Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-17
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THURSDAY EVENING. NOV. II. 1881.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
The Clark house, the principal hotel at
Duluth, Minnesota, was burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The Spaniards propose to tunnel the
Pyrences in order to increase the facilities
of communication with France.
Advices from Mecca state that 800 per-
sons are dying daily from cholera. Steam
ers at Djiddah refuse 10 embark returning
pilgrims.
u. Taylor Strickland, of Wilmington,
DEL, while melancholy over a love affair,
committed suicide by cutting his throat
from ear to car.
Lewis Haynen, watchman at street
railway depot in Wilmington, Del, has
been arrested for killing VIM. Shields, a
tanner, by striking him with club.
Foster Middleton, an aged man, was
found dead with hole in his skull, near
New Castle, Del. On investigation it was
found that death had been caused by fall
ing from a railroad bridge.
One laborer was killed aud five severely
injured by the fiat cars of a construction
train falling on them, on the California
Southern railroad, near the summit Of the
Soledad grade.
The police of EDglewoOd, Ills, are
searching for the murderer of Miss Ellen
Kcsner, aged 20 years, a student at the
Normal school, whose headless trunk was
found Oh Tuesday night at the Wabash
railroad crossing. Her body was shock
ingly cut, apparently with knife.
A broken switchbar at the Denham
branch of the New York & New England
railroad at Elmwood, Mass, threw the
engine and four cars of 4 passenger train
off the track. The two last cars were
filled with workmen, who were all injured,
none of them seriously.
James l.. Ridgely, since 1s42 grand cor
responding and recording secretary of the
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of the United States, and
for 12 years register of wills OF Baltimore
county, Md, has died in Baltimore. in his
10Th year.
President Arthur, in reply to some Office
seekers, is reported as saying that he
would change officers for proper cause, but
not because ''they were not Grant Republi-
cans His aim would be to keep con-
stantly in view the good of the service and
of the Republican party as whole.
The report of Lieut.. Berry, accompanied
by maps of Wrapsel Island, has reached
the navy department. What was formerly
known as Wrangel Land is shown to be an
island, about 60 miles long by 20 wide, its
shape being almost that of a paralle!ogram
with the corners rounded OH.
Compromise has been effected between
the National MiIlers' association and the
George T. Smith middlings purifier COM
pany, by which the law suits brought by
the latter against the most prominent
millers of the country for an alleged in
tringement of what is known as the Cuch-
ranc patent, have been settled.
In ten years 200 acres Of grain land
and 22S, 600 acres of green crop land in
Great Britain have been converted into
permanent pasture, and an annual
return of IS. OOO. .OGO formerly derived from
crops has thereby disappeared. This
agricultural depression is attributable not
to American competition but to bad sea
sons.
The national convention If the United
Fire Underwriters of America met in New
York yesterday. Col. n. Loudon Snow
den, president of the Fire Association of
Philadelphia, presided and opened the pro-
Cesdings with Il lengthy address. Geo. T.
Hope read history of fire insurance poll
cy. Resolutions were adopted declaring
that was the duty of members to enlist the
aid of public bodies and the press with
regard to the objects of insurance and with
aview to decrease the fire hazard Of the
country.
The Tariff convention at Chicago. ILL.,,
adopted yesterday platform recitirg that
the protective policy of America is to be
credited with having not only provided
the revenue with which to subdue the re-
bellion. revive the national credit. and
dischargins in large part the national debt,
bat also with having quadrupled the in
dustries of the country, maintain ed the
unexamplcd continued prosperity for ten
years. and turned the balance Of trade
steadily in our favor, &c, and that how
ever well established our manufactures
may be, a tariff for protection and revenue
is still needed that skilled laborcrs and
producers may have constant and remune-
rative employment.