Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-01
CRIME AND 1lIsFORrUNE.

Inc Tf31I OF B0O D1OOus
BENJAMIN and John Stiggers, brothers,
were shot dead while committing rob-
berry in Henry county, Ohio, on Monday
night.
The flax mill of John Casely s Sons,
Knightstown, Indiana, was struck by
lightning on Monday night, and burned to
the ground. The loss is s55, 900.
John Kohler, aged 45, salo0n-keeper,
committed suicide ON a New York ferry
boat yesterday. Domestic trouble was
the cause. .-.
A man named Weiss was drowned in
tho Lehigh at Allentown last evening.
He had ridden horse in the stream and
was carried off by the current.
James and William Reed were killed
and Samuel Reed was seriously injured
by tho explosion of portable saw mill
boiler, at Caseyville, Mississippi, on Mon
day.
Clialfant, near Doylestown, is exercised
by the suicide, with laudanum, of stran-
ger who came into the neighborhood and
mysteriOusly took his life. He is a shoe
maker named Patrick or Barney
Mclaughlin.
One freight train ran into the rear of
another on tho Pennsylvania railroad, near
Princeton junction, New Jersey, on Mon
day night. The fagman, named Hill, had
both legs and shoulder-blade broken. The
engineer and fireman were slightly injured.
John Riley, jr., has confessed that he
was ono of the gang who assaulted and
caused the death Of the girl Potter, near
st. Catharine's, Ontario. A corOnel's jury
has rendered a verdict of willful murder
against him, and three others who have
abscOnded.
Dennis Dannahy, aged 90 years, was
run over on the railroad, at East Buffalo,
New York, on Monday. Tho engineer
says he was lying on the track, and upon
examination of the body Immediately after
it was run over, it was found to be cold :,
which would prove that he was not killed
by the train
TIE house of John Colbert, in Salem,
Massachusetts,, was struck by lightning ON
Monday night, and his son Frank, was
killed. Other houses were struck and
seve, al persons injured during the same
storm. A severe thunder storm, accom-
panied by largo hail, passed over Pitts
field, Massachusetts,, on Monday after
noon. Henry Clossman, teamster, was
killed by lightning.
Tho body of an unknown man was found
imbedded in the mud, in the Schuylkill
canal, near Belmont, Fairmount Park. 1t
was brought to the surface by the tow line
of passing canal boat. A revolver was
found in one of his pockets. He was
about feet inches in height, medium
built, had red hair and mOustache, cut
short. Ho wore black frOek coat, black
vest, dark pants, light colored necktie and
lace shoes. Around the body was leath-
or strap. A handkerchief found on the
body bore the initials &C. NJ"
William Sanders, aged 1S years, was
drowned while bathing on Monday even
ing, at Adams, New York. Michael
Weiss, aged IS, was drowned while
watering horse in tho Lehigh river at
Bethlehem, last evening. Edwin T. Bum
a travelling salesman, was killed yesterday
afternoon by falling from the fourth
story of q hotel in Cincinnati. James
German was killed by falling down stairs
at his house in Providence, Rhode Island,
yesterday morning. William Fielding,
aged 60 years, a watchman at min in
Leicester, Massachusetts,, was killed by
falling from a third story window on Mon
day night.