Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-31
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The Norristown Herald urges that the
senatorial deadlock be broken by the
election of Grant.
Frederick Fry, oountrymaD, aged %
blew out the gas in Williamsport hotel.
He may live.
In Berrysburg, Dauphin county, the
clothes of Mrs. Elijah Shut took fire
from a pipe which she was smoking aud
she burned to death.
Saltlick and Bullskin, Shinbone, YOugh-
iogheny, Hoy Wilderness, Jimtown, Plum
sock and Whisky Hill are not Nevada
county, Pennsylvania.
J. P. Finley, senior member of the lum
Der firm of Finley, Young & Co., was
thrown from sleigh near Saliadasburg,
Lycoming county, and sustained severe
fracture of the collar bone and internal in
juries besides.
The reunion of the 5Oth regiment p. ",
in Reading, on the 23d prox., will be at
tended, it is expected, by members from
Berks, Schuylkill, Luzerne, Bradford,
Lancaster and Chester counties, in which
counties the regiment was recruited.
Joseph G. Rosson, aged II years, while
\ skating with companion on the Schuyl-
kill river, in Montgomery county, near
Lafayette station, on the Germantown &
Norristown railroad, broke through 4 thin
spot where the ice cutters had recently
been at work, and was drowned.
Williams. Schofield, the son of Sevill
Schoficld, of tho Economy mills, Mana
yunk, attained bis majority Saturday and
the event was celebrated by "cOming-OE
age party" Of very huge dimensions.
The fourteen hundred hands employed at
the mill had half holiday, banquet and
4 ball.
Yesterday the opponents of Rev. Apple
locked the doors of Bellman church.
several miles from Reading, placed Il guard
outside and held it by force. compelling
him to hold services and install the newly
elected officers in the open air in front OF
the building. There was considerable ex-
element, but serious disturbance was pre-
vented by officers of the law.
At the Reading Republican maynralty
convention the names of G. +. Evans,
William G.. Rowe and Louis Richards were
placed in nomination. Rowe was the
winner by the following vote Evans 13,
Rowe II, and Richards 5. After the
ballot had been announced 4 motion was
made to make the nomination of Rowe
unanimous. 1t was met with shouts Of
''No! no!' from all parts Of the room.
James Vail, of Carbondale having been
struck on the nose with SNOWFALL, it be-
gan bleeding. It blcd quart and could
only be stopped by plugging. At times
since the flow has been resumed, accom-
panied by bleeding from the gums, throat
and bowels. Small blood vessels under
the skin have become dissolved, and
strange looking spots arc formed upon the
body by the deposit of blood. The case
puzzles the physicians. 1t is called pur-
pura hemorrhagica, and is the first case
of the kind OH record i'll that section of
the country.
Tue Dauphin county court has set aside
the special session in March for the trial of
the alleged murderers of a farmer named
Troutman in the upper end Of the county.
This action is based on recent decision of
the supreme court in the case of the judi
cial district in which Fayette county is
situated similar to the Dauphin and Leb-
anon districts, which states that that coun-
ty is not a separate judicial district in the
strict meaning Of the constitution, and
therefore the Office Of associate Judge was
never abolished in the county. Dauphin
county has had no associate judge for over
seven years, and until their selection no
court will be held there.