The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-07

A Philadelphia Policcman's Fight with a
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STATE NEWS OF A DAY.
A Philadelphia Policcman's Fight with a
Gang Of Toughs.
PHILADELPHIA, July Edward Boyle,
down town tough, walked into the
butcher shop Of Louis Fiorello, an Italian,
yesterday at noon, and demanded ten cents
for beer. lie was told by the storckeeper
TO work for his money, whereupon Boyle
struck Fiorello In the face and ran out Of
the store Fiorcllo followed and Boyle hit
him with a brick, infictng a compound
fracture Of the skull and breaking several
bones in his face. A general alarm was
sent out for Boyle's capture, and last
night Patrolman McKeon found him with |
five companions. The entire party sat |
upon the officer, who drew his revolver |
and put bullet through each Of Boyle's |
legs. In bis wounded condition Boyle |
fought like a tiger but Mckeon, who is a |
young giant, landed his man and two |
others of the gang. The physicians Gt the !
hospital say fioreio will die Although
Boyle IS only q years old. he has been ar
rested twenty-5even times for various of
fenses His wife died recently, and the
police say her death was due to the con-
staut beatings inflicted by her brutal hus-
band.
Probably killed by Lightning.
NORmsToWN, July 7.--Developments in
connection with the death of William j.
Kelly at Port Kennedy indicate that he
was struck by lightning. Kelly was en-
| ployed ON a shifting engine between
| Bridgeport and Port Kennedy, and at the
latter place was acting in the capacity OF
/ hind brakeman or aagman, when he was
/ killed. Nothing was known Of the acci-
dent until few minutes past o'clock,
when the engineers Of two freight trains,
after nearly colliding with the shifter, APP
| preached the engineer of the latter and
| chided him for disobeying the orders Of
the company in not having a fagman in
| the rear of his train. The three engineers
! then went back, and finding Kelly miss
! ing instituted a search which resulted in
the discovery of portions Of his remains
along the north hound track for distance
of over 300 yards. 1t is believed he was
struck by lightning and his body then
mangled by train.
Homestead's Anniversary.
HOMESTEAD, July 7.-Yesterday was the
anniversary Of the bloody battle between
the Carnegie mill strikers and the Pinker-
tons. There were rumors that an attempt
would be made to burn the mill, but moth
ing exciting occurred. The streets, how
ever were thronged with excited people
There was a picnic at the Ninth street
grove. A few speeches were made and
flowers were scattered on the graves Of the
victims of the riot. At the picnic grounds
a fund was started to be used in the erec-
tion Of a monument in memory Of the
workmen killed. Several hundreds dollars
were raised in a short time.
A Victim Of the storm.
SCHUyLKILL HAVEN, July 2-During
the terrific hail and thunder storm that
swept over the lower part of Schuylkill
county George Reber, II years old, son of
Joel Reber, of Friedensburg, four miles
from here, was struck by lightning and
Instantly killed. Mr.. Reber and three
sons were in field taking in hay. All
were on the wagon when a bolt descended
killing the one boy and two horses and
badly injuring the other boys. The wagon
was Immediately enyeloped in flames, and
the injured ones made narrow escape
from incineratiOn.
Destructive Fire In an OIL Town.
PITTsBUBG, July THE oil town Of Nc
Donald, on the Pan Handle road, narrowly
escaped destruction by fire. Early in the
, morning flames were discovered in James
, Morghans shoe store on South Barr street.
The water supply was limited. There was,
however, but little wind to spread the
flames, and their progress was stayed by
razing number of dwellings and small
stores. In all ten buildings, one of which
J was the Baptist church, were burned. The
estimated loss is $4,000 on which there is
] but little insurance.
e Congressman SIutohler's Seat.
+ EAsTON, July Z. - The Northampton
Y county Democratic committee met here
and named five conferrees to the congress
sional convention to nominate a successor
to Congressman Mutohler, deceased. The
6 delegates were instructed to support How.
s ard Mutchler, son of the late congressman
p Northampton county casts nearly twice as
many Democratic votes as the other coun
ties in the district and it is believed there
will be no trouble in nominating the soI
D for the uneXpired term of the father
Welshman's Mysterious Death.
. SCRANTON, July Morgan Boston, g
IS prominent Welshman, was killed on the
5. Lackawanna railroad tracks. He had beer
e seen walking with a strange woman, anC
i was apparently under the influence Of
l. drink. 1t is supposed that the woman
~ robbed him Of large sum Of money ht
=, was known by his family to have carried
J.. and just as a passenger train was approach
ing to have hurled him on the track. Th'
e police are on the woman's trail
-s ColIided with an Oil Train.
e SUNBURY, July I'm the Northern Cen
J. tral railroad yard, this city, shifting en-
i gine ran over a misplaced switch into
II train of tank cars on the next track. Tht
u cars were filed with oil and naphtha, anC
several Of them exploded scattering tn
burning oil in ali directions. Seven tanl
cars were consumed, as were also seven re
z frigerator cars, which stood on an adjoin
b ing track. The shifting engine was alsC
70 ruined.
'e New Companies Chartered.
~ HARRIsBURG, July 1.-THE following
companies were chartered heres Middle
town Drainage company, of Middletown
" capital S15 600; Auburn Wagon company
Is of Greencastle, Franklin county, capita
r. S2OOO 900; York and Wrightsville Electri
r Railway company, capital S75000; Yorl
D. and Manchester Electric Railway com
D. pany, capital $4,000; York and Dove
w Electric Railway company, capital $4,000
k Closed by the Sheriff.
a WLKEsBARRE, July Fired Thorn,
y prominent bother of this city was close
- by the sheriff upon an execution of $40
900. His liabilities are said to be $50 OOC
z The undertaking establishment of p. NJ
% Commit was also closed by the sheriff a
ID at the instance the Oswego Casket CON
ie pany.
Il Twelve-Year-Old Burglar.