Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-13
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John Atkins, section boss on the NOr
cester railroad, was crushed to deatl
while coupling cars at Quaponco, Mary
land.
A fire at Salem Depot, N. H., burned
Evans's patent cloth works, and Meade's
building and the large stOrehouses adjOin
ing.
The Russian budget for the year 1886
shows an exact balance between the in
come and expenditure of the empire, each
being $50, coo, 900 roubles.
The weather is colder in the West. Dur
ing the last 81 hours the thermometer has
fallen as follows Chicago, go: Indianap-
oils, 2So: Madison, Wis, 40 ; St. Louis,
800.
band at the National Soldiers home, Day,
then killed himself. Domestic trouble is
supposed to have caused the tragedy.
Christopher Reinhardt, 24 years old, OF
Greenpoint, jumped after the 6:15 boat at
the Thirty-fourth street ferry, New York,
yesterday. The boat was about ten feet
from the bridge and Reinhardt fell against
the steru and was killed.
The Tebo & Cargcll woOlen mills at Ash
erton, N. H., were burned yesterday. The
buildings were owned by Colony & Dick
inson. The loss on stock is $12, 900, and
on the building $1,000. The insurance is
unknown.
In Atlanta, Ga, a German named George
Craigler, butcher, while intoxicated,
placed a pistol to his temple and pulling
the trigger blew out his brains in the
presence of his wife and child. No
other cause is assigned for the act except
his being crazed from drink.
Police all over the state are on the look
out for a sOiled dove, known as Amy Bur-
dette, who has fallen heir to a $15, 900 for
tune in Albany. Her real name is Anna
Cole, and few years ago she was a bright
vivaciOus young girl in her teens, resi-
dent of a small town just outside Albany.
Secretary Evarts has informed the sec
retary of the treasury that according to
dispatches received from the United States
minister at Lima, Peru, the newspapers of
that place ON the 18th ultimo contained
kilograms showing that the port of Tio
Cor Yio)was then blockaded by three Chii-
ian vessels.
The Senate in executive session yester-
day confirmed the following nominations :
George B. Corkhill, to be United States
attorney for the District of Columbia !;
United States Attorneys-Charles s..
Varien, for the district of Nevada John
X. Valentine, for the Eastern district of
Pennsylvania.
An unknown man, found in the Ohio
river, near Davis Island dam, was appar-
emily twenty-three or twenty-four years
of age, had black hair, mustache and i'm
perial, five feet five inches in height,
weighed about 160 pounds, and had 81.
Mack " in India ink on his right shoulder.
He was dressed in duck coat, pants and
vest, the goods having red stripe in it.
At Weir City, Kansas, Charles L. Wal
lace, a lawyer, was waylaid, shot and NOR
tally wounded while passing along the
street. Wallace refuses to give any ac-
count of the shooting or any information
regarding its cause. 1t is stated, how
ever, that there is lady in the case and
the shooting was the result of a conflict for
her hand.
Advices have been received at the war
department that the renegade Apache In
dians recently followed across the border
into Mexico by General Morrow have re-
turned. Mexican authorities have re-
quested that they be permitted to assist
in the pursuit of these Indians on the
American side. The secretary of war has
granted the request.
Dispatches from several points in the
Seventh congressional district of Missouri
say the election to choose a congressman
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent
death of A. NJ. Lay, has resulted in the
election Of John F. Phillips, Democrat,
over Ex-Governor McClurg, Republican,
and a Greenback candidate. Col. Phillips
has represented the district before. Phil
lips's majority will be from two to three
thousand