Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-12
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gorges, which will be carried off when
they move.
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.
The Senate yesterday confirmed John F.
Hartranft as collector of customs ut Phila.
deiphia-
Miss Ann Reed, a medical student at
Ann Arbor university. Michigan, drowned
herself on Thursday night.
Green Jackson, negro, was hanged in
Marion, Crittenden county, Ark, yester-
day, for the murder of another negro last
spring.
According to the estimates of the state
agricultural bureau the farm and live stock
products Of Illinois in 1880, aggregated
s23G, 600, 900.
John Bell, a young man, shot and killed
q negro barber named Pool, at Hopkins
vile, KY, on Thursday night. The Jail
is guarded by white citizens to prevent the
negroes lynching him.
The director of the Paris Lloy(ls insur-
ance company, Place de Ia Bourse, COM
mitted suicide on Wednesday evening.
His affairs are now in an involved state
\ deficit Of s240, 900 is spoken of.
Three men have been carried over Mag
ara Falls, having been hunting ducks near
Navy Island, and their boat being caught
between two large cakes Of ice, from
which they were unable to extricate it
until too late.
\ New Brunswick man who went 10 St.
John recently to purchase coffin, expect
ing his aged mother to die, was buried in
the coffin himself the other day, and his
nonf hnp yv1p hnS Yocnrnral attended, ,c
funeral.
Yesterday afternoon two negroes were
caught in the attempt to wreck the south
ern-bound fast mail train on the Peters
burg & Weldon railroad by placing a
heavy sill up ani down the track near a
curve in the road ut Butterworth's bridge.
They confessed, and said they had been
paid to do the work.
At the Canada dc los Alamosa, thirteen
miles from Santa Fe, Julian Vigil, q Mexi-
can, killed his wife and young daughter
by chOpping them with an axe apd severe
ly wounded his son, leavin. him for dead.
Vigil then hanged himself to rafter in
the same saloon. He was insane from over
indulgence in liquor.
Henry McAIakin and Samuel Langner
inmates of the soldiers home, near Mil
waukee, werc found sutfocated in their
room, on Thursday morning, from the
effects of gas from a coal stove. Ono was
dead, and the other will die. They were
missed as long ago as Monday last, but,
strangely enough, no one seems to have
thought Of going to their room.
Sergeant Snidcr, of the l.el!evillc Cont. }
police owed Il great deal of money in small
amounts. and his creditors were importr-
nate. Duns met him at every turn. lie
could not dodge them. for his duty COM
pellcd him to patrol certain streets, and
| therefore it was easy to find him. Unable
to pay his debts he endured the torture
for several months, and then committed
suicide.
James X. Mccormick, Il travelling sales
man for Adolph Mayer s. Co.. of Cincill-
Hestcnvillc by w. I. Moore, .jr, his
brother in law. Mccormick had arrived
on the afternoon train. ard was heard in
threatened to cut MOorc's heart OUT, and
at the same time put his hand into his
pocket and asked Moore il he was ready.
Moore answered ''Yes' and drawing a re-
vOlver. shot Mccormick.
In Decatur, ILL.,, Porter J. Carson died
i'll the calaboOse from blows administered
to him by Officer Charles johnson in ar
resting him. Carson was boisterousiy
drunk, and the policeman struck him over
the head three times with his ash cane,
which was made from the handle of gar
den rake. Carson was thrown in The Gala
bOOse rs a "p!ain drunk, )" but at about
midnight was taken violently sick, and
soon lost consciousness. The inquest re-
vealed the fact that his skull has been frac.
tured.
AS Charles Applcsate and Cowles
Thompson, with several ladies. were cross
ing the Shrewsbury river, N. j., in a
sleigh at Hght they lost their way in the
dense fog and were unable to reach the
opposite shore. An attempt to return
failed, the fog being so thick that the vii
lage lights could not he discerncd. After
wandering about the river for several
hours the horses stopped and refused to
move. One of the party then went ahead
and discovered that just in front of them
was large space of open water. The fog
lifted soon after, and a landing was made
at Oceanic. One Of the ladies tainted, and
was carried ashore unconscious.
Inauguration Night illumination.
Washington will be brilliantly ilIumin-
ated by electric lights on the night of the
4th of March. Three q, 900 candle power
lights will burn on the capitol. Another
of the same power will burn on the right
ofthe treasury building, and have il; !; rays
directed up the avenue toward the capitol
by a reflector. Seven lights of 20)o candle
power each will be around the White House.
The National Museum building, where the
Inauguration ball is to he hel |. will con
tain three lights of 5000 candle power
each. A golden Goddess of Liberty,
thirty-tive feet high, will stand upon
pedestal amid a pyramid OF tropical
flowers in the middle Of the central room
of the building. Her right hand will hold
torch, slrmounting which will be
a light. The two other lights will be re-
flected against a large gildea star twenty
feet in diameter, which will he suspended
from the dome of the building. The agri-
cultural building will also be lighted.
The Champion Mean Man,