Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-22
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| fever.
Four men were killed aud four injured
by q boiler explosion in Wales.
The queen has prorogued Parliament
until December 2.
The demand for American securities has
greatly increased in London during the
past week.
Cullom, Republican, for governor Of IL
linois, had s, 135 majority over both oppo-
nents.
William Carroll, aged 19 was killed at
Troy, N. Y, OH Saturday by sand bank
falling on him.
General Sherman is Of the opinion that
the army bands may play for hire for
other than military organizations.
Sitting Bull is said to have announced
that he has no intention of surrendering to
the United States authorities.
In drunken carOusal in Russell county,
Va, Martha Lawson stabbed one Osborne
twice in the breast, the wounds proving
fatal in a few hours.
| Edward Nairn, farmer Of Napance,
Ont, was found dead in his house. He is
supposed to have been murdered by his
wife.
The European ambassadors at Constan-
tinople have agreed to exercise 10 further
pressure upon the Porte relative to pend
ing questions.
The discussion upon the anti-Jewish
question was begun in the Plc,ssian Diet
Saturday, and will bc continued toner
row.
A fast Southern mail train will leave
Boston for New Orleans after the 2Stll
| ,ck &l,o
usual time now used.
'ihe Apaches attacked a party of Mcxi-
cans OH the 10th inst, Oh the road be-
tween Ell Paso and chihuahua, and killed
nine of them.
Jerry and Charles Williams, brothers,
quarrelled in Louisville, KY, when the
former stabbed the latter to the heart,
killing him instantly.
Sebastian Studer, eighty-nine years old,
of No. 40 Bartlett street, Williamsburg,
N. Y, was choked to death at supper by a
piece Of meat which he was trying to
swallow.
Patrick Smith, eighty-tive years old, liv-
ing in Brooklyn, attended early mass in
the Sidney Place Catholic church yester.
day morning. and dropped dead during the
service.
DR.. Thomas Wood, a prominent surgeon
of Cincinnati, O., died yesterday from the
effects Of blood poisoning. caused by at
tending with chappsd hands to the wound
cd in 4 recent railroad accident.
In saloon affray at Highland Falls,
N. Y, William Engclskrcher shot and
killed John Meahan. Engelskirchcr was
arrested with his brother Jacob, charged
as an accessory.
| A. B. Meacham, the Ito commissioner.
arrived in Denver on Saturday night aud
was arrested as accessory to the murder of
Young Jackson, killed by Utes in Septem-
Der last.
| In Elgin, ILL.,, Rev. Daniel N. Dorsett
has died at his home in the suburbs, aged
100 years, months and 5 days. He was
born in England and had been here thirty
seven years.
| A five-story building, occupied by Lord,
Stoutenburgh & Co.. wholesale druggists,
Chicago, was burned. The loss on the
building was 1000, and on the stock
$3.50, 600 insured for s15O,00O.
Engineer Babcock was killed and fire.
min John Raridan was fatally injured by
the wreck of a freight train near Burrows
Station, Ind, caused by Il trackman fail
ing to give warning Of a broken rail.
The official vote Of Wisconsin for presi-
Dental electors was: Garfield, 144, BOG !;
Hancock, ia, ,652: Weaver, 1852; Dow,
81; Phelps (anti-AIasOnic), 81. Garfield's
ma jority, 21,603.
Catharine Campbell, six months old. at
No. 1913 West Houston street, and Lille
| E. Vaughan, six months old, at No. 6
Ninth avenue, New York, were suffocated
in bed yesterday by their mothers, who
"overlaid them.
Walter Briggs, well-to-do and respec-
table citizen Of Robertsville, N. j., doing
business in New York, shot himself
through the heart at his hotel Saturday
night. He had made several suicidal at
tempts before.
On Saturday night John Mcclure,
tramp, 65 years old. wandered into the
York. and lay down to sleep in a ditch on
sheet of ice. He was found there yes
terday morning frozen to death.
Nothing has been heard of those who
were reported as missing from the insane
asylum at St. Peter, Minn., and it is be-
lieved they all perished in the flames.
This will make the number Of dead thirty
two.
The Pacific hotel, in Deadwood, has
been burned the new Braintree cheese
factory at Braintree, Mass, and John
Campbel's house in California, were also
destroyed, the latter perishing in the
flames.
Henry Van Asbern kicked his wife to
death in drunken quarrel III New York.
The murderer, who is a railroad employee,
80 years of age, has heretofore borne a
good character, but did not 1.-Two happily
with his wife. They had three children,
and the unfortunate woman was in cXpec-
tation of fourth.
In Kankakee ILL.,, two children, aged
four and seven years respectively, both
girls, belonging to Edward Dangan, a
stranger in town, died from poisoning, and
his remaining two children are in critical |
condition. Dangan has been living in the |
utmost poverty. A bottle containing !
belladonna was found in the house, and
Dangan will be put under arrest.
In St. Louis Michael H. Donley, recently
trumpeter of company H. First United |
States cavalry, and honorably discharged |
at Fort Calvin, Washington territory, shot |
and seriously wounded courtesan at a |
brothel, and then killed himself by put |
ting ball through his head. The woman
is known as Birdie Donley, and formerly |
lived with the trumpeter, who came on
two weeks ago. and has since then tried
repeatedly to get her to marry him, which
she refused to do. 49,.