Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-10
LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.


American securities are in the greatest
demand in the London stock market.
Mr.. Tennyson's new play, "The Cup"
has achieved wonderful success.
There were sixteen deaths from small
pOx and four from yellow fever at Havana
during the past week.
William Collision and an Indian doctor,
while crossing the railroad near lrOquOis
station, Ont, were run over and killed.
The steamer Arizona, which sailed from
Liverpool Oh Saturday for New York, took
e1OO, 600 in gold.
John B. Brown, the wealthiest citizen Of
Portland, Maine, was fatally injured by
slipping OH the ice in that city yesterday.
Mrs. e. &. Galley and Mrs. E. o. Ellis,
were killed by a train while crossing the
railroad at Havana, Ohio, yesterday, in a
sleigh.
1t is reported that two young men and a
boy were drowned while skating on Bass
creek. New Jersey, last Friday night, but
no names were given.
Thirty-two of the crew of the Spanish
steamer Leon, which sunk in collision with
the steamer Hareida, have been saved.
Thirty are still missing.
An elephant travelling out West, whose
trunk was not checked, drank up all the
water in the tender of the locomotive, so
that the train was obliged to stop.
For the past two or three weeks no
ashes have been removed from Brooklyn
dwellings, on account of the trouble over
the street-cleaning contract.
The body of male child with the throat
cut was found in the hallway at No. 1922
West Twenty-seventh street, New York,
Nothing is known of the parents.
The steamer General Lyttle was cnt down
at Cincinnare, D., and sunk by moving ice.
At noon fifty empty coal barges worth
$50, 600 were sunk.
Secret societies of various sorts are very
active in England, some of which arc sup
posed to be Connected with the Land League
and some with the Russian Nihilist move
ment.
Richard Lester, who married woman
named Hart in police court at Ottawa to
save himself from imprisonment, at
tempted to murder her. The woman is in
critical state.
In Machias. Me-, Warren Longmore,
aged nine years, has been indicted by the
grand jury for the murder Of Freeman
Wright, aged eight years, in October last.
He will be tried this week.
A man named Watts while chasing a
boy in Toronto fell, had his check pierced
by the stem of pipe which he was smok-
ing, and died from the effects of the
wound.
The body of man found near the
Michigan Central track, Kalamazoo, Mich,
L. ED1 A<>f( D<~1,r
travelling salesman, of Chicago. He fell
from the evening express at o'clock in
the morning and dragged himself about
until daybreak.
The temporary factory of the Ansonia
watch and clock company, opened in South
Brooklin after the destruction of their
works last October, was burned yesterday
entailing loss of more than $40, 900 in
sured for s19, ,0OO. Other occupants of the
building lost SIS, 900; insured.
William J. Sweeney, keeper Of a sailors
boarding house in Charleston, South Caro-
lima, delivered four sailors to the British
barkentine Sunbeam, at Bull River, yes
terday morning. AS Sweeney started to
return from the vessel three OF the sailors
jumped back into the boat. The captain
thereupon opened fire on the boat, killing
Sweeney and another.
Near Henderson, KY, John Davis, alias
Wright, a married man aged thirty-tive,
quarrelled with H. J.. Balmer. an old man
sixty years of age, in reference to board
bill. Balmer was ON Davis's boat and
Davis during the quarrel seized stick of
wood and advanced on him. He retreated
to his boat and taking down his rifle
warned Davis back. Davis continued to
advance across the plank connecting the
two boats, and just as he stepped on Bal,
mer's boat, the old man shot him ut six
feet range. ''Ie was fencing me in, ," said
Balmer, land was compelled to fence
him out" Davis's wife says Balmer as
sassinated him and picked him off as Da-
Wis was saving wood. Balmer is in Jail
and a reward is standing for the capture
Of Davis for shooting man in Louisville.