Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-19
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TRAGIC COCRkENCES
Fatal Affairs Reported from Various Gus

Faral Affairs Reported from Various Quar-
tiers.
An inventor of a rope fire escape, who
refused to give his name, tried his appara-
tus at the corner of Halstead and Madison
streets and sustained fatal injuries.
In Syracuse, N. Y, James Brown, col
ored, was found dead in a barn in the
First ward. He was badly beaten few
nights ago by a man named CoOny, and it
is thought that death resulted from the
injuries received.
Mrs. Samuel Lewis, of FrenchtowD, N.
J., lies at the point of death, the result of
AN attemptOn her part to commit suicide
by cutting her throat. She was suffering
from temporary insanity.
A trestle bridge at Raccoon, on the East
Tennessee, Virginia g. Georgia railroad,
fell in with the southwark bound freight
train. Charles Walker, a colored brake
man, and r. Tiddwell, an engineer, were
killed, and Carl Kemp and John Cox,
passengers were seriously hurt.
Oscar Richardson, an insane patient at
the BrattleborO, VT, asylum, turned the
hot water faucet in the bath room and sat
in the hot water until he was fatally
scalded. He died during the night.
Henry Mullet. an old man of Rutherford,
n. c., having quarreled with his son. went
to his house armed with shotgun. Find
ing it closed, he burst in the door with
threats and curses, but as he entered the
door the son fired aud the father fell dead.
In Pricetown, Colusa county, CAL, DR..
A. J Glenn, the largest wheat raiser of the
state, who ran for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket in 1879 was shot on his ranch
at Jacinto, by II. Miller, his boOkkeeper.
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A sad story comes from Deer island N b,
A brother, on visiting his sister, who lived
in a somewhat out the way place, or
entering the house found four children
lying dead from diphtheria, and ths
mother lying ill in bed with a new bor1
babe.
William Murphy has surrendered him
self at UniOutown, alleging that he mur
dered Hungarian in Luzerne county, il
September last. Chief OF Police Grim, O.
Wilkesbarre, will arrive in UniOntown Il
few days to identify him.
When engine No. of a freight train ol
the Genesee Valley Canal railroad, raj
upon the bridge 1T Aliens creek, Dea
Scottsville, it plunged into the creek. Tht
fireman, Charles Hanna, was killed, ant
Henry Fuller. the engineer, had his arm
broken and foot crushed. The body o.
the fireman was recovered. The piers O
the bridge had been washed out by the ic,
and water.
1t is now supposed that the steamer re
ported as wrecked near Swansea, on Jan
uary q, was the James Gray. on = voyage
from Cardiff to the Cape Verde Islands
with cargo of coal, and thence to Phila
delphia in ballast, rs a body, recognized
as the Captain of the Gray; and the bod!
of little girl, believed to be that of hi
daughter, were recovered on February
near Porthcawl. 1t is also probable tha
her entire crew of twenty five hands hav'
been lost.
James Ross and his son, living on Broat
river, Rutherford county, South Carolina
got into dispute over trade of two oxen
The father threatened to kill his son a
12 o'clock, but failed to meet him. At
o'clock the son, armed with butche
knife, met his father and attacked him
He cut his throat in two places and stabbe'
him seven times, killing him instantly
The son was arrested and is now in Jail.
Mrs. Brown. aged so, wife Of William
IL. Brown, a wcll-kpown citizen, left he
home in Meadville, saying she would re
turn iE a few minutes. AS she did no
return promptly her family and friend
became alarmed and began searching fo
her She had been in delicate health fO
some time and it was feared she had com
Ipitted suicide. Search was continued a
night and next morning her body Wa
recovered in mill pond near her home
where she had fallen or thrown herself,