Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-09
FLOOD AND FIRE.
sEvEkE DAnAaE BIZ raE ELEaEnTs.

IAOOD A1ND G1xS0'
sEvEkE DAMAGE BIZ TIE ELEAENTs.
Happenings In Brief that Come BY the HORN
ing Aails-The Devioos Path Of Crime
and Calamity.
Great havoc was done by thunder
storm at Wilkesbarro on Friday night.
At the electric light station much damage
was done and the engineer was knocked
down and stunned. A house near the
Lehigh Valley round-house was struck
and damaged. A woman in one OF the
streets was badly injured.-A terrific
thunder storm passed over New Bruins.
wick, New Jersey, on Friday evening. A
number of trees were blown down ; the
high school was struck by lightning and
had its roof torn off, and two horses were
killed. rains have fallen during
the last few days in Virginia, along the
line of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
The crops have been badly washed, and
much corn has been blown down. During
storm in Cumberland county, on Friday
evening, q farm hand was killed by light
ming.
The state wOrkhOuse at Bridgwater,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning, all the buildings except two
barns being consumed. The loss is esti.
mated at $40, 900. 1t is believed the fire
was started by colored prisoner who is
missing loss by the fire in Evansville,
Minn., on Thursday night. is estimated at
$50, 900. The largest individual losses
are: Wells Brothers, general merchan-
disc, 5000; Bank of Evansville, SO, 600 ;
Meeker house and barn, $1,000; the
Weekly Enterprise building, $4,000 Good
shelters billiard hall, 5000; Kron &
Myer, general merchandise, $4,000; A.
Lilliquist s. Co., general merchandise,
1900; Frederick Hanson, druggist,
$1,000; Bordsen Brothers, hardware,
$1,000; Dalheim s. johnson, hardware,
81, 900; P. Reader, billiard hall, 81, 900.
The Arrow ice house at Athens, N. Y,
was consumed on Saturday night, with a
large stock of ice.-A second fire broke
out on Saturday in the oil refinery of
Thaine, Albeit & Co., near Wellsville,
Ohio, and an emplOye named McFerron
was burned to death.-Six brick stores at
Gilman, ILL.,, wero burned on Friday.
| miscellaneous Matters.
The body of Archbishop Purcell, lying
in state at the archepiscopal residence in
Cincinnati, was viewed Sunday by thou
sands of people. 1t will be placed on a
catafalque in the cathedral. The funeral
will take place on Wednesday.
| A mass meeting Of coal miners was held
Sunday at Springfield, ILL.,, and commit
| tee was appointed to confer with the Oper-
ators and arrange sOmo plan for settling
the existing difficulties.
At meeting of the Central Labor union
in New York Sunday afternoon, resolu
tions were adopted condemning tho action
of the governor of Vermont in sending the
militia to Ely, and denouncing the Yer
mont copper company for its failure to pay
the miners their wages.
| The Hartford creditors of the late Cor
nelius J. Vanderbilt have been paid in full
with interest, from the proceeds of q re-
cent sale of his residence, and surplus OF
several thousand dollars is left.
Jay Gould's yacht Atalanta arrived at
New London, Conn, at 6:15 p. m. on
Saturday, having made the trip from
Twenty-third street, New York, in five
hours and forty five minutes. She re-
turned up the sound Sunday.
| In accordance with the resolution OF
Congress, of March last, directing the
president to inform tho British govern
ment of tho termination of tho fishery
articles Of tho treaty OF Washington, the
British government has been SO informed
through Minister Lowell, and these arti
c!es will terminate on July 2. 1885
The Bethlehem iron company's works
were shut dowE on Friday night and on
Saturday morning all the employees were
paid off. The works employed $500 men.
The employees of b. Manville & Co.,
carriage builders, of New Haven, struck
against q reduction of 10 per cent.
Senators Harrison, Sherman, Harris and
German, of the committee on revision of
rules of the U. s. Senate, left New York
last evening for Boston on their way to
Bar Harbor, where 9 meeting of the COM
mittee is to be held.
1t is understood in Washington that the
| president will start On = trip to the Yel-
lowstone Valley about the LIST Of August.
| He will be Joined by General Sheridan at
Chicago, and the party, which will mum
bee about ten persons in all, will DO gono
five or six weeks.
| Miss Van Low, Of Richmond, Virginia,
known for her services during the war in
behalf of the Union cause and in aid of
the soldiers in Libby prison, has been Of
fered a first.class clerkship in tho post
office department, on Recommendation of
General Grant. Miss Van Lew was post
master 1T Richmond under President
Grant.
The sentence of tho court martial in the
case of Commander Horace E. Mullan, of
| the lost U. s. steamer AshuelOt, dismiss
| ing him from tho SERVICE has been ap
proved by tho president
Only one Juror was secured in the case
of exTreasurer Polk out Of over 100
names called on Saturday at Nashville.
James Ward. 4 Salvation army drum
mer, was fined s. in London, Ontario, on
Saturday, with the option Of a weeks
. imprisonment, for violating city ordin
ance by making an ''unusua! noise in the
, street."
| Various Crimes.
Ex Deputy Treasurer John p. Pollock,
who, it is said, "knows all about a 81, 900
deficiency in the late treasurer's accounts, ="
arrived at Wilkesbarrc, Pa, on Saturday
from Wisconsin. 1t is expected he will
throw some light on the discrepancy to-
day.
A colored man named Gilmore, suspec
ted of having fired the almshouse at
Bridge water, Massachusetts,, was arrest ID
yesterday at Abingdon. Hs confessed his
guilt, and said he would burn the town
if he had chance.
While Thomas Connolly, 4 widower, 32
years of age, was sitting on fence with o
friend at SouthingtOn, Connecticut, on
Saturday evening, ho was approached by
Bridget McCue, who threw vitriOl in his
face. It is likely that he will lose the
sight of both his eyes. The woman had
asked him to marry her and he had re
fused.
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