Daily globe., 1883-08-28
DEATH BY STARVATION.
Especial Telegram to the GiobeI


Ihe husband of the dead woman was
found to be dead drunk and the woman's
body was knawed by rats, while two chill
dren were found nearly sead from starva-
tlon. The woman had starved to death.
Her body was taken to the morgue and
the children were cared for by the local
authorities.
SUICIDE OF A STRANGER LADY,
CLEVELAND, Aug. 27.-The name of the
woman who died at the Prospect house
last week from laudanum, was Jane Stock
bridge, who left her home in England last
March. No motive for the suicide is known.
She was alone and stranger here and
nothing has been learned of her history.
The body lies in the morgue.
HANGED.
RALEIGH, N c., Aug. 27.-This morning
Henry Jones was hanged for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Blake last year. The exc
cution was private. Jones made profes.
| sion of religion and was remarkably self
possessed before the execution and on the
| gallows. Death ensued in twenty minutes
from strangulation Jones was twenty
three years of age and leaves wife and an
| infant.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE.
PROVIDENCE, Aug. 27.-Jno. W. Bigelow,
of New York, was found dead in bed in his
cottage on Sunday at Newport. He was
recently rescued from drowning, when
rumor prevailed that he had attempted
suicide. The suicide theory is again start
ed on account of financial difficulties, but
the doctor and his family deny the
theory.
| FATAL BUTCHERS QUARREL.
| JERSEY CRY, Aug. 27.-Two butchers
Alex Nichols and James Thompson quar-
relied this morning concering business and
Nichols stabbed Thompson with a large
butcher knife inhicting probably a fatal
wound.
AN ALCOHOLIC MURDER,
MILAN, Ind, Aug. 27.--John Brown
while drunk. fired at Telegraph operator of
the Ohio Mississippi Office last night,
but missed him and hit David Allen. kill
| ing him instantly.
NEW YORK FIRE.
New YORK, Aug. 27.---A fire on West
Fifty-sixth street this morning destroyed
$65,OOO worth of property. The principal
loss was the wool pulling factory of Hiram
| Hollis of Boston.
HoRRID STATE OF THINGS.
P1rTsBURG, Aug. 27.--The report of in
spections of the prisons of Allegheny
county by the women's auxiliary commit
tee to the state board of charities has lust
| been forwarded to Harrisburg, which
makes startling revelations in regard to
the Pittsburg Jail. The report character
| ICES the cells as chambers of horrors"
and condemns the Jail as an outrage on
the community. In cells which were only
| intended for two persons as many as nine
prisoners have been crowded in at one
time. They are dark and badly ventilated.
the only light in many being from grated
| doors. Criminals of the worst type and
young boys, hardened women and young
girls just starting on the road to ruin,
have Ubeen compelled to asso-
ciate together. A new Jail has been rec
| commended.
STABBED BY AN ASSASSIN.
New HAVEN, KY, Aug. 27.-Joseph
Clarke, farmer, while returning from
Newhops, in Nelson county, last night,
was attacked by an unknown assassin and
| stabbed thirteen times in the back and
| shoulders. None of the wounds, however,
are dangerous.
POISONED BY PARIS GREEN.
Boston, Aug. 27.-The poisoning of
valuable imported cattle at the govern
| ment quarantine was in consequence of
the carelessness in selecting ground land
| near drinking place, formerly potato
field and strongly impregnated with paris
green, of which a considerable quantity
| was found in the water: About thirty head
are now sick. All are the property of
| Leonard, of Mount Leonard, Me.
NEW JERSEY DEFALoAr1oN.
New BRUNSWICK, N. j., Aug. 27.-Free-
| holder John j. Hall, of the Fifth ward, is
missing with $4,000 borrowed money. The
Trenton Times states that forged notes
aggregating from $4,000 to $4,000 are
| discovered. Facts to these statements are
hard to obtain, as the principal sufferers
| are understood to be Halls friends, and
they refuse to divulge the amount of loss
in. Trenton, where Hall had borrowed sums
ranging from$1OO to S8.OOO Cornelius Har-
denburg and Thomas Warren are said to
be the principal sufferers in New Bruins
wick. The entire loss there will probably
amount to $4,000. Hall was contractor
for the Pennsylvania railroad, and it was
an easy matter for him to borrow from
sub-contractors.
RELEASED ON BAIL.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Mrs. Caroline G.
Davis, of Albany, arrested at Sartoga on a
charge of obtaining goods under false
pretenses, has had her examination post
poned for a month, and was released on
$4,000 bail.
GOT HIS QUIETUs.
ADAIRsv1LLE, KY, Aug. 27.-Last night
John Proctor, a saloon keeper, was killed
by Alex. Crawford and son at Crocker's
cross roads, fifteen miles from Springfield,
Tenn. Proctor's wife had left him on ac-
count of his dissipated habits, and took
refuge in the house of her father, Alexander
Crawford. Proctor attempted to take her
away by force, when an alteration e1sued
between Proctor and the Crawfords, in
which the former was stabbed and bled to
death in a short time. Public sympathy
Is with the Crawfords, who, it is claimed,