Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-13
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The breaker of the Delaware and Hud-
son canal company, at Olyphant, caught
fire and was destroyed.
In New Orleans Frederick Blumer,
night watchman of the Citizens bank,
committed suicide.
In Lexington, KY, thoroughbreds and
trotters were exhibited at the annual show
to the value of nearly million dollars.
William Harwick killed John French
and then committed suicide, in Waco,
Taxas, on Sunday night. They were rivals
in love.
Near New Orleans David Crawford, an
engineer on Morgan's railroad, fell from
his engine, and was run over and killed.
In Auburn, n. y, Llewelyn C. White,
shot himself through the head on Thursday
| last and died yesterday. He was only
% years old.
J. Tucker. cOlored, charged with the
! murder of Abe Frazer in 1876, was taken
from Jail at Greensburg, St. Helena parish,
La. Sunday morning by fifteen men and
shot to death.
| In New Egypt, n. j., William Cham
bers, fifty years old, drank on Saturday !.
solution of corrosive sublimate, supposing
that it was something else. He died yes
terday morning, leaving large family.
The large fleet or grain vessels which
left Chicago last week for the lower lakes
are detained by ice in the Straits of Mack
inaw a few managed to get through yes
terday and last night.
In suit now pending in Chicago the
fact that 9S. OOO, 900 pounds of oleomarga-
rine are sold in this country annually has
is, however, never quoted in the market.
DR.. E. w. Bland, and \. a. Glover and
A. a. Clisby, all white. were shot, the for
mer it is believed mOrtally, at an election
fight, in Edgefield, S. c., yesterday. The
quarrel 'grew out of the proposed reduc-
tion of the whisky tax"
Merrick's large malt house, in Lyons,
N. u, was burned. In the absence Of the
fire apparatus and water the whole village
was endangered. and was only saved be,
cause of the direction of the high wind
which was blowing at the time. The
building was insured for $4,000, and stock
for $15,O00 1t is total loss.
For the past few days there has been a
fine rafting freshet in the Delaware and
hundreds of RATS are now being floated te
Trenton and Philadelphia. An old steers
man says that the run of lumber has beer
larger this freshet than at any spring
freshet during the last ten years. Nearly
two hundred RATS passed yesterday on the
way to Philadelphia.
In New Haven, Conn.,, the Germani;
hall, owned by the Teutonia MHnnercho
and the German English school society
was destroyed by fire. The hall cost, il
1876, $50, 900, and was worth considerabl.
less at the time it was burned. 1t was in
sured for s14, 900 in New York, Trenton
and Toronto insurance companies.
A Canadian emf grant train bound fol
Winnipeg, was wrecked near West Union
a station Oh the St. Paul and Winnipeg
railroad, the breaking of wheel on til,
fifth car. Several cars were wrecked, one
man named Gould killed and his nephew
severely injured. The train consisted o
eleven cars of stock and emigrants' effect:
and seven passenger coaches. 4 large
number of cattle and small stock wer,
killed. Gould and his nephew were in
car with stock. Goulds son and daughter
who were in 4 passenger car, are uninjured
and are now on the way back to Ontario
where the wife Of the dead men resides.