Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-09
LANCASTER DAILY TUESDAY, AUGUST 1881
LATEST NEWS By NAL.

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LATEST NEWS By NAIL.
There is prospect of largo cranberry
crop this year and the growers are all ju-
bilant.
The two United States senator's for Wis
consin have met and decided to nominate
ex-Congressman jeremiah Rusk for COVER
nor of that state.
During a disturbance on the steamer
Canada, near Point Aux Trembles, Que
bee. La Framlaise was knocked overheard
and dro owned.
1t is announced that a lady who does not
wish her name made public, has Just given
s10O, 900 to Princeton theological semi
nary.
Joseph O'Donnell. clerk for a lumber
firm, was shot dead by Edward Northrup,
a prominent lawyer, in Elizabeth. New
York.
Edward c. Gilbert, aged 80 years, was
trampled upon and fatally injured by a
vicious horse, in Providence. Rhode
| Island.
During a thunder storm q bolt struck
the residence of Owen Higgins, AZ Nos
trands avenue, Brooklyn, instantly kill
ing Mr.. Higgins. lie was G5 year old.
Vineland celebrated the twentieth ami
versary of its birthday by festival in
Jones's Grove last evening. embracing
short addresses by pioneers and others and
a display Of fireworks.
Bernard Strauss, a dry goods merchant,
of Brooklyn, attempted suicide at the
Brandreth house, in New York, by stab
bing himself in tho throat and attempting
| to sever an artery in his arm.
| Mr.. Alters, book-keeper for Blume &
Co.. Of New York city, was drowned
while bathing in a. psnd at Central Valley,
Orange county. N. Y. He dived and
struck a stump, which tore open his alb
domen, causing almost instant death.
William Weeks and Thomas Warren
were killed by lightning in Coventry, r.
l. They had gone from their house to a
| wood shed, when the lightning struck an
overhanging tree and passed into the shed
with fatal results.
Parker, who committed the assault on
Mrs. Bull, in Adirondacks, was arrested
in Hamilton county, N. Y, Oh Saturday.
He resisted tho constable who shot him
through the left breast. His recovery is
doubtful.
Elder James White, the founder Of the
sect of Seventh Day Adventists and presi-
dent of their publishing association and of
their college at Battle Creek, Mich, died
at that place on Saturday, ut the age of
sixty.
William Weeks and Thomas Warren
were killed by lightning on Sunday morn
ing. in Coventry, in r. l. They had gone
from their house to a woodshed, when the
lightning struck an overhanging tree and
passed into the shed with fatal result.
While stage, overloaded with passen-
gers, inside and out, was descending the
mountain from Prattsville to Mooresville,
in the Catskills, it capsized, and the driver
and several of the passengers were injured,
| the former seriously.
The United States naval station at Eric
has supplied over forty husbands for Erie
girls and an alleged attempt on the part
of Captain Kautz to get the Michigan
stationed permanently at Cleveland pro-
duces symptoms of panic among the Gig
ible maidens of the Lake City.
DIR. George G. Worthington, physician
of twelve years practice in Baltimore, was
arrested yesterday on the charge of NAL
practice, and committed to await the &C
tion of the grand jury. His victim, a
young woman named Hewett issaid to DO
in critical condition.
Adam Craig, Of Plainfe:d, N. j., sixty
five years old, while bathing at Asbury
Park, had an apoplectic stroke. He was
promptly taken out of tho surf by the
bathing masters, but the physicians were
unable to resuscitate him. This is the
first death on this beach this season.
A. B. Wheelock, clerk of j. G. VOL
colt & Co., brokers, of 42 Broad street,
New York, who was left to close up the
store on Friday last, has abscondcd with
SAC, 900 worth of stocks and securities and
$15, 900 in checks one of which he got
cashed aud on the others received letters
of credit on two we'll known banking firms.
Charles C. Kitchen, of Philadelphia, for
merly connected with the signal-service
Eden park, a city park on the hilltops
overlooking Cincinnati. He had evidently
| committed suicide, as a partially emptied
bottle of cyanide of potassium was found
in his person.
At GAO last night William Gale, the
English pedestrian, finished his great feat
of covering G,OO0 quarter miles in 5000
consecutive minutes and continued on the
track until he had added fourteen quarters
to his record. At the finish he wanted to
to bet $500 to 81 900 he could "begin
right off, and cover 500 miles within seven
days.
The French bark Victor E. Eugcnic has
arrived in st. Johns, N. F., bringing It'd
ings of the dory City of Bath. The crew
of the dory, Alison and Turner. boarded
the Eugene a few days since and reported
that the dory capsized on the twenty
eighth of July and the provisions were
spoiled. The captain of the bark supplied
them provisions, and they resumed their
voyage for Europe in good health and
spirits after expressing their gratitude to
Captain Vasval for his generous assist
ance.
SAVED FROM SUICIDE.