Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Blown to Pieces While Making Powder. ::
On Saturday, on top of the mountain
west of Highland Falls, Napoleon Rose,
aged 80, and boy were blown to pieces
while making giant powder. The cause
of the explosion is unknown. Fragments
of their bodies were found scattered over
a considerable area and in the trees.
In Washington, George Phillips and John
Stewart, attempted to break a shell which
they had found in pile of rubbish near
the Long Bridge. The shell exploded,
instantly killing Phillips and wounding
Stewart so badly that he died in about
A wealthy gentleman in Forest City.
Iowa, being somewhat soeptical as to the
amount of labor which minister would
be willing to do, offered to pay such clergy
men as would saw wood for him one dol
lar per hour for their services. He was
quite astonished when nearly all the mil
listers came marching forward with saw
and buck to accept his terms. Some of
them have been working right along four
to six hours per day, Sunday excepted,
ever since, and their grit will probably last
as long as the sceptic's wood.
The roof of Doe Gully tunnel, on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, thirty.three
miles east of Cumberland, caved in about
noon yesterday, burylng twelve laborers
under the debris and manning them in va
rious ways, some probably fatally. Ply
sicians were summoned. The road was
blocked and trains stepped for several
hours. The company is widening the tun-
mel, and force of men was engaged in
this work when the accident occurred.
The first large haul of shad at Glouces-
ter this season was made yesterday after
noon, when four hundred and fifty plump,
wriggling fish were gathered in the big
seine at Howell s. Hunts fishery.
At Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland
county, the Pennsylvania road has
run tracks of it's branch across the
Baltimore and Ohio line and the latter
applied for an injunction to restrain them
from so doing. The Baltimore and Ohio
have two hundred negroes at Broad Ford
waiting for the breaking out of hostilities,
while the Pennsylvania has a force Of
several hundred Irishmeh waiting for
orders.
In the trial of the Fords, at St. Joseph,
Mo. for killing Jesse James, yesterday the
grand Jury found an indictment against
them for murder in the first degree at
noon. About an hour later the boys were
brought into court and pleaded guilty, and
were sentenced to be hanged on May 8.
Subsequently Governor Crittenden granted
them an unconditional pardon.
The Watsontown lumber company mill,
property of Aris Pardee, burned at one
o'clock yesterday morning. The loss is
$SO, 600, and is partly insured through the
local agency. The mill had just commence
ed saving in a largo stock for the West
Branch Exchange at Williamsport. 1t is
q total loss.
A man was excused from serving as
juror at Washington, Pa, lately because
he belonged to the Covenanter church,
which holds tho belief that ours is not a
Christian government, and declared that
he had conscientious scruples against TAX
ing any part in its proceedings.
The House Democrats refuse to follow
the lead of Mr.. Randall in the question of
the renewal of National bank charters.
The ex-speaker peroeives that the system
is acceptable to the country, and wishes
to continue it if allowed to make some
changes. His proposal to withdraw from
the banks the power to retire their cur
rency is the old Carlisle amendment. 4