Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-02
ALL OVER THE STATE,
LATE uorMuSwr,.ru usrrEN,Sas.
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David Lambcrt, proprietor of the EaglJ
hotel, at Freemausburg, committed sui
eide Monday morning by hanging himself
in his barn. This was the third attcmpt
he had made iu the past few months to
end his life. Shortly before niuo o'clock
he was aroused from his siumbers by his
wife, who brought his breakfast. After
eating it ho came down stairs and went to
tho pump aud washed his hands. Shortly
afterwards he went to tho barn aud taking
piece of twino fastened It around
board thrown across the rafters aud slipp-
ing the moose around his neck kicked
peck measure upon which he was standing
from under his feet. He was found by his
grandson, Charles Adams, who cut him
down, but too late. lie was about seventy
years old aud was we'll known throughout
the county. He was a man of steady habits
and since the recent death of son had
shown signs of mental weakness.
a Hszleton Tragedy.
Thomas Znrowski keeps n Hungarian
boarding house at SlabtoTn, three miles
distance from lIazletou. One of his
| boardeTs is his father. Peter ZOrowski, a
man aged three score aud ten years. Mon
day morning Peter arose later than the
| in law to prepare his breakfast. The re
| past did not suit him aud he demanded
something else. This was refused him
| aud he siez5d q kuife from the table and
| plunged it into her abdomen, making
wound three inches deep and seven inches
| long. Seeing her fall and realizing what
| he had done he stabbed himself and then
ran ont the back door to the garden, where
| he fell from weakness, Several hours
later two of the Hungarians who boarded
at the house returned and found both in
pools of blood. DIR. Lazarus was at once
summoned. He says Mrs. Zprowski eau
not live and does not think the old man
will recover.
| A heartIess Esther and Stepmotner.
Some time ago 10-year- son Of
| Michael Huff, Of Easton, came home ia
the morning sick with fever. Mrs. Hun,
his stepmother, refused to allow him ad-
mittauce to the house, So he laid dowE on
the porch aud remained there uunoJi0ed
and uucared for by any of the family, not
even the father, who coolly said, "let him
lie there" About II O'Clock the gr0aus
of the boy attracted the attention o!
neighbogs who Informed the Society fer
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Then his parents took the boy in hot
kitchen gave him q little water and left
him alone all night. Next day when the
agent of the society called Mrs. HUFF said
she did not marry Huff to bring up his
children, and HUFF himself offered violence
to the agent. Monday the man and wife
were Brought before a Justice OF the peace
| The decision was reserved.
Three Msn Badly Irjursi.
George Stevens, driver for tho Hunt
Brothers screen works, of Wilkesbarre,
took load of screens on Monday to the
Hanover Coal compauy's collieries, not
far from Sugar Notch. When coming
oack, Charles Bray, of Wilkesbarre, to,s
| mason, and four men boarded the wagon
to ride to Sugar Notch. Coming
down steep lill the brake would not act
The horses became frightened aud ran
away, aud the whole party were thrown
out aud more or less injured. Stevens sus
tanned = broken arm and internal injuries,
Charles Bray had one of his feet crushed
aud was also much bruised and cut, and
Frank McCabe was thrown under the
wagon and seriously hurt. lie is the oOly
one whose recovery is doubtful.
Political Points.
The Republican senatorial coufereuc,
of Blair and Cambria counties, met il
Altoona and reuomiuated II. a. Boggs
At the Democratic primaries il Pix
county, Penn'a, on Sltu rday, Milton d
Mott, editor of the Milford Dispatch
received the nomination for assemblymau
Colonel 4. + Lewis Was endorsed for Con
gress.
The Monroe county Democrats conveu
tion held i'll StroGdsburg, Monday, nomi
mated John 3. Storm for Congress auC
DR.. William Edwin Gregory for tht
Legislature.
Ex-Judge Harding, who was nominate,
for the assembly by the Democrats of The
First Legislative district WIkcsbarre, oa'
week ago, has written Q letter in which ht
decliues to accept the nomination. Hit
personal affairs demand his whole atten
ton.
Emanuel Truth was defeated for the
Legislature in his contest for d reuUmi
nation iu the Sixteeath district by John j,
McCaffrey, young Philadelphia lawyer.
John L. Faunce was reuomiGa'ed in the
| Seventeenth district.