Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-12
lSEATRI AND DISASTER.
The Record Of Fatality and Cri:Ee.


Joseph Cragcn was drowned yesterday
while bathing at Fishkill. N. Y.
The bodies of two men, badly decom-
posed, with nothing to identify them,
were found in the river at Hartford. Con-
recticut, yesterday morning.
A largo barn in the cattle yards at
Painesvillc, Ohio, was burned on Saturday
night, and two tramps perishcd in it. 1t
is supposed that they set it on fire while
smoking.
A schooner of 100 tons burthcn, bottom
upwards, has been seen floating near Cape
Flattery ON the Pacific coast. Her name
was under water, but tho words San
Francisco" could he made out
John Griffin was shot dead by Jacob
Vance, while On tho way to magistrate
to be married to Vance's sweetheart, near
Gallatin, Tennessee, on Friday evening.
Furnace b., of the Edgar Thomson
steel works at Braddock, Pa, exploded
yesterday morning, seriously, if not fatally
injuling Assistant Superintendent Adair.
Three others were slightly injured.
Louis A. Gutrrmuth died yesterday
morning in New York, from the effets of a
beating given him by two strangers on
Fifth avenue, On the 30th ulr. The as
sault was not reported to tho police and
no arrests were made.
Peter Vineyard. George Robinson and
Isaac King, colored murdcrers, were taken
from the Jail at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Saturday morning, and lynched by mob.
The sheriff made all the resistance to the
vigilantS in his power, but was overcome.
A west bound express train on tho Bal
timore & Ohio railroad ran Off tho track
near Martinsburg, W. Va, yesterday
morning. The engine, baggage car. two
express cars and a passenger coach were
wrecked, and four Or five passengers were
injured, none, it is said, seriously.
The Crow Indians supposed to be peace
ably settled on their reservation, "are scat
tered all over the country, killing cattle
and stealing horses, and should be ordered
back to their reservation, or trouble will
result"
Frank r.. GIadding, book keeper OF the
national bank Of North America, at
Providence, disappeared last Thursday
under circumstances which Indicated that
he may have committed suicide. His
habits are believed to have been "cxem-
pIary'
The bodies Of two men, one APPARENTLY %
or 80 years Of agc the other about 45, were
found yesterday in the East River, Off
College Point, Long Island. The younger
man was chcaply dressed, tho older we'll
dressed, and with 4 gold watch and 500 in
English money in his pockets.
Yesterday morning, about ) O'Clock,
Michael Delaney, living at 327 Mechanic
street, Camden, informed Coroner Leck
ner that his wife was dead. She was
found in an outhouse, lying in 4 pool of
blood, and Delaney was taken into Gus
tcdy on suspicion Ct having killed her.
He denies the charge, but the ncishbors
say that both he and his wife were drunk
on Saturday afternoon, and that he beat
| her.
While young man named Lowery was
sitting with some friends in 4 country inn
near Carbondale, Penna., last Friday, lie
was approached by man named Stebbins,
who challenged any man to knock him
down at one blow" Lowery struck the
intruder powerful blow in the chest,
and Stcbbins fell dead, from the rupture
of q blood vessel. Lowery was not ar
rested, and proceeded on journey to
| Canada.