Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-27

started and ran again, the husband fOllOW-
ing, still clutching her hair and slashing
at her with the razor. The horrible chase
was re-enacted until the woman had
reached her own doorway, where she fell
dead. Sullivan was shortly afterwards Sc.
cured by the police and lodged in Jail. He
seemed quiet enough after his incarcera
ton, but was reticent when spoken to OF
the crime. The affair creates great excite
ment in the town.
After Sullivan was satisfied of his Wife 3
death, he attempted to cut his own throat
and succeeded in gashing his windpipe,
but the wound will not prove fatal. The
immediate cause of the crime was an ad
mission of infidelity on the part Of his
wife. Sullivan says he has nothing to re
gret, and would do the same thing again
CUT TO PIECES ON THE TRACK.
A Little Girls Pitiful Fate at q Crowded
Elevated Road Station.
IL the crowd that hurried to board the
Harlem train on the Sixth avenue elevated
railway at Twenty-third street at 6:35
o'clock, Saturday evening, was little
fair.haired, blue-eyed girl about seven
years old, who carried big bundle in a
small hand. She was accompanied by her
father, who has but one leg, and another
man. The men got on the forward plat
form of the third car. AS she was about
getting on she dropped her bundle, and
the candy it contained was scattered on
the platform. The little girl made des-
perate scramble to save what she could of
it, and while she was so occupied the
train began to move. The gate swung to
as she tried to step upon the platform of
the car, and, with her hands full of the
candy, she was forced violently back.
The station men say that tho little girls
father now saw for the first time that she
was in danger, and, seizing her with a
backward swing Of his arm by the shoul-
der, attempted to drag her on the moving
train. However it was, the child fell be-
tween the platforms of the two cars upon
the guards of the east rail. She fell
lengthwise along the guards. In an in
slant the foremost wheel of the car had
crushed her skull, and went tearing
through the little body. She was cut to
pieces and fragments were scattered over
the street below.
The father had uttered a great cry as
the child disappeared under the train, but
all this had happened in less time than it
has taken to tell it, and the train had
gone block and a half before it was
stopped. What could be found of tho
child's body was carried to tho Thirtieth
street station with some of the bits of
candy that the child had been carrying.
The name of this, tho youngest victim of
an elevated railway accident, was Mary
Menzene. She was the daughter of Joseph
Menzene, photographers assistant, en-
plOyed by Bogardus. The man who was
NTH 1,o,. 20 tbo,, x,oc Mo-, r;oo Tooo1c Tho
address of both was 116 East 1OSth street.
statements of the railway employees.
The news of the accident spread about
the city, and all the evening a crowd
blocked the thoroughfare at Twenty-third
street and Sixth Avenue, where the pave
ment was still stained with the child'sbloOd
Suicide, Murder and Other Tragedies.
While in a drunken frenzy ar New York
Henry Kunemern committed suicide by
cutting his throat with knife.
Col. A. N. Fryer, who during the re-
bellion was in command of New York
regiment, was found dead in bed at Mil
waukee. 1t is supposed that he commit
ted suicide on account of poverty.
Mrs. Julia Brizzalaro, who was so in
humanity cut with knife and hatchet by
her husband, John Brizzalaro, at Balti-
more, on the 18th, has died. Her husband
is in Jail.
John Sweeney shot and killed his wife
through jealousy at Hillsborough, Texas,
and then attempted to kill himself
A cannon that vas being fired off near
Greensburg, in celebration of marriage,
exploded and blew off tho arm of Edward
Nipple.
On Friday evening, thirty miles south
of Knoxville, Tenn, Robert Flanagan
killed his son-in-law, Joseph Nichols. The
two had q dispute about trivial matter.
A fight between cowboys and &c Earp's
party" pear Tombstone, Arizona, resulted
in the killing of Marshall White, of Tombs-
tone, and Curly Bill, cowboy.
William Wheatly, an Englishman, a
matchmaker by trade, was killed by a pas.
senger train on the Richmond & Allegheny
railroad, near Clifton Forge, Va.
At Wilkesbarre VIM. F. Parker of the
firm of T. Parker & Son, one of the oldest
jewelry houses in the city took a large
dose Of chloral and died, because a young
and beautiful lady, to whom he was en-
gagged, broke the engagement last week.
o. P. Thayer, white man, 20 years old,
known as the Indian herb doctor, was
found hanging to door frame in a back
room Of his house in Hedgeville, Del. He
seems to have stood on a peach basket
to adjust the rope, and finding that his
feet still touched the floor after kicking
away the basket, he bent his knees so as
to bring his full weight on the rope. He
left a. note showing he has been hanging
since Monday. He said that he was out
Of medicine that he owed more than he |
could ever hope to pay and that he was
tired of living. The note also requested |
that his body should be burned to ashes !;
that the ashes should be collected, placed |
in bag and hung up in tree, and that
he wanted no preachers to attend and no
sermon over his remains.
Those Dead Fish.
The mysterious dead fish recently seen
loating in the North Atlantic are pro-
,ounced by Professor Baird to be "tile
ish"-a new species found by the
United States fish commission in "incredl-
lie +" quantities along the eastern edge of
he Gulf Stream. The professor thinks
ho dead fish were killed by the recent
evere storm along the south coast of New
England.
Death on the Water.
Gus Conntee, William Ogleton, and John
'anders, all colored, were drowned by the
mixing of an old boat in the Youghiogeny
apids at Laytons, Pa.
The canal boat T. F. Perry, of Philadel-
qia, laden with 862 tons of coal sank in
he Raritan. near New Brunswick. Cap
hin A. w. Miller and wife escaped BY
rawling through the cabin windows after