Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-10
NEWS MiSCELLANEY.

Items of Various Sorts Gathered From the
rOrnlDG Mails.
Eleven buildings were burned by al in
cendiary fire at Dwight, Ills. The loss is
$4,000.
Henry Henchen's sash, door and blind
factory, at Cleveland, Ohio. was destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
Dan Blakeny, colcred, was lynchsd near
Lancaster, S. c., for an attempt at raPe on
4 white girl, which he confessed.
Tho first bale OF now cotton received at
Montgomery, Ala, was raised by W. G..
Ray, jr., and was sold at public auction to
J. II. Clisby & Co., for 81 cents per pound.
1t classed scant middling.
in the rear of 751 St. Marks avenue Brook
lyn, destroyed the stable, four horses and
carriages and a quantity Ofharncss, entail
ing a loss of $4,000.
Twenty-Five Apaches wcro captured by
Mexican troops and publicly shot at Chi
huahua on Monday. They met their fate
tempt on their faces.
vile. Pa, exploded yesterday, wrecking
and James Phillips.
uO lCCCut olO1 ia ANVA OAVkA oulO AAO
reported to have done great damage to
the crops and other property. In some
localities the hay and oats arc a total loss.
At Wakeman and its vicinity thirty
bridges were swept away by i storm on
Tuesday.
William Bird and his son. who lives on
ranch at Bear River, near Breckenridge,
Dakota, pursued two thieves who had
robbed their cabin. The thieves were
killed, but Birds son also lost his life.
William Hook, brakeman, was killed
while walking on the trestle Of tho Will
mington s. Northern railroad at Reading
on Wednesday. He leaves family, re-
riding at Coatesville.
While picking berries OH an island on
tho MuskOka lake, at Gravenhurst, Ont,
child of Mrs. Jeshin fell into the water.
The mother and girl named Baily jump.
ed in and attempted a rescue, and all three
wero drowned.
The forest fires near Sandwich, Massa.
chusetts, continued yesterday. Ono of
tho fires was "six miles wide," and
threatened the destruction of "fifteen
valuable houses and Outbuildings" which
were in its path.
Argument for the prosecution in the
Star Route cases at Washington was b.
gun yesterday by DR.. Ker. He had not
finished when the court adjourned.
James Reilly, Frank Fitzgerald, James
Wheeler, Charles OConnor, Andrew
Lynch aud William Kelley were arrested
yesterday in Scranton on the charge of
having committed recent rObberies.
Five cases Of maglignant smallpox
have been discovered in family named
Lund, in the village of Stanield, Isanti
county, Minnesota. 1t is not beloved any
of the cases will recover. Two children
died of the disease in the same family a
few days ago.
Strikes and Strikers.
The successful resumption of operations
by tho National tube works at McKees-
port, Pa, with nOn-union men is leading
others to try the experiment. The Etna
mill at Sharpsburg aud the Kittaning
mill, both owned in Pittsburgh, are pro.
pairing to resume in q few days.
The driver boys of tho HOllenbach mine
operated by Parrish s. Co., at Wilkes
barre, struck yesterday for the same basis
rs the driver boys of the Empire mine, and
work was suspended in consequence. The
Empire boys, who resumed work on Tues.
day, quilted again yesterday, alleging
the failure of their employers to make q
compromise. 1t was said at the Office of
Parrish s. Co., that no demands had been
made by tho strikers, and that "no action
will be taken SO long as the strike con-
tinues.'
Hotel Men Dead.
Charles A. StetsOn, well-known hotel
man. died on Tuesday in Lynn, Mass, at
the age of As. He was the builder and
manager of the SietsOn house, at Long
Branch, now known as the West End
hotel, aud he subsequently managed the
Astor House, in New York.
Willard Whitcomb, for many years
proprietor of the City hotel, in Providence,
Rhode Island, died on Tuesday, aged 81.
James Robert Adams, cashier of the
West End hotel, at Long Branch, fatally
shot himself in the head early yesterday
morning. He was about 80 years of age.
The cause of the deed is supposed to have
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