Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-06
LATEST NEWS By MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY NAIL.
A big strike is probable at Montreal.
Baseball: At observation-disclosures, 4;
Boston, 2.
The trial of Herr Johann Most has been
postponed.
Moneys tannery, at Montreal, was
burned yesterday. Loss, 5000.
The New York chamber of commerce
held its one hundred aud thirteenth annual
meeting yesterday.
William Wise shot and killed Charles
Wilson just south of St. Joseph, No., on
Wednesday night.
Tipsey Jane, the well. known trOtting
mare, tho property of ConOver Jones, died
from blood poisoning at Platt's Bridge,
n. Y.
The great train of Russian cOnvicts for
Siberia is to start from Moscow on the
10th. The number is about 12, 200, most
of them political prisoners.
A fire in the furniture factory Of Hugh
MuCrum, corner of North Fifth and Third
streets, Brooklyn. occasioped damage to
the extent of $10,0 200.
The wooden mills at St. CrOix, Hants
county. Nova Scotia, were burned, with
the machinery and all their contents. The
loss is SIG, 900, only one-cighth insured.
Eldridge G. Fairfield, prominent
suicide on Wednesday while temporarily
insane.
A shad weighing 81 pounds was caught
at Saybrook, Conn.,, this week. A rs
pound Goldfish vas on exhibition in Bos-
ton fish market Wednesday.
Mrs. Francis Kcegan, of Nanticoke, was
found dead in led. Her husband has left
the country. 1t is thought that he beat
her severly, from the effects of which she
died.
Awoman jumped into the ScEuylkill
from an alcove ofthe Girard avenue bridge
near its western end, about the same
point whence Peter E. Abel took his sui
cidal leap in 1873, and she was drowned.
A man who stole ride from New York
to Baltimore in box freight car, subsis-
ted during the trip of four days upon
apples. which he stole from a barrel in the
car. He will enjoy change of diet for a
short time in Baltimore Jail.
In Bethlehem N. H., twenty men were
at work in a building when it fell.
Charles Abbot was instantly killed :;
Charles E. Stoddard received internal in.
juries and cannot live Morris Cheney was
cut in the head and had his ribs fractured,
his injuries being dangerous.
There was double marriage in circus
side show at Galveston. The giant we'd
ded the fat woman, and the living skeleton
became the husband of the Circassian
girl. In celebration of the happy event q
banquet was given in the tent to employees
Of the circus.
There is crematory in South Boston,
in the form of a lime kiln. Tramps crawl
into it because it is warm, go comfortably
to sleep. are overcome by gas, and finally
are burned to crisp when the fire is
freshened in the morning. Sixteen lives
have thus been lost within few year.
In West Point, Texas, an educated
man, of good address, named Gibson, has
been convicted of the theft of $75 and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for eight years.
In defense of himself he made speech
which electrified the bench and bar. He
claims that he was once editor Of the
Globe Democrat.
Captain Thoresen, Of the Norwegian
bark Betsy and Arnold, picked up in very
exhausted condition Monday, April 1S, on
Grand Banks, four men belonging to q
French fishing schooner. They missed
their vessel in a fog and had been drift
ing about two days before they were res
cued.
Tho Boscobel, the largest water craft
ever built in Chicago, was successfully
launched in the river yesterday. She is a
steam tug of $50 feet keel, 165 feet over
all, "a feet beam, 13a feet depth of hold
and has a custom house tonnage of $50
tons. She was built for the Great Pesht-
lgo lumber company at a cost of $50, 900,
and is larger than any of the Welland
canal schooners.
A skull, believed to be the missing head
of the body of Mrs. Lizzie Lowell, has
been found in Lewistown, Me-. near the
Switzerland road. A headless skeleton.
identified as that of Mrs. Lowell, was
found near the same spot seven years ago
and her husband, James Lowell, was con-
victed of numbering her. He is now in
the state prison for the crime. A reward
for the discovery of the lead was offered
at the trial.
Cornelius Kingsland, aged fifty-eight
descended into the basement of his house.
No. 125 Charles street. New York, and
shot himself through the breast with q
musket. He was separated from his wife.
and lived with woman who kept fancy
store in the house. Kingsland kept a fish
stand for years in old Clinton market. He
was partially paralyzed and had often
threatened and attempted to commit sui
eide in different ways.
STATE ITEMS.
Francis Fogerty, aged 13 years, fell
under freight train in Easton and was
killed.