Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-05
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LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.

--LATEST NE"o . MALL.
Tammany hall yesterday adjourned its
usual celebration, and adopted resolutions
Of sympathy for the president.
Base ball At Cleveland-Cle ::
Providence. 4. At Albany-Albany, 8;
New York, 3.
A large fire has occurred at ROvno,
Russia. Five thousand families are des-
titute.
In Rochester, Alexander Won the stall
lion race taking three heats out Of seven
Best time 2:1sa.
The crops of Nebraska will be up to the
average, except wheat, which will he
failure. but which never amounts to much
in that state.
A fire at Biddeford, Me-, destroyed the
Printers Exchange building, in Main
street. The loss on the building is $40, 900;
insured for $4,000.
In Mount Holly, while several persons
were loading cannon, it burst. blowing
hole through the face of John Saturday
and destroying his eyesight. John WOols-
ton was also badly injured.
News is just received from Hope, Ark,
of the assassination of Dock Daniels sheriff
Of Columbia county, by gang of drunken
negroes on the night of July 5. He was
called out of his house and shot down.
James Legrand, 70 years old, staunch
Republican, was removed from the train at
Great Bend, n. Y, on Saturday SO much
affected by the news of President Garfield's
misfortune that his physicians predicted
that he would be totally insane.
In Harrisburg, Va, VIM. Banks, ten
years old, the son Of a colorcd policeman,
has been committed to Jail, charged with
killing another negro boy, u little older
than himself. by striking him upon the
head with rock and breaking his skull.
A scaffold on which five men were
standing to put up a heavy piece of shaft
ing at the Rogers locomotive works in
Paterson, n. j., fell and James Parkman
and George p. BerdOn were fatally in
jurcd.
In Louisville, Ky, in 4 barroom quarrel,
George Knaft was killed with club in
the hands of Mart Fig, who was himself
subsequently fatally shot by Z. c. Au-
gustus. They are all young men and
were employees in a brickyard in the
neighborhood.
In joint convention the last Albany
vote resulted Us follows; Potter q, Conk-
ling 16, Wheeler %. Lapham 6, Hoskins 1,
StOughton 1. Long term: Depew 80,
Herman "a, Cornell II, Crowley 10, Van
| Cott 1, North 1, Fisk /, Lapham 1, Adams
1, Platt 1.
Frank Croft, William Underwood and
James Butler, member of of gang of
horse thieves and desporadoes in South
west Missouri, have been taken from the
Jail at Springfield, Dade county, by a
party of about so disguised men, and
hanged to tree in the jail-yard.
An accident on the Kentucky Central
railroad, by which seven persons were
killed and twelve wounded. all residents
| of COyington, was the result of collision
between Kentucky Central train and the
south bound Lexington express, with :.
| picnic excursion which was backing north
for another load of cxcursiOnists. 1t oc
cured twelve miles south Of COvington.
Around Dallas, Texas terrible storm
of wind and rain occurred on Friday night
leaving devastation and 4 deluge in its
train. Fences, Outhouses, and about six
residences were demolished. The new
congregational church, which was dedicated
last Sunday, fell on a cottage occupied by
Mrs Catherine Brown and her daughters.
a beam struck Mrs. Brown, inflicting fatal
injuries.
Bernard Mulvaney, 1G years of age,
threw some instrument ut Frederick
Iouge during squabble at Indian Orchard
Mass. Several boys were calling Hogue,
who is 81 years of age, I" Mr.. Hog which
angercd him. and he knocked Mulvaney
and another boy down. Mulvaney says
that lie only threw 4 stone, but the doctor
says tho wound could not have been in
tlicted by y stone. His right ear was cut
in Two, the skull fractured and the wound
iI the head is over an inch long