Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-30
THE WORLDS WAY.
LATE NEWS BE NAIL cONDENsED.

THE WORLDS WAY.
LATE NEWS BE NAIL CONDENsED.
rbe Path OF Crime and Calamity IN This
Country-A Number OF Desths
BY Accident.
A Lake Shore train ran into a siding
from an open switch near Erie on Satur.
day morning and telescoped q freight train.
-Four train men were severely injured and
. numter Of passengers were bruised
Joseph Hays, G. Hays and Albert Gordon,
of the brigantine Ohio, loading at Matape,
Quebec, were drowned by the upsetting of
q boat.-Michael Kelly, Patrick Flsherty
and George Cough were injured, Kelly
fatally, while loading rails upon a hand
car on the railroad near Newton, Mass.
An express train struck ono end of q rail
which they were lifting.-While men
were casting roll in A. Garrison & Co. g
foundry, at Pittsburgh, the sand being
wet scattered the molten metal, weighing
a ton, in all directions. VIM. Barkhoff
was fatally burned and died soon after.
Five others were badly injured but will
probably recover.-Hot gas coming in con-
furnace near Cleveland, Ohio, caused an
house and dangerously if not fatally iu-
jured the engineer. Several other employees
received slight injuries.-Wm. Wilson was
killed at Wilmington, Delaware, by being
caught between the draw and the approach
of Market street bridge. He was trying
to jump upon the draw as it was closing.
w. j. Wass, of Philadelphia, a brake
man on the Baltimore railroad, was thrown
from train by bridge and killed, near
Stanton, Del.
Murder and Suicide.
Sergeant John A. Miller, of battery G.
U. s. artillery, committed suicide in
Washington by shooting himself in the
head.-During fight between Martin
GrOgan and George Sundalch, in St. Paul,
the former was killed by q young son OF
Sundalch, cutting his throat with q shovel.
Patrick McShone was arrested in Bos.
ton for causing the death of Catharine
Mulvey by throwing her from a saloon
into the street during drunken quarrel
on Friday night.-Henry Raynor ran away
with the daughter of H. Pickett, at Lyn-
day, Nebraska, a few days ago. The
girls father and Raynor met and fred at
each other. The father was killed and
RaynOr wounded.-The murdered body of
Richard Morning was found on his farm
in Nottoway county, Virginia. Two
colored men with whom he had trouble
the day before are suspected of the crime,
and one of them has bsen arrested.-Mrs.
Lydia Wagstaff. aged 80 years, committed
suicide by hanging herself in the cellar ol
her resid ,nce, at Nicetown. She had been
in ill health and was being treated for
melancholia.
business and Municipal Frauds
Ex-Governor Page. of Vermont, presi
dent of the Rutland railroad company,
has begun suit for libel against Clement
& Sons, bankers, CT Troy. New York, and
attached the property of the firm !; 5000,
600 damages are claimed. The suit in u
circular distributed to the stockholders of
the railroad to the effect that Page had
used balance of $4,000 of railroad
money, without paying interest, and had
a pass-bOok with the bank to
deceive the accountant who examined the
books of the railroad.
Charles II. Gogel, president of tho In-
dependent ice company, of Baltimore, was
arrested in that city on Saturday on the
charge of having forged endorsements on
notes drawn to his order which were dis
counted by the National Union bank of
Baltimore. Gogel was committed in de-
fanlt of $25, COO bail. lie is young man,
The municipal assembly of St. Louis
was in session nearly all of Friday night,
trying the impeachment charges against
the mayor. The result was the dafeat of
for lack of two-thirds in the
the vote being Z to5.
ln The Polk case at Nashville. on Satur.
day, Judge Allen overruled the motion
for new trial, and sentenced the prisoner
to twenty years. imprisonment at hard
labor in the penitentiary, and to pay fine
of $3.50, 900. An appeal was taken to the
supreme court and bond of $45, 600 given.
Joseph Fl. Wilkins, joint freight agent
Of the New York Central and Michigan
Central roads, at Buffalo, has disappeared
and is reported to be "short in his ac
counts" with the Michigan Central about
81, 500
MiscelianeOus Items
It is understood that the president of
Mexico has sent to Carlos Rivas, in Lon
don, power of attorney to settle with the
British bondholders of Mexican bonds.
Only S75, ,OOO, 600 in bonds arc to be issued !;
tho additional amount first agreed upon
for the expenses of the bondholders' com
mittee will not be issued. The coupons
will begin to bear interest On July l, 1884,
The miners of tho Hanover coal com.
pany, at Sugar Notch, near Wilkesbarre.
struck on Saturday night to secure the dis
,harge of donkey boss, who is said to
nave given them much trouble.
A fire in Minneapolis. about 1 80 O'Clock
yesterday morning. destroyed Devener,
Stair q Eyerett's wholesale crockery
house, and Fold & Grifish's clrpst stores.
a the Syndicate block, causing q l,ss esti.
mated a. $235, ,0OO
The Steamship California, from Vera
Cruz, which arrived at Baltimore on Sat.
lrday with yellow fever on board, has
been taken to Lynn Haven Bay. One of
Ter sick is expected to die.
The store of Leighton s. Rrown, whole.
'ale druggists, and nine other business
in Lincoln, Neb., vera burned
yesterday morning. Loss, $25O,OOO
The new steamship Lampases, of the
Mallory line, $500 tons burthen, arrived
It New York York yesterday, in ballast
rom Chester, Pa.
Losses by Flood.
A flood in the Allegheny river on Satur
lay, caused by heavy rain. did damage
estimated at $150,000 One man was
;nown to be drowned. Much damage was
lone in portions of the state of Connecti-
ut by thunder storms the same day.-l
railroad accident caused landslide at
)ayville, Connecticut. and brakeman
vas killed.-Five colOred men were
rowned by tho up setting of skiffs on the
Mississippi river at Mayersville, Missis
ippi, during a storm on Saturday even.
1g.-NO. 10 colliery of the Lehigh and
vilkesbarre coal company has been food