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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17
"Ht. CALI. 1T PLUNDERING."

The Examiner Resolves to be u I:efOrmer.
Examiner.
We give Mr.. Boyer the full benefit OF
his explanation, and all it shows is that as
a ''refOrmer appointed by board th:..
laid great claims to reforming old and ex
travagant methods, lie dropped into this
familiar rut of taking all he can get. We
dissent from the position that his 500 is
"only Il general retaining fec " paid for
attending the meetings Of the inspectors.
We believe he las no business to act as
clerk to take the inventory and charge ex-
ira for it. That should bo the work of the
board and the clerk and keeper. lie has
no business to receive extra pay for draw
ing the annual report or preparing the
treasurcrs account, or for filing it. The
business OF the solicitor is. to attend to all
the legal business of the prison for the
salary paid him, and the clerks business
is to do the clerking, and not have the
solicitor do it, and pay him extra for it,
IL this is i practice that has grown in the
prison, it should be reformed, and Mr..
Boyer, who went in On the reform
wave, should have practiced it,
instead Of which he went around grabbing
all he coald get, and now justifes his get
ting, by sayiu: that tho men ne and his
" reform associates declared were public
plunderers received the same. But he
does reduce the amount that went into his
pocket from 3l9O.G to $110.6S which is
proper credit. But Mr.. Boyer is credited
with having received fOr costs paid on ap-
peals S14.15, which may be independent
OF What he claims to have paid to the pro-
thonotary.
But to show that Mr. Beyar in his str,lg-
Gle to be continued solicitor was not that
i" reform should prevail at the prison,
but that thrift should follow, We have an
other good sized bonanza to open through
which he grabbed a14l,31 in the way Of
commissions" for the sending out of
bills to the customers Of the prison. Mr..
Boyer sent out bills amounting to lab
80, which should all have been collected
by the prison clerk. Mr.. Boyer presented
bills to such we'll known citizens as
John K. Bitner, Milton Heidelbaugh, DR..
John l.. .Atlee, Levi Sensenig. John
X. Reed, Dana Graham, S. II.
Reynolds, Hayden Tshudy, Thomas
\. Wiley, Heise & Kaufman, and to such
corporations as the Lancaster county poor
house aud the ChiIdrens' home, and
charged ten per cent. and the postage for
collection. The idea Of placing the bits
y. HuCh i.'it.Co III thC u,.HuS VI luc HO-
lic;tor" could only be for the purpose OF
putin: money into Mr.. Beyers pocket.
1t sounds like a farce 70 pay Mr.. Boyer
$1O.3j to collect bill from John Y.
Bitner, Or $l0.9j from Levi Sensehg, or
$12. Il from the Lancaster county poor
house, or SIG .93 from the Children s hnlr,..
This may be called REFORM but We
call it pIundering, and it is TO excuse that
other " solicitors did it,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

sive of repairs to the eastern reservoir,
amounted to S6,slO.53, while the expen-
ditures for water works general, under
kitch, exclusive Of permanent and unu-
sual repairs to the eastern reservoir, were
only S4,'S7.4l-a difference of S2,O23.12
in favor of the Democratic administra-
ton. These figures may explain why
the old jObbers and tinkers want to
again get their work in at the water
works.
Our Republican contemporaries may
not he able to understand these figures.
But the taxpayers can.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

The Erumi,,cr cOmmends the ecOnO-
my of pumping water into the reservoir
by water power. 1t is right, and Supt.
kitch has used the water pumps when-
ever practicable, and he has pumped
with them at cost to the city of S3.57
per million gallons pumped, while the
same service under Halbach cost 1916
per million gallons.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

AN extract that we republish from
Mayor MacGonisle's last annual mes
sage-which has been before the public
for months and has never been gainsaid
puts the responsibility for an increase
of the city tax just where it belongs, upon
aproiligate Republican street committee.
Should our citizens be so sllort-signted as
to let such men rs ran that committee
again get control of city affairs they
may expect more floating debts and more
increase of tax.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

As the Ncer Era has lost all faith
in the multiplication table, we will not
expect it to tell us why, if a Democratic
administration can pump water by steam
at cost to tine city Of only s77.74 per mil
ion..gallons, when coal is S3.OG ton, a
Republican administration expends $500
per million gallons for the same service,
when coal is only S2.224 per ton. The
double rule of three will work out the
answer in favor of Democratic economy
" by large majority.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

