Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-17
EXCITING RACE.
An Epsinecs's Eide for Life Down a Mouu-
tain Grade,

An Engineers Eide for Life Down Noun.
tain Grade.
Thursday night an extra north bounC
freight train on the St. Louis and Iror
Mountain railroad was ascending Hagun'.
mountain, in Missouri. it broke in two
and the rear portion Gecended the m VI.
tain at the rate of sixty miles an '.,,uc
An engine Which had been pushing tho
train, but had started back, was 500,
Overtaken and completely wrecked, al.
though, seeing the danger, the engineer
had increased his speed to forty miles an
hour. The engineer had his wrist injured
and his head badly hurt. Tho fireman
feet welo crushed aud his head injured,
and brakeman Was seriously hurt inter.
nally.
Puhishing a Bisalnist.
The much married young man, Albert
F. Gore, alias Harry L. Horton, convicted
Of b:gamy, was sentenced by Recorder
Smythe in the court Of general Session iu
New York. Five years in state prison
was the sentence pronounced. 1t dazed
the prisoner, whose connections arc very
respectable. Under the alias Of Lieuten-
ant Harry 6. Horton, he first married a
daughter Of DR.. Rufus w. Peacock. of
Jersey City, and afterwards married Mary
II. Roylston, He has just served a term
for forgery in Massachusetts,, and his 70.
lease there was followed by his arrest for
bigamy. In letter read in court he en-
treated his wife to spare him, promised to
satisfactorily explain all and sail for Eng
land with her on next Saturday if released
and offered to settle large sum of money
upon her for life if she would only save
him for their child's sake.
Hurt By the Fall of IN Elevator.
The passenger elevator in Mcknight s
carpet house, on Main street, Louisville,
containing five passengers, fell from the
second floor to the basement below, seri-
ously injurlng four of the passengers and
painfully woundiug the :ii5h. Their names
are Captain w. G. Heite, of Louisville,
compound fracture oi left leg and simple
fracture of right leg Captain John How
ard, of Jefersonville. small bone of left
leg fractured and right ankle; Judge B.
F. Bearc, of Hardinsburg, Breckenridge
county, KY, painfully bruised, but no
bones broken, G. Y. Turner, a salesman
with Mcknight, badly bruised, and K.
Dye, another salesman, ankle joint frac.
tured and rib broken.
Realizes that lie is Getting Crazy.
John Hollenbach, of jefferson township,
Berks equity, aged GO, is q local preacher
of the Evangelical denomination and for
the past few years has suffered severely
from various diseases. He now realizes
that he is slowly losing his mind and he
has made pitiful appeals to his people to
convey linn to an insane asylum before he
gets SO far as to do himself or others bod
lily harm. Occasionally he is attacked
with spasms, which continue for some
time. 1t is probable that his request to be
put under restraint vii! be granted. He
lives with his son, wealthy farmer. The
old man is highly esteemed.
An Actress Suit Against Railroad.
The trial of an action by Hannah
Dougherty, an actress, against tho Penn
sylvanla railroad company was begun in
New York before Judge Shipman and q
jury, in the United States circuit court,
for the recovery of $4,000 for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by the
company's negligence. She was on her
way from Newark, N. j., to New York
and alleges that, by the negligence of tho
company, she tripped aud fell On tho
gang plank at the Jersey City ferry and
was seriously injured.
Damage for Losing: an Eye.
The jury in the suit of Henry C. jewell
against the Union passenger railway COM
pany, of Philadelphia, to recover damages
for the loss Of sight OF ore eve, have
brought in = verdict in favor of the plain.
tiff for the unsually largo sum of Sc, 900.
Jewell was struck in the eye by pieces of
glass from the w;nIow il, front of which,
he wss sitting, thai being broken by
collision with the poie OF Tenth and
Efauo.tts, G. Tho
claimed to have occurred through the
negligence of the driver of the Union line
car, who allowed some one else to drive.