Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
New York's governor has signed the
bills to prohibit discrimination against any
person on account of race, creed or color,
intended to prevent tho anti.Jewish hotel
war.
In Marquee, Texas, Mr.. Frank, a drug
gist, through mistake, administered NOR
phine to his three children, aged four, six
and eight years, in lieu of quinine. The
youngest is dead and the others arc in
precariOus condition.
At Woodbury., N. j., an extra train from
Atlantic City struck and probably fatally
injured man supposed to be John Bur-
den Of New York city, sitting on the
track. He has four ribs broken and is bad
ly cut about the head.
In Skowhegan, Me-, fire starting in
the Turner house and stables swept them,
burned twenty horses and adjoining shops
and houses, loss $50, 900. In Kenton, Ohio,
fire destroyed tho depot, two hotels, two
churches and in all a., 900 worth of prop
erty.
Frederick Doodle, aged four, and his
little sister Eva, aged two, during the ab-
sence of their parents, fell together from
the third-story window of their house, SIT
Tenth avenue, New York, and were in-
jured SO badly that they died in q few
minutes
A Chattanooga dispatch describes a
boiler explosion which killed q man half q
mile distant with nine-pOund piece of
iron, and hurting another piece weighing
200 pounds through two cars loaded with
grain with such fOrco that it knocked down
the corner Of house, after the fireman had
been killed.
There arc now at the treasury some
seven millions Of 5 percent. bonds waiting
advice from the owners as to what shall
be done with them, as they have started
ceived and stamped. There is one lot
belonging to single individual amounting
to two million dollars.
William McCaffrey, one of tho trustees
Of tho Roman Catholic church of Our
Lady of Mercy, of Brooklyn, went to
church in good health and assisted ut early
mass. He helped take up the collection
and went into the vestry to count the
money. While speaking to Rev. Father
McNamara he gasped, fell forward on the
floor and died instantly.
And now it happens that in Darke
county, III the Republican state Of Gar
field and Hayes, gang Of Ku Klux shot
down two men in their dOOrways at night,
have given Mr.. Timmans, a farmer near
Palestine, Preble county, notice to leave,
on penalty Of death, after having broken
down his door and destroyed his household
goods, and served similar notice on Mr..
limerick, living near the same place.
The half fdecomposed remains of a man
were discovered in the woods at point q
mile north of Wineika, III. The head had
been severed from the trunk as if by IN
axe and the body was jammed in the
thicket and covered with underbrush. Late.
ly q mans head found on the beach near
tho spot where the headless body was dis
covered, was supposed to be that of ship
wrecked man.
DIR. John F. Dunphy, of New York,
age thirty, cut his throat in tho AstOr
Place hotel. The police took him to Belle
vue hospital where he has fair chance
of recovery. The weapons used were
pocket knife and lancet. Troubles grow
ing out of his marriage caused it. He
comes of highly respected family, and his
widowed mother lives in Newburg. One
Of his brothers is assistant pastor of the
Church of the Nativity and two others
arc priests.