Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-29
ONE DAYS NEWS.
GATH EkED FROM ALL sECEIONS

GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS.
by MAil-Dire Distress and
DOieful DOanss-SShat Worries the
World.
Tie Southern hotel and several stores
in the business part of Prescott, Arkan-
sas, weIc burned on Wednesday night.
Loss, $4,000.
Robert Ford, aged Y years, committed
suicide by cutting his throat in Providence
yesterday. His health lad been bad for
some time.
Miss Aunie Chaffee, 81 years of age,
committed suicide in the same city yester-
day by taking arsenic.
Five co!ored persons were drowned yes
terday at Fort harrington, Georgia, by
the upsetting Of ferry boat.
William p. Dolhiere was crushed to
death by fall of rock and coal in a mine,
at Wilkesbarre, yesterday afternoon.
Sarah Willis. coloreG, was murdered by
her brother-in law, James Coleman, at
Columbia, South Carolina, yesterday
morning. No cause for the deed is known
The murderer escaped.
William Walton, a coal minor at West
Belleville, Illinois, yesterday shot and
killed Jane Mjlbourne because she refused
to marry him. He then committed sui
eide.
William Lang and Richard Fitzpatrick,
quarreled near Lloyds, Florida, on Wed
nesday Dang was killed and Fitzpatrick
dangerously wounded.
Henry Virgins, a hotel keeper on the
Corey Island road, Long Island, shot
himself on Wednesday night and died
soon after. He was Is years OF age, and
leaves wife and children.
A recent rainfall has calsel floods in
tn. midland cuul.!its Of E. l.:... There
is great mortality among the fiocks OF
sheep in Northamptonshire, Nottingham
and LeicestershiIe.
Epidemic Among KaisraaGers.
i telegram from Panama reports that d
choleraic disease which has prevailed at
Salina, Santa Cruz, and Tehuantepec fol
the last fortnight has become very viru
lent. At Salina the deaths average daily
and at Tehuantepec % daily. The work
Oh the railroad is at standstiil, the labor
crs having fed. A Gordon has been es
taoiished between the afflicted towns anG
Oaxaca. The disease is attributed to the
"scarcity and impurity of the WATER" bu
it nay result from 4 specific infection.
"A Ferocious bloodhound.
La New Haven. Conn, q large blood
hound in S. E. Marwin's packing house,
sp:an, upon Cias. II. Nichols, book.
keeper, seizing Kim by the throat, lacera
| ting Linn terribly and severing an artery
in his left arm. James Farrell split tn,
dogs head open with clever and cut Of
his right fore les before he would let 20
The dog had been treacherous, and had
been subdued by the watchman with no
water from a kettle On the stove. Nichol'
was filling the kettle with water when th'
dog sprang at him. The brute inflicted
about twenty severe wounds.
| I-ynchins OF Oregon Cowboys.
The following particulars have beer
obtained of the lynching of COW boys il
Primcvale, Crook county Oregon Fo
several years past the stock -raisers o
that section and Of Beaver Greek hav.
complained of tho frequent raids Of hors'
thieves. Recently the stockmen organ
lied and gathered evidence showing wh'
the thieves We're. The capture of SOM
of tho weakest of the band and a judiciou
use Of tie rope has brough: out a full
confession as to who tho members are
X. G. Swarts and John Sharp were lead
ers Of the thieves Lc:c. Swarts in SOM
way, found out that the business ha,
leaked out and he came into town ant
boosted of the strength of his party
threatening to kill whoever attempted t.
interfere with them. Last Friday even
ing while sitting ct a table in a saloon h
was shot thrcus IA the neck, his assailan
firing through window. The same nigh
a band of masked men broke in w. G
Barnes house, captured Sid. Houston an.
Charles Luster, took them about mill
away and hung them to tree. j. Yves
ton was also shot thrice through the head
Who the lynchers are is matter of con
lecture, but their actions appear to NEE
with the hearty approval Of the entir
community.