Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-28
NEWS MISCELLANY.
TaE NEWS ny THE LATEST MAILS,
Movements In Commercial Circles-The
Trail OF Blood and Disaster-A Glance
at Current Events

Movements In Commercial Circles-The
Tra,l OF Blood and D,saster-A Glance
at Current Events
The "railroad war" reached Dubuque,
Iowa, Monday. Tho Illinois Central Off
cials notified shippers that SO freight Of all
classes would be taken to Sioux City for
ten cents per hundred pounds, regardless
of classification" Tic rates have been
heretofore %, 81, 40 aud 30 cents for the
different classes.
All the boot and shoe manufacturers in
Montreal have discharged all their lasters
belonging to the Union, because Cochrane
Il Cassei's men have not returned to work.
If some arrangement is not made in q day
or two the factories will close.
Newbour Il Sons, Wholesale clothing
manufacturers, Of Milwaukee, made an
assignment Monday. The liabilities are
estimated at 1900, 900 and the assets at
S125 900. 1t is said the failure is due
partly to the stealiIgs Of 4 former book
keeper Of the firm. - r
II. A. Pitts Sons, manufacturers of
farm implements in Chicago, made an as
signment Monday. Their liabilities are
stated at $3.50, 600 assets, s3jO, 600.
A shock, resembling that Of an earth
quake. was felt at $50 o'clock Monday
evening along the Wei!and canal. In Can
ada, for a distance of twenty miles.
From four to SIX inches Of snow fcl!
throughout the Northwest on Sunday.
The st. John river. in New Brunswick, is
frozen over at fredericton, and navigation
there is closed. 49,
A convention vi liquor dealers of
Georgia was held Monday in Atlanta,
eighty delegates being present. at which 4
state protective association Was organized,
with James II. Campbell, Of Macon, as
president.
1t is said that the government Of Que
bee contemplates the sending OF - special
agent to London to influence emigration
to that province.
A state convention OF the Prohibition.
lists of Kentucky has been called to meet
in Louisville on the 10Th Of February next
to nominate governor and other state
officers.
William Abner, colored, hacked r. his
wife with razor, and shot her in the
head, and then shot himself, in Norwich,
Connecticut, yesterday morning. Both
were mortaIly wounded. jealousy was
the cause.
Christian johnson shot and slightly
wounded his sweetheart, and then, sup
posing the shot fatal, blew out his own
brains. in Lanesboro, Minnesota, on Sun
day.
Treasurer Gilfillan, of Washington, D..
G., has been informed that $500 has been
deposited in tho national Broadway bank,
of New York, to his credit, on account OF
the "CCnscience Fund"
A riot took place at Fayetteville, N. G.,
NJ nday evening, during which over 100
persons engaged 10 fight il which knives
were freely used. Twenty of the combat
ants were wounded, some of them fatally.
A man named Underwood was fatally shot.
The riot was created by party of drunk
en- men who attacked several citizens in the
street.
Two freight trains on the Northern
Central railroad ran into each other near
Shamokin, Penna., early yesterday morn
ing. The cars were piled up in a confused
wreck. Only one person. fireman. was
injured, but it is feared his injuries may
prove fatal.
Il mail train on the IIchi,s:. * Hudson
railroad ran off the track yesterday near
Newburgh, and the engine and several
ore cars were upset in ditch. The
engineer William Nolan, of Newton, New
jersey, and the fireman, Frank Porter,
Of Highland Mills, New York, were
scalded to death. Howard Sutton, brake
man, Of Easton, Pa, was severely injured.