Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-17
GENERAL NEWS.


UENEkAL NEWS.
MK. TREsCoTT'5 MISSION FKUlTLESs.
Prestdens Moutero Rejects Chili's Terms
Of Truce With Peru-Occurrences
In Various Parts of the Country.
Senior Elmore, the Peruvian minister in
Washington, has received two cable dis
patches from Peru, through DR.. Rosas,
the Peruvian minister in Paris. The first
conveys tho important news that on the
25th of April, Special Envoy Trescott was
received by President Montero in the Pc
ruvian city of Huaraz, and presented his
credentials, as the minister OF the United
States, in public audience with the usual
official ceremonies. The same cable dis
patch informs Senior Elmore that MI. Tres
colt, in subsequent conference, present
ed the Chilian project of truce, the prin
cipal conditions of which were that Chill
should keep the province of Tarrapaca as
a conquest, and that Peru should be
obliged to sell to Chill the Peruvian pro.
vince of africa.
The other telegram received by Minister
rejected the proposed truce under these
conditions.
Senior Elmore, in commenting upon
this news, says that the province of Tar
apaca is worth $1,000, 900, 600, and that
uncer the proposed arrangement Chill
wonld virtually buy the province of africa
with Peruvian money derived from the
province of Tarapaca.
Chinese Smallpox Patients Drowned.
The report has been received at the
corOner's Office in San Francisco from Ma
condray q Co., consignees of the steamer
Altonowca, now lying in quarantine with
Chinese passengers, that q barge contain
ing thirty six Cinnamon, taken with small.
pox, destined for the pest.house, capsized,
and all on board were drowned. Another
report say only 4 portion of those ON the
barge were lost, and that serious mutiny
has broken out among the 800 Chinese
remaining on the steamer. Nothing def
mite has yet been ascertained.
Fatally beaten by His Vito.
During an alteration on Monday night
between John Hayes and his wife Mar
garet, at their residence on William street,
Dutch Kills, Long Island city, in which
the son, William, took the part of his
mother, the husband was beaten into in
sensibility with smoothing iron in the
hands of his wife and will p, obably die.
The wife and son arc held to await the re-
suit of Hayes injuries.
Religious Conferences.
The twentY-second anniversary of the
Baptist Sunday schools connected with the
Southern New York association was cele-
bratcd yesterday at New York by the
parade of the children of all the Baptist
Sunday schools to central places of meet
ing, where addresses were made by prOmi.
nent clergymen and others. Meetings
We're held in Cooper institute, Chickering
and Association halls, and Pilgrim, Fifth
avenue aud Trinity Baptist churches.
The general conference of the NJ. E.
church south, in session at Nashville,
Tenn, yesterday elected five bishops, as
follows: Alpheus w. Wilson, of the Bal
timore conference, for the past four years
missionary secretary of the church, with
headquarters at Nashville DR.. G. Gran
berry, professor in Vanderbilt university,
but delegate from the Virginia confer
ence DIR. Athens G.. Haygood, OF
Georgia Rev. II. G. Hargrove, of Ten
ncssee, and DR.. Louis Parker, of New
Orleans, were elected bishops.
Refusing to Work With q Colored Man.
Alfred Jackson, colored. was appointed
letter-carrier in the postoffice at Toronto,
Canada. The other carriers, fifty in num-
Der, refuse to work with colored man,
and the postmaster has assigned Jackson
to other service until tho authorities settle
the matter.
Miscellaneous News Items.
Eighty jurors summoned to appear in
the marine court at New York have been
fined $3.50 each for non-attendance.
J. Hutchison Il Co. S cooper shops were
burned at Peora, ILL.,, on Monday. Loss,
$4,000.
Roberts & Co.'s extensive basket works
at Cleveland, o. were burned last night.
Loss, s25, 900.
Tho New York iron and metal exchange
was formally opened yesterday at its new
building, No. 90 Wall street.
The large planning mill at East Saginaw.
Mich, owned by Jesse Hoyt, was burned
yesterday with several thousand feet Of dry
lumber. Loss, $4,000.
On Sunday morning John Cretzlo, Geo.
Onswald and George c. Knoll left Chicago
for Wolf Lake to spend the day fishing,
and all were drowned.
The whaling schooner Amelia, % tons,
off Now Bedford. Mass, was wrecked on
one OF the AbrolhOs islands, near the coast
of Brazil, on the eth Of March. The cap
tain and crew were saved.
Henry Hanson has recovered in the SUI
premc court at Now York verdict of
$4,000 against the trustees of the New York
and Brooklyn bridge for injuries sustained
while he was working on the trestlcwork.
Officers of the Long Island city police
have been detailed to search for Mcbride,
the missing contractor and water commits
sioner. He borrowed several sums of
money. amounting to $500 before he
went away.
The semi-centennial annual convention
Of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity was
opened yesterday at New York. Hon.
John Jay, president, welcomed the dele
gates who numbered about $50 and repre-
'ented the principal colleges in the
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