Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-24
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
INTELLIGENCE FxoM oUK own STATE

Matters Political, Social and Tlsgssal
The railroad war at Mount Pleasant has
closed by the Baltimore and Ohio with
drawing their forces and allowing the
Pennsylvania railroad to have possession.
Annie Hagerty, whose home is supposed
to be in Reading, was struck and fatally
injured by a tain on the Lehigh Valley
railroad while stepping ont of the way of
another train,
Miss Virginia Cameron second daughter
of the, senator, is engaged to marry
Lietenant RodgeFS son OF Admiral Rod
gers. . ~ ~
PIT. Baruum. paid = visit to George W.
Childs, and was presented BY Mr.. Childs
with the overcoat which Charles Dickens
wore while in America the last time. -.
Hon. James Ellis will head the Schuyl-
kill county delegation to the Democratic
state convention, and it is for o. P. Bech-
tel for supreme judge.
Marion E. Mcdowell, alias Marion E.
Warren, alias Marion, L. Dow, "the only
lady broker" was given hearing by the
supreme court upon writ Of habeas corpus
and released from imprisonment on the
ground of being q married woman.
Senator Mitchell and Congressman Bayne
and BeitzhOover are said to wear the worst
hats seen in Washington.
6snator Mitchell met lot of the Wolfe
Independets in Philadelphia on Saturday
and had plain talk over the political stu.
alton. They told him they were ready for
any compromise that was based on an
abandonment Of Stalwart methods, and
as he thought this was reasonable he
named Hon. Charles s. Wolfe. Hon. J.
W. Lee, Hon. 1. D. Mckee, Francis B.
Reeves and Wharton Barker as a commit
tee to see what the Cameronites would do.
Tho federal House has passed bills
granting condemned cannon to Anna NJ.
Ross Post, No. 94, g. A. r., Philadelphia,
a joint resolution apprOpriating thirty
condemned guns for the equestrian statue
of Major-General John F. Reynolds, who
fell at Gettysburg, July, 1868 q bill do.
mating condemned cannon and other mu-
nitions of war to the Soldiers and Sailors
Monumental association of Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania, and bill to author.
ize the secretary of war to furnish con-
demned cannon for the use of Mclean
Post, No. 16, G. A. R., at Reading.
Miss Louise Montague, the former
variety actress, more recently known to
fame. as Forepaugh's SIC, 900 beauty, :has
$50, 900 damages for breach of contract.
She claims that the Snowman sold her
photograph without her permission, and
realized large sums of money thereby, of
which she received no part. She further
claims that she has not yet received the
$4,000 promised her as the premium
prize beauty, nor the accommodations
promised her.
The services in the Philadelphia cathe-
dral on Wednesday next, the occasion of
the twenty fifth anniversary of the conse.
Grafton of the Most Rev. James F. Wood,
ID. d., promises TO be of unusual interest.
Solemn pontificial mass will be celebrated
at 10 o'clock a. m, by Right Rev. William
OH ma. Bishop Of Scranton. Right Rev.
]. r. Shanahan, Bishop of Harrisburg, de-
livars the eulogy, and Bishops Mullen, of
Erie, and Twigg, of Pittsburgh, assist al
the altar. After the services the right
reverend and reverend gentlemen dine
with the archbishop at the seminary of st
Charles Borromeo, at Overlook. 1t has
been determined by the clergy of the dio
cese to erect a memorial altar in the ca
thedral, and for this purpose $2O, 900 has
been subscribed and will be presented tt
the archbishop on the occasion. A sere-
made by the temperance organizations will
be given the arch bishop in the evening.