Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-10
LATEST NEWS By MAIL.

--LATEST NEWS By MAIL.
The village Of Reichenbach, in the
Bernese Oberland. has been almost des-
troyed by fall Of stone.
The Chinese quarter in Orovilic, Cali
fornia, was burned On Thursday night.
Loss about So, 900.
Pink Flagg, we'll known gambler, ar
rived in St. Louis from Joplin in search Of
his wife, and finding her in a house of ill
fame he shot her. The woman will die.
At Atlanta: Ca, John Fitzpatrick wife
died of starvation. He refused to find
food or medicine, and sat ON her bedside,
while she was dying, cursing her.
Selvin Condict, resident of Orange,
visited Boonton, N. j., and, while laboring
under a temporary fit OF insanity, cut an
artery in his right arm and bled to death.
A few days ago Abram Altman resigned
the presidency Of the Buffalo Third ma
tional bank, and Charles A. Sweet was
elected to fill the vacancy. First Altman's
suicide was reported; now lie turns out to
be defaulter.
The Pullman palace car company has
declared an extra dividend Of IL! per
cent, payable September 80, out Of the
profits of the Detroit manufactory, and
an increase OF capital stock to the amount
of 1000, 900 was authorized.
The war department will furnish arms
to the authorities Of New Mexico and Ari-
zona, for defence against the Indians,
upon i regular requisition made to the
ordinance department. Each territory is
entitled to 1900 rifles for self preservation.
The local election in San Francisco on
Thursday resulted in a victory for the
Republicans. Clark, their candidate for
mayor, receiving 2092 majority, and they
elected all their candidates, except in two
of the wards, where the Democratic sur
veyor and supervisor were chosen.
DR.. Geo. w. Bookwalter, of Ansonia,
Ohio, has been ARE ,ted by agents OF the
secret service at Union City, Ind. with
about S., 500 in counterfeit two and half
and five-dollar gold pieces in his possession.
The coins are very good counterfeit, and
we'll calculated to deceive.
Col. Richard S. Jelfries, prominent
lawyer of Atlanta, committed suicide at
the Alabama White Sulphur springs by
cutting his throat with 4 razor, severing
both Of the large veins and an artery of
the neck. He leaves a wife and child in
Atlanta. No reason has been assigned for
the act.
Five murdercrs, Brown, Padgett and
McGowan (white), and Abeli and Amos
Manley Greek Indians), were hanged at
Fort Smith, Ark, yesterday. The eXecu-
ton was private, only forty or fifty per-
sons being present. The doomed men died
easily with the exceptions of the Man.
leys.
In consequence of the meagre postal
facilities aJ the west end of Long Branch,
Postmaster General James has issued an
order establishing postoffice at the West
End hotel, to be known as West End,
Monmouth county. N. J. David NJ. Hill
dreth, one Of the prOprietors of the West
End hotel, was appointed postmaster.
The large engine at the Chesapeake nail
works broke down yesterday afternoon,
causing the utmost CONSERVATION in the
mill and throwing eight hundred employees
out of work for a month. The puddlers
who have been getting 81 per ton, had just
handed in a notice demanding $3.50 and
the request would probably have been
complied with.
Terrence Connolly, the sick faster at New
| ton, N. j., has now entered upon the
sixty eighth day Of his fast, the first AZ
days of which not q spoonful of food in
any form, liquid or solid, was taken. Since
then, for the last 25 days, he has taken
from two to three tcaspoonfuls of liquid
food, generally heef-tea daily, but nothing
else except water.
Four men attempted, yesterday morn
ing, to rob the vault of the Baltimore
savings bank. They entered the trcasu'
rer's room, and one Of them engaged the
attention of the treasurer while another
walked back towards the vault in rear
apartment. A clerk, observing the move.
mcnt, followed and arrested the robber in
front Of the vault, whereupon the others
| ran out and escaped.