Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.


RECENT DISASTERS AND SENSATIONS.
What Has Been Agitating the Country.
J. II. Hughes, known as the Fakir OF
Ava" is dangerously i'll in Troy, n. y,
from the bite of a pet raccoon.
Edward Moore, of Trenton, n. j., re
ported suffering from hydrophobia, died
at noon on Saturday.
Four gamblers from Detroit Guarreled
on a railroad train near ShalfOrd, Ontario,
last Friday night, and one of them, named
Johnson, was mortally wounded.
A respectable colored man named Hayes,
"a years of age, was shot dead while try
ing to make peace between several other
colOred men who were quarreling in Mon
treal on Saturday.
The president has signed the joint reso-
luton appropriating 500, 900 tor the relief
of the sufferers by the food in the Missis-
sippi valley.
j. O. Weldon, murderer aud notorious
ruf1ian generally, was taken from the Jail
on the night of the 21st inst. and lynched
by mob.
At the Webster night school in St.
Louis, on Friday night, Wilhelm Manen-
thai, 12 years of age, stabbed another
pupil named Fuchs, who had been mock
ing and maltreating bin. 1t is feared
Fuchs will not recover.
Two men, named Moutray aud Massip,
quarreled about some property in Blanch-
ard, Ontario, on Saturday. when Moutray
shot Massip in the breast and then shot
himself. Both are fatally wounded.
The bodies of the family buried under i
snowslidc in Big Cottonwood canyon, near
Salt Lake City, have been recovered. All
were found lying in their beds, and it was
evident they had been smothcrcd in their
sleep.
John Knoppel, aged 80 years, Il cOnfec-
toner, living at 1921 Olive street, Phila-
delphia, commmitted suicide by stabbing
himself in the heart with 4 pair of scis-
sors.
d. J. Murphy, cx-iistrict attorney, was
shot and perhaps fatally wounded by John
Moroney, policeman, in the police court,
! ut San Francisco, on Saturday morning.
! Moroney, who had been witness in a case
| against client Of Murphy, was referred
to by the latter as an Australian convict
and thief
The prisoners in the Jail ut Lagrange,
Texas, attempted to escape on Friday
night. One of them got of, but another.
named Harrison, was shot dead by the
sheriff.
William Beccher, 23 years OF age, quar-
| relied with another man at Etna, neal
Allegheny City. Penna., on Saturday night
and was stabbed to death by u drunken
,nan named Wolf, who came up ant
became greatly exasperated because thu
others paid no attention to him. Wolf j:
in Jail.
Samuel Hill, Il quack doctor, was fOunt
murdered in his night clothes III Il ditcl
near his house in Southampton county
Virginia, las: Friday night. The hous
was burned. 1t is supposed Hill Wa
killed by some colorcd men in reveng
for the death of a patient for whom he ha'
prescribed, and whom he was suspected o
poisoning.
A young man, named Deering, accuses
of horse stealing, was taken from al
officer and lynched near Gatesville, Texas
few days ago. On Saturday hundred
armed neighbors Of Deering rode fsto tn
town and demanded the arrest of tn
into their own hands, The sheriff
under this threat, arrested man name
Leavitt aud his two sons, and at last &C
counts was searchin. for others Of th
lynchers.
Mrs. BENJAMIN Finch was burned !
death III Prince George county, Virginia
on Friday night by her dress bccomin
isnited from an open fire at which she wa
sitting.
The grocery store OF Solomon Brothers
in Savannah, Georgia, was destroyed b
fire last night. The loss is stated !
100000.
The steamboat BERTHE Claiborne III:
been burned to the waters edge at Steel
Bayou, Mississippi. The loss Oh the DO:
and cargo is SIS, 900. 4 co!ored man a,
: three children We're drowned.
The boot shop of S. Fuliam Is Co.. :
West Brooktield. Massachusetts, was ii
stroycd on Saturday morning by !
incen,lary tire. Loss. $4,000. A fir
, man was seriously injured by a fallin
brick.
Putnam ( Brooks confectionery
5 Grand Rapids, Michigan. was burne'
Loss, $4,000.
The loss by the fire last Friday mig
in the building occupied by Aiken, lnse
& Co., iii Baltimore. is estimated 1T 5?1
900.
Flood. Explosion and Wreck.
The lcvcc at Shawneetown, tliino;
broke on Friday, and the town was tloods
l Michael StulZman. the remaining victi
of the boiler explosion at Carlisle, OH
died on Saturday, making in all six death
Tho brigantine John Laughlin. OF Phil
de!phia, from Pensacola for Aspinwa
. with lumber, was wrecked OH Janua
Goth, north of Old Providence Island. 81
is 4 total loss, but part of her cargo IN;
be saved. Her crew have arrived at n
pinwall.
4 The lcvee 1T Friar's Point. Mississippi
was in danger. The cattle at that pla
were wadiny about with only the
, heads above watcr,' and in many of Il
houses not yet swept away the people a
forced To sleep on the roofs. Few hous
= werc habitablc on the first floor.
An explosion occurred on Saturday a
! ternoon ut the foundry of S. b. Sargent
= Co, New Haven, by which five men we
injured. two seriously. The cupola m;
allowed water from hose to collect und
h the cupola, which contained several to
. ! of melted iron and coal, and when the be
tom was opened the fiery mass dropp
into the water, creating superheat
steam. The damage to the building "
slight.
! A five-story brick building in St. Lou
occupied by kraft, Holmes & Co., whol
sale grocers, tumbled down with a cra
at half.past two o'clock on Saturd
t morning, and became heap of ruin
The loss on building and stock is probab