Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-18
A Young Woman Scared to Dea.p.

months, and has divorced vile IN fOrC- |
land, Me-, and q lawful wife in Maiden,
Mass.
A Young Woman Scared to Deatb.
Near She!byville, Ind, Mr.. Hugh Bran
nan gave a social dance at his house,
which was attended by all the young peo-
pie Of the neightorhood. Among the
guests were Miss Lotto Stroup, daughter
of Mr.. Peter Stroup. we!l-known citizen,
and her cousin, John Brant. During the
evening young Erant and fellow named
Thurston got into fight, which resulted
in Brant getting terrible whipping.
Some one informed Miss StrOup that her
cousin was killed and lnstinctively she |
ran to where re was lying in the yard,
where the fight took place. Brant was
not dead, and as Miss Stroup knelt at his |
side lie turned over. showing his face COW |
SO mortified the lady that she tainted and
then had a spasm, from which she never |
returned to Consciousness. Yesterday.
afte: being in somiunconscious condi-
tion, she died, just forty days after she
received her fright.
Crime and Calamity.
Clinton Briggs, fer over 90 years a
prominent lawyer and politician Of Ne
braska, was killed By falling from q train
at Aston, Iowa.
The wife of john Wright. q grocer, was
shos ,:ead BY = co.ored robber during her
husbands absence from the shop, near
Memphis, Tennessee, On Saturday after
noon.
An engine on the Cumberland & Penn
sy!vlnia railroad blew ont its crOwn-sheet
at Cumberland, Md, Sunday morning,
scalding four men, two of whom, Francis
Caratine and Henry Miller, died in a few
hours
Sarah Kear, AID Is years, goverEess
in tho family of Major Chapman, at San
Francisco, committed suicide on Friday
night by taking poison. Tho Only cause
known tor the decd is that g she received
| sharp reprOof from her mistress a few
| hours before.
"A Live Lynx as An UnDidden Guest Mt
| Dinner.
Tho family of Obed Frye, of Hudson,
Mass, had live lynx as an unbidden
guest at dinner tho other day. Just as
| they were about to seat themselves at the
table the animal, weighing some twenty
five pounds, came with bound through
an open doorway and landed on top of a
piece of furniture. Then it sprang ON to
tho table, grabbed piece of meat, and
|
Fryes made an attack on the ferOcious
beast, aud in tho contest Charlotte Frye
was severely bitten in tho hands, while
Ooed received several ugly scratches.
The animal, realizing that it was getting
the worst of it, bounded for the door,
which was closed by a vigilant Frye just
in time to catch tho lynx by the leg, in
which position it was held until the other
Fryes could get around on the outside
and despatch it with clubs.
Desperate Gamblers.
| Tho police of Baltimore last night raided
Chinese laundry in Liberty street and
arrested twelve Cinnamon in the act OF
gambling. Their "gaming utensils -
were seized and tho offenders will have a
hearing to-day.
Grederick Dochterman, aged 35 years,
was stabbed to death by Martin Hesse, in
tho hallway of the formers saloon, in
; New York, early yesterday morning
They had quarrelcd about an hour previ
. ously over a game of cards. Hesse was
, arrested. His wife says he was arrested
several times in Germany for attempting
to kill people. He has been only 81,
months in this. country, and docs moi
speak English.
, Tie Imprisoned Aldermen Released.
The ten Brooklyn aldermen confined to
, Raymond street Jail, New York, for con
tempt of court Tcro released this morning
) Their departure was conducted as quietly
= as possible and few even Of the attaches
were aware OF it when they went. Th'
| imprisoned aldermen made the most OF
their last twenty -four hours under lock
t and key. Visitors wore numerous. Two
p games Of draw poker were kept up almos
G continuously. Alderman Dwyer, who woi
, the first pot or tho first deal last Thurs
day morning with three aces, continued
5 lucky to the end, and il is said that h(
. cashed in, all told, fivo time; the amount
Y of his fine. At 6 O'clock Warden Schult.
a informed tho aldermen tLat tho law hat
= been viEdicltcd and that he woald dcta;i
c them no lougcr.
4 low Thci YVES Caus.t.
\ few days ago there was stolen cro:.
: John Wentworth's Office il Chicago q ii,
C box containing 5000 in registered: U :
Z. bonds, deeds and mortgages for :: lars;
# amount, aud letters from Webster, Clay
= Calhoun and other public men, beside
It other documents of historical value. Th'
d box was not missed until Friday, when i
. was found hidden in the basement, th'
9 bonds only being gone. The box was re
IS placed and detectives set to watch. Yes
terday man entered the basement an
was seized in the act Of carrying off til
box. He gave the uame of Fowler, and i
believed to be one of 4 gang of thieves
r The bonds cannot be realized upon.
II PerIls of the Season.
Robert Robinson and John Spencer
- young men, were drowned on Saturday
., while skating, near Kingston, Ont.
" Moro than 100 vessels were at anchor OF
!; Chatham, Mass, on Saturday, havin,
g sought refuge from the gale. Those boun
% northward left in the course of the day.
: The Hudson river, from Hyde Park t.
- Tivol;, is filled with fields of floating ice
!, North Of Tivoli it is frozen solid. Their
- was heavy snow storm in the Northwcs
- on Saturday night.
Another Wife Murderer.
The vito of Charles Pope was foun
,S dying with bullet wound in her head a
the house of friend in San Francisco O
r. Saturday. She had quarrelled with an
~ left her husband. The latter was after
- wards found dead in a yard few block
away, with bullet hole in his head and
, revolver lying by, with two chambers dis
:, charged. The wife died in a few minute
!. after being found, without saying any
thing, but it is supposed Pope shot he
and then committed suicide.
a Buried In Her Brown Dress.
d Miss Sarah Young, daughter of William
), Young, a respectable farmer, living abou
q mile from Willow Springs, NO., sutGeal
% died Of poison, administered by her owl
| henA NTH ~ int Tho lad;