Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-08
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Two frame blocks in Palestine, Texas,
were burned on Thursday night. Loss,
$50, 900.
One hundred and forty-eislt persons
died in New York city between Saturday
and yesterday noon. Sixty ofthcsc deaths
arc ascribel to the effects of the heat.
Mary Hines, aged 10 years, was fatally
burned, by coal oil, while lighting Il fire
in Troy, New York, on Saturday morning.
She died in n few hours.
The steam dressing lumber mill belong
ing to White, Clarkson & Co., Of New
Haven, VT, has burned. TOTAL loss $15,-
600.
William Wheeler's house and barn and
| Michael McGill's house Oh Quarry Hill,
Staten Island, wore burned on Friday
evening. Loss, $4,000.
p. j. Adams, a clerk in a hardware store
at Great Darlington, Mass, accidentally
| shot and killed Henry G. Fellows, twenty
years of age, this morning ut Great Bar
rington. F..
Tho marc Nancy Awful, the dam of
Rarus, died in the stable Of her owner, r..
B. Conklin, at Ashrcmoquc, on Friday.
She was 81 years of age. At tho time of
her death she had by her side = two
| months old colt.
A public company, with a capital of
f4. .OO0. 900. is about to be formed, with
| tho aid Of large London financiers, for the
purpose of acquiring and reclaiming waste
lands in Ireland. and for other purposes
connected with agriculture in Ireland.
The chancellor of McG;ll university,
Quebec. has made a public appeal for
$3.50, 900 to carry on the work of education
efficiently. The deficiency this year,
owing to the reduction of the rate Of in
terest, will be $500.
Two bodies, which had been mangled
beyond recognition by coyotes, were
found about ten miles from Tucson, Ari-
zona, on Friday. They were supposed to
be those of two Indians lynched for mur-
der about month ago.
In Oreville, CAL, J.T. Noakes was taken
from the Jail by 4 body of masked and
armed men, conveyed Il short distance
from the town and hanged to tree.
Noakes had murdered an old man named
| A. J. Crum, at Chico, three weeks ago, by
kicking him to death.
At Nanticoke, J. Adams, United States
mail carrier between that place and Har
vcy Creek, was drowned in the Susque-
hanna river. The day was very hot, and
with 4 view to cooling Off he jumped into
the water, was taken with cramps aud
sank to the bottom.
The exports from Victoria, B. c., for
tho year ended June 80 amounted in value
to 50, 1907 600, including the lumber ex-
ports. The value Of the coal exported was
S739, 900 gold dust, s57G, 900; fish, 39s,-
600 furs, $2S7, 1000. These figures show a
steady increase in the export trade.
The people of West Troy, N. Y. arc
greatly excited over the pollution of the
reservoir of the village water works. Cat
tic. are allowed to wallow in the reserv Dir
which also receives the refuse Of 4 slaugh.
ter house. The odor is unbearable. DR..
II. l.. Waldo publishes /. card predicting
4 tapeworm epidemic.
At COrnishvillc, Thomas Brown met
Daniel Huffman and asked him to take
drink, and then, without 4 word, ins stantly
shot him dead with 4 pistol. Almost
Immediately Brown himself fell dead,
pierced by ball from pistol in the
hands of some ono unknown. A feud had
existed between Brown and Huffman for
two years.
James Griffith, All excursionist from
Philadelphia, while walking on the Cam
den II Atlantic railroad track, near the
Excursion house, Atlantic City, was
knocked down bya locomotive and run
over by one of the cars. He was dragged
his feet were badly crushed. He was at
once attended to by resident physician.
At Shannondale, 4 small station on a
branch of tho Wabash road, between Sal
isbury and Glasgow. No., while sitting in
one OF the coaches, George Wright, pas
senger, was approached from behind by
two men, one of whom buried a hatchct i'm
his skull, and the other fired pistol ball
into his head. The murdcrers then rushed
from the cars and escaped into the woods
A passenger train on the Toledo, Del.
phOs & Burlington railroad, ran off the
track, near KCkomo, Ind, on Friday.
The engine and baggage car were over
turned and the engineer, conductor and
fireman badly injured. The fireman is not
expected to recover. Tho engineer, NIX.
Blinn, is credited with having stsaved
many lives by courageously sticking to his
engine" :.
In the circuit court OF the United States
for Massachusetts, bill was filed on July
30, 1881, by Calvin c. Burt, against Darius
Wilson, to obtain an injunction against
Wilson to prevent him from acting as
grand master and from using the grand
lodge property, which is claimed by Burt,
the founder Of the rite. The defendant
has moved the court to dissolve the iniunc
ton, and the case goes over until the next
motion day in Septemb4r:- This case is
very interesting one.