Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-12
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The Ohio Republican convention will
meet in Columbus ON April %.
Horace Binney, of Boston and Philadel-
phia, died suddenly at Newport, r. l.,
last night.
The Rhode Island House of Representa-
tives yesterday passed. bill repeating the
act prohibiting marriages between blacks
and whites.
By a railroad collision at Enylewood. ILL.,.
yesterday morning, Jacob Lieber, a brake.
man, was fatally injured, and his son, aged
25, was killed.
San Francisco, March II, 9 p. H.
OLeary, 344 miles; Weston, 335. Inter-
est IN the match is increasing. Both men
are in good condition, although Weston is
the fresher
The steam yacht Arrow was burned on
Geneva lake, Wisconsin, yesterday morn
ing. A discharged employee is suspected
OF having set her on fire, and the people
threaten to lynch him if caught.
"A fire in Augusta, Ca, on Wednesday
night, destroyed Murray's stable. with
seven horses, a store room of r. NJ. Nav
& Co., containing $50 vehicles, the grocery
store of John D. Mccarthy, and several
smaller buildings. Loss, $4,000.
The Missouri state Republican commit
tee was reOrganized by the election of
Chauncey J. Filley. late postmaster of St.
Louis, in place of Gen. George II. Shields.
F'illey is strong Grant man. Shields is
for Blaine.
A schooner is reported ashore three
miles north of Little Egg Harbor inlet.
Her sails have been blown away and she
lies with her bow on the beach. The life
saving crew have gone to the rescue. The
wind is blowing almost tornado from
the northeast.
The jury in the case of Waller, who
Killed his father and shot his mother and
brother, in Strongsville, o., on the night
OF the 21st of October, brought in a
verdict of guilty of murder in the second
degree, penalty, imprisonment for life.
The jury was out twenty-three hours.
William Connolly, wellto-do farmer
of Dinwiddie county, Va, committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
double barreled shotgun, The deceased
was about forty years of age, and had
only been married about four months. No
| cause is assigned for the rash act.
A collision occurred on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad, at En-
glewOod, between !. west bound express
and a freight train, Jacob Seiber, a brake
man, was probably fatally injured, and
his son, aged 25 years, killed. A few
others were slightly injured.
A portion of New York train on the
Reading railroad, was thrown from the
track near Wayne station, yesterday, by
the sudden breaking of switch bar,
and the rails separating or spreading
Fortunately none of the passengers were
injured.
Yesterday morning James Mulaven en-
tered the home of Mr.. Henry Dierks, Erie,
during his absence and made deperate
attempt to outrage Catherine Dierks, a
child of eleven years. A neighbor hearing
the cries came to the rescue in time to pre-
vent the commission of the crime. The girl
was brutally handled
Yesterday morning the San Francisco
police seized a number of .placards ex-
hibited in the public streets bearing the
announcement, I" Read the Communist and
awake be freemen; thieves in council 4;
price 10 cents, by newsdealers " The
authorship of the placard has not been as
certained by the authorities:
The House committee on APPROXIMATIONS
has agreed to add the appropriation for
marshals' fees to the Immediate deficiency
bill. The section making the appropria-
marshals and their general deputies"
This is intended to and will exclude special
deputy marshals from receiving any fees
for their services. This cuts off ali cleo
tiOn mashals who served in California at
the September elections.
Micheal Padden and a neighbor named
Clark both laid claim to piece of land at
Leboure Oregon, and during Clark's ab-
sence Padden commenced fencing in the
land. Mrs. Clark ordered him off, and on
his refusal to go put shot gun into the
hands of her son, only eight years old, and
told him to odrive Padden away, whereupon
the boy shot Padden dead. No arrests
have yet been made.
The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, Ga,
who recently made trip North, intend to
erect memorial armory" in Atlanta
to commemorate the union of the states
and the return of peace, and to be
"always open to all who march under the
stars and stripes. " Captain Burke, the
commander of the company, has started a
subscription for the erection of the build
ing with 81 200, and it is proposed to open
subscriptions in all the principal cities of
the United States.
The flax mill of Lehman, Rosenthal &
Co., at Frankfort, Indiana, exploded and
was entirely destroyed by fire. Ten per-
sons were killed, among them Patrick
Leahy, the foreman, and Thomas CrOxtOn,
the engineer. Cause ofexplosion unknown.
At the time of the explosion all the en-
plOyees of the mill, ten in number, were
gathered in the boiler room, apparently
for the purpose of warming themselves
preparatory to going to work at seven
o'clock. The explosion completely de-
molished the building, shaking the neigh
boring town, and hurting pieces to dis
tance of three hundred yards. Not one of
the ten men escaped. When help arrived
Engineer Claxton was the only one alive
He never spoke, and diedin few minutes
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