The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-28
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
DEEDS OF THE DEVILS DARLINGs,
A Negro Ravisher Taken From vir.
ginia Jail and Hung 10 the Limb of
Tree-An Unprovoked Murder
"A Negro Murderer Hung by
Mob i'm Tennessee-Acci.
dents, Incidents-A
Deadly Damp.


gro in the employ of James Tschiflely,
near Jamestown, Nd, who on Saturday
night during the absence of Mr.. Tschifiely
brutally outraged and maltreated Mrs.
Tschiffely, compelling her to remain with him
until 4;S0 o'clock Sunday morning, was cap.
tured near Mechanicsville last night by t.
Davis and lodged in Jail at Rockville. About
4 o'clock this morning forty or fifty men sur
rounded the Jail and demanded the prisoner.
On being refused they broke open the door,
took Diggs out and carried him up the road
toward Jamestown. On arriving at point
short distance from the town,a rope was put
around his neck, the rope thrown across the
limb of q tree and willing hands lifted the
body from the ground. The crowd then
quietly dispersed, leaving the body hanging.
Diggs made full confession to the sheriff
before the Jail was forced,
AN UNPgovoKED MURDER.
Cincinnati, July GA Nashville, Tenn,
special says Horace Shoemaker on Saturday
evening shot and killed in a most unprc-
voked manner, William Tiggert, in the ninth
district Of Montgomery county. A double
barrelled gun was the weapon used. Tig-
CERT had interfered some time ago in a one Of
Shoemaker's fights, and this was the cause
OF the murder. Shoemaker has taken refuge
with friends, and deaes arrest.
A MASKED MOB HANGS A NEGRO MURDERER.
Last Thursday, at noon, in Stewart county,
a masked mob took Geo. Washington, col.
ored, from Jail, where he was confined for a
murder committed five weeks ago, and
hanged him.
DID OF nYDRoPuoBIA.
Nashville, Tenn, July 27.--Milton Story,
twenty-one years of age, died at Thompson's
station, on the Nashville & Decatur railroad,
twenty-five miles south of Nashville, last
Sunday night, of hydrophobia, resulting
from the bite of dog last week.
MORTALITY WOUNDED WITH A STONE.
AT bran dance at Greenbrier station,
Robertson county, on Saturday, Ben Web
ster was MORALLY wounded with q stone
thrown by Tom Jones. Webster was one of
the most substantial citizens Of the county.
DEADLY DAMP.
Pottsville, Penn, July 27.-At II
o'clock last night Jonathan Wasley, superin-
tendent, Frank Williams inside bo,s, and
John Reese, assistant superintendent, all of
the Philadelphia and Reading coal and iron
company, descended Keely run colliery to ex-
anime the ventilation. Nothing further had
been heard of them until this morning, when
it was discovered that the gangwsys was
choked with black damp, snd the men cut
of from the open air. Rescuing parties
have been OF work since dawn trying unsuc-
cessfully TO break through the deadly damp.
A dozen miners thus far have been taken out
overcome by the foul air and tHrned over to
physicians. There is no hope that the i'm.
prisoned men are alive. They all have fami-
lies. The most intense excitement prevails
about the mine. and fully one thousand peo-
pie have gathered there. All work in the
neighborhood has suspended.
LATER.-Three men who we're cut off by
black damp in Keely run colliery to-day,
were found at o'clock. All dead.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND KILLED.
Wilmington, N. G., July 27.-During
thunder storm this afternoon Mrs. Lumsden,
residing on Masonboro sound, seven miles
distant, was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. She was in bed sick at the time
Heavy rains continue in this section, and
planters complain Of damage to cotton.
About one and half inches fell here be-
tween 2 and $3.50 o'clock this afternoon.
HOGAN AND HIS RAZOR.
New York, July 27.-Last night Edward
Hogan, of Al Columbia street, Brooklyn,
quarreled with his wife. His sister, Mrs.
Burns, interfered, whe-eupon Hogan attacked
her with razor and inflicted wounds which
will undoubtedly prove fatal. He then ran
down stairs, and on being questioned by q
young man named Thompson, who was
standing there, about the trouble with his
wife, Hogan attacked the questionpr fercely
and cut him so that he will die. The wound
cd man and woman we're taken to the hos
pital and Hogan was arrested.