Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-10
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL

The American coffee failures have not
affected the trade in London.
The billiard match in Paris between Wig.
naux and Slosson has been postponed to
December 20.
George Allen, aged 10 years, fellthrousl
| an elevated hatchway in Baltimore yester.
day and received fatal injuries.
The Theatre Comique in st. Louis had Il
1000 fire yesterday. Springfield Mass.
suffered a S100, 900 fire yesterday.
Yesterday woman in Marquette, Wis.
III a tit OF temporary insanity cut of her
babes head and then committed suicide.
Four hundred persons have been throw,
out OF employment by the burning of thi
BroOkfiefd cotton mill at Stockport, Eng
land.
A London dispatch says: The bark Hes
ut Bremen from Philadelphia, before re
ported on fire, has been burned to the
waters edge.
| Traffic was suspended on the Richmond
& Danville railroad and Piedmont :iv line
yesterday by the burning of the Ban;stc1
river bridge.
Alabama Cadmus, aged 40 years, wa:
i"tally injured by being run over by ;
wagon loaded with lumber at Hergei
Point, New Jersey
Emma Geiglia, 4 little girl. was burned
to death by he: clothes catching fire from
stove, while playing with other children
in Baltimore, yesterday afternoon.
| At Silver Cliff on Wednesday night tir.
destroyed the Colorado hotel, Colorado
restaurant, and two small adjoining build
ings. Loss, $4,000 to s15, 900 insurance
$500.
Alice Baker, colorcd, WAS assassiuatc,l
on farm mile and a half from Navast.;,
| Tex. Frank Marshall, her paramour. Wit:
arrested and committed to Jail without
| bail.
AT Petersburg, Va, W. !. T'rottel
charged with the murder OF Claiborne John
son, was found guilty of voluntary man
slaughter and sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment in the pcnitentiary
There is much anxiety in Gloucester
Massachusetts,, for the safety OF seven YES
sells of the Banks fishing fleet, exposed to
the terrible November gales. Four OF the
vessels have been absent six weeks, and
should have returned to Gloucester.
| A fire at Custer City, d. T.. destroyed
the principal hotel, store and postOfiicc
Loss, 81, 900. The surrounding buildings
were greatly damaged. Six incerdiary
fires have been discovered and cxtinguish
ed i'll the city during the past fortnight
There seems to be determined effort tc
! destroy the town.
Nicholas Ford, Republican -Greenbacser
from Missouri, has received certificate of
election as member of the next Congress-
The vote as announced by the secretary CT
state shows 81, TO for Ford and 81, 7GS fol
Craig, Democrat, giving the former Il ma
jority of two votes.
The four o'clock express train from,
New York struck Mr.. Theodore Davcn-
ports carriage at 4 crossing in Stamford,
Conn.,, instantly killing Miss Harriet
Davenport, 4 young lady about seventeen
years OF age, and sevcrly injuring Mr..
Davenport and the daughter OF the Rev
j. ". Hyde.
Captain Torensen, of the bark Sverre,
reports that on October 1j, latitude 3i:s0,
! longitude 1888 west, hc fell in with the
brig Maria Mcntrose, which had been
abandoned. He went close to her bu:
owing to the fearful stenc,, that came from
her he did not board her. He hailed scv-
eral times, but there was 10 reply.