Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-17
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1Nc SllSSiSSlppl Legislature ID Still lily.
ing to elect successor to Senator Bruce,
with no signs of a break in the dead lock.
Patrick Mcnamara, farm laborer, of
Nelson county, Va, was crushed and i'll
stantly killed under tree which he was
telling.
O'Leary writes from Chicago that he
won't go to London to walk with Weston,
but will walk him 142 hours for $1,000 a
side anywhere in America east of the
Rocky mountains.
In an alteration between a colOred cart
driver and Thomas Smith, employed on
the Midland railroad extension, Virginia,
Smith was struck behind the right ear
with rock thrown by the former, sustain
ing serious, perhaps fatal injuries.
The Montenegrins attacked a village
near PLAYA and took 200 head of cattle.
The next day they advanced towards Gu
jinje and PLAYA, when the Albanians
attacked them and drove them across the
frontier The Albanians lost forty killed
and sixty wounded.
The StevedOres' association at Pensacola,
Fla, resolved yesterday not to furnish labor
for vessels which are being loaded by ''Que-
beckers.' This will delay many vessels
for few days. 176 vessels, two-thirls of
them square rugged, are now in Pensacola
Bay.
The directors of the Lockwood company
of Waterville, Me-, at a meeting yesterday
unanimously resolved, i'll the present con-
dition of affairs in that state, not to ask
capitalists to join them in the erection of a
new mill, and indefinitely postponed the
question of its erection.
Mr.. MacTear, the chemist, who has been
experimenting to produce artificial dia-
mOnds. now admits that he was mistaken in
supposing that the crystalline substance
he produced was carbon in that condition,
and thinks it is imprabahle that diamonds
of any size can be produced artilicially.
The ship Formcsa, of Salem, Captain
Reynolds, from the Philippine Isles for
| Boston, has been lost near the Java Sea.
All hands were saved. The vessel and
cargo, which are total loss, were valued
at s24O, 900, fully insured in Boston and
Philadelphia offices. She had 1866 bales
Of hemp on board.
Jacob Miller, proprietor of Il saloon at
543 Archer avenue, Chicago, got up about
) o'clock and was sweeping the saloon.
When he opened the front door two men
stood there and tried to force their way in
but being prevented one fired a pistol at
Miller. the ball entering his right temple.
He fell without uttering a word and expir-
ed in two hours.
The eleventh annual report of the rail
road service In Massachusetts, shows that
during the year ending September 80, last.
only II miles of additional railroads were
completed in the state. The gross income
for the year of all the corporations
amounts to thirty million dollarss The
whole number of persons injured during
the year, including the accident at Wolas
ton, was 4O5; fatal injuries, 45.
Yesterday in Baltimore was prolific n
alarming fires. The first occurred as
twenty minutes after five o'clock in ore
of the Johns Hopkins university buildings
on Howard street and resulted in the de-
struction of many valuable scientific
works the second was in the sub-cellar OF
the old Masonic temple building, now oc'
cupied by the city and circuit courts and
the third was fierce blaze in one Of the
chimneys of Barnum's hotel.
Brigadier General Ord has sent to the
war department letter from Lieutenant
Baylor, commanding a detachment Of Tex
as volunteers, which confirms the report,
already published, of the ambuscade and
slaughter of Is Of the principal Mexican
citizens of Cariscal, by Victoria's band of
Apache Indians. Thirty-fiye more citizens
| of Cariscal went out to search for their fel-
low citizens and were also caught in am
bush, and II of them were killed, making
| 20 in all.