Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-28
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The jury in the case of Colonel Cash
failed to reach an agreement. The judges
pointed charge declared that the shooting
was murder.
The opera festival of the Cincinnati Col
lege Of Music closed Saturday night. The
total attendance at the seven performances
was 80, 900. The total receipts were $50,
600.
The second billiard match between sex
ton and Schaefer, for $4,000, came off at
Tammany hall and was won by the FORM
er. the score being Sexton, 400 !; Schaefer.
1868 !; winners average, 81.
Richard Hurley, in fight in Cincinnati
with Michael Murphy, shot at him several
times, wounding him in the arm. One of
the shots fired at Murphy struck John Sui
livan, who happened to be going home on
Eighth street, and killed him.
Abraham and Messias Baca, the mur-
derers Of Editor Conkling, have been ar
rested in Ysleta, Texas, aud will probably
be lynched before arriving at Socorro,
New Mexico, where tho murder was COM
mitted.
While the members Of the New Leba-
non. n. Y, Shaker community were at
tending service, burglars entered their
houses and carried away between 5000 and
500 in money, $500 in Midland railroad
bonds, and five silver watches.
A barn on the Woods Hill farm. in
Pomfret, Conn.,, with forty three head Of
cattle, thirty-five tons Of hay, farming
tools, carts and wagons, was burned on
Friday night. Loss between $1,000 and
| $4,000; no insurance.
On the Southern Central railroad, near
| Berkshire, y passenger train was thrown
from the track by broken rail. A pas
senger named Sweet, Of Dryden, jumped
from a platform, and the coach tipping
over upon him, killed him. Three others
were injured.
One of the most successful bear hunts
on record has been made by three men,
bers Of the British embassy in St. Peters,
burg. In four days shooting. the party.
consisting of Lord Dutfcrin, Lieutenant
Colonel Villiers and Mr. Kennedy, bagged
eleven bears.
The postoffice in Railway, NJ, was
broken into early yesterday morning and
tho safe blown to atoms. Several hundred
dollars in money and postage stamps and
other valuables were stolen. The amount
of the loss is not known. There is no clue
| W tuc pcIpcIldtoIS.
| DR.. Arthur Clifford, a son Of ex Gov.
Clifford of Massachusetts,. while returning
from a short trip to New York with DR..
Ira Russell. shot himself through the
heart in Ware River train between Barre
Plains and Winchendon, Mass. He had
been partly insane, and under DR.. Rus
sells care at the Winchendon Asylum.
Four more persons have died of small
poX in Fremont, n. Y, making six in all.
Five of these cases have been in the fam-
lily Of Philip Deekelman. There are sew
eral other cases in the same family. The
quarantine established seems to have done
but little good, and nearly the whole town
is now included in its boundaries.
A summons and complaint have been
served upon the Rev. A. II. Shurtliff, pas
tor Of the NJ. E. church, and we'll known
throughout the Central New York con-
ference, by the Rev. Charles E. Lewis, an
evangelist, charging Mr.. SLurtliff with
having reported that he (Mr. Lewis) had
alienated the affections of the wife Of
David F. Kirkland.
A man in Beloit, Wis, made queer
ice house. lie built circular tower.
abort is fee, III diameter aud as many
high. with thick stone walls. Into this a
small quantity of water was pumped eacl,
day and allowed to freeze. y refrisera.
tor chamber was built in the centre of the
tower and below the level of the ground,
SO that all the mass Of solid ice is around
and above it.
The towns OF Deer Park and Forrest.
burgll, n. Y, are to decide by election to.
morrow whether they shall contest the
legality of the bonds issued in 1879 in aid
Of the Port Jervis s. Monticello railroad.
Deer Park was bonded for 5000, 900, and
FOrrestburgh for s21,O0 The town of
Thompson, which was bonded for $14S. .00O
has already contested the bonds. The cir
cult court decided against the town, and the
case is now before the supreme court.
Mrs. Mollie Utz, highly respectable
widow lady of New Albany, Ind is be-
coming ossified. The flesh, muscles, ar.
teries and nerves of her hands, fingers, and
arms have become as hard as bone up to
her elbows, and are of an alabastcr
whiteness. The ossiicatlon process has
been going on about a year, and eminent
physicians tell the lady there is no cure
whatever for her.
The town of Franklin, on the Seaboard
& Roanoke railroad, Southampton county.
Va, has been half destroyed by an acci-
dental fire. Nearly all the business houses
were burned, including the postOffice and
the telegraph office. The railroad ware.
houses were saved. this being the point at
which the fire was stopped. The loss is
estimated at $3.50, 900. The fire originated
from the explosion of an oil lamp in the
grocery store of Fl. w. Jenkins & Co. The
insurance is not more than $4,000.
Near Weeks Mills in China Village,
twelve miles from Augusta, Ga, a youns,
man named Charles Merrill, killed his
mother in q barn near her house by strik-
ing her on the head with Il hammer. lie
concealed the body in a haymow until it
was frozen and then cut it into pieces, a
part of which he partially burned, throw
ing the charred remains in 4 manure heap.
The other portion lie buried in the snow in
Barton's woods. The woman being missed
for several days suspicious attached to the
son as having caused her disappearance.
He was arrested and confessed the facts
given.
Martin Ross and William Pickett, living
near Waverley, Mo-, had difficulty grow
ing out Of an alleged insult offered by Ro,s
to Pickett's wife. They met near the line
dividing their farms, and after a few angry
words. Pickett drew revolver and sent q
bullet through Ross's right lung. Several
shots were exchanged, when finally Pick
EFT fell, pierced through the heart, died
instantly. Ross, in addition to the lung
wound, was shot in the thigh, and cannot
recover. Pickett leaves wife, having
been married only six months, and Ross is
the oldest son of widowed mother.
William Lowry, living three miles from
Bloomington, ILL.,, was cleaning revolver.
Supposing it to be empty, he playfully