Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-14
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!. Lindermuth ON Saturday night enter
ed John Omble's house in Mt.CaTmol, Pa
aud soon after quarrel took place, daring |
which both men were seriously stabbed. |
Omble was stabbed four times, and his |
injuries are fatal. Liudcrmuth is in |
prison.
Two pistol shots. followed by a wuman's !
scream, were heard on Eighth street Pitts
burg, before house Of questionable re |
pute. The next moment u woman rushed
up the street. At the corner of Penn
avenue she FELL aud was found 10y u special
| officer, who had heard the shots. He dis
| covered that she was Mrs. John Duffy, the
prOprietTess of the house before which the
shooting occurred. She could not talk, but
inmates of her house said the shots had
| been fired by her husband from whom shs
separated 4 year ago. The woman is still
alive, but the wounds are likely 10 prove
fatal. Duffy and a man named Kelly, who
was with him, have been arrested
Edward GilleathCr, 20 years old, who is
employed as night waJChman in whole
sale liquor store at No l2l Liberty street,
! New York, was found dead on Sunday
morning in the sample room of the store.
| lie was sitting naked in chair. GA \
! lounge near by lay an unconscious woman,
uized rs Mary Roe, 4Oycars old, a dissolute
character, well known 10 the police. They
had " sampled - the liquors in the room
freely, as every bottle WAS found un
cDTked. The ambulance surgeon who
was summoned pronounced GilicathCr
dead and the woman to be suffering from
acute alcoholic poisoning. She was taken
to the hospital, but she has slight chance
of recovery.
An Aged Country TrVttlug norsC,
John Jackson, of Woodstock valley,
Windham county, Conn, owns aremarka
BILE Old time country trOtting horse, known
throughout the county among sporting
men as Old Tom, which viii be IL years
old next spring. lie il large, coal black,
with a sleek, glossy coat, and as fat as
seal. In his younger days, from lSiS to
1858, he was the hero Of many half
forgotten contest on the country turf and
Of rollicking brushes among mOonht
Sleghing parties, the stories Of which are
sometimes related now by aged Jockeys at
the annual county fair. lie came into
Dir JacksOn's possession fifteen years ago,
and was at that time one of the strongest
and healthiest horses in the town. For
the last two or three years he has beon
unable to eat anything except meal or bran
mash. He has plenty of that, and Mr..
Jackson says that when Old Tom dies "he
shall die fat" He is treated as tenderly
as a child, kept blanketed in cOmforta
bic stall, aud looked after az morning and
night. Mr.. Jackson says that he has
owned a thousand horse, in his lifetime
but that the old trotting horse is the most
intelligent of them all, that he Il" knows
| everything except how to talk Expert
, euccd horsemen in Windham county say
that they see no reason why Old Tom
t should not live to be so years Old.
- Tortured ana Robbed by n Moo.
] In Blue Springs, Mo, some time ago J.
A d. Hall lost 5000 IN gold. Soon alterward
8 James A. Swiney came into the posses.
! sion of large sum of money through the
! death of a relative, aud on account of his
. free use of IL suspicion was cast on him as
the thief. Friday night a party of men
l went to his house, read a warrant charg-
1 ing him with the crime aud started for the
3 nearest Justice. On the way, however,
} they placed rope around his neck aud
( told him TO make confession or they
would hang him. lie refused aud was
hauled up three times and each time pro.
tested his innocence. He was at last lei
down more dead than alive and, alter
, picking his pockets, the highwaymen left
their victim in the snow aud rode away
When Swiney was found a few hours
. later, he was nearly frozen. The adthOr-
b tiles are using every eudeaVOr to lind the
4 | bandits.
o. Brewster Cameron Tss sImouy.
Chairman Springer of the committee Ia
] yestigating the department of Justice, SAYS
S that the examination OF Brewster Cameron,
Z who was on the stand for three hours or
i saturday, showed that thore was rottenness
b among the employees of the department
. throughout the country from Maine t.
1 Texas. He said that he proposed TO have
n Brewster Cameron before the committee
9 several times again before he goes West
Q Sprenger thinks Brewster Cameron az
u honest and efficient man, He told him
o yesterday that the government service
4 suffered a loss in his resignation. A sample
= case in Brewster Cameron's testimony
y was that of ex Marshal John Hull, OF
4 Pittsburg. Cameron told the committee
Q that Hall was behind in his accounts $50,
3 600 that his bond was good for $50 600,
/ and that his own estate was worth $50, 600.
! a Suicide Imagining Himself christ
D Coroner Meninger, of Brooklyn, held an
inquest at the house of Jacob II. Roths-
I child, who shot himself through the head
on Saturday night in a fit of religious in
. sanity. Abraham Rothschild, the brother
of the young man, testified that Jacob
+ acted strangely in the evening aud that
when he went TO his room he followed
him. He then became very violent in his
= actions, claiming TO be a martyr and call.
ing himself Christ. Fearing that the
9 noise woul reach his mothers room.
- Abraham trled to quiet him, but was
thrown down upon sofa. lIe then rau
to the door to lock 1t, when he heard the
l report of pistol and jacob fell upon the
floor dead. Minnie Rothschild zorro bo
rated her brothers story.
: Wedding n Lying Man.
Miss Catharine Kaman was engaged Ia
Robert Cooper, of New Lots, n. Y. His
! health had not been robust, and n few
days ago no was seized with pneumonia
When il was apparent that he must soon
die it was resolved by the couple that they
should be married. The Rev. Daniel Van
Pelt, of the Reformed church, performed
the ceremony by tho bedside. The excite
ment created fallacious appearance of
returning health, and hopes were raised,
but tho reaction lett him weaker than be
fore. He died on Friday night.
The Largest Diamond Uut In This Uountry,
The cutting Of a diamond believed to be
the largest ever cut in this country has
just been completed in Boston, the process
having occupied something more than three
months. The stone was found in South
Africa. lts weight in the rough was
nearly 125 karats. AS cut its weight is II
karata IL Ia cut IN n rnnndal on.L;o,