Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-15
NEWS FLASH rs.
TelesraPhic Sparks OF To-day


regular business and went into committee
of the whole on the river and harbor bill
Page Gal }. made a general explanation
of the bill and said tho great work OF i'm
prOvcment contemplated by tho Mis'issip
pi river commission and increased appru
priatiOns for various other improvements
accounted for the appropriations of the
bill being so much larger than former
years.
| Nigel Andreau, % years old, a Swiss
emi%rant, ATTEMPTED to end his liio this
| morning in New York. IIe cut his stOm.
ach open and severed IN artery in his arm.
The man is Il !unatic lie was sent TO the
Chambers street hospital.
The Democratic state convention of
| Arkansas met ut noon to- day, every
| county being represented.
In Icnia, ILL.,, VIM. johnson, aged 80.
killed his wife, aged %, yesterday and
| then shot himself. The couple had been
| very unhappy together and had been sep
| aratcd several times.
n heavy rain storm 1T Gibson, ILL.,,
| washed out 800 feet of track on the Hi
nOis Central road AMI made Il waslout on
the Wabash. All the trains are delayed.
Tho storm did great damage to crops. A
bridge over the Sangamon river was car
ried down stream with two engines Oh it..
A rad master of tho Wabash road WAS
killed and several other persons were in.
jured.
A special mcetn; Of the cal liaet WAS
held this afternoon for the purl Ose Of fill
ing the two vacancies on the tariff COM
mission. The meeting had not adjourned
| at :; O'Clock
In EIsin, ILL.,. Deputy SAcriIf AloIph
+. Lawson shot dead Jim Irwin, i pris
| oncr, who assaulted him and tried to break
Jail. A corOncrs jury exoncrated Law
son.
The president sent the following nOmi-
nations to the Scrate today POstmatcr,
Elizabeth ii. LillOmen, at POttsviIlc, Pa. :;
Joseph Cooke. at Waynesboro, Pa. Geo.
J. Swank, at Johnstown, Pa.
Jefferson Maddux, son of Martin Mad
dux, Of Augusta county, Va, shot and
instantly killed himself last night. Mental
depression from bad health is supposed to
have caused the deed.
In the Malley case to-day DR.. Pliny
Jewett was on the stand cOntralicting the
states experts in reference to drowning
and arSenical poisoning.
The president has approved tic sentence
in the case of Second Lieutenant Henry u.
Flipper, 10th cavalry, tried by cOurt mar
tial on charges of embezzlement and CON
duct unbecoming IN officer and sentenced
to dismissal from the service. An order
to that effect will be issued by the score
tary of war in 4 day or two.
Last night while Jas. W. Davis, Il
grocer in South Salem, N. j., was on his
way home, through Peabody street, he
was knocked down by blow from u sand
bag and a box containing between 81 800
AMI 81 600 was taken from him. An old
stocking filled with mason's sand was
dropped. There is no clue to the robbers
E. Governor William DeLnisOn, Ohio s
| war governor, died this morning, aged
g.
The Sherman lumber company's mill in
Euclaire, Wis, was burned Yesterday.
Loss, $50, 900 insurance, sec, 900.
All the Europeans have left Cairo OK
| cept the staff Of the Eastern cable com
pany, and they have been advised to go.
A terrific gas explosion occurred in the
lift in the Stanton air shaft this morning
Five men carrying naked lamps caused
| the catastrophe. James Carey was killed;
John Welsh, Michael Lynch, Henry
Hughes and Edward Finnegan arc prOba-
bly, fatally hurt.
In his address to the board Of directors
| of the baltimore q Ohio railroad yestcr-
day, President Garrett said there will be
another cable company formed with the
title Baltimore & Ohio European cable
company" 1t is proposed to connect it
with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tele :
graph system.
Chalieon Dickerson, Of Denville, N j.,
died yesterday from hydrophobia. He was
L - L.. Il -
wound had healed.
Tho ways and means committee has
postponed until next Tuesday action
upon the question of adjournment sine die.
The president has made no programme