Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-14
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The steamship City Of Richmond, from
Europe, brought sl,130,00O in coin and
gold bar.
The board Of directors of the Northern
Central railroad recently declared y divi-
dend Of two and-a half per cent, which
was the first dividend for years.
J. Sullivan Hale, aged "a, father of Hon.
Eugene Hale, was struck by lever i'll a
cannot survive.
The trial of William Parker, at Raleigh,
N. c., for the murder of General Bryan
Grimes, has been suspended and post
poncd until next spring, owing to the dam
gerous illness Of a juror.
In the case of Schroeder for the murder
of DR.. Lefevrc, at Oakland, CAL, the
jury, after being out scventy-twO hours,
returned a verdict of not guilty. He had
killed him for Grim. con. with his wife.
Hiram S. Holbrook, agent of the Amer
lean express company ut Dubuque, Ia.,
while lying abed fatally shot his two year
old daughter and then fatally shot himself
dead. His poor health is the supposed
cause.
Medicine Bull, chief of the Brule Sioux
was accidentally shot by the agency clerk
at the Lower Brule agency, in Dakota. AS
a sign of good faith he gave his best horse
to the clerk and forbade his warriors to
molesj the whites.
DR.. Glacier, assistant surgeon, recently
attacked with yellow fever at Key West,
Fla died at 2:30 Sunday morning. Hos
pital Steward Greene was placed in charge
OF tine hospital, but was taken sick with
the fever when DR.. +. w. Lester was
placed in charge.
Jay Gould had been treating Will the
Aliens for the purchase Of their contrOll-
ing interest in the St. Louis, Iron Noun
tain s. Southern railroad. Mr.. Allen yes
terday sold forty thousand shares of Iron
Mountain stock to Mr.. Gould for 81, OOO,-
O00, or fifty cents on the dollar. Mr..
Thos. Allen and the stockholders who CO.
operate with him in the Iron Mountain
road owned two-th;rds of the 214, $50
shares of the capital stock of the road.
This transfer will put the control Of the
road into Gould's hand.
Miss Avis Pinkham, whom Knapton
Warslman shot and killed in Lawrence,
Mass, before attempting to take his own
life, was twenty-nine years of aye. Her
parents reside in Washington, Maine. By
those by whom she was known she is we'll
spoken Of. Her intimacy with Wardman
appears to be the only blot on her character.
Wardman was :: man of dissipated habits,
but formerly was held in high esteem.
A negro rag picker named Isaac Smitl,
was convicted in the criminal court in
Washington yesterday of rape on a colored
child nine years of age, named Hattie
Beckett. He was sentenced to thirty
years imprisonment, the full period al
lowed by the statutes, in the Albany pen
itentiary. A plea of guilty was entered
against him in the second case for commit
ting rape on Elizabeth Harris, aged ten
years. Sentence in this case suspended
until Saturday.
Railroad Commissioner Beerstecker has
been shot in San Francisco by Antoine
Fricher, president of the German Work
ingmen's club, of which Beerstecker was
a member. They had been close political
friends, but after the election of Beer
steclzer to the commissionership and the
defeat of Fricher as candidate for re-
corder at the last election, Fricher be-
came bitter enemy of Beerstecker. Just
before the shooting Fricher had been i'm
portuning Beerstecker to obtain for him
some official position. The ball struck
Beerstecker in the left breast, but it is be-
lieyed the wound will not prove fatal.