Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-29
MORE RECENT TRAGEDIES.
the Record OF Crime and Calamity.

Frederick a. Crowley, son of the pro
prietor Of the Mansion House, in Troy,
New York, committed suicide by cutting
his throat. He was civil engineer, and
it is believed his mind was affected by
overwork.-Samuel p. Kerstetter, a gro
ceryman of Lewisburg, Pa, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the bead
lie has been a sufferer from malaria
William Seaman, a tramp cigar maker,
took laudanum at Oil City, and died. 1t
was about an hour and a half from the
time he took the dose before physician
was procured. The man had been there
about three weeks and most of the time
had been on spree. He came from Pitts
burg, but nothing more is known of him -
Winfield Lord, young man twenty
years old, for some time iu the employ of
a stone dealer of Susquehanna, went to a
lonely spot in the vicinity of the Catholic
cemetery and shot himself through the
heart. The daughter of his employer
with whom he is said to have been hope
lessly in love was married on Thursday
last to another gentleman. Grief at this
result appears to have been the cause of
the suicide.-William E. Winner, artist
and portrait painter, of Philadelphia, died
yesterday. He was about 68 years old.
Henry Komps, SO years of age, an in
mate of the Philadelphia almshouse,
committed suicide yesterday by hanging
himself to a tree on the grounds.
Patrick H0ar was arrested in Scranton,
Peun., yesterday, for killing James Nor
ton, at a wedding on the previous night.
He confessed to having shot Norton, but
says the shooting was accidental
Wright, we'll known wrestler, was shot,
perhaps fatally, in house of evil repute
in Bay City, Michigan, on Sunday night.
Stephen Medrick, a Hungarian saloon
keeper, was fatally shot by man named
Boyle, near Scottdale, Penna., on Satur-
day night, because he refused to sell liquor
to Boyle.-Jamas G. Wood, q leading
druggist of Poushkeepsio, was found dead
in bed yesterday. dead body of a
man found in the woods near Tamaqua,
Penna., on Sunday, has been Unidentified
as that of Jas. Campbell, a lawyer of
Brooklyn, who some time ago wandered
away from bis home while insane.
UnmanaseabIe Women.
Matters were quiet at Collins and
Belleville, Illinois, during Sunday, owing,
probably to the presence of the militia.
Yesterday morning work was to have been
resumed at the Rose Hill mine, near West
Belleville, but when the men were about to
begin work at five o'clock "a band of $50
women, the wives and daughters of strik-
ers, marching two abreast and armed with
stout CLUBS, appeared on the scene and,
after some alteration, compelled the men
to desist, and the work was not started,n
The sherifFs posse was also driven back
by these Amazons. Leaving a guard at
Rose Hill. 100 of the women marched IN
Reinecke's mine, three miles from Belle
vile, and being largely reinforced by the
strikers, they drove out the men at work
in the mine. At last accounts the strik.
ers were in full possession of the ground.
the women being "the most uumanape.
able of the crowd" and "beyond tho con.
troll of the civil authorities" The sheriff
has applied for military aid. A private