Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-16
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Frank Morse was stabbed to death by
Charles Stratton, near Kennedy, Chautau-
qua county, N. Y. They quarreled about
young woman.
Yesterday the boiler in Kidd's salt der
rick, near Seafortl, Ont, exploded, killing
the engineer, John Galligan, and complete
ly demolishing the building.
A valuable gold deposit, five feet in
of Dodec, Ont, near Fetterby's mine. It
has been opened and is now being worked
by capitalists from Buffalo.
The schooner Ella Robertson, at New
York from Nuevitas, reports that on
February 10, at a. m, she saw a bark
water-logged and abandoned, but could
not make out her name. Cap Hatteras
was bearing north-nOrthwest, distant
thirty miles.
The schooner Leander A. Knowles, from
Horse Island, Maine, for Baltimore, with
ice, went ashore on Nantucket Shoals on
Friday evening and has gone to pieces
The crew were saved. The schooner was
insured in the Atlantic Mutual of New
York.
Tidings of loss by the rise of the streams
in Ohio and Kentucky continue to come
in. The Ohio river at Cincinnati has
risen over seventeen feet in the last twen-
ty-four hours. Large steamers are unable
to pass under the suspension bridge there.
Herman Shultz was twice stabbed in the
back by Micheal Suffrans, at Port John
stOn, n. Y. on Saturday, and is believed to
be mOrtally wounded. SuffTans had re-
ceived valentine" representing hang
man, and supposed that Shultz, with whom
he had long been at feud, was the sender.
The New York Herald Irish relief fund
reached ssO,OS2 on Saturday night. St.
Mary's Catholic church, in BOrdentOwn,
yesterday contributed $1,000 for Irish relief
and collections for the same purpose taken
up in the Catholic churches of Wilminton,
Del, yielded $4,000.
Charles r. Smith, r. A. McCauley and
Isaac Jones, the latter colored, were over
come by nOxiOus gases, and drowned in
the bulkhead of barge used for trans
porting night soil, near Baltimore, on
Saturday. Smith descended into the bulk
head to stop a leak, and was asphyxiated
the others perished in trying to save him.
For the past two years trains Oh the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad have
been fired at by an unknown party, just
after dark, near Caddo, l. T., On Friday
United States Marshal Ayers caught a
white desperate named Myers in the act of
firing on the train. So desperately did he
resist arrest that Ayers shot him fourteen
times before he succumbed.
A fire in Hornellsville, New York,
last night. destroyed four brick
stores, with the offices and dwellings be-
tween the Delavan house and the city hall,
causing loss of $4,000. The Tuttle 4
Whittemore company's malleable iron
works, at Union City, Conn.,, were dam
aged by fire yesterday morning to the ex-
tent of $25, ,OG0. Three hundred persons
are thrown out of employment by this fire.
The body found floating in Overpeck
creek, in New Jersey, has been identified
as that of William d. Fricks, of New York
wealthy liquor merchant. He owned real
estate in Second avenue worth a hundred
thousand dollars, and had other property.
A week ago he disappeared. When his
body was found his pockets were turned
inside out, and his watch, ring and pocket
books were missing. He did not carry
large sums on his persons, but always had
a few hundred dollars. There we're 10
marks of violence, and the cOroner's jury
vedict of accidental drowning.
He had not lived happily with his invalid
wife, but there troubles were not thought
to be at all serious or sufficient to cause
the suicide. The supposition of his friends
is that he fell in with tramps, who robbed
him and threw him into the creek.