Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-15
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.


Fhe Bolivian convention has decided to
continue the war against Chill.
A fire occurred at Sofia on Friday night,
which destroyed upwards of thirty houses.
A strange epidemic is prostrating the
horses in LaSalle, Ill. Four hundred ami
mails are affected.
Dennis Deneen, of Little Falls, N. Y,
while moving a steam drill, was instantly
killed by tho drill falling ON him and crush
ing his skull.
The Prague theatre was totally destroyed
by fire. It was only insured for 400. 600
florins, which is but small portion Of it's
value.
Charles Kolb, aged nineteen, was
stabbed by q murderous colored man in
Baltimore and died. Kolb was pursuing a
negro boy who had thrown an apple at
him, when the fatal attack was made.
John Savage, a railroad contractor up
about Newburgh, n. Y, found a rich vein
of iron orc on his mountain lands, and has
become SO crazy over it that he had to be
taken to the asylum in irons.
Parties from tho Rosebud agency state
that Spotted Tail was killed for seducing
another Indians squaw, and they say that
this was his ono hundred and tiftieth Of.
fense.
In southern Illinois the corn will he an
utter failure, not averaging a bushel to
the acre. The wheat is the poorest crop
for 90 years, falling so per cent below last
years crop,
At Fort Smith, three white men and
three Indians are lying in Jail under SEN
tence of death, to be executed ON the 9Th
of September. The Indians are locked up
together and the white men have cell to
themselves.
The Lake Eric vineyards will produce a
very small wine crop this year, not more
than one-third the natural yield. This
failure is attributed to the cold winter,
late spring, sudden heat in May and dry
summer.
Rudolph Kehr, an Austrian, 35 years Of
age, shot himself fatally through the body
az his New York boarding house, over
como with shame at detection in carrying
off tobacco from his employees to be made
into cigars at home.
A band of COW boys recently attacked a
caravan from Sonora on the way to Ari-
zona, killed four of the party aud carried
off S., 600 and the pack of animals. The
CAVA ttuSAOtAtiCS IA hklZOAsS oCCm pOWCA
less, and the Mexfcans hold the Americans
responsible for the outrage.
An old building, four stories high, stu.
ated in the most frequcnted part of Vienna,
next to the Grabcn. suddenly fell shortly
before noon Saturday. The greater part
Of the house was occupied by offices and
fashionable shops. Twenty lives were lost
and thirty persons were seriously injured.
A gorgeously dressed woman, calling
herself Mrs. Georgiana P. Kensett, of Bal
timore, with two children at boarding
school on the Hudson, has been arrested
for getting goods and running up accounts
in New York OH the names of female
friends who had credit at the stores which
she victimized.
Joseph Nevins. aged 26, while fixing
electric light wires in the Coneker, N. j.,
fertilizing works, was caught in the shaft
ing and whirled rapidly around. He was
almost evisccrated. One arm was torn
from it's socket and both legs were broken.
He died in few hours, leaving a wife and
child.
The new comet is yet hurrying toward
the earth and sun, but on account of the
strong moonlight it escapes the eye of the
casual observer. Any kind of spyglass,
however, readily shows it. with its short,
straight, tail, and is likely to become a
conspicuous evening object low down in
the northwest this week. 1t may yet be a
great spectacle in the heavens.