Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-24
CRIldH And CALAMITY.
DEEDS OF VIOLENCE AND BLOOD.


Accidents and Incidsns Of Current Occur
renee.
Near Beaumont, Texas, the body of
John Mahoney, found in the woods, was
SO horribly mutilated by wild hogs as to be
almost unacceptable.
James T. Reynolds, candidate for
treasurer of Lawrence county, was dragged
on to the Erie s Pittsburgh track by
a runaway horse and killed by train.
Robert Anderson, a miner. of California
Pa, was entangled in a mules harness
and dragged a mile. When found his
brains were tramped out.
Perry and Alexander Mason, colored,
accused Of murder, were taken from the
jail, at Monroe, Louisiana, before day
light and lynched by mob.
Mark Duerden, keeper of a newspaper
stand in Cohoes, New York, was fatally
shot on Monday night by Patrick Glynn,
whose daughter he was accused of SANDER
ing.
A drunken blacksmith was dangerously
if not fatally shot by store keeper named
Donnell, in Graham, Texas, on Monday,
Donnell claiming that he acted in self
defence.
William o. Day, and Lawrence Slattery,
mill operatives at Berkley, Rhode Island,
were killed yesterday, by a collision be-
tween two flat cars at the railway station
in that place.
L. Witham, middle aged man, in
Readsboro, Vermont. was fatally shot by
All unknown person when about to retire
on Monday night. The shot was fired
through the window ON the outside, and
the crime is supposed to be that of .
neighbor with whom Witham had quar-
relied and who had threatened the latter's
life.
A horse attached 70 truck run away in
in one of tho streets of Jersey City, yes
terday, throwing out the occupants, q man
and a boy. The man, who was unhurt,
caught the horse, and, jumping into the
wagon, drove away, leaving the boy lying
in the street. The boy, who is unknown,
was taken to the hospital, where he died
yesterday morning from a fracture of the
skull.
Martin McAndrews, a miner, at Packer
cOlliery, was found dead in a crOp-fall a
short distance below Lost Creek. Mean.
drews had been missing since Sunday
night. He had been on spree for several
days and his absence created no inquiry.
The crOp-fall was quite deep. and the body
of the man was hidden by the sides of the
of the hole. He was terribly cut and
bruised.
At Martins Creek above EastOn, owing
to the drOuth, John Drew was hauling
water with a barrel on a wagon attached
to two spirited animals and drove into the
river to fill the barrel. The horses became
frightened and ran away while in the
water. Drew jumped from his seat into
the river, was caught by tho current and
drowned. The horses plunged. reared and
became tangled in the reins and were
drowned also.
In San Antonio, Texas, a one legged
Degro was arrested for committing an out
rage on a young German girl while she
was on her way homo from mass, first
knocking the girl down with his crutch
and rendering her insensible. The negro
was arrested and lodged in Jail before the
crime was generally known, elsc it is
thought he would have been summarily
dealt with.
The Philadelphian found with his throat
cut on a marsh near Wilmington, has been
recognized as William Call, carpenter
who left home on Wednesday, taking his
dinner kettle as if to 60 to work, and had
not been heard of since until found in the
marsh. On the Monday afternoon pre-
vious he was seen in tho company of a
man who, as he told his brother six weeks
ago, had threatened to kill him. His
brother doubts the story of attempted sui
eide, and expresses determination to
work the case up thoroughly.