Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-13
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A number of French Jesuits have ar
rived in Quebec by the steamship Peruvi-
an, and others are expected to seek an asy-
lum in Canada.
In Chicago, during the last four days,
the temperature has ranged from 80 to SO
degrees in the shade, and six cases of sum
stroke, two fatal, have been reported.
Stipcndary Magistrate Bent, Of Kee-
watin, Manitoba, has resigned. 1t is said
that thirty-twO charges of malfeasance in
Office have been preferred against him.
NJ. Gardner, aged 12, and H. Fitch, aged
II years, were found shot dead near Potter
Valley, Mendocino county, CAL, yesterday.
The tracks of mans feet were found in
the vicinity.
The jury in the case Of Mrs. Brown, Oh
trial for the murder of her husband, in
Indianapolis, yesterday returned a verdict
of murder in the first degree, and fixed the
penalty at death.
Colonel Cash, the surviving principal in
the recent duel in Darlington county, s. c.,
was arrested yesterday, on q warrant,
charging him with killing Colonel Shan
non.
The boilers of the Canada paper mill at
Windsor, Quebec, exploded yesterday.
The pulp mill was demolished and two
men were injured. A woman living near
the mill was also injured by the blowing
in of window of her house.
Samuel p. Bowles, ex-county engineer,
at Cincinnati, convicted of forging county
bonds, was sentenced yesterday to ten
years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The sentence was suspended for sixty days,
to allow of an application for writ of
error.
Erskine Wood was shot and mortally
wounded by Hiram G. Briggs, at Stephen
vile, near Coeymans, N. Y, on Sunday
morning. Briggs alleged that Wood was
too intimate with Mrs. Briggs, but Wood
denies this. Briggs is in Jail.
The body of an unknown white man,
enclosed in a rude box, was found, yes
terday, on farm in Pince George
county, Va, about five miles from
Petersburg. A rope was drawn tightly
around the neck, and it is supposed he
was murdered.
A church excursion party, returning
from trip ON the Potomac, was landed at
the Seventh street wharf, in Washington,
last evening, and the wharf not being
lighted, gentleman and lady walked
overheard. The lady, Mrs. Sarah E. Rol-
Inns, was drowned.
Prof. John C. Bull, we'll known as a
teacher of deaf mutes and for about twen-
ty-five years an instructor in the American
asylum for the deaf and dumb, in Hart
ford, Conn.,, died yesterday. He was a
graduate Of Yale college, If the class of
1S49.
Charles Ware, aged eight years, entered
a school-house, at Allanburg, Ont,
through a window, on Sunday, to get
some books. On coming out, the window
sash fell upon him, and he was found,
three hours afterwards, hanging from the
window by the neck, dead.
The wife and two children Of Rev. DR..
Richardson. of the Fourth Presbyterian
church of Trenton, N. j., were throw n
from their carriage by runaway accident
near Pennington on Sunday afternoon.
The children were slightly injured, but
Mrs. Richardson's injuries are serious.
A wagon containing nine excursionists
descending the Mount Washington car
riage road, was upset by its drunken
driver about a mile below the halfway
house yesterday afternoon. A lady from
Michigan was killed and five or six others
were injured. The driver was injured, it
is thought fatally.
A despatch from Milwaukee says that