The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-12
BIG DEATH ITsT
q ~ Yorl Yesleriay. RunnIns

In New York Yesterday, RUNNING
From Suicide 70 Murder.
NEW YORK, Dec. ll.-The Sunday
death list IN New York ana vicinity waS
greatly increased by causes that ran
the gamut from suicide TO murder
The most spectacular tragedy OF the
daY occurred on the speedway. Thou
sands Of people who had gathered there
to watch the speeding gaSed eagerly St
what they thought was a race. Il was
az first, but It ended 10 3 runaway and
James Mcdonald. q promiuent Tain-
many man, and one OF the best known
horsemer1 In the city, was carried 70 the
Manhattan hospital, where he died slE
hours later. Mcdonald had taken ; fast
horse 10 the speedway Tor q warming,
and had been challenged BY q friend to
q test OF speed. The horses went along
~ furious pace with the thousands OF
spectators applauding the brush. Then,
with q mighty effort. McDonald's horse
took the bit and with defiant toss Of
his head shot to the front. Two blocka
ahead the speedway was impossible %
the Myers and Mcdonald, realizing this,
stood up in his rig and dropping one
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threw his horse, killing Il, but he him-
self was pitched hIgh into the air ana
some twenty feet forward, falling on
the hard road. His skull was fractured.
Vlnceso Garagusl. an Italian banker,
was shot and killed In front Of his home
in Brootne street, tonight, the bullet
piercing his heart. Lawrence PripFe, q
drug clerk, employed In q drug store
nearby. was arrested and s. charged
with the murder Two policemen who
were standing about fifty feet away
from the scene OF the tragedy, heard
first a shot and then saw Prlore fire the
second shot. They Immediately arreAt-
ed him. PasQuaie GolbeTtl, the owner
OF the drug store. made the statement
that GaraGusl and Prlore had had
quarrel last night over a game of cards,
and had frequently Quarrelled before,
and It Is believed By the police that
Prlo.e killed the banker for revenge.
W. A. Water, twenty-elght years OF
age. bought ten cents worth Of carbOllc
acid to-daE and after kissing his wife's
child goodbye, said he would go and
see his mother. He stopped at his moth
er's home but few moments, and
when leaving drank the contents OF the
bottle He died en- route to hospital,
CdtneIlue WeFHeIs u AhClUIS BHlt
twenty-five gears old, drank csrbOlio
acid to-day, and died shortly after her
removal to the Flower hospital.
Thomas McKeever, thirty-One years
OF age, a freight agent at Roselle, New
Jersey, was found dead In bed in en-
apartment in 'Soubrette Row." this
morning The cause assigned by thu
coroner was heart disease.
Elizabeth Clinton, slxty-faur years OF
age, was burned to death In her home
on Bedford street. Her clothes became
ignited by the bursting OF q kerosene
lamp.
HiIda Hesse, aged fourteen, took car
bolic acid at her home In HobOken to-
day, and died shortly afterward. A
quarrel with her father and step-moth-
er Is said to have made her respondent.
A man believed TO be Peter Thomp-
son, OF Br2cklyn, foil or jumped of
dock in Brooklyn. He was taken out OF
the water alive but died from shock,
David Walsh. aged twenty-five, OF
Hoboken, while walking along ths
tracks OF the Erie railroad yard ct Ho.
boAen To-day. got his foot caught In
switch and was killed by train Of coal
cars backing upon the track,