Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-14
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Oliver Maul>burg. aged %. cut his throat
in a stable i'll Philadelphia yesterday and
will probably die.
Baseball: At Buifalo-ButfalO 10, Gin
cinnati = At Troy-Troy &, Providence
/ At Worcester-Worcester9 9, Boston
1t Cleveland-Chicago 3, Cleveland D.
\ dispatch from Morgan, Texas, says
that man named Hodges was found mur-
iured in his bed at Mrs. Hattie Wilson's
camp. There is no clue to the murderer.
vt the cabinet meeting yesterday the
question OF the st. Louis district attorney
snip was considered and it was decided to
reappoiilt William II. Bliss, the present in
G llnDent.
Yesterday fire caused by spontaneous
combustion in the Plymouth house, Ply
mouth. y. H.. destroyed the hotel, to-
-ether with the stables, sheds, cts. The
loss is $4,000.
\ boy named Johnston STATED to hunt
Il bear on his fathers farm. near Hunts
lille Ont, on Sunday. with no weapon
but an empty gun. and was torn in pieces
by the beast.
Policeman Peter Scanlan was shot dead
by August Wimmerlick, whom he was ar
resting for wiie-beating, in Dubuque,
Iowa. on Monday night. Wimmerlick es-
capped.
John B. Mannix, assignee of Archbishop
Purcell, began suit yesterday in Cincinnati
to set aside all alleged fraudulent convey
ance of property. aud to recover 81, 900
from Elizabeth W. Boyce and daughters.
An earthquake. lasting several seconds.
was felt at Memphis. Tennessee, at fifteen
minutes past night o'clock last evening.
! Its motion was vibrating, coming from
/ the northwest.
Tanner is said to he weakening, but
/ Processes his ability to hold out in his forty
! days fast. The watchers say they will not
allow his attempt to result fatally, and
have provided restoratives to be promptly
applied in the event of sudden collapse.
President Grevy, by DEGREES dated July
6. granted paIdons and combinations OF
sentences to more than thirteen hundred
common law criminals undergoing punish
ment in home and colonial penal establish
! mentS.
IIartwell & WinslOw's planning mill and
saw mill belonging to the Mutual life in.
surance company. at Plattsburgh, n. V,
was destroyed by fire last Sunday night
Tie fire was of incendiary origin. The loss
is 80 coo insurance $50, 900.
The Chilian legation at Washington is
advised by telegram from Panama that the
Clilian fleet has notified the Peruvian au.
tlloritics that the city of Lima will be
bnmhar,led if peace is not concluded. The
inha bitants at last accounts were leaving
the city.
Tile villa of Theodore Mommsen, the
distinguished German professor and anti
piarian. at Charlottcnburg, 4 suburb O
Berlin. has been burned down. Professor
MommScn was severely injured. \ very
valuable collection of scientific and histOri
cal works waS destroyed.
Judge Woods. of Atlanta, Ca, decided
yesterday. in the habeas corpus case Oftht
revenue officers charged with the murde
OF William Jones. an alleged illicit distiller
near Atlanta. that the United States had
jurisdiction. and ordered the case to bt
transferred from the state courts.
Yesterday was very hot day in Othe
places us well us in Lancaster. In Wash
inrtnu. during the afternoon the tempera
turc was from 50 to 9S degrees in Gin
cilnati. 9j to 100 in Chicago. "a to 100
and in Baltimore ut the signal office, 30
There We're several deaths from sunstrOk'
in Baltimore and Cincinnati. There wer
/. Sun>troke> in Chicago. fatal.
In Columbus. Ohio, yesterday ). S
Eickley. president of the Capital Cit
bank, was shot through the forehead
:. while standing at his desk by Andrey
Eichcnhurg. Il German dyer, who immc
Giltelv shot himself, dying almost instant
IL. Ricklcy may live, but the chances ar
against him. The trouble grew out Q
Ricklcy's refusal to loan Eichcnber
money.