Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
NEWS MISCELLANY.

P@raIraphic Points on Recent Occurrences.
Judge QuaileS of the criminal court at
Nashville, TEMP, has fixed ex.Treasurer
Polk's appearance bond at 500, 900.
Captain J.. g. Offers, aged &c years,
while temporarily insane, committed sui
eide at Baltimore by shooting himself.
Jem Mack aud Slade arrived at Omaha
Monday evening, having been delayed on
the trip from California. They start for
Chicago.
The dwelling of Senator Frye. of Lewis
ton, Me-. occupied by w. Ii. White ard
family. was damaged by fire to the amount
of s5 600.
In a quarrel at Fillmore, Bossier parish,
La, J. A. Williams, a well known Texas
cattle dealer, shot a: d killed IoEn Justice,
| an old stage driver.
Edward Nichols, IS years Old, IA fireman
on a south bound train on the Delaware
and Hudson River railroad, WAS killed by
the engine jumping tie track mile south
of G!eI's Falls. N. y.
| An action brought at Montreal by
Battle Carroll. az American girl, for $40,
600 damages Tor breach of promise against
Charles Phillips, OF that city, WAS dis
missed by Justice L0ranger.
| F. p. Anderson, c"lored, u distributing
clerk in the New Orleans poatottice, was
arrested for stealing letters, Il number of
which we've found i'll his possession. He
was held for court.
The trial of Grant White. oolored, for
murder, is progressing in the county
court at Orange, Va, before Il jury com
posed entirely OF coiored man-the first
jury of the kind ever impanellcd i'll that
| county.
McRae & Co.'S store at Mount Holly,
Union county, Arkansas, was blown
open and robbed of a considerable amount
in money and 81, 600 in government bonds.
The robbers also stole two horses.
| Detectives at New York arrested Thos
Shortell, BENZ B. Bergley and John I.
Sullivan, clerk in the Paisley house, the
three men who stole sealikin dolman,
valued at $1,000 on December 81, from
MRS. ShortelI, of Philadelphia.
Boies, Fay & Conkey, wholesale grocers
at Chicago, are in the hantis of the sheriff
on judgments entered against them for
800, 800. Their assets are stated to be
$500, 900. Their liabilities are unknown,
but it is reported that they greatly exceed
| the assets.
The supreme court of appeals Of Vir-
ginia, at Richmond, granted a hearing IL
| tIlC cttSC Ot JonltSOu
VS.. Judge E. NJ Mann, of the Hustins
court of Petersburg, and E. W. Couch
(Readjuster), in matter Of the City treas
urership of Petersburg.
Michael Hickett, the Park policeman,
who was sentenced at New York TO state
prison for life, in 1881, for the murder oi
his wife has jast been taken to that irsti-
tuition. lie has been in the Tombs since
the sentence, pending decision on stay OF
Proceedings. The decision was adverse
Augustus T. Day, cashier of the Far
mcrs' national bank of Pennsburg, Mont
gomerg county, is short i'll his accounts
81, 800 drawn on his own unendorsec
notes and notes Of his brother in law.
Sally Story, queer little old woman
of Little Falls, N. j., is on trial for kill
ing MRS. Elizabeth Feest. by giving hel
stry chnine instead of quinine. The de
tense will probably be that the prisoner ii
her hurry to help her sick neighbor go
hold of the wrong package, though tn.
case promises to assume more than urdi
nary interest by reason of tho fact tl,a,
there are several charges of poisoning nov
pending against Mrs. Story, who in th'
opinion of her neishbors seems to have
been regular Borgia.