Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
NEWS OF THE METROPOLIS.
Carried His Umbrella CarsIessIy.
NEW YORK BUREAU sprcrALs,,

: NEW YORK, Sept 2L-Augustus L Scott, an
eccentric middle-aged man who dresses hand
somely and calls himself sthe Count.n walked
down Park Row last evening, with 0 neatly
rolled umbrella under his arm. As he turned
a corner he unintentionally prodded George
II. Smith, q book dealer, in the ribs. Mr..
Smith struck the umbrella down into perpen-
dicular position. Scott turned Quickly, and
stuck the end Of the umbrella into his eye.
Smith yelled, and Scott tried to run away, but
the crowd which had gathered held him till
policeman came. Mr.. Smith told the police
Justice before whom Scott was arraigned to-
day, that be would lose the sight Of the injured
eye. Scott was held.
Made n Wretched Pun.
Sir Henry Knight, ex-Lord Mayor Of London,
passed to-day in the city. He thinks the
accounts of his night in the Chicago City
Council have been exaggerated. This after
noon he said: when heard that one man
who had cried out in the gallery had been ar
rested, / expressed my surprise and suggested
to Mayor Cregisr that they surely did not lock
people up for such a thing as that in Chicago.
Yes, but we do, though said the mayor, and
/ am too old magistrate to think of interfer-
ing in such case had understood the man
merely to say God save Ireland and did not
hear any one cry. Put him out did see one
or two cigars explode. but that was not until
after had finished speaking" Sir Henry also
offered some advice regarding the selection Of
a site for the Worlds Fair. "As for Chicago"
said he, 'the smoke is regular pail over the
city-quite appalling, you know"
Striking for the Northwest.
Daniel Bandman and Mrs D. p Bowers have
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duction Of Shakespearean plays in the North
west They will take their company to Ana
conda, Butte. Helena Falls Spokane Falls and
Seattle. In Montana $4,000 have been sub
scribed to aid the undertaking.
Miss Ray W. Smalley, a pretty young bru-
nette of jaunty appearance, wept copiously in
a Brooklyn Police Court to-day because James
Duckworth, her former employer, accused her
of stealing $500. He said she falsified the &C
counts which he engaged her to keep and spent
the money she stole on fine clothes and theater
tickets Miss SmaIley denied the truth of al
this. She was sent to jail to await trial
Killed for stenliug n Mans Wife.
Peter Reynolds. the owner of two Eastside
tenements, was murdered last night by Flor
ence Joseph Donohue. Pinkerton detective,
on account of his alleged attentions to Dono-
hues wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Donohue with their
four children, live on the second floor of one Of
Reynolds tenements. Mrs. Donohue is little
woman with big black eyes, and the neighbors
say that she frequently went into Reynolds
room. Reynolds was widower. aged about 40
years, and lived with his six children. Last
night Donohue accused his wife of being un-
faithful to him. Reynolds broke into the dis
cussion with a club and struck Donohue on the
head. The angry husband armed himself with
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lower hall, where he stabbed him four times.
Reynolds staggered into the. street and fell
dead. When Donohue was arrested he said
that he was glad that he had killed Reynolds
for stealing his wife. Donohue is florist by
trade, but during the summer season he has
been employed as Pinkerton detective at
Manhattan Beach.