Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-28
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LaborcrS on No. II section Of the
Lachinc canal, to the number of 400, have
struck for an advance of wages from $1.1O
to $l.25 per day.
Hon. Dewitt &. West, wcllknown
Democratic politician of Lowvillc, n. V,
died suddenly of heart disease.
Jacob Winding, of 1916 First avenue,
New York, hanged himself in his room.
lie was only 1S years old, and no cause is
known for the deed.
The wife of G. NJ. Hendley, chief cxccu-
tive clerk to Mr.. Hayes, died suddenly at
ing, Of typhoid pneumonia. The remains
were forwarded to Washington for burial.
A furious storm, Oh Sunday last, at Fort
Mojavc, Arizona, blew down the company
quarters. Three men were killed and sew
eral others wounded. Tho officers quar-
tcrs were destroyed and the hospital and
storchsuse much damaged.
While descending the shaft Of new
sewer yesterday 1T Boston, James Clark,
foreman of 4 gang, fell out of the cage, 4
distance of eighty feet, and was killed. He
was a resident of Maryland, where he leaves
Il wife and seven children.
In Hartford, Conn.,, St. Julien on his
second trial against time, made mile in
2:1l! J, beating tho record a quarter Of a
second. The first quarter was made in
:,22, the half III 1 O5 and the three quarters
in 1881.
Washington presents a beautiful appear
ancc now, with its parks innumcrablc and
its long lines of trees. The grounds
around the Agricultural hall arc simply
grand. Tho Washington monument has
gained four feet in height since the work of
completing it was commenced about three
weeks ago.
The body Of al unknown man, much
mutilated, was found at o'clock yesterday
morning lying across the track of the Har-
lem river railroad, at Ninety street
and Fourth avenue, New York. He had
been cut in two by train. The man was
about twenty-eight years Of age.
Mrs. Obney, New York millincr in
Paris on business, a party in tho Newell
divorce suit, committed suicide ut the
Hotel dc Paris. In letter written before
her death she says 81 am weary of life
and want rest" and asked to be placed in
a coffin in the dress she wore when she
died.
DR.. Chalfont, the slayer of Josiah Bacon,
gree, and will receive sentence next Friday,
in San Francisco. Chalfont. was a dentist,
formerly Of Chester county, Pa, and had
been harasscd by Bacon, agent of the vul-
canitc patent monopoly. The murder
closely resembles the famous Parkman-
Webster case.
A passenger train on the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad ran into 4 coal train in a
tunnel q miles west of Grcenbricr White
Sulphcr Springs, on Thursday; several
cars of both trains vere wrecked. The
freight conductor was killed, and several
train men and a number of passengers
wero injured, but none fatally. The shock
of the collision brought down stones from
the ceiling and sides Og the tunnel.
Mrs. Catharine Scheffer, widow sixty
years old, has commenced suit in the
Brooklyn city court for $4,000 damages
for alleged breach of promise of marriage
against Antonio Fersariere, a young Italian.
She has also preferred a charge Of obtain
ing mortgage for 81, 600 from her under
false pretences. The Italian was arrested
andtaken to Brooklyn to answer the latter
complaint.
Near Guthrie, Ky., a colored man named
Green Ellis, assaulted Mrs. Duncan with