Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-01
NEWS NOTES.
General Intelligence Promptly and Briefly
Reported.

General Intelligence Promptly and Briefly /
Reported.
In Shreveport, La, Squire and Post
master Hooper asked tramp painter
named Clark to take drink, first, how
ever, testing the whisky himself. Clark
said that this was an insult. Both men
drew their pistols, Clark shooting Hooper
through the head, killing him. He fled
from the town.
Commodore Kittson, tho millionaire
lumberman of Minnesota, has purchased
th, pacing wonder Little Brown jug,
with a record Of 2:11s for "a, 600, and the
celebrated trotter Silverton, with record
of 2:2O.., for $4,000.
The Minneapolis jury in the recent
lynching case found that McManus came
to his death by strangulation by means
unknown to the jury. Nina Spear, his
little victim, is improving ami there are
strong hopes of her recovery.
The Gciser manufacturing company's
large iron works at Waynesboro, Frank
lin county, were entirely destroyed by fire
Saturday evening, caused by the cxplo-
sion Of q boiler.
A fire occurred in the new market build
ings 1T Aberdeen, Scotland, destroying
Stuart Harley, aged 10, son of the prin-
cipaL Of the academy at Ccntreville, Nd,
shot himself and his life is despaired Of.
A wagon containing six persons was
struck by switch eng gine at East Des
Moines, Iowa. Ono of the party named
McGuirc, was killed, and three others
mortaliy injured.
The heirs of Sarah Burr, Of New York,
who beuueathed So, OOO, 600 to charity will
contest her will.
On Monday, May 8, the Pennsylvania
railroad company will put on a fast train
from Washington to Philadelphia, which
will start from Washington at about 4:15
p. m, and arrive somewhere near 8 p. m.
Mary O'DOnnell, sixty-two years old,
committed suicide by hanging herself in
the cellar of her residence in Warren street,
Brooklyn temporarily insane.
Adam He'll, German, stable man at
Mays slaughter house in Brooklyn, at
tempted suicide by hanging himself in the
slaughter house. He was cut down before
life was extinct, but very slight hopes arc
entertained Of his recovery.
just as the American line steamship
Pennsylvania reached her dock in Phil
adelphia, Pomeranian woman, aged
seventy-six, who has frequently during the
trip expressed her fears 1T being On the
sea and her doubts Of ever reaching the
shore, dropped dead.
The Erie car works have lost two cal
goes of iron en- route from their furnace
at Point st. IGnace, Michigan, to their
works at Erie, by the sinking of vessels.
Michael Mooney and wife, of Mcadvillc,
while riding about Susquehanna, seeing
the sights, were struck by locomotive,
their horse instantly killed, the wagon de-
molished, Mrs. Mooney knocked insensi-
bic, and Mr.. Mooney so injured that it is
thought he will die.
In Lehgltcn, two brothers named
Eennert and 4 boy named Stocker were
poisoned by eating wild parsnips. One of
the Bennett boys died in great agony and
tho other is not expected to recover.
Stocker will probably recover.
Fisher, the negro who ravished 4 girl
thirteen years old, was lynched at Gallon,
o., yesterday afternoon by mob of two
hundred men. lie did not resist and
while hanging shuddered but once before
choking to death.
In gainesville, o., William lIadeler,
formerly 4 prominent business man, was
found locked in his store dying with an
empty vial, which had held mOrphia,
beside him. fIe leaves widow and two
children.
Princess Marie, wife of Prince William
of Wurtembcrg, and sister of the duchess
Of Albany, is dead. She was recently de
livered of a still-born child.
The court martial in the case of the per-
sons concerned in the conspiracy against
Arab Bey finished its sitting on Saturday
Forty-thee of the accused were sentenced
30 be exiIed, and the rest, being civilians,
were sentenced to be hanged by the civil
authorities.
While Forepaush's show was exhibiting
at Lock Haven on Friday, two thieves,
travelling in the wake Of tho circus, in tho
cuisc Of soap peddlers, robbed a store of
$50. Their plan is to go together to the
store and while ono engages the attention
81 the merchant with a proposal to make
purchase the other commits the rob-
berry.
On Thursday three cattle thieves were
killed hear Grand Junction, Ute reserya-
tion, by Sheriff Bowman, of Gunnison
county, Deputy Sheriff J. Frank Rink, of
Utah. and large posse. On Friday the
sberiil's posse came upon another gang Of
thieves. During the engagement Bowman
and Rink were both killed. A large party
Of citizens are now in pursuit of the
thieves.
A man about thirty three years old was
found dead on the top of a special passen-
ger train cast upon its arrival at Phoenix
vile about two O'Clock the other morning
On the mans arm was the name w. Kee-
Ser or Keever. About thirteen dollars
but no papers, were found Oh his person.
The body was given to tho deputy coroner
at PhGnixville.
George Andrews, 40 years old, q clerk,
committed suicide in his room in New
York, by shooting himself in the head.
Andrews was a book-keeper for many
years for Alden Sampson & Sons, dealers
in Oilcloth at Nos. 5S and 60 Reade street.
lie had recently been discharged from his
position OIL account of troubles, caused by
his passion for drink, and in state of de-
spondcncy shot himself. He leaves wife
and two children.
During the tornado in Terrell county,
Ga, Miss Talbot was i'll bed in one of the
rooms Of the Mccarthy dwelling when tho
storm struck it. She was aware that the
house was blown away and that she was
being whirled through the air, and was
conscious when she struck the earth, but
remembers nothing more until she heard
her sisters calls. 1t was just sixty yards
from where the bed stood to the hole
where she was found. The hole was
made by the uprootins of large oak,
which was blown twenty yards away.
The London Times says that with Ralph
Waldo Emerson's death great break has
occurred. The present generation has lost
tho strongest and almost the sole tie
which binds it to the Boston or Concord
of Hawthorne Marparet Fuller AIcott