Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
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Smith, the forger, who escaped from the
officers at Port Jervis has been arrested
and taken to New York.
There was a stormy time in the general
| conference at Cincinnati over the Metho-
dist Book Concern.
The strike at the Omaha smelling works
is over, a compromise having been effected
The troops have been ordered to leave.
Bells Life says: Nobody could be in
better condition than Oarsman Boyd
He will take all the beating even Hanlan
| can give.
Thomas w. Rice, of Brooklyn, retired
merchant, fatally shot himself yesterday
| morning in consequence of disastrous stock
| speculations.
Baseball: At Chicago-ChicagO, 8:
Cleveland. 5. PrincetOn-PrincetOn, g.
Harvard, 5. Observation-Disclosures, 8; Bos.
ton, 2.
Miss Mary E. Foran, while in sonam.
bulistic state, walked out of window in
Englishtown, Ont, and died from injuries
| received.
In Hamburg yesterday five boys, who
should have been in Sunday school, went
boating. Wallace Schomberg was drowned
William and Budd Pussley, brothers and
half-breed Indians, fought duel at Nc
Allister, in the Indian territory, on Friday
night. The former was killed.
The house of Job Ennis, Mennonite
settler near Winnipeg, was consumed by
lightning on Saturday. Ennis was killed
and his wife SO shocked that she died yes
terday.
August Pfulhauer killed Charles Hook
by kicking him in the stomach and back
in Peoria, ILL.,, on Friday night. The
murderer escaped. They worked together
in a brewery.
Walter Smith. aged fifteen, was shot and
killed by Charles F. Williams, aged 1S, a
former companion, at SOmerville, Mass,
on Saturday. Williams has been arrested.
The boys had quarreled and were not on
good terms.
The Tennessee NatiOnal-Greenback con-
ventiOn was held at Nashville on Saturday
afternoon. There was a slim attendance,
representing a portion of the state. The
speakers and resolutions favored repudia-
tiOn of all the state debt except about s2,-
100000
General and plentiful rains throughout
the Tidewater and Piedmont districts of
Virginia for two days past have ended the
exceptional drought of nearly two months.
Corn planting and other farming opera
tions have been greatly delayed and the
oats crop will be short.
Patrick Noonan was fatally shot at
Valley Falls, r. l., yesterday morning.
Patrick Forbes, alias p. Donnell. Forbes,
who iS ho1invol fo havo dana tho cI
escaped. Riley is under arrest, but refuses
to make any explanation.
Peter thinner, of Fort Washington,
Wisconsin, was arrested on a charge of the
murder of his son. When arrested he said
he supposed he was accused of the murder
but denied the charge. He was on his
way to New York to meet his intended
wife, who was coming from Germany. The
prisoner is so years old.
A family of emigrants named Mills,
from Manahan Island, were put off the
midnight train at Brampton, Ont, with
one Of the children suffering from dys-
entery. A kindly disposed person on the
train had given the sick child an overdose
of laudanum, from the effects of which it
died.
VIM. Il. Avery, ex-congressmen from
tennessee, was drowned Oy the capSlZlng
of a boat in Ten Mile Bayou, Arkansas, on
Friday. His body was recovered. Mr..
Avery was in the G1st year of his age, a
native of Tennessee, and represented that
state in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses.
An order has been made by the common
pleas court, No. 1, Philadelphia, substitu-
ting the society of the Cincinnati as .trus-
tees of the Washington monument fund in
place of the Pennsylvania company for in
Oh lives and granting annuities. |
This fund, which now amounts to about
$50, 600, is entirely distinct from the funds
in the hands of the society of the Cincn-
natl, which amounts to about $125, 1000.
John Morrie, Swiss, IS years: ::of age, of
Newark, went into the yard at the rear of
II Lille street, sat on cistern and shot
himself in the side, three inches below the
heart, with a pistol. John Stehl, G5 years
of age, shot and hanged himself in a field
near his house in Newark. He tied a
clothes line to the limb of a tree, put the
loose about his neck and shot himself in
he head. His second wife left him month
sgO.