Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-28
NEWS NOVELTIES.
Notable Events of Actual Recent Occur

>'~seSA0 Ds0"so VI Aseu0A AsOOOuS oCCuG
Down in New Jersey a coal black hors,
was sunstruck. When he recovered III
was light dun color.
The commissioners of the Sprague es,
tate will accept "a, 0O0, 900 for the entire
property.
Two young ladies from Chicago 60 into
tho surf at Long Branch with tight-tittiug
wells
Many meadows and stacks of grain have
been destroyed lately througout the coun.
try by sparks from locomotives.
A ghost wandering around the street ol
Patterson, N. j., caused great excitement
until it was materialized in q cOlOred girl
dressed in white, and wearing rubbers.
John H. Negley, editor of the Butler
Citizen, has brought two libel suits, one
against Thomas Robinson, correspondent.
and the other against Eli Robinson, pub
Usher of the Butler Eagle.
A boy who discovered a land slide on
the Old Colony railroad and ran and
warned the station master has been given
by the company life pass on its line and
all it's branches.
A woman hanged herself three times in
one night in a aSpringfield cell. using strips
ofher clothing to make nooses, and each
time she was cut down before she was
quite dead.
Tho Paris Monetary conference adjourn
ed without decisive action, but favOrs a
new conference to meet April 12, 1882.
The American and French position at the
close of the conference was for unlimited
silver coinage at the ration of ISL.
Edw. S. Golden, the Armstrong county
lawyer who recently was awarded a So, 900
fee for services in big estate, has been
sued by Mrs. Frances E. Tonner to re-
cover 24,921, which "she alleges" " he
collected for her in tho settlement of an
ejectment case relating to some valuable
oil property.
Trouble between MOrmOnS and Gentiles
in Arizona is likely to become serious. A.
N. Bagnell, prominent in opposition to
the MOrmons, has had several valuable
animals killed and probably an attempt
will be made to drive all the MOrmOns
from the neighborhood.
Nearly 600 properties were to he sold
for delinquent taxes Tuesday afternoon at
the City Hall in Camden, but although
they were put up, only about dozen were
OVu6AVs V4O O0AssuOO OVluS VsbAOA ny VuC
city. Even those which were bid in were
taken by persons interested in order to
strengthen claims against other parties,
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, pro-
poses to offer reward of $50, 900 for the
arrest Of the Rock Island train robbers
$2O, 600 of this is to be given for the cap
ture of the James Brothers, who are sup
posed to be leaders of the gang. Frank
James, the outlaw, has been stopping
at tho St. James hotel, Kansas City,
with his wife, but it was not known until
after he left.
In the Wilkesbarre SHngerfcst yester-
day prizes were awarded as follows First
a French clock and bust of Beethoven, to
the Scranton Liedeskranz second, a
drinking horn tipped with gold, to tho
Hazleton Concordia third, a silver cup,
to the HawleY Msnnerchor fourth, a
silver goblet, to tho Lackawarna Men
nerchor, Scranton fifth, a silver water
pitcher, to the Allentown Liederkranz.
In Justices court at Jersey City, Will
liam Manning bit the arm of a SPECTATOR
A bystander interfered and was bit in the |
shoulder. Manning ran out of the court |
'oom into saloon, where he bit |
he aged father of the proprietor on
,he arm. He then seized man passing |
IN the street and bit him twice, on tho |
wrist and shoulder. Five policemen Sc
'ured him after desperate struggle. !
In New York, Geo. w. Harris's only
on Charles, bright and active fifteen
1ear-old boy, while performing on tho
rapeze, tried to hang by his chin in the
oop of the swing rope, as he had fire.
luently done on the trapeze bar, and the
ope suddenly slipped under his neck, stun
ling him SO that he was powerless to re-
ieve himself so that he was found hanged
lead. The lad was we'll liked by his COM
'anions, stood at the head of his class,
md had received several prizes for prof.
iency in scholarship.