Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-05
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Frederick Kloss, Cincinnati boy, aged
II years, shot his brother Otto, lad Of 8,
yesterday. in a fit of anger, with a toy
pistol.
The Pearl hominy mill, of Baltimore,
was burned yesterday, with all the stock
and machinery. The damage is estimated
at about 600 insurance, s55, $50.
The American mills company, of Provi-
dence, II. l., has made an assignment
| liabilities, $4,000; assets $4,000. The
failure is said to be due to that of a. J.
Gracffe, of New York.
Francois Xavier Jobii,, aged 95, who
lived alone, was found dead in his house in
Quebec. The carpet and floor were partly
burned, and it is supposed that he was
sufiocated. A dead cat was found lying
near him.
Policeman Maloney, of Long Island City,
went home intoxicated and shot his wife,
the bullet entering her head near tho eye.
| If the ball can be extracted she may re-
| cover. She refuses to make complainst
against her husband.
As the train bringing the Lancers. re-
turning from New Orleans, left CentSalia,
ILL.,, last night. the engine wat derailed. In
hauling the engine upon the track the rope
broke, fracturing the skull Of William
Bailey. ono of the Lancers. Mr.. Bailey has
since died. No one else was hurt.
The Eureka blasting powder works at
| Highland, three miles from Oakland, CAL.
exploded yesterday with terrific force,
Two Cinnamon were killed, and five
Cinnamon and two white men were injur-
ed. The roof of the magazine was blown
off, and the packing house destroyed.
George w. Musser, of Fairfield, Greene
county, Ohio, has been held to bail for
striking his pastor, Rev. J. Hale of the Re-
formed church, with club. Musser was
! laughing in church, and on Mr.. Hale rc-
buking him from tho pulpit, he went out
waited for the minister at the church
door and felled him with hickory stick.
Frederick H. Churchill, a wel!:known
citizen of New Britain, Conn.,, shot him.
self dead with pistol. Cause, aberra-
ton of mind from too close application to
the electric light business. He was a
graduate of Yale college, a lawyer, pos
| sessed Of wealth, and having wife and
four children
In GalIatin county, KY, at the request of
Mrs. O'Neal, whose husband was neglect
| ing her, Andrew Gibner, neighbOr, went
to feed O'Neal's stock. O'Neal came
home meanwhile, and taking an axe fol
lowed Gibuer, knockd him down and de-
liberately cut his head to pieces and cut
of one arm.
In Jackson county, Ga, Jesse Cook, ac-
compaIied by his 14-year-old daughter,
Went into the woods to split rails. Cook
| told his daughter that if she did not split
as many rails as he did in the days work
he would kill her. After hard days
work the daughter, on counting her pile
of rails, ascertained that she had not split
! quite SO many as her father. Fearing tho
! unmerciful punishment to whichnshe had
frequently been subjected, she did not 20
home. Her father hunted her up and
failed her so mercifully with a;rail:that she
died soon afterward. Cook attempted to
escape, but was placed injail.
In the inaugural parade in Washington
yesterday the Harmony Legion, Of Phiia-
delphia, when they came up the avenue,
wore red shirts, carried small stats with
flags and resembled firemen in general
appearance. They insulted everybody of
prominence along the line of march and
stopped to fight where it was resented.
Between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
the entire Legion broke up and went into
a general free fight, cracking heads right
and left with their stats and getting a
good many knocks in return. In some
instances a dozen of them would break
ranks and plunge into the crowd, driving
whomsoever they pursued into the saloons
and soaring half to death the women and
children who were incidently knocked
over in the chase.