Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-09
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The severest thunder storm of the sea
son in Baltimore, visited that city yester
day afternoon. The lightning struck il
several places, and trees were damaged by
the wind.
It is reported in Toronto that Bosto1
capitalists have subscribed 81, ,OOO, 900 to
Winnipeg to Duluth, to be built westward
from Duluth this summer.
John Grant and Daniel Mcneil, lOs
from tho Gloucester schooner Beller-
Ophon, while tending travis on the Grand
Banks, were picked up by passing
schooner.
J. & r. Kingsland, paper manufacturers
Of Passaic county, New Jersey, were
convicted yesterday in the county court at
Nowark tor polluting the waters of the
Passaic river with carbOlic acid.
Two freight trains on tho Wabash, St.
Louis & Pacific railroad wcro wrecked by
a collision near Burnside, Illinois, on
Tuesday morning. The loss is estimated
at $50, 900. Two men were injured, one
severely.
The portion of the Robinson wagon COM
pany's factory in Cincinnati which was
saved when the other buildings were de-
strOyed by fire q few months ago, was
burned on Tuesday night, with machinery
and stock. Loss $50, 900.
On Tuesday afternoon while Frank IIol-
lcnbach was working in Levan's saw mill
at Albany station, he was struck on the
back of the head with heavy piece of wood
that was caught by tho saw. He was
knocked insensible, and it is thought that
his skull is fractured and his ecOvery
doubtful
Richard Thompson, colOred, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed in Rich
mOnd yesterday. The remarkable feature
Of the affair is that there was no storm
prevailing and only very small clouds
passing over the city at the time, from
which only one flash of lightning is
sued, accompanied by a moderate report
of thunder. Tho man was ut work on the
river bank when struck by tho lightning.
Near Westport and in Little Compton
ana Riverton, r. l., several persons have
had haystacks burned and cattle poisoned.
The we'll of Edward Howland was poisoned.
resulting in the death of . boy and the
severe illness of three other persons. Late
ly other persons have lost horses and cattle
by poisoning. People are afraid to testify
against the suspected criminals: who have
not yet been arrested.
Samuel D. Haynes, who while in prison
murdered his guard, at ROcklanG, Me-, a
few years ago, for which he is undergoing
a sentence of life imprisonment in the
state prison, has made desperate at
tempt to escape, and was shot through the
lungs by one Of the prison guards. Haynes
was accompanied by prisoner named
Brogder, and both were we'll armed They
had already passed one guard, who was
blinded by the cOnvicts throwing hartshOrn
liniment into his face. Both were Sc
cured.
A rain storm of unusual severity has
occurred in West Virginia, by which con-
siderable damage was done to growing
crops, to tho country roads and bridges
and railroads. Nearly all trains are out
of time in consequence. A family named
Straup, living on Glenn's Run, were
swept away in the night, the mother and
five children being drowned and the father
carried on a log to tho hoad Of ono of the
Sisters Islands, where he was found
in an insensib]e condition. Tho bodies of
tho mother and two of the children have
been recovered, but tho others have been
arrived down the river.