Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-26
A BLOODY BUDGET.
CHRISTMAS GRIMES AND CaLAMlrlEs.

ChRIsrMAs GRIMES AND CALAMlrlEs.
A IslooG-S.ained HoiIdsy-Brutauties and |
Fatalities-A ccidents and Suicide
Some Glory Pages OF Current
History.
Councilman Louis Meyers was stabbed
and perhaps fatally wounded by William
Kuntz, at a ball, in Scranton. n..-Thomas
Lamb was shot and killed by James
Chumley, ir drunken quarrel, in Gin
cinnati. Chumley gave himself up.-Two
brothers. named Boone, grandsors of the
famous Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, were
SHOT and mortally wounded by William
Vaughan, in trifling quarrel at Ladonia,
Tcxas.-At La Sale, Illinois, 4 notorious
rough named - Patsy" Donnelly entered
saloon, and fired three times into a
crowd OF men at the bar. Ono Of the shots
struck Michael McDormett, causing q
fatal wound. Donnelly then step
ped out and fired ct Policeman
| Patrick Scott, but Kissed his
aim. Scott then sent a bullet through the
rufian's brain, and he fell dead.-Patrick
! McNulty was fatally stabbed by young
man named Matthew Ryan, in Williams
burg, N. Y.-EzIa Concord, formerly
resident OF Exeter, n. H.. has been found
murdered in a village in Georgia, and it is
supposed he was killed by colored rioters.
while hunting near Rockingham, N. c.,
William Morse deliberately shot and killed
Preston W. Baldwin rs tho latter was
walking away from a camp fre.-Parker
Adams, recently legislative candidate,
was shot dead by Union Fills in Lake
time.-C. A. Newtou, railway agent, was
81, InaI inn nt
Dakota, by man named Nash,
whose dau ,.trr ,,p had betraycd.-
At CoyinGtou, c.. N,ll Sm.th, eighteen
years old, SHOT and killed James Banks
and Alexander Hendricks, and also shot
and k.i.ld \ ue go v ho attcH.p;ci to az.
res: hi.a. lie is in Jail aud intense excite
moEt prevails. Whisky WAS tho Cause
Two youug men named Tillery and Prem
tiss left Brcmoud, Texas, intoxicated.
Two miles from town they alighted from
their horses to get a drink and became
involved in an alteration. Tillery seized q
billet Of wood and struck Prentiss, killing
him instantly.-Henry Daniels was fatally
stabbed by Bert E!am in drunken brawl
at Dallas, Texas. The murderer escaped
The body of Mrs. William Barrett was
found lying in a field three miles from
r home, near Scranton. A dog was watch
ing by it. 1t is suspected that she was
murdered.-ln Chicago there is general
complaint of sand bagging and robbery in
the streets at night. The Lumbermen's s
exchange, aroused by the fact that one of
their members had been robbed and left
> senseless on tho street, offer five hundred
5 dollars reward; for the perpetratOr Of the
crime.-Sanuel aud William Hamilton,
: brothers, were attacked by 4 gang OF
co.ored men in Harrisburg, and danger.
ous]y Stabbed.
Some Startling Suicides.
DR.. F. B. Ayres, a wealthy inmate OF
S the inebriate house at Fort Hamilton,
, New York, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with a razor. He had recently
been cured of the opium habit, but vic
tim of Observation-Disclosures Rush, cut
Q his throat and then hanged himself in the
r Lutheran church at Wilkcsboro, Nortt
a Carolina No cause is assigned for tho
deed. William Fl. Clark, Of New Haven
Connecticut, committed suicide by shoot
: ing himself with pistol on the steamship
d Kn:ckerbooSer, below Now Orleans. Man
;. uel Whitman, a farmer, hanged himsel
g near Binghamton. New York.
is believed Lc was insane.-Ilenr.
johnson and Hugh Matthias, both colored
1T quarrelled in Atlanta, yesterday mcrning
n and tho latter vas shot dead by the form
= er.-Lindsey Weaver was shot and kill
ed by John Thomas in a drunken Guarre
- at Palmetto, Georgia.-Frank Anderson
Is and Charles Smith, bot, cOlored, G-:ac
r relied in Peoria, ILL.,, and Smith stabbc
Il Anderson to deati.-Charlcs Roe was sho
y. dead by an unkn own person in a low re
- sort at Lafayette, Indiana.-Michael Lam
= fatally stabbed John Mclaughlin i
s Wheeling, West Virginia. "They wer
h friends o.t on a drunk. Jerry Griffin
II a colored farmer, was Shot dead by H. F
Robinson, in saloon quarrel, in Littl
Rock, ycsterday.-City Marshal Way she
aud killed John Franklin. coloced, in til
Jail at South Charleston, Ohio
last night, because Franklin mad
70 a vicious attack upon him.
John Flynn, II prominent contractor, {
20 Williamsport, committed suicide by takin
x Paris green. Dependency" is assigne
as the cause.-EngIebert Hartman,
d matchmaker, attempted suicide by throw
t. ing himself in front Of an engine at Scral
ton his injuries arc believed to be FATAL
y Alexander jefferson, the Brooklyn mul
ST derer, was captured or Saturday, afte
receiving Il shot in the head, from th
-. effects of which, the physicians say, he
! not likely to recover. lie exrresse
y surprise that Anna jackson was sti
living. He said he ''did not Intend to XII
TX Mrs. jackson or Hicks, baS as they wei
& there he could not help it,
Sc Miss Maggie Haggerty, . bc.satifr
young girl OF fifteen, daughter of ex P(
It. liceman uagscrty, Of Reading, fell in Low
n with a man employed il public work:
ia Several weeks ago tho young man lei
town, and the girl became tired Of wai
n, ing for his return. Finally she hear
cd that he had concluded not to return at al
h. and then Miss Haggerty quietly infcrme
several Of her young lady friends that sh
!, was going to kill herself and then bad
or them goodbye. She went to drug stor,
to bought Rough on rats" an arsenics
poison, took dose and then returne
home, where she awaited her mother.
~ was some time before the girl admittc
i the cause of her terrible illness and vomi
lib ing, and before medical aid could 1
=, summoned she dropped over in a dyin
VI condition, and after lingering few hour
in considerable pain she died.-Emm
es Inhotf, sixty tLreo years old, was fOun
ed dead in her rooms at No. 500 Mint
ed avenue, New York. She had two Idle
I'd sons, twenty three and thirty years Of ag'
10 One was dancing around her dead bod!
while the other crouched sullenly in IL
mt corner when her death was discovered
be She supported both by hard work.
a During the absence from homo of Mr. an
IN Mrs. Barker, at Estelline, Dakota, the
lis three children, aged six months and thrc
and five years. respectively, set fire t
in their clothes. Two of them were burne