Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
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ACycle Of Crines and Calamities.
G MouticslIo, La, was struck bya cyclone on
Saturday and ruined, only three buildings
on the outskirts being left. Ten persons
were killed and many injured, fifteen or
twenty severely.-A high wind in Chicago
on Saturday night blew several freight
cars from siding to the main track at
Eighty-ss*eath street, and train ran into
them, killing one man and severely injur-
ing another.-The house Of Anna Hardin,
in Atlanta, was struck BY lightning on
Saturday nigat. Mrs. Hardin was fatally
injured, and her little child killed.
Georgia cotton fields hurt by hail.-Water
reeeding in Louisiana, submerged sugar
cane badly injured. residence,
Salmon river, Maine, burned and two
children perish.
Death by Violence.
Five teamsters were killed by Indians
on Friday afternoon, four miles east of
of.-1a Grass Valley, CAL, Mason, a
Roberts, son of Judge E. w. Roberts, an
old and leading lawyer.-Wm. Delaney, a
farmer of Southampton township, Bucks
county, has been brutally and it is feared
fatally assaulted by "Guinea" WOrthing
ton, a rough of the neighborhood with
whose brother Delaney had a quarrel
lately.-Near Wakefield, Va, Bob Bailey
and John Frazier, rivals for the hand of
girl, became involved in quarrel Bailey
attempted to stab Frazier with a knife,
the latter struck his antagonist on tho
head with an axe, inflicting fatal wound.
Frank Merriman, of Baltimore, is in
Jail in Pittsburgh, charged with having
procured the death by tansy, for abortion
purposes, of Miss Emma Huey, whom he
had betrayed and from whom he fed
when he discovered the fatal consequences
of tho drug.-Norwich, Conn.,, is greatly
excited over an outrage committed by
tramp on Miss Lizzie Jewett, daughter of
q Temperance lecturer, whose head the
tramp bound in q table cloth while he
robbed the house. Tho rest of the family
were at church.-Over a dozen roughs
belonging to gang of bridge builders at
work on the new Connecticut river rail-
road bridge at Cheapside ran muck
through the town Saturday night assault
ing citizens, breaking into sotres and
otherwise outrageously disturbing the
peace. Ono man was fatally stabbed
Jas. p. Deputy, of Milford, DEL, said
"good evening" to c. p. Hallett sitting
on the fence with young woman. Hal
lett told him to 60 to hell, and on Deputy
making some laughing answer Hallett
drew revolver and fired, the ball enter
ing Deputy's right side and inficting a
wound, from which he died. Hallett is
bad man and killed negro boy some
years ago.
In Trenton Martin Murnam's wife went
out to get some groceries, and came back
with Alex. Noble. At the request Of
Noble, Murnam sent out for beer, which
they drank among them. Noble wanted
to stay all night and finally Murnam con-
sented, provided he would sleep in the
kitchen as he had no other place. About
o'clock Murnam missed his wife aud
going down stairs found her and Noble
together. Murnam picked up chair and
beat Noble with it until it was broken to
pieces. He then got club with which he
struck him several blows and then threw
him out of the doors where he was found
by the police and removed to the station
house. The physicians pronounce him
fatally injured. Murnam was arrested.
John A. Will, an Ohio farmer flush with,
money, stopping at Chicago on his way
home from the West, went out of the hotel
early in the morning for walk
and met big rough stranger
who said 81 can lick you," and
struck him in tho breast. Will promptly
pulled his revolver from his pocket and
fired. The ball took effect over the left
eye, passed through the brain and came
out at the back of the head, producing in
stantaneous death. Tho man fell to tho
sidewalk corpse, and Will coolly pock-
eted his revolver and walked away from
the spot with an air of absolute unconcern,
remarking to the crowd which had COL
lected that he had given the fellow no
more thau he deserved.