THE president on Wednesday evening
gave state dinner to the diplomatic
corps 1t was notable in being the first
state dinner of the administration ; the
first in the refurnishei, repainted and re-
papered executive mansion the first in
four years to the foreign legations, for
whom, during the last three years Of his
presidency, Mr.. Hayes gave an annual
dinner party in place OF a dinner and the
most elegant in certain of it's appointments
known in many years at the mansion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

As MR. MACIONIGLE'> administration
Aa~ pail ct $1,000 Of Me city debt, and
therefore decreased tie ur burden 40 cents
on e1ery $100 raluatton, and as ". d.
!Stautfr's administration Increased the debt
5000, ,O00- "nd therefore Increased tie tar
lurasn $40 on ecerysl00 ealuation, there
fore et,,y oruer Of property IN this city ,rAo
is IN Jator Of lo,c tares and ecery tenant
IN tator Of lor rents, should giee to Lhn T..
Nae Goaig!e his cote for mayor on Tuesday
Hctt
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

But, besides an increase Of water rents
to the amount of three-fOld the increased
cost of coal consumed, and besides an
increased average supply of 9OvoOO gal
Ions of water per day, there are other
points of comparison which are greatly
to the advantage of the present admins
tration Of the water works. NOtwith-
standing the much higher price of coal,
Supt. Kitch pumped water by steam
power at a cost to the city Of $7.74 per
million gallons, while the same service
under Halbach cost $3.50; the pumping
by water power under Kitch only
cost S3.57 per million gallons, while
under Halbach the same service cost
$3.7G, very material saving to the city
under kitch. The results of these econ
omies are plainly seen in the expendi-
lures for Is water works general These
under the last year of Halbach, exclu-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-17

The Mad Murderess.
Mrs. Masch was found by the jury in an
upstairs room. She is about 80 years Of
age, tall. light-compiexioned, and rather
good looking. She is tho mother of two
very pretty little girls, one of them about
six and the other between two and three
years old. In about month it is expected
a third child will 10 born to her. Her
manner this morning after the homicide,
was wild and nervous but not violent
until an attempt was made to take her
into custody. In conversation with some
of the jurymen she repeatedly avowcd the
killing, saying that she hal no it, will
to her victim, but being weary of lie and
having nothing to live tor, she had killed
her mother in law because she knew that
then some one would Kill her, and she
wanted to die. These statements were
made in rambling disconnected. way,
showing very clearly that the
woman is laboriug un'tor iusan-
ity. When an officer approached to
remove her to Jail, she resisted furiOusly,
defying the police anil everybody else, and
declaring she would never leave the room
unless her children could accompany her
wherever SIZE went. She was humored in
this whiE, and under escort Of VIM.
Roehm, one Of the cororcr's jury, accom-
panied by her two little girls, proceeded
to the county Jail without any remarkable
When locked up, however,
her children being taken away from her,
she again became raving maniac, and
unless closely watched will n, doub; do
herself bodily harm, Or more likely take her
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Domestic Markets.
By Telegrsph.)


