Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Nocent Accidents and Other CalanitIes.
There were white frosts in Wisconsin on
tho 1st of June CThursday) but no damage
was done to vegetation.
Yesterday afternoon the sloop Alice, of
Blue Point, Long Island, capsized on Fire
Island bar. Captain BENJAMIN Adams and
a boy were drowned.
Two children of James Mcdonald found
a railroad torpedo in the yard of their
parents house, at Troy, New York, yes.
terday afternoon, and exploded it with an
axe One of the children is reported
dyinc and the other may not recover.
A fire in Quebec, last night, destroyed
the Grand Trunk railway station and
sheds, the Dominion, Ontario and Quebec
immigration sheds and offices, and several
railway cars, and nearly destroyed Benoit's
hotel. The loss is estimated at 800, ,O00.
Ten of the smaller elephants of Bar
NUNS circus escaped yesterday morning
while being driven to the show grounds, in
Meriden, Connecticut. They were pun sue d
for several hours and finally captured
about five miles from the place of escape,
after having done much damage to trees,
fences and other property.
Fraud and FOrgerIes.
Amos T. Haight, so years of age, a
butcher, was arrested yesterday in Troy,
N. Y, for making and passing counterfeit
ten cent pieces. lie confessed his guilt.
1t is said that the strict enforcement of
the ordinance against gambling in St.
Louis is causing the gamblers of that city
to flock to Chicago and open hells there.
John Locke and Frederick Kinneckc
were arrested in Baltimore on Thursday
night, and upon them was found eight
hundred dollars in counterfeit coin and
notes. They were held yesterday in de-
fault of $40. 900 bail.
At Detroit, yesterday. Recorder Swift,
after differentiation of the law prohibit
the selling of pools, fined several persons
who had been convicted of the offense.
The matter, it is said, will be appealed to
the supreme court.
Albert Sanders, page of the New York
Assembly, charges that James J. Costello,
who was the Tammany candidate for
speaker, drew his salary, amounting to
$5S, and offered him only 81 for his SER
vices. A warrant was issued yesterday
afternoon for CostellO's arrest, but he had
left for New York. Louis Shaver, another
boy who GO held 4 sinecure pageship from
Cost Ito, alleges that he signed warrants
for his money, but received none.
disappearing Before hts Appointed Wedding.
Ernault H. Williams. son of George
Hawkins Williams, prominent lawyer of
Baltimore and president of the Maryland
state Senate, has disappeared from tho
city under peculiar circumstances. The
young man has just come into a fortune of
over sec, 900, and was engaged to he mar
ried on June IA to Miss Lille Hazlett.
The arrangements were all made, and the
wedding dress arrived yesterday from New
York. The invitations were to go out
next week. MIR. Williams left his fiances
on Wednesday afternoon to take dinner
at his fathers on Mt. Vernon place. That
night, 1t is said, he left Baltimore, how,
where, or in what manner it is not known.
Mr.. c. H. Williams says that his son had
left town voluntarily. On Wednesday last
young Mr.. Williams made deed of trust
Of his fortune to his father as perpetual
trustee, he to receive $4,000 per annum.
The affair has caused stir in fashionable
society. The young lady is i'll in bed from