Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-23
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
u. S. District Attorney Lurtz was seri-
Ousiy injured by runaway accident at
Rawley Springs, Virginia. last Friday.
A number of the ministers in Brooklyn,
New York, yesterday, used tho revised
Testament in reading scripture passages
Republican meetings to sustain the ad.
ministratiOn were held in Buffalo, ROndOut
and Glen Cove, New York, Oh Saturday
night.
Ex Postmaster Boyd, of IToulton, Maine,
was arrested there on Saturday night for
rObbing. the mails. Letter containing
money were found upon him, and he con
fessed his guilt.
A "wild y train on the jackson & Sagi-
nav railroad, in Michigan, was run ini.
by freight train, Oh Saturday. and botl,
were wrecked. The loss is estimated at
5000
Four carpenters fell from scaffOld near
Monmouth! Beach, New Jersey, on Satur-
day afternoon. One of them, named John
IIuclsalew, was killed another, named
kinsey, was believed to he fatally injured.
The only liquor saloon in I.ampOc, SAINT,
Barbara county, California, was blown to
pieces hy 4 bomb last Saturday night.
Lampoc is y Temperance colony" and
this is the second saloon which has been
destroyed with gunpowder there.
George Rose and Fanny Shanner, aged
respectively IA and II years, who had run
away from COultcrvilIe, "to better thei,
condition." were arrested in Cincinnati,
on Saturday. The girl had obtained
work.
The members Of the Simpson Methodist
Episcopal church of Brooklyn. having re-
solved to lessen the debG on their edi:ice,
yesterday raised $4,000 for the purpose.
The debt was $4,000. The church cost
s131, GOO
The Western Union telegraph company
transmitted the New Testament by tele
graph on Friday night last to the Chicago
Times. It was taken through on fifteen
wires, and was delivered in good shape be-
fore midnight.
The British steamer Ganos, from Mataa-
zas for Boston, was run into by the British
steamer Pembroke and sank, in Boston
bay last Friday evening, during thick
weather. One of tho Ganos crew was
drowned. The vessel and cargo, which
are sunk in deep water. were valued at
$4,000.
A train Oh the Kankakec line ran into a
drove of cattle, near Templeton, Indiana,
and the engine was upset into 4 ditch.
The fireman was caught under the water
tank, and is probably fatally injured. The
postal, baggage and smoking cars were
thrown down IN embankment. The dam
age to the train is estimated at $4,000.
Two young athletes rowing on the Mis-
souri, river came upon 4 small knoll sur
rounded by water. On landing on the
knoll they were surprised to find lying on
the ground, on a surface of about twelve
feet square, hundreds of rabbits had been
driven to the high ground by the rising
flood. They were all alive, but paralyzcd
with fear, and were easily handled.
John Murphy and Thomas Fitzgerald.
being drunk, quarreled in Murphy's
house, near the river front, in Washington,
late on Saturday night. and Fitzgerald
was badly beaten. Yesterday Fitzgerald's
body vas taken from the river. 1t is SUD-
posed that, after the beating, he walked
to the river to wash his hands and fell in.
or that, being stupcficd, ie walked into
the water from the wharf.
At a conference of the stalwarts i'm New
York yesterday tho decision was that
Mcssrs. Conklins and Platt should be can
didates for reelection that the campaign
should be opened at oncc and fought
ass,gressively from beginning to end; that
there should be no surrender or compro-
mise and that the entire resources of the
stalwart party should be brought to bear.
Messrs. Conkling and Platt will 20 to
Albany in person to lead the fight.
Allan Rigger, his wife and his wife's
brother, went to Marissa, NO., starte,.
home by way of the Cairo Short Line
track on foot. They had proceeded but a
mile or so when the incoming 8 O'Clock
train came booming along. The brother
of Mrs. Rigger stepped off the track. The
husband and wife said they wanted to sec
how long they could stay on the track be-
fore it was necessary to get off. On came
the train. Just rs the locomotive came up
TO the rash couple they stepped off, but
were struck by corner of the tender of
The engine. Both were killed.