Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-21
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.

OF Oh john I13lrUS, was S0uC0uC0U ny JuOS6
Beckwith, of Buffalo, N. Y, to be hanged
on JulyS.
A fire at Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday
morning destroyed Walker & Co.'s barrel
factory and feed mills and Carr 6 Ryder''s
sash and door factory, causing loss Of
$50, 900.
The Vineland s. West Jersey railroad
companies have placed patrols along their
respective roads to prevent a repetition of
last years fires in the woods caused by
sparks from their locomotives.
The fast stallion Monroe Chief (time
21S4) has been sold to San Francisco
parties, whose names are kept secret, for
$18,O The StalliOn's Eastern engage.
ments this summer will all be fulfilled.
By cave-in at the Golden Terra mine,
D. T., four men were killed and one in
jured. Nine moro still remain in the
mine, but they can be heard talking to the
miners working to rescue them, and it il
thought they will all be gotten out alive.
John Tucker, of Jay, Vermont, who
died recently, confessed on his death-bed
that he and his brother-in-law, John Ross,
set fro to Il largo woollcn mill at Stan
bridge, Quebec, which was burned two
years ago, and that William Ross, of Jay,
hired them to commit the crime. John
Ross has been arrested and lodged in
Jail.
In La Sale county, Texas, small squad
of state rangers had q desperate fight with
\ band of thirty outlaws near the fort last
Tuesday in which one ranger was killed.
The outlaws were defeated however, and
two of them captured. They had been
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t.lem into Mexico. A largo party Of citi-
zens are now in pursuit of those who es'
capped.
lievcd to have been murdered by her To-
yer, Atwood Carpenter, in Wilmington,
Delaware, but whose death from small
pox was certified by the attending ply
sician, was cxhumed OH Thursday. No
evidence of smallpox could be found, and
yesterday afternoon the cOroner's jury
rendered a verdict against Carpenter, who
was committed on the charge of murder.
Jane Burke, woman who on Saturday
was found at 254 West Sixteenth street,
New York, suffering from poisoning, and
who accused her husband of attempting to
murder her, has died in the hospital. She
adhered to her statement to the last. Her
AuCOsnAS AAOlAsso 1uIAOS uOuAOO IuO
charge, but is under arrest to await the
result of inquest. They had only recently
becn married.
William P. Patterson, wealthy cattle
man, formerly of Butler, Bates county,
NO., while drunk and unruly in St. Louis,
Tox., fired off his pistol, and when some
rangers, WHO were doing police duty in
the town, attempted to arrest him, he re-
sisted, and was shot six times and killed.
Patterson had been on a spree for two
weeks, and this was the second time no
had used the pistol.
The representatives of the American
cable construction company have arrived
in Canso, N. s., to witness the landing of
the shore end of tho American cable. The
steamer Faraday, with one thousand miles
of the new cable on board, is hourly ex-
pected, when tho laying Of the cable will
begin. A commOdious building for tho
accommodation of the staff of the station
has been erected near the shore, and a
trench seven feet deep and half mile long
has been opened. Everything is in readi-
ness to receive the cable.