Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.
aunERoUs CALAnrrks AND CR1n Es,

hold Winter Thieves-A Mexican Killed In
| Duol-KaIIroad Fatalities-Drowned
and Murdered.
By the falling OF derrick in Cleveland,
Ohio, yesterday, three men were killed
and several others injured.
Thos. Ryerson, aged 70 years, was
killed by train while crossing the rail-
road track at East Orange, New Jersey,
on Monday night.
DR.. Julio Macias was killed in duel in
the suburbs of the City of Mexico on Mon,
DAY night.
Two brothers named Hallan, aged re,
specti~ely 20 and 90 years, were drowned
yesterday at Halifax by tho upsetting of a
boat.
The president has finally refused to in
terfere in the case of the Indian Brave
Bear, and he was hanged to-day at about
| II o'clock.
There was heavy frost yesterday morn
ing throughout East Tennessee, and in Ala
bama and Louisiana.
| A small horizontal boiler exploded at
Brantford, Ontario, yesterday, while being
tested, fatally injuring Charles and VIM.
Corbin, aged respectively 13 and Is years.
Mrs. Hall, aged 50, was fatally injured
|
Jersey Central railroad, near Easton, on
Monday afternoon. She died while being
taken to her homo in cab.
An engine and twelve cars on the Mas
sachusetts state railroad were thrown
by q broken switch. Four cars were
wrecked and the conductor and fireman
| injured.
Miss Magill. sister of the president of
Swarthmore college, was struck by loco
motive while crossing the railroad at
Chester, on Monday evening, and so badly
injured that she died yesterday. She was
| about 80 years of age.
Francis Bradley, boss carpenter, is
added to tho list Of those killed by the
boiler explosion in the Forest City works,
| at Cleveland, on Monday afternoon. Ten
men were injured. The boiler was old
and had burst before.
At Dixon Springs, Illinois, on Monday
William Phelps, while eating dinner, be-
came angry at his six-ycar old daughter,
knocked her from the table and kicked
her to death. His neighbors are pursuing
him, and he will probably be lynched ii
caught.
At Salina, Ontario. on Monday night,
William Trimble and his two daughters
took some "herb tea - to relieve colds
| from which they were suffering. All were
taken violently sick. and Trimble and ono
daughter died yesterday, while tho other
is not expected to recover. Il is supposed
a quantity Of deadly nightshade got among
tho herbs.
Thieves aud Their Plumber.
The fur store Of S. b. Mount, in Troy,
n. Y, was robbed of So. 600 worth of
sealskin otter and other furs on Monday
night.
The safe OF W. p. Nichols at Dowaglac,
Mich, was blown open, yesterday morn
ing, and robbed Of money and. gold and
silver watches to the amount of 81, 500.
Charles ID. Payne, postmaster at
Bridgeport, Mich, has been arrested on
the charge of stealing $40 from a regis
tered letter.
Ellery Albee, the thieving cashier Of the
Ashuelot savings bank, was sentenced at
Manchester, N. H., yesterday to 10 years
in tho penitentiary.
Lorenzo Dow Crockett, one Of the noto-
rious Biebusch gang Of fcounterfeiters, was
sentenced in St. Louis to five years il the
penitentiary.
Turning the Tables.
The ToilestOn club Of Chicago, cou-
posed Of wealthy men, owns several thou
sand acres of marsh land in Lake county,
Indiana, Which they use for sporting pur-
poses. To protect their sport they r~o-
cured the passage by the Indiana Legs
lature of stringent game laws, and
thereby incurred the enmity OF the "pot
hunters " of that section. The latter, in
retaliation, secured the passage of law
making it a misdemeanor to carry out of
the state any game caught within It's
boundaries. A few days ago couple OF
poachers were arrested and fined, and the
poachers have retaliated by causing the
arrest Of Judge KnickerbocEer, Of the
probate court of Chicago, and F. A. Howe,
president of the club, who have been
bound over for hearing or the charge of
illegally exporting game.