Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
EUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Wat Interests and Exeires tho Coan'ry.
A census of Denver, Col, just COM
plsted, shows population of GO, 600.
Henry T. Beckwith has given Plo,i-
dence, r. l., thirty acres of land fer a
park.
Three cars of California wheat have ar
rived in St. Louis, being the first lot Of the
400, 900 bushels recently purchased by
millers.
In row in barroom in Williamsburg.
L. l., last night. John Henry, aged 40
years, was beaten to death. Michael
Dowd, of No. 493 First street, Williams
burg, was arrested for the crime.
Fifty-three editors Of weekly Republican
papers in New York state met yesterday
ut New York quietly to form an associa-
ton for their mutual benefit, and to secure
concert of action on state and local con-
ventions.
Tho Virginia Legislature, in joint con-
vention yesterday. elected s. Brown Allen
of Augusta, auditor of public accounts,
and George A. Martin, of Norfolk, rail
road commissioner, both Readjuster eau
Gus nominees.
During last week - new cases of small
pox and 90 deaths were reported in Pitts
bursh 25 death in Chicago IL cases and
5 deaths in Richmond, Virginia, and 3
deaths in San Francisco.
Edward Moore, hotel keeper Of Tren-
ton, New Jersey, is reported sick of hy-
drophobia. He was bitten by a dog nearly
four weeks ago.
The boiler Of Il portable saw mill in
New Carlisle, Ohio, exploded on WedEes
day, killing tivs men and SO badly injur-
ing sixth that his recovery is doubtful.
And engine and caboose ON the Wanda
liza railroad were thrown into the river
near Vandalia, Illinois. on Wednesday, by
a washout and the conductor and brake
man were drowned.
The manufactory of Estabro,k s. Co.,
in Milford, Massachusetts,, was burned on
Wednesday evening. The same building
was occupied by the Clinching Screw com
pany aud J. E. Kimball. The total actual
loss is estimated at $780, ,0C0. Estahrook &
Co. employed sixty meu.
Tho Mexican government yesterday be.
gan the construction of a telegraph line
from Oaxaca south to Tehuantepec, and
north to the Vera Cruz railroad, .'cvi-
IDENTIFY for service in tho event Of wal
with Guatemala"
The discovery is reported Of 4 I" ricl
gold bearing belt in Chilcot coanty,
British Columbia, above the sixtietl
parallel of latitude, just back of the Alaska
line.
At public meeting of house painters in
Brooklyn, New York, last night, it was re.
solved to ask s3 per day for ten hours
work after March 1st, and require cessa
ton of labor Oh Saturdays ut 1 o'clock
The New York painters, who now get 50,
will, it is said, demand $3.50.
The movement to found at Washington
d. c., a national homeopathic hospital,
which was inaugurated some weeks since
has met sufficient encouragement to war
rant the board Of managers in renting 4
building to be used for that purpose tenn
porarily.
Samuel II. Ovens, past grand master OF
the Masonic grand lodge Of Missouri, the
present grand high priest of the granG
chapter OF the Royal Arch Masons, ant
grand treasurer of tho Ancient Order o
United WorkmeD. of Missouri, died at st.
Louis Oh Wednesday night.
Ambrose Fachiri, aged 35, IL member o.
! the firm of P. & T. Fichiri, cotton brokers'
, doing business at No. 35 Bcover street
New York, committed suicide YESTERDAY
| by shooting. lie was Greek of wealthy
family. and it is supposed he was tempo
rarily insane, being a sufferer from neural
gia, and insanity running i'm the family
Family Fatality.
William q. Trombly. of Trombly's Bay
Clinton county, New York, while crossin,
Lake Champlain Oh Sunday upon tho ice
with 13-year-old son and Il 15-ycar-ol,
girl, during a severe snow squall, drov,
his horses and sleigh into an open spac,
Of water. Mr.. Trombly was krocke,
under the ice several times by the strug
CLING horses, and when rescued was un
| conscious. His son was kicked by one o
the horses anc was dead when taken from
| the water. Tho girl was saved.
Hnrs:ing of Sewer.
The old city sewer running along Beau
Grass creek in Louisville, burst yestcrt.a,
morning at daylight, destroying ono hun
dred yards of the State Line railroad EN-
bankment and flooding all the tcrritor
between Jackson and Clay streets. A yar(
engine, moving east on the railroad, tunl
bled thirty feet in the crevasse made b.
tho broken cmbankmcnt, and the mel
who were upon tho engine all suffered
| injuries more or less severe
| storms and Ice Blockade
The Newfoundland coast is blockade,
with ice, and a continuous northeastern!
gallo prevails. At present no arrivals O
vessels are possible. Fugitive groups .
seals have been taken around the northern
bays of the islsnd.
A dispatch from Cape Race, received a
St John, Newfoundland, says that a larg
sheet of ice has passed westward of TIN
cape on which were discerncd an anchor
4 seaman's chest, 4 gaff, several pieces O
rope, and what appeared to be the recum
bent body of man.
MASSACRE EY MOHAMMEDANs.
800 Egyptians Killed by the "NIessiaI, o
Islam " in tho Soudan.
Private dispatches just received from
khartoum make known for the first tim,
the facts concerning the successful risin,
in the Soudan of the so called Ell Mehdi
or tho Messiah of Islam. A few month
ago Ell Mehdi, or Sheik Mohammet
Ahmed, turned up near Cover, on tn,
White Nile, and for the second time de
feated the Egyptian troops sent agains
him and killed 100 of them. The Mehd
then proceeded to Geb-elZedir, situated
about six days march from Eashoda,
strong military post on tho White Nile
or midway between Khartoum and Con
dokorO. Rahsid Bey, governor of FashOda