Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-16

Arrans emeNts for the Reception Of the
French Commissioner.

Ff6ncn COmmlSS1On0f.
The Yorktown Centennial congressional
committee met ut tho capitol at Washing
ton. Major Poe, chief Of police Of Rich
mond, AMI Col. Rogers were present. Sem
ator Johnston said that rs assistant Secreta-
ry of State Hit would meet the French
commissioner in New York, where formal
reception would be rendered, as we'll as at
Philadelphia and Baltimore, it seemed to
him proper that committees from Con-
gress should be appointed to assist at the
same. Ex-senator Herman and Congress-
man Muller were appointed to meet
tho commissioner in New York, ex-senator
Wallace and Congressman Sam Dick in
Philadelphia and ex-senator Whyte and
Congressman Talbot in Baltimore. 1t was
decided to appoint the following commit
tee Of arrangements for the District of Co.
lumbia Senators Eayard, of Delaware :;
Ransom, of North Carolina, and Hawley,
of Connecticut Representative Loring,
of Massachusetts,, and ex-senator Ran
dolph, of New Jersey. Senator Bayard
will be chairman.
The state committee will leave Wash
ingtOn for Yorktown on the 18th of Oct)-
Der at 10 a. m.
Senator Johnston, representing the
Yorktown congressional committee, tele-
graphed to Secretary Blaine asking him to
appoint some person to take the place of
President Garfield upon the commission.
1t is understood that Secretary Blaine re-
piled that Attorney General MacVeash
had been authorized by him to take
such action i'm the matter as he deems
proper.
Governor COlquitt, of Georgia, reports to
Colonel Corbin that, owing to the failure
of the last Legislature to make suitable
provision for the representation of the
state at Yorktown, it is Probable that
there will be no military present from
Georgia. A bill making an appropriation
for the purpose is pending before the
Legislature now in session, but as expen:
ditures of this character arc claimed in
some quarters to be in violation of the
new state constitution its passage is doubt
full. Governor Colquitt and eight or ten
members of his staff will attend the cele-
bratiOn in any eveut.
LEAPINa FOR LIFE
Exciting scenes at a Fire-Workmen En-
velOped In Flames.
A thrilling scene occurred at the fire at
Azaire & Lavigle's furniture factory in
Montreal yesterday afternoon. J. Dion
duu OldtuEbS uduLNlcF, CdFVciS, WeT0 dt
work in the third story. Jules Leblanc
was in the same part of the building as
the fire, which was the result of an
explosion of q lamp. The flames spread
with great rapidity those in the first and
second stories escaped unhurt, but, to the
horror of the spectators, the three men
named were seen at the upper windows
calling for ladder. Dion at length dis
appeared and tried to fight through the
flames to the stairway and was dreadlully
burned. Meantime Leblanc fell or jumped
from the window and dislOcated his thigh.
Gauthier stood for some moments, the
flames singing his hair and clothes, and
then leaped desperately for the tele-
graph pole, which he missed, coming down
with dreadful thud upon the pavement.
He had hardly been picked up when Dion,
totally enveloped in flames, appeared for
an instant at the third story window and
in the next was cleaving tho air like a
huge rocket, the flames shooting upward
from his clothing. He was Immediately
seized and carried to safety. Leblanc is
severely shocked by the fall, and his COM