Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-03
LATEST NEWS By NAIL.

ex-represenative, died yesterday, aged 7s
years.
LATEST NEWS By NAIL.
Batoum, On the Black sea, has been de-
clared fret port.
Hathorne, hall, Bates college, at Lewis
ton, Me-, was badly damaged by fire
yesterday. The building is insured for
$50.
Two thousand St. Louis bricklayers
made a demand for an increase of fifty
cents upon !he first of March Their de-
mands were granted.
Gottiieb Foell. aged 81 years, COM
mitted suicide, in New York, on Tuesday
night. by shbbihg himself with carv-
ing knife.
Texas hasa law, now about to be re-
pealed, requiring every railroad train to
stand still five minutes on arriving at the
boundary linz of the state.
Philip Tr.schel, young German of
steady habits, tired of life, crushed his
head, arms and part of his body into the
furnace grats in his uncle's green house at
Flatbush, L. L., and burned to death in
this horrible yet heroic manner.
Albert Paine returned to Woonsocket,
r. l., last week, after twenty-seven years
absence and silence, to find that his wife,
supposing him to be dead, married an
other man twenty years ago, and has livet!
happily with him ever since. Paine is
said to have been farming in New Hamp.
shire during I'll these years.
During tn. passage of the :'Momus''
procession in Galveston, on Tuesday night
Mrs. Elizabeth Percival, proprietrcss of q
place known as the "English Kitchen -
was shot and mortally wounded by her
divorced husband, Richard Stevens.
When arrested Stevens confessed that he
went to the place for the purpose of kill
ing the woman.
At Monte Carlo, recently a man rushed
out of the gaming room exclaiming "
am done for I have lost 200, 600 francs -
On the staircase he drew a revolver and
blew out his brains. Another man, wan
dering on the shore, was seen to sit down
Oh q rock and rest his head on his hands.
A minute afta' detonation was heard.
He. too, had blown his brains out.
Austin Moiarty went home to his wife
at Putnam, Conn.,. and told her that If he
was not mistaken he had on the previous
day married Phoebe Brown at Providence.
He had Il dim recollection of going with
some friends to ! clergyman's house while
drunk, and becoming the bridegroom in a
marriage ceremony. His memory proved
sound, for an Clficer sooE arrived with a
warrant to arrest him, but his wife by
strategy enabled him to escape to Canada.
Peter McCollv, Of the Rehoboth, DEL,
neighborhoOd, las married his own aunt
McColly is q school teacher and he boarded
with his grandmother, the widow Goslee.
During the winter McColly and Laura, the
old lady's youngest daughter, fell in love
with each other The affair nearly crazed
Mrs. Goslcc, and on Tuesday last her worst
fears We're realized by the marriage of aunt
and nephew. The pair are described as
nearly of the same age, neither being much
beyond their majority. The girl is said
to be pretty and the family arc well
thought of.
This has been hard winter indeed for
and freezing cf cattle in Montana has
caused a loss Of about 20 per cent. Hay
has not been obt,inable off the main lines
OF travel at any cost, and the deep snow
has made transportation and browsing
alike Impossible uay aC $40 4 TON III
country where fodder does not usually
enter into the expense account of stock
raising, makes it sometimes cheaper to
kill cattle than to save them. Dakotah
has also a fuel famine.
Frank ]. Wright, an cstimable and ac-
cGmplished native Of Uniontown, Nd,
practicing law in Washington, went to
Colorado to look aftera clients land claim.
He bought some mules and servant to 60
prospecting into the mountains. Now
comes the horrible news that the mules had
been stolen and a vigilant committee, find
ing them in his possession, despite his
protests OF ignorance and innocence and
his offers to prove it, hung him and his
servant to the nearest tree.