Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-29
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
JEALOUSY CAUSES a DOUBLE CRlME

JEALOUSY CAUSES 4 DOUBLE CRlME.
A Hotel Keeper Msddsned BY His wife's
Favor for Another Man Cuts Her
Throat and His Own.
A murder and suicide of the most hor,
rible character was committed about six
o'clock Tuesday evening in Allegheny
CITY. John Mueller, a well.to-d do German,
kept hotel called jefferson hall at the
corner of Madison avenue and Second
street. He was about forty years old, his
wife Mary about thirty. A boarder in the
house, on whom Mrs. Mueller looked with
favor, aroused q feeling of jealousy on the
part of Mueller. Mueller wanted to send
the boarder away, but his wife said that
if he went she would 60, too. Tuesday
evening his passion got such control of
him that he decided to take his wife's
life. He told his little daughter to 60
down on Ohio street and look for her
mother. This was subterfuge to get the
child out of the way. When she had gone
Mueller went up stairs to the room where
he knew his wife was. When the little
girl returned she, too, sought her mothers S
room, and terrible sight met her eyes
when she entered. A foot or two from the
doorway lay her mother, with her throat
cut from ear to ear, and near door lead
ing to an adjoining room was her father,
whose head was almost served from the
trunk. Both were dead, but their bodies
still warm. The floor was covered with
blood. The instrument of death was q
razor. 1t was found lying on piano and
half closed in its case, Mueller having
made an attempt to return it to the sheath
after cutting his throat. Mueller was a
well-known citizen. On his dead body
was q decoration by the Legislature of
West Virginia for meritorious conduct
during the war. Some months age he at
tempted his wife's life because she took
one of their children out walking, when it
caught a cold which caused its death.
Nilsson In New York.
Madame Christine Nilsson gave her first
concert in New York last evening. Her
American engagement is for fifty concerts,
and down to tho close of her season at
Philadelphia last week she had appeared
in eleven concerts, of which tho aggregate
gross receipts were $40. .536, Her two Phil
adclphia concerts yielded her s12, ,O13. She
will give another concert at New York on
Saturday, and then leave for Chicago and
San Francisco, her manager, Mr.. Abbey
accompanying her. She vii! return tu
Philadelphia in the spring.
Mahone's MariOnettes do Tholr Work.
The Virginia board of canvassers, in
session at Richmond, yesterday threw Out
the returns from Gloucester county and
awarded certificate to Mayo Is congress
man from the First district. The throw
ing out OF tho Gloucester votes gives
Mayo one majority. The board will take
up the vote for congressman.a large to-
day. If the certificate is given to Wise
Gas it no doubt will be) the Virginia dele
cation in Congress will stand six Coali
tionists to four Democrats. Several o.
the seats, however, will be contested BY
the Democrats when the next Congress
meets.
Fratornal Intercourse.
A committee of the New England Man
ufacturcrS and Mechanics institute, nov
on tour through the South for the pur
pose Of securing exhibits from that sec
tion for their annual fair in Septembe
next, left Richmond, Virginia, YESTERDAY
for Raleigh, N. C. The committee spent
three days in Richmond, aud received
many courtesies from Governor Camera,
, aud other prominent citizens.
Stealing Railroad Tickots
1t was discovered few days ago that
, on October 18th the Wabash railroad
ticket Office in Adrian, Michigan, Wa
robbed of nearly 81, 900 worth of tickets b.
a young man named Charles Z. Rowell
who had been discharged from tue com
Saturday in Iudianapolis, where disgu W {.
as tramp. he was attempting to Sc som,
OF tho tickets. Lie confessed his guilt
and is now in Jail at Adrian. Four of The
stolen tickets were found in tho hands o
"scalpers'' in Detroit.
Aonorins tho Soldier Dead.
BY direction of the president, the mill
tary post on the south side of the Colder
Gato, near San Francisco, now known a.
Fort Point, will hereafter be designated
Fort Scott" in honor Of tho late Gener.
al Winfield Scott and the military pcs,
at Black Point in San Francisco harbor,
now known as Fort Point San Jose, will
hereafter be known as Fort Mason" in
honor of the late General Richard B. Ma
son, military governor Of California.
Divorce tho Result of AN Elopemcnt.
In the circuit court in St. Louis decree
of divorce with custody of children was
granted to Barnet DIXON, whose wife
e!oped last spring with John Curtis, aged
20 years, and attracted a great deal of
attention in Texas and the East. Mrs.
Dixon is highly connected and the
elopcment created a great scandal Curtis
was examined and testified to his relations
with Mrs. Dixon. It is believed she is now
living near Philadelphia.
Senator Morean's Ko-eiectfun
| Balloting for United States Senator
was had yesterday in the Alabama Leeis
iaturc. In the Senate John T. Morgan,
the present senator, received 20 votes to 3
for Paul L. Jones, Republican and Green
hacker. In tho House, Morgan received
"a votes and Jones 10. Morgan's election
will be formally declared in Joint conven-
tion to day.
Aldermen to Go to jail.
the decision of the court of appeals of
New York, in the suit against the fifteen
aldermen and ex-aldermen OF BROOKLYN
for overriding Mayor Howelrs veto of the
resolution enlarging the franchises of the
Brooklyn elevated railroad, was handed
down yesterday morning. The decision of
The lower court is sustained, and the al
dermen, it is said, will have to 20 to iail.
Bank Cashier Scnt to jail.
In the U. s. circuit court, at Syracuse.
New York, yesterday morning, the iury
III the case of r. Porter Lee, defauitipg
cashier of tho First National bank of Buf,
iaio, returned verdict of guilty, after one
nour deliberation. Lee was sentenced to
imprisonment for ten years.
A Reform School that Needs Reforming.
A committee appointed to investigate
the Reform school at Portland, Maine.
made report to the governor yesterday.
severely censuring the management, and
recommending a complete change of svs !