Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-15
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF THE FLOODS.
Accidents and Tragedy-LOsses BY Fire
Floods In kanSas.

Accldents and Tragedy-LOSses oy Fro
Floods in kansas.
There were 44O births, 249 marriages and
779 deaths in New York city last week.
Maggie Ball, pretty young lady OF
Wheeling, West Virginia, attempted sui
eide by shooting in house of ill-fame in
Pittsburgh.
Melvin Fry, mulatto, who poisoned a
family in Pittsburgh by putting arsenic in
; Virginia, and returned to Pennsylvania.
Rewards aggregating $1,000 are offered
for the capture of J. J. Navir, tie fugitive
mayor of Adrian, Michigan
! Thee white men and two negroes, con
victed of various crimes. were publicly
whipped in New Castle, Delaware, on Sat
urday morning.
Eva Rockefeller, 6 years of age, was
scalded to death by the upsetting Of a
kettle Of boiling water at her parents resi-.
dence, Oh Clarkson street, Brooklyn.
Henry Spatz, aged 46, of No. 1G7 BOor.
um street, Brooklyn, and John Hassett,
aged GS, of No. 41S Baltic street, the same
city, committed suicide, both by hanging.
| w. T. McGlothen was waylaid and
assassinated about two miles from Linn
Greek, Mo-, by some unknown person
The body was riddled with twen:y-f four
buckshOt.
John Br;zzalaro, aged 4j, the Italian
who stabbed and killed his wife at Balti-
more, committed suicide yesterday by
jumping from the corridor Of the fifth
story of the Jail.
Green Morris, q son Of Robert Morris,
Of Independence county, Arkansas, and a
student in tho Arkansas college, was
drowned near Batesville while bathing in
Polk Bayou.
John &. Randall, q policeman, only %
years Of age, attempted to commit suicide
in Augusta, Georgia, by shooting himself
in the breast. lie is not expected to re-
cover. He was i'll debt and had failed
| in liCc.'
An attempt was made few nights ago
to assassinatc Governor OyertOn, of the
Chickasaw nation, in tho Indian territory,
by firing into his house. A squad of In
dian militia followed the assassins and
over:aking one of them, named Stevens,
killed him.
Dick Rogers, q cowboy, was shot dead
by the soldiers at Fort Garland, Cal, on
Friday night. Jim CatrOn, the Paghas
Springs stage robber, was fatally wounded.
The desperadoes, being drunk, terrified
tho town and were trying to run the SOL
diers out Of the fort.
Catharine McCabe, aged G5 years, was
shot aud mortally wounded by her step
son, Thomas McCabe, aged 16, in a New
York tenement on Saturday afternoon.
! The murderer was arrested and showed no
concern. His object was money, and,
after firing the fatal shot, he ritled the
poor woman's pockets of $19 in money,
ard took from her a watch and chain.
Destructive Fires.
The pudding mill connected with the
Berwick, Columbia county, rolling mill,
was burned down on Saturday. Loss,
$50, 600; fully insured.
The glassworks of Lanscrt & Wcycr at
Williamsburg, l.. L., were yesterday dc
stroyed by tire. Loss, about $1,000.
A fire on Saturday at Belle Plains, Iowa,
destroyed several frame stores. Loss,
$4,000.
\ fire in J. II. Stanton's grocery store
at Wilmington, Del, on Saturday night
resulted in loss of $1,000.
The business p;Irtion of tic town ol
Mantana, in Ecuador, the custom house
and the warehouses along the beach ex
ceptcd, was destroyed by fire on the 21st
of April. Loss $12O, 900.
The fire in the building Nos. 129 and 13l
| Granu street, new Ork, carly yesterday
morning, caused damage to the amount OF
So, ,OO0.
Selleck's hotel and an adjoining store
house containing cement, at Esquimault
British Columbia, were burned ON Friday
Loss 30, 600.
Obituary Notes.
Capt. G. w. EwelI, of No. 1870 Wash
inston street, Brooklyn, was found dead
in bed yesterday morning.
Judge G. nj. Winken, Of Corsicana, an
an associate justice of tho court of appeals
of Texas, died at Austin Oh Saturday.
Evan G. Stutsenburg, formerly promi
ncnt manu!actGrcr of Wilmington, Del,
died at Washington, d. c., on Saturday
aged 70 years.
pr. Joseph d. Barnes, acting assistant
surgeon, U. S. A., son Of Surgeon Genera
Joseph *. Barnes, Q. s. A., died sudden
ly on Saturday, at Washington, D. G.,
from t:ropsy of the heart.
Gen. John G.. Barnard, for many years
at the head of the department of engineers
United States Army, died yesterday at the
Russell House, Detroit, Mich. His remains
will be conveyed to his late home, al
Sheffield, Mass.