Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-27
CRIME AND CAUSALTY.


MEETING DEATH IN VIOLENT FORM.
Murder and Suicide, Accident and Casas-
erophe-The Trail OF Blood That
Follows tho Days Fatalities.
Thomas March, young man, VINO was
born legless, hanged himself yesterday in
the door of q mill near Williamson, n orth
Carolina.
co. Wallace. representing himself as
. pork packer Of st. Louis, committed
suicide in Houston. Texas, yesterday, by
cutting his throat with razor.
Thomas Talbot was fatally shot by his
wife in Cheyenne, Wyoming, early yester-
day morning. She says she acted in self
defense.
Margaret Steele, colored, yesterday
killed William Weatherspoon, also color
ed, by striking him on the head with
poker, at Charlotte. North Carolina.
A telegram from Lowell, Kentucky,
says that Fountain Tankersly. jr., has
poisoned his wife and two children. Tho
wife died at midnight on Tuesday, and the
children are in critical condition. Tank
ersly has fled, with his brother, who it IS
which the family were poisoned.
Daniel Stephenson, the young son of a
widow, was enticed or forced from his
home in Christian county, Mo-, last Sat-
urday night, by two men. named Wilson
and Inman, and murdered on the road
side.
At Shenandoah, Pena.. yesterday after
noon, Peter, James and Henry Scheetz,
brothers. and Timothy Reynolds and
Robert Hanna, were shut up in Packer
colliery No. 3, by the caving in of drift.
It is not yet known whether they are
alive, as working parties have been un.
able to reach them.
Two men were killed by the explosion
of a tug bosA boiler, at memphis. yester-
day.
Maggie Barry, aged II years. had her
leg caught in the spoke OF a wagon wheel,
at Blackston, Mass, on Thursday, and
was so badly injured that she died in Il few
hours.
Thomas Mcdonald, 20 years Of age,
car repairer ON tho New York & New
England railroad, was fatally crushed by
q collision between two cars in Providence
yesterday.
Charged With Conspiracy 10 DeIraud.
&c. Tiffany, ex-Indian agent in Ari-
z0na territory, was arrested in New York
yesterday, on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the government of sc, 600. and
embezzlement and perjury. He gave bail
in 90, 600 for an examination.
Leaving His Family Destitute.
A telegram from Milwaukee reports
that Joseph Heiser, G3 years Of age, re-
tired trunk manufacturer, has disappeared
with s25, 900, leaving his family destitute.
A girl, who worked as dressmaker in his
family, is supposed to have something to
do with his flight.
kidnapl,crs Arrested.
Henry Tyson and Henry Sonburg, of
Long Branch, have been committed to the
county Jail at Freehold, for kidnapping
two children of John V. Kolb. The chill
dren were found, after search of several
hours, in the attic of the old Continental
hotel. It is said tho kidnappers were
actuated by malice towards the children's
parents.
Bob Ford Acquitted.
At Plattsburg, Missouri, yesterday, the
jury in the case of Robert Ford, on trial
for the murder of Wood Hite, rendered
verdict of not guilty. Ford telegraphed
the finding of the jury to Governor Crit
tenden and Chief of Police Speers at Kan
sas City.
COntraband Literature.
E. H. Haywood was arrested yesterday
in Boston, for sending obscene matter
through the mails. Among the matter
on which tho charge is based are certain
odorous extracts from Walt Whitman's
Leaves of Grass"
Kowell and Hazaol Break Down.
Rowell and Hazael retired yesterday
from the walking match in New York,
Rowell because of heart trouble and Haz.
ael because "his knees gave out" Tho
score at one o'clock this morning stood {:
Fitzgerald 431, Noremac 4ss, Hughes 40,
Hart 4OS, Herty 402, Vint 374.
Election Days as Holidays,
A copy of resolution at the recent
Labor convention in Pittsburgh, and sign.
ed by 40 labor organizations of Al
leghsny county, demanding that election
days be declared legal holidays, in order
that the labOring masses may be enabled
to exercise the right OF suffrage untram-
meled, was transmitted yesterday to Gov.
Hoyt.
"A Southern Jubilee.
Yesterday was "Jubilee Day" in Mem.
phis, and was celebrated by a parade of
military and fire companies ; an address
Judge Clapp on "Ths South-Memphis
and her Growth - a display of fireworks
on the bluffs, and a masked ball in the
exhibition building. 1t is estimated that
the celebration attracted fifteen thousand
people to Memphis.
Army Promotions.
The army promotions consequent upon
the retirement of Major General Mcdowell
waro annOunccI vnstord,v 40 followc
Brigadier General Johu Pope to be major
general, and Col. Ronald 8: Mackenzie,
4th cavalry, to be brigadier general.
Both promotions took effect yesterday.
General POpe is at present in command of
Mackenzie is in command of the district
Of New Mexico.
Dealing In MarElns.
In the appellate court at Chicago yester
day, decision was rendered upon the
legality of marginal dealings on the board
OF trade. A commission firm brought
suit against u customer for marginal
difference on a deal in grain. The lower
court rendered judgment for the amount
of the claim. Tho appellate court holds
"that the purchase of grain Tor future
delivery, where it is evident there is NO in
tention to actually deliver the grain, but
to settle differences in prices in money,
comes within tho law against gambling.
The aggrieved party has no ground Of
action
Dickson to bo Arrested.
The attorney general has decided to
proceed against Dickinson, foreman of the
Star Route jury, for attempting to influ-
ence tho jury contrary to the order of the