Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-07
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COuc up Oucc III Two weeks.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
William Daed, merchant of Lexin.-
ton, Va, was killed by being thrown
from his horse.
The New England fair, which will con-
tinue four days, opened at Worcester,
Mass, yesterday.
A fire at Osceola, Illinois, has destroyed
property amounting in value to S1OO, 900;
upon which there is an estimated insur-
ance of $4,000.
By a collision on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Thornton station, W.
Va. 13 persons were injured, one of whom
has died.
The bodies of four men, supposed to
have been cattle thieves killed by ranch
men," were found about twenty miles
from Ell Paso, Texas.
In Marquette, Michigan, by powder
explosion in the packing house of the
Lake Superior packing company eleven
men were blown to pieces.
A passenger train OH the Wabash rail-
road was ditched west of Shenandoah,
Iowa. Thomas Lecock was killed and
nineteen others injured. Two or three
fatally.
The project Ofa second Suez Canal under
English auspices is the subject of discus
sion in the Alexandria press. The advan-
tages proposed include a quicker transit
and a reduced tariff.
Visitors have been abundant this year in
Switzerland. On the Goth of August 1000
persons were carried to the top of Righi by
rail, the greatest number that even AS.
cended the mountain in one day.
Buildings with peaked roofs escaped
serious injury in the cyclone which SO
greatly damaged the town OF New Ulm,
Minn while neighboring square rooted
buildings were wrecked.
The principal Free Mason lodge of
Seville has offered its material assistance
to the Jewish refugees from Russia, and
promises to give continued guidance and
aid to those whose who settle in Spain.
The American Social Science Association
in session at Saratoga this week, promises
some important topics treated by essay and
debate including civil service reform, the
census, temperance, journalism, Sc.
In Greenville county, Va, Brown Davis
and ]. W. Saunders, county magistrate,
got into Il quarrel, and the latter was shot
and mOrtally wounded by Davis, and in
turn shot Davis twice, killing him in-
stantly.
The city of Los Angeles, Cal, celebrated
it's centennia! on Monday with much
spirit. A procession, literary exercises,
ancient native dances and games COM
posed the programme. Governor Perkins
delivered III address.
a special fund is being raised in Eng
land to forward a project for establishing
school banks throughout the country in
connection with the elementary schools.
The National Thrift society is moving in
the matter.
A sexton and his enemy fought in a
churchyard at MillsbOrO, Delaware, and
the sexton was thrown into freshly dug
grave. Then the other undertook to bury
him alive, and had almost completed the
job when help came.
In Jersey City, William II. Smith, 80
years of aye, employed as a switchman by
the New York, Lake Erie & Western rail-
road, was run over and instantly killed by
drill engine, near the Barrow street
crossing of the road.
On seeing two girls in earnest CONVERSE
ton ut Carlo, Mich, 4 yonng man blew
his brains out. He had made q marriage
engagement with each, and rightly
guessed that they were discussing his du.
plicity.
David Crimmins, from Toronto, COM
mitted suicide by jumping over the falls,
domestic atflictiOn being the cause. In a
letter found in his pocket he says he was
forced to do this rash act by his wife, aid
ed by Fathers Haidc:i, Laurent and OlOne
of Toronto.
Mrs. r. NJ. Harvey, the handsome and
wealthy widow, of Burnt Ordinary, Va,
who mystcriously disappeared August 10,
is believed to have been murdered after
leaving the ferry on the Pamunkey river,
on her way to Richmond. Detectives are
working up the case and it is thought inn
portant arrests will be made
Eighty stations arrived on Monday arc
for breeders in the West, and are the
finest lot of stations ever brought here.
They are all from Scotland, except six
magnificent gray Normans, and thirty
five Of them are owned by the Powell
Brothers, of SpringborOugh, and the re-
mainder by Charles Fullingtoa, of Marys-
vile, Ohio.
DR.. NJ. Hemstreet, a wealthy farmer
living near Stringtown few miles from
jefferson City, Mo-, on Saturday night,
stopped at the house of Andy Bohnneber-
ger, where a dance was in progress, and
heing slightly intoxicated got into an al
tcfcatiOn with some men who were present.
He was prevailed upon by his friends to
mount his horse and go home. He had
not proceeded far when two men, rs yet
unknown, met him on the road, fellel him
from his horse with 4 heavy fence stake,
and while lie was lying insensible upon
the ground crushed his skull in a terrible