Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-22
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Irvine, Ky,, has lost all it's busin es
places in a $4,000 fire.
Extensive smuggling by American fish
ermen in Trinity bay is reported. 1t will
be investigated.
Walter Hohler, aged Is years, and John
O'Brien, aged 16, were drowned off Fields
Point, near Providence yesterday. Theil
boat collided with boat in tow.
The Gaze stove works, near the foot OF
Harrison street, St. Louis, burned last
evening. Loss, 100000; insured for
O,OOO.
A Dutch gentleman and two ladies OF
on the road to the Tete-Noire, Switzer
land.
Columbus Hill, colorcd blootblack,
was stabbed and killed in Baltimore, at
Hanover street market by David Sullivan,
notorious rough. The stabbing was ap-
parently unprovoked and wanton.
William Freize and John Away, who
were digging well in Lucan. Ont, were
overcome by foul air. Freize was dead
when taken out, and Alway was uncon.
scious, but will probably recover.
Inspired by jealousy and whisky, in St.
Louis, George w. Sears, negro, entered
a quarrel with Sallie Freeman, with whom
he lived, and cut her throat with razor,
inflicting wounds from which she died in
a few minutes.
An oil we'll near Bradford caught fire
and two workmen were caught in the
flames. They had sufficient presence of
mind to rush to the woods and roll over
and over among the bushes and extinguish
the fire in their clothing, but both were
terribly burned.
The woman arrested in bathing suit
OF the White House grounds turns out to
be Mrs. Mary Louisa Reininger, of Brook
lyn, aged %, whom malaria has deranged,
who left home for ROckaway and whose
friends feared from her absence that she
had drowned.
Hugh Burton, aged 1S, Of New York,
was going up in the Eighth avenue car.
When near Sixty first a man unknown as
saulted him. There was fight in the car
which they soon quilted, and when out
side tho unknown drew a pistol and shot
Burton fatally in the abdomen.
The August estimate of the Ohio board
of agriculture, compared with 1880 is as
follows: Wheat 72 per cent. ., or IS, 600, 900
bushels, against SO, soc, 600 bushels: corn,
20 per cent or "a, ,00O, 900 against los, 900, :.
600 bushels oats, 107 per cent or %, 5OO.-
600 bushels, against 22,OS1, 900 bushels.
Airs. Daisy Oaks Dudley, wife of Mr..
Francis H. Dudley and daughter of ex-
Judge w. J. A. Fuller, of tho law firm of
Fuller & Albeit, New York, shot and
killed herselfin Orange, N. j.. in a fit of
petulance because ner husband ordered
the buggy instead Of the phaeton. She
was given to melancholy.
John Leppolt and Charles Winkeman,
Germans. living at Manhattanville, N. Y,
quarreled when Winkeman, having grossly
iisulted Leppolt, was knocked down by
the latter. Shortly afterwards the two
men met, when Winkeman sprang at Lep.
polt and stabbed him four times in the
head, neck and abdomen, making frightful
wounds.
A fire on Gravier street, New Orleans,
destroyed tho establishments of PattisOn
& Boreard, wholesale liquor dealers, and
Samuel Levys, cigar dealer, and damaged
the stores of William Stern, wholesale
liquor dealer Meyer Heineman, boots and
shoes. and c. II. Lawrence & Co. and T.
T. White & Co., wholesale grocers. Loss,
$4,000
On Long Island the pear raisers have to
prop the branches of the trees up to keep
the limbs from breaking. Apples are
being brought to market for shipment in
good quantities. It was generally con-
ceded that, because of the enormous yield
of apples last year, the crop this year
would be light. Owners of orchards are
pleased to think that they were mistaken,
for tho apple trees promise fair yield.
The boiler of a sc, 900 tug exploded while
passing through the Chicago river, with
such force that it was fired like ball into
the boat house at the end of Clark street
bridge. The Captain. Frank Butler, was
hurled into the air and fell fatally mangled
but is still alive upon the deck of bark
that the tug had in tow. William McDon-
aid, deck band, and o. Oleson are miss
ing. They are supposed to have been
killed and to be entangled in the wreck.
In Louisville there has been great ex-
in the leaf tobacco market. The
long continued drouth makes it evident
that the crop will be short. The best
Burley tobacco sold on Saturday as high
as S68 per 100 pounds, being the highest |