Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16
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At last 1ord Derby has taken the plunge
and publicly repudiated the policy of Lord
BeacOnsfeld. The announcement, how
ever, creates very little surprise or sensa-
ton.
The heaviest rains have fallen for the
past four days ever known in Georgia for
years. All the streams are very high, and
overtlOws which will damage the crops are
reported.
Dixon's colliery at High Blantyre, near
Glasgow, is on fire from gas explosion.
One thousand men were thrown out of
employment by the disaster. One death
has resulted from the explosion.
Robert Brouse, judge of the county
court of Pleasant county, West Virginia,
died while opening court Oh Saturday
morning. He was eighty years old and it
was supposed he died of heart disease.
Albert Marcroo was killed by the ex-
plosion of a blast in the Hoosac tunnel on
Sunday morning. This is the one hundred
and ninety ninth fatal calamity that has
occurred in this tunnel since it was begun,
some twenty years ago.
The boiler of a steamer has burst in the
harbor of Bona. The steamer was driven
into two Spanish felaccas seriously injur-
ing twenty-five men on board of them.
The firemen on the steamer were killed
and the engineers life is despaired of.
In Red Bank, N. j., Mrs. Van Schaick
attempted to commit suicide with a re-
volver, but was prevented. Her husband
had separated from her, and she was COM
PEELED to seek shelter from the town mar
shall.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says
the Schiefflin Brothers sold their interest
in the Tombstone mill and mines to Cor
bin Brothers, and Disston and party of
Philadelphia, and Messrs. Simmons s.
Squire, of Boston, The price paid was
81, 600, 900.
In Perrinvllle, n. j., Mr.. Schenck called
in a physician to attend his wife, who, he
said had cut her throat. When the ply
sician came she charged her husband with
attempting to murder her. The wife's
story is not believed, and she will probably
die from her wounds.
In Washington, John Riley and his wife
Jane were found dead in a room over a
stable in the rear of the residence of Mr..
Benjamin Holiday, on K street. 1t is sup
posed they took poison. Riley came from
New York in 1861 and was subsequently
employed by Lord Lyons as a coachman.
The Montana continue on the rock, with
slight hope that she can be saved a large
portion Of her cargo has been successfully
unloaded. England intends to send out an
Arctic expedition next year. It is pro-
posed to lay two more Atlantic cables.
The betting for the university boat race is
10 to on Oxford.
On Sunday, March 4, the Pope approved
and named Right Rev. Michael
Heiss, now bishop Of La Crosse, Wis, as
,coadjutator, with the right of succession,
to the archbishop of Milwaukee, and ap-
proved and named Rev. John A. Waiter
son, president Of Mount St. Mary's COL
lege, Emmittsburg, Nd, to be bishop of
Columbus, Ohio.
The trouble in the piano trade in New
York, which began some time ago by a
strike for higher wages among the en-
ployees of Steinway's manufactory, culmi-
mated yesterday in a general lockout in
nearly all the factories in New York, Be-
tween 4, 600 and 5000 workmen are thus
thrown out of employment, and they de-
clare that they will not go to work again
until wages are increased in all the shops.