Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-14
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Base ball At Buffalo--Buf1alo,
Providence, 7.
The report that 4 revolution was il
progress in Venezuela is denied
Ten skeletons, supposed to be Indians o,
Frenchmcn who per;shcd in battle, We're
found in eXcavatin" under Z eotta"c nj
Chautauqa, n. \.
In the Kings county court, New York,
yesterday, James Costiyan was convicted
| of murder in the third degree. lie killed
G. G. Harvard in quarrel about !,
woman.
German sojOurners ut Bohemian summer
resorts have appealed to Bismarck to pro-
tcct their lives and property. This is in
consequence of the cxccSSeS ut Prague
against the Germans.
The army Worn has made it's appearance
at Long Branch in millions, coming from
u northerly direction. Mr.. IOey's place
is devastated by them, and men are
ploughing burrows to keep the worms off
his lawn.
On Tuesday evening the large brick to-
bacco factory of Williamson Il Ruth ut
Petersburg, Va, was destroyed by fire.
An adjoining factory, owned by Mr.. Will
hanson, was also burned. The loss is
5i5, 600 on stock and SIG, 900 on machiu-
cry and buildings.
The surviving members of the Confed-
crate army residing in the Shenandoah
valley, Virginia, have accepted an invita-
tiOn of Post 201 G.. a. Il. of Carlisle, to
meet them at the Luray caverns of Viz
of 2lss of July.
Peter Galloway, who was stabbed by
Orlando Rose, on the night of July 4, in
Wilmington has died, peritonitis having
set in. His death had been hourly looked
for since Sunday night. Rose was COM
mitted to Jail, making five criminals now
incarceratcd awaiting trial for capital
Of1enSes.
n few days ago some Iuarrymen, in get
ting out ilagstonc ut Prospect Hill, New
York, found 4 petritiel rattlesnake i'm
bedded in the solid rock. 1t measured
over seven feet in length, and had four
teen rattlcs. There being no crevice in
the rock, how it got there is a mystery. 1t
is believed to lave been there at least
thousand years. 1t Has been forwarded
to the Smithsonian Institution.
Egypt has been flooded for tile past ten
years with bogus coin by cOunterfciters
witlDtheir headquarters at Geneva. From
10, 600, 900 to 40, 900, 900 francs. The prin-
cipal parties implicated arc Bcllamy, 4
man Of good family; Lejeunc, Appointment
jeweler; Curicl. an Egyptian money
broker /; bis son, brothcr-in-law and clerks.
all of Geneva, and Schinasi, the Alexandria
confederate. All Of these are now impris-
oncd ut Geneva and will he tried there.
The small grove of mammoth trees
known to tourists is on the Yosemite route.
A newly found mammoth grove lies lies
eighty miles north of it by the highway,
but as the crow flies perhaps fifty. Here
are ninety-three giants of the forest, to
wl,icl, may now be added the South park
grove, containing 1880 large trees, just
made accessible by six-mile bridle path
from the hotel. Many trees older than
Christianity and one hundred feet in circuit
are in this grove.
BENJAMIN CrOssman's wife. who was
supposed to have been murdered, was
found in the woods near the shore in
Edcecomb. Me-, shockingly mutilated,
and was taken to the house of Captain
Adam Pinkham where she now lies. Dur
ing a short season of consciousness she Ie-