Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-17
LANCASTER DAILY NrE11GENCER SATURDAY, JULY IT, $780,

LATEST NEWS By MAI.
W.. Wrighton, an English composer
Of popular songs and ballads. is dead.
Rear Admiral Stephen D. Trenchard,
has been placed on the retired list from the
10th inst.
Fires are raging all along the line Of the |
st. John and Maine and the European and |
North American railways through to Mat
tawamkeag.
Jessie Craig was burned to death in For
est, Ont, yesterday morning, while kind
ling a fire with coal oil.
Ex-Congressman John B. Alley was Sc
riously injured by being thrown from a
carriage at Nahant. Mass, yesterday. One
of his hips was broken.
Jessie Craig was burned to death at For
est, Ontario, yesterday morning her clothes
igniting while attempting to kindle fire
with coal oil.
The Republican congressional cOnven-
ton of the Twelfth Indiana district, yes
terday nominated Robert S. Taylor, of
Fort Wayne, for congress.
The British House of Commons has dis
approved of placing the Napoleon Memor-
ial in Westminster Abby by vote of 161
to 147.
A sixteen year old son of Abraham Pen
ningtOn, of Pawtuckct, r. l., was killed
by lightning yesterday while standing in
the doorway Of his frther's house.
Baseball, at Boston-Cincinnati, 4 Bos-
ton, 0. At WOrcester-Cleveland, 5; Wor-
cester (fourteen innings). At Provi-
dence-BuffslO, l.; Providence, o. At
Troy-Chicago, 6; Troy, 2.
Captain Payne and twenty-five men,
trespassers in the Indian territory, were
arrested by scouts on the 18th instant.
They will he taken to Polecat Creek. Kan
sas, and turned over to Colonel Robin
sou.
A severe drouth has long existed in sew
filst time in the history of that town water
is being sold on the reefs of Camden, the
price being twenty-five cents per bucket.
A policeman named Malette was found
| with his skull fractured, at the Ferry
street crossing of the New Jersey Central
| railroad, in Elizabeth, N. j.. on Thursday
moruing. 1t is now believed he was mur-
dered by unknown persons.
The ship Edith Troop, of St. John, N.
B., which sailed from New Orleans on the
90 of April for Calias, France, with cargo
of s, 900 quarters of grain, has not yet ar
rived at her destination and grave fears
are entertained for her safety.
Sharks have appeared in Bedford basin,
Nova Scotia. Warren Smith, the oars
man, while practising in his shell on We'd
nesday, was chased by shark but es-
capped being upset by getting into shallow
water.
The schooner Duval, capsized on Lake
Michigan last week, was found and righted
yesterday. The bodies Of the captains
son and seaman were found on the deck,
and it was believed the remainder of the
crew would be found in the cabin.
Very heavy rains fell on Thursday night
in the country around Petersburg, Va,
and thence southwark to North Carolina
line. All the streams, which had been
nearly dried up, are now filed, and the
drought in that section is now at an end.
At Shelbyville, Ind. George West was
fatally stabbed by Samuel Hunter. Both
are negroes. They were dinking together
and quarreled over a small amount OF
money, when Hunter plunged knife into
Vests neck. Hunter escaped.
The report of Judge Advocate General
Dunn upon the Whitaker case was read
to the secretary of war yesterday mOr2ine
by Colonel Barr. The reading occupied
nearly an hour, and the secretary will not
pass upon the recommendations for several
days.
Philip Hammond was sunstruck at
Greenville, N. j., yesterday afternoon,
while ON board the schooner Wilson and
died after being taken on shore before the
arrival of medical aid. The deceased lived
i'm Trenton, and was half owner of the
Wilson.
A Santa Fe despatch says that on
Thursday night James Dunningan, a
policeman, becoming intoxicated, was ar
rested by Jose Antonio Grieso. On the
way to the Jail Dunningan asked to be let
off and being refused fired, killing Griego
almost instantly. He was arrested.
At a ratification meeting in Frankfort,
Ky. Robert Craig while leaning out Of an
upper window received what is a possibly
fatal shot in the left size. Frank Redmar
had an eye put out by Roman candle and
an old man received the contents of shot
gun in his back.
The general conference of the free Bap
tist churches of America commences at the
Weirs, N. H., July 20, continuing ten days
Special significance will attach to the ses
sions, this being the centennial year of the
denomination. A large number of leading
minister of the faith will be present.
The intercollegiate four-oared race be
tween the Cornell, Columbia and Univer
sity of Pennsylvania crews was rowed OF
Lake George last evening, and was easily
won bv Cornell, the University being sec
ond. The winning time was 9:12 Univer
sity, 9:2O1 Columbia, 9:27s.
During severe thunder storm, at Han.
over, n. H., yesterday, whirlwind passet
over the southeastern portion of the village
doing great damage. Its course was from
southwest to northeast and its track q
little over a mile wide. Trees and Chin
neys were leveled, several houses were un
rooted, and one was partly demolished
One man was injured by being caught in
the debris of wrecked building three
others were injured by lightning, one Sc
verely.
Marshal MacMahOn Gloomy.