Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-25
FlKE RECORD.

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Early Sunday morning fire broke out
at the handle aud bending works of Klaher
& Son, at Bernville, Berks county, Pa,
totally destroying them. together with
about IS, 900 feet of lumber. The Evan
gelical Methodist church was burned, moth
ing but the walls remaining. Tho loss is
estimated at about $4,000, with only
$40, 900 insurance. Tho cause of the iiro
is unknown.
Rowland's dry goods store; = large
ramo building, occupied by Moore &
Tibbets, fancy goods J. D. Reic, tailor !;
Boles' drug store Cook tinsmith shop
Broun's dry goods store, and three build
ings owned by J. d. O'neil, at WatfOrd,
Ont, were burned ON Saturday night.
Loss $50, 900 small insurance.
, About 1: 40 Sunday morning Rosenberg
Junction, Texas, was burned. Six build
ing were destroyed, including q hotel. But
ono building remains standing. A stranger
by the name of Garuett was burned to
death in the hotel, his charred romans
being found.
An incendiary fire at Branch Fort, one
milo north of Long Branch, NJ, destroyed
two buildings and damaged tho steam
boat Helen, causing loss of about $751;
600 insurance, $1O,O
Austrian Soldiers Dr0wned.
While mixed passenger and baggage
train was crossing the river Drave near
Eszek, in Austria, . part of the bridge fell
in, and the engine aud baggage cars were
pitched into the river. dragging with
them some OF the passenger cars, contain
ing number of hussars ON q furlOugh.
Fifteen soldiers were drowned and thirty
others were injured. The coupling chains
breaking. the remainder Of the train stop
ped on the bridge. The accident is attri-
buted::to high water. The bridge is Of
wood and is supported on wooden piles.
Freight Train Wrecked.
The Long Branch freight train which
loft Jersey City at 4:3O Sunday morning
met with an accident at AmbOy Junction
by which Conductor Edward Webber was
killed and Engineer George Currie and
Fireman Francis Burke sustained probably
fatal injuries. The accident was caused
by the giving way Of bridge over Barry
creek, whose foundations were weakened
by the heavy rains. The engine had al
most crossed the bridge but was thrown
into the stream.
shot Dead In . Quarrel.
4 difficulty occurred in a saloon on
Park avenue, Baltimore, between three
men, named Edward H. Tompkins, Mar.
tin Leschofsky and Joseph Blousky,
during which TOmpkins was severely
beaten. subsequently, Tompkins entered
q saloon in which LeschOfsky and BlOusky
were playing pool, when TOmpkins drew a
revolver and shot Leschofsky dead. He
fired several moro shots, one of which took
effect in the breast of Blousky, but which
will probably not provo fatal. TOmpkins
was arrested.
Alleged Murder by u grandmother.
Mrs. Mary Jones was committed to Jail
at Harrisburg for the murder of her grand.
child, whom, it is alleged, she choked to
death about two months ago. The arrest
was the result of a statement made by q
boy who says he assisted in burying the
infant. Mrs. JOnes's son, who, it is said,
took part in interring the infant, is al
legged to have given the original informa,
tion duplicating his mother.
Haudsomost Womsa In tho World.
At an International beauty tournament
| recently held at Pesth, Hungary, 8
diamond bracelet was awarded to COrDelis
Szeckely, aged twenty, who is declared tC
be tho most beautiful woman in tho world.
This damsel is a brunette, with brilliant
| eyes, whose figure, supple as q twininG
creeper, recalls the type of ancient Greek
statutes.
Suspended SOphOmOros.
Two Sophomores of Lafayette college
who participated in the haziDg lsst Mon
day night, have been suspended by tht
faculty. Other sophomores expect to b.
treated similarly. The faculty says thai
the actions of the soph0mores were SO fal
above the ordinary hazing as to demand
prompt measures.