Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-11
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Maiden, Mass, has voted to become :
city by SO1 yeas to 500 nays.
| Benefits steam mill at Gilead, Me to
gether with large quantity Of spool woot
was burned yesterday.
The North Carolina negroes demant
a share OF the federal offices and will kicl
if they are not satisfied.
In Providence Joseph Hcnncssy, aged
II, was found hanging to shaft in thu
shop where he was employed.
The Reichstag has rejected, by a vote o.
15S to 1O2, the credit demanded by Prince
Bismarck for the establishment of an
economic council.
| An encounter has taken place between
Turkish troops, and Bulgarian bands in
Macedonia, in which eight Turks and
thirteen Bulgarians were killed.
Ground was broken at Florence, N. j.,
few days ago for new Methodist church
when twenty-five ladies dug the first cart
Of dirt.
In Richfield Springs, N. Y, ex-senator
| A. X. Elwood WAS accidentally killed by
falling through stairway at the Ameri-
| can hotel.
Alexander Russenger was instantly
NAhSN sso DSssuo SOoOAOus W. 110 WAS
thrown some twenty feet into the air by
the engine and broken almost to pieces.
Charles Burns, 10 years old, died in
Trenton from the effects of injuries re-
ceived hy being run over by freight train
on the Pennsylvania railroad at Norris
vile.
At Soda Springs, five miles west of
Leadville, one Andrews, employed at the
Soda Springs hotel, was shot and fatally
wounded by Otto Ballalnx, the cause being
i standing quarrel.
A race in lap-streak boats has been ar
ranged bctweOn Wise, of Riverside and
Edward Hanlan. The race is for $1,000 a
side, aud is to come off in six weeks on
Toronto bay.
Robert Dudley and Dock Davis fought
over game of baseball in Williston, S. C.
Dudley knocked Davis down with his bat.
and Davis stabbed Dudley to the heart
with a knife, killing him instantly.
A severe cyclone occurred yesterday in
SOloman Valley, Kansas. Houses and
barns for distance of twenty miles were
demolished and several people killed. The
storm lasted about an hour, with heavy
hail. The crops suffered considerable
damage.
A German ragpicker named j. Pranch,
aged GO years, wasneiected in Buffalo, N.
Y, from tho attic of a tenement house
where he had been living in the most ab-
jcct squalor, and two bags, containing over
81, 600 in gold and silver coins, were found
in his possession.
Charles Johnson of Eau Claire, Wis,
was shot and killed while standing in his
doorway by Louis Carter. The cause was
the unsuccessful attempt of Carter to in
duce Johnson's wife to elOpe with him.
Being ordered off the premises he fired
twice, both balls taking effect and produc-
ing instant death.
On the farm of Basil c. Benson, seven
miles from Baltimore, lightning struck an
old building in which the strawberry pick
ers had taken refuge from a storm. The |
lightning struck tho top of tho chimney,
and descended it, instantly killed a man
named Harman and his son. One man |
had his right leg broken by tho shock.
and another had his clothes burned off |
besides receiving injuries about the body
The dead man and his son are supposed to |
be from Federal hill, as they came along
with crowd of the pickers who are from
tle same vicinity to tho farm to work,