Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-16
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In Provincetown, Mass, the business
of capturing fin-back whi]es, which has
been carried on to some extent this spring,
assumed large proportions Saturday,
twenty whales being shot with bomb
lances.
Wong TIE Fung, an elderly Chinaman
in San Francisco, who saw turtle lying
uncomfortably on his back in front Of q
restaurant, purchased it for fifteen dollars,
had it conveyed to the wharf and thrown
overheard.
Near Yale, British Columbia, several
hundred Chinese mobbed therailrOad COM
pany's warehouse and wrecked it. Two
thousand Chinese are on strike against the
railroad company, and more trouble is ex-
pected.
Baseball on Saturday Providence
Dartmouth, 9; Brown, 6. Chicago-Chi-
caso, 4; Worcester, 3. New Haven
Yale (Freshmen), IA; Amherst (Fresh-
men), 3. Cleveland-Bostop, 6; Cleve-
land, 5. New York-Metropolitan, II !;
Washington, I. Buffalo-PrOvidence, 4 :;
Buffalo,s Boston Harvard, IA; Yale, 9.
In Atcllison, Kan, Charles Given, a
cook at the Atlantic house, met his wife,
Louise, who was waiter in a restaurant.
and drawing a pistol, shot her several
times. He then shot himself through. the
brain. Both were dead in {. few mements.
Given was unsteady in his habits and his
wife had left him last March.
During the time of church services in
Trenton, last evening the parsonage of
the State street Methothist Episcopal
church was entered by thieves and about
$500 worth of plated ware, gold watch
| and the clothing of the pastor, the Rev.
s Van BenschOtcn, was stolen. The
police were notified of the robbery.
! The boiler in William Laws & Co. s
planning mill, Galveston, exploded, COM
pletely tearing out one side of the factory.
The building was badly wrecked. John
Harrison, the engineer, was buried under
meath the falling debris. He was rescued,
severely scalded. James DOugherty was
blown across the building and was severely
injured on the head and body by the fall
ing bricks he was also badly scalded.
| In Talladega, Alabama, at q picnic, a
little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. TeOle
strayed away and was caught by burly
negro who chOked her to death. He
robbed her of her jewelry and was in the
I, act Of throwing tho body into the river
when detected by the father. The negro
was captured after a desperate struggle
and hanged to a tree by the infuriated
men Of the picnic. The body was left
hanging.
Mrs. Jane Burke was found at No. 81
West Sixteenth street, New York, suffer
ing from Paris green poison. She stated
that her husband, Thomas Burke, had
given her poison, that they were recently
married and that he had four wives before
their marriage. Burke was arrested but
subsequently two women were found who
said they had seen Mrs. Burke mix thu
poison herself. The police hold Burk.
but place little reliance on the wife:
story.
Bishop Payne of the New England NJ
E. conference (colored) has been in Mer
cersburg, negotiating for the purchase o
the seminary building and grounds Of til,
old Marshall college. The building was
offered for sale recently by the sheriff to
satisfy claim against it. but was bought
in by prominent members of the Reformed
church in Merccrsburg and Maryland. II
is probable it will be sold to the bishop
and will then be converted into theo
logical college for colored NJ. E. students