Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-27
TERRIBLE CALAMITIES.
MANY woRKmEN BURNED TO DEATH
Tho Tornado's Track-FactOry Hands Shot
Dowa-MinOr Crimes ana
Casualties.

Tho Tornados Track-Factory Hands Shot
Dowa-Minor Crimes ana
CasualIies.
\ fire occurred in Warsaw IN a cabinet
makers workshop. Sixteen Of the work
men were unable to escape and were burned
to death.-Two Of those injured by the tor
nado az Wessor, Miss, died yesterday,
and six others are not expected to recover.
In addition to the dead already reported
81 persons were killed in tho country
northeast of Wesson and Beauregard, and
in the same district 40 were injured, sew
eral fatally.-A strike of factory hands
has occurred in the city of Zryardow, in
the government Of Warsaw. The troops
sent to arrest the leaders were stoned by
the strikers and were finally forced to use
their firearms. Two of the workmen
were killed and five others severely
wounded.
Fire, storm and Flood.
The steamship Valletta, which was
wrecked on Black Rock, Nova Scotia, had
a cargo of potatoes and other produce.
The vessels itself was valued at $35, 900,
but in February last S25, 900 additional
| was spent upon her in repairs. The latest
| accounts say the vessel is a total wreck
| and her crew were saved with difficulty
A building of tho Now Haven clock COM
pany 1T Now Haven, Connecticut. was
burned yesterday. Loss, 100000. There
was slight frost in Northern Alabama
on Wednesday night.-A large quan-
tity of floating ice was passing Sore],
Quebec, yesterday. Above Lamoriale the
ice jammed during Wednesday night, piled
up to the height of 20 feet and carried
away house. Lake St. Peter remains
full of ice with tho water raising. A vic.
lent wind storm has ragged at Odgen, Utah,
for several days. Coaches and box cars
have been blown from the railroad tracks,
and at Franklin cars have been overturned.
A "water spout " in Lcnoir county, N. c.,
on Wednesday, destroyed forests, orchards
and dwellings, in some places changing
the face of the country. No lives are re.
ported lost The late frosts in Illinois did
little damage south of Cartondale, and
large crops are promised of all kinds of
fruit: :-Locusts have appeared in large
numbers at Orizaba, Mexico, and it is feared
they will invade the Central Plateau.
Suicide and Other Crimes.
In Philadelphia Thomas Cavanaugh, 81
years of age, committed suicide by cutting
his threat at the Hockey hospital for the
insane.-Maggie Gurnou, aged 30 years,
attempted suicide by jumping into the
river from cambridge street wharf. She
was rescued.-Annie Lowenstein, aged 81
years, who cut her throat with table
knife on the 10th instant, died yesterday.
A plot among the soldiers of the Fourth
battalion of Mexican infantry at Matamo.
ras to kill their officers and desert to
Texas was discovered and frustrated on
Sunday last. Some of the mutineers
escaped.-W. J FOntaine, convicted in the
circuit court Of Buckingham county, Vir
ginia, Of the murder of colored man
named Burton, has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment in the penitentiary
FOntainc, whilo drunk, shot Button
without tdo least prcvocation.-
Henry Deboneys, convicted of the
murder of his wife near Essex. on the
1st of Angus: last, is to be hanged at
Elizabethtown, New York, to-day
Michael Reilly. hotel keeper, was con
victed at Wilkesbarrn yesterday of mur-
der in the second degree, for killing Thos.
May at Fai:7icw in November last.-A
Photographic counterfeit of the new i've
dollar national bank note was received at
the treasury department yesterday for re-
demptiop. 1t is on tho First National
bank of Milwaukee,, and was sent by the
Broadway National bank of New York
The counterfeit is considered very imper-
feet, and the treasury officials express
surprise that it should not have been de
tectcd by the bank officers.