Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-23

the suit was afterWard WITHDRAWN ana the
matter compromised. On Tuesday even
ing Mrs. Rocco left her house in company
with Moore. on the pretense Of visiting a
sick friend, but neither Of them has been
seen since. Mr.. Rocco says his wife took
Sc, 900 in government bonds and about
So. 500 in money but he declares that if
she will stay away he is satisfied.
PLAYING THE JAMES BOYS.
How a rweive-Year.OId Jersey Cry BOY
Shot . flaymare.
Little Dick Miller, twelve-year- old
Jersey City boy, has been a regular and
enthusiastic reader Of dime novels, and
recently procured secondhand history of
the life and achievements of Jesse James.
This work produced greater effect upon
his mind than any other that he ever
read. On Wednesday he stole five dollars
from his mother and purchased three Ie-
volvers and a box of cartridges. These
he concealed until Thursday, when, after
loading his weapons, he stuck them in the
waistband of his trousers and started
forth in search of adventure. The first
person he met was a little playmate
named Joseph Eckhoff. He invited Eek
hoff to take part in new game called the
| o.
hoff that he would be expected to person.
ate Jesse James, while he (Miller) himself
assumed the part of Frank Ford.
"All you have TO do," said Miller,
"will be to jump around as if you were
going to tackle me-"
The unique sport was scarcely begun
before it was brought to an abrupt ter
mnation. AS Eckhof was prancing about
the sidewalk in frantic manner, as if pre-
paratory to furious onslaught upon his
enemy, Miller drew one of his pistols and
| took deliberate aim at him. Jesse
James, he cried, you are a dead man."
With these words he fired, and Eckhoff
fell with q scream to the ground. The
neighbors ran from their houses and gath
cred around the PROSTATE boy. 1t was
/! found that the bullet entered the calf
| of his leg and was embedded in the flesh.
His mother told the Justice that her son
had no complaint to make against Miller,
as che believed the shooting to have been
accidental, but the police arrested Richard
on charge of carrying concealed weapons
and discharging pistol in the street.
| Brief and Bloody.
J. G. Dana, living near Harmar, O.,
under indictment for murder in the first
degree, has Just married the daughter Of
the man he killed few weeks ago.
In Mcigs county, Tenn, a man named
eagle was killed by John 'Harwood
eagles brother, with shotgun, fatally
shot Harwood and dangerously wounded
one Scott, vino was with him. The cause
was an old feud.
Some negroes " ere playing dice On the
BelIeview plantation, near New Orleans,
when Saunders Gray fred a pistol It one
! Calhoun, the bali hitting and instantly
killing Prince Ackers, bystander. Gray
was arrested.
Captain Pierre Lanier, OF East Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, was shot dead
while going through neighboring plan
tation on his way home After being shot
his clothes were saturated with coal oil
and set on fire.
George Bork, plasterer, applied to
Mrs. Finster, a widow, of Buffalo to whom
it is said he has been paying attentions,
for a nights lodging. He was refused,
whereupon he struck her on the head with
a hammer, fracturing her skull. She will
| probably die. Bork escaped.
An unknown man, aged about As years,
was found drowned yesterday at Queen
sandy beard, was of light complexion and
| was partly bald. He was dressed in a
dark overcoat, knit jacket, cheviot shirt
and long boots.
Lynched In q Lumber Camp.
At lumber camp near East Trevas,
Mich., two men got into dispute over a
trial as to whose team could haul the
heaviest load. After trial the one whose
| team was victorious went into cabin and
sat down. The defeated one came behind
him and with one blow of an axe severed
his head from his body. The head rolled
to the floor, the eyes winked several times,
and the mouth opened. An alarm was
raised. The members of the camp took
the murderer, placed log chain around
his neck, and hung him, and placed a
guard around the body to await tho ar
rival of the sheriff. Some men came from
a neighboring camp to take the corpse
down. A general fight ensued and seven
men were killed. No names are obtaiDa-
BILE.
Suicide While insane.
Samuel Compton, well-to-do farmer,
living about four miles west Of Fairview.
Guernsey county, Ohio, aged so years,
hung himself from a beam in his barn. 1t
seems he got into buggy which stood in
the barn, fastened rope around a beam,
tied the other end around his neck and
then jumped out. He probably hung two
hours before discovered. His wife found
a slip of paper in the house on which he
had written to her that he feared he was
becoming insane and determined to end
his life before he got any worse.
Suicide ON tho Eve Of Marriage.
Near Hagerstown, IEd., . young farmer