Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-07
DISASTER AND CRIME.
The Record of Mems Bluntlers and Wicked
ness.

ness.
Alice Brown, of Wilkesbarrc, twenty
four years of age, committed suicide by
drowning.
The death is reported of Rose McGOwan
by injuries received by being thrown down
stairs by her husband, Michael, at $40
West Thirty-seventh street, New York.
John Travers, of Meriden, Conn.,, who
shot himself at No. 1G5 Madison street,
New York, died at Chambers Street hos
pital.
John Collins, who was stabbed in New
New York by Quimbo Uppo, jr., son of
the motor iOus Chinese criminal of same
name, is reported in dying condition.
A fire at Stoneham, Mass, destroyed the
I currying shop Of NJ. f. Fitzgerald, with
the adjoining buildings. a large quantity
of leather and valuable machinery were
also burned. Loss, s2j, 900 nearly COW
cred by insurance.
| A watchman named Connolly, employed
by the Seavicw railroad company, was SO
badly cut and slashed by three cOlOred
men, near Donnally's hotel, Long Island,
that he is expected to die. The assailants
arc supposed to be hOstlers from Brighton
Beach course.
In Albany, William II. Landen fatally
stabbed Eta harrington, young woman
with whom he maintained illicit rotations.
According to the wOman's story she gave
Laden no cause for assaulting her. Laden
is carpenter, twenty-five years Of age.
He was arrested.
J. Lloyd Haight, well known in good
society in New York and Brooklyn, and
contractor for the wire for the East river
bridge, whose fOrgeries caused the sus-
pension of the GrOcers' bank has been
sentenced to the state prison for four
years ut hard labor
The Manhattan vinegar company's works
ut Nos gig and PA First street, Brooklyn,
werc partially destroyed DO fire. Loss Of
the company $4,000; loss on buildings
owned by J. Wilson, $1,000. The charred
remains Of Henry Sussa, night watchman,
were found III the ruins.
Mrs. John Hickering. IN aged lady, of
Dauphin county. while attemptin. to
cross the Northern Central Railroad track,
a short distance above Dauphin, was
caught by the engine and dragged about
sixty feet. She was horribly nlanSle,l and
died shortly afterward.
In st. Petersburg house porter was
wounded by shot from a revolver fired
| by ono of two well-dreSsed men, both Of
whom were captured by the police with
tho assistance of bystanders, after slight
resistance and an Intellectual shot at the
captors. It is supposed that the outrage
was Nihilist attempt to kill spy in the
person of the house porter.
Three tramps yesterday morning broke
into the house of an old couple named Gar
Der, in New Market, York county, a little
town near Harrisburg, and after ransack-
ing the house, seized the old folks and de-
manded money. Mr.. CARRIER gave them a
small sum he had in his vest, when they
threatened him and his wife with injury
unless larger amount was given them.
Before their threats were executed they
were frightened off.
A fire at Lynn, Mass, partially de-
] strOyCd several buildings on Washington
street, occupied by 4 number of firms.
A building owned by Miles & Hoyt
was destroyed. Loss, $1,000; insured.
Morgan & DOer, Edward Hefferman,
Houghton, Godfrey & Dean, Sutherland
& Smith, Lucian Newhall, and others were
tho heaviest losers. Total loss, $15, 900 !;
insured.
At Old Town, Cr.ighead county, Ark,
few days since, John +. 1llingensmith,
agent of Streight & Co., of indianapolis,
Ind, was killed by blows from gun in
the hands of Calvin Smith, also of Indian.
apolis. His skull was crushed in. Both
men were engaged in getting out valuable
timber and quarrel of two or three years
standing originating in business rivalry
was revived by them. The murderer tried
to escape, but was arrested and put in
Jail.
In the Central Criminal court London,
Pleasance Louisa Ingle, a nurse in Guys
hospital, London, was convicted Of man
slaughter in causing the death of a young
married woman named Louisa Morgan,
who had been admitted to the institution
as consumptive patient. Mrs. Morgan,
who was apparently doing we'll, gave the
nurse some extra trouble, and was dragged
to the bath-tub by the nurse, and placed in
cold water. This treatment aggravated
the disease, and resulted in the speedy
death of the patient. The prisoners SEN
tence was postponed
John G. Hersch attempted suicide in
bagnio, in West thirty-second street, New
York, by shooting himself through the
| temple He is now at the New York hos
pital in critical condition. The man had
applied to Louisa Cook, an inmate of
the place, but being intoxicated was de-
| MED admittance. Miss De Forrest, who
| keeps the house attempted to prevent him