Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.
cukREHr CASUALTIES AND cKImks

N0"O VI 1A0 DA1s
minor Trsgeales-IOsses by EIre-Deeds OF
Blood.
A stranger, supposed to be carpenter
from Baltimore. was killed in jumping
from Lehigh Valley train at Bethlehem
yesterday afternoon.
At South Huron, Michigan, on Thurs
day night, OR Foote. of the First national
bank of that place, and Miss Kittie Under
wook, of Aurora, Illinois, were drowned
by the upsetting of sail boat.
From lock. jaw, resulting from toy pis
tOl wounds, Rufus Shaw, aged II, died in
Westboro, Massachusetts, on Thursday
night Mrs. R. H. Alexander died in East
Greenwich, Rhode Island, on Wednesday;
James McAllister, aged Is, died in Centre
dale, Rhode Island, on Thursday night.
George Pummel, employed on Taylor s.
Sons saw mill at Williamsport, was
struck on the breast by piece of slab
thrown from gang edger and SO severely
Injured that his life is despaired of.
A POlander named Andrew POwack was
fatally injured at Troutman's colliery,
near Centralia. His head was caught
between prop aud moving wagon and
was SO badly crushed that the braius OOzed
out.
Frank Huber, son of Mrs. Frank Huber
of the Isabella home, Astoria, L. l., was
killed while walking on the track of the
Lehigh s. Susquehanna railroad near Beth :.
lehem yesterday.
In Wilmington, N. c., Andrew J.
Wacker, colored, shot aud killed Titus
Davis, also colored, 70 years old, about
daylight while the latter was attempting
to rob the formers hen house.
A small black whale, Is feet long and
weighing about two tons. drifted ashore
at Monmouth beach yesterday. Several
thousand persons have viewed it.
At Millvillc, N. j., Milford Rutter and
Charles E. Ford, both aged about 8 years.
while bathing in the Maurice river vcn-
tured beyond their depth and were
drowned. Their bodies were soon recOv-
cred, but all efforts at resuscitation proved
fruitless.
In Red Clay, Ga, several railroad hands
went to the house of a negro suffering
from small -pox and shot him and burned
the house. The negro was cremated.
Several extraordinary miracles are said
to have happened at the shrine of st. Anne
de Beaupre, Canada, by which the deaf,
blind and lame were instantly cured Of
their infirmities. Hundreds of pilgrims
are resorting to the various celebrated
shrines in the province. Great numbers
are coming from the United States.
Ten Million Oysters Planted.
Lieutenant Winslow, of the navy, who
is engaged in experimenting on the artifi-
cial propagation of oysters, has planted
10, 0OO, 600 young oysters in the New Haven
harbor, upon a new bed. The oysters
werc two days old and were contained in a
four quart pail filed with water. The ex-
periments are for the purpose of ascertain
ing at what time the young oyster must be
put into tho water to enable it to attach
itself to the shells or other substances. A
party from the Yale scientific school wit
messed the experiment.
| Jealousy Causes n Murder.
At Collinsville, Mo-, small town on the
Vandalia road, as John Dooley, colored,
was riding through street on a mule he
was shot and wounded by Nelson Cooper,
also colored. Dooley fell to the ground,
when Cooper rushed up, placed his gun
against the formers head and again fired.
Dooley died almost instantly. Cooper
then coolly gave himself up to the city
marshal. The cause of the murder was
jealousy.
Our Kobesonian Navy.
The secretary of the navy yesterday re-
ceived from Rear Admiral Crosby, COM
manding the South Atlantic squadron, a
telegram dated Rio JaneirO, saying
Brooklyn docked copper very much
worn many sheets entirely destroyed by
corrOsion entire new copper urgent
cost about $4,000; request instructions. y
The Brooklyn was fitted out at the New
York navy yard about year ago, and
newly cOppered at the time, preparatory
to the S Duth Atlantic station as flagship.
Educational matters.
The department of superintcndence of
the National education association, in ses-
sion at Saratoga, yesterday elected the
following officers: President, N. A.
Calkins, of New York vice president, II.
S. Tarbell, of Indianapolis secretary,
Henry S. Jones, of Erie, Pa. member Of
the council of education, Henry S. Jones.
Tho department of higher instruction
elected the following: President, W. w.
Tolwell, of the University Of Minnesota :;
Secretary, Prof. John II. Wight, of Dart
mouth college member Of the national
council, Aaron L. Chapip, President of
Beluit college, Wisconsin.
Losses Dy Fire.
Six business blocks in Dayton, Washing
-, Territory, including ali the stores in
~. ,,,a... the hotel and bank, were burned
ON H Thursda, d night. The loss is estimated
at $500, 200. a.. ...
house. Nos. Is to :5 Whltsthall street,
New York, were burned out last evening.
The total loss is estimated at $50, 600.
The Holbrook soap factory, on Wash
ington and Vestry streets, il the same
city, was destroyed by fire last night.
Loss, $4,000.
Labor Demands and Prospects.
Seventy-five laborers employed on new
railroad between ShamOkin and Sunbury,
Pa, struck yesterday for 81 per day, an
advance of so cents. The demand was
refused.
Most of the boot and shoe manufactur.
ers of Montreal have granted the advance
recently demanded by their employees.
A telegram from Detroit says, with
out exception worthy of notice, all the re-
ports relative to the wheat crop of Mich
igan, now about to be harvested, are of the
most glowing descriptions"
wOLFE's HOPEFUL WORDS.
Confident of the Future of the Independ.
ont Republican Movement.
In Reading last evening Charles S.
| Wolfe delivered lengthy speech before
the members of the Independent Garfield
club, at their rooms. He was introduced
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