Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-02
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sentative Keifer will present a minority re-
port in favor of Washburn.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
In executive session the Senate rejected
the nomination of Alexander C.. Wells,
son of J. Madison Wells, to be surveyor
of customs in New Orleans.
Edward Easement, twenty-seven yeals
old, was killed yesterday at LOnsdale
Mills. Providence, r. l., by falling through
q trap door.
John L. Graham, drug clerk, out of
killed himself by poison at South Nor
walk, Conn.,, yesterday.
Building contractors at Lewell have ac:.
ceded to the demands of their men, and
will pay bricklayers $3.50 and hod carriers
$3.50 per day.
Henry Lowell, a welLknown contractor,
committed suicide in Galveston, Texas, by
shooting himself through the head. A
note was found on his person saying that
bad health and inability to pay his debts
were the causes of the act.
While engaged in constructing an iron
bridge across the Hudson river at lansing
burg, this morning, ten men were precipi-
tated forty seven feet into the river by the
breaking of a scaffold. Three of the men
were badly but not seriously injured, and
one lost all eye. Work on the bridge has
been temporarily suspended.
A detachment of Halls state troups had
a fight on the morning of March 90, at
Cary & Cases ranch with Mexican des-
peradoes. The rangers attempted to arrest
an offender. and were attacked. Thirty
| shots were exchanged and two Mcxicans
were killed and one wounded. A young
man named Peter Johnston, recently from
Philadelphia, was killed by stray bullet.
Near Comstock, Kalamazoo county,
Mich, Andrew Brown, a farmer, ordered
his dau.hter-in-law, who had been de-
| serted by her husband, to leave his house.
Her father and some neighbOrs came and
asked that she be allowed to take some
furniture with her, whereupon fight en-
sued, in which Brown shot man named
John Dunbar twice through the lungs,
killing him. A mob gathered and threat
ened to lynch Brown, but he barricaded
himself in the house and they feared to
approach. Subsequently the deputy sheriff
effected an entrance and found Brown
lying on the bed, having taken nitrate of
silver. Physicians will try to save him fol
the gallOws.
Ben johnson, a young negro, who was
arrested in Winchester, KY, for an at
tempt to Outragea respectable young lady,
had an examining trial and was held tC
answer to the circuit court and sent tc
Jail. He had caught the bride of the
young lady's house at a lonely place along
a road and made desperate efforts to get
her off the horse, but she struck her with
her whip and escaped. It was with diff
Guilty that the negro was taken to Jail
About one o'clock yesterday morning a
crowd of thirty armed men overpowered
the guard at the Jail, took johnson, and,
after trying in vain to get confession
from him, hung him to tree in the jail
yard, where his body was found next NOR.
ming.
| The Bordentown, n. J., ex-Collector OF
Taxes &. Warner English arose at a. m
yesterday, and went to his barn, ostensi.
bly, to feed his horse and COW. At 6 clock
his son went out to call him to breakfast
and found him, with rope around his
neck, hanging from a beam. His hands
were in his pockets, and life seemed to be
extinct. Efforts were, however, made to
resuscitate him., but in vain. The dead
man, who was about forty years of ago,
years, during which time he made no set
tlement. The township committee have
lately endeavored to force a settlement.
without success. A CITIZENS committe G
was appointed, and finally he agreed to
pay 5000 to-day. 1t is said that he was
unable to raise the money.