Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-08
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The steamship Hansa is ashore on the
island of Tenschilling and is breaking
up.
The steamship Pico is reported total
wreck near MaracaibO. The passengers
and crew were saved.
The bark Highmoor, from Philadelphia,
for Antwerp, reported lost a few days ago,
has arrived at Antwerp.
William A. Wilson, son of the late post
master at West Point. Ga, has been
looked up for robbing the mails.
\ fire broke out at Amsterdam, Holland,
i'll the sugar refinery of Benker X Hulshot
at o clock last night, and has since been
raging with great violence.
During mutiny ON the German ship Pau
line Davis in the lower bay. at Mobile. the
captain was severely injured and unable to
leave the vessel. 4 revenue cutter has
gone to bring the mutineers ashore.
While five children were slidin" on the
ice at Cotton Mill pond, Readville, Mass.
the ice gave way and all were precipitatcd
into the water. Maggie Mahan and Frank
Mulvey, both about 10 years of age, were
| drowned.
President Pullman, OF the palace car
company, has agreed with the Allegheny
county commissioners to take SO, 600 cash
in settlement of claims for cars destroyed
in the July riot of 1877. About 0.OOo
worth of cars were burned.
Two engineers on the elevated railroad
in New York city, tried to run ahead Oi
one anothcr's at the Ninth avenue and
Sixtieth street switch, yesterday, and the
trains crashed together. Nobody was hurt,
but the cars were smashed.
A dispatch from Savannah says that the
Georgia Central railroad stock, which on
Tuesday evening was quoted at 70, went
up to 93 yesterday morning, closing last
evening at 50. There is general express
sion of satisfaction at the leasing of the
road.
The store of Jas. Stewart & Co., extcn,
sive wholesale dealers in lumbermcn's
supplies, salt and shingles, at East Sagi-
nav, Mich, doing business of 5000. OOC
annually, was closed by the sheriff yester,
day under an attachment at the instance
of Detroit creditors.
The members of the New York produce
exchange voted on the question whether
the exchange would reconsider its action
of May 81, 1879, and Indefinitely postpone
the adoption of the GENITAL system. Tho
vote resulted III for resembling and 1Gs
against the measure.
The New Haven and northampton rail
road, at its annual meeting, voted to builC
an extension from Northampton to Quinel
Falls, with a branch to the state road al
either Shcburne Falls or North Adams, al
an estimated cost OF $3.50, ,000 to be il
operation in a year.
In Cholior district, Ga, during an elec
tion for tax receiver, NJ. n. Smith, u bail
if,, called Jasper Spence to one side to tall
about the election. Smith, without warn
ing. snatched pistol from a bystandel
and shot Spence dead. Smith and Spence
had ill feelings towards one another fol
some time, but they had made up. A
large party is hunting Smith. He viii
stand poor chance if caught.
A fire in Memphis which destroyed the
buildings Nos. 3S3, :sS5, 3S7 and $50, Main
street, originated in NJ. Henschberg &
Co. s picturc-framc manufactory. At II
o'clock the fire was under control. The
front walls of the buildings fell out anc
buried three tircmen in the ruins, killing
Pete Metz and seriously injuring Ed. Leon
ard and Anthony McCarty. Leonard lat
his arm and leg broken. The buildings
were the property of the estate of the lat,
James T. Leath, and were valued at about
$4,000, the insurance on which is not yet
known.