Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-26
THE LATEST NEWS,
CLEANED FROM THE MORNING MAI
Items that Make Up tho Days Record-A
Series OF Tragic Incidents, Crime,
Casualty, Fire, ETC., and MIS-


Casualty, Fire. ETC., and Mis-
ceilaneous News Budget.
The dwelling house and large barn Of
burned yesterday, with their contents.
Loss, s12, 600.
A. Smiths steam Touring mill at Potts
Grove, near Reading, was destroyed on
Wednesday night by a fire caused by
| friction of the smut machine.
The Weekly Ne;cs Office at Port Hope,
Ont, and the adjoining building. occu-
pied by w. G.. Stephenson, merchant
tailor, were gutted by fire yesterday.
Loss s12,
A cargo of lime on board the steamer
Yagnina caught fire at yesterday at Port
land, Oregon, and the vessel will probably
| have to be scuttled. The loss is esti-
| mated at $35, 900.
The Glow hotel, the Methodist parson-
age, tie residence of Mrs. Pomeroy and
Dr. Gould and Scott's block, were burned
yesterday at Colborne, Ont. Loss, $780,
600.
Budget Of Fatalities.
Charles Hayden, 80 years old, of Paw
tucket, r. l., was yesterday thrown from
a wagon by collision with a horse car,
and received probably fatal injuries.
Theodore O'Hara was stabbed and killed
at his residence in St. Louis on Wednesday
night. The murderer has not been dis.
covered.
Robert Graham was shot and killed at
a lumber camp on Cedar river, Michigan,
OH Wednesday, by Anderson, in an alter
cation regarding wages. Anderson was
| arrested.
Andy Neal, horse thief and generally
disreputable character, was hanged by
vigilants near Rockford, Washington ter
ritory, last Monday.
Odel Andrews, young man, committed
| suicide on Wednesday, near London, Ont,
by cutting his throat with razor. No
| cause for the act is known.
At Marlboro, Mass, on Wednesday
afternoon, Lewis It. Frye, the champion
bicycle rider of tho United States, was
thrown from his bicycle and had his skull
fractured. He will probably die.
In unloading tho fishing schooner Jc-
NINA Boomer, at Portsmouth, Il. L., yes
tcrday, a rope became entansled and the
tub fell, killing John Germain and prOba-
bly, fatally injuring Frank Grinell.
An elevator platform in Delany's wagon
shop, at Newberg, N. Y, gave way yes
terday, throwing three men thirty feet to
|
iousIy injuripg the other two. The cleva-
tor was 1imsily constructed.
| James w. Langley, a passenger from
Providence, II. l., on Wednesday night on
the steamer Bristol, was found yesterday
at New York in his berth in state of un-
consciousness from having blown out the
gas. lie has since recovered somewhat.
News Miscellany.
Daniel J. O'Brien, crockery dealer at
Albany, N. Y, failed yesterday. Liabiii-
ties $50, 900, assets unknown.
Governor McEnery has commuted the
death sentence of Joseph Sadillo, who was
to have been hanged at New Orleans on
June 8, to Imprisonment for life.
| James Fitzgerald, tried at Boston on Il
charge of fradulently obtaining money
from Charles Francis Adams, at the
" banco" game, was yesterday found
guilty. Sentence was deferred.
Information from some of the best au-
thorites in the Michigan fruit belt indi-
Gates that the severe frost of Wednesday
night did not affect the peaches or apples,
which arc no longer susceptible of injury.
Grapes and Strawberries were cut to some
extent, but fair crop is left.
| A fully attended meeting of the credit
ors of the Providence tool company was
held yesterday at Providence, r. l., when
the creditors committee presented its re-
port, giving ali inventory of the property
amounting to 81, 123, 622.12 and showing
an indebtedness of 81, III, ,943.0G. 1t re-
commended an extension Of three years,
under trusteeship.
Political Points.
The municipal election in Lynchburg,
Virginia, held yesterday, resulted in the
success of the Democratic ticket by 16O to
800 majority. The Readjusters and Re-
publicans had united against the Demo-
Gratis.
The Readjusters carried Petersburg by
a large majority.
At Chester, Pa, yesterday, Ellwood
Wilson, jr., was elected senatorial and
ohm SandvilIe and Andrew Osborne were
chosen representative delegates to the
| Democratic state convention.
| The Greenback state convention Of Del
aware met yesterday in Wilmington. 1t
consisted of five delegates, from Sussex
| county only, who nominated John G..
jackson, of HoGkessin, for governor, and
J. Albert Whitlock, of New Castle, for
| congressman.
Tho KoninOor ColIiery Disaster.
Gangs Of men worked all day Thurs
| day, removing the mass of rock and coal.
under which Martin Mulhall, the father of
James, was buried by the disaster at the
kohinOor colliery, Shenandoah. At six
| O'Clock in the evening the body was
reached. 1t presented a most sickening
sight. 1t was crowded up in il corner of
the breast and was burned to a crisp. The
condition of the injured is more hopeful.
The inside boss of the kohinoor stated
that in his opinion the gas had accumu-
lated about sixty feet above where Null
hall was at work, which is the height of
the br ast, and when the coal fell it
brought down the gas and was ignited by
the mems lamps, SO that the fall Of coal
| and gas came together.
Suspicious of Murder and Robbery.
Mrs. Daniel Cuddeby, of Stairway, Pa,
on Sunday last started to walk to Port
Jervis, N. T., on the towpath Of the
Delaware s. Hudson canal, to take
the train for New York. Herhusband, who
is lame, accompanied her part of the way
and returned, leaving her to come alone.
The body of Mrs. Cuddeby has been dis
covered in the Delaware and Hudson
canal, near Mensaup, by boatmen, who
first found her shawl floating. She had
with her, when she parted from her hus-
band, a small satchel containing about
| $40. This cannot be found now, and it is
suspected that Mrs. Cuddeby has been
foully dealt with, though there arc no
marks Of violence on her body.
Lunar Phenomenon.
John G. jackson. a Wilmington as,
tronomer of 10 years. experience, writes
that on the evening of the 10Th inst,
while observing the moon thrOu gll a inch