Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-23
CRIME AND CALAMITY.
rnE rKAlL OF sLOOD OWES AL,


DsaAIy Wsrk q the Pissel-RsvaEss Of
the Inosndiaxy-Dsfalostio I'm
bex1lomont ana Forgery.
John Kane, who was shot by Superin-
tendent Keighly at Uniontown ON Wednes-
day evening was still living yesterday
afternoon but was in dying condition.
He says he did not intend to harm Keigh
ly, and no pistol was found on him. Her
bert Eaton who shot his brother and
Samuel Kelley in Calais, Maine, on Tues
day evening, returned to that city on
Wednesday night and gave himself mp
he was released in 1850 bail.
In Galveston, Texas, man named
Mandrake, has shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded AN
brose Sato he claims that his wife was
unfaithful /; he surrendered himself. j. G.
Sanches, member of one of the old Span.
ish families of musicians in Illinois,
entered the National Concert hall in
Chicago last night and shot and fatally
wounded Clara A. Rennicks, waiter girl.
Jealousy was the cause of the act. Lewis
and Nathan Lay, farmer at Boseman,
Montana, had quarrel with Irving Hun.
tor, another farmer, and yesterday morn
ing Hunter was found dead in his field.
The Lays have fed, and are being pursued
by a sheriff's posse. Edward O'Brien,
watchman at the Delta Point government
works, was shot and killed by Thomas Sui
livan in drunken brawl last night. Sui
livan was arrested. Richard Cowdey, a
lunatic, escaped from confinement, at San
Antonio Texas, yesterday went to his
mothers house !; dragged her from bed
and dealt her two blows with an axe. The
injuries will probably prove fatal. The
notorious Colonel w. B. Cash was fined
yesterday in Columbia, South Carolina,
for an assault on James Heron, during a
dispute about the Fairfield election cases
the night before. Heron was also fined.
Cash drew a pistol, and two revOlvers
being found upon him when arrested, he
was subjected to an additional fine for
carrying concealed deadly weapons.
losses by Fire.
The West Hamilton Flour mills, at
Hamilton, Ohio, were burned on Wednes'
day night. The barn of E. Meatyard, at
Shipman, Illinois, was burned on We'd
nesday night, with 125 head of cattle.
Fourteen hundred head of sheep were de-
stroyed by a prairie fire on the farm of G..
N. Crocker, near Arkansas City, Kansas,
on Sunday last. Two freight trains on
the Grand Trunk railroad collided near
Port Britain, Ontario, Yesterday. One
engine ard two cars loaded with valuable
freight were burned on the 5th inst. Loss
$4,000. Three students of Wabash COL
lege, at Charlottesville, Indiana, were
arrested on Wednesday night on the
charge of having set fire to the south
hall of the college on Sunday night. They
confess their guilt, and also said they
broke into store in the town short time
ago and set it on fire. The depraved youths
who are all under 16 years of age, were
held each in $500 bail.
crimes Against Properly.
The deficiency" of Ray, the late book
keeper of the Merchant and Planters
bank of Montgomery, Alabama, which
was first supposed to be $4,000, is nov
ascertained to be 100000. The bank, tt
obviate any demand on the stockholders
will meet the loss by using $50, 600 Of tht
reserve and reducing the stock $25, 600
Rays bondsmen viii! pay 10000. Hi
ruin was caused by gambling with cottol
futures and playing cards. William NJ
Stewart, postoffice clerk arrested in Gin
cinnati on Wednesday night for stealing
letters, has confessed his guilt, and, being
in good circumstances, "seems disposed
to make restitution" Ho has been helt
in 50, 500 bail. Woodford and Clark, VIII
robbed the county safe at Forsyth, Mis-
souri,, a few days ago, have been captured
and about half the stolen money has beel
recovered. VIM. Cooper, chief of a ganl
of fcountcrfeiters in Southwest Virginia
was sentenced at Lynchburg yesterday t.
three years. imprisonment. The bank o
E. s. Comstock, in Ravenna, Ohio, wa
robbed of 5000 on Wednesday. Mr.. Com
stock was called out to speak to one o
the thieves, who was in buggy, whil
| the other took tho cash.