Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-12
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A fire in the big straw stack of the
Niagara paper mills extended to tho mills
and machinery and s2OO, 900 will hardly
cover the loss insured for CSC, 900.
Richard Cooper, of Wesleyville, noticing
an obstruction on the Lake Shore track,
gave the alarm to an approaching passen-
ger train which was stopped in time to
prevent terrible accident. A heavy rail
was found chained across the track.
The police have discovered plot to
assassinate tho king of Italy. The sus-
pected mandatory is an Italian who re-
Gently arrived in Rome accompanied by a
member of the International society.
They are being doggged by the police.
Inviting death by sunstroke: At Buff
Troy, 3; Chicago, II. At Cleveland
Detroit, 3; Worcester, 5. At New Ha-
ington-National. 4; Atlantic, 2.
The complete failure of peaches on the
Peninsula has turned attention to the re-
spective berry crops. 1t is large, more
particularly strawberries. Reports from
shipping stations along the line of the
Delaware road say that it is so large that
glutted market is unavoidable.
In Enola, Franklin county, Ark, by the
use Of poisoned -four Mr. Reynolds, wife
and daughter, Mrs. John Trum, DR.. Brown,
a German laborcr, and one other person
were all taken sick in the same manner
and about tho same time. Doubts arc en-
tertaincd of the recovery of Reynolds,
Brown, and the German.
Catharine Marshall, the fourteen-year-
old daughter of a railway laborer, who,
the Glasgow papers stated couple of
weeks ago, had not eaten anything since
the beginning of the present year, is re-
ported to have commenced taking food.
She was threatened with being sent to a
lunatic asylum if she did not do SO.
At the Youngstown, O., cemetery when
the funeral procession of lady reached
the grave, they found it half dug, and the
digger drunk. The bereaved husband and
friends were compelled to wait until the
undertakers in charge completed the work
The same scene was repeated in the after
noon when young father and mother
followed the remains of their little child to
its last resting place.
Lowell, Mass, is Mortified at the finding
in an ash vault of the partially decayed
body of a woman, entire but for the loss
of much flesh and having the long hair dis
connected from the skull. The vault is
attached to the dwelling of two prominent
citizens, both of whom have held many
public offices. As the vault can be opened
from a narrow alley running between Ap-
pleton and Winter streets, a theory pre-
walls that the body was brought there SUR
reptitiously and deposited to conceal a
crime.
A play company struck town in south
ern Georgia on the day of local celebra.
ton. The mayor offered the members of
the band five dollars apiece to give up
their own show and join in and help the
town. The boys concluded to do it. The
city officials treated them so handsomely
that before the day was over they were all
drunk and the mayor fined them five
dollars apiece for disorderly conduct.
This squared his account with the musi-
clans, and provided music for the town
free.
The twenty,first annual convention of
the National Brewers association in Chi
cago, is remarkable for it's large number of
delegates and the greatly increased amount
of wealth and production which it repre-.
sents. II. B. Scharmaun, of Brooklyn, on
taking the chair, made an address show
ing from statistics of the internal revenue
bureau that the receipts from the govern
ment tax for 1880 were So, 1O0, 900 greater
than in 1879, while the brewers special
tax decreased s1,3S3, showing that the
business is enlarging, but concentrating
into fewer hands.