Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-15

dividual lie could tSiuk of no other con
ttngency. Do you know of any coudi
ttOn whero stream oi water highly
charged with electricity has descended
upon the bead ui \ pstsou passing In tho
strrots?' asked Mr EYatts. " No, sir,
was the quiet reply.
Hanged with - rieos OF rwiuo
Theodore Stake, an old m,n. living a.
44l Diamond street, Philadelphia, com.
mittCd suicide yesterday morning by hang
inS himself at his residence. His wife left
him IN bed while she went to prepare break
fast On returning about half past i've
o'c .uck she found the dead body OF her hus.
band suspended from a closet door. lie
had hanged himself with au ordinary pioco
Ot wrapping twtne, which had been at
tachCd To the inner doOr.knOb and passed
over the top Of the door. His feet touched
the floor aud he had strauglrd to death
llc was at ono time we'll to- do dealer in
curled hair, but failed few years ago,
since which time no has followed his trade
rs q tailor. For several days past IN had
been threatened with an attack Of typhoil
fever and the low sirits resulting from tho
fever are assigned rs the cause of his sui
eide lie leaves family Of grown up
child.ou, who follow his trade.
too Furd and the james Gang
Bob Ford, the slayer Of Jesse James,
who has heou living ia New York for a
month or more, said Thursday night 4:
The att mpt to kill Charley Ford, |
think, arose from the fact that Frank
| James freuds are afraid that he will turu
states evidence in he coming trial for the
| Blue CuJ train robbery Ou this Missouri
Pacific road. The trial of Charley begins
IN Kansas City on next Monday. FrInk
James is jointly Indicted with him, but
| Charley has elected % bs tried alone
James claims that he was DOT a party to
| the robbery Bob Ford said lurther
that Charley was nearly dead with con
sumption. II is a curious fact that four
of the Jesse James gang, Woodford, Mel
son, Aoe Miller, Clarence Hite and an
! other, died Of that disease.
Fasting toe ~cisnce ana RcI'slun.
| Joseph Il Dresser, the Elizabeth, y.
| j., faster, says ho is making the attempt
| IN the interest Of science and to prove his
| faith in God whom he had promised not
| to eat anything for forty days lie
claims to have tasted for twanty -ona days
at his hOme in Belgium lie says he goes
to church every morning. He smokes
three or four times day aud riuses his
mouth out with a little water He says he
will prOong his fast as longs As pns,ible,
but will not endauger his life.
Two Thousand FsmsI- strikes-
| Two thousand women aud girls om.
| ploycd in Higgins carpet factory, on West
! Forty third street, New York, struck
! Thursday IN consequences Of reduction o
! 10 per ceut in their wages. The operatives
subsequently met, organized union and
! listened 20 speeches by men and women
Another martyr to the Cause.
! indianapolis Journal
Professor Charles Gilbert, of the stat,
university, is iu receipt OF letter from
! Professor SpeRcer Bllrd, stating that Nj.
| Charles l.. Mckay, who enlisted in the
spring OF ISL for three years in the met.
eoroCIcal service. and was located among
| the islands ot the Aleutian archipelago
was recently lost through the ice Will,
| hunting.