Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-21
OSE DAYS WORK ~ CRIME.
The Dark Tragedies OF Life Ia all Far,S
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| hole in his head. There is no clew to the |
| murderer. Two brothers, named Peuuing-
| ton, quarrellad in Clayton county, Iowa, n
| few days ago, and one Of them stabbed the
other TO the hear. During o difficulty
| near Taylorsyille, Georgia, yesterday
William Simpson killed John A. owen by
striking him on the head with d billet of
wood, The body Of George Watson,
stabbed to the heart, was found near
Claresvillc, Virginia, last Sunday.
\ man with whom deceased had
| Quarrelled is suspected Of the murder.
Charles Arnold, an old resident of the |
| District oi Columbia, was yesterday
knocked into an open cellar way by Harold
Watson, with whom he had some words
| upon the street. The old mans skull was
| fractured by the fall. and he died in about
| ten minutes. Watson gave himself up
| He had deserted his wife and IL is sup
| posed his father.in.law upbgaided him Tor
his conduct.-A special dispatch from New
| Providence, Tenn, says that J. J. Garrotts
| q prominent tobacco dealer, was danger.
ously shot ia the lung on Monday night by
| burglars. Mr.. Garrett killed ono OF the
burgars.-The Dew Drop Inn," in
| Danyille, Ind, was blown almost to pieces
! by dynamite cartridges placed under 1t on
Monday morning BY some unknown mis-
town. but 1t is not stated tina. any per-
son was injured" Billy" Porter, on trial
in New York for tho murder Of John
Welsh in "Shaug" Diapers saloon was
acquitted by the jury last evening.
= Scrics OF Disasters.
Isaac Jones and Philip Griffith started
down the shaft Of tho Clsardeld coal mine
at Coal Creek, Colorado, yesterday, to
make an examination. When down 300
feet their lamp ignited the gas in the mine
causing \ terrific explosion. Griffith was
stunned, but escaped. Later, Jones was
found at the bottom OF the shaft dead.
While miners were entering the Peanut
coal mine at StreatOr, H., yesterday
morning, an explosion Of gas occurred,
killing one man and injuring five others.
: Annie Mulligan, ten years OF age, daugh-
ter of the engineer ~ Wadiles' mine,
Mill Hollow, near WllkcsbarEr. loft her
! home yesterday morning tor Kingston
, with money 20 pay store bill and rent
for her parents. Sho has not been heard
Of since and it is feared she has been
robbed and murdered.
The machine carpenter, blacksmith and
paint shops ofthc Kansas SOuthgIn rail.
way at Ottawa, Kansas were burned yes
terday morning, with two engines and two
ears. Loss, 5000
The wood working machine shop OF the
Central prison at Toronto was burned last
night. Loss, $4,000.
\ Variety OF T-auds,
Joseph E. Parsons has oecn dismissed
from the letter carrying ioras at Spring.
, field, Mass, for THO Sias into a waste
basket at tho postoiIice pamphlets ad.
r dressed TO persons or ail route. He was
also arrested yesterday .or violation Of the
postal laws.-L. +. Mumtoed, dealer in
} ougSies and agricultural implements at
Kalamazoo, Mich, who failed n few weeks
ago, has been arrested at the instance OF
d. NJ. Osborne s. Co., Of Auburn, New
York, on the charge of embezzing 81, 400.
William G. Phelan, brought from Mont.
real to answer charge of passing counter.
! felt money, was sentenced in Boston yes
! terday to five years imprisonment. During
? the war he was bounty jumper in the
/ West. Subsequently he figured in Phila.
delphia as forger and in Washington as
T black mailer. He served q term in thu
, Eastern penitentiary.
2 ii. II. Shapely, Frederick Erby, James
=. II. Cook and b. Frank Moore, who repre-
( sented Little Havana, and Henry College,
5 Kentucky and Louisiana state lotteries as
agents, were tried in the United States
/, district court in Chicago yesterday, under
} the clause forbidding the sending OF crcu
lars or lottery tickets through the mails,
D and were all found guilty. Sentence has
! not yet been pronounced. 1t is said these
: are the first cases Of the kind ever tried in
= this country.
"a old Time and New.
Il The first legal complication ia Boston
n arising from the change of the time stand
g ard occurred yesterday. 1t appears that
o on the 18th instant a notice for the exami
o nation of poor debtor was issued from
It the Office OF the commissioner of nsol
}. yenoy. IL was returnable on the 20tt
Q instant at o'clock in the forenoon. Ac
70 cOrding 70 custom, the poor debtor IL
J. allowed ono hours grace. He appearet
Q. before the commissioner at 0;4s O'clocl
If standard time, but the commissioner ruleC
2 that it was after 10 O'Clock and defaulteC
d him. The case will probably be appealed
W The city council of Chicago on Tuesda,
night adopted the new standard Of time
1t was also adopted by Council Bluffs
Iowa,
The battle ut TOka.
The latest official accounts of tho fight
ing at Toka assert that tho Egyptian
n. lost eleven officers and lI3 men, besides
n six Turks aud several Greeks They also
o lost one gun and 800 rifles. About $40 O
9. them Iegained their ship. The Eyyptians
10 during tho fight, formed hollow SQUARE
lt when o small number Of the onemy LOCKED
IN their shields together aud rushed through
IS, the Egyptian line. An immediate pani
lis among the Egyptians resulted.
10 Financial Affairs.
1t Comptroller Knox said yesterday tha
|. Of tho three per cent. bonds embraced il
m the 122d, 1881 and l24th calls, 5lS, 200, ,0O
~ were held by national banks, aud that O
Mt the $40 600, 600 embraced in the last ca
ok moro than half the amount ia held by tn
as government TO secure the circulation OF th
TO national banks
10 striking rnntors Successful
AZ The New York EDeRiag Post, which ap
y peared on Monday as q half sheet in con
'S sequence of the OF it's compositors, wa
igsucd Yesterday In full PiZe The nrnnrie