Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-03
NEWS BY THE MORNING MAILS.

Minor Tragedies. Sensations and Other
The first wheat of tho season sent to
Tidewater from Cumberland county was
shipped to Baltimore on last Friday.
The man killed by train at LinwOod
Station, near Chester, on Tuesday, was
Charles Dudley, IS years of age, sailor
from New Orleans.
Isakassmo HlassakOfo, Hungarian,
employed by the Lehigh Valley railroad,
was killed by a train while crossing. the
track at Packerton.
John ChalsOn was killed at the Luke
Fidler colliery in Schuylkill county by the
breaking of rope which seut two coal
wagons headlOng to the bottom of the
slope.
Charles Dudley, aged s. years, a sailor
from New Orleans, was killed by south
bound express train on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad, at Lin-
wood, on Tuesday.
MIR. JenkinsOn, private secretary to
Earl Spencer lord lieutenant of Ireland,
has been appointed to succeed Col. Brack
enbury as director of the Irish criminal
investigation department..
Conductor Roland, of the Philadelphia
s. Reading railroad, while riding on an
engine near Manayunk on Tuesdry night,
was wounded, but not seriously, by bird
shot fired by some unknown person.
Two factions of the Creek nation, in the
Indian territory, are in active hostility.
Several men have been killed, and the
trouble has almost assumed tue Dimensions
of civil strife.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, was reported
much worse yesterday. He had lost tho
power of speech, was delirious, aud his
death was hourly expected from hemOr-
rhage.
The grand council of the American L.
gion of Honor meets to-day at Wilkes
barre. The Philadelphia delegates, about
100 in number, arrived in Wilkesbarre last
night.
While a lot of cord wood was bein:
swung over the pit of a slate quarry at
Monson, Maine, the fastenings gave way,
and the wood fell ono hundred feet upon
the men below, killing two and injuring
three others.
Bishop EmbcrtOn and Richard Speak
man, of Monroe county, KY, charged
with an assault upon Mrs. J. B. Garrett,
Of TOmpkinsville, ON Tuesday of last
week, while being taken to Glasgow on
Monday for safe keeping, were shot tc
death thirteen miles from Glasgow.
Walter Aglionby, aged % years, resi-
dent of Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson
county, W. Va, was yesterday found dead
in sleeping Car at the Jersey City depot
of the Pennsylvania railroad. He was on
his way to Nantucket, Mass. The body
was removed to Hughes morgue, Jers ey
City.
Four elephants belonging to Barnunl' $
circus got loose in Troy, New York, after
a performance Wednesday night and ran
through the southern part of the city, in
JuriDg several persons, one, man, per-
haps fatally. Three of the animals were
secured before midnight, but the most
furious was still at large.
In 1874 Edward Kelley, a wealthy old
bachelor of Pittsburgh, conveyed all his
property, amounting to S150,0 to his
nephew, Edward Kelley, who had but q
short time before come over from Ireland.
The elder Kelley repented of his action
and sought to recover his property. The
matter was referred to a master, who has
just decided in favor of the nephew.
At Bar Harbor, Maine, as John and
Isaac w. Howe were descending Green
mountain in a buck board wagon, with
several ladies', they were stopped by al
armed highwayman and tho Howes were
forced to give up their gold watches and
money, the total value being stated a,
81 300. A party has gone in pursuit of
the robbers, and a reward of $1,000 is
offered for tleir capture, "dead Or alive. 81
1n Philadelphia delegation of police
men waited on the mayor and presented a
petition asking for the restoration of the
ten per cent. reduction Of their salaries
made in 1877. The mayor said that while
the matter rested entirely with the city
councils. he was in favor of tho restOra-
tion. Next Monday meeting, composed
of one policeman from each district, is to
be held at the mayors Office to consider
the subject.