Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-06-21
LATEST NEWS.

LONDON, June lin panic in Victoria
Hall, Sunderland, England, Saturday. 1s6
children under II years of age were crushed
and trampled to death or received injuries
from which they died within few hours
afterward.
Mr.. Foster, the new American minister to
Spain, has arrived in Madrid and presented
his credentials to King Alfonso, by whom he
was cordially received.
Advices from Sierra Leone state that the
British forces have put Chief Gopowe to
rout and burned four of his stockade villages.
There were forty deaths at Havana last
week from yellow fever.
The German Church bill has passed Il
second reading.
Richard Hughes a well-known and we'll to-
do farmer living near Oshkosh, Wis, has
been arrested 10y United States officers, on a
charge of making counterfeit silver dollars
The apparatus for manufacture and num-
Der of spurious coins were found on his
premises.
McGeoch, Everingham & Co., failed III
Chicago, owing to the collapse of Cor
ner' in lard. The loss of the firm are esti-
mated at $2,00o,000. Several other firms
were carried down by the panic.
Gray's Opera House. Chardon street, Bos-
ton, has been destroyed by fire. The fire
began just after the performance opened,
but as far as is known all escaped. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
At Mansfield, La, the Rev. j. Lane Bor-
den, President of Mansfield Female College
for the last two years, was shot and killed by
Rev Benjamin L. Jenkins, female con-
fession caused the shot.
VIM. NJ. Singerly, proprietor of the Philas
delphia Record is about to build fine sum-
mer residence at Elkton.
Denton proposes to add sixty acres of ter
ritory to its limits, making the total area of
the town 135 acres.
The negro Jordan Corbin, wSo murdered
Benjamin Garden and seriously wounded
his wife and son, near Rockford, Coosa
Co., Ala, was captured by citizens. The same
night he was taken from Jail by crowd of
500 persons and hanged. Corbin at
tackled the house which was barricaded,
and shot through the window, wonding Mrs.
Cardin and killing her husband, who was
asleep. The daughter escaped to the woods.
She was found almost dead from fright, and
is not expected to live. The mother and son
will recover.
A man named Warner, believed to be the
person who assaulted and stabbed little Mel
lie Lyons at Cheboygan, Mich, has been
taken from Jail at that place Thursday night
by mob and hanged. The girl identified
him, but he maintained Ills innocence.
Miss Lizzie Mutt, in speaking of the act
of her brother in shooting Dukes, the assas-
sin of her father, at Uniontown, Pa, ssid:
"The only thing I regret about the shooting
is that did not do it myself. Ihad made up
nv mind if he remained here to kill him,
and would most assuredly have done so had
the opportunity been presented. His pres
ence was constant menace and a disgrace.
| know that / have surprised you by what
have said. and doubtless others will not un-
derstand that so timld woman could be so
revengeful, but it is true, Notwithstanding.
"Oh, how I envy Jim his cell"
At Sterling, Ont, a large portion of the
business part of the town was burnt out,
loss, $l25,0O0. AT San Mateo, Cal, ten
buildings, loss. $21, ,OOo; insurance, $1,000
At Oshkosh, Wis, Casper Smiths Touring
mill, loss, O,o0O; insurance, $4,000.
At Mount Carmel, Pa, Mrs. John Ford,
while intoxicated, demolished everything in
her house, set fire to the building, and tried
to burn her nine-months-old child on the
stove, but was prevented by citizens and
officers.
A dispatch from Philadelphia states that
VIM. A. Squire, dry goods commission mer-
chant at No. PIC Ches nut street, has left that
sity with his accounts $4,000 short, as agent
for the Mount Vernon Mills. of Baltimore.