Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-12
GENERAL NEWS.
NUMEROUS cArAsrRoPHEs BY FIRE

NUMEROUS CATASTkOPhES III fIf'E.
Destruction of Some Valuable Properties-
War on tho Graveyard Ghouis-oti"es
and Caiamtties and Other EEeH:s.
The Harpsweil house, in Harpswell,
Ne, and the dwelling Of Mrs. Johnson
near By, were destroyed by fire yesterday.
Weudiing's broom factory, at New "
leans, was burned yesterday. Loss, sioos-
600. The custom house was slightly da'n-
aged.
At Au Sable Forks, n. ! :, yesterday,
the new ore separator OF the d. q ..
Rogers iron company was destroyer oy
fire. Loss, $4,000.
\ fire ut Hogansville, Ga, yesterday de-
s:roveti three stores. p. ii. Whitaker u
Son lose 81, 600 Thomas Lester, s.. 600 ::
=. II Whitaker, ir, furniture, 81 lOo.
The n..,.5. O! !. C.. Arnold LenOS, at
nittstic!i. Mass. was burned yesterday.
Loss. $1,000.
Josiah c. Arnold's large boarding house
at Lcnox, Mass. WIS burned yesterday.
Loss, $4,000.
The keystone rubber works were burned
ut Williansport. Loss, $4,000 lnsur-
ance, So, 900. Two hundred operatives
are thrown out of employment. The
William Boden's saloon at Ocean. fifteen
miles from Fort Wayne, Ind, was blown
up by dynamite last evening. The dyna-
mite was thrown down the chimney.
There is no clew to the perpetrators.
DlsposinS of .Destn-l:attle Insurance.
The Dauphin county court has dis
solved fifty eight mutual assessment ln-
surance companies, which were lately pro
| cecdcI against by the attorney general at
the instance ofthe insurance commissioner
of the state. The number which the ILL
surance commissioner alleges have Deon
found doing business in violation OF tncir
chartered privileges is 213, and against all
these proceedings have been instituted
with view to their dissolution. large
| majority of the companies which have
| made answer to tho court requiring them
to show cause Why their business should
| not be closed state that they are con-
strained to submit to the revocation OF
| their charters, because the mutual assess
| ment insurance business has been rendered
improbable also, some charge thcil
| misfortunes on other companies, which
| arc claimed to have done a disrepGtable
business. About twenty companies lave
| filed answers contesting the right OF the
allegation made against them.
Three DesperaGOes Killed.
viii Wildfirc, John Boston and Jt::ne:
Aistcad, noted desperadOes. went to WI.
key county. n. c., on Wednesday nigh;
| to rob the log smoke house OK Ai5er,
Dyson. They pried up several logs ant
entered. Dyson saw them and shot ant
| killed Wildficc. The others attempted tf
| nc ho u hp,1Sa hI1t GnJnC
so knocked down the prop which they hae
| placed under the logs they had pried u,
| to gain an entrance, and the logs fell on
them, crushing them to death.
Raiload Accitlcn: I'm Illinois.
The mail train of the White Water Vale!
railroad was thrown from the track neal
Metamora, III. ,on Wednesday by the turn
ing of !, rail which was caused by 4 broke
tie. The baggage, express aad mail car ant
one passenger coach were thrown down
forty-fe embankment. Jacob Miller, tn
express messenger, was dangerously injur
cd Charles Glener, tho baggage master
was badly hurt about the breast, and Brit
tenham, the postal clerk, and about twent.
others were slightly injured.
Tho Terrible Cyclone.
Later accounts of the cyclone at Nc
lister Indian territory, Increase the MIN
Der killed tc II. Il small settlement III tin
ChOctaw nation was visited by the SAN
storm, and one person was killed, 81!
being severely injured.
rluating in tho River.
The body ola man, as yet unrecogniZeG
was found floating in the Christiana rive
at Wilmington, Del, yesterday afternoon
The body is supposed to be that Of jaime
Cole, y missing employee Of tho !essup
Moore pulp works.
lie Wants an Investigation.
ARLINGTON, May 12.--In the Ious
Mr.. lIob!itzelI, of Maryland. rose to
question ofprivilegcs and stated that Ii
, had introduced bill for the relief {
Abraham Brofiuan, of Baltimore, whic
was referred to the committee Oh claims
lie ROW learned that there was a con!nun
cation signed Maryland" addressed
tho speaker, on the committees file whic
reflected OH his (IIoblitzelrs) connectio
ajtl. tho case. He demanded that til
: .,,.,;:.:ca Of the clerk OF claims con,nitte
+ l,a Investigated, and it was SO ordered.
| i,aiIrcad Wreck IN Arizona.
5 CR1TTENDEN, Arizona, May 12.-Fi,
carloads of workmen were wrecked q
. the New Mexico & Arizona railroad, ye:
tcrtlay, near this place. One man ";
= killed and eight injured.