Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-21
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LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.
Diphtheria Of very fatal type is preva-
lent in Thurse village, near Ottawa. Dur
ing the past week eighteen children have
died.
John Russell, while intoxicated, fell
from the front gallery Of the Exchange
hall in New Orleans yesterday, and was
almost instantly killed.
Robert +. Murray, general passenger
agent of the Cleveland, Columbus Gin
cinnati & indianapolis railroad, died in
New Albany, Ind, ON Saturday.
1t is believed that no fish remain alive
in Fountain lake, Minn., the air having
been excluded by the solid freezing of the
| ice.
David Ncvins, wealthy mill owner and
manager of the Methuen manufacturing
company, of Methucn, Mass. died yester-
day of heart disease, aged seventy-One
years.
! Canon Wilberforce, chaplain to Queen
Victoria, is ut Niagara. He leaves on
Wednesday for New York, where he will
be the guest of Bishop Potter. He will
sail for England Oh tho Goth inst.
The North German L!oyds steamer
Donau took ont Al. 600 eggs of the "Win-
inish," or land. locked salmon. The came
from the United States salmOn-brecGing
station at Grahd Lake stream, Maine.
In Shoehccl, North Carolina. all the dogs
have gathered into pack outside the
village and range through tho woods and
highways as ifpossesscd of tho spirit Of
wolves or of the devil.
| John +. IIavcnncr, an old resident of
! Washington and . prominent Odd Fellow,
having represented the District Of Colum-
in the Sovereign Grand Body Of the order
for the past eighteen years, died OH Sat.
;irday night.
Maurice Campbell, formerly of Brook
! !yn, died on Saturday morning in Waco,
Tex, having taken an overdose of NOR
phinc. The cause assigned was that he
had been robbed Of his fathers legacy by
relatives.
The shooting match between DR..
Carver and Mr.. Scott for purse of 5000,
which began on the 9th instant at the
Aquarium, Westminster, Eng, was con-
cilt.cd aud resulted in tho following tOt:s!
scores Carver 9,731, Scott Q, 735.
Hahn, Knight l. Co., of St. Paul, whole
| LA Odpo Nhs ANhS>s
on Saturday. Confessed judgments
amounting to s2O,3lS were filed in the
district court, one of which for $1O.O21
was in favor of Frank G. Moony, Of New
York.
One of the quickest passages recorded
| between Europe and the United States
has just been accomplished by the Brit
annie. which sailed from Queenstown on
t..yA MT
New York last Friday morning ut 2:3O 4.
H.. having completed the passage IN q
days and 10 hours.
4. Kcenc Richards the turlman, who
died Of pneumonia at his home in Scott
county Ky, suffered only three days ILL
ness. His death after that of X. A. Alex
ander leaves Richard Ten Brock the only
survivor Of the three great turflnan who
commenced importing and breeding fine
blo"ded stock in Kentucky nearly three
fourths of \ century ago.
\ fire ut Hillsdalc, Michigan. destroyed
the HcmmOnds and Bliss buildings, occu-
pied 10y Whipple & Wagonlandcr, gro
GERS Scidles, bakery DR.. Crane. dentist
and two families rs dwellings. The roof
and Stccplc of the Methodist church was
also burned. The loss is S12, 900, including
$4,000 damage to the church insurance
about SC, ,OOO.
! Isiiorc Levi of the firm of IsidOre Levi
Il Co.. crOckery dealers Of New Orleans,
whose establishment was burned on Jan.
1; Matthew May, his clerk, and Patrick
Stintson, his packer, have been arrested
on y charge Of having set fire to the store.
The grand jury have been Investigating
the case for some time, and will probably
report to-day.
\ portable boiler in Tyler & Harrod's s
saw mill, on the Kentucky river, two
miles below Frankfort, exploded, killing
and wounding all Of the nine men in the
mill except one. John HarrOd was blown
forty feet and instantly killed. His
brother, Lawrence HarrOd died in an
hour and Frank Graham died in three
hours. William Arnold's jaw bone was
broken and James Redding. William
Wheeler. Lewis Harrod and Hugh Tyler
We're badly scalded.
VIM. A. Cousins, who, while painting
at Bayonne. N. j., fell from a scaffold and
was instantly killed, was recently tried
and acquitted in Brooklyn on a charge of
bigamy. He was a pedestrian and after
his marriage in GrcenpOint was married
iii New York to peGestrienne who was
HIS llISG lustETIitHc. CUOu
the close of his trial. in which the proof
fell short of sustaining the charge, Cous-
mss first wife made a scene by denounc-
ing him and predicting that evil would
soon bcfall him.
While 4 stock train was being loaded on
i side track ut the stock yards at ParsOn
Kansas, an incoming stock train from
Scdalia ran ut Il high rate Of speed on to
the siding and collided with the standing
train. Engineer Henry Rowland and
William II. Vawler, a brakeman on the
incoming train. were killed and both loco
motives and about twenty cars were de-
mOlished. Rowland leaves six small
orphan children. their mother having died
about year ago. The accident was
caused by Joseph Hunter, conductor Of
the standing train, having carelessly
opened the switch after his train had been
backed on to the side track.
Killing TIan In Self.Dofense.