Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-06
SIN AND SHAME,
THE TRAGIU WAY OF THE WORLD.

THE TKAGIU WAY OF THE WORLD.
Driven TO SuiC.de-Hsng!nS Himself III His
Earn After Losing His Fertune-A
Washington Scandal--Cri.ns and
Calamity.
The firm CT hrout & Hopper were we'll
known cattle dealers OF New Britain.
Bucks county. Becoming financially EN-
barrassed, Henry krOut, the senior mem
Der OF the firm, made al ssisament to
his brother Jacob. who had advanced
money and ln,:uIset heavily for Henry.
Through his brothers failure Jacob lost
every dollar Le Possessed. The worry and
anxiety resulting from lis losses drove
Jacob krout to suicide. Early Thursday
morning he hanged himself with leather
strap tied TO the round of ladder in his
barn. where his son found him shortly
aiterward. lie leaves a wife and six chill
drep. The sac sequel to the distressing
affair Is the report that the deceased S
brother, Henry, owing to his accumulat-
lDs nlsiortunes, has become afflicted with
temporary alteration of mind and has
been taken 70 the insane department of
tie Bucks county almshOuse. The affair
has created much excitement and sympa
thy Ill the neighboIhccd and the many re-
ports and rUmOrs concerning it are con
iiicting in their details.
a Washington Society scandal.
Deerinss Fusdick, al employc of the
Interior department, married Il very es-
Unable daughter of Commodore Whiting.
OF the Lazy. For a While back Fosiick
has been showing attentions to a young
lady CLERK of the department, and his
wife. hearing Of it, became much incens-
ed, and na Thursday the land office was
comp'etcly nIsat by the appearance OF
Mrs. Fos,!itk, armed with rawhide, in
search Of the youug lady. She went to
the room where she was employed and
made an attempt to assault her, but the
young lady escaped through the door un-
hurt. Mrs. FOSdick ran down the hall,
whip i'll hand, after her, but the chase was
brought to close by tho watchman.
Fosdick was dismissed, and it is said that
a divorce suit will follow. The affair is
the talk Of society.
u Dreadful Woman.
Mrs. StiIlweli, who, in the last stage of
consumption. tear Mount Vernon, Ohio,
confessed !. lew days ago that she had
murdered her first husband, another man
and her daughter, has further confessed
SAA.sI oAS iAuiNOiSA AOi Ntu1ubcE tb OUs
tumwa, Iowa, after the old lady had been
injured by railroad accident. She also
says she is guilty of other crimes which
She will not divulge. Being asked what
her father who mysteriously disappeared,
sician who has examined her says she is
sane.
Some Sad Suicides.
&. T.. S!ocum, postal clerk on the North
western railroad, committed suicide by
shooting himself in Chicago on Thursday
night.
An unknown man, about 30 years Of
age, we'll dressed, committed suicide yes,
terday by throwing himself in front of 4
train at Glen Cove, Long Island.
}. Lewis, 2S years of age. committed
suicide yesterday morning at Asbury Park,
New Jersey. His wife had just died in
child birth. and, when told of his loss, he
seized = razor and c"t lis throat.
Dangers III Coal Mining.
Thomas Gorrah, % years of age, !.
starter employed at the Reading coal and
iron company's Bast collery, was stating
battery on the west side, when Ee was
caught and his head crushed to Il Jelly.
He WAS unmarried. James Davis and his
son Jacob, Miners employed ut Big Mine
Kan colllery, were seriously ii not fatally
Injured by fall of top coal. Both men
were working in Il gangway in tho urpcr
diff when the fall occurred and narrowly
csc3lcd being, buried alive.
brutal Outrage by N Tramp.
About ) O'Clock in the evening Minnie
Bowman, daughter of William Bowman,
of Upper Iouder township, Cambria
county WIS on her way homo when u
tramp sprang out of Il shiallot. knocked
her down and outraged her Tho brute
tore nearly all her clothes OF and before
She reached home sho was nearly frozen to
death. Her present condition is prcca-
Il"us. Sllo is ahnUt Is years old No
trace of tho scuuidie. has been fouLd.
Shot by woman.
Lucky" Baldwin. the millionaire pro-
prietor of BaltwiI's hotel, San Francisco.
was shot and slightly wounded in the arm
On Thursday morning, III the hotel. by IL
young woman named Veron.: Baldwin.
who asserts that she is his cousin and that
ne was disposed to abandon her after hav-
ng accomplished her ruin. Baldwin dc |
lcS any relationship. and in fact, her
entire story.
Notes OF Trade
The employees of the Pottstown iron !
company have been notified that Il rc,iuc-
ion of - cents per ten on puddlcd iron !,
viii Z" into effect on the 18th inst
AT tie Fail River ard tho Mount Hope |
ron works Ill ;J,nlcrset, Mass, notices |
laVo been poStc,i oI i 10 per cent. reduc. |
Iun II! wages, To begin ON the 18th inst. |
Ih. Bay Wow works of tho Chicago D
ron company, at Milwaukee,, will resume /
N Monday with a t'ii !':re. ,
a telegram from E.l Claire, Wisconsin, ,
ays the news from tho pineries is "de-
ldedly favorable y the roads having been |:
hardened by the severe cold and an exit
,iven to the logs.
The saloon keepers of Milwaukee have
lnited to resist tho increase in the price OF
'ccr, determined upon by the brewers, If
nc latter persist, the saloon keepers will
import beer from Cincinnati.