Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-17
THE LATEST NEWS.


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Events OF all Sorts That Flnd Their Way In
to Print-Dark Phases of Daily Life
Briefly Ohronicled.
George Brown, of Kingston, Ulster
county, N. Y, was killed near Wilkesbarre
on Saturday by falling tree.
Elias Delima, of New York, was struck
and killed On Saturday by q train at tho
West End depot at Long Branch.
Martin P. Avery, known as "the great
and only living skeleton" attached to .
museum in New York city, died last night
of chronic dyspepsia.
A fire at Springfield, Mass. yesterday
morning destroyed c. A. Bartholomews
steam sawmill and some lumber. The
loss is 90, 900 insurance, 81, 400.
A skiff containing two boys named Ken.
ney and Allen was run down yesterday BY
a fcrryboat ON tho East river, New York,
and Allen was drowned.
Frank Eagan was seriously shot in the
left breast by John Walsh at a saloon in
Baltimore county yesterday afternoon.
Both men are Baltimore r0ughs.
Simeon Dickson fell SS<a stairs at his
residence at Willmingtsa o., this morn
lag and broke his ne Zee was over 60
years years; Of f,,;;s sss, =, and is' "a "ido" and
Frederick p. Foster, aged %, q railroad
employee, was drowned while bathing on
Saturday at Hartford, Connecticut. He
leaves wife.
The body OF N. NJ. Smith, merchant
of Crisfeld, Maryland, was found on Sat
urday afternoon, in one of the docks IN
Baltimore. It is supposed he fell over.
board the night before.
While Edward McGlynn, young man
employed by the Franklin note company,
in the Tribune building, Now York, was
looking through window in the elevator
shaft, on Saturday afternoon, the elevator
descended on his head, killing him in
stantly.
Albert SchwartzentrOupe was killed and
another man named St. John was severely
if not fatally injured by the explosion of q
rotary bleacher in paper mill near Cleve-
land, Ohio, ON Saturday.
Con Watson and Peter Stewart quar-
relied ON Sunday evening at Bismarck,
Dakota, on the bridge trestle. They
clinched and both fell to the ground, sixty
five feet, and were killed.
The mayor and city council of Lead
vile, Col, were arrested on Saturday and
fined $3.50 each and ten days in Jail for con-
tempt of court. The police, judge and
city attorney were removed and new men
appointed in their places.
Thirty bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of the buildings at Texarkana.
Three of the bodies taken out from the
ruins were found to have been burned to a
! crisp. Fifteen persons arc still missing,
and.it is feared that they are beneath the
| ruins.
Articles of association of the Kankakee
Valley railroad company were filed with
tho secretary of state, at indianapolis, on
Saturday. The capital stock of the new
company is 81, 600, 900. The road will be
eighty miles long, and run through seven
counties of Indiana.
The latest news from Colfax, Washing
ton territory, in regard to the destructive
incendiary fire there, places the total loss
at $3.50, 600, on which there is $50, 900 in
STRANGE. There was no loss of life Or
| serious accident. The entire business
portion of the town-tifty. eight buildings
was burned. The people are without
| supplies.
Charles w. Cook, the murderer of Miss
Susan Hanson, of Brookfield, N. H., is in
the last stages Of consumption at Concord
| Jail, and has made dying statement that
clears up several points in the evidence
given at the trial, which it was difficult
at tho time to fully understand. Cook
goes into minute particulars of tho crime
committed by him.
An adjourned meeting of the Federation
! ar N. - Labor unions was held at
Boston yesterday afternoon. The princi-
pal business of the session was the adop
tson of constitution and bylaws. There
were number OF delegates present repre-.
senting the various organizations, among
them a young woman from Lawrence on
behalf of the mule spinners of that city.