Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-01

The Cedar Grove was of 2,181 tons bur
thun. She was launched in September
last, and was valued at $150, 900. There
were 10 persons in tho missing boat.
The schooner Jessie Martin, which went
ashore at Grand Haven, Michigan, on the
2SSd ult., capsized yesterday while being
tOwed off the beach, and John Dibbell,
contractor. was drowned.
Thanksgiving TrsgedIes.
James Armstrong, farmer on the
Wabash bottom, near Flora, illinois, at
tempted on Wednesday night to kill his
| wife, from whom he was separated He
theu attempted suicide. The woman is
dangerously wounded.
F. NJ. McDowal, a we'll known citizen Of
that section, was murdered by John Will
son, colored, near Camden, South Caro-
lima yesterday morning. An axe was the
weapon used. Citizens are searching fol
| the murderer.
George Grayson, colored, was shot dead
by Bud Gardner, a grocer, near Frankfort,
Kentucky, yesterday afternoon, ina quar-.
rel about debt Of forty cents. 1t is said
Grayson was the aggressor.
Floods In Europe.
1t Was announced in the Prussian Diet
last night that the worst of the floods was
over. The Rhine has fallen . foot and a
half in the last twenty. four hours. De-
tailed reports received show that there is
six feet of water in the streets of Cologne,
Coblentz and Boon. At the last named
place 400 houses arc submerged, and
nearly all the provisions and fodder in the
town have been destroyed. There is
much sickness in the flooded districts,
especially among the children and the
poor. There are also extensive inunda.
tions in Holland. Large tracts Of country
are already submerged, and the rivers are
still rising. The river Seine continues to
rise. The cellars Of tue Palais do Justice,
in Paris, and the tribunal of commerce
building are flooded.
Some Notable People Dead
Samuel T. Worcester, ex,judge and ex-
congressman from Ohio, also brother ol
the late Joseph E. Worcester, of dictionary
repute, is dangerously i'll at his residence
| in Nashua, New Hampshire.
| General Daniel Tyler, graduate of
West Point, and second in command at
Bull Run, during tho late war, died in
New York last night, aged IS years.
| Colonel Thomas G. Harkness, a soldier
of the war for the Union, died in Wilkes.
barre yesterday, aged 61 years. He was a
prominent mining contractor.
| Fatal Fall OF . Derrick.
At Plattsburg, New York, yesterday
afternoon, while w0rkmen we're lowering
from derrick heavy stone for an abut-
ment Of the Delaware & Hudson bridge
across tho Saranac river, the descent OF
the stone was too suddenly checked. This
cansed tho derrick car to tip into the
river, dragging with it the tender of an
engine. William Hefferman, master
mason, was killed, and two others were
severely injured. A man named Murray
is missing, and is supposed to be under
the tender.
| A ThankgivinS g. Joko.''
Much excitement was created in Gran
vile. New York, last week, by the arrest
of two men, named Thompson and Welch,
on the charge of stealing turkeys from a
farmer. The evidence against them seem
ed conclusive, and they were sent to jail
for three months. On Wednesday it wal
discovered that the turkeys had been stolen
by other persons "as joke" and the
release of the prisoners was ordered. The
"jokers," having made a full confession,
will not be punished as they deserve.
George wins tho Match.
The international running contest or
the polo grounds in New York yesterday
between George, tho English champion,
and Myers, the American swift runner
was rrn by the former after remarkably
close race. George finishing tho three
quarters of q mile in three minutes, ten
and ahalf seconds, and Myers following
in three minutes, thirteen seconds.
scoundrels In Limbo.
| J,1:, II olsoc n Ho0o
lately collector for Chicago firm. who
absconded on the 18th ult. with 81 900,
has been arrested in New Orleans and i:
held for requisition.
Elliott Ryder, arrested in Boston last
week for forging the signature of Minister
Lowell to draft for 500, cashed by tho
American exchange in Europe, has con
fessed his guilt. He will be extradited.
Winter in Earnest
4 heavy snow storm, with high wind
set in yesterday at Buffalo, and railroad
blockage was expected. Trains arrived
behind time last evening, and passengers
from tho West reported every heavy
snow" in Michigan.
The old Welland canal, in Canada closed
last night for the season.
A NOnogcnarlan Burned to Death.
Mrs. Pickering, 90 years Of age, mothe,
of J. D. Pickering, prominent lawyer ol
Highland county, Ohio, was burned te
death at her sons residence, near Lees
burg yesterday, by her clothes catching
fire at CRATE.
Almost SufYocatcd In MILL
While in operation. on Wednesday. thu
foundry of the Reading hardware works
at Reading, became filled with gas and
sulphur from the cupola. Two men were
made insensible ard number of Others
I very sick, and all work was stopped fol
the day.
Unveillns Q Monument.
A monument to tho Confederate dead
erected in Magnolia cemetery, at Charles
ton, s. c., was unveiled yesterday in the
presence of 15, 900 persons. Senator But
Ter delivered an grafton.
| PERSONAL.
LORNE will not return to Ottawa until
the middle of January, and the Princess
Louise will spend the wiuter in British
Columbia.
H. STANLEY GOODWIN has been elected
general superintendent of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad, to succeed Robert Sayre, re-
signed. a. w. Steadman has been elect.