Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-27
STATE ITEMS.

AWHILE Sell, aged 90, was drowned in
the canal near Bethlehem while bathing.
The body was recovered three hours after
wards.
Mayor Powderly, of Scranton, is making
war on the dance houses of that city. He
insists that they shall be closed at mid
night and that no liquor be sold to minors.
George Mackerel and Daniel Hale, en-
ployees of the Thomas iron company, HO-
pendaque, died yesterday from the effect
of sunstrOke.
In Williamsport yesterday, Mrs. Anna
Eliza COrson, residing on Fourth street, i'll
fit of somnabulism, fell down stairs and
broke her neck. She died almost immedi-
ately.
Judge Pettis, of Pennsylvania, ex-minis-
ter to Bolivia, who was nominated for
associate Justice of New Mexico, is to be
rejected, the Senate judiciary committee
having decided upon this course.
The 2::28 race at Belmont park was won
by Hamb!etonian Bashaw in three straight
heats. Time-2:26, 2:27, 2:24t. The 2:3O
! race was won by Eddie c., and WheelOck
second and fourth and fifth heats. Time
2:26, 2:294, 2:29a.
An indignation meeting over the census
enumeratOrs was held in Fulton hall,
Chester, last night. 1t appears that a num-
Der of the cnumerators are Objectionable on
one ground or another. The matter of
their removal was discussed.
Governor Hoyt's name is mentioned i'll
connection with the vice presidency, and a
consider the advisability of advancing his
1o:, h1yf1 or IA Io1orofiny, That
would give Stone his reward for pardoning
Kemble.
One of the Paramount park guards, who
is OF an observing turn of mind, explains,
as the gay throng sweeps by, that the num-
Der of accidents is notably larger in the
spring and autumn, probably from the fac t
that the lady drivers will turn around to
look at each other s new bonnet.
Tuesday afternoon, June 1st. 1880,
Major =. II. Freas, founder and editor of
the Germanto,rn Telegraph, will commem-
crate the bi-centennial of that standard
weekly paper, which was fifty years old on
the 18th of March last. He will be sur
rounded by his old friends.
The board of directors of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad met yesterday and decided
that in the future there shall be only two
vice presidents instead of three. Some
regulations defining the duties of the as
sistants to the president were also enacted.
As the office of vice president does not be-
come vacant until June 1, no election
was held for the Office.
The five-milc single scull race between
Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, and James
Riley. of Saratoga, for purse of $4,000,
contributed by the citizens of Washington
was rowed at 6 p. m. over the Potomac
river course. Hanlan took the lead at the
start and increased it as he pleased, win
ming by three-sixteenths of mile in SO
minutes 2.4-10 seconds. Riley's time was
81 minutes 81 seconds.
Marshall Sprogell, at one time a we'll
known lawyer of Philadelphia, died at his
residence in Birmingham, Delaware
county, on Tuesday morning, aged 70
years. The deceased at the time of. the
birth of the Native American party, in
1874, became prominent member and in
the the First congressional district,
where its strength lay, welded great in
fluence.
jeremiah NJ. Smith, who has been gell-
eral freight agent of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad for fif-
teen years past, died yesterday morning at
the Bingham house, Philadelphia, from
typhoid fever, by which he has been pros
trated for three weeks. Mr.. Smith was "a
years old, and was born near Newark, N.
J. He was the Oldest conductor on the