Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-07
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

--LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Mrs. Hannah Cole, aged 1OJ years, died
at Rome, n. Y, yesterday. She was
born near Coxsackie, December II, 1916.
It has been showing steadily in Scot
land for seventy hours, and traffic is
blocked. Many shipUrecks are reported
on the coast.
T. A. Fay & Co.'S manufactory Of wood
working machinery in Cincinnati has
been burned Loss, $50, 600 insurance,
S95, 900.
Off Sunderland has been confirmed Eigh
teen persons lost their live: by the disas-
ter.
4 gig belonging to the Cerberus, YES
sci stationed at Melbourne for the de-
fense Of the colony, has been blown up
by torpedo and five Of the crew killed.
Two brothers had lawsuit in New Cas-
| tie last week to settle which should pay
| for an eight-dollar tombstone over their
mothers grave.
William Edwards, aged II. hanged him
self to rafter in a barn in Glade Springs,
Va. His father had told him to prepare
for Il whipping, and the boy went out and
was not seen again until found dead.
Jesse Griffith, living near SwansonvilIe,
| Pittsylvania county, Va, has lodged a
complaint against a horse drOver named
Lester for stealing his wife and taking her
away to one of the western counties of the
| state.
In Gothic, a new mining town in Gunni-
son, Chinaman named Wang Foo a week
ago started !: laundry, but was warned to
leave. Failing to get out he was called
upon by Il committee and hanged. No
excitement over the affair IS reported.
St. Patrick's cathedral at Peoria, Ill.,,
which was erected two years ago at Il cost
Of $50, 900, has been destroyed by fire,
supposed to have originated from the can
dies on the altar or from the furnace. The
church WAS insured for $31, zoo
The failure of the big dry goods house
OF DefOrest Wild, at Meadville. has
caused some CONSERVATION in that part of
the state. The liabilities are estimated
at $3.50, ,OOG. The failure was prccipitated
by large executions obtained by CIailn, o!
New York.
There has been discovered in the locks
at Balcony Falls, in the James River &;
kanawha canal, the remains of Daniel
Mix, employed by the Richmond & Al
iegheny railroad company. His death is
attributed to suicide, caused by recent
disappointment in love.
The loss OF life by the earthquake on the
island Of Isciia appalling. Ono hundred!
and two bodies have been at Ct.ssamacciola
up to the present, and many others are
under thc,ruincd buildings. In the village
district of Lacco along thirteen houses
were destroyed and five persons killed.
The towboat Oakland, Of the st. Lous
Il New Orleans transportation line. has
left St Louis with the largest shipment OF
bulk grain ever made from that port. 1t
consists of 2G3, 900 bushels of corn and 96,
600 bushels of wheat for foreign account.
and is slowed in eight bargcs.
Salvador Land;o, aged 60, an Italian
boarding house keeper in New York, shot
himself ill the right car with Il revolver
and was taken to the hospital in a dying
condition. lie had developed symptoms
OF insanity for sOlne time, and while de-
mented has threatened to kill himself and
wife.
n series OF systematic rObberies has
been discovered in the national bank of
Virginia. amounting, in the aggregate to
| over SOB, 900. The money was stolen by
Joseph L. Reese, one of the book keepers
in charge of the individual accounts. who
hid his crime by false entries, which he
had carried Oh for several years. The
! robbcries Were brought to light by the re.
cent adoption 10y the bank of system Of
Attenuation among the bookkeepers.
4 heavy frost, the heaviest ever known,
visited Guatemala on February 10. Next
| mOrHiur the cane fields and cnffee ri,nt,
tiOns looked as though fire had passed
over them. The leaves of the coffee trees
were shriveiled. and even the tender twigs
We're Injured. Several years must clapsc
before these plantations can be restored to
healthy condition. The sugar cane was
killed as i: stood, SO that the loss in this
respect is confined to the amount now ac-
tualiy uncut, although all of this even will
scarcely be total loss. The amount of
damage done is calculated to be between
| $1,000, 600 and 81, 00O, 900.
| The Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce
| has adopted resolution giving the most
positive assurances to the representatives
Of Great Britain in this country that the
hogs of Ohio and the whole west have
| been during the past year, siHSularly free
from disease, and requesting the members
of the British legation to correct the re-
ports, which are calculated to inilict great
injury on the provision trade of the two
countries. The British consul in Cincin
natl has sent despatch to the British
consul in Philadelphia, in which he says
My information is shat the hogs in Ohio
were never more healthy than during the
past two years"