The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-19
FROM NEW FORK.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Exclusively to The Bpening telegraph.
Stabbinu ARRAY,


ALBANY, June 18.-A terrible affair occurred
at place called "Ngger Hollow" mile back
of Greenbush, at 2 o'clock this morning, be-
tween three white men and six negroes. The
party had been gambling aud drinking, and
finally got into wrangle. The negroes were
armed with knives and razors, and stabbed
James Donnelly, white, ten times in the abdo-
men and in the shoulder. He cannot recover
Another white man has cut sixteen inches
long across the abdomen, while the third has
innumerable flesh wounds. The police auth ORR
ties are endavoring to arrest the blacks.
New York Communists.
NEW YORK, June ia meeting of New
York Communists took place yesterday. The
Paris Commune was fully endorsed in series
of resolutions, and NJ Thiers was denounced as
a second Charles TX, and the order of his gov
ernment for the 'indiscriminate slaughter
men, women, and children by the Versailles
troops" as secen st. Bartholomew massacre
Particulars of the Connolly Murder and
Suicide.
New YORK, June 19.-The particulars of the
double murder and suicide of DR.. Connolly on
Sunday are of absorbing interest. DR.. Connolly
had been for some two or three days on peri
odical ''spree," and Saturday and yesterday he
took occasional doses of morphine to quiet his
nerves. About 4 P. M. yesterday he entered
the bedroom of himself and wife on the rear of
the second floor, taking his two children with
him and locking the door. His wife soon after
wards endeavered to enter but without success.
The police, warned by the neighbors, entered
the house about o'clock, and forced open the
door. Theroom being dark the gas was lighted,
when q horrible spectacle was presented. On
the bed lay the father and children, all dead
and literally bathed in blood. The children had
moth but fhnir nirrhf n1N Tt,af 60
ther was clad in a white undershirt, covered
with blood, while pair of red flannel drawers
served to add to the ghastliness of his appear
ance, leading one to believe, at the first glance,
that his entire clothing was soaked in blood
from head to foot.
The head-board was spotted with blood, and
the bed clothing and mattresses soaked. A
rubber ball, with which the children had appa-
rently been amusing themselves, all bloody, lay
on the bed. The weapon the lunatic had used
also lay on the bed. 1t was carving-knife
with blade sixteen inches in length, and taper
ing gradually to q fine point. The throats of
both children had been cut, their jugular veins
| being severed. The throat of the father was
| cut nearly from ear to ear, and there were
besides several stab wourd ds in the breast in the
| vicinity of the heart. physician examined
the bodies and announced that death had occurred
| several hours previous. Mrs. Connally was
| rendered insane for the time by the terrible
| discovery.
| Earthquake Shock.
| NEW YORK, June 19.-Last night, at five min
| utes past ten, there was a severe shock of an
earthquake on the northern shore of Long
Island. In Brooklyn, on the hill, and on Staten
Island, the reports indicate wave whose centre
was probably further east, somewhere in New
| England.