Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-05
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.


A miner named John Cannon was in
stantly killed at the Sandy Ridge ore
mines, near Orbisonsia, by the bank slip.
ping down On him. He was unmarried.
At Cincinnati yesterday the Citizens
national bank opened for business. This
is new bank recently organized, with
81, 900 capital.
In San Francisco Leon Boniface killed
his mistress. Hattie Lee, in house of i'll
repute, in Waverly Place. He then shot
himself dead. The cause was jealousy.
Albert Levy, the clerk who shot himself
with suicidal intent. at Forty ninth street
and Sixth avenue, New York, died from
the effects of the wound.
William Guthrie, accused of criminally
assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Viii
mingtOn, resisted arrest and fired several
shots at two officers and escaped.
Two passenger trains collided on the
Eastern railway near Lynn. F. n. VIM
tcrs, of Lynn, was killed. Two other
passengers and the baggage master were
slightly injured.
Lizzie Lee and Harry Allen visited q
New York clothing store, and while the
man bought 4 fifty cent vest the woman
stole forty dollars worth of clothing. They
were 'yanked."
During the expulsion of some seminal
rists ut Lyons, France, OF Wednesday, a
disturbance occurred, in which a work
man was fatally stabbed with cane
sword.
Robert Ransom fatally stabbed his
wife, Ellen Ransom, at her home. near
Nashville, Tenn, on "Wednesday. 1t was
the result of a quarrel. Ransom was ar
rested. The woman is reported to be
dead.
The lumber yard Of Wilson & Hunting,
i'll the northwest section of Baltimore, was
set Oh fire last night and 5000 damage
was done. John Kennedy, a tramp. was
found in tho yard and arrested rs the in
ccndiary.
Conductor l.. o. Hawks, of the Lake
Shore road. fell between the first car and
engine at Erie and twenty cars passed
over his legs, crushing them off. Hawks
is now dying. A similar accident occurred
to Patrick Farrell on the Philadelphia,
road.
The baseball convention called to meet
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, Now York,
yesterday to organize an independent
National League has been postponed
until December 8. The National League
now in existence meets III that city De
| ccmbcr 4.
New York states majority decreases
with every fresh return from the rural
districts, and it will probably be betwcc
5000 and 2O,OOO. Dugro's majority over
AstOr for Congress is only 81. At the
Tammany hall general committee meeting
the election was freely tall cd over aud it
was denied that there was any trading Oh
Tammany's part, but it was admitted that
Grace burdcncd the ticket and lost votes
for Hancock.
A portion of the Latin L. Rand powder
works, 1T Mountain View, !, few miles
west of Paterson, N. j., was blown up
and two men fatally injured. They were
engaged in the granulating process in Il
detached building, which was totally de-
molishcd. The two men were named
John Clarkson, aged q years, and Albert
Dunn, aged % years, both unmarried.
The flesh was burned from their bodies iu
i shocking manner.
Mary Warnock, aged fifteen years, en-
ployed at the mill of the Bar
bour flax spinning company, in Paterson,
N. j., while engaged in oilinS shaft was
caught by her long and flowing hair and
drawn up by the machinery until the
scalp was torn completely from her head
and her ears both torn loose. So that they,
together with the outer covcrin. of tie
skull, hung down on either side of her
shoulders. She was conveyed to st.
Joseph's hospital Her recovery is not cx-
pccted.