Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-10
NEWS OF THE DAY
THE CRIME AND CALAMITY RECORD.

A North Carolina Tragedy-sorious Losses
BY F1re-Almsnouse Horrors, and
Other Paragraphs.
A murder has been committed near
Pamlico, N. c., tho victim being Henry
Garter, and his wife is supposed party
to the crime. At the time of the murder
Carter was returning from work. His as
saflant, Benjam Gillian, was secreted in
the woods lying in wait for him. Carter's
cries when Gillian attacked him were
heard by persons in the vicinity. On in
vestigation it was found that tho man had
not only been killed but actually buried.
Gillian and Carter's wife, Nancy, have
been committed for trial at the next term
Of the superior court. The parties are all
colored and the murder grew out of an
intimacy between the accused.
An explosion of dynamite occurred at
Knickerbocker colliery, with probably
fatal results to William Davis, black
smith. A tunnel is being driven inside at
this colliery and Davis was stationed at
the mouth of the tunnel to sharpen the
miners tools. One Of the men placed a
number of dynamite cartridges near the
blacksmith's fire to get soft before using.
The dynamite exploded and Davis was
terribly burned about the face and hands.
Wall street, New York, was greatly ex.
cited yesterday afternoon by a report that
| a well-known operator in stocks had de-
faulted to large amount. The report
| was that he had embezzled 500, 900 of the
trust funds of his family besides large
amount of property in his charge. Pending
the investigation in progress no definite
information could be obtained.
A pier of the Third street bridge across
tho Mississippi river at St. Paul was
undermined yesterday by a rapid flood
from the Minnesota river. 1t was expected
that the bridge at Fort Smelling would be
flooded in few hours, and connection cut
| off between st. Paul proper and West st.
Paul.
James Gascoyne, 4 moulder in Erie of
the Jarecki manufacturing company, has
been fearfully burnt by vitriol. 1t was
flung over him by person whom he sus
poets to be a union man and whose object,
he believes, was to blind him in revenge
for obtaining Situation for a non union
friend.
The hotels at Confluence on the Balti-
more & Ohio road, were burned by an in.
cendiary fire. Loss. $40, 900 partly cover
| ed by insurance. The residence of min
lister was also burned.
The barn of II. B. Monaghan, at Gary,
Dakota, was burned yesterday morning,
and Monaghan's wife, in trying to save the
| stock, was burned to death.
The great trial of Nihilists was begun
in St. Petersburg Monday. Three of the
accused will act as their own counsel,
while the others have retained ten lawyers
to defend them.
| Brooks johnson, the colOred man who
was arrested in'Hartford, Conn.,, on sus.
picion of being the murderer of the Misses
Judson, in East Hartford, last month, was
discharged yesterday.
| a tornado swept the country south and
east OF Holly Springs, Mississippi, on Sun
day night, levelling trees, fences, bridges
and farm houses.
A fire which promises to assume ex-
tensivc proportions has broken out at
BONNIE, near Geneva, Switzerland.
Twenty houses have already been de-
stroyed.
Tho Logan house, in Murphysborough,
ILL.,, was burned Sunday night, and r. w.
Swope, traveller for St. Louis firm, per-
ishedl in the flames.
| Eighty-six deaths from smallpox were
reported in New Orleans last week. The
smallpox is reported to be increasing in
| Nashville.