The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-10
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
GREENWOOD, Jan. 3.-Mr.A. McNeill,
of Bradley, vas knocked down and run
over by the north. bound passenger train
on the Columbia, and Greenyille Railroad
this afternoon. One leg was severed and
he received other serious injuries. Heis
thought to be dying He was citizen
ofthis place for many years.
SALEM, MASS, Jan. 4.-The Rev.
Fielder Israel, pastor Of the First Uni.
tartan Church and q leading clergyman
in Essex, county, prominent in the Ma
sonic order, native of Baltimore, cut bis
throat this evening in the vestry room of
his church, dying instantly. Cause, de.
preston on account of ill.health.
SOUTH FRAM1NGHAM, MASS, Jan. 81
About O'Clock this afternoon, while
many boys were skating on Gleason's
pond, this village, two fell together and
broke through the ice. Others coming
to the rescue, more ice broke, and sixfell
in, namely Richard Brown, Thomas
Hickey, Patrick Ryan, Johnny Ryan and
Chsrles--and Fred ST. Peter. The first
three were rescued, but the last three
we're drowned. The victims were between
ten and fourteen years old. The fire
alarm called the department and citizens
ont for search, and the bodies we're recoy.
cred.
/: new YORK, Jan. 4.-The Evening
Sun prints what It calls "An Almost
|, incredible tale Of gigantic fraud" 1t
states that the Eletcric Sugar Refining
Company has been duped to the extent
/ off quarter of a million dollars, and
that its whole secret process turns out to
he a humbug Of the m,st barefaced kind.
There was no secret process, and Henry
o. Friend, who claimed to possess it, has
swindled the confding capitalists out of
sbout quarter offs million dollars and
vanished, leaving the directors in very
bad state of mind concerning their liabil-
tiles and future, complications.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Jan. 3.-The
residence of Mrs. William Gerald burned
here yesterday. When the fire depart
ment arrived it was found that Mrs.
Gerald, her son, aged four, and g daugh-.
ter, aged six, were in the house. By
heroic: efforts the -fremen succeeded in
carrying out all of the inmates. The
boy was so fightully burned that he
soon died and the mother Is so badly
Injured that her life is despsired Of, One
of the Gremen was overcome by heat and
! fanted as he reached the outside Of the
building with the boy in his arms.
SAN JUAN DEL SUB, Nicaragua, via
Galveston, Jan. 3.-San Jose de Costa
Rica was the scene on the night of De.
cember 29th and the morning Of Decem:
Der SOth Of a series Of earthquake shocks
ofgreat severity. The shocks are beliey-
ed to have originated in the volcano of
Hoas, six leagues distant from town.
AT Alejuela eight persons were killed
aud many were injured. Churches and
principal buildings in the city suffered
considerable damage. The inhabitants
encamped in. the squares and parks. No
further shocks having occurred, the alarm
is snbsiding. Civic feasta were begun
to-day.
GREENv1LLE. Jan. 2.-B. Weherlc,
a veil. known jeweller and an old citizen
of Greenville, was the victim of o painful
accident at the Air Line depot to day.
he was standing close to the main track
and watching the engineer packing the
cylinder Of q locomotive standing On a
side track. a Blue Ridge train was
shifting on the main line, and while
| Weherle's attention was distracted q pas.
sing coach struck him and threw him to
the ground. His left leg fall under the
wheels and was cut off completely below
the knee. It was feared thatthe victim
would not survive the amputation which
was found necessary, and be has since
died.
New ALBANY, Ind, Jan. 6.-Corabell
Pagan, a young girl IL years of age, this
afternoon told a pitiful story of her
wrongs and distress to the police authors.
ties Of this city. She says that she was
abducted by a colored man from New
York city six years ago while playing in
her graudmother's yard, and she had
been kept closely guarded ever since in
a cabin on one of the back streets in
Nashville, Tenn. The girlsays she walk.
ed from there to this city, and asks to be
sent back to her mothers home, which is
In West Haven, Conn.,, from which place
she Was stolen while-yisiting her grand.
mother. The girl sticks to her story, and
agreed to beheld in custody until the facts
could be verified.
New ORLEANS, Jan. ga special
from Brookhaven, Miss, says: The
south bound passenger train on the I'LL.
nois Central Railway was wrecked last
evening at Cedar Hill switch, two miles
south Of here. The train while going at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, ran into
an open switch, telescoped boz car
loaded With lumber and completely
wrecked the engine. The baggage, mail,
smoker, ladies' car and sleeper were all
derailed. The smoker was turned bot.
tom up. The mail, baggage and ladies'
cars were thrown at right angles across
he track. Engineer Jarvis and-a negro
fireman we're badly shaken up and some:
what hrpiaed and one or two pasghnpe1s