Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-23

to think of little except the failure of his
play, on which ho bad spent $4,000 of
his own money, and good deal moro
derived from unknown sources he claim.
cd that the play had cost him Sl50, 900.
Mr.. Morse was about 90 years old no
was born in Germany, of Jewish parents.
When quito young he went to Australia
whore ho kept hotel ut Milbourne. 1t
was while there that he took up biblical
study. He went TO Europe and entered
monastery, where he stayed for five years.
Then ho visited the Holy Land and finished
gathering data for what ho considered his
life work, namely, the incubation in the
masses of religious teaching by science
display. After the failure of the Passion
Play he said he would return to monastery
life but, he fingered In Now York, still
in evident hope Of overcoming official pro-
judices to the Passion Play.
Ending HIS Life with u Razor.
The village of Niagara Falls, N. V, was
startled on Friday morning by the au-
nouncement that very sensational suicide
had occurred ut the Temperance hotel.
The report was soon confirmed. The
victim of the fatal act was tine appear.
ing, middle aged gentleman, aged about
90 years, who has for several days
past been stopping ut tho hotel under the
namo of Henry Houton, Of Lewiston, Me.
He had apparently come to the village as
sight.seer, and had been wandering
around the cataract. The deed was com
mitted in his room with razor, a terrible
cash being made, which severed the
lugular vein. The deceased was well
dressed and left large sum of money in
his clothing, but nothing was found
throwing any light upon the cause of tho
act,
The Bnrning OF n Railroad Bridge.
Friday afternoon the high Jordan bridge
on the Catasauqua and Fogelsville rail.
road, near Allentown, caught fire from
red hot Goals which dropped from the
fire box of the engine Catasauqua. The
bridge is all iron, with the exception of
the ties, and about thirty feet of the latter
were burned. The high wind ut the time
spreae the fire rapidly. After some Diff
Guilty the flames were extinguished. Pas
sengcr train No. ., due at Catasauqua at
p. M, which was on the other side of the
bridge, was delayed twelve hours. A
large force of workmen replaced the
burned ties The bridge is fifteen hun.
drcp feet long and one hundred feet above
the water, and is situated about four miles
south of Catasauqua, crossing the Jordan
creek and long meadow. II takes the
Catasauqua aud Fogelsville trains three
minutes to cross it.
Three fatsl Quarrels.
DR.. Roe, prominent citizen of Birmiug
ham, Alabama, on Friday quarrelod with
Samuel Harrison, a lawyer, and cut Har
rlson's throat, killing him instantly. Roe
escaped
John Fields and John Long, colored
roustabouts, quarreled iu the lattcr's house
in st. Louis Friday morning., and Long
stabbed Fields to death. 1t is said Fields
was too intimate with Longs wife.
William Watts q watchman on steamer
had difficulty" with a deck hand, at
Chattanooga, on Thursday night and both
fell overheard and were drowned.
Killed by a Runaway Team.
The horses attached to a coach in a
funeral procession in Newark, New Jersey
ran away Friday afternoon, and an uu-
known man was killed 10 attempting tC
stop il.
= Terrible Dynamite Explosion.
One hundred pounds of dynamite ex
ploded seven miles from Omaha, killing
Thomas Burns, plowing great gaps in the
earth, and causing a shock which was felt
throughout Omaha.