The banner-enterprise., 1883-11-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

Gratis down at S0uth DOolOn, lne
negroes were then wounded, one being se-
verely cut and the other shot through the
neck. f.&
In the prize fight at Caldwell, Idaho,
Wednesday, between McFadden, of Win.
ipeg and MARYLAND of ST. Louis, MARYLAND
received punishment which will probably
prove fatal. AikIs1 I
Harry B. Fuller, son Of well known
London dealer in surgical instruments,
was arrested in New York Thursday,
charged with obtaining $l34 under false
pretenses from George Jones.
Frederick Douglas spoke in Denton,
Md. Wednesday, advising the colored
voters to stick to the Republican party,
and advising them to make it hot for any
Of their race who goes the wrong way.
1t is reported that the team Ii. B.
Wluship and Hiram Bruce. trottine
against the team FraRk and John May at
Providence Thursday made in the second
mile heat the extraordinary time OF
2.l0a, A4 &$ Et
A terrible gale occurred on Lake Erie
on Wednesday night. The schooner So
phia Minich went ashore at Cleveland
Thursday. The crew was rescued with
difficulty. Other damage to shipping is
reported. # 81 s
The bi centenary of the settlement Of
Staten Island, N. Y. was celebrated Thurs
day with much spirit. Salutes were fired,
and there was fine parade. Erastus
Brooks and Gen. William Curtis made
addresses.
A frame building in New York while
being torn down Thursday fell while a
number OF persons were getting kindling
wood. John Laws and Elisha Barns were
killed, and Louis Lacomb, aged s years,
was fatally injured.
johnson l.. Lynch, lawyer, of Utica,
N. Y, was shot and killed at Batavia
Tuesday night by Il. Newton Rowell, a
paper-box manufacturer. The murder
grew out of criminal intimacy between
Lynch and Mrs. Rowel.
Charles NJ. Sans. purser ofa Savannah
steamer, was shot and killed in a shooting
gallery 10 New York Wednesday by a
woman named Jennie Mitchell, with whom
he was IN company. The shooting is
supposed to have been accidental.
The freethinkers of Montreal are much
dissatisfied with the judges decision in
the case of the customs seizure of works
of Paine and Voltaire. They intend i'm
porting books of the same character again
and forcing a decision on the merits OF the
case.
"Steve" Raymond, the English forger,
convicted of passing forged coupons OF
the Union Pacific railroad, was sentenced
to state prison for life, in New York,
Thursday. Mart" Allen. the notorious
thief was sentenced to state prison for ten
years for burglary.
David Driscoll and Terance Scanlon,
two young men, Wednesday, entered q
New York saloon, and after drinking,
quarreled with a female employee. Er.
nest Patt, the proprietor, struck Drisc0l
over the head with club, ffacturing Biz
skull, and beat Scanlon badly. 81
The steamer Katie p. Kountz, from
Arkansas City, was burned Thursday al
Davis landing, twenty miles from New
Orleans. The cargo CONSISTED Of ,25O
bales of cotton, $500 sacks OF seed and
ESQ oilcake. The boat was valued at $lS,.
600 and the cargo at $65, 1000.
Fourteen persons in different families
living in the western part of Cincinnati
are suffering with symptoms of poisoning.
| One child died Wednesday and number
Of others are seriously i'll. 1t is thought
that the poison was administered in some
way through food bought at grocery.
The steamship Acadia, Capt. Graham
was dispatched from Philadelphia Thurs
day for Port au Prince, Hayti, by the
owners of the new war vessel Dessalines
to urge upon President Solomon, of Hay.
ii, the necessity Of the prompt payment
of $3.50, 900, the balance due upon the
vessel
American horses in England have been
to the front again. Lorillard's Sachem
made dead heat with lronclad at the
Brighton Handicap and Passaic, for
merly belonging to Lorillard, but now tO
Lord Rossmore, won the two mile selling
Welter Plate. There were five starters
and he won easily.
Joseph Blacktan, superintendent of for.
eign mails, in his report for the fiscal yeal
ended juno 30, 1888, states that the
amount OF letter mail dispatched in the
last year increased II per cent. over the
amount sent in 1880 The sum paid fol
sea transportation OF mails was 1916, 522.
Superintendent Blacktan recommends the
adoption of the double postal card, foi
message and answer, for use in foreigr
mails.
Captain Adams, OF the schooner Henri
Dennison, reports at Key West, Fla. THAI
on passing Swan Island, October "A, hi,
vessel was boarded by a boat seeking pro
visions. The island people, fourteen il
number, had nothing to subsist upon bu,
cocoanuts. The people were expecting 4
vessel from Baltimore with provisions, bu
she was very much overdue. If no sal
passed since the Dennison left the island
Capt. Adams says the people must b.
nearly starving.
The coroner jury in the case of tn,
falling Of the Fort Edward bridge, while
q Delaware and Hudson passenger trait
was passing over it, resulting in the deatt
of two persons and the injuring Of twenty
seven others, alter forty ballots, rendered