Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-28
IsUiDENr AND ACCIDENT.
Stabbed Herself Because of III Health

STABBED Herself because OF III hedith
Shortly before o'clock wednesday
afternoon DR.. Il. Il. Rogers was summoned
to the house of John Allen, a colored
hostler, at 80 Bellevue avenue Trenton,
j., to find shat Aliens twenty. .tivc-ycar Old
daughter had stabbed herself fatally with
a tabeknife. She was already dead and
lying in q pool Of blood in o room on the
sscond floor. She had been suffering with
lung trouble for some time past aud her
illness seemed likely to be permanent. she
had not been in low spirits, however, but
played with the children OF the household
after dinner Wednesday. She then went
up to her room and, as afterwards appeared
proceeded very coolly to accomplish her
fatal purpose. She uudid the baudage
about her throat and loosened her dress 50
as to reach q point OF the neck immed' ateIy
| over the left shoulder blade. She sat ID
| chair aud plunged the knife through the
| jugular vein aud into the luugs. No outcry
was raised and the one stab was sufficient.
She fell over on the floor and blood flowed
| in torrent. II was some time later that
one OF the children found the lifeess girl.
County Physician Lallor deemed an Inquest
| unnecessary.
| How Nellie HsEeltine Died.
| The death Of Nellie Hazstiue- Para
more, at one time the belle OF st. Louis, is
brought TO the surface again by the pub
lshed statement of Doctor Boislinlr, one
OF the best.known physicians of st, Louis.
lie says al have heard the story of her
death, which has never been published.
Doctor Maughs, who was called in about
| twenty minutes previous 20 Mrs. Para
more's death, stated subsequently that
| when he saw the lady she was thoroughly
narcotized and that if she had not died Of
other causes she would have died of mar.
cOtic poisoning. Doctor Nlughs' report
was TO the effect that when he saw her she
was breathing at the rate of ten respira
| tions per minute, which clearly indicated
narcotic poisoning. Had she been suffering
| from pucrperal fever her respiration would
| have been ut the rate OF forty TO fifty 4
minute. The husband, Mr.. Fred Para
more, said his wife had taken twenty one
| grains of morphine, which, OF course, was
| a fatal dose. | was not in attendance on
the case, but have been called in since To
| attend to the baby, which lam afraid VIII
not live.
Two Fatal Arrays 10 the south.
Walter Campbell and James Boatman
who had previously quarreled, met acci
deutally in road near Little Rock, Ark
Wednesday, Boatman Immediately fired
at Campbell, who returned the fire, shoot
ing Boatman dead.
Harry Smith, a coIorcd policemen, o
Vicksburg, Miss, arrested Harry johnson
a we'll known steamboat engineer, We'd
nesday afternoon for some trivial Oiiense
Johnson refused to go with the officer, anC
stabbed him in the groin. Smith then
shot Johnson twice. Both died in few
minutes.
| Called From His House and Killed.
Richard raighead, arch farmer, liVinG
near Fulton, Mo-, was murdered Tuesda!
night. He was called out of his house b.
lot Of strangers, who said they haC
driven team of horses into mud holt
aud wanted him to give them lift out
He dressed and went out doors, when thI
assassins fired at him and then. beat hin
over the head with clubs until his life wa
extinct Mr.. Craighead was Republican
aud at one time assessor of Fayett'
county. Some think he was murdered by
his political opponents.
Killed III mseif and His Wife
A report has been received from Ridg
way, Mimi, that j. o. Berch, on Wednes
day shot ard killed his wife, from whom
he was recently divorced, and then killed
himself. The trouble arose from the pos
session of their child which the cOur
delivered into the custody of the woman
Killed for IA Dino.
Five miles from Selma, Ala. Leonart
Jefferson, aged 90, in quarrel with Henr.
Smith, aged 13, struck him on the heat
with light wood knot, killing him. Tn
difficulty grew out of the possession of
dime with a hole in it.
Four Boys Blown to Atoms.
Four boys, 10 to II years old, Will
hunting south of Omaha, Neb,, Wednes
day afternoon, exploded powder hous
containing over six tons of powder. a
, | four were blown To atoms,