Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-06
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Archbishop Wood recommends an Irisl
relief movement by the Catholics.
A Kansas City dispatch announces posi-
lively that the notorious outlaw JESSE
James, is dead, George Shepard $ shot hav.
ing done the work.
Auguste Hetftcr. the German .juriscOn-
suit, Charles Henri de Bieville, the French
dramatist, and Ferdinand Henaux, the
Belgian historian, are dead.
1t is sunderstood that MI John S. Mosby,
consul at Hong Kong, will he removed,
and the nomination of his successor will
be made to the Senate in a few days.
n. C. Taliaferro, retiring general agent
and store-kceper of the Virginia peniten-
tiary, is short from $500 to $4,000 in
his accounts. He says it will be made
good by his securities.
The boiler in the rolling mill of Coates
Bros, Locust Point, Md, exploded yester-
day. George Micrt, Joseph Vickers and
Charles Thomas were severely injured and
eight others were scalded, but none fatally
The mill was considerable wrecked.
ID. T. Porter, president of the "Taxing
District" of Memphis, Tenn, has resigned
owing to the passage, by the council of
ttltG utStIlSl3 yCSoCIutty, vi tth SAhiCINhlClU
practically repeating the ordinance reguir-
ING the establishment of earth-closets by
the 1st of April next.
Chief Justice Waite announced yester-
day that the supreme court would not
advance the legal-tender or any other
important political cases on the calendar,
but would wait until there should be a
full bench before going on with those
suits.
Two hundred labOrcrs on the extension
Of the Midland railroad, from Orange
Court House to Charlottesville, in Nir-
ginia, struck yesterday for an increase of
their wages to 81 per day. The road is
under contract to be finished by the 1st of
July.
Mr.. Root. of Illinois, has addressed
letter to Mr.. Don Cameron, the chairman
of the national commit tee, complaining of
the action of the latter in turning over all
the arrangements for the convention to a
subcommittee. Who can pack it with
Grant clawquers.
The prisoners confined in the Franklin
county, Ohio, Jail made a break for liber-
ty at O. clock last evening, just after the
new sheriff had assumed charge, and nine
escaped through the entrance door Jas.
Herrell, alias Kerr, indicted for murder in
the first degree, and j. w. Dodge, indict-
ed for stabbing, are among the missing.
The Cairo and Vincennes railroad was
sold by master in chancery in the United
states court at Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday,
in pursuance of decree i'm favor of the
1t was purchased by Joseph
w. Drexel and C. f. Tracy, of New
York, trustees for the bondholders, for
s., 100000.
The extensive forGeries affecting the
Groccr's bank, New York, resulted ycster-
day in the arrest of J.. Lloyd Haigh, who
was indicted for forgery in the third de-
gree at noon, and a few hours later was al
rested and taken to the Tombs. He had
confessed that he had forged
to the amount of nearly $780,
600. 1t is now said that he committed
other fOrgeries some years ago.
By the fall of the Greenway brewing
building in Syracuse, N. Y,
one man on the upper floor and three on
the lower, were injured, but not seriously.
Seven hundred bushels of corn and wheat,
175 bushels Of hops, about 5000 bushels of
Canada malt, and 1000 bushels of malt
dust were thrown into Onondaga creek,
and much of it carried away beyond re-
covery. The total loss will be about S20.-
600. The floor has heretofore carried
twice the weight that was on it when it
fell,