Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-17
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Fiftv-two students of Brown university,
at Providence. II. l., were graduated yes
tcrday.
The Grand Duke Constantine has in
| spectcd seven more men-Ol-war, which are
| to reinforce the fleet in Eastern waters.
At Wilmington. Del. the three minute
race was won by Blind Tom in :':02. The
2:33 race was won III three straight heats
heats by Kismet. Time, 2:52II
Baseball yesterday: AT Worcester
| Boston IL Cincinnati, . At Troy
Cleveland, 8: Troy, ..
The American rihemcn yesterday paid
their first visit to the Dollymount ranges.
At first they made many misses, but after
ward shot well. some of them making SIX,
eight and ten bulrs-cyes in succession.
They only shot at the 800 yards range.
At Marshall, Texas, in the Currie trial
Yesterday. the defense introduced testi-
mony to prove that Currie was out of his
mind at the time of the killing. The bur-
den of the proof does not point to insanity
but to confusion of intellect and incoher-
| cncc.
Five conventions occur to day. They
are the Indiana Republican. in Indianapo-
lis the North Carolina Democratic, in
Raleigh the Kentucky Democratic, in
Lexington, the Alabama Grcenback and
Independent, in Montgomery, and the
Prohibitionist National convention in
| Cleveland, Ohio.
Edward CRUDE, conductor on the Cen
tral railroad of New York, while stepping
on to the track beside the one on which his
train stood at Bloomsbury, early yesterday
morning, was struck by a passing train
and instantly killed. His body was brought
to Phillbsburg, where his wife and four
children live.
Frederick Barnett shot and killed Thos.
| Dodson at Thompson station, Tenn. The
difficulty originated in dispute about $40
which Barnett owed Dodson. Barnett
hearing that he intended to kill him armed
himself with double-barreied shot gun.
They met and Dobson attempted to draw
pistol, whenfBarnett discharged the shot
gun at him tearing his head to pieces.
The West Jersey and Atlantic railroad,
the new route of the West Jersey railroad
company to Atlantic City, was opened for
travel yesterday, and the event was signal
lied by an excursion of representatives of
the press of Philadelphia and adjacent
cities, and number of prominent citizens,
stockholders and officers of the road.
In Buffalo, while German man named
Freund, and Philip Bender, boy, were at
work in a sand pit ten feet deep, the bank
suddenly gave way. and they were buried
beneath several tons of earth. Both were
| dead when taken out. Bender's neck was
broken. The boy was 4 son Of the con-
tractor, and no precautions had been taken
| to prevent a "cave.'
Captain Scott, the diver, has personally
inspected every berth and the lower deck
of the Narragansett and says there are no
more bodies on the vessel, unless it may be
the bodies of infants crowded into unex-
pected places in the boat. All the other
persons missing have probably been car
ried through the race. All that is valuable
of the cargo has been removed.
A young man named Theron Holly, of
Stamford, Conn.,. step-sOn of the treasurer
of the Stamford saving bank, shot at
Richard Bustccd, of New York. who re-
turned the fire, seriously wounding Holly
in the left side. Busteed fired from the
| top of flight of stairs. The ball entered
HOlly's side .! inches below the nipple,
and plOwed the tissue for seven inches.
The affair occurred at the house of Mrs.
Kinsella. The occurrence has created
sensation. Busteed is under arrest