Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-16
DOM ESTIC TRAGEDIES.
An Alarming Prevalence of Suicide.

An Alarming Prevalence of Suicide
Alfred Pease, the New York pianist,
who disappeared in st. Louis eleven days
ago, has not been heard Of yet.
The body of Mrs. St. Charles, a seams
tress from Troy, New York, was found in
the river at Montreal a few days ago. 1t
is supposed she committed suicide while
drunk.
Julius Porges, a Hungarian Jew, COM
mitted suicide yesterday at New York by
hanging himself in Hebrew school, of
which he was principal. Dread of expos
ure of financial irregularities was his
motive.
Mrs. A. Menzcl wife of a saloon keeper
on Third avenue, New York, yesterday at
tempted 10 commit suicide by shooting
herself, because her husband, of whom
she was Jealous, would not allow her to
remain in tho saloon. She will probably
die.
George McMullen, coal operator at
Canton, Ohio, returned home with his
wife late on Wednesday night. Early
yesterday morning the neighbors were
awakened by the report of pistol shots in
his house. AIcMullen's wife was found
dead and he wounded in the breast. He
said woman had fired at them and escaped
The neishbors think he murdered his
wife and then attempted to commit suicide.
PeriIs of Land and Sea.
Fifteen loaded freight cars were de.
strOyed with their contents, by tumbling
down a sixty foot embankment near
Springvale, Maine, on Wednesday night.
The residence of John E. Tull, near
Crisfield, No., caught fire on Wednesday
afternoon from a defective flue and was
s,,f
Partially insured.
No tidings have yet been received of the
ten men in the missing boat from the
steamship Para, which foundered off Capo
Race.
The Allen line steamer Canadian, from
Glasgow, is reported ashore ut the mouth
of Halifax harbor.
Vessels arriving at New York, Boston
and other eastern ports from Europe,
continue to report the presence of large
icebergs and much drift ice in the Allan
tic.
Ten colored men and white woman oc-
cupying a cabin in the bed of Two Mile
creek, near Winchester, Kentucky, were
drowned on Wednesday,, by sudden
flood.
The bodies of Patrick Garvin and Patrick
McMenamon, victims of the Pogue's Run
disaster in indianapolis, were recovered
yesterday morning. Several others arc
missing, and one is supposed to have been
carried into White river.
Benjamin Daniels, aged 55 years, was
fOand dead in skiff in the river yester-
day, at Providence, r. l. He went fishing
and was seized with an epileptic fit, fall
ing with his head under water.
A carriage containing Mr.. and Mrs.
Farrell Pagan and Mrs. Catharine Cullen,
of Webster, Mass, was last evening struck
by train on the Norwich & Worcester
railroad at crossing in Webster. Mrs.
Cullen was killed and the others seriously
injured, Mr.. Pagan, it is thought fatally.
An Editors Trouble with a Priest.
In Cleveland Rev. Father Houck, pri
vate secretary to Bishop Gilmour, was
elected from the Leader Office yesterday
under circumstances which caused a SEN
sation. The Leader is strongly anti
Catholic, and had contained an editorial
to which Bishop Gilmour replied by let
ter, whice he sent by Father Houck to the
Leader Republication. AS it did not ap-
pear Father Houck went to the Office, it is
supposed, for an explanation and the
manuscript. The letter is said to contain
matter personally very offensive to MIR.
Cowles, editor. in. chief of the Leader, and
when Father HOuck called MIR. Cowles,
without waiting to hear the object of the |
visit, ordered him out and assisted him Ed |
energetically that Father Houck sued out |
a warrant for assault and battery.
Hung to q Railroad Trestle.
At Mount Sterling, Ky., a negro named !