Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-19
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Some western capitalists, headed by Col
onel ID. +. Dyer, have purchased three of
the principal mines at Leadviie, Colorado,
for s., 100000.
John Dyer, on trial in Albion, Ind, for
the murder of his wife. has been found
guilty and his sentence fixed at imprisOn-
ment for life.
The North British railway is recovering
from the Tay calamity, and it has been
decided to rebuild the bridge twenty feet
lower than before.
The Russian Courier states that all the
Russian ministers except those of war, ma
| rine and of foreign affairs, have been sub
ordinated to NJ. WalJeff.
General Grant and party have engaged
passage on the steamship City of Alexan-
dris, which is to leave Havana for Mexico
Gil the 18th of February.
The jury in the Hayden murder case, at
| New Haven, remained out yesterday, and
| there are no indications of their coming to
| an agreement.
| Richard Sullivan, well Unknown Journal
ist, and brother of T. D. Sullivan. editor of
the Dublin Nation died in San Francisco
on Saturday.
Mrs. Margaret Tumy died in Cincinnati,
yesterday, after having, as it is alleged,
subsisted since the 10Th of December. on
''no food excepting two beans.''
! The female card speeders of the Aquid-
neck and Perry cotton mills, at Newport,
X. l., have struck for higher wages. One
of them who undertook to 90 to work was
assaulted by the others.
The annual races of the Savannah Jockey
Club over the Ten Brock course will be-
| gin to-day. A large number of we'll known
horses are on the ground and the prospect
of successful meeting is good.
| The Due Antoine de Gramont, the
French diplOmatist is dead. He was
French minister of foreign affairs at the
at the time Franco German war, of which
he was the principal instigator.
| Joseph Bermer, of Blackinton, Mass,
II years old, jumped from the Boston
Hoosac tunnel and Western Express train
near Backinston, on Saturday night, strik-
ing against post and killing himself in
stantly.
| Colored emigrants from Texas continue
to arrive in Kansas in large numbers, both
| by railroad and teams across the Indian
territory. Some of the emigrants are
living in tents and wagons in the woods,
and several of them have died from the
effects of destitution and exposure.
| A despatch from LeavenwOrth, Kansas,
sas the late City Clerk Fred. NJ. Spauld-
ing, who has been on trial during the last
week and found guilty Of embezzlement in
Office, was on Saturday sentenced to the
state prison for four years and six
months.
| A Paris dispatch says that at meeting
of the members of the Left yesterday it
was proposed to form single group,
which should constitute in itself govern
mcnt majority. 1t was decided that q
meeting bc held Oh Friday next to discuss
| the proposition.
| Twenty six deaths have occurred this
month in DeadwOod and the neighboring
camps, twenty-fOur of which were caused
by the prevailing throat and lung epidem-
ic. Nine of this number were children
under ten years. With population of
less than seven thousand person this
death-rate is very high. The weather is
unfavorable.
The directors of the Catholic cOlinizatiOn
society of the Unitsd States were in session
in Chicago last week. There were present
Bishops Spalding, of Peoria Ireland, Of
st. Paul ann OConner, of Omaha. 1t was
decided to call in the subscriptions to the
capital stock of the society. which is more
than fully taken. $50, 900 acres of land in
Greeley county. Nebraska, have been pur-
chased and will be open to emigrants and
cOlonists by the 18th ST February.
| There has been unusual stock gambling
in Peruvian bonds in London on account of
the war; The transference of ownership of
the celebrated Peruvian guano and nitrate
| deposits into Chilean hands will amend, it
is thought, the long standing scandal of
Peruvian bad faith. The Peruvian GuanO
| Com 0any owns guano in London to the
value of some "a, ,O0O, 900, all of which has
yet to be realized. The conditions pro-
posed by the Chilean government being
reasonable, the bondholders expect to re
ceive payment whenever the war indemnity
is paid.
Mrs. Maria L. Grow, aged 20 years,
wife of Joseph Crew, living on the Libby
| farm, Groton Ridges, Mass, was murdered
on Saturday. Her husband, who had
| been absent, returned home about 50 clock
in the evening, and going to his wife's
bedroom, found her lying in a pool of
blood on her back, dead and covered with
| quilt. She had been shot three times in
the face and once in the chest. The muir
| derer is believed to be mulatto tramp,
| about forty years of age, who had been
seen in the neighborhOod. An autopsy
| revealed the fact that the villain had raw
ished the woman before killing her.