Ntil, a young man who vr. rks in the vicinity Five masked young . men, entered the To.im where Mrs Church and ONeil were sitting, seized O'JSiil aud held him fast while others sprang upon the woman, tore off all her clothing and after cutting her flesh in places, took a large paint pot, filled with Japan varnish and lampblack, and poured it over her naked body, rubbing it in wich their hands. Meantime O'Nejl wasiiokedand beaten till almost insensible, and they subjected tbe woman to further torture too revolting to describe.