Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-29
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Two men were killed by an explosion in
the CASTOR coal mines at Paramount, w.
Va, on Saturday afternoon.
Six thousand half chests of tea, valued
at 500, 900, consigned to New York agent,
have been seized at Toronto for violation
of the customs law.
determined that it shall not be their fault
burly, brutal negro, convicted Of rape
upon small colored girl, has been SEN
fenced to the Albany penitentiary for thir-
ty years.
Leonard de Hasford, q merchant of
Brooklyn, and Peter Klapdhar, baker Of
New York, committed suicide. Both
were insane. Upshur Johnston, a promi-
nent operator in grain, committed suicide
at his home, No. 80 Monument street,
Baltimore, by shooting himself. No cause
is assigned for the act.
The dead body of DR.. George w. Piper,
aged seventy years, uncle of the late Bishop
Odenheimer, was found in his room at
Newark, N. j., by some children, partly
eaten by mice. The deceased lived in a
small room in the house of George w.
Seltzer. He had not been seen for week,
and it is supposed that the cause of death
was apoplexy. When found the body was
still possessed by the slowly devouring
mice. The vermin nestled in the corpse,
and had to be driven off.
During thunder storm, the city hospi-
tai, located just east Of Kansas City, was
burned to the ground. 1t contained eigh-
teen inmates, several of them suffering
from disease and wounds, and the scenes
that eEsued were horrible. The unfOrtu-
mates were carried or crawled out into the
rain storm, and some of them were un-
protected for nearly two hours. None
were burned but several will die from ex-
posure. The main building was destroyed
and the patients were taken care of for the
night in the women's ward
A rag peddler passed through Florida,
N. Y, day or two ago, purchasing rags
of the farmers. At one place the lady of
the house sold him bag full of odds and
ends and when her husband returned home
at night she told him what she had done.
He Immediately saddled his horse and rode
after the peddler, overtaking him about
twenty miles from Florida. He searched
through the mans wagon until he recog-
nized the bundle which his wife had sold,
and opening the package took from the
bottom of it roll of paper containing over
81, 100 in bank bills, which he had secreted
there some time previous.
During gale the stern line of the Mis-
sissippi steamer Guiding Star became en-
tangled in the wheel, and three rousta-
bouts, two colored and one white, were
ordered by the mate into the wheel to
loosen it. While the pilot, unaware of
their position rang for the engineer to
start, which he did, and before the men
had time to escape they were caught by
the revolving wheel and dashed into the
water. The colored men did not reappear
and the white man was picked up alive,
but horribly mashed by the paddles of the
wheel. He is not expected to recover.
The aged mother of Dr.. Samuel Long.
of New Brunswick, n. j., lived for many
years in Norristown, Pa. She had pre-
sentiment that she would die if she had
any of her teeth drawn. Several weeks
ago one of her young lady friends, who
was not very strong, had five teeth drawn,
and the old lady then decided that if her
her young friend could stand the dreaded
operation, she could. She therefore con-
suited with dentist who laughed at her
fears. Threee of her teeth were drawn
without serious results, but as the fourth
tooth was being extracted the old lady
dropped her head, said she felt dizzy, and
in an hour she was dead.
David Babcock, his son William, to-
gether with Williams son, Horace, and
James and Lemuel Babcock, cousins, went
to Mountainville, N. Y, and while there
became intoxicated. Returning home at
night they all became involved in quar-
rel and and general fight ensued, David,
the cousins, James and Lemuel The old
man, David. was struck on the head with
a club studded with nails. His skull was
fractured and it is expected he will die.
James has been arrested and imprisoned.