Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-18
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Casey Pennel, aged eleven, was lately
shipped from Texas to Philadelphia by ex-
press.
VIM. Mclean was fatally stabbed in the
abdomen by John Mitchell, half drunken
negro, on Monday, at Bridgeton, N. S.
Eureka, New, was almost destroyed by
fire yesterday, the flames taking the same
course rs the confiagration of 1879.
VIM. johnson, saloon keeper at st.
Louis, Mo-, yesterday drew pistol upon
Cbas. Sicbert, q blacksmith, who fired first
and killed him. Siebert was arrested.
Patrick Podden, aged 16, was run over
last evening by train on the Delaware
& Hudson railroad, at Mill Creek, and
his body cut in two.
Mrs. NJ. Wadsworth, lately widowed
matron Of a Chicago hospital, died with
corrosive sublimatc in grief for her hus-
band.
At barbecue at Gondeysvillc, S. c., a
difficulty occurred between man by the
name of Bullock and his son, tho father
stabbing his son six times, from which he
will probably recover.
A careless thrust by workman, yester-
day morning, Of a red hot iron into pool
of oil, ut Empire Co.'S oil refinery, Long
Island City, caused a fire which did 500, 600
damage.
Prof William Swift, of Rochester, N.
V, yesterday discovered another comet,
the fourth he has found the past four years.
It was in Ursa Major, right ascension,
about II hours 2S minutes, declination
G8 degrees north.
Jules Richards, formerly drummer in
the Thirteenth Infantry, unsucccssfully at
tempted to murder Miss Marie Condcau,
yesterday, at New Orleans, La, because
she refused to marry him, and then cut his
own throat with razor.
Mrs. Sarah w. Thompson and her daugh-
ters, Annie and Minnie, of No. "a Seventh
avenue, New York, have returned to that
city from the Adirondacks, where they
had been visiting, and all three gave un-
mistakable signs of insanity at the hos
pital, to which institution they had been
sent by 4 physician whom they requested
to prescribe for them, they complaining
that they were indisposed.
w. II. o. Bilmirc, tho sexton of Mount
Vernon NJ. E. church, Baltimore, who dis
appeared last October with several thou
sand dollars which he had collected from
pew-rcnters, arrived home yesterday, to
the great surprise of his friends and the
authorities, who had been anxiOusly look
ing for him as defaulter and abscOnder.
He tells a wild story of being abducted,
chlOrofOrmcd and carried to sea. OF course
the money has not been returned.
Bill Rodcfer, a notorious thief got into
DR.. Walkers house in indianapolis the
other night and Mrs w. heard him under
1,o,. Ct, ,,.tS., 1,o1 poJnfo,.
he was discovered, attempted to mako his
escape and fired his pistol at DR.. Walker,
missing him. He was backing out of tho
house, covering the doctor with pistol and
knife. Before reaching the door young
Walker came to the rescue and fired, kill
ing him instantly.
IIavcrlock Styles and his "best man /"
John Wcster, ran away with Ophclia Up
church, daughter of i wcll-to-dO farmer in
Nash county, n. G., Just after the cere-
mony was concluded Mr.. Upchurch. armed
with \ doublc-barreled shotgun, rode up.
He lcvelcd it at Wcster and fired the two
barrels charged with buckshot into the
young mans left breast. Westcr fell with
out saying a word. Styles flcd:to the woods,
leaving his newly-made bride to the mcr-
cies of the enraged father, who carried her
home.
In Fort Scott, Kan, yesterday in the
gray dawn some fifty men rode to the Jail
and called up Sheriff Rucker, and on pre-
text of having 4 prisoner for him, induced
him to unlock the Jail. They then seized
the sheriff, locked him in cell and took
out Thomas Watkins confined for horse
stealing, and departed since when no
traces Of the party or Watkins have been
discovered. Ono theory is that Watkins
has been lyllchcd and another is that the
men were his friends and took this means
to rescue him.