Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-23

MAIL BREVITIES.
A CONDENSATION OF LATE EVENTS

NAIL BREVITIES.
A CONDEMNATION OF LATE EVENTS
The Devious Tr.ch of Crime and Calamity
miscellaneous Paragraphs OF tho
lIaS's news.
Some time ago the secretary oil the
treasury ordered the removal Of MIR.
BOughtOn, keeper OF the lighthouse at ST
Joseph, Mich, and the appointment OF
MIR. Platt to succeed him. Mr.. BoughtOn
refuses to give up his place. He is III
possession of the lighthouse and refuses to
allow his successor to take charge OF it.
1t is thought that legal measures will have
to be resOrted to.
Tne directors of the Canadian Pacific
railroad company arrived at Toronto
by forty European capitalists. Among
the latter are Primes Hohenlohe and his
brother, Vice Admiral Count Gleichen, Of
Germany, Earl Latham, Lords Elphin-
stone, CastletOn aud OnslOw, of England.
and several English members of Parlla-
ment.
Two cases Of yellow fever have bsen dis
covered at PAlalox wharf, at Pensacola.
The patients are sailors, who will be re
NOV cd to quarantine. After their removal
the house will be burned. At the navy
yard, Surgeon Ovens in reported dying,
and his daughter has been taken sick.
Herbert Mayer, 2S years Of aye, com
mitted suicide in Trenton, New Jersey,
yesterday, just after reading a letter from
Germany, which evidently brought him,
bad news. He leaves wife and children.
Advices from Mexico report an earth
quake at Patchuca, which leveled thirty
houses and caused a loss Of 90 lives; also
shower of thousands of fish ut Monte
mOreas.
William Rockefellcr's Cleora and Inde
pendence trutted an exhibition mile at
Charter Oak park, Hartford. Conn, on
Wednesday, in 2:17a. The last half was
in 1.O71.
The first bale of New South Carolina
cotton was received in Columbus On Tues
day from Lexington. 1t was classed mid.
ding aud sold for 8 16 cents.
The U. s. revenue cutter Manhattan
yesterday at Montreal yesterday from
Ogdensburg, en- route to Philadelphia for
repairs.
The second annual fair of the North
Carolina fruit growers association opened
yesterday at Wilmington. The display is
said to be the finest ever made in that
city.
J. NJ. Haven, ex treasurer of the Rutland
railroad, was arrested at Rutland, VT, last
nj ,ht, charged with over issuing Att
shares of the preferred stock of the com
pany.
Fatal Accidents.
Two passenger cars and a baggage car
on the Memphis e. Little Rock railroad
fell through trestle bridge near Forest
City, Ark, on Tuesday night, owing to
the breaking Of d rail. Three men, J. B.
Salinger and Harry Foldborg, merchants
foreman of pile drivers Oh tho Little Rock
road. were killed, and several others in,
jured. one seversIy.-Two Italian laborers
| wero killed by an engine on the Boston g.
Albany railroad, near Blackstone, Mas
| sachusetts, on Tuesday night.-A
boiler at Oakdalo, Illinois, burst on
Tuesday, killing Eugene Wilson, the On
gineer.-Richard Lewis, ST., was killed,
| and Richard Lpwis, .jr, and George Rick
ert were badly injured yesterday by tho
premature discharge Of blast at Luke
Fidler's colliesy, Shamokin.-John Nc
Claim aud George Quinn perished from the
effects of fout air while digging a we'll
| near Knoxville, Tennessee, yesterday
| morning.-Mrs. Fowler and her daughters
were killed by lightning yesterday morn
| ing near Athens, Alabama, while taking
| shelter under tree. An infant in Mrs.
Fowlcr's arms escaped injury.
Yestertiay's Grimes.
Iu Nebraska city on Tuesday evening,
Ezra Stephen A. Douglass. quarrelling
with his wife, struck her, whoreupOn she
| drew pistol and shot him dead. She
| then committed suicide.-Dr. Abraharas,
| an ex Confederate surgeon, was yesterday
shot aud perhaps fatally wounded by a
colorcd man named Clark. in Houston,
Texas. Abrahams shot at Clark twice the
day before, without effect. There had
| been feud between them, each cOmplaing
of annoyances by tho Other.-A warrant
has been issued at Cambridge, New York,
for the arrest of Moses Murphy, charged
with being the man who assaulted Mary
| Varley, 13 year old girl, whom he met
ON the highway. Fifteen mon have agreed
to lynch Murphy, it he is captured.-Ah
| Yung, a Chinaman, was hanged at Mis-
soula, Montana, last Monday, for the mur-
der of another Chinaman, committed in
January last. He asserted that he was
innocent.
Commercial aud Financial.
Alexander White, whose recent dlSap
pearance from Sherburne, New York,
caused some uneasiness, yesterday as
signed all his property, without prefer
euces. White was reported to be one of
the wealthy men of Sherburne. His diff
culties are attributed to speculation in
Wall street.
The Chenanga Valley railroad, New
| York, was sold yesterday under mort
gage foreclosure for 800, 600 to the West
| Shore railway company, which holds all
but $40, 900 of tho $26l, 900 worth of out
| standing bonds.
The corn exchange national bank of
Chicago, capital 81, ,OOO,OO and national
bank of Ell Dorado, Kansas, capital
$3.50, 600, have been authorized by the
comptroller of the currency.
MorehOuse s. GOdsOn, dry goods NOR
chants, of Toronto, have made an assign
| ment. Their liabilities are placed at $45,-
600 and assets at 1000.
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