Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-20

galIows Farewell, all. | an going 10
| die. Farewell all gnoi bye. must die.
| hope this poor mau vii be released, -
/ ue Is innocent before q al. lie Is lauu-
| cent"
Her sister was on the >sadoli, and.
| turning to her, she told her ~ be warmed
| by her fate, " want to be buried ny the
! side Of my mother. ' SAID She, " but they
will not allow It. They % no. care what
| becomes OF my body. Good bye Good
/ bye, sister. good bye 80 All he. statements
were made IN clear, ringing yolse, though
at times she became InCouegeut aud ~
| peatsd sentences over and over again.
At seven minutes after - % clock JLC
! trap was sprung and she was dangling IN
! the ali. In eight minutes her pulse ceased
to beat, and in twenty minutes she was
| declared dead. The ia,l was slN feet, Her
necl, was broken and she died without -
| struggle. The body was turned over 90
her sister for iutermeut.
| = Crime Quickly Followed by q TrtlI and an
Execution.
At Monroe, Ca, Taylor bryant, col
| orcd WAS hanged Friday fr, iglOuipu5iy
| issaut,ng Mrs Elizabeth Y. Soards, a
respectable white widow, on the night Of
! August 30 Last. The gallows was erected
IN 3 field one mile from the court house.
| There were ten thousand spectators.
! Bryant crept i'll at Mrs. SOarLs window,
| although she made an effort to shoot him
with pistol, which, however, snapped.
! lie then ChOked her until she was helpless
| and left her for dead. Mrs. Suards rcCOg-
nized her aSsaiant aud when he was cap
tuGcd and brought before her she at once
Identified him Only with dllfaulty was
the crowd dssusdci from lynchlug him.
a al Inv bta
graUd jury on Saturday, September /, at
once placed On trial aDi the case was
given t. the jury that night. The jury
| came IN early on Monday morning with i
verdict Of guilty aud the judge sentenced
him - be hanged Friday.
- Free FIgut T., "A Church
During an oyster supper in a Methodist
church ac BayvlIlc, Loug Island, last
night John Smith and a gang Of rOughs
entered the place and smith struck Capt.
Sackett, his brother iu-law. 4 tight en-
| sued, during which SlckCtt knocked
Smith scnscleas with sawbuck. The
pastor Mr., Tan, was knocked down.
Ladies tainted. Nearly all the furniture
OF the church was broken. There were
J three hundred people in the building, and
! many we're injured IN attempting 10 escape
| by the single exit.
| The Value OF MIS- MilIeT'- kIs-es
A. Easton in tho case of Mary Aun
| Miller against Stephen Beck, au action to
recover damages for breach Of promise OF
marriage, the jury Friday afternoon
| found verdict for the plaintiff in the
sum Of sl,lOS.33 The case was a novel
one. The parties were first cousins, aud
both have reached aud partly passed the
| prime OF life. The plaintiff was house
| E.,ss 4 Il
had addressed her in the usual country
style OF courting, When asked il ho had
ever kissed her she said, " v ,rp than a
huudred thousand times" The verdict
she gained is AZ the rate of a ceut for u
kiss, with little interest thrown is.
Another Gable Project.
The postal telegraph and cable c,m.
pauy WAS incorporated Friday at New
York. The lines are TO extend throughout
the United States, Canada and Mexico
aud from GrCenpOrt, Long Island, 10 Lon
don, Liverpool and Paris. The capital
stock Is Sl,jOO, divided into fifteen shares
ot SlOO each, with the privilege Of increas
| ing It. lac COgpJratOrs are Henry c.
Gardner, Luther K. Marsh, I. II. Dupuy,
Andrew X. Kent and Dumout Clark.
A neadD Combat on the Road.
startling tragedy occurred three miles
east Of Fort Gaines, Ca, Thursday even
ing. About sundown B. 4. Jester was
going to his home on horseback, when hg
was met on the road by b. f.. Hudspeth.
There has been feud between them
Hudspeth struck Jester with fence
rail. The latter stabbed his assail
ant near the heart. Iudspoth then drew
! a pistol and fired two shots, one Of which
struck Jester in the forehead, the bal
ranging under the skin to the back Of the
head. Jester again closed with his enemy
and stabbed him in the right breast when
llulspcth fell and almost Immediately ex-
pred. Jester has not been arrested.
CivIl Service.
At the request of the president. the
members of the civil seryiCe commission
called at the White House yesterday aud
had long interview with him. Tho oh
iect of the conference is not known, and
the commissioners are TetlCent as to whaI
transpired.
The secretary of state has written a let,
ter TO the secretary of the United States
civil service commission suggesting that
a special examination be given to all an.
pllcant' who may wish to enter tho depart
ment.
There was great crowd at the rooms OF
the civil service commission in Washing
ton yesterday, the applicants more THAI
filling the space allotted to them. The va
cancles III the interior department have
been filled by transfers from the census
offices, where the force is being greatly
reduced.
MIR Sessions 10 be VIndicatod
Ex Senator LOrin b. Sessions gave a
dinner at the Delavan house, at Albany,
to many OF his friends in that city, aud
loft Mt o'clock Friday afternoon for his
home in Chautauqua county. 1t is ru
mored that his friends propose to make
his Vindication complete by giving him
tho nomination for senator. As his dis.
trics is strongly Republican, nomination
Is equivalent to an election. There is also
some talk of indioting ex-Assemblymau
Bradley for perjury, in falsely charging
tho bribery against Mr. Sessions.
The Governments Pensioners
At Washington, the report of the com
missioner OF pensions for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1888, shows that there were
3O3, COS pensioners on the roll at tho end of