Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-12
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Mrs. Sarah Regan, aged 65, was over
come by the heat and died at Jersey City
yesterday afternoon.
Mohr & Mohr's whislsey house in Gin
cinnati was destroyed by fire Saturday.
The loss is about $4,000.
Two bodies were been found in the after
cabin of the wreck of the Narragansett, at
Cold Spring Harbor, yesterday morning.
r. T. Hambrook's furniture factory and
and an adjoining frame house. in Chicago,
we're burned early yesterday morning.
Loss, $4,000.
Col. W. Thompson, the fraudulent Sec
retary of the navy, delivered campaign
speech at Terre Haute. Indiana, Saturday
night, two hours in length.
Radical changes have been made in the
condition of the working people in the fac
tories of Chicago, ILL.,, through the exer-
tions of Il visiting board Of the common
council.
An official decree has been published,
granting full remission of sentences to all
individuals convicted of participation in
the French insurrection Of 1901 and
subsequent insurrectiOnary movements.
Peter Sullivan was killed and another
boy had his leg broken by an explosion of
blasting powder in an old lookup at Holy
Oke, Mass, Saturday night. Sullivan s
body was blown through the roof.
Thomas BOothroyd, wealthy farmer of
Canada, was attacked by boar, which
threw him down and bit him in the side
and throat completely severing the juSular
vein. He died in fifteen minutes.
Miss Carrie French, of Mount Vernon,
Ohio was killed by jumping from a train
at Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday morning. An
incoming freight train collided with the
passenger train, and she jumped off when
she saw it coming.
The Orangemen of Montreal will to-day
unveil the Hackett monument in Mount
Royal cemetery and then sit down to a
banquet. The police have been ordered
to parade in force for the preservation OF
the peace.
The reports as to the condition of the
Trajectory, but the general evidence seems
to show that in no case will the damage
caused by the rust and chinchbugs amount
to more than 30 or 40 per cent.
An enthusiastic Hancock and English
ratification meeting was held Saturday
night at Cincinnati. VIM. d. Groesbecl
pTcSNlcu. AuuICSScS WcIC lliuc Dy WI
GrOesbeck, Senator PendletOn, General
Durbin Ward and Others
The water in the reservoir supplying
Petersburg, Va, having become INSULT
cient, a supply was turned in from the
canal last evening. 1t is now feared that
the canal will become SO low that several
mills will be compelled to suspend opera
tiOns.
There was six feet of water in the HOosat
tunnel yesterday morning, owing to al
overflow from the mountain streams
} Trains have also been delayed by wash
out which occurred ut ZOar station, fOul
miles from the east end of the tunnel, or
Saturday evening.
Miss Susie Perry, II years of age, stu
dent in the Normal college, swan from the
foot of Ninety-sixth street, North river, t.
the dock above Fort Lee, distance o.
more than five miles, The tide and vino
were against her. She had not been in tho
water for more than two years to swim
any considerable distance. Before long
she is to take a ten mile swim up the Hud
, son to YOnkers with her father who is ;
member of the New York police force
and extremely proud of his daughter.
aquatic performances.