Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-05
NEWS MISCELLANY.

Paragraphic Points of tho Days Doings
The National Beekeepers' society yes
terday, at Cincinnati, selected Toronto,
Canada, as the place of the next meet
ing.
Rocco Notta was yesterday, at Provi
dence, r. l., convicted of tho murder of
Achille Di Robbia, and sentenced to state
prison for life.
The jewelry store of S. b Turner, at
Bremen, Ind, was broken into by burg
lars on Tuesday night, and stock valued at
81. 600 was stolen
The dead body of Luke Coyne, resi-
dent of Bridgeport, Conn.,, was yesterday
found on tho bank Of stream near that
town with the head in pool OF blood.
FOul play is suspected.
Thomas II. Taylor, aged so years, was
yesterday found dead in bed, at No. 25G
West Tenth street, New York. Some
days ago he quarre!led with u rough
named Edward Mcclure, who brutality
beat him.
The trustees and directors Of tho Pea
body educational fund met yesterday at
New York, when General Agent Curry
made his report. showing that since Oct.
1, 1881, $50, 1884. Al had been distributed of
the income of the fund.
The Fire Record.
The Driard house, at Victoria, 3. c.,
the largest hotel in the province, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
A fire at Anita, Iowa, yesterday destroy
ed 4 houses, about half the business por-
ton of the town. Loss, $4,000.
Downey & Preston's railway elevators,
at Belleville, Ont, containing about six
thousand bushels Of grain, were burned
yesterday. Loss, SIS, 1000.
Hawley s. Sons sash factory and J. C.
McLarin's notion factory, at Montreal,
were burned last night. Tho formers loss
is SEQ, 600 and the latter's S25, 900.
John Robson, Of Rochester, Pa, pilot,
was scalded to death on Tuesday by the
explosion of a steam pipe on the tOwboat
Fred Wilson, at Vevay Island, above
Ghent, Ky.
Caught In lsOIt and Killed.
A terrible accident occurred at the
Reading hardware works, in Reading, re-
sulting in the instant death of Isaac E.
Robinson, foreman of the machine depart
ment. He was repairing large belt and
threw one end over the shaft which in
some way caught and Mr.. Robinson's
hand was caught by the other end. The
shaft was running at the rate of one hun
dred revolutions per minute. Mr.. Robin
son was drawn up and wbirled around the
shaft at a terrible rate, his head and feet
striking the ceiling at every revolution.
Every bone in his body was broken and
one arm torn off. Mr.. Robinson was about
43 years old and leaves q wife and three
children.
Electric Light Tragedy.
James Staintcrs, a lineman in the EN-.
ploy of the Brush electric light company,
accidentally received shock from a line
which he was adjusting and was almost
instantly killed. He was at work at the
top of pole making new connection for
the wire. When he received tho shock he
did not fall to the ground, his foot being
caught in the line. lie was taken down,
but died shortly after being carried to the
station house. The skin on the palms of
both hands was hanging in strips as
though it had been scared off with /. hot
iron, and the mans face in death bore a
look of intense agony. He was married
man.
Upening New Coal Fields.
Jacob E. Ridgway and William V. Nc.
Grath, of Philadelphia, were both in
Uniontown to attend q meeting of the
Redstone coal company, which owns about
!, 500 acres of coal along the new Kedstone
branch of tho Pittsburgh, Virginia &
Charleston railroad. The company are
giving the railroad company tho privilege
to build station on part of their ground.
The coal company will soon develop their
which has been useless till the
new railroad was built. Westm0reland
and Fayette county capitalists are inter-
ested with Ridgway and McGrath in the
project.
A Fighting Politician and . Peaceful Editor.
A fracas occurred between r. B. Brown
editor of the Evening Observer, Erie, and G
w. Cotton, prominent politician and as
sistant attorney general at Harrisburg.
Feeling aggrievcd at certain charges made
against him Cotton sought Browns sane
tum for physical satisfaction, but Brown,
being a Presbyterian elder as we'll as a
Democratic editor, declined, to fight with
any kind of weapons, claiming to be q
man Of peace, not of war. In the evening
he renewed the charges, and Cotton, it is
said will 60 for gore. .
Murderous Assault.
Last Saturday Samuel Hull, wealthy
citizen, was murderously assaulted while
a. work in an ore pit four miles east of
Jackson, O., by John jackson, 20 years
old, who robbed his victim of GIG. Jackson
says he vented the money to give to
womAa. Hull died yesterday.