Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-04
THE SOUTH CRANKY TKA8EDH.
Further Particulars OF the EeadIy Figh. ise-
tween Clifford aud HIS wife.

THE SOUTH CRANKY TRAGEDY.
| Further Particulars OF the EeadIy Figh. ise-
| tween Clifford aud His wife.
The Old man, Joshua Clifford, who beat
his wife's brains out with a stove poker or
New Years night, at South CRANKY, n.
| Y, in 4 hand to-hand combat with Mrs.
Clifford, begins to weaken somewhat as
new developments are brought out. The
post morten examination revealed eight
] cuts on Mrs. GiffOrd'S head. from
one half to five inches in length, several Of
| them extending to the bone and any of
them severe enough to cause death. A
terrible fracture OF the base of the skull
was also discovered. These developments
entirely explode Gifford's statement that
| he struck her only twice, OHce with q
stick Of wood and then with :: poker. The
combat was Il terrible one and the wounds
on the victims head and the cuts received
by Clifford from the butcher knives ban
died by Mrs. Clifford indicate brutal
conflict.
| The excitement has increased since the
] post. mortem examination and reports are
circulated duplicating other parties.
Thomas Clifford, a son of the Old gentle
man, was seen near the house directly
after the affray. All Monday night ard
up to last evening the dead body of Mrs.
Clifford lay on the floor where she fell.
Nothing was disturbed. The hair, clotted
with blood, lay in squalid masses about
her head Blood that COED from the
mouth and nose besmeared the face and
gave it a horrible appearance.
| Mrs. Peckham, Mrs. Gitford's daughter,
arrived at the house just before the body
Was removed from the floor. With 2 tragic
air she stepped over the dead body of her
mother and tried to gain ;idmittancc to the
room where Clifford was, in charge of the
| sheriff. ''Let me in He has killed her
and will kill him ~ she shrieked. The
door was barricaded on the other side and
her efforts were futile. Clifford is said to
have been Jealous about an intimacy be
tween his wife and hired man in his en-
ploy and had reproved her for the language
which she used in his prescrca. The i'll
quest before the corcner opens to morrow,
when new developments no doubt will be
made.
| Some Recent GalaInttiCs
The kcoku!s elevator, at Keokuk, Iowa,
was burned last night. Loss $4,000. It
is said the fire was tho work nf design.
| JAS Roberts was killed and }. A.
Iasscr fatally injured yesterday 10y 3
boiler explosion at Ada, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold were killed by a
train while crossing the railroad in a
sleigh al France, Ontario, yesterday morn
| ing.
| The passenger car construction shop OF
| the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in Balti-
more, was burned last night. Loss about
$35, 600.
The flfth and sixth stories OF tho six
story brick building. Nos, sos, sos ant!
$40 Filbert street, Philadelphia, occupied
| by Hood, Bonbright & Co., were yester
day burnt out.
Frederick Mann, who murdered four
members of the Cooke family at Little
Rideau, Canada, OF Tuesday, has been
captured He was bern in ENGLAND, and
is only II years of age,
Wiley DubOise, student at the Poly
tcchnic institute in Troy, New York, and
a grandson of General Toombs, OF Georgia,
is dying from injuries received while coast
ing few days ago.
Three cclored railroad la5orers put dy-
| Mantle Into stove to dry at Winchester,
Kentucky, yesterday morning. It ex
ploded, blowing two of them to pieces
and dangerously iniuring the other.
A fire in st. Joseph, Missouri, yesterday
morning, destroyed on unused elevator
anu InC Olu piSSciSti GCpOu VI tuc llSIlHi-
bal and St. Joseph railroad company, with
two box cars, several fat cars loaded with
lumber, and number Of small frame
houses. Tho elevator cost 500, 900 to
build.
Work on tho New Railroad.
Chief Engineer Brown, Of the Ponusyl.
vania railroad, is now receivin. bids for
construction Of Tie new Philadelphia, Nor
ristown & Phcenixville railroad from
Manyunk to Consohocken. The road
will be built in sections, and as fast as one
is commenced contracts will be given out
for contracts On the others. Contracts for
building the three sections of the road,
extending from Fifty second street, Phil
adelphia, to Hest0nville, to West Manay-
unk have been awarded to Thomas Ccsti- |
gan, p. McManus and Frank Armstrong.
The work is now under way and will be |
rapidly pushed forward.
News Notes.
Cerebro spinal meningitis is reported
among the horses in Oskaloosa, Iowa. No
remedy has been found for the disease.
w. r. Morley, chief engineer of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo railroad
system. was accidentally shot dead at
Santa Rosalia.
The small daughter Of Perry Coon, Of