Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-28
FATALITIES.
How They Came to Their Death.

now They Game to Their Death.
John Branner potter in Millham n. j.,
was sunstruck and died on the commons.
Louisa Fust, aged years. fell from
four-stOry window at 81 Ludlow street,
New York, and was killed.
Isadore Greenfield aged . years. 249
Delaney street, New York. was run over
and killed by wagon. James Packing
ham, the driver, was arrested.
An unknown man was beheaded by Il
train between Somerville and Raritan. y.
j. In his pocket WIS an empty wallet.
five pennies and a pipe.
! Abigail Bramer, a 9S-year-old resident
of Corinth. near Saratoga. N.Y., fell down
stairs on Thursday, and has since died of
her injuries.
Charles Atherton. Il son of CongrcSsm IN
AthertOn, of Columbus. Ohio. is missing.
lie left note saying that he intended conf
mittng suicide.
An unknown tramp was struck by light
ming on Friday night, while sleeping under
a tree two miles south OF Clifton village.
n. Y. The flash ran down the tree and
struck him on the head.
John Moore. an employee of the Clinton
foundry, Troy. was killed by the thick
leather covering of rapidly revolving
wheel flying from the flStenin, and hit
ting him on the head.
Obed Glover, of PhiImont. Columbia
county. n. V, accidentally stuck a needle
i'll his thumb not long ago, the point of
which broke oil. Erysipclas supervcned
and he died.
y boy and girl. aged respectively six ans!
seven years, children of Mr.. Dlstram, of
Galena, ILL.,. were drownad in the Plum
river near there. John Watts, for many
years i resident of the same city, was
drowned in Galena river while catching
driitwoo! and towing it to the bank.
Mrs. Rosina Rosyski, aged 80 years, of
ee3 East Houston street, New York, while
attempting to fill 4 Kerosene lamp with
oil, was fatally burned by the explosion
which followed. While her clothing was
in flames her husband in attempting to eX-
| tinguish the flames, had his hands terribly
burned.
Miss Lizzie WOoGs, residing three miles
| north of Writ. Ind, while attending to
household duties had spasm, falling upon
the stove, Ovcrturning u large coffee boiler
containing boiling water. The contents
were cmpticd upon her breast body and
limbs, scalding her terribly, and it is
thought fatally.
Near Baltimore the yawl boat of the coast
| survey steamer Bache, with 4 fishing party
consisting of Mr.. James Potion, engineer
of the Bache, his two sons, Willie and
Jimmy Potion, and third boy named
William NJ. Greenawald, was struck and
upset in the lower harbor by tow of
barges and the two SONS of MIR. Potion
and Greenawa!d were drowned.
Near Paris, Stark county, Ohio Miss
keiser shot ut VIM. Zeigler without effect
and then killed herself. She was distant
kinswoman of the Rev. Mr.. Zeiger, the
father of William, and had visited ut his
house last summer, when an attachment
sprung up between her and William. Dur
ing the past week she has been visiting
the Zeiylers again and either because of
neglect or jealousy she planned to kill her
lover and herself.
Mr.. Samuel Sealy, an old and respected
citizen of Granville, KY, aged So years,
hanged himself on Thursday evening last
He was missed from the house by one of
the family, and upon search being made he
was found hanging by Il rope from Il rafter
in the barn. He had evidently climbed
the rope and jumped off. When his son,
still warm but life was extinct
In jefferson City, Mo-, John Moore, a
laborer, found his wife lying dead on the
floor of one OF the rooms. her throat cut
from ear to ear and Il pool of clotted blood
on either side of her neck. An open razor
was by her side. Her feet rested in an
other pool of blood, and the floor was
stained with Il scarlet trail for several .cet
to a lounge in one corner of the room, on
which her husband said she was sitting
when she drew the blade across her throat.
The cash was Il deep, cean-cut one, and
the hand that held the razor was one OF
nerve and strength.
ID. p. Newell, 4 Chicago real estate
dealer, became deranged with the notion
that he had invented life preserver COM
posed of lead. He took passage on the
steamer Sheboygan for Grand Haven,
across the lake. He left word for his wife
that he was going out to try his inven-
tion, and that she would soon know the
result. 1t appears that when half way to
the other shore he quietly undressed, and
binding the lead, which he carried with
him, about his body, Slipped unobscrved
into the water. His body has not been
seen since and will probably never be re
covered.