NEW YORK. Jan. INSTRUMENTATION market
dull and still in buyers favor: export demand limit
ed and jobbing trade confined to immediate wants.
Receipts Flour 49, $50 bbls; exports 1853 bbls;
sales Ia, 900 bbls; No Q at 00a4 10; Superine
Western and State 90@4 60;common to good ext
western and State 1895 70; good to choice Wes-
terri extra at 8O@9 90; common to choice White
Wheat Western extra OO@ 8 O0;fancy do at 90
IA 90; common to good extra Ohio at COOS 2b;
common to choice extra St. Louis at OOa9 90;
Patent Minnesota extra at Dogs 80; choice to
double extra at 60@9 90, including 1900 bbls
Oity Mill extra at 85617 90 for W L: 2IOO bbls
No at 3 OOG4 10; 1400 Superfine 1904 60; l.
bbls low extra 1906 20; $500 bbls Winter Wheat
extra O069 O0;4600 bbs Minnesota extra at So
0D9 90: Southern -four is unchanged. Wheaf-re
ceipts 55 ,000 bush: exports 101 800 bush opened
a trife stronger became weak and declined C,
closing dull and heavy at inside prices export trade
very Hight and fair business in options; sales 943,
600 BUSH including 10000 bush on the SPOT: I'M
graded Spring at 05@1 SO; ungraded Red at 26
/ 431sC91 43s4 oId;ungraded White at / 34@51 SO;
No do at 40 new, 411A@1 4I1s old Rye is
declining 91@95c. Barley is firm. Corn opened
steady subsequently declined 1a@5f closing heavy:
export trade moderate and fair business in futures
receipts %, 1913 bush: exports 2375 bush sales l.,
281 900 bush; including 1876, 900 spot; ungradsd
6734 @701ac:No 3 at 69c; NO at 69069s1c for
new 7O14 170hc old; White Southern 75a76c;
No q for January at 6819@65s4 G, closing 691ac;
March at 71@p715s, closing II Fec; May 73f0735sc,
closing at 73c. Oats 1s@4 lower and more active;
receipts $50 O74 bush; exports 100 bush sales $685.
600 bush; No at 48c: White do 49c No at 494
CD491sc for new, 501a@50s4c old; do White at 30
950Ac new, 5l14c old; No l at 491ac do White
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
THE NEW YORK HORROR.
Statement Of the Engineer OF the Special
TRAY,

Statement Of the Engineer OF the Special
Train.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19-Frank Burr, engineer
OF the Tarrytown train which collided with
the Chicago express Friday evening last today
made the following statement to coroner Mer-
kle: have been locomotive engineer in the
employ of the New York Central for ten years.
66 coming south that ran into the Chicago ex-
press No. below Spuyten Duyvil, the 18th.
We left Tarrytown at $40 p m. We stopped
at Spuyten Duyvil junction at TIA, which is
about one mile above Spuyten Dayvf station.
and according to the time board we were thlr-
teen minutes behind the Chicago express.
After leaving Spuyten Duyvil we entered the
cut going IS or 20 miles an hour. There were
no danger or warning signals ahead and pass
ed on the curve looking ahead all the time and
in either hand. He was swinging the red light
across the down track at the same time and
saw the red light at the rear of train No. be-
fore me. When L first saw the red light and
the fiagman giving the signal it was not more
than two cars length ahead of me and the train
was not more than So feet distant from him. I
Immediately put on the air brakes, reversed
the engine, pulled the throttle open, blew the
whistle and did all in my power to come to q
stop, but failed to do 80 in time to prevent the
accident. remained at my post until the
train stopped and assisted in extricatlng the
injured passengers from the smashed cars. The
engines mashed through the rear car.
(Signed) FRANK BURR.
Funeral of the Bennington Victims.
BENNINGTON VT, Jan. 1.-THE funeral of
Park Valentine and wife was held here this
afternoon from the Second Congregational
church in the presence of very great assem-
blage of relations, friends and citizens. The
obsequies we're conducted by Rev. E. G. Read,
Mr.. Valentines pastor, assisted by Rev. j. B.
WATSON of North Adams, Mass, and Rev. DIR.
Garfield of Arlington. These last were the
clergymen officiating at the wedding last
Thursday. Both bodies were placed ia one
grave.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
DOnrEsTTC PORTS.

