Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-04
TIDINGS OF THE DAY.


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THE GENERAL NEWS MIsCELLANY'
Brief Clippings From tho morning Mai's.
Some striking Events and Noteworthy
Happenings-A PeddIer Murdered.
Won Lung, a Chinese peddler, was
beaten to death at Harvey canal, New Or
leans, by several unknown men. The body
was thrown into the water of the canal.
where it was found.
A Boy and . Girl Drowned.
Harvey and Marian Denton were drown
ed near Briar Island, Nova Scotia, by the
capsizing of their fathers schooner in
squall.
Malpractice and Murder.
DIR. Alvin Randall Stokes was arrested
in Boston on Wednesday night, Oh re-
auisition from St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
to answer a charge of malpractice and
murder.
Fall Of q Freight House.
The Central railroad freight house, on
Water and Cumberland streets, in Albany,
900 by 400 feet, tumbled down yesterday.
Thele were Il, 900 barrels of flour and a
large quantity of other goods in the build
ing, besides freight cars.
n
A telegraph messenger named Frank
Dotterweich. employed at Palo Alto,
Schuylkill county, was struck by the Ia
| maqua passenger train at that station, and
seriously, if not fatally, injured. He was
standing on the track, needless Of the ap-
preaching train. His face and head were
terribly cut.
Condemned Cannon for Pennsylvania.
The Senate to-day passed bill direct
ing the secretary of war to donate four
condemned cast iron and four cannon balls
for monumental purposes to the Grand
Army posts at each of the following towns
in Pennsylvania: New Brighton, White
Haven aud Danvillc.
| Sisters ut Charity isuy Farm.
The Sisters of Charity at Altoona have
bought the jennings farm, vest of Greens
burg, and will erect buildings for charity,
education and religion. The price paid ia
understood to be about SO, ZOO. Work
on tho new buildings will be begun as
soon as possible.
A Prohibition Ticket IN Ohio.
The Ohio Prohibition convention at
Columbus nominated a state ticket head.
ed by Ferdinand Schumacher for secre.
tary of stale. Resolutions were adopted
declaring that the manufacture and sale
of liquor is crime and denouncing as
wrong any license or taxation.
Tho English Sparrows.
Dennis Dineen, a farmer, near Montreal,
Canada, is about to sue the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for hav.
imported sparrows. lie declares that they
have already eaten up thirty acres of bar
ley, destroyed his potatoes, and, in general,
made havoc with his early vegetables. He
estimates the number of sparrows OH his
land at 5000.
refusing to Naturalizs a Chinamau.
An intelligent, we'll dressed young Chi
naman, All Kit by name, applied to Judge
Wylie for papers of naturalization. After
consideration of tho Chinese bill recently
enacted, Judge Wylie, of the District o
Columbia, informed All Kit that, although
he had lived long enough in this country,
the provision of that bill absolutely for
badc the naturalization Of Chinese from
the date of its passage.
Georgia Politics.
The Regular Republican convention O
Georgia, in session at Atlanta. yesterday
recommended General L. X. Gartrel
for governor, and nominated a state ticke
with r. d. Locks for congressman at
| ldISC. uO SyDulCdIC "a buC patty
held a separate convention and nominated
4 different ticket, with James Longstree
for congressman at large, but also en-
dorsed Gartrell for governor.
Congressional Nominations.
North Carolina-Eighth district, r. b
Vance, Democrat. Illinois-ThirteentI
district. II. D. G. Smith, Republican
IOwa-Eleventh district, Isaac S. Struble
| (oft hn1
sOuri-Fifth district, Alexander Graves
Democrat. Kansas-Sccond district, F
NJ. Fennicum, Grcenback. Wisconsin,
Eighth district, w. T. Price, Republican
Indiana-Twelfth district, A. w. G. Glas
gov, Republican. Ohio-Twelfth distric
l.. r. Neal, Democrat.
5 Governor Crittenden's vagaries.
= Governor Crittendcn, of Missouri, ha
r issued pardons to r. G. Pate, Henry Lehn
dorf and John Glardon, three men nov
serving six months in Jail on the plea o
guilty of running lottery. They have
been in Jail sixteen days. The governor
J bases his pardon On the ground that the!
promised not to touch gambling whilo tn,
present law remains in force, also tina
D Pate will devote his talents to tho pros
t perity of st. Louis. He refused to allow
4 the names Of the signcrs Of tho petition t,
DO made public.
Hungarian Peasants in Distress.
:, Over fifty Hungarian peasants, late i'm
pOrtations to tho Connellsvillc coke regiol
arc lying at the Fayette county almshous'
sick with the scurvey or black log fever, a
Y it is called there. All of those afflicted III
: too poor to secure medical attendance ant
/ more like them are tlocking into West
y morcland and Fayette counties fresh from
!. tho old country. Complaints arc mad
! against the coke operators for this whole
3 sale population Of the coke country with
race that arc on a par with tho Chinese il
point Of morality and civilization.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
| Sad Fato Of Little hoy Wn Rode ln ~
Elevator.
Q Two terrified boys were witnesses of tn
S horrible death of their comrade in tn,
q elevator at J. B. Ellison's Sons clotl
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