Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-06

ten-year-Os0 scamp picked mp by the
Jersey City police mystified them for hours
by adroitly personating Charley Ross.
Henry Berger, 10 years old. visitor
from Chicago at Sea View, N. J.. was
drowned while bathing in the surf.
John Penman was fatally shot by John
kaddy, in drunken quarrel, ut Brazil.
Ind, on Saturday night.
Mary jackson, cOlOrcd. was burned to
death, while lighting a fire with coal oil.
in Jersey City. yesterday afternoon.
Ferguson Kealy fell off dock and was
drowned, while drunk, in New York, on
Saturday night.
Three men were sunstruck in BROOKLYN.
N. Y, on Saturday, and one of them died
before he could be taken to the hospital.
Simeon Hibber, of Hunter,lon county.
N. j., was run over and killed on the Penn
sylvania railroad, near Mctuchen, last Fri
day evening.
Edward Haulan, accompanied by his
trainer, sailed from New York for Liver
pool ON Saturday. He is in good health,
and confident Of defeating Trickett.
The boiler Of \ saw mill ut Toisnot, N.
c., exploded on Saturday, wrecking the
building and injuring two men, one named
Edward Whitehurst, fatally.
Two stages which run between Louis
vile, Ky, and the Mammoth Cave, wero
stopped by highwaymen on Friday night
and all the passengers robbed.
An unknown man fired into Demo-
cratic parade at Washington, o., on Sat
urday evening, and Perry Wilson, spec
tatOr, was killed.
Cornelius COakley was stabbed five
times by Dennis Leary in fight in
South Boston on Saturday, and is believed
to be fatally wounded. Leary was ar
rested.
In brooklyn, on Saturday night, VIM.
Barry, being drunk, beat his wife so badly
that she is not expected to recover, be-
cause she refused to give him money to
buy more drink.
E. w. NJ. Mackey and Robert Smalls
were nominated for Congress on Saturday
Ond and Fifth districts of South Carolina,
respectively.
The body of man, supposed to be John
Appleby, of New York, was found near
the railroad track at South Amboy, N. j.,
yesterday morning. It is believed he was
killed by train.
The steamer Charleston, from Charles
ton, S. c., for New York, went ashore on
Saturday evening, and tugs and lighters
were at work upon her yesterday. One
thousand bales of cotton constituted the
bulk ofthe cargo.
The steamer Massachusetts,, ut PrOvi-
dence, r. l., yesterday from New York,
was run into by an unknown schooner off
Point Judith, in thick fog about 2 o'clock
in the morning. The steamer was not
damaged, and it was not believed the
schooner sustained serious injury.
Several persons narrowly escaped drown
ing at Long Branch yesterday. One of
them, named Wolf. was treated by physi-
clans for several hours before he recovered
consciousness. and remained at last ac-
counts in 4 prccariOus condition.
Four boys. swimming in the Christiana
river, at Wilmington, Del. yesterday,
were fired upon by John w. Morton, cap
tain of the schooner Souder, because they
did not heed his order to keep away from
his vessel. All were wounded, and one
named Harry Riley will probably lose IN
eye. Morton was arrested.
Yesterday was the warmest' of the season
at Long Branch, the thermometer, at four
o'clock in the afternoon, registering 81 de-
grccs in the shade. The temperature
averaged about 90 degrees in the shade at
all points along the Hudson river yester-
day afternoon, and the exodus from the
mountains received u check.
A fire in Mobile, Alabama, yesterday
afternoon, destroyed the wholesale dry
goods store of r. II. Dunlap, bankin.
house of Thos. p. Miller & Co., hardware
stores of Ira W. Porter & Co. and J. Il.
Hazard & Co., tinware factory Of +.
Gomez, and warehouse and law office.
The total loss is estimated at $3.50, 900.
Mrs. Margaret Fury demonstrated with
two young roughs named O'Brien, who
were abusing their mother under her win
dow, in Providence, Il. l., yesterday after
noon. The ruffians thereupon threw stones
at Mrs. Fury, one of which, it is said,
struck her with such force that she died in
about two hours. Her assailants escaped.
A little boy, named Sweeney, playing
around the machinery at the railroad dock
ut Rousc's Point, on Saturday, had his left
arm caught in 4 wheel and torn from his
body. His father, seeing tho boys peril,
rushed to the rescue. and was also caught
in the machinery and had one leg taken off
below the knee.
The body of an unknown man, appar-
emily about 80 years of age, about five feet
in height, in dark clothes and white |
shirt, was found floating on the Brooklyn
shore of the East river yesterday. 1t is
to be that of suicide who |
jumped from ferryboat few days ago.
At Bodie, Cal, yesterday, George Wat |
kins killed policeman named Whitaker,
and died soon afterwards from the effects |
of wounds inflicted by tho officer. A
Spaniard killed 4 man named Hackwcll, |
and John Raum killed miner named Co.'S
tellO, in an affray growing out of the beat
ing of waiter girl in 4 saloon.
DR.. Thomas Manson, the missing dent
ist from Brooklyn, has been found dead,
by handkerchief from u limb of |
! tree in shrubbcry near the main line |
Of the walk leading from the skating house |
to the flower garden in Prospect park,
Brooklyn. He was rich and slightly de-
ranged.
The body of George A. Campbell, of 1872
ed over a week ago, was found floating in
the river, near the Brooklyn navy yard,
The throat was cut, but there
was no evidence of robbery, and the police
,hink he cut his throat and jumped into
The river ut the same time.
Articles of Incorporation Of the " New
York under ground railroad company"
IS the successor of the " New York City
central underground railway company"
nave been filed. The road is to extend
rom South Ferry to Fifty-ninth street, the
main line running in a tunnel under Broad
way. Work will begin this fall and it is
proposed to complete the line by juno I,