11 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1886
Page
1
A Cincinnati news item describes opponents denouncing the witnesses in a case as a street car accident occurs on a hill and over a bank. It notes the execution of Robert Grayer by hanging.
Lonton December 11 The Campbell divorce trial resumes with Gen Butler’s lawyer denying impropriety by Gen Butler toward Lady Colin Campbell. He notes a single visit on April 13 and denounces defense witnesses as perjury. Dr Bird’s counsel defends him against adultery and miscarriage charges as slanderous and based on weak testimony.
In St Louis, Robert Cray er, colored, was hanged at 6 55 yesterday morning in the jail yard after the death warrant was read at 5. Grayer spoke kindly before the cap was pulled. He murdered Berry Evans on July 6, 1883. A crowd of about 150 watched the execution. Cars Overturned and Burned near Neenah. two burned cars and injuries reported. A Wisconsin Central train ran late after a wreck on a down grade near Neenah, several injured and two badly scorched. Stage Robbery in Texas near Coronado. driver bound, robber fled with valuables, pursued and captured. Street car accident on Walnut Hill. a cable car ran backward down Gilbert avenue hill, no serious injuries, car ruined.
In Cruces New Mexico on Friday two young Mexicans from La Messilla quarrelled over a girl. Hector Garcia fought Cesario Fresques who then lassoed Garcia from horseback, dragging him about a mile. Garcia died from injuries yesterday.
A telegraph from Phohan reports the schooner Mary D. Cranmer from Georgetown bound for New York with oil cargo anchored near Watch-Apaiquo Virginia with its rudder gone seeking help. The incident recalls a prior shipwreck when five men drowned after a steamer Knickerbocker rescue attempt. Fort Scott notes a separate murder case.
A lifeboat wrecked at Southport leads to thirteen drownings while relief efforts continue. The Duke of Manchester lowers rents by 25 percent on Irish estates. A fire damages St Froncia monastery wing in Lorreils Pa. Gladstone supposedly disapproves Ireland anti-rent campaign. Suffolk or Wareham man Samuel Besse sentenced to hang for murder. Rev. Fitzpatrick of Baltimore dies. President Bartlett of Dartmouth injured. Kingston Ontario report on J W Brown missing after Paris quarrel. Edward Hanlan sails to Canada. river match with Beach planned in June. Wabash bondholders seek settlement in Ohio. Missouri Pacific strikers at Denison demand wage rise. Ice on Housatonic river sinks a Newtown pair. Mrs Beardsley drowns, Wheeler survives.
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