Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-23
A SEHI ES or ACCIDEN 3.
Destruction OF Life ana property.

A west bound express train on the
Grand Trunk railroad was thrown from
the track near Brockville, Ontario, Friday
evening by the spreading of the rails and
tho express, baggage and postal car were
wrecked. Tw3 train men and lady pas
senger were injured.-The steamer Ave
rill, from Barrow in Furness for Montreal,
with cargo of rails, stranded in Green
Cove, Nova Scotia, on Thursday night
in 4 thick fog, and is reported to be
q total wrcck.-Tne steamer Spartan
is reported ashore on Caribbean
Island, Lake Superior. G. NJ. Hop
kins' laundry, in Troy, New York, was
burned yesterday morning. LOSS $50, 600.
1T is estimated that tho sea has cut so
far into the bank Of the inlet at Barnegat,
New Jersey, that six or eight feet of the
foundation of the government light house
is exposed, " and large hotel is in dan
ner of being washed into the inlet. |"
Further entertainments Of the sea
are to DO prevented by bulkheads.-
--Great distress for want of provisions is
reported ia the neighborhood of Natash
duan, in the Saguenay district of Quebec
Mary McClain, 1S months old, was run
over aud killed by car No. G2 of the Passa
yunk avenue branch of the Lombard and
Sonth streets passenger railway company,
on Twelfth street, Philadelphia, below
Dickinson, early last evening. The driver
surrendered himself and was locked up at
the Seventeenth district station house.
Crime and Criminals.
The fifty members of the Texas Legis-
lature indicted some time ago for gamb
ling at poker have nearly all settled their
cases without trial by payment of fines
and costs.-A package of $4,000, OK
pressed by tho Marine bank of New York
to tho Susqnehanna Valley bank, at Erie,
Pa, was found on reaching its destination
to contain only blank paper. Tho matter
is in the hands of detectives.-Iu Chica.
90, yesterday William McCullom and
William Laskey, former employees Of
Fowler Brothers, were held to answer the
charge of perjury. They testitis before
the board of trade committee tist t'Ow
lers' lard was adulterated, and .erwards
swOrs that their testimony was false NO
duel took place yesterday between Messrs.
Beirne aud Elan, the belligerent Virginia
editors, for the reason that tho duelists
and their seconds were arrested near Han
over Junction, about % miles from Rich
mond, before they could fight. They
might possibly have fought but for a
dispute in regard to tho size of the pistols
to be used, etc.-Kyle Walker and Harry
Reed, both colored, were lynched at Pul
aski, Tenn, on Thursday night, for the
murder of young Trice. They admitted
the crime, but expressed no feeling of re-
gret.
Indian Prisoners
A dispatch was received from General
Schofield in which he recommends that,
for the present at least. the management
of the surrendered Chiricahaus be left
entirely in General Crooks hands, and
that both the war and interior departments
gave him full authority to carry out this
policy. This seems, to General Scholfleld.
the only possible way to q successful issue,
Evidently" he says, the Chiricahaus
cannot be treated arbitrarily as pris.
oners of war, and General Crook alone has
the power to control them. General
Crook himself says any attempt to hold
them responsible for their acts before their
surrender will drive them back on the
cliffs and gorges of the mountains and
that he shall then have to fight them until
the last one dies. He favors placing