Daily globe., 1883-11-03
TEXAS SHOOTING AFFAIR.

TEXAS SHOOTING AFFAIR.
GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. AT Bolton
on Wednesday night L. j. Williams, a law
yer, was passing restaurant when George
Eckles stepped out and emptied four
chambers of a six-shooter inWiliiams' back,
Eekles then went inside, returned with q
shot gun and discharged one barrel into
Williams throat and jaw. The other bar
rel missed fire, whereupon Eckles brought
out another shot gun, and sent both bar.
rels at Williams PROSTATE body. The
pair had difficulty few days ago, during
which Williams shot at Eckles but missed.
The origin of their trouble is not stated.
TRAIN WRECKED BY ROBBERS.
CLAR1NDA, Ia, Nov. 2.--The sCannon
Balp' train over the Humeston & Shenan-
doah road, going east, was wrecked We'd
nesday night at trestle work over yVes5
Forked river, five miles east of Shenandoah.
The engine, baggage car and coach rolled
down the embenkment SO feet. The Pull
man sleeper remained on the track. A. B.
Worden, engineer, was killed and the fire
man and express messenger seriously
injured. 1t is as the accident is ascribed
to the displacement of a rail west of the
bridge by train wreckers, for the purpose
Ct robbery.
AN AGED ABoRTIoNIsT.
New YORK, Nov. 2.-In Brooklyn to-day
Mrs. Charlotte B. Furlong, aged Sc, was
sentenced to six and one-half years i'm
prisonment for causing the death of
Charity Lewis. Her age, the judge said,
restrained him from imposing the full
penalty, twenty years.
MURDER WILL OUT.
TERRE HAUrE, Ind, Nov. 2.-About
three weeks ago, one Brown, farmer, of
Dick Johnson township, Clay county, was
killed, and put on the railroad at Coal
Bluff. His remains we're horribly mangled.
1t was supposed at first that Brown when
drunk had laid down on the track, but he
was known to have money when in Peter
sons saloon, in Coal Bluff, and none was
found in his clothes. To-day the sheriff
arrested Sterling Briggs, coal miner, of
Coal Bluff. The evidence is said to be
strong. Frank Gum, said to be impli-
Gated in the murder, ran away.
LABoRER's BLOT.
READING, Penn, Nov. 2.--Deputy Sheriff
Strunk and posse of policemen returned
from Gibraltar, five miles from here, the
scene of the railroad riot of to-day, having
in custody twenty-one rioters. They will
have hearing in the morning. They are
all Hungarians employed on the New
Schuylkill valley branch of the Pensyl-
vania railroad. This morning Contractor
Haurman paid them off and discharged
them because they were rebellious
and demanded higher wages. They
get drunk, intimidated other workmea and
tried to persuade them not to work. Next
they attacked the laborers' quarters, tore
down shanties and broke and destroyed
everything they could lay their hands on.
The posse pursued them on the road and
caught up with them at Birdsbon, where
all were captured except one or two. Pts
tolls were taken from several and others
carried dangerous looking knives. Charges
of riot and intimidating workmen will be
preferred against them.
ESCAPED ACROSS THE OHIO.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.-Thomas Allen, q
resident of a shanty boat on the Ohio
river, was murdered on the river bank to-
night by George Oliver, young man of
bad reputation. The parties quarreled
and engaged in a fight, when Oliver
plunged knife in Aliens neck. Oliver
escaped in skif to the Kentucky shore,
closely pursued by two policemen in a
skif.
POISONED HER HUSBAND.
HUNTINGTON, Ind, Nov. 2.-CharIotte
Epps was yesterday found guilty of the
murder of her husband last June by ad-
ministering poison. Epps was an old and
wealthy bachelor and was married to the
murderess two months preceding his
death, she previously having served him
in the capacity of house-keeper. Her
punishment was fixed at imprisonment for
life.
FATAL ENCOUNTER.
OwINGsvIILE, KY, Nov. 2.-In an en-
counter Wednesday, in Powell county, No.
BILE Tedtord shot and killed John Holten.
Tedford was wounded by shot fired by
Holten's son.
DBAD FROM DRINK AND RHMoRsE.
DAYTON, o. Nov. 2.-Nst s. Haines,
the defaulting market master, who escaped
to Canada two months ago with $1,000 in
city funds, was brought home this fore
noon by detective. He was delirious
from drink and remorse and died this af-
ternoon.
DROWNED IN ERIE BAY.
ERIE, Pa, Nov. 2.-This city is very
much excited tonight over the tragic
death of four young men who went across
the bay to the peninsula on Wednesday,
and never returned. Their names are
John W. Rister, aged 80, mail agent on
the Philadelphia & Erie railroad; Giles
Russell, aged 80, eastern mail agent on the
same route; Charles Brown, aged 21, a
carpenter, and F. Kelsey, Union News
company employe between Erie and Kane,
Pa. They had with them sail and
clinked boat. To-day the sailboat was
found bottom up in the bay, with three
guns and satchel belonging to Rister.
Tonight the clinker was found near the
lighthouse with her bow stove in. The bay
is being dragged snd a psir ofrubber boots
has been found but no traces of the bodies.
The wind was blowing a gale when they
started to GROSS the bay on their way home.
Rister leaves wife and Kelsey wife and
child. The others we're unmarried. Russell
is well known among lake men and vessel
owners; Rister formerly lived at Ridge
way, Pa; Kelsey's pare nts live in Roches-
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