Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-15
NEWS NOVELTIES.
STRlKINss, SENSATIONAL AND SOME
WHAT 8OLEQN.

Facts from the Mails Whlrh srs stranger
than Fiction.
Michael Brintey, an old farmer at
Shrewsbury, N. j., has died from the
effects Of Paris green that he inhaled
while sprinkliug his plants.
The wife of George w. Grant, postmas-
ter at Reading, has brought suit against
him for desertion, charging him with ILL
treatment and neglect to provide for
her.
In MenOminc, Wis, Professor Warner
was fatally shot by his insane daughter.
lie was lying in his room when she ap-
peared with revolver, which she leveled
at him. firing three shots into his abdo-
men.
DR.. Charles ROxwell, Of Stamford,
Conn.,, recently nursed his brother, DR..
Edward ROxwell, through an attack OF
smallpox, and is now himself down with
the disease, and is being attended by his
brother with unwearied devotion.
The dead woman found below Niagara
Falls has been identified as Mrs. S. Stew
art, wife of Theodore Stewart, of Silver
Greek, N. Y. She was 81 years Of age
and committed suicide for shame at the
discovery of her infidelity.
LII nSpartansburg, s. c., Mrs. w. Il. Ra.
van and her daughter. 12 years old. we're
killed by lightning. Four other children
of Mrs. Ravau and a little daughter OF Mrs.
Fritz, who had como to Mrs. Ravan's
house through terror, were badly burned
and bruised.
Mrs. Garfield says the kind words she
las had from Democrats ''all the same
as Republicans make her feel like forming
an opinion as to what she would do were
women permitted to vote rs we'll Us men.
She would get two tickets, fold them
so rs to look like one, and drop them in
the ballot-box.
An archery club went out to practice at
Ensign's mountain, Mo. Miss Matthews
had lovers quarrel with Mr.. Grace, and
| when it came. her turn to shoot at the tar
get, few minutes afterward, she sent an
arrow into the young mans breast. 1t
was all an accident, she said, and she was
ever 80 sorry but he believed she meant
to kill him, and had her arrested.
At Stepney, London, tho crowd we're 50
furious with the grandmother of a girl
who committed suicide because the old
lady would not let her wear her new
clothes, that the police had to interfere
strenuously to prevent tho mourning coach
containing the Spartan ancestrcss being
overturned. All sorts Of refuse was flung
| at her windows.
Anna Dickinson has been worth great
| deal of money. At one time she earned
from $40, 600 to $75, 900 a year. She was,
however, always very liberal in her mode
Of life and lost heavily, too, in some spec
ulatiOns. At one sweep she dropped a
cold 100000 in Philadelphia & Read
ing. She is only in comfortable circum-
stances. but the terms of her dramatic
contract next season are such that she
stands to win largo amount Of money.
Drowned for Ten Cents.
At Rockport, Maine, Willie Cain, aged
ten years, was taken out on punt by
Ralph B. Richardson, aged IA, and Ed
ward II. Gross, aged ii. who threatened
to drown him if ho did not give them 25
cents, which they knew ho had. He gave
them 10 cents, and then, according to the
story of the young ruffians, wanted to be
put ashore, when ono of thom pushed him
overheard and he was drowned. 1t is i'm
possible to tell which pushed him into the
| water.
Isad barney Egan.
At Trenton, N. J., five small boys with
out leave took boat belonging to
Barney Egan and went rowing on the
Delaware. ESan took another boat and
went after the children. AT about thirty
yards from tho Pennsylvania shore he
overlook the boat, and seizing tho boys,
none of whom are over II years of age,
threw them into the river. VIM. Baitley
came to the rescue in another boat, but
for whom the boys would have been
drowned. As it was, two of the boys mar
rowly escaped drowning, and one Of them
had to be rolled Oh barrel. The Penn
sylvania authorities will prosecute the
matter.
Dancers Dreadful Endurance.
Tom Cline and Mary Gordon, George
Fletcher and Mary Hines, Jean Marsha
lougcr and Mrs. Pcnet, M. Kehnovan and
Nellie Heney, Henry Streib and Florence
St. Clair, John Monahan and Annie Lat
ham, Walter Gonzalez and Lizzie German,
J. Newford and Abbie White,
Joe Moore and Belle Moore, form
ing nine couples, went out from San
Fancisco to dance for 18 straight hours.
The girls gave out before half the time
was up and all the men but five, Annie
Latham danced eight hours and five min
utes and received as prize pair Of gold
bracelets. Abbie White received locket
and chain, having danced seven hours and
| forty -four minutes. The man who held out
the longest received a gold medal and $40,
tho next gold medal.
Sacrificing Fortune for n Husband.
Miss Mamie Siffard, of Frederick, Nd,
had been married to Mr.. Aubry Pearre, of
tho firm of Pearre Bros. & Co., Hanover
street, Baltimore. by her marriage Miss
Siffard, now Mrs. Pcarre, is obliged to
surrender, in accordance with the prOvi-
sions of the late John Loats her
brother-in-l law, an estate estimated to be
worth between 80, 900 and $4,000. Tho
property, in which she was given a
life estate, or until size married,
consists in part one of the
most elegant private residences in the city
and fine farm located on the immediate
southern suburbs of the towE. 1t will now
pass into the bands of board Of trustees,
composed of Rev. DIR. Geo. Diehl, pastor
of the Lutheran church, Col. Charles E.
Traill, VIM. S. Miller, Lewis NJ. NixdOrf
and John G. Hardt, of Frederick Samuel
Appold, of Baltimore, and Chas. w. Hum
richause, of Williamsport, Nd, for tho es-
tablishment of an "Orphan Home " for
girls. 1t is generally understood that the
institution will be controlled in the inter-
est of the Lutheran church.
Tho scourges Of Nations
in Havana during the week ending July
2, there were sixteen deaths from yellow
fever, thirteen from smallpox and eight
from typhoid fever. Tho number of
deaths from all causes aggregated one hun
dred and scvcnty-seven. During the
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