Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-25


out. The schooner J. w. Doan, from
Erie, was driven ashore and totally
wrecked. She was valued at $50, 900. The
schooners Gr0ton and A. H. Noes were
also driven ashore, but no lives were lost.
Two other schooners broke loose from
a tow and are missing. All the steam
boat lines report their boats safe. SO
far as known. There was revival Of the
violence of the gale later in the morning,
and at eleven o'clock the floating elevator
American Giant" in tho Blackwell
canal, was blown down. The loss is esti.
mated at $4,000. The new machine
shops Of the Lackawanna railroad, in East
Buffalo, were also demolished. The water
in the river rose very high, aud many
houses in the lower part of the city were
flooded. The only casualty reported is
that Of boy injured by falling tree.
The captain OF the propeller Fountain
City, who arrived in Detroit on Thursday
night, says there will be heavy loss to
shipping from tho gale which set in that
day. The schooner c. B. Benson was
aground on Colchester reef, Lake Erie,
flying signals Of distress, her crew being
lashed to the rigging.
Did Custer Kill himself.
VIM. F. Cody, better known as "Buffa
10 Bill" believes that General Custer
killed himself when he saw that death was
inevitable, in preference to being killed by
the Indians. He gives the reason for this
belief: "The indians will not mutilate a
body which they find dead, and General
Custer s was the only one that was not
scalped and otherwise cut to pieces or
burned. My impression is t.at he, after
seeing all his comrades shot down, and
that he himself must also go, turned and
took his own life rather than be killed by
the savages. l was in General Crooks
command that soon after arrived upon the
scene, and, although Custer went into the
fight with seven companies, and had 800
| men killed, am satisfied he never would
have given the Indians baltic had he not
thought reinforcements were near at
hand. Some time after tho engagement
an Indian warrior told me that Custer was
| the last man to fall, and killed himself.
Had Custer been given entiro command of
the troops ho would have whipped the
Indians instead of being crushed ty them.
They did not recognize Custer after he
was shot, as he Lad a few months previous
cut off his long hair.''
HydrOphObia After -Four Years.
Four years ago Mark Hawkins was bit
ten by dog in Delaware city. Friday he
was supposed to havs bydrophobja. At that
time mad dog ran through the town
swapping :t everybody and everything.
Hawkins was one of the men bitten. Iie
is hostler at the Robinson house. Friday
morning he began acting very strangely
and then violently. Apoliceman was called
to quiet him and lie was removed to the
city hall, where physician was called to
attend him. He would not eat and the
sight of water drove him wild. He barked
like dog and his symptoms were those of
man suffering FROM hydrOpkohia. His
case is looked upon as remarkable one,
coming, as it does. So long after tho bite
was received.
Brakeman Molius Acquitted.
Iu the case of George Melius, the brake
man on the Chicago express which was
run into in January last by tho Tarrytown
special at Spuyden Duyvil, the jury ren-
dered verdict of not guilty. He was on
tria! in the court of oyer and terminer on
an indictment of InarslauChter in the
fourth degree, based upon the charge
that through the neglect of duty he had
been Instrumental in the death Of Senator
Wagner and others.
Panic In a Printing Office.
Cne OF the beams in the Parliamentary
printing Office. at Ottawa, gave way and
created panic among about one hundred
employees, Some Of them jumped out cf
the windows whom they heard tho crash
and others rushed down stairs into tho
street in tho utmost confusion. Fortu-
Dately the means Of escape were good and
very lew we've injured. Tho composi.ors
refused to re-enter the building.
Tho distinguished Dead.
The funeral Of Thurlow Weed took place
yesterday morning frEm his lato residence
in New York. Tho body was taken to
Albany tor intor.nent. Among those
present ut the funeral were ex. x.Secretaries
Evarts and Blaine, Ex-Governor Hoffman,
ex-Judse Edwards Pierrepont, and many
other prominent gentlemen. Among the
pail bearers were General James Watson
Webb and cx Secretary Fish.
Harvier Held for Perjury.
In New York Ernest Harvier, the dra-
matte writer, who is charged by Marie
Prescott, the actress, with having com
mitted perjury i'll testifyinS in her recent
suit for libel against tho American new
company, has been held in 81, 800 bail for
trial, his father furnished the bond. \
writ Of certio.ari, returnable to-day, was
afterwards granted by Judge Donohue.
Death of y Daughter of Morgan.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
says that Mrs. Captain John Smith, {:
daughter of Morgan, alleged to have
been killed by Masons in 1926, died at
Mehama, Marion county, on Monday. AL
though frequently questioned regarding
tho tragedy, she to the last declined to
throw any light on the subject.
War Oh Wicked Slen and Women.
Eighty inmates Of gambling houses, and
seveuty-one women of i'll repute, picked up
in the streets and in Italian saloons, were
fined in the police court at Chicago Fri
day. The new chief of police proposes to
make war on these classes, with view Of
driving :hcm out OF the city.
ANNUAL DINNER
4 Large Company and a Delightful Time.
Col. and Mrs. L. L. Bush gave their
fourth annual dinner at their handsome
residence at Bird in-IIand last evening.
A very large number of OuaSta yere nra..