The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-29

xs,u4ixsRrRG, W. VA, December IT,
=, saturday night Mr.. Thornton Hen
ls so farmer living four miles west OF
' "a c;tg. heard some one getting into his
W., nv the roof. Going up stairs he dis
ho'"',red colored man named Woods In a
Gov, cccnpied by a white girl living with
ivo Mr.. IIenshaw fired, and shot him
nm is'.n',gb the neck. The man ran, and he
Ia 'i' tracked by blood drops the next day to
", va ,loee Of abode. and he is now In Jail.
NINE MEN DROWNED.
orsySsTowv, December 25.-While the
,'Nsoer Catalonia was on her way out OF
so'.senstown harbor to-day, and when she
V" w one mile from Roche's Point, she ran
va va, he British bark lIelcnslee, from San
,,. me- for Queenstown. The lIelenslee
~ and nine Of her crew were drowned,
~. ~" rcmaining sixteen being saved by the
,N',alonia. The latter had her bows stove
i'' srlclpE AT A sons GRAVE.
pan. December 26.-Since last Mon
a.. nr. f. VI. Patterson, a well-known
.,,;yeu has been missing. Yesterday
lister law his body lying dead in the
I'll, burial plot. with the head resting
,1. ieneath the cross OF his sons grave,
~! Ia near the right hand lay a revolver, one
s az II which had been discharged. 4
s..ic,.wound i'm the right side OF the head
IA ,he story Of suicide. The body was
irozen and gave indications that life had
zen extinct for a considerable period. DIR.
paterson WAS fifty years OF age, OF genial
b,hi,s. and leaves wife and four children.
/, /. aid that ten years ago he contracted
,he habit Of opium-eating, and his death Is
attributed 10 this.
-,rr MYSTERIOUS DROwTNG OF A YOUNG LADY.
WHEELING. W. VA, December 2l.-Mar-
carlo Uazeiup. aged twenty-five, came from
Martins Ferry 10 Wheeling last night on a
.bopping tour, and was 10 return on the
sqme evening. She did not appear at her
house. and when search was made this
Earning her hat and basket were found
Acting i'm the Ohio river near the ferry.
The river was dredgcd. all day, but the
body wa, not found. An air OF mystery
surrounds the whole affair. A boy says ne
hoard a scream Of murder about .
o'clock. There is no other evidence OF
,oul play. She was handsome, intelligent,
well educated, and had no known reason
for suicide.
CUTTING HIS WIFES THROAT.
PHI AprLPHIA, December 26.-At 6
o'clock thi, morning Philip Streis, Pole,
iorty-one years old, attempted TO murder
M. wife Caroline, the mother OF seven chill
dren. n their home i'm Bride>burg, a SUBJ
urb. ly cutting her throat with a razor.
She was in he'd at the time, and the murder
would doubtless have been pcTpctrated had
she not been awakened by the pain. Streis
ran out Of the house in an almost naked
state and tried TO drown himself in Frank
ford creek. close by, but was rescued by
the neighbors. He was insane at the time,
on account Of money matters, and could
not tel anything about the affair. 1t is
thought he intended to take the lives Of his
children. and also his own, after killing his
wife. The woman's throat is so danger
ou,y cat that she could not he moved to
hospital. Streis was employed at Brides
burg rope-works, and was a sober, hard
working man.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM A FmGHTFUL
DEATH.
BRADFORD. PA, December 27.-While
John McClcary, IN employe OF the Ro-
berts Company, was torpedoing well near
Haymaker to-day, the well made flow OF
oil and threw the torpedo out, causing its
explosion. The torpedo contained forty
eight pounds OF nitrO-glycerine. Mr.. Me
Cleary started TO run as soon Us he discoN-
cred the well was about TO flow. His coat
tail was cut off as smoothly rs though done
by q tailor. His back, thighs, and arms
were lacerated by flying pieces OF stone,
wood. and tin, and he was thrown about
one hundred feet, but jumped up and con-
tinued running until he fell from fatigue
and fright. None OF his bones were
broken, and his physicians think that he
viii Dc about again in two weeks. His
e.cape from death is considered most re-
urkahle. The derrick was reduced to
sDnters, and windows i'm houses half Il
nle away were broken by the force OF the
explosion.
TuL PROM A HOSPITAL wIND0w-AN OLD
MANS TERRIBLE DEATH.
J. y. FitzsimmonS, aged seyenty-fiye
wears. an inmate OF the PRESBYTERIAN Eye
and Ear Hospital, No. II east Baltimore
street. was killed early yesterday morning
BIS falling from a window i'm the fourth
story OF that institution into the yard. De
ceased WIS being treated at the hospital for
a cataract Of the eye, and would have been
sufficiently well 10 leave i'm about two weeks.
For the last three or four days he had been
suffering from depression, and at times his
mind seemed to he wandering. He had
been placed in the second story, but mt his
own request was removed TO the fourth
story back room. As he would in
si,t upon getting into the beds OF other pa
tients, under the impression that he was i'll
hi. own bed, and would do a number OF
other cratic things, it became necessary to
watch him. About fifteen minutes before
DE old man was killed he was seen by
Mary Johnson, the nurse, sitting quietly IN
\ chair There was snother patient in the
room 81 the time, and he states that he did
not hear FnzsimmonS open the window or
make any noise whatever. IL was While
the nurse was i'm an adjoining room that
tbe old man went noiselcssly to the window
and either fell or jumped out-most proba-
by the latter, as the window-sill is rather
heh. The descent was terrible one. HIS
head struck the brick pavement, and was
crushed horribly, death resulting almost
Instantly Baltimore Sun.
A bout with ~ burglar,