Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
struck the ceiling, thirty feet high, and
fell to the ground a lacerated and bleeding
CRIME AND DISASTER.
Owing TO the Dispensations of PrOvidenc
ana the Wickedness of Ills

Owing to the Di.psns.t,ons of Providenc.
| Creatures.
A large knitting factory at Caledonia,
Ontario, was burned yesterday. Loss,
S20,O
One man was killed and two others in.
jured by the caving in of a sand pit neal
Augusta, Georgia.
James Cooper, employed in the STANDARD
oil works at Jersey City, was killed by the
falling upon him of barrel of oil.
William Bard was found dead, with his
skull crushed in, on a hillside near Dead
| wood.
Edward Nulan, tailor of dissipated
habits, committed suicide by taking lauda-
mum in Staunton, Virginia.
F. C. Ryder, superintendent of the city
delivery at Providence, Rhode Island, shot
and fatally wounded himself in fit Of in
sanity.
Amelia Bacon, a Wilmington young
affected by her fathers participation in a
drunken row, that she was thrswn into
spasms, from which she died.
Doulter. who murdered his divorced
wife, in Chicago, on Sunday, and subse-
quently escaped from Jail. has been found
lying dead outside the city. with the top
of his head blown off and pis to! by his
side.
The south bound stage on the Ell Paso
and chihuahua line was attacked by In
dians about one hundred miles south of
Ell PasO and four passengers and two
drivers were killed. One passenger es-
capped wounded.
In New Albany, Ind, William Willis
and Robert Prunett, French settlers
agreed to settle an old dispute with pistols
They fired six shots at each other at ten
PAGES. Willis was shot dangerously in the
mouth and is dying.
John S. Avilar, 33 years old, brakeman
on a shifting train, was struck by the pole
of his engine on the P, w. & B. railroad
and sustained injuries which resulted in
his death shortly after. He was an entire
stranger, and said before dying that he
was alone in the world.
Henry Allen, colorcd, was killed in a
harvest field, near Mt. Sterling, Ky, by
Dick Freeman. Allen had refused to
work and threatened Freeman, when the
latter cut his throat. Parties were at
Aliens house next night to lynch him for
an assault upon woman, but they found
him already dead.
A five. year old colorcd girl was shot dead
in the lower part of New Castle county,
Delaware, OH Sunday, by man who says
he "pointed gun at her in play
Nicholas johnson. 4 cOlOred man of so
years. was found dead near Blackbird
Hundred, in the same county, Oh Tuesday
night, with marks of violence on his per-
son.
Charles L. and Albert P. Talbot, SEN
fenced to be hanged at Maryville. Missouri,
on the 22d instant, for the murder of their
father, Doctor p. II. Talbot. have made a
confession. Charles says "he responded
to his mothers call for help, and upon 60
ing down stairs he found her on the floor
and his father kicking her. His father
asked for 4 revolver, and Charles seized a
gun and shot him in the back. His father,
knowing that he had received fatal
wound, told the sons to deny the shooting
for the sake of their mother, and to say it
was the work of an assassin"
A Bloody Tar.
At Jersey City early yesterday morning,
Captain Henry Taylor, of the schooner
River Queen, went on board the schooner
Yankee Doodle, lying alongside his own
vessel, and, without apparent provocation,
assaulted Captain Frederick H. Rceder
with al axe. Taylor, after nearly cutting
off one Of Roeder's legs. broke the other
with club. Captain Noah Crammer, of
the schooner Excel, went to Roeder's as
sistance and was shot in the abdomen by
Taylor, who had obtained gun. Officer |
Speer, attracted by the noise. went on
board to arrest Taylor, but was compelled |
to retreat before Taylor's axe. Finding a |
detective named Bowe, they returned to |!
the vessel, and Taylor continuing defiant,
Bowe fired three shots at him, two of |
which took effect in his legs. Taylor then
jumped overheard aud swan about in the |
river for half an hour before the officers |
could capture him.