Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-23
LATEST NEWS By NAIL.

yield is about 20 bushels to the acre.
The season for feeding threshing mach
ines human bones and flesh is at hand.
An old army chaplain has just remitted
500 to the treasury conscience fund, be-
cause he drew too much on forage account
during the war.
The principal towns of New Mexico ale
raising funds for Patsey Garret for his
services to the territory in killing Billy
the Kid"
The electric light has been successfully
introduced at Springfield, Ill. The au-
thorities of Aurora, ILL.,, propose to light
that city by electric lights upon tall iron
trestle pillars.
Mrs. Helen johnson, of East Des
Moines, Iowa, was found dead in a cellar,
suspended by the neck. Her husband is
under arrest on suspicion as there is doubt
whether the act was murder or suicide.
Near Whitby, Ontario, the three-year-
old son of James McCart wandered from
home at night was found dead in an oat
field near by. The doctors say that the
child, finding himself lost, died Of fright.
By the ravages of the army worm, one
Iowa farmer lost fourteen acres of oats and
ten acres of timothy. Reports from Mar
shall county are that a small black or light
brown worm is eating everything green
before it.
Colonel Anthony r. Kerr, u well-known
farmer, residing at the foot of Mount Eve,
N. Y, went into field few days ago to
catch horse, when he was knocked down
by the animal and trampled to death. He
was sixty years Of age.
A decided sensation was created at a
Chicago public prayer meeting by the an
nouncement that Minnie Brooks, the
keeper of a notorious house of ill-repute,
had become converted, and desired to turn
her establishment into house of prayer.
The body of a murdered man found in
the woods near Winnetka, Ills. some
months ago, is now believed, from letters
received, to be that of Ignatz Hopf, mayor
of Maffersdorff, in Bohemia, who emigrat-
ed to this country in December.
At Fall River, Mass. three boys, from Q
to IL years old, named Andrew johnson.
John Hoard. and Joseph Yates, were
a son of Hon. NJ. II. Gushing, was drown
ed at Middleboro.
Mrs. Catherine Hall, of Louisville, Ky.,
is suing for divorce and allmOny, alleg-
inc that her husband. who is worth $50. 600
and has a large monthly income, refuses to
supply her with sufficient food to support
life. They were married in November,
1877.
A cheerful picture by Vennor Another
period of txcessive heat on Esd, 24th and
25th, with severe wind-storms adecided
cool to cold change on the eth, 2Sth and
Goth, with shOwery weather and severe
storms. chiefly in the West. This cold
wave may carry frosts in western sections,
both in Canada and United States.
Two employees of tho branch office at
Matanzas Of the Spanish bank of Cuba,
fled with two accOmplices, on board the
Spanish steamer Alicante, which ono Of
the accomplices had chartered under the
pretence that ho intended to fetch cattle
from Alvarado, Mexico. Tho employees
robbed the office of $2OO, 900 in specie.
A man who lives in Lincolnshire, Eng
land. is getting ready for the destruction
of the world, and he has provided himself
with hugo balloon. in which he proposes
to 20 up tho very moment the final catas-
trOphc bcfals. He has packed into the car
of the balloon provisions enough to last
him for three years, together with certain
supplies of brandy, soda-water and claret.
A colored man named MacJennings, en-
ployed at the sawmill of Josiah Etheridge,
at Indiana Creek, Va, committed some
sort of crime and was advised to flee the
state to North Carolina and avoid arrest.
Instead of taking to flight he went into the
sawpit, and, while the mill was in full
operation, threw himself against a large
circular saw and. was instantly killed by
having his head sawed in half.
q. Pine Bush, Orange county, N. Y, is tho
scene Of much excitement, caused by an
elopement of the wife of Silas Howell, tho
leading dry goods and grocery merchant
there, in company with John Decker, a
single man, who has been in the employ of
Nelson Van Kennen, the father of Mrs.
Howell. She is young, refined and at
tractive, and Decker a tramp and loafer.
She took 5000 of her husband money and
the silver plate.