Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-12
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

A stone weighing 1900 pounds, ir
Fisher S flour mills, Chicago, exploded,
severely injuring four persons.
All the ice in the Hudson river, from
Cauldwelrs landing sou.h to New York,
is broken up and moving with the tide.
A severe storm was raging at Gloucester,
Mass, Yesterday. Some twenty five coast
ing vessels obtained shelter in the outer
harbor.
A large mass meeting of sympath;zers
with the Dutch Beers in the Transvaal
was held in Chicago. in the Dutch Re
formed church, on Thusday night.
A construction train, on the Dallas and
Wichita railroad, was derailed and thrown
down an embankment yesterday, and five
employees were seriously injured.
Five lady physicians were graduated on
Thursday evening from the college OF
homeopathy at St. Louis. Ono of them,
Mrs. Julia F. Haywood, of Para, ILL.,, re-
ceived a prize for high excellence in medi
cal and surgical studies.
David Howell, station agent of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad at Col
chester, ILL.,, has abscOnded with $40, 600
belonging to the Quincy coal company.
The money had been placed in his care for
safe keeping few hours before.
William A. Norman, thirty-five years of
age, was fatally injured in the New Bruns-
wick rubber company's mill, N. J. His
foot caught in the cog wheels of the mill
and his body was drawn in, his limbs and
the lower part of his body being crushed.
John T. Rich has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the
Seventh Michigan district to succeed Con-
ger. Rich is a farmer by occupation, and
member of the state Senate. He has
been twice speaker Of the Michigan
House af Representatives.
The number of deaths reported at the
bureau of vital statistics, New York, yes
terlay was 100 and total for the week
bids fair to reach 800. This is a great in
crease and the health authorities
are unable to account for it. The rate
heretofore has been during the winter
months 500 or GOO.
A boiler being tested in the Phoenix
boiler works, Buffalo, exploded with terri
bic effect, killing six men and wounding
seven more, one of the proprietors, Mr..
Peterson, being,.among the former. Tho
works were literally levelled, and tho
bodies of men were scattered in every di-
rection.
A train on the Denver s. South Park
line, from Leadville, jumped the track
yesterday morning near Thompsons. Tho
sleeping car turned completely over and
went down q twenty-five feet embank-
ment into the river. All the passengers
were more or less bruised, and the con-
ductor and one passenger were seriously
injured.
A gang of coin counterfeiters has been
in New York by Chief Drum
mond and the officers of the Secret Ser
vice. The arrests have been going ON
quietly for some days. A large quantity
Of implements and base material we're
also captured. The dies were for five, ten,
and fifty-cent pieces and for
standard and trade dollars.
The recent accidents on the Baltimore |
3 Potomac railroad, the connecting link |
IF the Pennsylvania between Washington !
md Baltimore, have attracted attention to
;he necessity of double track on that
:oad. This company does not, deny, and
t is but fair to state, that q double track
vas commenced and twenty miles of the
orty completed last fall. when tho winter