Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-04
NEWS OF TO-DAY,

From all Parts of the State and Country.
John A. Springer was frozen to deatI
while driving home III Chesterfield county
Virginia, Oh Sunday.
Albert A. Outerbridgc, ofPkiladelphia
has been appointed State Supreme Court
Reporter, to succeed A. Wilson Norris.
A fire at Carmi, Illinois. destroyed tw,
buildings, occupied by several stores ant
the Norman school. Loss, $4,000.
An old woman named Roach was burnet
to death by her clothes catching fire from
4 pipe while carOusins with two other old
people at AtmOrctown. Vermont.
| The famous First Reformed Presbyter
ian congregation case in Pittsburgh has
been decided in tie courts against Rev.
Nevin Woodsidc.
! The associate judges of Fayette county
have been ousted, the supreme court de-
claring that Fayette has no constitutional
right to them.
! Bernard Ga!lney and John Mcdonald.
miners, were killed by fall of top coal in
No. shaft, at Carbondale, Pa, yesterday.
They leave large families in destitute
condition.
X. B. Reynolds, q sailor ON the L. S.
steamer Powhattan, was found dead in bed
in hotel in New York, yesterday morn
ing, he having blown out the gas before
retiring.
Mrs. Mary Chadwick. Il widow, while
sleighing with her brother a. Parkcrdale,
| New Jersey, was killed by their team
being run into by y heavy sleigh driven by
4 drunken man named Herring.
DR.. H. w. Geddickc, convicted of at
tempting to commit malpractice, in New
| ark, New Jersey, was sentenced 10 ten
years. Imprisonment in the pcnitentiary
and 5000 fine.
VIM. P. Furcy, late of the Altoona Sun.
Democratic politician and popular
stump speaker, has died in Texas where he
had first gone for the restoration ofhis
health.
A young girl named Barbara Greenthal,
was stabbed to death in Brooklyn by a
young man named James Walsh. whose
attentions she had rejected. He then
tried drowning, but was fished out for the
gallows.
A little daughter of John Albright, Of
Upper Uwchlan, Chester, was burned to
death. The child's clothing caught fire
from stove. Mrs. Albright was burned
seriously in trying to smother the flames
that were devouring her daughters body.
George Boswell, brakeman on the Al
legheny Valley railroad, on the night ex-
press from Pittsburgh down, in making
coupling in the yard at Oil City on Satur-
day morning was crushed between two
cars. his arm mangled and his chest
crushed.
In the Tennessee Legislature the House
was organized by the election Of w. B.
Ramsey, Republican, of Shelby, speaker.
The Senate ballotted twenty five times for
speaker without result. Ramsey is re-
gaaded as more of Grcenbecker than
Republican.
The caucus Of Republican Asscmbiymen
in Albany N. Y, unanimously nominated
General George II. Sharpe, Of Ulster coun-
ty, as their candidate for Speaker of the
House Skinner, of jefferson, who was
the most prominent opponent of Sharpe,
turning in ''fOr harmony
In Thornbury, Delaware county, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bullock, an aged lady was sit
ting by hot stove when she saw smoke
coiling up from her dress. She started to
run from the room and the air famed the
fire until it enveloped her body. A gen.
tleman who ran to her and wrapped ker in
his arms was badly scorched. Mrs. Bull
lock fingered in great agony until Satur-
day afternoon when she died