Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-20
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A brother and sister met in Conneaut
Ohio, one day last week for the first time
in 81 years.
Baseball 4: At Worcester, Mass.-Wor
cester 10, Yale IA. At Providenc, r. l
Providence 18, Boston picked nine 1. A
New York-Iroys 5, Metropolitans 2.
G. G. Nelson, a prominent banker o
Usage Mission. is missing. 1t is supposed
that he has absconded with large amour
of money.
A fire in Meridian, Mississippi, on Mon
day night, of incendiary origin, destroyed
block of the principal stores, causing :
loss estimrted at $3.50, 900.
Ono hundred and thirty-five indians o
Sitting Bulls camp surrendered at For
Buford and gave mp their arms aud ponies
Sitting Bull has promised to come in Al
once.
In Philadelphia Harry Vetter, eighteen
years of age, has died under most distress
| ing circumstances nearly two months and
half after being bitten on the thumb by
a dog.
A new counterfeit ten dollar gold piece
has appeared in San Francisco. 1t is OF
base metal, sufficiently plated with gold
to resist acids, but is lighter than the
genuine coin and has not the true "ring.' u
The opening sessions of the annua
meeting of the National Academy ol
Sciences were held yesterday in Washing.
ton. Professor William B. Rodgers, OF
the Massachusetts, institute, presided.
A rumor is current in official circles at
Goa that the British government has pro-
posed to lease Goa from Portugal at an
annual payment of twenty-scven lacs of
rupees after defraying all expenses.
A box containing $4,000 in bonds and
other securities, and belonging to pri-
vate depOsitOr, has mystic riOusly disap-
peared from the vault of the Fayette ma.
tional bank, Lexington, Ky.
A woman named Mutt, being insane,
drowned her five children in we'll near
Camden, Arkansas, on Monday. Tho eld-
est, a boy of twelve years, she knocked in
the head before throwing him into the
we'll.
The north wing of the Southern Insane
asylum, at Anna, in Union county, ILL.,,
was burned early yesterday. One of the
patients is missing, and supposed to have
perished. The loss on property is about
s15O, 1000.
Ihe lower portion OF hOck1Ord, limos,
is inundated by rise in the Rock river
and the people have been driven from
their homes. By the stoppase of factories
run by water power 1900 persons are al
ready thrown out of employment.
A citizen of Rochester has brought suit
against his father-in-law to compel him to
permit him to remove the remains of his
wife from the father-in-law's lot in a
cemetery to lot recently purchased by
himself.
Two acres of buildings in the heart of
Bound Brook N. j., were destroyed by fire
yesterday. Through the efforts the fire.
men, together with the sudden shifting of |
the wind, the flames were got under con-
troll before the large manufacturing dis |
tricts were reached. The total loss on the |
property is estimated at 475, COO, and abont |
80 families were rendered homeless, some |
If whom are quartered on their neighbors. |
A crazy woman named Mrs. Victoria
Lonnott, residing near Eagleford, Texas,
deliberately stretched herself across the
rack of the Texas Pacific railroad on Sum
lay night. The cow-catcher on the loco ]