Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-26
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

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MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.
Shot Dead BY Escaping Prisoners.
A number of convicts at work on the
levee at Williamson, two miles below
Helena, Ark, yesterday quit work, and,
rushing upon Charles Rankin, one of the
guards, wrested his gun from him. A
prominent planter named Cant started to
give an alarm, when ona of the convicts
raised the gun and shot him dead. The
prisoners, who wero % in number, then
made their escape to the hills, stopping
at the house of q colored man named JEFF
ferson, which they ransacked of all the
clothing they could lay hands on. They
separated into two parties, and when last
seen were passing into the canebrake near
the Lamb plantation. A search party has
been organized, and the country is being
secured for the runaways, number OF
hounds having been put on their track.
There is considerable excitement over the
tragedy, as MIR. Cant was very popular,
and it is the general opinion that if the
murderers are caught they will be sum-
marily dealt with.
Tho Fl.e Record.
The Roman Catholic church and priests
residence at Riviere du Loup en- Bas,
Canada, were burned on Saturday. Lose,
500, 600.
A fire in the building in Duane street,
New York, occupied by Powers & Cable,
boot and shoe dealers, caused loss on
Saturday evening Of 5000
A fire in the old postoffice block in La
Crosse, Wis.,, on Saturday caused loss of
$25, 900.
A dwelling in StapletoD, Staten Islard,
occupied by Dennis Hennessy, butcher,
was burned Sunday night, and Hennessy's s
wife and two children were burned to
death.
The old Malley mill at Williamstown,
Massachusetts, was on Sunday destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000. Incendiarism is
suspected.
ocean Periis.
Tho British steamer Glamorgan, from
Liverpool for Boston, was abandoned at
sea in sinking condition on the 10th
inst, after fearful storm, in which her
captain and five seamen were washed
overheard and lost. The survivors were
taken off by the steamship Republic,
which arrived at New York on Saturday
evening. In transferring them to the Re-
public another seaman was drowned.
A dispatch from Hull, England, re-
ceived at Boston, says the steamship
Bywell Castle, from the Black sea, with
cotton seed and beans, is believed to have
foundered at sea, with all on board. The
Bywell Castle is the steamer that ran into
and sank the Princess Alice on the
Thames several years ago, causing a loss
of about 500 lives.
Tho Lash Of tho Cruel Moonshlner.
Arch Segg came into Gainesville, Tenn,
and stated that last week he was taken
out of bed at midnight by band of six
disguised men, carried about quarter of
a mile, lashed to tree and severely
beaten, the instruments of torture being
hickory withes. He says te was punished
| on account Of reporting still to revenue
| officers. He pleaded innocence and prom.
| ised to establish his innocence, but with
out avail. He says two whipped him at a
time, ono on each side, each striking about
seventy blows, bringing the blood each
time. After the men had taken round
Of whipping they left him, still tied to the
tree. They returned in fifteen minutes
and gave him one hundred more blows.
They then released him, half dead and
bleeding profusely, the blood running like
water down to his feet.
documents Lost or Stolen.
There is considerable complaint from
members of Congress of the loss of public
documents through the mail service. In
many cases copies of the compendium c1
tho census, addressed by the Interior de.
partment at their instance to their con
| stituents, have not been delivered, and
| this is also said to be the case with the
| Annals of the War, q government publica
| tion that is in great demand. Mr.. Nc
Lane, of Maryland, recently sent several
| volumes of the latter work to General
Joe johnson, of Virginia, which disappeared
in transit, and copies of the compendium
of the census, known to have been address
ed to people in this city by the Secretary
of the Interior, have not been received.
Condensed Items.
Albert j. Howell, broker, of Chicago,
committed suicide by shooting himself on
Saturday. He had suffered from i'll
health.
A. Prescott, a wealthy banker of To-
| urday by shooting himself in the head. He
| had suffered from nervous disorder.
A suit for 5000 has been brought
against the owner and proprietor of the
late Newall house at Milwaukee, by John
Gilbert, the actor.
The Mississippi river at Cairo marked
SO feet and J an inch last night, a rise Of
! an inch since Saturday night, but it was
stationary at last accounts. The Ohio
river is falling at Paducah.
Ex-Judgo J. NJ. Cloud of the superior
court of North Carolina, was attacked
with apoplexy yesterday on railroad
train, and died soon after the train reached
the depot in Charlotte.
Rev. G. 3. Wallace, Of the Salvation
army, preached a total abstinence sermon
on one of the principal streets of Pittston,
Pa, ON Saturday afternoon, and was ar
rested and fined for obstructing tho
street.
Charles Story, employed in Nelson Sto
ry's bank at Bozeman, Montana, obtained
500 from the First National bank of
Helena by forgery a week ago, aud fled.
He was arrested at Miles City with most
Of tho money in his possession.
Saratoga county, New York, is excited
over the discovery in the town of Galway
of an oil well which is considered valua-
bic. The oil floats on tho water of a we'll
dug last fall to obtain water for cattle and
it is said to resemble refined kerosene
rather than crude petroleum.
The secretary of the navy has received
telegram from Rear Admiral Clitz, com
manding the Asiatic station, giving the