Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-27
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
George Smith, who is soon to be hanged
in Williamsport, has been found to have
been in possession of bottle of laudanum
to cheat the gallows.
Mrs. Francis Collier, fifty years old and
we'll connected, residing in Blandford, Va ,
was fatally burned by falling with kero-
sene lamp in her hands.
Five lawyers out of s. members of the
bar of Harrisonburg, Virginia, have died
within a short time. Most of the deceased
were young men, and succumbed after
short illness.
About a year ago Mr.. Chisholm, a
wealthy Cleveland man, gave a reporter
humping with his cane. The other day
Mr.. Chisholm settled the case by sending
the reporter the cane and 81, 600 in cash.
A report has been received from Singa
pore that local trading steamer has cap
sized. Seventy bodies have been recov
cred. Many others were carried away b,
the current.
A man named Sterling was hanged il
Youngstown, Ohio, in 1877, for the muir
der of young girl. He was convicted or
the evidence of a huckster, who a few days
ago, on his deathbed, confessed that hi
was the murderer.
Smallpox has broken out in Fort Madi
son Uowa) penitentiary creating great eX
citement and panic. All the foreman O
contract work have fled and work is gen
orally abandoned. 1t is believed the dis
ease will shortly be under control.
At joint meeting of the San francisco
board of trade and the chamber of com
merce resolution was adopted request
ing the Legislature to urge Congress tt
grant the application Of Of the Nicaraguar
canal company for charter.
H. Baucher, a fisherman, returned t.
his home in New Orleans, yesterday, aftel
a year srabsence. and found his wife lyins
on the floor, choked to death, and thu
house robbed. There is no clue to the
murderers.
The score in the walking match in New
York at midnight last night stood
Hughes $3.50, Howard 305, Krolne sol
Albert 301, Vint 300, Cox 800, Curra,
27st, Phillips 27O5, Campana 255, and La
couse 243. Hughes beats the best Ameri
can record for y hours by 4 miles.
John Conrad, of Corydon, Ind, de
posted $500 in coin and 81 200 in United
States notes in New Albany bank tn,
other day, having just unearthed tn,
money from the iron kettle in which h
buried it during the raid Of the guerrilla
Morgan, seventeen yearsa go.
General SkobeleH telegraphs from Geol
Tepe, on the Gath inst, announcing tina
the Russians on that day captured Geol
Tepe and Denjil Tepe, after seven hour
of desperate fighting, and that the Tekk.
Turcomans are in full retreat. Their loss
he says, was enormous.
| AlphOnse MOntamat personated an Olt
plantation negro at fashionable New
Orleans masquerade party. He sang on
verse of tho current, 20, Dem Colder
| Slippers, - the hostess playing the plan
accompaniment, and was about to begiI
the second, when he fell dead among the
merry-makers.
1t is reported in Chicago that the olt
and well-known wholesale and retail dr.
goods firm of Field, Letter & Co.. of tina
city, is about to be dissolved, L. Z. Leite
retiring, and that new firm will be or
ganized under the title of Marshall, Fiel,
& Co. The dissolution is amicable ant
! for business reasons.
In the Baltimore American recently wa
published an article declaring that a ghos
was said to inhabit house at the corne
of Huntingdon avenue and Bertlett street
that city. On Monday the proprietor O
| the AMERICAN was sued for $4,000 dam
ages, the owner OF the house claimin:
that since the publication of the article
nobody will rent the house
A man in prayer meeting ut Great
! Spring, Ga, declared that he was read,
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impatience. He had barely uttered TIN
sentiment when a bullet crashed through
the window and SraZed his car. 4 neigh
Dor whom he had sued for 4 debt, La.
taken him at his word. lie hastily hi,
himself under the bench.
Near Bay Side, n. j., a number of boy
and girls were engaged in coasting dow
a steep hill to the ice one the bay, whcl
collision occurred between several sleigh
as they approached the jump to the ic,
below. A little daughter Of Aaron Peter
received injuries from which she cal
scarcely survive. A boy named Robinson
had an arm broken and one of his eve
badly cut, while another boy, name un
known, was, it is feared, seriously injured
by sled striking him in the side.
JOS. Bowers died near Northington, Ohio
and at night the body was left in charge
of two watchers. as is the custom in the
country. During the night the watchers
who were in 4 room adjoining the one il
which the dead man was laid out, heard ;
noise, and upon entering the room fOunt
that window had been raised from til,
outside, and thieves had the corpse hal
way out of the window. A horse ant
wagon waited at convenient distance
Finding themselves discovered the ghoul
jumped into the wagon and drove away.