Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-25
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Ihe wife or Rev. 5. NJ. MOrritt, OF Cold
water, Mich, has committed suicide by
hanging herself in a fit of insanity.
In Dallas, Texas, Sarah Carruthers, COL
ored, while kindling fire upset coal oil
can. and was fatally burued.
A land slip has recently occurred at
the village of Tororani in Moldavia. Sixty
five houses disappeared. No lives were
lost.
1t is nearly two months since rain fell
around Bordentown, Ky. Many farmers
are compelled to drive their stock three or
four miles to water.
Thomas Firbec, aged % years, a colored
ployed by r. X. Haines, of New York.
was drowned while bathing at Silver Lake.
The manager of Maud S. authorizes the
statement that she will not trot to-day,
having sprained the off hind ankle while
exercising.
Alderian Pitts, a wealthy and highly re-
spected farmer, was shot and instantly
killed on his farm. four miles from MUIR
freesboro, Rutherford county, Tenn. An
unknown person did the shooting.
In Chicago yesterday Valtz's FIGURING
mill, on Milwaukee avenue, was burned.
Loss, $65, 900 insurance, $4,000. Three
tiremen were seriously burned and eight
horses burned to death.
John w. Fair, a young man living near
Ennis, Tex, committee suicide by first
cutting his throat and then blowing his
head nearly off with a shotgun. He leaves
a young wife.
In Brockvillc, Ont. fire broke out in a
hOuca OvuuoI 1,v Toxur Tlorl, Mt oo,
The building was destroyed and Mclean
smothered to death. A small building ad
joining was also destroyed. Loss, $50, 600.
E. c. Vanaukin, a hotel-keeper at Han
nibal, Oswego county. N. Y, shot himself
twice in the head. He will probably die.
The act was caused by despondency, the
result of dissipation.
The body of the aeronaut Armentieres,
who made an ascension from Montpelier,
on Sunday, the fourteenth instant, and
who was lost, has been found, frightfully
mutilated, near tho Lespignette light
house.
In Troy, N. Y, Charles J. Mystrene, a
Swede, while attempting to clean rusty
revolver. accidentally discharged one
chamber. The ball, after passing through
his finger, entered the body of his daugh-
ter, 5 years old, infl;cting fatal wound.
In Bangkok, Siam, Asiatic cholera is
raging and from a hundred to three hun
dred natives are dying daily. Very few
foreigners have died, but several have fled
to Singapore and Hong Kong. Every one
feels as though he were living in grave
yard.
The special attorney for the government
has entered civil suit against Captain
Howgate to recover $1O1,257. Writs of
attachment were placed in the marshall s
hands and his deputies seized all real and
personal property belonging to the defend
ant.
From Brockville, Ont. Tom Foster and
T. Glazier went up the river in punt,
fishing. About midnight a camping party
heard loud cries for help. On going to
the foot of Big Island they found the punt
full of water and Foster dead in the boat.
swimming. 1t is supposed they were both
intoxicated.
James F. Offult was killed by William
H. Current, at Motifs cross roads, Ky.
Current and Offult were brothers -in-law.
Both were armed with shotguns. Offult
went to Mrs. Currents house and by
threats of killing her husband so excited
Mrs. Current that she was thrown into
spasms, and from the effects of these,
coupled with sickness attending premature
child birth, she died.
A fro in Evansville, Ind, broke out in
the wholesale fruit store of Urso & Marsh
and spread to adjoining buildings, destroy
ing nine large wholesale houses and con-
tents. Toff & Co.'s building was not
burned, but was destroyed by caving in.
When the crash occurred there were three
firemen on tho roof, two Of whom were
buried in the ruins. Ono was extricated
badly injured, the other taken out dead.
Total loss, $780, 900; insurance, SAC, 900: