Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-07
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Baseball At Albany-Albany, 12 Ma
tional, 8.
A women's six-day walking match be.
gan in San Francisco on Wednesday night.
The Southern Baptist convention met in
Lexington, KY, yesterday. DR.. P. H.
Hill, of Georgia, Was elected president.
A British brig has arrived at the Della.
ware Breakwater with yellow fever on
board. One of the crew,~died OF yellow
fever on Wednesday night.
The stockholders of the Valley railroad
of Virginia met in StauntOn yesterday and
decided to negotiate a mortgage and COM
plete the road from StauntOn to Salem at
once.
1t is reported from different sections OF
Virginia that the growing tobacco plants
are being rapidly destroyed by the tobacco
fly. The farmers in many instances are
planting ground prepared for tobacco with
corn and peas, and it is said that not more
than a fourth of the usual crop of tobacco
will be made this season.
The supreme lodge of the Independent
Order of Mechanics, held session in
Washington yesterday, and issued war
rants for new lodges in St. Louis, WASH
ington and Alexandria. A parade of the
supreme lodge and the subordinate lodges
of the district, 800 strong, took place in
the afternoon.
Two young men named Crocker and
Mcmillan, were drowned yesterday in a
mill pond, six miles south of Raleigh,
N. c. They were attending a picnic.
The boat containing Mcmillan, Crocker
and Miss Annie Mitchell was capsized, and
the two former. while attempting to save
Miss Mitchell, went under. Charlie Jor-
dan, lad who was near, saved the young
lady after great exertion.
At meeting of the board of trade at
Quebec, on Wednesday,, a resolution was
unanimously adopted urging the Domin
ion and local governments to take such
measures as will secure the independence
of labor and protect the lives of those at
work. The Quebec police board, the same
evening, advertised for two hundred addi-
tional policemen in view of threatened
labor trouble.
John G. Watson and D. C. Weeks,
prominent stock brokers of Boston, sus-
pended yesterday, owing to the decline in
Hartford and Erie bonds, in which they
had largely invested. Watson's liabilities
are estimated at about $3.50, 900. 1t is said
that he has arranged to dispose of the Sc
curities held by him at 45, which will en-
able him to resume Immediately.
At half-past eight o'clock yesterday
while Principal Keeper McKelvy
of the Elmira On. W reformatory, in
with frst-class prisoner, was
to punish an insu5ordinate con-. .
vict named Edward Symonds, sent from
New York for burglary, the prisoner
plunged long case knife, sharpened to a
fine point, in the pit of the stomach of Nc
Kelvy. The latter fell dead in the corri-
dor without speaking word.
A four-story brick building in Cleveland,
Ohio, occupied by the Telegraph supply
company, w. J. Morgan & Co., litho-
graphers, and others, was almost entirely
by fire yesterday. The total loss
is about $500, 900, of which $3.50, 900 is on
the Telegraph supply company. Tuescher
& Co. IS distillery in St. Louis was destroy
ed yesterday by fire caused by the ex-
plosion of still. Loss, 100000, One of
The employees was burned to death, and !
another is reported missing.