Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-16
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At the meeting of the Ohio Democratic
state executive committee w. L. O'Brien,
John G. Thompson and Clark Irwin were
added to said committee.
William Evans, aged 2S, was drowned at
Bay Ridge while bathing in the Chesa-
peake. He ventured out too far in the bay
and was swept off by the strong cur
rent.
Henry Croft was walking along Houston
street. New York, when he was assaulted
by two ruffians and knocked down. His
skull was fractured and he cannot survive.
No arrests.
In Springfield, Mass, Maud s. and St.
Julien will certainly trot OH Thursday. the
former for special purse of 81, 600 against
her record of 2:11a. Both horses arc al-
| ready here.
a young man named William Jones was
drowned while bathing in Crosswick' :
creek, near Bordentown, N. J. The do
ceased was % years Of arc and tho only
support Of a widowed mother. His body
has not been recovered.
Captain Sherwood, of the steamer
| Norseman, which plies between Port Hope
and Rochester New York. died from the
effects of morphine, given by a druggist s
clerk in mistake for Iuinine, called for by
| prescription.
Washington Matthew's, while telling
trees near Burrsvillc, N. J., was caught
by falling tree and horribly crushed.
| For several hours before help came he was
pinioned to tho ground until finally cxtri-
Gated. Hc died after intense suffering.
Charles p. Woodwortl, son of Judge
Woodworth. of Omaha. after having been
confined in the Nebraska insane asylum i
year, was recently taken out and dSap-
peared. He was first heard of ut Syracuse,
| n. Y, Monday last, but all trace of him
has now been lost.
Samuel Burt, 4 young married man, re-
siding in Camden, was. digging II trench
through 4 large heap Of guano. Tho
guano cavcd in and buried him. He was
dug out rs soon rs possible, but life was
extinct on account of the gases he had i'll
| hailed.
The round house ef the Osdcnsburs and
Lake Champlain railway in O,-dcnsburg,
y. Y. containing five locomotives, was
totally destroyed By fire yesterday. Tho
fire is supposed to have caught from 4
train which arrived ut > y. III. Tho loss is
800. 900. insurance unknown.
NSpASN As>aA .aii pAtA i1.iAis N.fS hAiAS>A
, by Herman Hackers. his son. i'll Dayton.
Kentucky. opposite Cincinnati. Hackers
had been drinking. and. having been re-
fused money by his wife. he undertook to
strike her with poker. when his son Her.
man struck him with spade and crushed
his skull.
Three sons OF R. 5. Smiley, Of Spring
Lake. Scott co,,lty. MIMI. were drowned
: -, ~f
horses attached 70 a wagon to let the
! animals drink. The horses became un-
manageable and overturned the wagon,
drowning the children. The wife was
saved with difficulty.
Information comes from . reliable source
that large shipments of cigars manufac-
turcd by Chinese in San Francisco have
been recently made in New York. With
| in the past thirt: days over 200, 900 cigars
have been sent east. Leaf tobacco comes
from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and
cigars are returned by rail to the eastern
market.
In Milwaukee the 72- hour bicyle race
closed on Saturday. The following is the
score: Hicks, of Philadelphia, G5G4 miles /;
Douglass, of Philadelphia, 637s miles, and
Fowler. 5113s miles, making Hicks cham.
plOn OF the OnlCCu oCaCCS 1Or JS-NOur
match. During the match Fowler made
mile in 3 minutes and 80 seconds on \
course Of 1G laps to the mile.
AS the family of Charles Shields of
Drifton, N. J were out riding, the horses
were frightened by passing train and up
set the coach. Mrs. Shields, her two
children, and the coachmaD, Thomas Mel
son, were thrown out. Tho coach was
dashed against a tree and demolished, and
| one of the horses was killed. The coach
man suffered injuries that may prove fatal.
| Mrs. Shields and her children escaped with
! few bruises.
Col. w. w. Armstrong, the member of
tho national committee from Ohio, says !:
''Thc latest information from Ohio gives
! assurances of III almost united German
support Of Hancock and English in north
ern Ohio. Ex-Lieutenant Gov. Mueller,
of Cleveland, came out for Hancock and
English in 4 speech made to tho German
Republican Liberal club in that city on
Thursday last. The Germans who sup
ported Grccly i'll 1872 will go solid for Han
cock"