Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-20
TR4GpIES OF THEDE
4bok.rt& a.rs.osloAI 1
8 h.r.'..1 ,s,.s .s.E.tEE

Is ,s.-,.n Ia,.5 !. q /
lds Rsaorts fceiy viaegerdS frdh Mod
Evans, Third VCavahy, It dePartmens
headquarters, says: "a troop consisting
of the Third and Sixth cavalry, Major
Chaffee commanding, had an engagement
with renegades from San Carlos, yesterday,
at ChevloD's Ford, about s45. n1es fDSm
Ft. Verde. Major Chaffee, who has been
following the Indians since their outbreak
from SAN Carlos several days ago, got than
into Q deep rayine, and . fight began, as
they had no alternative. The casualties on
one side are: One enlisted man wounded,
since dead; Eve others wounded, two
dangerously; Lieutenants Morgan and Con
| Aers, Third Cavalry, wounded; one Ipdian
sooas killed, one wounded. During the
night the Indians broke, leaving six dead
bucks on the ground. Scouts reported about
90 moro killed. All their equipags was
left by then on the field, and 80 head of
horses and mules were captured by troops;
also six women aud children. The hostiles
were led by Nattistish, one of the surren-
dered White Mountain Cibicu chiefs.
These are supposed to be the Indians en-
gagged in the recent outbreak at San Carlos
when Chief Of Scouts Calvig was killed.
Tho command has followed these Indians
through some of the most mountainous
county in Arizona"
o.f A Dry Goods Merchant's Suicide.
Georg D. Wisham, retail dealer in dry
goods, at Z North Eighth street, Phila
delphia, committed suicide on Monday
night in barn at Tuckahoe, N. j., by
hanging. He at one time did a very
flourishing trade, but for the past few
years has felt the pressure of pecuniary
troubles. He felt his misfortune keenly,
and on last Sunday stated to friend that
obligations were maturing and he had not
sufficient money to meet them, that his
creditors were clamorous and threatening
and he, really did not know what to do.
He was afraid. he said to his friend, that
he might be tempted to do something
desperate. Hc was very much depressed
in spirits, and on Sunday night left the
house on North Twenty-second street,
where he boarded, to visit his brother and
did not return that night. He appeared
at his place of business on Monday morn.
ing, and shortly after the store was opened
| said to one of his assistants that he had q
pressing matter of business to attend to.
It was next discovered that he had gone to
Atlantic City, as a letter postmarked 4
p. m. on Monday at that place was re-
ceived. He was native of New Jersey ;
was in his 48th year, and leaves a wife
and an adopted daughter. He is described
as having been a man of agreeable ad.
dress and very affable manners. He was
it was stated in good physical health
when he left home, and it is believed that
his business perplexities affected his mind.
A Rejected Lovcr Attempts Suicide.
Anthony Rodele came from Germany
four months ago and worked for the Potts
town iron company. He loved Esther
Smell, daughter of the landlady with
whom he boarded, on Water street, but
she did not love him. Early yesterday
morning he attempted to commit suicide
by cutting his arm with razor. He then
reached for a double barreled gun, one
load of which he said was for Esther and
one for himself. Just then bed-fellow
awOke and snatched away the gun. Rodelc
wrote to his sister in Germany the day
before, stating that he would be dead in
twenty -four hours.
Killed His Wife with an Axe.
A most horrible and brutal murder was
committed on the plantation of A. w.
Pegness, about eight miles from Cheraw,
S. c. A negro named William Hinson,
who had been living on the place with his
family, had not been getting on as smooth
ly with his wife as he should and had
accused her of q failure on her part to
keep the marriage VOWS. He attacked her
with an axe. She fled to the house of her
father, where she was pursued by Hinson
with the axe in hand, with which he killed
her. The murderer fled and has not been
captured. .,,.s.
Matters Of Dreadful Moment.
Mrs. Joseph Blanchette and George La.
crosse and wife were drowned on Thurs
day by the upsetting of a boat near
Houghton, Michigan. ..
There at Smyrna, Turkey, ragged seven
hours, and fourteen hundred houses were
destroyed. Six thousand persons are
homeless. One life was lost.
Luther E. Smith, a gentleman of means
and prominence, of Rutland. Vt, was
found dead in Lake Shore sleeping car
just before reaching Erie. The inquest
will be held on the return of the conduc.
tor.
The army worms are reported to have
appeared at Fall River, Somerset aud
Swansea, Mass, doing much havoc. They
have also appeared near Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
A severe earthquake was felt throughout
the greater portion of Mexico yesterday.
In the city Of Mexico the shaking lasted
two minutes, and, though little datnage
was done, it is said that the buildings
"could not have stood much more shak.
ing."
There was severe thunder storm in
Boston yesterday afternoon, and the rain
fell in torrents. flooding cellars and doing
considerable damage to property.
At a police station 10 Charlestown the
water rose so high that the prisoners in
the cells ""were obliged to roost in their
bunks." ".'
A young lady of Chester township.
Ohio, on her way home from church de-
clined the escort Of Willie Wells, aged 13
years, and accepted that of Everett
Decker, 20 years of age. Wells waylaid
the couple aud struck Decker on the back
OF the head with an axe, inflicting fatal
wound.
Maggie Riley, of Bellefontaiue, Ind ;,
sued David Harrington for s., 600 damages
by reason OF seduction under promise of
marriage. Harrington's defense was sim
pie and effectual, being that the parties
were first cousins, and consequently could
not marry, as Miss Riley knew. '-'
rHE LUCKLEss KHEDIvE,
Apparently Dtstrusted by Both Sides.
A dispatch to the Times from Alexan.
dria says: "The conduct of the khedive