Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-29
THE CURRENT NEWS,
sOslE RECENT TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES

VIM. C. McCamus, president of tin
Schenectady City national bank, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself a
midnight. Ill health was probably th'
cause.
| Edward 1som, clerk in store at Kerr
Station, fourteen miles from Little Rock
Ark. was murdered and robbed by an un
known assassin.
| Gus Miller and Matthew Jones have
been arrested at Kansas City, Mo.
charged with melting the mob Of 1.0OC
persons which. on April 80, hanged Lev
Harrington, colored.
An avalanche in Little Cottonwood,
Utah. recently swept over the Richmond
and Teresa mine, burying beyond react
help Robert Greaves, the lessee of the
mine.
The Pullman palace car shed and shoI
at New Orleans, together with three
coaches and a large quantity of bedding
and other supplies, burned on Saturday.
Loss, s75, 900.
| Heavy forest fires are raging between
Green Bush and the Black river, as far as
Altoona, Mich. Unless rain comes speed
lily there will be great damage done to the
pineries.
Daniel johnson and Alfred Wright,
colOred laborers in the suburbs of Atlanta
Ga, died suddenly returning from cutting
oats The men were overheated, and
cooled off suddenly.
Tho League of American Wheeimen,
composed mainly of bicyclists from New
England and New York, meet to-day in
Chicago. About two hundred delegates
will be present.
A series of heavy thunder-stOrms occur.
red along the Hudson on Saturday. The
Rochdale woolen mills. owned by the es-
tate of Elias Titus, we're struck by light
ming and entirely destroyed. The loss is
estimated at from $4,000 to $50, 900
partially insured.
During fight among bridge-builders
at Vaudeville, South Carolina, ON Satur-
day night, colOred man was killed by i,
white man, it is alleged, in seIf-defellse.
The negroes attempted to lynch tho killer,
but were prevented.
A banquet was given by tho CONNER
cial club Of Chicago, on Saturday night, in
honor of the commercial bodies of Cincin-
natl and St. Louis. 167 covers were laid,
and the capital represented is estimated ut
$140, 900, 900. Among the guests were
Postmaster General Howe and Lieutenant
General Sheridan, and the latter "sur-
prised the company by making iii excel
lent speech of some length"
There is great excitement over Secretary
Teller's decision opening the Turtle Noun.
tain district. This region includes 5000, .
900 acres of the finest land in Dakota,
comparatively we'll wooded and watered
lying north and west of Devils Lake. It
has Eeen closed hitherto by a claim of O.
wandering band of Chippewa Indians, now
declared invalid. Two railroads. the
Northern Pacific and the St. Paul, Mime
polls 4 Manitoba, will build into the re-
gion ut once and thousands of settlers are
ready to rush in as soon as it is form ally
opened.
Jesse Williams and Frank Miller, two
burglars, entered the residence of II. p.
Moore at night. The house was surround
ed. Miller, in attempting to shoot down
Mr.. Henry Blackford, was cut down with
a scythe. His head was partially severed,
the tendons and arteries being cut through.
Ties We're piled on the track between
Hartford and Meriden. Conn.,, on Friday
night and the Washington express train
south was stopped by watchman. There
is suspicion that this is another fraudu-
lent trick of employees of tho road. but
nothing positive is known. The officials
dTo investigating Cuo matter.
In the supreme court Of Washington
county, X. l., a decree has been entered
divorcing Catharine Chase-Sprague from
William Sprague, giving Mrs. Sprague the
custody of her three daughters and per-
mitting her to resume her maiden name,
with leave hereafter to apply for alimony
if she chooses.
Willie Haley, of Pownal, w., aged II
OH -
would kill a boy. He was informed that
three tablespoOnfuls of Paris green would
suffice. He took that amount of the poi
son and died next morning. His father
killed himself 4 few months by cutting his
throat and then hanging himself to a door
latch. The boy had curly hair and was a
handsome little fellow. Hc said he didn't
want to live any more.
In Denver Phil. Hubbard, a Jockey en-
ployed by Dick Mackey, a we'll known
western horseman, met G. II. Wood,
real estate agent, and knocked him down
and began beating him, when Mackcy
pulled Hubbard off. Upon arising Wood
drew a revolver and began firing at Hub
bard, hitting him twice. A stray shot
struck John Denny, a Western Union telc-
graph repairer, passing through his thigh
1t is thought by some that Mackey was
also shot. He was driven away. Hub.
bard will probably die.
Committing suicide With Poison.
In Erie, John Daley died suddenly on
Thursday. lie was believed to have COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. The
friends of the family were Indignant at the
published report and said that Daley died
a natural death. 1t was suspected that
the true cause was being concealed to
save insurance. Tho coroner was called
and post mortem held. A quantity of
corrosive sublimato was found in the
and 4 verdict was rendered OF
suicide by poison.
What Married Daughter Witnessed.
John Smith. an old California ranchman
living near Milford, two hundred miles
of Salt Lake, quarreled with his
wife, and seizing 4 double barreled shot
gun, fired at her twice, both charges TAX
Ing effect. He then coolly reloaded the
weapon, went out Of the door, fastened a
string to the trigger. aud placing the muz-
zle to his breast. fired six navy bullets
into his body. He died two hours after
wards. A married daughter witnessed
the tragedy. Tie old man was subject to
fits Of lunacy.
Bull DOG Ke.olver's Work.
In Elizabeth, N. j. George Herr, a Ger
mar, aged AZ, at noon Saturday shot his
vile, thinking to kill her, and then fired
three shots into his own person with bull
dog. revolver. His last shot was fatal.
Tho wife's injury is only wound in the |
arm. 1t was.the fourth time within few
years that Herr has attempted suicide
'"lce by poison and once by cutting his
throat, He has been cOnsidered , lrna.;c |