Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-14
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Seventeen hundred immigrants arrived
in Baltimore yesterday.
In Cleveland, O., Andrew johnson dice
He was Swede and had been only ter
days in the country.
There were two deaths from sun stroke
in Brooklyn on Thursday. Six deaths
from sunstroke have occurred in New Yorl
since Wednesday morning.
Ex-Mayor Gilbert 1rupler, OF COnnels
vile, Ind, it is reported has been arrested
on 4 charge of beating his wife with a
pitcher while drunk.
Thomas Coleman died in Bath county
ky., on the 18th instant from the effects
of shot from pistol received on the 18th
instant from George ShrOut, said to have
been in self.dcfense.
In quarrel between John Ferguson
and Alexander Hawkins in a restaurant
yesterday at Louisville, KY, the latter
threw a hatchet at Ferguson, crushing his
head SO that it is thought he will die.
Hawkins escaped.
The police Of Jersey City have shot =;
dogs found running ut large within the
last week. During the last week of April,
eleven persons were bitten by dogs in that
city, hence the order to shoot all dogs
found in the streets.
Elizabeth DavcEe, q wire-rOpe dancer,
formerly connected with Barnum's circus,
who fell from a rope while performing
some three weeks ago and injured her
spine, died yesterday at the New York
hospital from her injuries.
Darwin Starkweather, being drunk.
quarrelled with his family, i'm Phelps.
New York, on Thursday night, and was
knocked down by blow on the head in a
struggle with his son. When lifted up he
was found to be dead.
It is feared, in Gloucester, Mass, that
the schooner Carrie l. Doyle, Captain
Richardson, foundered on the Western
Banks during the gale of April Is. She
was seen two days previous to the storm,
leaking badly, but her captain declined
assistance.
VIM. Guthrie, convicted at Wilmington.
Del, of attempting to assault a little girl.
was sentenced to pay a fine of $3.50 and
the costs of prosecution, to stand one hour
in the pillory, to receive thirty l.shes on
Saturday, the 21st inst. and to be i'm
prisoned for five years.
Professor Barnard, at Nashville, dis COW
cred another comet on Thursday morning
the second of this year. 1t is in the
constellation Pegasus, right ascension %
hours, 50 minutes declinatiOn north II
degrees, "a minutes. 1t is small, but
bright, and moving northwesterly.
In the Illinois House of Representatives
yesterday a bill was passed prohibiting
under heavy penalties all railroads in the
state from changing their rates of freight
without first giving GO days notice of the
change, by posting the same in every sta
ton along the line.
The storm at WorthingtOn, Iowa, yestcr-
day afternoon lifted the barn Of John Pit
man, containing six horses, and carried it
a distance of half milo without injury to
The horses also. two barns belonging to
R. Baker were blown distance of two
miles. No lives were reported lost.
The steamer Galatea, of the Providence
md Now York line, now running in con-
lectiOn with the steamer Massachusetts,, |
vent ashore of the east end of Plum Is
and on Thursday night but was not dam
'ged, and it was thought that she would
'e easily gotten off.
William Gutherie, for an attempted Odt- |
age on Annabel Davidson, little girl,
vas yesterday sentenced at Wilmington,
)el., to pay $3.50 fine and the costs of
to stand one hour in the
illory, to receive thirty lashes on Satur
ay next, and to be imprisoned for five
ears.
In Racine, Wis, Anne Myrtle, girl of
3 years of age, died from the effects of
julnrin. the rope" She jumped one.