Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-15
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LATEST NEWS By MAIL.
James Stevens was killed yesterday, by
the bursting Of grindstone in saw mill,
at Mitchells Bay, Ontario.
A colored woman was burned to death
by her clothes catching fire from kitchen
stove in Danvil!e, Va, yesterday.
Forbes's pottery at East Brookfield,
Mass. was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Loss, $1,000.
The Republican senatorial caucus in
Massachusetts met yesterday and On mo-
tiOn adjourned until next Tuesday.
Ahmed Moukhtar Pasha will be appoint
ed commander-in chief of the Turkish
forces on the Greek frontier.
Two children of James G. Buckley per-
ished by the burning of his house, near
Rochester, Indiana, on Thursday morning.
''Shepherd" Crowley's term having ex-
pired, he was released last Monday upon
payment of the fine of $3.50 exacted by the
| sentence.
While preparing a chemical combination
for stage thunder in Toronto, yesterday,
A. c. PAUL and William Armstrong were
severely injured by an explosion.
| The election of United States senator
in Maine was ordered in the Legislature
at Augusta yesterday for next Tuesday at
| noon.
Park Wilson was shot dead by his
father-in-law, Joseph Higbee, at Winches-
ter, Missouri, on Thursday night, because
he intended to marry very soon after his
wife's death.
| Henry Puckett was killed yesterday
while coupling cars in Richmond. Va. His
brother was killed and his sister severely
injured by railroad accidents some time
ago.
The wife of Scwell Paine was shot dead
by the premature discharge OF her hus-
bands gun while he was shooting chick
ell hawk at Stockton, Maryland, on Thurs
day.
In the pool tournament at New York,
yesterday, King defeated Morris, Field de-
feated E. Shaefer, Morris defeated J.
Shaefer, E. WahlstrOm defeated Lambert,
and Wallace defeated ]. Shaefer
4 cabin in the mountains near George
town, Colorado, occupied by two men,
named Pinkard and colored servant, was
swept away yesterday by snow slide, and
there is no trace of the occupants.
Judge Smith, of New York, dismissed
the libel suit brought by BARLEY Camp
bell against c. A. Byrnc, stating that the
act complained of constituted a proper
subject for civil, but not for criminal &C.
ton.
1t is thought in St. Petersburg that the
beginning of the year finds the country
with much brighter prospects than the
past year. In spite of Nihilism a certain
measure of progress towards real liberal
reforms has been made.
When General Grant arrives in Albany
next Monday he will be received by the
military organizations, the Boys in Blue
acting as guard of honor. On Wednes-
day he will visit the Capitol and be receiv-
ed by both houses of the Legislature.
The steamer New Brunswick, which ar.
rived at St. John. n. B., yesterday, from
Boston, brought the captain and crew Of
the brig Catherine Morris, bound from
Cornwall, N. s., to New York, the vessel
having run aground and broken to pieces.
An attempt vas made in Chicago yes
terday to advance passenger rates on the
Southwestern railroads in which there has
been q long continued war, but after i'll
crcasing the the rates for q few hours they
were reduced again. The war still con-
tinues.
The executive committee of the Colored
Mems Protective Union, of New Orleans,
adopted i resolution last night, recon-
mending President,elect Garfield to ap-
point p. b. s. Pinchbeck to some repre-
sentative position in his administration.
J. Newr, an aged colored man, died at
Cambridge, Nova Scotia, Il few days ago.
He was slave on the U. 8. frigate Chesa-
peake when she was captured by the Brit
ish frigate Shannon in 1918, and he was
taken by his captors to Halifax and there
set free.
Jean Baptiste Narbonnc ard Francois
Narbonne, his father, and Genevieve Mar
bonne, the latter's wife, were yesterday
sentenced, at St. Scholastique, by Judge
JohnstOne, to be hanged on February 20,
particulars of which crime are to-day
printed OH our first page.
w. +. G. Shanks brought suit against
the American news company in New
York to recover $40, 900 damages for hav-
ing circulated tho Truth newspaper alleged
to have contained libelous article on
him, Judge Gilbert gave decision yes
terday, directing the defendant to pay $40
damages.
James Mcclure, indicted in New York
for selling counterfeit trade dollars to OFF,
Ger Scanlan, of the secret service bureau,
on the night of November II. 1879, was
acquitted yesterday through the testimony
of Agnes Gilmer, who swore that on the
night in question Mcclure proposed mar
riage to her. Her sister was also present
on the occasion.
On the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Everson station, the train Oh which Thos.
Lee, brakeman, was employed, was stand
ing on the siding when another train was
thrown on the same track by switch
which had been left open and the collision
resulted. Lee was smashed to jelly. The
engineers and tiremen of both engines.
which were badly wrecked, escaped injury
by jumping off.