Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-18
LATEST NEWS By NAIL.

Perry Belmont has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats Of the First
New York district.
4 Mrs. Bethas has placed seventy five
orphans brought out from England in
farmers families i'll Quebec.
An Iron Mountain railroad locomotive
exploded its boiler in the round-house at
Barring Cross, Ark, dangerously wound
ing two men.
It is said the cpizooty in Cleveland, O.,
is as severe as during the previous vista
tion. The street cars, however, are still
running.
All hands We're lost on Friday last by the
capsizing OF the schooner Annie Linwood,
of Cape Smoky, n. S., during Il terrible
sluall.
Jack Pierce shot and killed Joseph Horn
beck at Rawlins, W. T., on Saturday.
Both were teamsters. The mob threaten
to lynch Pierce.
Belinda ConklinG, Il young woman, was
kicked to death by aiI ini'uciated horse on
her fathers farm, in Sussex county, n. j.,
last Friday.
William Harding, aged 10 years, was
killed by 4 train at a railroad crossing III
New Brunswick, n. J.. on Saturday after
noon.
Frederick Lent, 20 years of age, a
street car conductor. committed suicide OIL
Friday night by cutting his throat with a
razor. No cause known.
Dogs got into herd of sheep at
Browns Mills, Burlington county, n. j.,
on Friday night, killed 81 and mntilated
2j others so badly that they had to be
slaughtered.
Robert Ii. Wells, clerk Of the Scaboard
and Roanoke railroad company at Ports
mouth, Va, committed suicide Oh Satur-
day by shooting. He had been in bad
health.
James Kinney, belonging to the Twen-
tieth United States infantry, was struck
and killed by u billet ofwood by James
HOan in a row at Galveston. Texas, on
Friday night.
Luther Pickett, oil Carroll county, Mary
sin, Martha Pickett, ard her father, Mil
ton. Pickett had persistently refused to
marry the girl, whom he had wronged.
Robert II. Wells, clerk of the Scaboar
& Roanoke railroad company at Ports
mouth, Va, committed suicide Oh Satur
day by shooting. lie had been in bad
health.
James Kinney, belonging to the Twcn-
tieth United States infantry, was strnck
and killed by a billet of wood by James
Hoan in row at Galveston, Texas, on
Friday night.
The body OF !. girl named Husack,
whose parents perisiled by the explosion
at the Garden City distillery in Chicago Oh
Friday night, was found among the ruins. |
The deaths now number eight.
Ammo Todd, wife of d saloon keeper in |
Baltimore, was fatally shot by her hus- |
band, whom she had angered, on Saturday |
morning. She held month old infant in |
her arms at the time. Todd was ar
rested.
Malarial fever is reported to be cpl
demic in the neighborhood of Franklin,
N. J. Whole families at Greenvile and
Cedar Swamp are sick with it. The fever
is abating at franklin Furnace and work
has been resumed at the mills.
While William Kelley, aged 1G years,
was looking at same other youths throw
ing the hammer" in New York yesterday
afternoon, the hammer slipped from the
hand Of a thrower and struck Kelley on
the head, fracturing his skull.
During the passage of Democratic
parade in Wilmington, Del, Saturday
night, it was fred upon from q house-top
and six persons were seriously wounded,
two being now reported dying. The fire
was returned and the building torn out,
and several of the first assai!ants severely
Returns from Ripley county, Indiana,
the only county not already heard from,
give Landers 2, 466 and Porter 2, Ali. The
official returns from fifty one counties have
been received by the secretary of state,
Ind taking these as a basis the Republi-
,ans claim plurality of 6, 100. In the As.