Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-24
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS By MAIL.
The boat race between Hanlan and Lay
cock has been further postponed until Fet-
ruary II.
\ tire-at Peoria, H., on Saturday, de-
stroyed J. Bannister & Co.'s elevator.
Loss OH building and grain, $40, 900.
\ terrific storm prevails in the Medi-
terranean. 1t is reported that 50 smacks
have been wrecked in that sea.
Lima surrendered to Gen. Boqueilano.
who commanded 4G, 600 men. The Peru
vians lost 20 guns i'll the battle at Charii-
las.
An insane man. OH the steamer Annie
p. Silver. near Madrid, Missouri. ON Sat-
urday, shot and killed Daniel Blake. Sec
ond clerk of the steamer and wounded the
captain.
The twentieth ballot for United States
senator. taken at Nashville on Saturday,
resulted Maynard A, 5ate &c, Bailey
%, Taylor 2, Smith 8, Harrison l, Rose /,
Caruthers 1.
The British force at CampP Potchcfstroom
has made sortie, killing four Bocrs. The
colonial forces at Masern, Basuto Land.
has been strongly reinforced and will take
the off nsive shortly
In the Nebraska Legislature on the
| seventeenth ballot Gen. Chas. Van Wyck
was elected senator Of the United States.
He was formerly a member of Congress from
| New York, and now lives near Nebraska
City, where he is engaged in farming.
In the United States district court. VIM.
l.. Webb, white, of Georgetown county,
S. c., was tried on the charge of voting
twenty-nne ballots at the last election.
The jury returned Il verdict Of guilty with
a recommendation to mercy.
The steamer Bombay, owned by the
Chinese. loaded with cotton, was burned
on the Yong Tsc on Christmas. This is
the steamer that saved the American wa,
vessel Oneida within few miles of Yoke.
hama in 1869.
Reports from the southern parts of In
diana, Illinois and contiguous territory
state that there will be an almost entire
failure of the wheat crop owing to the late
planting and the carly and hard winter. A
large portion Of the wheat land being :
over the fifth OF the crop can be made
under the most favorable circumstances.
A number Of Chicago capitalists
among them such prominent ane
wealthy business men as w. X. Fairbank
George L. Dunlap, George c. Walker
Perry II. Smith. John B. Lyon, G. A
Kent, H. w. King and Samuel Johnson
have formed an association to construct :
four wire telegraph line from Chicago tx
New York.
Carries Stokes, a colored woman, wa
found dead in her house near Atlanta
Georgia. on Saturday morning, with he
head and face terribly burned. A coro
ner's jury decided that she had been killed
by blow on tho head, and that after be
ing killed the body was laid in the fire
place and the clothes we're saturated will
coal oil and set on fire.
All the prominent butter dealers ant
commission merchants on South Wate
street, Chicago, have signed an agreement
not to sell or deal in any imitation of but
ter, either as butter or under it's rea
name. This action became necessary, al
some firms doing the largest export trade
in butter in the country have found tina
reports of adulteration and fraudulent but
ter were having a marked injurious effec
upon their foreign trade.
Thos. Walters. tramp, secured a per
manent situation on farm owned by Pat
rick Kearney, at Trumansville. He wen
to the barn to feed the stock, without /:
light. After throwing from the hay NOV
sufficient quantity Of hay for the nigh
he accidently dropped the pitchtork. I
passed through knot hole in the barn
turning the tines to the upper side. Wal
ters in jumping from the NOW strucl
upon them and forced the two into his hil
lacerating the flesh and inflicting fata
wound.
A fire in the dining room in the Metro
politan hotel, New York, early Sunda!
morning, destroyed the interior. Th'
guests were aroused as matter of pre-
caution, but none of them suffered in per
son or property, and business went on a
usual. Loss $50 600. fully insured. Loui
Hoagland and William H. Bennett, fire
men, were severely hurt by the fallin,
debris, the former was also badly burned
and rescued with difficulty. The servant
who slept in the upper stories over tn
dining room were greatly alarmed by til
smoke in their apartments but all reaches
the ground in safety by means Of the firt
escape.