Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-02
LATEST NEWS By NAIL.

The body of Fred Wilson was found
floating very near the spot at Cape May
where he was drowned.
Ex-Governor Cove Salisbury, of Della
ware. died at his home in Dover, ycster
day, at the age of sc years.
The Car and his family were enthusias-
tically welcomed by the inhabitants Of
Moscow on their entrance into that city.
Three bicyclists rode Oh Monday from
Providence. r. l., to Cape Ann, Mass, SO
miles in 9 hours and Is minutes.
Wheat in Minnesota and the Red river
region OF Dakota is looking we'll, all re-
ports to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Over $1,000 of jewelry and guests
clothing was found in the room Of 4 bell
boy at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago.
Two men, named john and Thomas
Carney, were shot and killed at the Expo
sition ground in indianapolis, by a street
car driver named William II. Collier.
The report of the Tobacco association of
Danville, Va, for July. shows 2, ia, O7S
pounds sold for $3.50, 934.S1, being an aver
age of $11.S1 per hundred pounds.
In New Brunswick, N. j., Annie Powers,
died from tho effects of tartaric acid pois-
Oning from lemonade, of which she drank
fifteen glasses at an excursion recently.
Miss Belle Runyon, of Cincinnati, was
killed at Keckuk by the fall of a carriage
over the canal embankment, Il distance Of
eighty fcct. Two others riding with her
escaped uninjured.
A number of French residents in Cuba
intend making claims against the Spanish
government for compensation for in
jurics during the late civil war there. The
claims amount to 80, 600, ,00Of.
At dog fight at Grand Rapids u quarrel
arose between John McDermOtt and Ed.
in the thigh, severing al artery, SO that
Moran bled to death before medical aid
could arrive.
An unknown man, about sixty years o:
age, was struck by the engine of a train on
tho Newark & Elizabeth railroad and in
stantly killed. His body was terribly
crushed. He is supposed to belong to
Centrevillc.
The work of changing the track of the
Port Jervis & Monticello railroad to a mar
row gauge was commenced Sunday MORN
ing and vigorously pushed all day and late
into the night until completed, when
the first narrow gauge train passed over
the road.
Vigilance committees have been organ
lied in Dallas, Tex, for tho purpose of
suppressing the great number of burglars
and tramps that infest the city. When
any are caught it is proposed that they
shall be hanged to lamp posts Us warnings
to now comers. The people mean to rid
the town of them.
An explosion of a powder magazine has
occurred at Mazatlan, Mexico. A whole
square was blown mp and many families
were buried under the ruins. About sixty
bodies have been recovered. An accident
happened on the Narrow Gauge railroad
by which four persons were killed and
others injured.
In New York, James Mccarthy shoe
maker, quarreled with his wife and beat
her. His two married daughters inter-
iered, when he stabbed one of them in the
back with knife and the other in the
right thigh, inflicting serious wounds. He
was arrested and the wounded women
were taken to the hospital.
At tho Wilmington, Del, tax Office
early yesterday burglars made al unsuc-
cessful effort to blow open the safe. The
robbers evidently expected to make a rich
haul, rs the collection of city taxes on
Saturday amounted to over $4,000. All
this sum, however, had been deposited in
Il bank ut IL late hour on Saturday even
ing.
In cambridge, Ga, Mrs. Martha A.
Brockct's bed was near an open window,
and assassins put their guns within few
feet of her body and fired. She was riddled
with buckshot, two of which passed Ell
tirely through her body and grazed the face
Of Il little child sleeping on the other side.
The next morning the tracks of two men
in their stocking feet were traced out into
the road and there lost.
While Yrs. John Simpson, boarding
house keeper, Of Detroit, was returning
from market, she was shot by man con-
cealed behind fence, who Immediately
ran away. Her husband, from whom she
has been separated for some time and be-
tween whom and herself frequent quarrels
have occurred, was arrested on suspicion
Of firing tho fatal shot. Mrs. Simpson
charged her husband with committing the
deed, before she died.