Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-17
THIRD EDITION.
NDAY 1vENMa. IAPR4. II, 1889
BY WIRE.

TaEAFTERNOON rELEGkAPHlC NEWS
trio Current and Condensed into
| short Paragraphs.
The loss by yesterday mornings fire
at Cresteld, Nd, was $4,000.
John O'Coner, tho Now York long
shoreman, was sentenced to life imprison'
ment for numbering his wife.
William Germuth died in Delaney street.
New York, this morning, from a dose Of
Paris Green.
It Is now feared that several moro of the
Bridesburg trichine shffeters viii die. .,
Secretary FOlger has confirmed and ap-
Rockwell of Missorri (brother- in.law Of
President Garfield) as deputy collector of
the port of New York.
Ex- Mayor Charles F. Wilstack of Gin
cinnati. died this morning.
The New York painters demanded 90. so
. day this morning and generally got it {;
where they did not they struck. The
marble cutters strike has collapsed for
want of funds to continue it, the men re-
turning to work at OLD rates.
The husband of Ellen Conner, in Phila-
delphia, held on q charge of causing her
death, has been released, ss the corOner's
jury found she died Of pleuro pneumonia.
/ A freight wreck occurred on the Penn
sylvania railroad near Wilmore, Cambria
county, last might.
The kaalin labOrers at HOckessen, DEL,
who struck for $3.50 per day last week,
resumed work this morning.
The body of Thomas Shay, a laborer of
Wilmington, DEL, vas found in the Chris
tiana river this morning.
Christian Hershey's barn and contents,
among which were five horses and fourteen
head of cattle, were burned at Hummels-
town last night. Loss, $1,000 insured.
William Lahey and Michael Harley,
serving ten and twenty year terms re
spectively in the Auburn penitentiary, es
capped early this morning.
Edward Pierce was shot and instantly
killed by John Hamilton near HOpewell,
KY, during drunken quarrel Yesterday.
Reports from all over tho North aud |
West, state that the aurora boreals Of last |
night was seen over a great extent Of ter |
ritory, and wasdyereraIly the most bril- |
liant display ever seen. At some places |
people of nervous temperament were seri- |
Ously affected.
The initial number of the Day, q Demo
cratic daily, which takes the place of the |
Gazette. was issued this morn |
ing, Mr.. VIM. T. "rcasdale, editor and
publisher.
Two thousand Land Leaeucrs received
]. P. O'Connor, NJ. p, last night with |
gr cat enthusiasm in Chicago.
SOUTH CARuLINA ELECTION CASES. |
Was tho Verdict Rendered Under Duress
CHARLESTON, 8. c., April 17.-The vcr
1ict of the jury in the election cases of |
Bates and others from Hiokland county, |
was announced this morning as "Guilty |
As to first count, not guilty as to all others |
With recommendation to mercy"
Two of the jurymeu announced that they |
had signed the verdict on Saturday |
through fear Of bodily harm, and
that was not the verdict they intended to |
render. Judge Bond held that their |
avowal came too late, as they had signed |
the verdict and the jury had been dis |
charged.
Defendant objected and gave notice of |
motion for new trial, which the court
decided to hear later in the term.
The motion made by defendants on Sat-
urdayito quash tho array of the grand |
jury on the ground that Talesman had
been illegally drawn was Over-rul ed and
the grand Jury was then sworn.