Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-26
LATEST NEWS By MAIL,

lSDA i. M Al 20, 1901.
LATEST NEWS By MAIL.
James Emmens, aged 60 years, hanged
himself in Windsor, New Jersey.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will be built
to the mouth of the Brazos river.
John Raine, of Ottawa, ran b mile in
minutes % seconds yesterday, the quickest
time on record.
During 1880 the exports from the island
Of San Domingo amounted to 81, 49,, ,995,
and the Imports to 50, 74S, 912.
The wheat market in Chicago was great
ly excited yesterday, prices advancing in
the morning over two cents. The market
closed somewhat weaker.
Defalcations amounting to $4,000
drachmas have been discovered in the
treasury of Greece. Several persons have
been arrested for completely.
Judge Ebenezer Peck, "for many years.
the most intimate friend of Abraham
Lincoln" died in Chicago yesterday, aged
76 years.
The Republican press Of New York is
practically a unit against the return of
COkling and Platt. Out of nearly two
hundred papers only twenty lisp either ap-
proval or apology.
David Augsburg, Of Parnelia Four Cor
ners, N. Y, shot a neighbor named Samuel
SeOlor and his two sons The father will
probably die. The shooting was the re-
suit Of a quarrel about a farm.
| The body Of Rudolph Shultz, aged 62
years, was found in tho river at Williams
burg, New York, with twenty pounds of
/ iron attached to the clothes 1t is supposed
he committed suicide.
| Charles L. Clements, waiter, III years
of age, has died in New York, from blood
poisoning, caused by a preparation with
which he was cleaning silverware coming
in contact with a sore on his elbow.
At midnight the score in the walk show
cd Vint. $50 Littlcwood, 319t Hughes
315 Sullivan, 80; Glow, 3O1 Fitzgcr-
aid, 290t Howard, 291 Hazacl. 200 !;
Donovan, 27 Curran, 275 :; Dufrane,
27Os.
The business portion Of Harrison. tho
county scat of Boone county, Ark, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $685.
600. The mayor has issued q proclamation
Offering $500 reward for. the capture of the
incendiaries.
Base ball: Cleveland Cleveland, Z;
/
ton, 0. ChicagO-ChicagO, II; PrOvi-
dcnce, 6. Amherst-Amherst Z; Har-
ward, 2. Proyidcnce-Yale, o; Brown,
The Indian bureau has arranged for the
removal Of about seventy of the North
Carolina CherOkees to tho Indian terri
tory. This is considered the first step TO-
wards tho removal of the Chcrokecs in
North Carolina, about 9, 200 in number.
| The great event in Brooklyn yesterday
was the anniversary parade of the Brook.
lyn Sunday school, in which all denomina.
tions, with the exception of the Catholics
took part. This was tue tifty-secOnd cele-
ever taken place.
, In Lloyd, La, a difficulty took place OH
r the street between E. l.. Sage and H. Il
Lott, jr., son of II. r. Lott, in which Lott
was instantly killed. Immediately T. J.
Lott, brother of H. r. Lott, jr., became
engaged in tho difficulty and was sho,
down, his wounds being probably mortal
. Conkling is hard at work in his own be
, half, getting down to details. Albany i!
full of politicians. The Republican sena
tors refuse to go into the caucus. Thu
Conkling men are disgusted at Gorham'.
. appearance Oh the scene, and fear thai
Malone will come next.
Murders are frequent ON the Panam:
isthmus at present, and some of them arr
committed under circumstances of pecu
liar atrocity. In thirty days there have
! been ten murders and one suicide. Life i.
insecure. police vigilance is deplorably
, slack and justice halts in the punishment
! of crime.
: An infant child of William Slike, re.
siding in Union township, HuntertlOn
county, N. j., was suffOcatcd by cal
laying itself on the face as the mother was
but temporarily absent in the garden
The child was but seven weeks old and
must have suffered great pain, rs the blood
was OOzing from its nose after the cat was
taken away.
Just as the flames burst out from the
explosion of the oil tank in Waterville,
Conn.,, a yOungster named Willie Reed
was seen emerging from the building, his
clothing apparently on fire with kcg OF
gunpowder in his arms, calling out and
warning others to get out of the way, Us
the powder might explode. His own dan
ger he did not mind, but bore tho kcg to a
place Of safety.
In Fond du Lac there is great excitement
over tho failure Of r. A. Bakers bank.
The loss will be over $500, 900. Baker
was owner and Burroughs cashier. Both
have been arrest. The people pulled re-
vOlvcrs on Burroughs and tried to shoot
him. The city will lose SAC, ,OOO-ruiniDg
tho city treasurer, c. J. PerrOn. Every
thing indicates general crookedncss -
on the part of Baker and Burroughs.
In "Swede Bend" a secluded ncighbor-
hood, eighteen miles north of Boone, Iowa,
Lars Bouland, an eccentric old man who
had lived alone in Il hut for over twenty
years, was found murdered on Sunday
morning. His head was crushed in and a
corn-cob into his mouth to stifle his out
cries. The body was then thrown into a
ditch near by. His watch and money were
taken away. There is no clue of the mur-
dcrer.
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w: G. Hays, a Grcensburg butcher, COM
mittcd suicide on Tuesday evening by
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