Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-26
BLACK FRIDAYS HORRORS
TWO BOYS HANGED FOR MUIR
DER IN INDIANA.

Another Horrible Attack on an Aged
Couple on Long IsIand-A jury Sc
cured to Try the Jenkins Brothers
A Dying Wife Fatally Stabs the Hus-
band who Caused Her Death.
Mt. VERNON, IND, Jan. 25.-Two young
men named Anderson and Snyder were
hanged at noon to-day. Snyder was q
years of age, and shiftless, idle fellow.
Anderson was Il years old, a bootblack,
and inclined to be industrious, but his
associates were bad. They murdered. in
an exceptionally brutal manner, for the
purposes of robbery, a boy of II years
named James Van Weyer in August last.
snyder's neck was broken, but Anderson
was strangled. Anderson was composed
and made a brief prayer, while SNYDER
was emotional and prayed aloud con-
stantly.
LONG ISLANDS AVALANCHE OF CRIME.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Another attempt
at murder occurred on Long Island to-
day, not far from the locality of the May
bee murders and the attempt to murder
Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend. AS in both of
the above named cases the victims were
old people. A well-tO-dO farmer named
Sprague, living near Hicksville. went to
his barn early this morning to feed his
stock and milk his COWS. At the moment
OF reaching the barn a mulattO man, who
had been lying in wait, struck him
on the head with fish-bar
used for connecting the Railroad
track. Sprague was struck several
times ana probably fatally hurt. The
mulatto then went to the house, and with
the same weapon knocked Mrs. Sprague
down and demanded money. Mrs. Sprague
told him where to get it, and as the mu-
latt0 turned to get it she ran, screaming,
outdoors. Her screams brought assist
ance, and the murderer fled. The news
spread like wildtire, and the farmers, hav-
ing IN mind the other recent murderers,
turned out Ell masse and soon captured
the murderous robber. The latter was
quickly hurried to Jail to save him from
lynching. The wounded couple are each
over 90 years of age.
AN AUSTRIAN DETECTIVE AssAssINATED.
VIENNA, Jan. 25.-A detective named
Bloch, while going to his home in Florids-
dorf yesterday, was shot dead. The assas-
SIN, VINO is apparently wOrkingman
endeavored to make his escape, but was
seized by citizens passing by and taken
TO the police station, where he was found
to be in possession of a dynamite bomb, a
revolver, and a poisoned dagger. Tie
murderer fired two shots at a citizen who
assisted in capturing him, wounding him
seriously. The assassin vainly endeav-
ored to explode the dynamite cartridge in
order to Kill himself and his captors. The
murdered detective had recently arrested
one OF the suspected assassins of Police
Commissary Klubeck.
The assassin's clothes and hands indi-
cate that he belongs to a superior class.
Count Won Taafe, President of the Coun-
Gil and Minister of the Interior, will intro
duce In the Reichrath tomorrow a bill
directed against Socialists proclaiming
kind OF martial law in Vienna This
measure was prepared some time ago, and
recent crimes have rendered its presenta-
ton advisable. The assassin says that
he was commissioned by a society to mur-
der Bloch
A BIGAMIST's LAST CHANCE.
PETERSBURG, VA, Jan. 25.-The Judge
OF the County Court Of NottOway, before
whom ). l.. Harley, a former merchant of
New Ork, was convicted of bigamY and
sentenced to the penitentiary for six years
for having married Misses Lydia J. Ever
EFT, OF Baltimore, and Maggie Howard, of
New Jersey, both of whom are living. has
granted Harley's counsel ten days in
which to apply to the County Circuit
Court for writ of supersedeas for a new
trial.
SAILOR LADS CONFESS INCENDIARIsM.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-Seven lads belong
ing to the reformatOry ship Clarence,
which was damaged by fire in the river
Mersey on the 18th instant, have been
arrested at Liverpool upon a charge of
setting fire to the vessel. One of the lads
has confessed that there were twelve Of
their number who were concerned in the
plot to burn the ship for the purpose of
eHectlng their escape.
KILLED BY THE WIFE HE MURDERED.
ELGIN, ILL, Jan. 25.-William Combs,
farmer 40 years old, living five miles
south of this place, cut his wife's throat
to-day. In her dying agonies she
wrenched the weapon from him and
stabbed him fatally.
THE BORDEN MURDER JURY SECURED.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. pa Mansfield
special says that the jury in the trial of
the Jenkins brothers, charged with the
murder of the Rev. j. Lane Borden, was
completed yesterday, and the examination
OF witnesses will begin to-day.
THE BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED.
DENVER, Jan. 25.-Frank Dewalt, the
defaulting President Of the detunct First
National Bank of Leadyille, was arrested
to-day at El PasO, Texas. LeadviIle Off
GERS are en- route with eXtradition papers.