Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-17
BY MAIL AND WIRE.
LATEST NEWS OF ALL SORTS.

Death ana Disaster-Personal and Political.
Frank Bernhard, aged 16 and Joseph
Malone, aged 12, were drowned while bath
ing in the North river, at New York last
night.
August Lepineski, aged IS years, was
caught in a rolling barrel shaft at Brad
ley j. Hubbard's shop, at Meridian, Conn.,,
and killed.
While trying to ford stream in Linn
county Kansas, in a wagon, Mrs. John
Seals and her two children, two children
named: Jankley, and child named Jacket
were drowned.
Elizabtth Hutter, employed as servant
by Frederick Cook, on De Kalb avenue,
Brooklyn, n. Y, was arrested upon the
charge of having killed an infant found in
the sewer-pipe. She confessed being the
mother of the child, but it was still.born.
She was held to answer.
Milton Yarberry, 40 years old, a native
Texan, = cowboy and q gambler, was
hanged at Albuquerque, N. NJ for the
murder of Charles Campbell.
1t is feared the third boat of the wreck
ed steamer Pera, containing the captain
and fourteen men is lost. A broken boat
found in Cripple cove on Sunday is similar
to the one missing.
A Prestyterion clergyman OF Baltimore
has handed to tho collector of taxes of
that city u package containing So, 500. II
for taxes due the state and city by an un-
known party for 1877 to 1882, inclusive.
Two boys, one named Kimmerliar, the
other Lisks of Columbia, n. j., were
playing soldier and Kimmerliar was shot
in the head and fatally wounded by the
contents of gun in Lisk's hands. KIM
merliar had sword and Lisks gun, and
Lisks was showing how "they did things
in America when the weapon was dis
charged.
BY disaster Oh the Clarkesburg s.
Western railroad, near Weston, w. Va,
a man named Carey, supposed to be from
New York, was killed and thirteen
others were injured, two fatally. r. 7.
GOldsborough, jr., of Baltimore, ono ot
the injured, died in few hours, and Miss
LeOna White, of Freeman's Creek, is not
expected to recover.
A sloop from Perth Amboy, N. j., at
anchor in the river opposite West Point.
was struck by lightning and colored
man on board was killed. At West New
burg barn was struck by lightning.
Clarence Scarborough, aged eighteen, and
boy named Decker were standing in the
doorway when the lightning passed be-
tween them and killed 4 horse. STAN
brOugh was rendered unconscious, but
recovered. At Highland Falls house
and q large barn were burned by the
lightning, but nobody was hurt.
Silas Stevens went to the house of Lee
Jackson, who lives near tho village of
Red Clay, Ga, and, thrusting his revolver
through the open window, shot and in
stantly killed Jackson, who was sitting
near table. The murderer made his es-
cape, but posse of citizens is in pursuit.
After Jackson dropped dead the assassin
cmptied his revolver into his body.
On board the Chateau Lafitte, which
arrived in New York yesterday, was a
tribe Of gypsies, tho chief of whom is
Claudios Maspero. These people have
brought with them Il dozen wild bears,
which they entrapped in the Pyrenecs.
They have also dozen monkeys, in addi-
tion to other specimens of the animal
kingdom. Tho tribe has little Or no
money, and are encampcd in the north
west corner of tho garden, waiting for
assistance to 20 to New Orleans. Later
in tho day tho gypsies were notified by the
customs authorities that there was a
twenty per cent. tariff on bears and SO on
each monkey. This threw them into COIL
sternation, but they had no alternative but
to liquidate the claim.