Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-19
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heafney Is gong TO jail. lhe superior
court has decided against him.
About three hundred new money order
offices will be established by the 1st of
July.
Waddingham's steam saw mill at Kings
ton Ont, and large quantity of lumber
has been burned. Loss, $4,000.
Forest fires have been raging in Pike
and Monroe counties, Pa, and people are
fighting the flames in Sussex, n. J.
The house of w. w. Pratt, at Worcester,
Mass, occupied by Harry Hyde and family,
was struck by lightning and burned. Loss,
So, 900; partly insured.
The Commercial bank, of Texarkana,
Ark, CLOSED on Friday short $50, 900 ow-
ing to overdrafts by G. T. Potter cotton
buyer.
In Regan, Texas, while Wesley Jones
and 7. l.. Hunter, both under twelve years
of age, were out cunning, Jones acci-
dentally shot Hunter, killing him instant
ly.
Oliver II. Dahl, mate of the schooner
Elizabeth Jones, Peter Peterson, owner,
and master OF the schooner Garibaldi, and
an unknown seaman, were lost in the re-
cent gales on the lakes.
A land slide at Mineral King, Cal,
crushed the boarding bouse of the Empire
mine. a rumor exists that fifteen men
are missing and that four are known to
have been killed. Other advices say all
the men are alive, but number badly
hurt.
At Clyde, Ohio, George Ramsey and
Hank Clark, both colOred, quarrelled in a
saloon where they were drinking together,
when the former shot Clark in the breast,
inflicting a fatal wound. Ramsey escaped.
Previous to the affair the men were looked
upon as good friends.
The fifth trial at Hartford of William
Allen, for the murder of Shipman, a
Welshman, at the state prison, ended in a
verdict of murder in the second degree,
and Judge Poxter sentenced him to state
prison for life. Hamlin, Aliens con-
tederate, is to be hanged on May %.
The Turkish minister of war dismissed
Colonel Coope, an Englishman, from the
gendarmerie, for refusing to proceed to
Erzeroum. Colonel Coope refused because
he had no money, as his salary had not
been paid for three months. Sir Austen
Layard, the British ambassador here has
demonstrated with the Porte against the
dismissal.
f. r. Adams, county judge of Faulkner
county, Arkansas, and editor of a paper,
was arrested for stealing $500 from the
sheriff's office at Conway. The sheriff
locked his Office and started for dinner.
Meeting some taxpayers he returned and
found the door unlocked, the safe open
and the money on Adams's person. Adams
tried to buy silence, but failed. Hitherto
he has been esteemed.
Mrs. John Driscoll, of Maiden, Mass,
was arrested on the charge of numbering
the four year-old daughter of John Gre
don, neighbor. The body of the child
was found near the railroad, and it is be-
lieved it was placed there by the Driscolls
after the child had been killed at their
house. A hood lost by the child was
found buried in Driscolrs cellar, and
other circumstantial evidence is strong
against Mrs. Driscoll.
The prisoner: at the Moscow, Nijii-Nov-
gOrod, Samara and other depots awaiting
exile to Siberia number over 10000. The
Provo Orenburg has been blOckaded for a
month by unprecedented snow storms, and
numerous deaths of prisoners, overtaken
by the storms, have occurred. Many vii
lage communities arc straitened for food
in consequence of the impossibility of
communicating with the usual places of
supply.
A little daughter of Mr.. George Miller,
at Richmond, on Wednesday morning, fol-
lowed Miller's hired boy into a field to
plow. After he had gained the field, he
gathered some brush in pile and set it on
fire, after which he set about his work of
plowing. The little girl, attracted by the
fire, gathered about the burning brush and
her clothes caught fire, and before assist
ance could be rendered, she was enveloped
in flames and almost burned into a crisp.