Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-08
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THURSDAY EVENING. DEC. 8, 1881.
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.
The bishop of Algoma died yester rday in
Toronto.
A block of frame stores at Short Greek,
Kansas, was burned on Monday night.
The loss is estimated at CSC, 900.
BY collision between two freight trains
near Marshall, Texas, on Tuesday, two
men were killed and seven injured-three
seriously.
It is reported from Edmonton, in the
Northwest territory, that gold operations
there are brisk, "a good deal Of the dust
panning out from % to $12 per day."
The body of fourth boy killed by the
accident at the ruins Of the Sunday school
building in St. John, New Brunswick, was
found in the debris yesterday morning.
The postoffice at New Brunswick, New
Jersey, was robbed, on Tuesday night, of
81, 500 in money and stamps. voorhees,
station, on tho Pennsylvania railroad, was
also robbed by tramps who escaped.
A span of the bridge across the Red
Cedar river at Cedar Falls, Wisconsin,
was blown out by storm on Tuesday
night, killing one man and seriously in
juring three others.
The authorities of Chicago, in order to
check the spread of the smallpox in that
city, have ordered systematic inspection
of the West Side and compulsory vaccina-
tion for all citizens.
The government of Ontario, on Tuesday,
sold timber limits in the Muskoha and
Parry Sound districts of that province.
The aggregate of territory was 127 square
miles, and the amount received was $717,
176.
The annual convention of the Railroad
Conductors Life Insurance association met
yesterday, in New Orleans. Delegates
were present from all sections Of the United
States and Canada. Mayor Shakespeare
delivered an address of welcome.
William Burk, alias Charles H. Page,
has been arrested in Buffalo as the man
who stole the s117, 900 in bonds from the
president of the Commercial national bank
of Cleveland, Ohio. He had two confed.
crates who are supposed to have the stolen
bonds in their possession.
The schooners Fl. B. Baldwin and Cos
sack went ashore ut Cleveland, Ohio,
yesterday morning in a furious gale.
Threir crews were rescued. Both vessels
will probably prove almost total wrecks.
The Baldwin is valued at $12, 900 and the
Cossack at $4,000.
The Ohio State Dental society met yes.
terday in Columbus. Dr.. ]. II. Warner,
of Cincinnati. offered a resolution of sym.
pathy with DR.. Chalfant, Of California.
now in Jail for killing an agent of the
Goodyear rubber company. The society
refused to consider the resolution and cen
sured its intrOducer.
The toiler of the Mission soap and
candle works, in Chicago, blew up yes.
terday morning, demolishing the build
ing and causing 4 loss of go, 900. One
piece of the boiler was thrown over two.
story building and landed in a gravel pit
1000 yards distant. Strangely enough, no
lives were lost.
The steamer Lake Winnepeg, which ar.
rived at New York yesterday from Liver
pool reports that on the 23d ult., during a
hurric me, James Blair, chief engineer,
was washed overheard and lost Patrick
Cooney, fireman, was thrown down the
stoke hole and killed, and John Reynolds,
fireman, died from drinking carbolic acid
in mistake for vinegar