Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-20
THE STRIKING EVENTS OF THE DAY

arc marVelS Oh elegance ana Deauty.
THE STRIKING EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Tragedies and SorrOws-The VisItations OF
| Tickle Fortune.
The porte has now completely acquiesce"
| in the action of England and Franco in
Egypt.
At Dunmore John Rinker fell down a
coal shaft two hundred feet. His body
| was fearfully mangled.
The track of the Mexican National rail
road is completed a hundred miles beyond
| Laredo.
DR.. II. w. Kendall, the physician who
was shot while preparing to rob grave at
Onondaga Hill, Thursday night, has died.
Stephen G.. Efficr was hanged at Marion,
| N. c.. for wife murder, committed in
Burk county in January, 1881.
| Mrs. John Martin was fatally burned 1T
| Chicago, and her two children were seri-
ously burned, by the explosion of an oil
stove.
WV. Rea, condemned to he hanged
yesterday at Pulaski, Tenn, for killing j.
T. Goodrum, took teaspoonful of NOR
phine yesterday morning, but vomited
shortly afterward, and was subsequently
| hanged.
Mccarthy, the /" fire bug" has been ar
rested at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and confess
ed to the Brouse house fire. He says he
had no accomplices, and attributes his act
to drink.
The steamer w. S. Thanhauser was
sank ut West Franklin, Iud., on Thursday
night, and is a total loss 1t was the prop
erty of J. II. Morris & Co., and was unin-
sured. One life was lost
Edward Urell, residing at Fall River
Mass, while drunk on Thursday night,
assaulted his wife, who was asleep, and the
woman will probably die, Notwithstanding
which she expresses a desire that her hus-
band, who is under arrest, shall not be
prosecuted
The failures throughout tho country for
the seven days reported to New York
number 124. OF these, II occurred in the
Eastern states; IS in the Western 3G in
the Southern 81 in the Middle 12 in tho
Pacific states and territories, and 2 in New
York city. This is an increase of Z over
last week.
In Memphis Tenn, a guest of the Wor
sham house was found dead in his room.
An empty morphine vail was found on the
table by his bed. The body was found in
an advanced state of decay, and the odor
arising from it led to the discovery. He
is supposed to be Edward Young, of
Georgetown, o. A purse was made up to
defray burial expenses.
Joseph Y. Carter, solicitor of 4 tobacco
house at South Boston, Halifax county Va.
disappeared on tho 18th inst, but his
horse and equipments were found near
Dan River Yesterday his body was found
about two miles below South Boston,
/ LODI H.
jeremiah S. Frost, confined in Jail ut
the charge of highway robbery and mur-
derous assault in Canada, and Sabin, who
was confined for small debt, broke Jail
on Thursday night by digging under til e
wall and sidewalk. Flood, charged with
larceny, tho only other prisoner, declined
to escape.
Mrs. Pierce, who fired into coach ut
Kingston, Tenn, On Wednesday night, in
an attempt to kill the driver, Thomas
Williams, has not yet been arrested. Will
liams is under bonds to answer for breach
| of promise of marriage to Mrs. Pierce.
He returned Mrs. Pierce's fire, and shot
her yonng daughter through the head. 1t
is feared that the child will die.
The jury at Fort Madison, Iowa yester-
day returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree against Poke Wills and Cook,
who murdered the Jail guard, and a ver-
dict of murder in the second degree against
Fitzgerald, who was their accomplice.
Wills and Cook are to be imprisoned for
life, and Fritzgerald's sentence will be
determined by the judge.
In the Choctaw nation, on Monday last
about 1S0 miles northwest from Little
Rock, Ark, two brothers named jefferson
and George Finley, while working in a
corn field got into dispute, when George
drew a revolver and shot his brother, who
died within twenty-f four hours. He beg
ged piteously that the life of his slayer,
who had fled, should be spared.
| A fire in Leadville, Colorado, before day
light yesterday morning destroyed nearly
block of buildings on Chestnut street,
including the Windsor hotel, the academy
of music and large dry goods sto: .
known as the palace of Fashion," The
loss is estimated at $500, 1000. The fire
is attributed to incendiarism. Several
persons are missing, and ono dead body
has been found in the ruins.
A man named Retlcr, residing in Moore
county, N. c., went to mill with load
OF corn, taking his two young sons with
him on the wagon. The boys crawled
under several bags of corn. One of them
fell asleep and was smothered by one of
the bags falling on his face. While the
father was getting tho body from under
the bags, the other boy, who had jumped
to the ground and was standing near the
wagon, was kicked on the head by one of
the horses and killed. The father returned