Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-04
CRIME AND CALAMITY.
A Brutal Irize Fight Ends Fatally

"A THU HlSuL LhssS
A prize fight was fought last evening at
Dubois, Clearfield county, Pa, between
Michael Mclaughlin and Martin Linkcy,
neither of them over 1S years of age. The
brutal affair was terminated in the sixth
round by the ruifians clinching and falling
to the ground. brca king Linkey's neck, and
causing his death on the spot. McI.augb-
lin gave himself mp.
Two sections of freight train on the
New York e. Now England railroad, ran
yesterday morning, wreckipg an engine and
several cars and injuring fireman.
A flood in Bear Lake valley, Utah, has
washed out six bridges on the Oregon
short line railroad, interrupting travel.
A boiler explosion in a mill at Moss
Point, Mississippi, last night, killed
three men and severely injured five others.
A fire in the lumber yards at Eland,
Wisconsin, on Monday night, caused a
loss Of $50, 900.
Western Industries.
The Wyoming Stock Growers associa-
tion is holding it's tenth annual session in
Cheyenne. The executive committee s
report shows that during last year 220, 600
beef cattle were inspected, an increase of
OSsOUO OA CuO buO
year. About 1000 head of cattle were
killed by the Union Pacific railroad.
Herds of eeding cattle are selling % pes
cent. higher than last year, and $50, 600 OOO
| of Scotch and English capital was invested
in Wyoming and the Texas Pan Handle
during 1882.
One hundred and twenty heads OF
French Canadian families, from an indus
| trial centre in Massachusetts, have arrived
at Winnipeg in charge of the parish priest
Of the Tutt!e Mountain district, where
| they intend to settle. Their families will
Join them in the fall
A Lau Publicly whipped
John Bawles, aged sixt :en years, bo
longing to respectable family at Benson
Hollow, Wayne county, assaulted a little
| six-year old daughter of another family.
sentenced the culprit to be publicly
whipped. Johns father volunteered to
carry out the sentence. He tied his son to
post in the barn and lashed his bare
back with a beech switch until the neigh
| bors' committee declared tho punishment
sufficient.
Dropping Through a Bridge Draw.
Near Baltimore the engine, tender and
caboosc of freight train on the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington & Baltimore railway
dropped through tho draw of the Bush
river bridge this morning and were badly
wrecked. The red signal, Indicating that
the draw was open, was not seen by the
engineer Of the train until too late to stop
it Trains were delayed several hours.
The damage will be several thousand dol
lars.
! The Act of Mean Villain. =
The sheriff of Wyoming county, N. Y,
has offered reward of 800 for the arrest
of Charles Cox, who left Buffalo on Sun
day morning, with draft of $3GS.22 on
the National Park bank. of New York
city. payable to G. NJ. Smith and endorsed
to Charles Cox: The money belongs to
his widowed sister-in-law by whom he was
sent to draw it, and is part of her insur-
ance upol tho life OF her deceased hus.
band.
| "A Curious Suit for Damages
One of tie most peculiar cases ever tried
at Boston was commenced Tuesday morn
ing in the supreme conrt. 1t is suit to
recover $500 damages from Rev, John II.
Fleming and Archbishop Williams, both
of the Catholic church of that diocese,
brought by the parents of Lizzie Cannon.
The latter in 1879 was little child of
thirteen, and was attacked with a nervous
disorder which had peculiar effect upon
her mental condition. She became greatly
infatuated with some cuts of images taken
from paper, which she said were angels
sent by her brother, who was dead.
| Father Fleming was sent for, and he
finally took the images and kept them,
refusing to return them. The girl fell into
such paroxysms that the physicians
thought the images should be returned to
her to enable her to remain alive. Both
Father Fleming and Archbishop Williams
however, refused to return them, and this
| suit was, therefore, brought for damages.
Revolutionary Heroes.
A large monument in memory of those
| who died in the defense of their country's
honor at the battle of Monmouth, N. T.,
d1ring the Revolutionary war will be
erected On the old battle-ground sometime
in June next.