Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-11
CRIME AND FATALITY.
A BUDGET OF TRAGIC ocCURxENCEs

OhlME AMI fAl lALlll.
A BUDGET OF TRAGIC occuRxENcEs.
The weary way Of tAs Wicked Work.
Murder, Suicide and Calsmity-Tho
Dark SIde Of Lilo.
At Columbus, Ky., Albert Lower, q
travelling salesman, of Detroit, was mur-
dered by burglars.
John Brady and his sister, of Fall River,
Mass, were drowned at Stone Bridge, Ii
verton, r. I. The younger children were
rescued.
The house of George Harding, in Forest
City, Minn., was burned aud his two chill
dreD, aged respectively 1 and 4 years, per.
ished in the flames.
Emile Luther, aged 40 years, a cabinet.
maker, cut his throat with razor in fit
of dependency at his home on Eleventh
street, New York, and will very probably
die.
A construction train on the South Car
olina railroad was ditched near Branch
vile, by which Engineer Armstrong was
killed and several railroad employees
slightly injured.
In collision between passenger and a
freight train on the Indiana. Bloomington
& Western railroad near Springfield, Con-
ductor James McNarry. Of the freight
train, was killed aud number of passen-
gers severely shocked.
Alexander Boyle, while stealing ride
on freight train, at Williamsport, had
both legs cut off and died soon afterward.
He leaves family at Glasgow, Scot
land.
Henry Vandemark and John Schoon
maker went squirrel hunting at Ithica,
n. Y. They separated in the woods, and
Schoonmaker mistaking Vandemark's q
gray beard for squirrel shot him through
the head. The wounded man died from
the effects.
Theodore B. Smith s. Sons machine
and boiler shop, at tho foot of Essex street,
Jersey City, was badly damaged by fire
last night. Loss, 5000. A workman
named Grobholiz was fatally burned, aud
Conrad Theen, the foreman, seriously.
Jas. Robert Adams, cashier of the West
End hotel, at Long Branch, whe shot
himself on Wednesday morning, died on
Wednesday night.
George w. Grant was terribly beaten
! aud stabbed by his two brothers in law,
named Palmer, and another man, named
Haley, in Pittsylvania county, Va, day
day or two ago. The assailants fled.
Grant is not expected to recover.
Paul TOllmer yesterday shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide in
Chicago. They had been married two
years and leave one child. They had
quarreled frequently.
Deliberate Suicide ut WilmlDSt0 Del.
An Englishman named John Wesley
aged SIS or GO years, unmarried, q resident
of Wilmington, Del, for nearly twenty
years, deliberately remUved his outer
clothing and going into the bathroom al
his boarding house, stuck his head out Oi
the window and cut his throat with a
razor. He was in this position and dead
when found, and the razor lay beside him
on the window sill. The only reason fol
his suicide was that he had been out ot
work for two months and was in arrears
for board. He was a machinist by trade
and is represented as having been sobe1
and industrious.
| Suicide of = Young Journalist.
Newton Mcmillan, a reporter Of ths
Daily Times newspaper of Chicago, sllo
himself through one of the lungs in that
city. He was young man Of much jour
nalistic promise, but seems to have suf-
fered from "despondency because of bi
inability to crafty his costly tastes on ;
reporters salary"
Throw Himself Undor tho Cars.
Edward Clark, patient in the chronic in
sane asylum at Binghamton. New York
while working OH the road near the asylum
eluded the attendants, aud committed sui
eide by throwing himself under the wheel
of a freight train on the Erie railroad.
A Black Brute Hanged by q Mob.
A colored man from Campbell county
who was accused Of outraging IL. year
old white girl, was taken out of Jail Al
Newman, Ca, where he was taken fol
safe keeping, and hung by a party o
seventy-tiv men. He was tried by the
crowd and confessed that he and another
man had committed the deed.
"A Funeral stopped by tho Coroner.
The body Of Mrs. Margaret Green, o.
Duffield street, Brooklyn, was to have
been buried on Thursday, but Michac
Delahanty, brother of Mrs. Green, in
formed the coroner that his sisters deatl
was due to violence at the hands of hel
husband, whereupon the coroner stopped
the funeral and ordered an investigation