Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-08-26

while walking with.syo ladies one night,
was fired at by man who eluded all the
efforts of Dougherty-s friends to capture
him. Bully Bill'' was fond of his joke,
and here was an opportunity too tempting
TO be resisted. Meeting Dougherty he
hailed him witP, "pougherty. have you
found out whofspNN you yet" mo, who
was it, you?" mo ;h6t know who did it"
We'll, who?'t PAT McCann!" People
say that this came near being Bully Bills
last joke, and that his subsequent misfor-
tunes are traceable directly to it. He was
standing in the door of coliery stable a
short time atterward, when q gang of men
approached, and without saying word
drew their revoiyers and began shooting
at him. Two or three mules in the stable
behind him were killed, but he escaped
with some pretty ugly wounds. Scarcely
had he recovered from these, however,
when, getting on railroad train, he found
there some men whose looks pleased him
so little that he thought 1t best to get off
again. He jumped off accordingly, and
had scarcely done so, when bullet from
the train, now moving off, went singing
past his ear. That was but few weeks
ago, and his next scrape was the one re-
corded above. These are not the whole OF
BiiIs adventures. During the riots at
mob and rescued by the police. Two
officers escorted him home, and as he was
about enter his house man stepped up,
thrust pistol in his face and pulled the
trigger; but BilPs lucky star was, as usual,
IN the ascendant, and the pistol failed to
explode. No wonder he prefers the couu-
ty prison rs residence to Mahanoy City.
OLD SCORES SETTLED.
Another old score was wiped out last
night at Shenandoah. Two years ago a
man named Cosgrove was shot and Killed
there by the friends of a person whom he
assaulted and u young Welshman named
Conner James was arrested ae-his murder
or. The evidence was strotg against him
but he was acquitted aud went TO Shenan
doah. Last night there Was moonlight
picnic" which lasted well ontoward SUNDAY
morning. About midnight James, who
was acting Is a bartender ut a refreshment
stand,was approached by party of men
who called Tor beer, and as he stopped to
draw il lie was shot in the brest, the bail
going through his body and lodging in his
back. He fell aud died almost Instantly but
his murderer escaped ,Acaving no clue be-
yond tl3n general suppostion chat he was
tosgroye's ayenser.
VI tssAbtaN Al iitt bllsAkltN lIl.E.
But the most serious outrage OF the night
was perpctarted at Girardyille. Here the
streets were filled with drunken rowdics.
heavily armed, and freuzicd by the vile
liquor In which their newIy-gotten moley
enabled them TO indulge TO excess for the
first time In months. One crowd, headed
by man named ilocy (iIoay), entered i
tavern aud became violently abusive.
striking aud Insulting the persous they
found there, and behaving 90 badly that
the landlord made all haste 10 put them out
\ lie succeeded after while and then, a.
one of the mem WHO has been struck wished
TO lake out a warrant for Hoey's arrest the
landlord took hnn out the back way, and
went with hin to the office OF MIR. Gwythcr
much respected Justice oi the Peace Of
that borough The mans affidavit was
taken, aud the Justice was max in. out the
warrant when iioey and the party entered;
hut the odds We're 100 great for the Justice
To think OF ordering an arrest then. ana he
also put them out aud locked the door ON
them, lie then finished making out the
warrant, aud LETT the office with the intcn-
tlon OF either ilndins a constable or max
ing the arrest himself. Ii possible. lie had
gone as far as his own house when a man
named William Love appeared few PAGES
u
Justice. Gwythers daughter saw him ana
cried, For God, sake don't shoot my
father but her plea was unayalling The
gun was discharged, and Gwyther fell dead
In the darkness aud confusion the assassin
escaped, but the atrocious act has aroused
not only the town OF Gradyil,e, but the
whole county, aud, a he Is well known, it
Is probable that he will be caught. At the
time nobody dared doanything the roughs
had entire control OF the town. and would
have made bloody work Ii there had been
any attempt 10 arrest the real offender.
though they permitted the arrest OF anoth-
er man who easily proved an alibi. A
number of special police had been sworn
In anticipation OF trouble, but they were
completely cowed, and did not attempt to
act. There were numerous smaller out
RACES, too tedious TO narrate here, and on
the whole il was the cruelest. bloodiest
night that Schuylklll coanty has known
Tor years,