Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-20

Structet an agent 10 Duy tue "uois VI IL
when the foreclosure sale occurred. While
the president has been lying i'll the sale has
been made and his farm secured.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Stephen C. Briggs, hotel keeper, of
PhGn;x, Rhode Island, hanged himself, on
Monday.
Within the last six months there have
been 1913 deaths, a large proportion OF
them from yellow fever, in Vera Cruz.
Thomas Barricl, married, aged 81 years.
was thrown down stairs by two women Of
ill repute in Chicago, whom he Was visit
ing and instantly killed.
Hanlan will row Wallace Ross for $4,000
side, providing purse of So, GOO is Offer
ed in addition to the stakes by the city or
town in the vicinity of the race.
Elwood Kirby, an associate editor of the
Globe Democrat, Of St. Louis, has died
from the effects Of injuries inflicted by a
runaway street car on July 4th.
The wire working establishment of
Dixon Brothers, in Hamilton. Ontario,
was destroyed by an explosion, and four
persons were injured. one seriously.
Colonel L. Mott, of Columbia, Georgia,
was killed by train in the Union depot
at Atlanta. He was 81 years of age, and
one of the leading Republicans in Georgia.
William Scott, stock dealer, was chlO-
| reformed and robbed of $4,000 by unknown
| persons. while asleep in his room, at Han
cock, Illinois, on Monday night.
| The first through train Oh the Chicago
| and Northwestern railroad for ten days
passed Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday
night, for the West.
| Two Polish children, 5 and months
old, near South Bend, Ind, l.erisLea in 4
burning house while their parents were
absent i'll the fields.
A house in Osweso. New York, was
struck by lightning. TIE windows were
shattered, and q man named Doolittlo was
made helpless by the shock.
| The Stevenson block, iii Buffalo, was
damaged to the exttnt of about 5000
yesterday by fire caused by an explosion
of gas while a carburctter in the cellar was
being filled.
| The steamer City Of WinnepeS was
bnrne,l at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at
her dock in Duluth. She is a total loss.
All the passengers Were saved. Four OF
her crew arc missing.
The stock of the Chicago Il Iowa rail
road held by the city Of Aurora Illinois. is
to be sold at auction next Saturday. Its
par value is 100000: "upsct price
$130,O00.
In Troy, n. V, J. G. Bennett. 4 brake
man on the Delaware 4 Hudson rail-
road, was found 1T the foot of an enbank-
,nent dead. 1t is supposed that lie was
drunk and fell over.
The Irving house, at Long Branch, was
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The
alarm Was given Just rs the guests about
100 in number, were finishing dinner.
Many of them lost all their baggage.
James Bridges, after whom Fort Bridges
was named, died yesterday in Kansas
City, aged II years. lie was an old scout
and companion of General Fremont, and
was the first white man to follow the
Santa Fc trai! across the plains.
Six of those who survived the disaster at
New Ulm, Minnesota, Ii ave become insan-
from the shock Addit ional deaths are re-
ported in other sections visited by the tor
nado, and several of the injured in New
Ulm and its vicinity have died.
The six-story mandatory and store
rooms of the Cincinnati coffin company, in
Cincinnati, were burned last evening, with
five small dwellings adjacent. Seven other
dwelling were damaged. The loss is esti.
mated at upwards of saa25. 900.
1t is decided by the treasury depart
ment that journalists can bring certain
books for their libraries into the United
States without paying duty, such books
being included in the statute providing for
the free admission of ''tools of trade. -
Colonel Henry Warner James Of the
United States army, attempted suicide
with sword cane at hotel in Hudson.
New York, on Monday. He was taken to
the county insane asylum to await tho
arrival of his brother from Chicago.
Ex-Mayor Hunter. of Brooklyn, has lost
two sons and daughter within four
months. News of the death, near YOko-
hama. Japan, Of one of his sOns Lieuten-
ant Henry G. Hunter, L. S. N, was re-
ceived on the day his daughter was buried.
The National Educational association
met yesterday in Atlanta. Two hundred
delegates were present, representing thirty
states. An address of welcome was de-
livercd by Governor Colquitt. Ex-State
Superintendent Wickersham, OF this city,
is there.
The Larbor at Newport, Rhode Island,
|
named Wheelock, of Providence, who at
tempted to desert from the United States
ship Constitution on Monday night.
Wheclock is said to have a wife in PrOvi-
dence.
Albert COmstock, prominent lawyer
of Paterson, New Jersey, committed sui
eide, yesterday morning, by shooting him.
self in the head. He was AZ years of age.
He had been suffering from intiammatory
rheumatism and using stimulants to allay
the pain.
The Merchants and Manufacturers as
sOciation of Baltimore will hold "a
Grand Mardi Gras Festival next October
in connection with the formal celebration
of the introduction of water from Gunpow-
der water works. 1t will be arranged so
as to preccde or Immediately follow the
Yorktown celebration.
A foul murder in New Mexico was
prompted by undue intimacy between F.
w. Jennings and Mrs. Lewis, the wife of
the victim. Jennings at the instigation
of his paramount, murdered Lewis. their
intention being to go to Missouri and get
married. The murder was, few days
after, unearthed, and the guilty pair ar
rested.
II. J. Moore. agent oi the Hawaiian
government at Fiji, has written a letter
denying that the slaughter reported as
having occurred on one of the Tino
islands was 5'instigated by the Missionary
Kapu. He says that, on the contrary. the
Papuans were the aggressors and Kapu
| tried to save life.