Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-07
A MAN SHOT DEAD.
An Officer Fires Into a Crowd
MOlesting a Car in New
York
And Shoots Man Through the Brain
An Extremely Quiet Lynching in
Nebraska.
Breach of Promise Suit Against an Elk.
Senator-A Kentucky Feud-Lovs
Grimes,

Grimes.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Yesterday after
noon party of men, presumably strikers,
attacked a car at Sixty-ffth street and
the boulevard and began pelting it with
stones. The passengers left the car and
the officer in charge of it, Thomas K. Sny-
der, having been hit in the face by
one of the stones, fired into the crowd. The
bullet went whizzing through the brain
of one of the men. He died while being
removed to the Roosevelt Hospital. His
name was not ascertained. He was about
forty years of age and a laborer The
officer who did the shooting was placed
under arrest and brought before Superin-
tendent Murray. He has an excellent
character.
McGowan, the striker who was killed,
was single man twenty five years of age.
He had been in America from Ireland five
years and was striking stableman of the
Belt line road.
At police headquarters Schneider stated
that mob of 1000 persons attacked the
car. He shot at the foremost of the rioters,
he said and the conductor and driver also
emptied their revolvers. In other respects
OF i1i as LhduO his olOiJ 10 Dub .
repetition of that told above.
Schneider did not know whether it was
his shot which killed MCGOWAN. In the
police court where he was later arraigned,
however, Lewis Brennan, brother to one
of the Commissioners of Charitiesand Cor
rections, was an eye witness, and said
that the conductor OF the car shot the
striker, and that Schneider did not fire the
fot 81, t. l., Al
saw" Mr.. Brennan added. 1.-The car was
attacked by several hundred persons.
The policeman did not fire toward
MCGOWAN. 1t was the conductor. His life
was in danger. He was down and the
crowd was on top of him. He drew a re-
volver and struggled to get away from his
assaiants." Justice Patterson thereupon
discharged the officer and issued a war
rant for the arrest of the conductor, who,
with the driver, was later arrested, the
latter as a witness.
BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Elm the suit of
Mary R. Flemming for damages for breach
of promise of marriage against John j.
Patterson, ex-United States Senator of
South Carolina, the statement of the cause
of claim was filed yesterday in the Office
of the prothonotary, accompanied by an
affidavit made by Mary R. Flemming that
the matters alleged in the statements "are
in all respects just and true to the best of
her knowledge and belief" She alleges
that Patterson promised to marry her;
that date for the marriage was fixed
several different times, but in each in
stance was postponed by the defendant;
and that the defendant has since married
one Mildred Frank, of Waukesha, Wis,
who is now his wife. In consequence of
the engagement the plaintiff alleges that
she expended large sums of money in
preparing for marriages; and that in con-
sequence of the breaking of the engage
ment or promise of marriage by the de.
PENDANT she has Uttered loss of position,
disappointment, annoyance, modification
and the loss of the money, whereby she
has sustained damages to the extent of
$4,000.
JAMES FISHER KILLED.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Feb. G. News |
reaches here of the killing of James
Fisher by Captain Bill Bourland on Wild |
Horse creek. Indian Territory, on Satur-
day last. An old feud existed between !
the parties. Stock had been breaking |
into Bourland's field and on Saturday he |
caught Fisher riding through here. He |
spoke to Fisher about it, who got angry |
and began shooting at Bourland. The |
latter ran into the house, got his gun and |
the fire. He shot Fisher, killing |
him instantly. Captain Bourland is well /
known in this section, where he lived for |
many years, and at one time was a |
wealthy cattle king.
LOVE TRAGEDY.
Tel J1hn Ia
his sweetheart, Maude Mcclellan, in the |
street last night, and then shot himself. |
The tragedy took place in Jackson boule-
ward, near Peoria street. Death was in
with each The girl was |
domestic, recently from Canada. The pair
we're out walking together when the |
tragedy occurred. From correspondence
found in the girls room, it is inferred that
one Peter Campbell, Dempsey's rival for
her hand, had been rejected, but she feared
hat she would be unable to convince
Dempsey of Campbell's discontinue.
ANOTHER CASE.
New YORK, Feb. 6.-At eleven O'Clock
last night policemen found young man
and woman sitting on the curbstone on
West Seventy fourth street The man was /
unconscious and the girl also suffering |
iAOiu POlSOH. Dull nclc W luO |
hospital where it was learned that the J
girl was Carrie Nolan, seventeen years of
age, and the youth James Consadine,
twenty years old The girl said they had
taken poison to commit suicide. She
would tell no more. Consadine died soon
after he reached the hospital The police
believe the couple were lovers who decided
10 die because of family troubles.
QUIET NECKTIE PARTY.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. George Hager-
nan, young German horse thief, who
vas awaiting trial for burning the barn
md live stock of farmer named Craig, !
1t Schuyler, was taken from the Schuyler,
Jail Monday night and hanged to tree in
he court house yard. The lynching was !
10 quiet that the sheriff did not know of
t until he saw the body dangling next
and the prisoner in the next cell
'wears he heard no disturbance. No one
admits seeing the lynching.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 5.-henry hansen, q
butcher, while under the influence Of
iquor, shot and killed his wife Ida last
light as 1O:3O O'Clock. The couple lived in
cheap lodging house in poverty
stricken section of the city. The man is.
hirty-four years old and the womarI
bout the same age. The ball penetrated
he right temple. Jealousy is assigned as
he cause. Hansen was the woman's,
econd husband and was man Of in.
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