Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-02
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The Nebraska Republican convention
will be held at Lincoln, October 5.
At Springfield, Mass, yesterday, Trink-
ct won the 2:15 race best time, 2.17d5
Ed. Thorne won the z. 10 race best time,
2;1SA.
The Marine board of Hambur. has con i.
cluded the inquiry into the late breakdown
of the steamer Vandalia. They have &C.
quilted the captain.
A movement is manifest in Dublin in
favor Of an exhibition Of Irish manufac-
lures. The Lord Mayor will shortly call
meeting to consider the subject.
Mary Driscoll, aged 16 years, attempted
to kindle fire with coal oil in Oswego,
New York, on We lnesday, and died the
same night.
A convent at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,,
was struck by lightning, on Wednesday
night. and burned to the ground. Loss
$65, 900. No lives were lost.
The new elevator of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad company, at Baltimore, will
be opened on Monday next. 1t will add
800, 900 bushels to the storage capacity
of the city, and prevent grain blockade.
II. w. Ham was fatally shot, and AM
brose Brown severely wounded, yesterday,
in fight at New Hampton. Iowa, grow
ing out Of an old quarrel between the
Ham and Brown families.
1t is generally remarked in Berlin that
the official announcement of DR.. KOrum' S
appointment as Bishop of Treves, makes
no mention of the oath of allegiance aud
obed dience.
The steamer Augusta, from New York,
fNy Mo- nctI skl
her bows stove and her fore compartment
filled with water, having teen in coils
ion.
Yesterday three men procured a boat at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, for tho purpose of fish
ing in the Yellow Mill pond. In attempt
ing to 60 through tho flood gate the boat
upset and two Of the men, James Mooney
and Bernard Leavy, were drowned.
Last month was the warmest August in
Washington since 1872. The mean tenn
perature Of August, 1881. was 1874, against
79.6 in August, 1872. The rain fall last
month, 1.O7 inches, was less than during
any August in ten years.
The strike of the cotton handlers at New
Orleans involves 10, 600 men, and the move
ment of cotton is almost stopped. a few
hundred men only have been secured in
place of the strikers. Labor strikes are
reported in Galveston and Mobile.
Governor Hamilton, of Maryland, yes
terday rendered a decision acquitting the
Baltimore registers of the charge of ille-
gally retaining names on the registration
lists. He claims, however, that the gov
ernOr has the power to remove the regis
ters.
A benzine vat in the fat rendering estab-
lishment of Jones s. Chambers, New York,
exploded last night, demolishing several
sheds and burying workmen in the ruins.
Two men were severely injured, and two
others are missing and supposed to be
killed.
Wallace Ross has not yet made good the
deposit called for by Hanlan's acceptance
of his challange for a race for the cham
pionship of the world, Ross having with
drawn the 5000 deposited by him some
weeks ago. during the time Hanlan was
celebrating.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Elmer reports net reduction in Star
route and steamboat mail service during
the month of August amounting to 50. S37
and that the total amount of reductions
and discontinuance since March 4 amount
to 81, ,479, ,779.
G. II. Keeler, treasurer of the st. Louis
carbon works, was arrested in East St.
Louis on Wednesday evening and taken
to Bellville, the county seat of St. Clair
county, on a charge of having fraudulently
drawn drafts and issued notes to the
amount of about $4,000.
While some colored people were going
home from church in Independence,
Texas, on Monday, an old colored woman
was beaten to death by an insane man
named McVicars, whom she had ''raised."
but who believed that she was 1.-THE i'm
personation of his Satanic majesty"
William R. Crawford, 20 years Of age,
living at Matamoras, has died after suffer-
ing in great agony since last Friday. On
the latter day he ate $50 baked clans on
challenge at the Erie conductors clam
bake. Not relishing the bivalves, he
swallowed them without chewing. Physi-
clans were employed and emetics given,