Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-20

from buggy on Saturday, at Chatta-
noOga, Tenn, by a runaway horse and
hurled down 4 steep embankment, falling
on her head. Serious consequences are
feared.
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
= The Bloody Record Of Recent Tragedies.
In dispute about rent ut Springfield,
ILL.,, on Saturday, Matthew Clark and Sid
ney, his son, were assaulted with an axe
The Tabors are in Jail and the Clarks will
probably die.
Elder NJ. Stevenson, convicted in the
Gwinett, Ca, superior court Of the mur-
der of Mrs. Salina G.. Stevenson, was on
Saturday sentenced to be hanged on May
49,.
John Cunningham was accidentally shot
and fatally wounded, at New York on
Saturday night, by Mary McDevitt, who
was handling rifle.
On Friday seventy mountain Apaches,
scouts en- route to the reservation, went
upon the warpath on tTA0ila river, in
New Mexica, and killed Michael COnnell.
Murdered at q Billiard Table.
: Morgan carp was assassinated while
playing game of billiards in a saloon at
Tombstone, Arizona, on Friday night.
The shot was fired through a glass door,
and his brother Wyatt, who was sitting
near, was also shot at. but not hit The
assassin, a Cowboy" escaped.
Shot While Returning From Dance.
Early yesterday morning, while return.
ing from dance at Wheeling, w. Va,
Frank Davis, aged 18, was shot and killed
by Wilbur Mulligan, aged II, who lay in
wait for Davis, as the latter was escorting
two girls, one of whom Mulligan desired
to accompany. The murderer is in Jail.
Gossip About the Cabinet.
It is said that William E. Chandler is
to be nominated to a position in the cabi-
net, and that Mr.. Kirkwood will retire from
tho executive council, and that Mr.. Hunt
is soon to be superseded. The quid nuncs
have it that Postmaster General Howe
will succeed Mr.. Kirkwood in the interior
department., and Assistant Postmaster
Hatton will be elevated to the head of the
postoffice department..
sufferers by the Floods.
The latest advices from the upper St.
Francis river report that the people in that
section are almost reduced to cannibalism;
that they have eaten carcasses for some
days and now have all the appearance of
persons about to become insane from star.
vation. Colonel a. Ii. johnson, president
Of the Arkansas Midland railway, who re-
turned from Hot Springs, having come
down to Helena by skif from the mouth
of tho St. Francis river, says that the
scenes along the river were most distress
ing. Tho stencil from the dead animals is
sckening. and when the water declines it
will be still more fearful The earth is
left covered with thick, Shiny substance,
with reptiles of every kind. and the miasma
from decaying matter will inevitably be
serious in its consequences.
Fires and Explosions.
Crathern & COvcrhill's nail factory, at
Montreal, was burned yesterday. Loss,
$1,000.
The furniture factory of Koenig & Gar
ner, at Chicago was burned on Saturday
evening. Loss, S32,O
A fire in the Webster law building, at
Washington, D. G.. yesterday morning
caused damage aggregating $4,000.
The gasometer of the German hospital
at San Francisco exploded Oh Friday night.
T. Deyenow, the fireman, received pro-
badly fatal injuries, and II. THeuger, the
manager, was seriously, and S. Treck,
the engineer, slightly injured.
Tho fire which occurred at Faribault,
Minn., on Friday resulted in $50, 900 loss.
-Four buildings were destroyed-the Bar
ren house, Hammers photograph gallery,
kilsmeyer's flour shop and Thompson's
candy store.
A fire at New York on Saturday night in
the basement Of No. 20 Warren street, oc-
cupied by HarwOod & Beckwith, dealers
in toys, resulted in damage estimated at
$4,000.
A fire at Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, de
stroyed NJ. 3. Parmely's dry goods store,
injured Keenaber's fruit store aud E.
Bunstine & Co.'s fancy goods establish.
ment. Loss, $4,000.
The mixing house of the Lake Superior
powder company, three miles from Mar.
quette, Mich, blown up by nitro ely.
cerine explosion on Saturday, but nobody
was hurt. Loss, 5000.
An incendiary fire at Needham, Mass,
on Saturday destroyed the block owned by
the heirs Of J. NJ. White and a. boarding
house owned by Mrs. Herring. The block
was occupied by E. H. Fowler, grocer,
and for post Office. Total loss, 1000.
A fire. occurred at Winsons, N. c., on
Friday night, with losses as follows j. A.
Veach's harness shop, entire loss Singer
sewing machine Office, partial: Mrs. r
Gray's two small stores, dwelling and fur
niture: Gray & Martin, druggist, partial.
CHANCES !:rWIXT LAKE AND RIVER.
ParaSraphic Points OF the Current News OF
the Comm0nwealth-Itomso of Interest
TO Pennsylvanians. |
General Latta is in receipt of letter
from General Hancock, asking for COL |
ored photograph of the Pennsylvania state |
flag, to be used in the book which General |
Hancock is preparing for the Marquis de !
Rochambeau, commemorative of the |
Yorktown celebration. General Latta says |
it is question whether we have dis |
tinctive state flag, the only one that can
be called such being the one adopted in
1861, which is the regular United States |
flag, with the exception that it bears the |
coat of arms of the state.
Fire in the engine house Of the New Gas.
tie & Oil City railroad company, at New
Castle resulted in the fiastrn~t;np ~ tha i