Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-30
NEWS BY MAIL.
A MUkDEKoUs HUSBANDS ANGER.
Charles Tughman's Unprovoked Attack
Upon His WIfe-Various Events
6yccDrranco

Charles Tighman's Unprovoked Attack
Upon His Wife-Various Events
OF Late Occurrence.
The story of an unprovoked murderous
assault comes from Hecktown, small
place eight miles northwest of Easton.
Charles Tilghman persuaded his wife, who
had lived at the almshouse, to leave the
institution and accompany him, saying
they would keep house again. They were
noticed walking along the different coun-
try roads, and appeared to be entirely
friendly, when near tho farm house of
Benjamin Rohn, Thursday morning, the
man suddenly threw his wife to the
ground and cut her throat nearly from
ear to ear. He then fled across the fields
toward the Lehigh river.
The woman, still alive, was cared for
by Mr.. Rohn's family until afternoon,
when she was taken to the almshOuse.
The doctors say she cannot possibly live.
Her windpipe was severed by the knife.
She was questioned by the attendants, and,
though trying to speak, could not make
herself understood more than to say she
| knew of no reason for the act. Farmers
and detectives are now on Tilghman' 8
tracks. He is short and stout, weighing
| about 120 pounds. He was dressed IN
udlh, "Cl-WOLu CiOtACS UtllCh
| slouch hat. The farmers threaten to
lynch the murderer if caught.
Violence and Murder.
Judge II. G.. McCOmas and his wife
were murdered by Indians at Thompson
canyon, Arizona, on Wednesday, and his
little son was captured. 1t is rumOred
that force of troops was beaten by the
the Indians in q fight in the Whitestone
mountains on Wednesday night. 1t is
estimated that so whites have been muir
dcred along the ella river within four
days.
While magistrate named Mcneil, as.
sisted by several volunteers and cOnstables
was attempting to arrest Lingan rioters
at Little Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Thurs
day morning, they were set upon by a
mob. Chief Constable Musgrove took
were ordered back to their barracks to
await instructions from headquarters.
The jury in the Western lunatic asylum
Thursday rendered verdict that "the
patients were poisoned by aconitine ad-
ministered in mugs OF medicine, but by
whom placed in the mugs is unknown"
The sheriff Of Mississippi county, Mo-,
arrived Thursday evening at Stanford,
Ky. having in custo,ly William Shadoan,
who is charged with the murder of two
Confederate soldiers in that county in
1862, and fov the murder of then promi
nent citzeE-Berry Dis. He denies the
charges, but witnesses are there who will
swear to his identity.
The bodies of TWO colored men recog
nized as Henry Depugh and Henry Ross
were found III Z hat in tbs Rock Fork
colored settlement near Alton, Illinois,
Thursday. The head OF Depugh was
nearly blown off, while Ross was stabbed
near the heart. The coroner's inques!
failed to throw any light upon the mat
ter.
Mrs. Meeker, who is sentenced to be
hanged to-day in Windsor, Vermont, iol
the murder Of her ward, Alice Mceker,
protests her innocence, although her son
Almon, who has already confessed hi:
completely in tho crime, has been urging
her also to confess.
Charles Shannon, & retired farmer. living
near Portland, committed suicide Thurs
day by taking !audanum. lie had been il
bad health for some months, and OF lat,
his mimi was impaired. He took the lau
danum during the temporary absence o
his son in law, who was attending him
He was sixty eight years OF age and vel
known.