Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-13
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A man was killed on the Buffalo &
Thursday. His name was not ascertained.
The Wisconsin Senate has concurred in
the Assembly resolution providing for
female suffrage in Wisconsin, by vote of
10 to II.
Dan Brigherly, a negro, was hanged in
private at Thomasville, Ca, yesterday, for
the rape of a respectable white woman in
October last.
Amy Spencer, colored, of Stafford coun-
ty Va. has been committed for killing her
13 year old son by cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
The gas works attached to an iron
foundry in st. Petersburg exploded yester-
day, and the foundry, with three large
buildings, was destroyed.
The Peruvian minister of finance has
been imprisoned and his property repudi-
ated because of his negotiation of con-
tract which the government repudiated.
Chung How, late ambassador to Russia,
and who negotiated the Kuidja treaty with
that government. has been beheaded and
revolt has broken out in Pekin.
A howitzer, box of muskets and field
ammunition were shipped by steamer to
Lancaster county Va, by the state authori-
ties to protect the oystermen of the Lower
Rappahannock against foreign dredgers.
During heavy snow storm at an early
hour yesterday morning, two overland pas
senger trains-Nos. and 4-collided at
Red Desert station, fifty miles west of
Rawlins, Wyoming territory. The en-
gineer of train No. 4 will probably die
from injuries received. No passengers
were injured.
Five pounds and thirteen ounces of
ashes, the remains of DR.. Samuel Hahn,
cremated in Washington last Tuesday,
were sent from there, enclosed in small
tin box and directed to A. C. Kaufman,
20 Duane street, New York city. The
cremation was complete in two hours and
nine minutes.
Samuel F. Kelly, employed on Merrill S
drive on Anderson's creek, Clearfield
county, was drowned at Bailey's dam,
above Rockton, while running logs from
the upper dam to the lower one. The
throwing him violently on his face on the
logs from which he fell into the open
water, as his forehead shows bad bruise.
"A Dredk mas OCCURRED III Cno leVeo near
the New Orleans barracks. 1t is being
closed and the levee Strengthened. The
river is very high, causing apprehension
that the levees will not withstand the
strain on them. A crevasse thirty feet
wide is reported in a levee on Bayou La
fourche, five miles below Lockport The
state engineer will send men and material
tomorrow to close.
A fire in the tenement house, No. 9
North Margin street, Boston, caused a
loss of $1,000. The fire soon cut off es-
cape by the stairway, and Bernard McAleer
and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Douglass
became frightened, and were finally forced
to drop from window, about 20 feet, and
both it is feared, are fatally injured. The
other occupants escaped in their night
clothes.
In Elizabeth City, N. c., Miss Florence
Seymark arranged to elope with Jonathan
Ivy, young lawyer. He was to meet her
at the gate in buggy. Her father got
wind of the affair, and went to Ivy's
Office and shot him in the shoulder. A
servant informed Miss Seymark of the
affair, and she fled from her room in her
night clothes and joined her lover, and in
this garb was married before the father
discovered her absence.