Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-25
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The New Jersey Democrats gave Ran
doph the senatorial denomination.
For the iirst time in years there are hun
dlels OF miles OF magnificent sk:,tin. al.,na
the lake shore i'll front of Chicago.
The messenger who carried the electoral
vote of Oregon to Washington, received
S962. IS mileage
The total population of Tennessee is
l,542. 4G3, OF whom 173. 0S9 are females.
4e3, 343 colored, and 1852 foreign born.
The total population Of Missouri is
=, lGS: SOl. with all excess OF males over fe.
males "fS7, ,O44. The foreign born numbe,
2l1. 240, and the colored Al, o36.
Mrs Wellington Barnes, residing in Lon
don. Ont, died on Sunday from The effects
OF swallowing two artificial teeth, which
were lOoSed while she was brushing them.
| The wife Of Elias Cummings colorcd,
living near Cranston, n. J., gave birth
last Saturday night to four boys. Mother
and children are reported to be dcing well.
In St. John. New Brunswick, on Sunday
evening, George Allison tried to PASS from
| his room to an adjoining one by means of
an attic window, and was killed by falling
headlong to the ground, 60 feet below.
Hugh Leyland. third engineer of the
British steamer Architect. was drowned
by falling into the river at New Orleans
yesterday. He leaves 4 wife and two
children in England.
Fif cen persons were killed and wounded
by band of Apache Indians near san
Marial, New Mexico, on Saturday and
Sunday last Nine men are missing. and
believed to be killed.
The crafty ice dealers of San Francisco
have trick that does honor to the trade.
They annually buy up the CROP of an
ALASKA Ice company to the amount of TO-
ooO tons. which is left to melt where it is
cut, while San Francisco and California
are served with ice artiiicia!ly made at an
exorbitant price.
Puerto Corecs, Guatemala has been the
scene of a friShtful railroad accident. A
train consisting of two passenger coaches
and mail baggage cars jumped the track
at the Golden Rock curve, on the Amour
mountain. and was prccipitated down the !
mountain seventy feet. Nearly all on
board were either killed Or fatallywounded |
In Warrenton, Ca, while the body of
the late MIR. Samuel Hall was awaiting
burial, Moses, colored man and former |
slave of the deceased, approached the
house to see bis old master once more be- |
fore they laid him away, and before reach,
ing the gate he was observed by several
gentlemen to suddenly fall and then make
an effort to liSe. They Lastened to his as.
sistance, but upon being raised he heaved
a deep sigh and breathed his last.
Margaret Spitzer young married
woaan, died at 1874 Eldridge street, New
York, on Stature day night. An aut,usv
was set down OH representations of the
family that she had been brutai!y beaten
by her husband, Robert Splitter, a law
clerk. Her abdomen was fouGd blackencd
by coal dust carefully rubbed in with the
intention ofconcealing the bruises
d. discOlOratiOn. The coroner ordered the
husbands S arrest.
While number of men we're engaged ,
n raising heavy casting at the foundry {;
connected with the Dickson .manuf;;ctur- |
Eg company's works, Scranton by means
'f a large chain, one Of the links broke
md the huge piece Of machinery, weighing t
many tons, fell 20 the ground with great t
orce. All Of the wOrkmen escaped with
he exception Of James Clark, who was p
rushed to death in an instant. He was p
bout fsrty-five years Of age. n
In Newark, Ohio. John Comming, dav 81 81
lborer, forbid his eigEt-year.oId son q q
casting on an adjacent hill. The boy u i.
lsobcyed, and tho inhuman father took ',
i'm to the barn. procured hickory SAD. =: =:
ng, split it, put the boys thumbs inside. u .,
allied the sapling tight where split, then a. a.
18th it lifted the boy up on the side of the 81 >.
lrn and nailed him, keeping him in this ~
ucitied state from 4 o'clock in the after. pa pa
'on till 10 at night when passers.by ~ -
ard the lads groans and released him. u