Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-05
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The boiler of flour mill in Kinswich,
Missouri, burst on Thursday, killing three
men.
Ladies in Bordentown, New Jersey,
have started Fanny Parnell branch -
Of the Irish Land League.
Duncan A. Walker, of Dalton. Georgia.
a prominent Republican Of the South, died
Yesterday.
An express train from St. John. New
Brunswick, yesterday morning ran off the
track near Apohagui station, killing two
train hands and injuring number of pas
sengers.
The Bijou theatre at Fort Wayne, Ind,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss,
| $40, 900 Insurance, 5000. The theatre
| was the property Of II. L. Smith, of Indian
apolis.
The bark Richards has been seized by
| an Argentine war vessel, for having taken
guanO and penguins from Bahia Nueva,
Patagonia without permission of the Ar
gentine government.
Colonel Rayler joined Lieutenant
Ncvills January 90, and with twenty-five
men they attacked the Indians in the
Sierra Dials range, them by surprise, kill
| ing six, and capturing three sqaaws.
An Internal machine containing pound
Of gunpowdcr has been found in London
square. A lady was fired at near Galway,
Yesterday, but without result. Forts are
being erected along the Galway coast.
A freight train on the Wabash, St.
Louis & Pacific railroad was thrown from
the track near Fort Wayne, Ind, yestcr-
day morning, by y broken rail, and the
engineer and q brakeman were fatally ill
jured.
In less than minute last evening 4
thiec, who probably had cOnfederates,
broke hole in the plate glass front Of the
show window of Il. Newburgei's iewclry
store, NJ. 531 Sixth avenue. New York,
snatchcd diamond jewels worth from
81, 900 to $1,000 and escaped.
At Franklin, Tenn, Thursday night. in
Wells, .jr., shot ID. II. Buck Griffin four
time, inflicting injuries from which he
cannot recover. Griffin isa noted despe-
RADIO, and is the man who killed Colonel
House seven years ago.
A meeting of the bond and shareholders
Of the Philadelphia & Reading railway in
London yesterday, with only one dissen-
ticnt voice, approved President Gowcn' S
action and requested the McCalmonts to
withdraw their opposition. President
GOwen says that there were 800, 900 shares
represented.
A man named Walker arrested u negro
for horse stealing near Columbus, Texas,
last Monday. Soon after three masked
men took the prisoner from Walker. tied
his hands behind his back and knocked
out his brains. \ warrant has been is
dererS.
Michael Davitt, the Irisl, agitator, ar
rested for using inflammatory language in
violation of his ticket of leave, and on
whose account the violent scene in the
British Parliament occurred on Thursday.
now wears the prison garb, the court hav-
| ing ordered that he complete his term in
penal scrvitude. Davitt in 1870 was SEN
fenced to fifteen years for treason, and
released on a tickct-oi-leave in 1877.
The trial of David Clark Borert, the
switch-tender whose negli scnco caused the
death of two train hands by the misplace
ment of a switch on the Erie railroad. in
November last, ended in Jersey City, the
jury finding the defendant guilty, and CEN
surins the railroad company for putting a
boy in charge of the switch.
Nile. sara Dernhardt, on tuesday even
ing, gave her farewell performance in Gin
cinnati, where, for five performances, her
receipts have been s16,061. For tho
eighty-one American performances she has
thus far given, the receipts have aggre-
gated s29i, 10S. Mile Bernhardt and her
troupe left Cincinnati yesterday morning
for New Orleans, where size appears next
Monday.
A remarkable proof OF the severity OF the
present winter is shown by the fact that
Lake Michigan is frozen over at Chicago,
and yesterday y party Of three gentlemen
had sleigh ride on Chicago harbor to
the ''Crib," the water around the mo nth
ofwhich is only kept open by the constant
work of tug. A sweep with 4 field glass
from the lighthouse revealed the fact that
nothing but field Of unbrokcn ice could
be seen lakcward, greater in extent than
has been known for thirty years.