Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-24
NEWS MISCELLANY.

Tho Ravagos OF Malignant Disease.
Antonio DecardO died in New York yes
teriay of virulent typhus fever. Before
being brought to that city he had been
lying in shanty in Cornwall, N. ", for
nine days, and as 1, 500 employees of the
West shore railroad company, for whom
Decartlo worked, arc at Cornwall, the
state board of health sent an agent there
last night to inspect and make the neces-
sary distinctions.
Information has been received that N.
G. Corbin, deputy collector of customs at
Point Isabel, Texas, has been i'll of yellow
fever since the 9th instant.
Fifty threo new cases of yellow fever
and two deaths, both Mexicans, were re-
ported yesterday at Brownsville, Texas.
The mails arc not running, business is
stagnant, and mechanics and laborers are
suffering for want of employment.
At Matamoras, Mexico, there were II
deaths and sOmo now cases of yellow
fever reported.
Fatal Railroad Casualties.
An engine ran into freight train loaded
with cattle, hogs and sheep, at Monmouth
Junction, on the Pennsylvania railrOad.
An engineer named Brown was fatally
injured. Hundreds of hogs liberated by
the collision were running at large last
night.
At St Johns N. T., Mrs. Lecmof was
killed and her daughter and a young
man named Wilson seriously injured by
their horses running away and throwing
tho vehicle, in which they were seated,
over an embankment.
Destructive Fires.
John w. Kauffman's extensive Touring
mill, elevator and warehOus at Dethaldc,
ILL.,, Oh the limo Of the Indianapolis & St.
Louis railroad, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. Loss, $3.50, 1000 insurance
$1O2, 900.
An incendiary fire, yesterday morning,
which was started in Joseph Vale's store,
at Plymouth, North Carolina, destroyed
all the stores and dwellings, on that block.
by tho explosion of a lamp, yesterday,
w. L. MOriOn's residence, at Beverly, N.
j., was, with its contents, dcstroyedy, and
three children were seriously burned.
In n Nlsdhouse HUT Not Mad.
Judge Barnard, of fPoughkeepsie, N. Y,
in deciding yesterday the appeal for dis
charge of James e. Silkman, of YOnkers,
from the Utica asylum, where Silkman had
boon placed on the testimony Of two ply
sicians that he was insane, granted the
appeal, declaring at the same time II
don't believe that Mr.. Silkman ever was
insanc."
The DOylostOwn Burglary.
Charles Harry, with jimmy and other
burglar tools in his possession, has been
arrested as one of the burglars who fOrci-
bly, entered the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad station at DOylestown on Tuesday
night, and stole some money in the drawer
and rifled several trunks in the baggage
room.
Abduction Of . Young Girl.
Considerable excitement has been caused
in Ashford, N. Y, by the supposed abduc-
ton Of the thirteen-year-old daughter of
Warren Fuller, who has been missing since
Monday night, when an aged couple, stran-
gers. who had been there short time, sud-
denly disappeared from the neighborhoOd.
Webb Wins again.
Tho English champion swimmer, Capt.
Mathew Webb, defeated Thomas Riley,
champion short distance swimmer of Amer
lea, in . three-mile swim, at Hull, Mass,
yesterday afternoon, for $1,000 and the
of the world.