Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-09
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL,

The EadS ship railway contract has been
unanimously approved by the Mexican
chamber of deputies.
Freight rates on live stock from Chi
cago to New York are to be reduced nearly
one-half by the ''pooling'' roads.
Adam Helmsteadter, a wealthy German,
of Newark New Jersey dropped dead
while drinking beer yesterday.
While trying to get on a train at Bur
lington, n. j., Richard Smith fell under
the wheels and lost leg.
The foundry and machine shop of Ar
lingtOn & Bernus at Indianapolis, Ind,
was burned on Saturday night. Loss,
$4,000.
John Hosie, a prominent mine operator
of Scranton, and one of the pioneers of the
Lackawanna coal region, died there on
Saturday, aged 60 years.
Charles Sandeen. Swede living at Hyde
Park, Mass, was fatally shot at the din.
ner table by his son George, while the lat
ter was examining loaded revolver.
The ball entered tho abdomen.
A rowboat containing fishing party of
four was capsized near Trembly's Point,
on Staten Island Sound. Frederick Stark,
Charles Stark, his son, aged six years, and
David Roach were drowned.
Baseball At Buffalo-Buffalo 6, De-
troit 1 at Troy-Worcester 8, Troy
at BOstcn-BOstOn 4, Providence / :; at
Cleveland-Chicago 4, Cleveland o; at
New Haven-Yale &, Princeton 5.
Mrs. Katharine Keimis committed sui
eide in Baltimore on Saturday by opening
the artery in the left arm at the elbow
She was forty years old aud supposed
| to be insane.
A mad dog running wildly in the streets
| of Spring Hill, Pictou county, N. S.,
| savagely attacked and bit seven children,
three men and one woman before being
shot. 1t is feared that many of the vic.
Tins will die.
Eliza Tiff, aged eighteen years, COM
mitted suicide at Adams, N. Y, by taking
arsenic. She was to have been married to
young man named Allen, who was ar
rested a week ago and taken to Canton
for seducing young lady of that place.
John Nelligan was observed at Spring
field, Mass, rowing back and forth in a
strange manner on the river at Holyoke.
He soon went over the dam and is pre-.
sumed to have been drowned. 1t is
thought that suicide was his object.
Charles Baker, of Winchester, Va,
jumped from a Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road train at R0ncenerte and was killed.
lie saw another train approaching and
fearing q collision tried to escape. The
| trains were in collision, but did no dam
| age.
A family named Sedden have had a
| windfall Of property valued at 81, ,O00, 900
| sterling, which had been in chancery
| since 1857 in Lancashire, Eng. The prop
crty was bcqueathed to John Sedden, who
died in a workhouse. His heirs inherit
| this vast fortune.
At the court house, in Boston, prison.
er named Robert McKelvey, aged 25
years, attempted to escape from a room in
the third story. He had let himself down
with rope the distance of one story,
when the rope snapped and he fell to the
ground, receiving, 1t is believed, fatal in
juries.
Smallpox is spreading so rapidly in
Adams, Mass, that the board of health
have become alarmed and pest house is
being built half mile from town. All
the patients will DO removed there, where
proper attendance can be given them.
There are thirty cases. A local paper
charges gross carelessness.
An incendiary fire in Paterson, N. j.,
burned the livery stable of James Carroll,
on Ramapo avenue, and contents. Five
horses also We're burned. Loss, $50. 900.
Other buildings ad jacent were damaged as
follows: L. p. Hazen's Delaware house,
loss, $1,000; barber shop and butcher
shop, destroyed, loss, $1,000; William
Suitor's restaurant, loss, 81, 900, all covered
1,x, %ho 1,,,s1I s~o
owned by Richard P. Kip, of Clifton.
The trial of Heddep, cashier of the First
national bank Of Newark, for misapplying
the funds of the bank, was concluded
Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of
guilty upon all but the third count of the
first Indictment, guilty of misapplying
funds, not guilty of embezzlement.
Another Indictment is pending against
him, and he went to Newark with the
United States marshal to procure bail.
Clare Webb, &c years old. said to be the
daughter of a wealthy Baltimore family,
by whom she was discarded and prescribed
SIX years ago, after her betrayal, has died
from consumption in Philadelphia at the
house of Harriet Collins, a colored washer
woman, in Middle alley. Miss Webb came
to the city in 1875 and finding no success
in her efforts to obtain employment as a
saleswoman gradually became SO poor that
she had to become washerwoman. Mrs.
Collins bcfriended her. Clara was a
brunette and was once very handsome.
STATE ITEMS.
Peter A. Rhode a well-to-do pretzel
baker, living at No. 921 Girard avenue,
IL