Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-15
NEWS MISCELLANY.


ITEMS FROM THE MORNING MAIL.
Tragic Occurrences and. Fatal Happenings
Victims OF Msdsummer madness.
Paragraphs Of Varied Interest.
Charles Harris hanged himself because
Belle Mercer, his afiianced, refused to be
reccnciled with him. =
Mrs. Bushee was instantly killed and
Miss Minnie Raynor badly injured by b.
ing thrown from a wagon down an EN-.
bankment near Reeseville, N. Y.
Joseph Jones fell through hatchway
| in the brewery at Fifty-seventh street and
the East river, New York, and was in
stantly killed.
John Morris, SO years of age, of New
ark, is dying, from injuries received by
walking out Of third story window at
midnight of Sunday, while temporarily
deranged.
Two white men, named Mooney and
Richardson, fatally shot q negro named
Booth, near Satartin, Miss, because he
would not let them ride in his wagon
They escaped.
u. S. Deputy Marshal Young was fatal.
| ly shot. in the Choctaw Nation, by two
men named Jones and Randall while he
was executing warrant at Jones ranch {.
| A party is pursuing the murdercrs.
| Walter J. and c. II. Morris because
they did not like the singing of Henry
Hymau, stabbed him and his friend, A.
| Clute, in the neck at tho Avon Beach
hotel, L. I.
The state department at Washington has
received information from Minister Low
ell, at London, of tho release of Mr.. Mea-
ney, who was arrested in Ireland under
the repression act.
A wealthy resident of Lambertville,
Now Jersey, known as "Governor "
Williams, shot himself in the stomach, at
Easton, Penna., on Sunday, and died yes
terday morning.
James jackson, foreman, was killed by
a car attached TO labOrers' train on the
New York, Chicago and st. Louis railroad
having been thrown from the track near
Warsaw, Ind.
In the same city G. A. Wetton, auditor
company, blew his brains out while an
officer was reading a warrant for his arrest
| on charge of bigamy. 1t is said that he
had five or six wives.
The Texas cattle fever prevails to an
alarming extent in Steubenville, Ohio, as
in the neighboring counties in Ohio and
West Virginia. Among the cattle recent
ly brought from tho southwest great num-
bers have died.
A passenger and a freight train collided
yesterday on the Cleveland and Marietta
railroad, near Hjlger's Crossing, Ohio,
wrecking both locomotives, and seriously
iniuring many passengers. Miss Josie
Carr was pushed from tho cabOOse, run
over and killed.
A Little Rock, Ark, despatch says that
John N. McCurtin has been elected prin-
cipal chief of the Choctaw Nation, beating
Benjamin F. Smallwood, the anti-railroad
candidate by large majority. The
election was very exciting, but there was
no blood shed.''
I Notable Neurology
Emile Lasere, a well-known journalist
and politician of New Orleans, La, died
on Sunday, aged so years.
Amimikence, Littlo Thunder, q famous
chief of the Chippewa Indians, and one Of
the two survivors of the Custer massacre
died in the Mercy hospital, Chicago, ILL.,,
Monday morning, aged GO years. He was
known as "a good lndian.''
Judge William Schley, of New York
and formerly of Georgia, died suddenly at
the United States hotel, Saratoga.
Judge William M. Levy, of the Louis
lana state court, died at the Pitney house
yesterday.
Col. John II. Brant, one of the wealth
lest citizens of Harrisburg, Pa, died Mon
day evening of paralysis.
James Tisdale, of Hartford, Conn.,, as
sistant librarian of the National House OF
Representatives from 1864 to 1867, and
librarian from 1867 to 1872, has died some.
what suddenly at Buzzard's Bay, Conn.
| Tho Yellow Fever.
The governor of Texas has proclaimed
quarantine against Mexican ports, and
authorized the counties on the Rio Grandt
and exposed points to proclaim local quar-
antine.
A telegram from Laredo, Texas, say.
that, at Matamoras, Mexico, there were
two new cases and eight deaths from yel-
low fever in the twenty four hours ending
at p. m, on the 18th. Heavy thunder
and rain squalls are prevailing.
Twenty-three new cases of yellow fever
aud one death were reported at Browns
vile, Texas, yesterday, by Deputy Col
lector Goodrich.
Cetewayo to Do Restored.
A dispatch from London says that Cete
wayo visited the queen at Osborne Monday
accompanied by the Earl of Kimberly,
| SECRETARY VI St6Ic IOE tu0 COlOuiibl ucp6Fb-
ment. 1t is said that the queen informed
him of the decision of her government to
restore him to his kingdom. 1t is stated
that British resident will be appointed
to reside at Ulundi, the Zulu capital, il
order to advise him on questions relative
} to external relations.
The Work of an lnhuman Father.
!. Adam Koch, living in old South Bethle
hem, was arrested on Saturday for inhu-
manly beating his daughter, aged about
eight years. There were bloody marks
upon the little girls head and great
streaks across her left arm, back and hips.
Koch obtained bondsman to keep him
out Of Jail, but when the latter saw the
condition of the child, he withdrew aid
the inhuman father was sent to Jail.
Hanging . Murderer Already Dying oi
Consumption.
In Silver City, N. NJ, Elijah Franklin
was hanged Monday afternoon for
the murder OF Deputy Sheriff johnson.
Strong efforts were made to obtain a res.
pite, as Franklin was dying of consump
tion, but Governor Sheldon declined to
interfere. Franklin had asked for a re
spite of thirty days, tho prison physicians
having assured him that his disease would
prove fatal before that brief lease of life
expired.
A Young MANS Singular DEATH.
| At Chester Thomas TOppiu Young