Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-14
NEWS NOTES.
a UourLs OF IDaorn WITH GUNS.

4 Playful Young Man Who md Not Know
1t Was Loaded.-various OsAer
Recent HapPenings.
Catharine Adams, young lady 1S years
of ago, living at Caseyville, St. Clair
county, ILL.,, some ten miles from East St.
Louis, was shot and killed last Saturday
evening by John Jacobs, an intimate
friend. Jacobs was sitting at his front
door looking out, and seeing young lady
friend coming up the street he thought it
would be nice thing to play a practical
Joke on her and frighten her little.
He hurried into an adjoining room,
picked up an old shot gun, which
he supposed was empty, and putting on
a cap he hurried back to the door.
He thought he would snap the cap at her,
and that the sound of it, whether she saw
the gun or not, would make her jump.
He waited where he could not be eeen till
she was in front of the door, only q few
feet from him, and then pulled the trigger.
There was loud bang and little cloud
of smoke, and Catharine Adams fell dead
at his feet. She did not speak word,
and perhaps never knew that she had been
or was going to be shot. Jacobs was, of
course, Mortified and went about after
ward crying like an idiot, that he was.
The villagers quickly gathered, and there
was great indignation and threats of
lynching, but train soon came along and
the constable hustled Jacobs aboard, and
now the prisoner is at Belleville, in the
county jail. The young lacy was eighteen
years old, very pretty, and was popular in
the little town, which numbers only two
or three hundred inhabitantS.
Telling ON His C0nfederutes.
The case of Enos j. Crowther, charged
with completely in the robbery of $780,
600 worth of city bonds from the treasur.
er's Office in St. Joseph, Missouri, a year
ago, is now on trial in that city. Tuesday
John 8. Cox, one of the defendents, turned
states evidence. He testified that he,
with Crowther, Irwin and Scott, planned
the robbery, and that ION the night OF
18th of March, while the st. Patrick's day
ball was going on in the City hall, Crow.
ther and Scott entered the Office of the
city register and a5stracted the bonds
from the vaults. Subsequently Scott and
Irwin went to New York and negotiated
them"
"A PrecociOus Boy.
Mrs. Kline, of Westbury, Long Island,
went out yesterday morning leaving hel
n.year. old son to take care of his sisters
aged six and eight years. During her alb
sence the boy got his fathers gun, placed
his eldest sister on bench, said they
''would have some fun," and fired at her,
causing fatal wound. When he saw
what he had done he washed the wound
and told her to say sho had cut herself with
glass. He then got doctor, who discov.
cred the serious nature of the wound. II
is alleged that the boy did not know it was
oaded."
Miscellaneous Matters by Mali.
The American baseball association, in
session at St. Louis, Tuesday, elected az
regular umpires Charles H. Daniels,
Hartford w. H. Becannon, New York
Benjamin Sommers. Cincinnati. Substi
tutes, John T. Wagner, St. Louis, and
John E. Bass, Brooklyn.
Walter Webb, master mechanic of the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg rail
road, was killed by train at Watertown
yesterday.