The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-09
Current Events In Yankeedom.

cldt OH the 0In OF NoVemDe ISSJ. 30
prays CAROLINA.
Current Events In Yankeedom.
Miss Jennie Boggs, of Hagarstown,
Md, awOke one night two months ago,
and sprlnging out of bed, saw a man
slipping down stairs. She gave the alarm
and 1t was found that the doors had beer
unlocked from the inside. Ten DAYS C,
the girl again gave the alarm and went
into Mysteries oil discovering that her
long hair, winch formed a beautiful vail
when conbed out at night, stretching
nearly to her ankles, had been cut of
and taken away. 1t was thought she
had been chloroformed. The telegrams
says: "She took the less SO greatly to heart
that she literally pinned away and died.
he affair creates IA sensation IN Baltl-
more, where it is believed the act WAS
committed at the instigation of 4 jealous
rival The probabilities arc that the
poor girl suffered more than the poets
Rape OF the Lock- \ girl vain enough
to gricve over the loss of her hair, would
not break and die in n week. She must
have died either from the effect of the
narcotic, or by poison, taken because she
shrunk from the publicity incparahle to
the foulest of wrongs.--Three little
White girls have he II outraged III Wash
in"tos Cily,-the Capital OF tie Nation.
during Il lew months past. 4 ku klux
Khan called the Two Hundred Avcn
gers has been organized to hunt down
-nd hang the r~eprobates. At Clinton,
ill.,, a william tied a little girl with tele-
graph wire, but was fortunately fright
enc t. y~pme passing trampS.-Rdctae.
Wis. .Juiy 3l.-Ludwig Lehman was ar
ranged to-day on the charge of having
raped \ sixteen year old girl, Maria
kamm. 10 night officers captured
Mike Steinbach, charged with being one
of the crowd of rufisns who outraged a
woman at kenosha several days ago
- Harrington, Mass, .Juy 3l.-On
the evening of July Is, the house of Miss
Betscy Hale, a respectable lady, eighty
years, living in Monterey, was entered by
IA msn, who committed an outrage upon
her person. She charged a man named
Timothy Burke with the crime. The
prisoner. who is a brutal looking man.
pleaded not guilty; but the old lady gave
strong evidence against him. and he WAS
ordered to give $l5, 900 bail for appear
lnce before the grand jury in January,
which was obtained. The affair has
caused great excitement throughout the
Western part of the state. A n%eignbor
wing less than a half mile away from
Miss Hale makes the charge against
Burke of having once before entered her
house and attempted a criminal assault
upou her person. "-One of the five
men who outraged Miss Emma Bond,
the sretty schoo! teacher near Springs
tielI. Illinois, has been arrested, but can
not DC tried, as the poor girl grow. wea-
ker and weaker, and cannot hold her
head of the pillow. her mind is sald to
he gong, also.
Gtosgo,o, Ky, August bishop LIN
berton and Richard Speakman, OF Mon
roe county, charged with crime against
/ Mrs. J. 3. Garrett, of Tompklnsville. on
Tuesday Of last week, wa. shot aud Kill
ed Yesterday while being brought here
for safe keeping.
LoqausDJrt, Ld., iaq. 3.-Aihert 7.
Anderson was arrested TINS afternoon on
ap affidavit 10y Miss. Ida itazelrig III
which She charges him with an attempt
to outrage her. The evidence went to
show that the charge was made more to
crafty spite thar for anything else. An
derson has, for more than two years past,
been Miss Hazelrig's accepted lover.
Both arc highly connected, n the az
fair created quite a sensation. The pros
scuting witness figured quite prominent
ly in the newspapers about a year ago as
the plaintiff in a suit for $4,000 for
breach of promise against Samuel New
man, a rich old farmer residing near
Peru. in which the jury disagreed.
M.arUoro, Mass, Aug. 3.-Shortly be
fore noon to-day Fred Goss. a hostler in
the employ of y. Hammond, committee
a brutal assault upon Mr.. Hammond
daughter. seven years OF age. Her cries
brought assistance. Goss went immedl-
ateiv to Hammond got the money due
him. and left. There are threats OF
lynchlng.
Fort Wnyne, Aug. 3-This morning
Mrs Nellie Coleman, 4 handsome young
widow, lately a nurse in one OF our hos
,itals. suicided by taking morphine. She
wa, bctrothed to Perry Alexander, a
,cII.known householder, but recent,
discovered a frail woman IN Alexander
rooms. The discovery drove Mrs. Cole
man frantic. and she resolved on suicide,
leaving a piteous note 20 her lover, Ie-
preaching him for intidelity and deser-
ton.
REveLTING CRIME.-Lancaster, Pa.
Ana. Lizzie McCiaren, aged seven
cen wears, was enticed into the reservoir
rronnds in this city, on Saturday night,
Ind after being put under the effects OF
%iauor, outrageously assaulted by seven
,nan The girl has recognized four OF her
.Sa;l,nts as VIM. Mullen, Frank Xii
.hrist, Daniel Tammany and VIM. Mon
roe. the latter of whom has been arrested.
rhe GIRL has been sent to the county IN
-ane asylum a raving maniac.