Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-25
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An lncenOlary lire mas WlpeO OUT CtrOn
pottery ut Beaver Falls. Loss, S15, 600 !;
the flremen wouldn't turn out, as the
borough had refused to pay them.
During drunken brawl last night at
Palestine, Ark, James Thompson shot
and instantly killed William Ware. Both
arc colored. Thomson was arrested.
Farmers in Central Illinois report wheat
as suffering from chinch bug and Hessian
fly. Thousands of acres arc being
ploughed up to plant corn.
In Pena, llls., F. F. Evans shot at
Charles Humphries, and missed him, but
hit, mortally wounding, Jake Myers, a
bystarder. Evans then escaped.
Lizzie Bodkins procured six grains of
morphine and two ounces of laudaDum
and upon reaching her home in North
Charlestown, w. Va, swallowed it and
died. Unrequited love.
When an anti Conkling man offered to
bet 81 900 Ito 500 in Albany yesterday
that r. G. wouldn't get back, an alterca-
tion ensued in which tho man who
wouldn't put up his 500 got punished.
At Anua, Illinois, Robert s. Reynolds
a very wealthy farmer, was killed by his
son with blow on the head with bOuld-
or. The deceased was seventy years old
and only a year ago himself shot and
killed Mr.. Frazier.
While workmen were hosting large
joist at the new round house of the Phil
adelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore rail-
road, the roof fell In, iniuring five men.
One, named Charles Jackson, of Balti-
more, is not expected to recover.
Twenty-Five or thirty men went to Nor
gantown, Fannin county, Ga, while tho
superior court was in session and broke in
tho wall of the Jail and released prisoners
charged with violations of internal rev.
enve laws and burning Stewards property.
0. Il. Trewathen and Robert MOnter
were together crossing the Boston mOuu-
tains in Arkansas, when Monter struck
Trewathen with a whip and Trewathen
hurled rock which struck MOnter on the
head, knocking him over a cliff forty feet
high. MOnter was mOrtally hurt.
David Allen TOwner, from Boston, went
to Mortimer cemetery, Middletown, Conn.,,
where his mother was buried, stood on
her grave, divested himself of his coat and
vest and shot himself through the heart
with revolver. He was sc years old and
leaves young wife and $1,000 note due
on Monday.
A New York police sargeant is under
arrest for calling Mrs. Frank Mordaunt,
the actors wife, to her door and throwing
red pepper into her eyes. He was for
merly her friend, but had insulted her and
been dismissed, since when he has been
writing threatening anonymous letters to
her.
During circus performance in Milwau-
kee on Monday night in an act where one
Butler shoots potato from the head of a
man named Baughman, Butler missed his
mark and the bullet struck Baughman :on
the head just above the right eyebrow.
The ball penetrated tho bone, but the in
jury is not necessarily fatal.
MIR. Deming, grocer of Ravenna, Ohio,
awoke to find a burglar in his room. The
man had rifled the bureau drawers of
their contents, securing Mr.. Deming's
wallet containing goodly sum, and
Large amount Of jewelry. The gentle
man raised up in bed but was heard by
the burglar, who turning, commanded him
to lay down which he did. The intruder
then made his escape out of the window.
Mr.. Deming jumped up, seized his revol-
yer, ran out in the yard and shot the rob-
ber dead.