Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-04
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A FIEND ATTEMPTS TO BURN 500
CHILDREN I'm SCHOOL.
A Yiend at work.

ROCHESTER,, Feb. 26.-This forenoon q
re was started by an unknown man uu-
Ger the second story Htairs in the public
sch sol house No. Il. The flames were dis
GOV cred in time to permit of their suppress
eion before much damage was done, and
before there was any chance. Three hun
dred children who were in the upper story
cooms would have been cut OF from escape
except by the windows, if the flames had
progressed far. No. s public shool house
was set on fire Tuesday, but no damage
Wae done.
what the PoIiee of Xcw York have Right
40 DO,
NEW YoRK, FEB. Safeguarding the re-
cent murder by policemen, the Chief
f they thought their man was in any Of
the ROOMS Lahey was evidently so
nervous and excited that he fred his pis-
toi in the absence Of something better to
10. A club instead of pistol should have
1een in his hands. Besides, the Officers
iorgot to wear their ehiclds, and that was
.'ery wrong.
A dispatch from Moss Neck, Robson
county, North Carolina, Gays the young
mon who killed Steve LOwery hired . cart
aud took the body TO Lumterton. Imme-
Giately there was 2 wild commotiOn in the
Gown, and the streets were soon filled with
ar excited crowd, discussing the tragedy
INA ali IeloACluB LuaI Tue last OF thS OUT
2aws had been killed. The body was per-
fectly riddled with balls and bEckshot
IieweTy's head was perforated In several
places, and there were three large wounds
n his heart, any of which would have
proved fatal. The outlaw was armed to
the teeth, there being found on his person
when he was killed o Henry rifle, three
pistols and knife with blade about
twelve inches In length. He was only
about twenty eight or twenty-nine years
of age. He Is said to have been the most
cowsrdly and at the same time the most
treacherous and yindictive of them all.
A Daring Prison Reseue.
NEW CASTLE. DEL, Feb. c5.-About
one o'clock this morning Israel Riddings,
night warden at the Jail, hearing u slight
noise in the yard opened the door, when
ne was Immediately seized by o gang of a
dozen men. They ICED and handcuffed
him. tied his feet and put him in coal
hole. One OF them threatened his life with
a drawn knife, but another known as Big
crank interposed. They got over the wall
by two short ladders tied together which
yhey brought with them. They carried
on with them e. Frazer, who was under
life sentence for the murder of A lis n. IL
) slp2osed that the party reached here in
= tug boat which WI seen of r eW Castle
last night, ana has disappeared this morn
ing. Big Frank mentioned lis this dis
paich, is one of 9 patty whipped some
zine ago, aud fsR whose rescue before
whip Jug. 2 plot, was 70 med but did not
suco'ed, il briag foiled by the citi=eus be
ing On guard.
HOW IL Was Done.
-Four hank burglais, Layton Hast, Burd,
Carter. al d Hope. updts sentence OF IF
teen years, with Fiazer, under life sen.
tenee for murder, we're rescued by gans
of bureia They scaled the prison wall,
by ladders hrOugs.t with b M. After 10
curing the warden they oIen+d the pris
onrrs' cells by nt ana of Jack scrrws, anc
torctd 'prn the windows. There wer,
~ eve or fifteen men engage in the e.
enc, who are suptos d 10 have come from
Philadelphia In u tug, escaping in th'
same way,