Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-12
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The Western nail association rcalirmc.l
the card price cf So, made and adopted Oh
the 2Sth ult.
Baseball At Buiialo-Troy, i Buffalo
2. At Cleveland-Cleveland, >; Worcester,
2.
Three OF four thousand workmen ii, the
Tyne ship-yards have struck for an ad-
vance of ten per cent. in their wages.
Greece has purchased in Hungary one
one thousand four hundred military horses.
Two hundred and forty were embarked on
the 9th instant. for Trieste.
Elizabeth Walker, a native OF County
Kildare, Ireland, has died in Phi!ipsl,urg.
N. j., aged LOG. She never knew what
sickness was until last week.
The Otis Company's large hosiery mill,
at Ware, Mass, was badly damaged by
fire on Tuesday night. Over one thousand
hands are thrown out Of employment.
There is considerable restlessncss anon.
the Indians in the whole upper country,
though the season is so far advanced that
no active hostilitias arc anticipated this
year.
The body of Miss Elizabeth Compton
was found in Il shallow pond at Metuchcn,
n. J. Mrs. Compton was 50 years old,
and was the widow of Ephraim Compton,
who has been dead for over forty years.
At Rochester yesterday Prospect Maid
won the 2:36 race in 2:2G; Bay Billy the
2:22 trot in 2:1Ss, and in the 2:19 r"cc
Hams took two heats Charlie Ford two,
and Driver one: best time 2:1S3i.
Colonel SCOTS report to the stocIshoh!-
ers of the Texas Pacific shows that under
existing contracts Southern Pacific rail-
road will be completed from San Francisco
and the Gulf of California to New Orleans
by the end of 1882.
About 1 o'clock at night the horse of Il
team driver by name John Vcddcr, of St
townsville, n. j., became unmana"eable
near the canal bridge here and rushed into
the water. Young Vcdder and ono of his
horses were drowned.
S. L. N. Barlow, Benjamin c. Kirk,
James Udoll, Stephen Tabar, Captain
Charles p. Smith, Edgar Weeks and others
indicated by the United States grand jury
touching the Seawanilaha disaster gave
bail in $1,000 each.
Three hundred Chicago shOcmakcrs
remain on n strike The employers arc
firm III resisting the demands for an in
crease of pay, and some them have ordered
improved machinery from the East. whic',
will do away with many employees.
Ten thousand negroes will emiGratc from
Mississippi and Louisiana within the next
two months and will arrive in st. Louis eli
route for Kansas and other Northern
states. About forty per day for the past
month have been cared for by the board
and forwarded to their various dcstina-
tions.
The Georgia Democratic state conven-
ton nominated Clifford Anderson, of Bibb
county, for attorney general ID. N. Spccr,
of Troupe county, for treasurer VIM. A.
Wright, of Richmond county, for comp
troller, and n. G. Barnell, OF Baldwin
county, for secretary Of state.
The steamboat Bonnie Lee, from New
Orleans for Rcd river with $50 tons of u.s.
sorted merchandise, blew up and sank on
Monday evening at Lone Wall landing.
jeff Persey, second clerk, was killed, and
4 little son of Mr.. 1I'Dcrulott is missing.
The boat is total loss. She was valued
at $500 and insured in Cincinnati for
$4,000. The value of the cargo is unknown.
In Wausau, Wis, DR.. Edwin L. Iazle
was shot by DR.. Bennct. The facts appear
to be that DR.. Halle only recently came to
Wausau to practice his profession. This
aroused tho jealousy of DR.. Bennett, the
resident dentist, and while under the in
fluencc of liquor he procured a shotgun,
went to the hotel where Halle was and
fred at the latter, killing him intantly.
The Connecticut Republicans nominated
Bigelow for governor; Gen. VIM. Fl. Bulk
ely for lieutenant governor Charles f.
Searles, of Thompson, for secretary of
state David p. Nichols, OF Danbury, for
treasurer. and Col. Wheelock Bachelor, of
Winstead, for comptroller; for prcsidcn-
tial electors at-largc, Henry E. Martin, of
Norwich, and Abliah Cattin, of Harwin-
ton.
Alvin Dexterwert, aged sixty. committed
suicide in New York by taking laldanum.
The act is said to have been caused by a
refusal of admission to the house of hi,
sister-in law. An examination of his body
bullet hole under the left breast,
and scar on the back where the ball had
passed out. The wounds were partially
healed, and are thought to be two days
old.
Jayne and Matthews, local steam
boat inspectors. not having paid