Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-29
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Fort Peire. OAK, has five foot ice
flood the town is drowned out and the
people are fleeing to the hills.
Boys searching for arbutus found hu-
man skull covered with slouch hat in a
ravine leading to Trading Cove, Mount
vile, Conn.
Billy Edwards and Mike Donovan had
sixteen rounds 1T Mystic Island. Dono-
van was badly punished and threw up the
sponge.
A lady who obtained a private audience
with the Pope warned him that the day
and hour were fixed for the murder of
himself and Cardinal Pecci.
Potchefstroom surrendered or the day
peace was signed, after hard fighting 11s
British soldiers were killed and 90 wou:d-
cd. The Beers captured 5000 rounds Of
ammunition and two guns.
Henry Russell, reputcd to bc one of the
wealthiest farmers in Elgin, Ill.,, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself DOM
cstic troubles induced him to this act.
He leaves a wife and several grown child
rem, two of whom reside in New Jersey.
John p. 7. Daviess, a prominent citizen
of Harrodsburg, KY. and practicing law
yer, committed suicide yesterday by pIac-
ing revolver against his forehead and
blowing his brains out. /; is supposed
that he was suffering from temporary
alteration of mind. He was .hc son of
Major William Daviess and nephew Of the
late United States Senator John T.
Thompson.
An extensive fire was raging yesterday
II the --oods between Attlcborcugh and
.!npe ynf.t
Wrenthram, where, at 10 O'Clock last night
quantity of wood and timber have been
destroyed aud several dwellings, threaten
ed. A force of men are engaged in fight
the fire, but at late hour there wa, no
sign of its abatement.
The inundation in the Platte Valley has
nearly subsidized. The bodies of Il woman
and two children were found drowned near
Schuyler, and no doubt number Of
others will be recovered in that portion OF
the valley. Several bridges On the Bur-
lington & Missouri railroad have been
damaged, and Union Pacific overland
trains will bc run for two or three days via
St. Joseph and Hastings.
In Youngstown, Ohio, the manhead in a
pudding furnace in Brown, Banncll &
Co. S rolling mill blew out, the escaping
steam and flying debris woundiny twelve
men, three of them seriously. The cxplo
sion made a terrible noise and the scene
after the steam cloud aud the dust from
the flying fragments had cleared away was
heartrendins. Wives and mothers gathered
about the mill, inquiring if their dear ones
were killed. The wounded were removed
to their homes and are receiving attention
from all the physicians in the city. The
loss of property is very small.
Charles Young, clerk in the office of
Warren Springer's machinery depot, Chi
cago, attempted to kill his wife at the
Union Park hotel. where they had been
spending their honeymoon. Although
they had been married only six weeks,
there had been numerous q,,arrels he
tween them on account Of the marked at
tentions paid to Mrs. Young by an engi-
neer named Pine. Last night Young be-
came violent and his wife fled from the
room. He pursued and fired at her rs s!,,.
reached the stairway. The shot missed
its mark, but the terrified woman lost her
footing and fell to the bottom of the stairs,
spraining her ankle in the fall.