Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-06
THE LATEST NEWS.
CLEANED FROM THE MORNING MAILS.

LIE LAlEO1 NEW y.
CLEANED FROM THE AORNING MAILS.
Disaster in Various EorneCrins sad Cas-
ualty@some Notable Dssths-Ihs
Striking Events OF . Day.
In collision in Chicago, between a
Lake Shore passenger train and Grand
Trunk freight train, James Carrigan was
instantly killed and Branford Hamilton
and J. J. Joy made cripples for Life.
Daniel Collier. employed at the iron
works at Troy, n. Y, was instantly killed
by a rod of iron coming ont OF tho rolls
and going directly thrcug b his body. He
was asleep Oh plank at the time:
William Barry. 40 years old, while
working ON the Mills building, New York,
was struck OH the head by q block which
fell from an upper floor and was Killed:
DR.. Preston E. Buckner, of Greenville,
Miss, entered the dark room of one
Wentworth, who called out halt ~ Re-
ceiving no response. Wentworth fired, kill
ing the doctor Immediately.
The dead body of Thomas Il. Whitney,
of the firm Of Whitney Bros, No. 221
South Front street, Philadelphia. was
found lying in a muddy pool near tho road
side q few miles from GlassbOro, N. j.,
where he resided. Mr.. Whitney, who was
about % years of age, had started out in
the afternoon alone to take his customary
drive. Later in the day his horse and
buggy were found on the road some dis
tance from Glassboro, the latter being
without IN occupant, while the reins were
trailing along the ground.
AT Lawrence, Mass, one OF the nam
pulleys, which runs the machinery OF hall
of the drawing, spooling and warplng
| rooms in the Central Pacific mills, burst,
and tho flying pieces struck carder,
Jennie O'Donnel breaking her left leg IN
two places. Sixty spinning frames had
to bo stopped.
The body OF the man who was run over
! and killed in the Harlem railroad tunne'
| at New York, has been identified by his
| wife as the remains of John Doyle, bar
tender, who left his home on Wednesday
morning. He was insane and threw him
self before passing train.
An Engineer Allied at Lis Post.
The mail train which left Jacksonville,
Fla. at TAO o'clock Thursday evening
for Tallahassee, collided with a log train
coming to tho city. near tho White House
station, eleven miles west of Jacksonville.
The log train was five minutes behind
time, and was running down to back up on
the siding. The engineer on tho passcn-
ger train supposed the other train was Oh
the siding, until too late to prevent COL
lision. The two engines were badly
smashed, and Henry Hewlett, the Oldest
engineer and the first who ever pulled a
throttle valve in Florida, was killed in
stantly, his body being severed about the
thighs and jammed between tho tender
and car. Henry Simmons, a cOlOred fire.
man, was badly injured and will probably
die. MIR. Stebbins, the engineer on the
passenger train, jumped, and escaped with
a sprained ankle. The passengers all es-
capped uninjured.
The More or Less Distinguished Dead.
William Almond, father of Mayor ALL
mond, of Wilmington, Del, died yester-
day in that city Of general infirnity, in
his 90th year.
Isaac Ward, father of tho Ward brothers,
tho famous oarsmcn, died at Cornwall, n
Y, yesterday, aged 81 years. He leaves
fourteen children.
Col. VIM. II. Snowhook, an old resi-
dent of Chicago. collector of customs and
United States ub-treasurer under Presi-
dents Polk and Pierce, died yesterday,
aged 80 years.
| "A
nounced the death of Ephriam Sherman
Durfec, aged ninety seven years, who was
the worshipful master of tue Rochester
lodge of Masons in 1928, and conferred the
degree on Morgan, who subsequently ex-
posed the masonic secrets. Owing to the
anti Masonic excitement st the time, MIR.
Durfee was compelled to leave the cOun.
try. He was soldier of the war of 1912.
Tho Way of the Transsresser.
Willis Petit was hanged at Tamequal,,
Indian territory, for the murder of Mar.
garet Ford.
In the criminal court at Washington, D.
c., John Shaw, colored, was sentenced to
be hanged on January 10, 1883, for the
murder of his sister an January 16, 1881.
Sadie West, who robbed Alexander
Swift, the Cincinnati merchant, of large
sum of money about two weeks ago, in
New York city, was sentenced to state pri-
son for four and half years.
Albert Smith, colGred, who murdered
Joshua Thompson, colorcd, on Monday
night last at Norfolk, Va, and fled, has
been captured and is in Jail.
William Richards, who is wanted for a
murder committed near Montreal in July
last, was apprehended at Waterbury,
Conn.,, on requisition. He was working
in foundry, and had been living there
about two weeks with his family.
Alfred B. Doyal, of Griffin, Ga, who
murdered policeman in the streets iu
April, 1881, was sentenced to be hung on
June 30. He objected to the date because
it was the day set for Guiteau's hanging.
The judge, therefore, named June 20.