Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-18
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+. LOrillard's four-year-Old brown colt
FalsettO has been scratched for all his Eng
liSh engagements.
There were twenty-fi deaths from yel-
low fever in Havana for the week ending
June 12.
The Republicans of the Fifth congress
sional district of Maine yesterday nomi-
mated Seth T. Milliken, of Belfast, for Con-
gress.
Baseball At New Havcn-Albany, 7 /;
Yale, 5. At Observation-Disclosures, 5;
Buffalo, 0. At Worcester-Wor :;
Chicago, II.
At the meeting of the Army of the Po-
Charles Devens was elected president. 700
veterans were in attendance.
The Indiana Republican convention to
nominate state officers met yesterday and
nominated ticket headed by Albert G.
Porter for governor.
The members of the Metropolitan Bap-
tist church of San Francisco, at a meeting
on Wednesday night, adopted resolutions
strongly endorsing Rev. Isaac S. Kalloch.
The members OF the Society ofthe Army
of the Cumberland resident in Washing
ton gave banquet to General Garfield
last evening.
AT the annual commencement of Cornell
university at Ithaca, New York, yesterday
a class of 7S, including 10 young ladies,
was graduated.
About 135 passengers of the disabled
steamer Anchoria sailed from New York
for Glasgow yesterday on the Ethiopia, Of
the same line.
In Sidney, Australia, a youth has been
committed for trial at the instance of the
colonial secretary, for offering the latter a
bribe to confer an appointment.
Census enumerators say the population
of Washington is about 14O, 900, and of the
District of Columbia IL, 900. This shows
an increase for the district of 4U, 900 in ten
years.
In the international regatta at Provi-
dence, Hanlan was unexpectedly taken
with "sttch in the side'' and the pro-
fessional race was won by Wallace Ross
with Riley second and Ten Eyck third.
The national convention of Prohibition
lists met yesterday in Cleveland, o. Neal
Dow, of Maine, was nominated for preSi-
dent by acclamation, and A. NJ. Thomp-
son, of Westerville, o., was nominated for
vice president.
The annual meeting 'of the New York
press association is being held at Troy. At
the business meeting, yesterday, John NJ.
Francis, president, and Frank Nj. PiXley,
of the San Francisco Argonaut, made adj
dresses. To-day and tomorrow there will
be short excursions.
DR.. w. w. Dawson, a leading physician
of Cincinnati, in a despatch to DIR. Sayre,
at New York, denies that there is any
Asiatic cholera in the former city. There
was one case, ten days ago, of sporadic
cholera such rs occur any summer in every
city.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, AL Rittenberg, a
| desperate character, while drunk in 4
lower town saloon yesterday afternoon,
was fatally shot by Michael Calman, whom
Rittenberg assaulted with n chair. The
ball passed through the latter's throat
near the jugular vein. The assault, it is
said, was entirely unprovoked. Calman
surrendered and is now in Jail.
In the Kentucky Democratic convention
at Lexington yesterday, the mention of
Tilden's namea,roused considerable enthu-
siasm, but an allusion to Mr.. Seymour
created furor of applause. A resolution
instructing the delegation to Cincinnati to
vote as unit gave rise to heated debate,
pending which a recess was taken until
evening. On re-assembling the unit reso-
luton was withdrawn. This is considered
defeat for Tilden, though most of the
delegates are Tilden men. The delegates
at-large are Henry Watterson, John w.
Stevenson, General William Preston and
Judge W. Lindsey.