The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-03-07
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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Isaac Kaufman chewed 80 much gum yes
terday that the muscles other face became
para!yzed, and she was compelled to send
for a physician before she could open her
mouth.
SARATOGA, Feb. Is. "A romantic mar.
rage was celebrated here last night, the
contracting parties being Warren B.
Westcott, aged So, and Jane s. Truman,
aged IS years. More than twenty FIVE
years ago the parties we're engaged.
They were about to be married when
Westcott fell in love with widow and
married her instead. A breach of pro.
mise suit followed in which Mr.. Vest
cott'was compelled to pay damages. He
vas left q widower three years ago, when
he returned to his former love.
AURORA, I'LL, Feb. N.-Edward
Artiz shot Kittie Palmer on the public
street and within a few rods Of her home
yesterday afternoon, inhicting fatal
wound. Artiz was her rejected lover,
and had been repeatedly requested to
refrain from paying attention to the girl,
but he persisted in his addresses, and
! the matter eliminated in the shooting.
Artiz fled Immediately after firing the
shot, pursued by officers. Aftera three.
mile chase the murderer MAS sighted,
butlhe continued running, and when his
pursuers we're but ten rods behind him
he shot himself through the heart, drop
ping dead in his tracks.
E BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Feb. 27.-The
story of q rather romantic suicide comes
to the Herald from Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Some five or six years ago George W.
Fosters young lawyer, married Mrs.
Belle Booth, q widow much his senior
and famous all over the State for her
beauty and grace. The couple, with Mra.
Fosters children by her frat husband,
removed to Admission, where they lived
happily until Mrs. Fosters sudden death
some three years ago. The young huB.
band then went back to Tuscaloosa,
where he has since practiced law. Yes.
terday, accompanied by his cousin,
Mabel Foster, he went out to the old
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cemetery where his wife mas buried.
When near the grave he requested his
cousin to leave him alone for few min:
utes. Left to himself he placed q pistol
to his head, blew his brains out and fell
liieless across bis wife's grave.
LIaoN1ER, Pa, Feb. 2S.-About z
o'clock last evening the house of Her.
man Umberger, an aged farmer living
ten miles east Of here, near Jenners.
town, Somerset county, was entered BY
two masked men, claiming they had Q
search warrant for jewelry that had
been stolen: from q peddler in. the neigh
hood q short time ago. sUmberger limo.
I:cently accompanied them through the
house, and when he MAS forced to open q
trunk containing SIS, 900, he placed the
money in his; pocket. They then ordered
him, at the points Of revolvers, to hand
|.itoyer. This he strenuously objected to,
when they fred Eve shots in his body,
killing him almost instantly. They took
the money and fed in the darkness. The
aged wife Witnessed the murder, but was
too old and feeble to be Of any assistance
Ito her husband. The murderers are
supposed to reside in the community.
Great excitement prevails, and if the
murderers are caught they will be lynch.
ed.
81 JACKSONVILLE, FLA, March g.
News has just reached here from Oneech.
ebee of 8 bloody ahray, among the semin.
ole Indians in the Everglades. "Jim"
Young, buck, went crazy, and with q
Winchester rifle started out on the mar.
path. through the camp and settlement,
He frat sent q bullet through the brain
of Wauke Miaco, a chief Of the Miamis,
Killing him instantly. He next killed
aOld Tiger Then Young Tiger, q
son of aOld Tiger" and probably the
finest Seminole living physically, stepped
out OF his uigwam justin time to see his
father drop to the ground corpse, and
with a lood:curdling war whoop sprang
on the maniac, and a hand to hand fight
for the possession of the rifle followed.
The Young Tiger" vas the superior in
strength, but was at the wrong end Of the
gun, and before he could wrest it from
his antagonist he WAS shot dead.
The maniac then killed two papooses Of
his sister aad attacked the bucks, squaws
and children indiscriminately. He was
finally cornered and shot dead by "Belly"
another Seminole brave. In less than
half an hour eight Indians we're killed.
ST. GEORGE, ONTARIO, Feb. 2s.-The
bridge through which the st. Louis ex.
press crashed last evening is sixty feet
high, and is substantialriYer structure,
with massive stone piers. To avoid even
the possibility Of an accident, it was
overhauled a week or two ago. The
accident mas caused by a broken wheel.
A heavy dining car broke through the
iron trestle work only after the ties and
other wood work had been stripped off
by the car ahead. The dining car being
constructed mostly of iron, it WAS almost
impossible to force an entrance into its
end, and the passengers were thrown to