Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
suicide of = Lovs-sick Farmer Near wilkes
bArre-TAikipg over 1900 miles ny
1eiephone--An Editors Arrest

suicide of Lovo-Stck Farmer Near Wilkes
bArrs-Tsikine over 1900 miles ny
1eiephone--An editors Arrest.
Joseph Dymond, aged 2S, q farmer, liv-
ing about eight miles from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, committed suicide Sunday evening,
by shooting himself through the heart
with double barreled breech leading
gun. His brother lives on the same farm
with his wife and her sister, Rose Caven.
augh, u girl about Is. Dymond was pas
sionatoly in love with this girl, but his
suit was not encouraged by the other
members of the family. On Sunday,
yielding to the wishes Of her friends, Rose
definitely refused to accept his advances.
Dymond seemed to take it greatly to
heart. He retired carly, but about IL
O'Clock arose, got his gun, and, after load
ing both brrrols, went into the kitchen,
and, placing the muzzle to his left breast,
pulled the trigger with his toe. The eS
plosion awakened the family, and his
brother rushed into the room to find the
unfortunate man lying in pool Of blood.
| He had Just strength enough to raise him
self in sitting posture, and with the
words " Rose. Rose" he fell over dead.
Talking over 1900 miles by Telephone.
The feat Of talking over / 200 miles OF
wire connecting two telephones, with no
perceptible loss of power by induction,
has been performed in Cincinnati. A
telephone was placed in the operating
room OF the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph
company and another in the cellar. The
Instruments were first connected with
with wires to and from Chillicothe,
nearly 200 miles, when the conversation
was heard very distinctly, though carried
on in tone indistinguishable few feet
from the instrument. A similar line was
then formed TO Grafton, W. Va, 60O
miles, with the same result, and then to
Baltimore, /, 200 miles, with no precepti
BILE difference in the distinctness with
which the conversation was heard. There
was absolutely no apparent loss by iuduc-
| tion. Though fourteen telegraph wires
alongside were in full operation, no sound
Of an instrument could be heard. The
instrument used was the new Hopkins
transmitter, in which the carbons are in
constant vibration during conversation
the current being thus alternately opened
aud closed perfectly as by an ordinary
Morse key in telegraphy.
women walkers.
The great contest in the six day female
international walk for the championship
of the world and the gate receipts began a.
1880 o'clock Monday morning at Herman,
Monumental Summer Garden, Baltimore
! in the presence of at least ), 900 spectators
Miss Amy Howard, the Police Gd,stt,
| entry, led in the first hour. keeping the
lead easily over her competitors. Miss
Anderson and Miss Douglass are heavily
backed for second and third place, much
to the discomfort Of Nine. Tobias. The
score at . 80 was as follows Kilbury so,
Morton 43, Anderson SO, Msble As, Wood:
As Douglass SO, Howard 50, Thompson
go, Massioott ~, Tobias 80.
An Editors Arress.
W. J. Maloney, editor Of the Richford
Vermont, Gazette, was arrested Monday
| by the sheriff, and his office was closed or
a suit for slandering Judge Royce, OF st
Adams. Maloney's bail was fixed a
sl0,0 ,000 1t is said that more suits are L
follow from other injured parties. Ma
louey in his paper has been very abusive
attacking Governor Smith, Judge Royce
and many other prominent and Influential
men in the state"