Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-12
TRAGIC HAPPENINGS.
RECENT ACCIDENTS AND CRIMES.


The Wicked Way or the Worldwide Mur-
der and lnfanticide.
During thunder storm, Madame Es-
ther Anger, wife of Narcisse Cote, was
Instantly killed by lightning at st. Jean
d'Eschailleon, Quebec.
In Atlantic City, Gus Anders, pro2rie-
tor of the Ocean View Hotel, who it is
thought has been made insane by pro-
tracted sickness, stabbed his wife and then
cut his own throat. Both are expected to
die.
Patrick McAndrcw, a miner, aged "a
years, Was found dead in Burschell's beer
garden. in Dunmore, suburb of Scran-
ton with a bullet in his brain.
The upper story of White, Corbin s.
Co.'S. envelope works, at Rockville, Conn.,,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at 500, 900; insurance $50,
Mrs. Lizzie Parritt, wife of John Parritt
postal clerk at Washington, was killed
at Richmond, Maine, on board Of the
steamer Star of the East by the boom of
vessel which ran a foul of the steamer.
While John Newton, of PromptOn.
Wayne county, was engaged in painting
the residence of Ellis Damn, at Damascus,
that county, the ladder upon which he was
standing broke and he fell to the ground,
breaking his neck. When found his head
was doubled under on his breast.
The mangled body of Henry Nolan was
found in the Passaic river, at the foot Of a
precipice below the falls, Paterson, n. J.
He had been missing since Monday, when
lie attended picnic at the falls.
Peter McNeal, employed in the Phoenix
company's truck gang, OF which Bruno
Bishop is boss, in fit OF passion struck
Bishop twice over the head with truck
brake, crushing in the skull. The wound
ed man was taken to the PENNSYLVANIA
hospital in a dying condition. After COM
mitting the crime McNeal escaped and
has not been captured.
In Davenport, Iowa, the magazine of
the Oriental powder company was struck
by lightning and exploded with terrific
force, hurlins stones in every direction.
one weighing eighty pounds 4 quarter of
I mile. One was thrown into a house,
striking Il bed in which two children
slept. Windows were broken mile away.
The report and jar were noticed mile
of.
At the Union Pacific depot, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, an cmigrant named Van
Mason shot :. Stiles. the night watch of
the Emigrant house. the ball passing
through his body and inilicting fatal
wound Stiles had struck Van Mason over
the head with an iron rod, intlicting a
frightful wound. and the Shootn. is sup
posed t. have been done III self defense.
At the Pniiadelrha coal company's
Packer colliery. No. Thomas Eltz,
eighteen years old. VS. he conductor of a
dirt bank LOGON. re. ant lille the engine
was pushing a ,.'li'ar OF ,'ars Eltz sat on
tie front of the enc sanding the rail.
He suddenly los. lis balance and fell
across the track. The train passed over
his body, killing I'm instantly.
a negro woman named Belle Lipscombe.
finding that her Guild had the smallpox,
threw il il a we'll in the city suburbs sew
eral Gays since and escaped to the woods
thee miles from Lynchburs. Va. The
dead body of the child was found on
Thursday. The authorities of Campbell
county captured tine mother. She had
contracted smallpox from the child. If
she survives she will be tried for murder
Near Far Rockaway, n. V, tramp
called at the house of William Pearsall
and demanded money of Mrs. Pears all,
who was alone in tie house with her child.
pom being refused he threatened to kill
her. Picking up large club he undertook
to strike her. The plucky woman ran
past him into the yard, and picking up 4
brlckba: drove him off her premises. He
threatened TO return at night and kill her.
She had hi!2 arrested and brought before
Justice kealey, who committed him to the
Queens county Jail to await the action OF
the grand Jury. The wOuld-bc murderer
rave his name rs David Pinne,