Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-04

fetched 10D per cent. more than they were
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| LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The corn crop in Illinois is rapidly dry
ing up, and ruination is feared.
Serious forest fires are raging in the
northern part of Wisconsin.
Three thousand people in Denver. COL,
| live in tents.
Loril!ard has Won sixteen races in Eng
land.
Boston's Franklin fund, which was in
tended by him to be used for the encour-
agement of young mechanics, now amounts
to $3.50, ,OG9.
Louis Dulopg and Charles Richards,
| young Nova Scotians. were drowned by
Banks.
| The annual convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union ,pf America met
yesterday in Boston. TIC delegates were
welcomed by Mayor Prince.
Rev. William G. Campbell, one of the
Oldest and best known Presbyterian
preachers in Virginia, died at Harrison
burg, in that state, on Tuesday night.
| Alden J. Spooner, well-known lawyer,
of Brooklyn, and founder of the Long
Island historical society, died suddenly on
Tuesday, aged II years.
john NJ. Schuppcl, aged %, while steal
ing ride on freight car platform on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
road, fell under the train, and his head
was severed from his body.
The assessment of Boston shows an in
crease in valuation Of property in that city
of $25, ,OOO, 600 during the last year. The
tax rate has been reduced from $3.50 per
$1,000 to 1890 for the coming year.
Delegates were elected in Virginia, yes
terday, to the Republican state convention,
which will meet in Lynchburg on the 10th.
It is thought, from the returns, that ma
jOrity will favor a straight Republican
ticket on debt-paying platform.
There is a sharp competition among the
brewers of st. Louis, which promises to re-
suit in reduction of prices. On Manday
tho Winklemycr brewery reduced the price
from So to 81, and yesterday the brewers
| were selling at reduced rate.
A "strange disease" the symptoms of
| which arc not reported, has appeared
among the cattle in Nova Scotia. The dis
ease is confined to the vicinity Of towns
and is pronounced non-contagiOus, but tho
mortality from it is very large.
A jockey named Ford fell in the street
at Kansas City, poisoned with a liniment
containing bclladonna. lie may not re-
cover. He says he was poisoned by the
| owner of the horse who won tho race in
tended to have been lost.
Before John T. Garbett. of St. Louis,
shot himself, as he had often threatened
to do, he kissed his little daughter and
embraced her mother and then tore him
self from their restraining arms and COM
mitted suicide in their presence.
In Reno, New, Alfred Mullen and Miss
Selma Davis, having wed before her legal
age Of 18, her parents separated them
Now she is old enough and the local paper
announces the re-marriage Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Mullen.
While the train was moving ut the yate
Of about forty-fivc miles an hour foOl-
hardy passenger jumped from it to re-
cover his hat, which had blown froa his
escaped instant death. He was, however,
severely bruised.
In Dover, N. H., before Arris w.
Farrar, town merchant, ran off with his
servant girl, lie decently made over all his
property to his wife, paid up the little
debts he owed, and collected some that
were due him. The deserted wife is
deeply grieved nevertheless:
An immense turtle was tOwed to the
dock opposite Fulton market New York
on Monday, which had been caught by the
| crew Of a "bunker fishing steamer after
two days struggle. Tho turtle is about
nine feet long and weighs probably 1900
pounds.
The Detroit Post has been sued for libel
by Hugh S. Peoples, who lays his dam
ages at $50, 900. The alleged libel consists
in an article, which, he claims, points to
| him as tho murderer of Martha Whitta.
The young woman's body was found float
| ing in tho river two years ago, bound,
gagged and tied up in 4 bag.
The Cornell university crew, who are to
row match with an Austrian crew on the
Danube, on the clevent instant, arrived in
Vienna on Thursday last, and were heartily
chcered. Tho selection of the actual Aus
trian competitors has not yet been made.
There arc two Austrian crews in hard
training.
A st. Louis man, O'Hara, claims to be
the manufacturer of the machines sent to
England in barrels of cement. He says Sc
have been sent in all and that in three
years England will have no navy. These
engines of destruction must have been
charged with gas, of which O'Hara ap-
pears to have plentiful supply.
Two children, born few weeks ago in
the Canton Vaud, Switzerland, were Joined
together in the same manner as the famous
Siamesc twins. 1t was believed that, as
infants, the lisament which joined them
might. with success, be severed, and the
operation was accordingly performed. No
apparent permanent injury was caused by
it, and several days afterward the twins
were reported to be doing we'll.
At tho election on Monday in Glades
precinct, Madison county, Ky, Washing
ton Roger was killed and others were
wounded. At Sharpsburg, Bath county,
negroes had a general fight with pistols, in
which Sandy johnson was badly and Oscar
Thompson fatally wounded. AtJefferson
vile, Montgomery county, Golson Howard
stabbed and killed James Weldon. Only
two men were killed in Jessamino county
on election day, ono 4 negro, killed by
William Hall, the other James Rutherford
white man, whose murderers arc not
known.
Foul TIay