Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-08
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

John P. P.Gordon, about thirty-three years
OF age, was fatally shot at Quincy, Mass.
In Dover, n. H., fire destroyed five
houses and five barns and damaged sew
eral other buildings Loss, s35, 1000.
The United States mints coined during
September 1881, SGT pieces, of the value Of
sc, go, ,O35.
The wholesale dry-goods house Of n. 3.
HarwOod, of Minneapolis, Minn.. passed
into the hand of the sheriff Thursday.
Many New York firms are among the cred
itors.
Joseph Hamil, Of Oceanport, n. j., was
instantly killed by 4 freight train on the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. near Long
Branch. His body was cut in two Just
above the waist and one leg was cut of.
Two retail grocers of Montreal, Can.
have been arrested for counterfeiting Hen
nessy's brandy. The detectives say that a
large number of wholesale houses are ell
gagged in the same business and that start.
ling exposures will shortly be made.
A gravel and freight train ran together
on the Chicago, Milwaukee Il St. Paul
railroad near St. Paul, Minn., killing Geo.
Iorrence, engineer, and Zeph. Hanscomb,
fireman, and fatally injuring Clay Ross.
engineer.
Charles Clinton, of the New Orleans
Times, has sued Mrs. S. f. Burke. f.. A.
Burke and ]. ID. Houston, proprietors of
the New Orleans Democrat, for $50, 900
damages for an alleged libelous article
published in the Democrat on October 81.
In Greeville S. c., Reuben Doilson, Il
respectable colored man seventy years old,
was assassinated by unknown parties.
Dodson was we'll known Democrat, and
the murder is supposed to have been COM
mitted from political motives. as threats
have been made against him.
Rowcll won the English walking match.
scoring his 5GGth mile III hour ahead OF
time. This is the best score ever made in
a contest of this kind and the pedestrians
have now another record - to beat.
though it only exceeds that made by Hart
III GilmOre's Garden last April by one
| mile.
Cold weather has prevailed. in Canada
and Illinois. Dallas, Texas, has had it's
first snow storm since 1851. Near Fort
Worth a. NJ. Bone was found frozen to
death. He became intoxicated before
starting for home and it is supposed he
fell from his wagon, remaining on tEo
ground all night.
The heaviest gale in twenty years swept
over Lake Erie Sunday. The schooner Jura
with 1G, 600 bushels of wheat, from Toledo
for Buffalo, put into harbor to escape the
storm. She dropped two anchors, bus nev-
crthciess drifted to Swinten's pier, at the
eastern part of the bay, and is in great
danger. The sea is sweeping her from
stem to stern. The crew are safe. The
schooner Porter, for Milwaukee, is lying
near the buoy at Erie flying signals of dis
tresS.
The American steamer Courier, which
arrived at Hakodadi from the North on
the 18th of October, reports the arrival at
PetrOpau!ovski of q steam whaler which,
announced that according to information
received from natives the Jeannctte (the
New York Herald's Arctic cxpIorer) and
some whalers had been lost, with the
hands, the vessels having been crushed in
the ice. In Toxic over one thousand
houses were totally demolished while the
lives of hundreds of fishermen were lost
in the bay by the recent typlhoon.