SAN FRANCISCAN 9th, ship Thompson,
sEATLE CAL~Ar 7th. ship Majestic. Hatfield.
PORT EADs-Ar 14th, barque Penang, Towns
end Philadelphia.
MOBILE-Ar 18TH, schs Thos W Holder, Gray,
Corpus Christi; Palos, Eldridge, New York.
Ar 14th, sch Mark Pendleton, Gilkey, st Pierre,
CEDAR KEYS-Sld 18th, sch Daylight, Blair,
CID 10th, sch Addie Bryant. Stubs, for New
PENsACoLA-Ar 18th. brig Chas Dennis, Conn
Ar 18th. brig Chas Dennis, Connacher. Boston.
JAOKSONvTLLE-Cld 18th, sch Millie Trim,
Ar 18th, sch Annie L McKeen. Paterson, New
York.
BRUNSWICK-Ar 10th, barque Stephen Hart,
Pierson, Providence to load for Baltimore.
Ar 7th sch Austin ID Knight, Adams, Amboy.
Cid 10th, schs George Young. Marshall. Boston;
Alfred Keen, Crockett, New York.
from Providence ar 9th, for Baltimore; schs Mary,
Mcdonald from and for Belfast; Lois Chaples,
CHARLESTON-Ar 18th, sch R Emerson, Child,
New Bedford.
: Ar 18th, schs Mary Weber. Harris, Baracoa;
Cid I4th sch Clifford, Bragdon, Barbados.
WILMINGTON, NC-Cld 18th, sch st Craix, Has
kell. Woods Hole.
Ar 18th, schs Jennie Wiley, Chadwick Boston;
j Wyman, Urann Baltimore.
Cid 14th, sch Annie r evils, Lewis, Ponce;
FORTRESS MONROE Passed out 10Th, barque
Elverton, from Baltimore for Portland.
BALTIMORE-Cl 18th, sch W Snow, Craw-
ford, Providence.
Ar 14th, schs Bowdoin, Randall. Portland; Emer-
son Rokcs, Marston, do; Maggie e Gray, Crockett,
Wilmington, NC.
Cid 18th, barque Josephine, Brown, Boston. (and
sailed); brig Edith Hail. Drinkwater, Pernambuco;
sch Lizzie Wilson, Wilson, New Orleans.
Ar 18th, sch @ L Mitchell, Crowel, Providence.
PHILADELPHIA-Ar 18th, ship Hercules, At
wood Nagasaki; sch H Morse. Cash, Boston.
Ar 14th, barque Hannah McIoon, Keen, from
Charleston.
CHESTER, PA-Ar 18th. sch Annie Merritt
Kelley Cape Hayti.
NEW YORK-Ar 14th, schs Silver Heels. Marc,
jacksonville Annie Whiting, Gray, and Flora Con-
don, French, do; John Case, Colcord, and Harry
White. Hopkins. do; L w Allen, Allen, and Cora
Eta, Fales, Castine; Geo Walker, Thompson Horse
Island for Bergen Point; Geo Walker, Thompson,
Horse Island; Edw Lawyer, Kendall. Rockland Tor
Wilmington Del; Helen, Williams, Vinalhaven
AR 18TH schs Melissa Trask, Partridge, jackson
vile, Milford, Look. do; Seth " Smith. Allen, Cal
ais; Nettie Cushing, Robinson. and Red Jacket,
CHM, Providence; Harvest Home, Hodgkins, from
Fair Haven.
Cid 14th ships Iroquis. Nickels San Francisco;
barque Casilda Pike London; Belle Wooster, Hig-
gins Matanzas; brig Woodbury., Brown, Cienfuegos;
sch Fannie Milhken, Roberts, Mayport; M A Fol
som Rose. Brunswick.
Sid 18TH ship Reuce for San Francisco.
Passed the Gate 10th. scbs Russell, Rankin,
from New York for Portland; Veto, Stevens, 90 Tor
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17

Guiteau-I owe about $1,000 and suppose
that ought to hang man. II these people
will send in their bills now I'llgive them
checks for them and get them out of the way.
/ suppose I've got some money now. IN get
rid Of these people and then | won't owe
Scoyille then attempted to palliate the in
cident sworn to by Shaw, of Guiteau's pawn
ing W orthless watch for $25.
Shaw. Pshaw / mean" and added, "That
was meant for pun but they don't seem to
see it."
Scoville denounced the witness Shaw. he
believed he had deliberately perjured himself
in this case as also had a contemptible little
Jew clerk who came down here to help Shaw
out.
mony of Shaw is false and no decent man
would believe it for an instant" as the
court was about to adjourn Guiteau called OUT
81 desire your honors to read my speech to.
night SO can discuss it with you to-mor ROW
The court then adjourned till tomorrow.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
Murderous Assault at Bath.

MurderOu5 Assault at batn
BATH, Jan. 16.-A serious alteration oc-
CURED in this city this morning between Isaac
Edwards, fireman, of Portland, and David
n. Hayes, of st. John, colored COOK OF
steamer City of Richmond. The particulars
are as follows:-These, with several others OF
the crew, mess together and two were out late
last night. This morning some pleasant chatf-
ing took place at their room, when Edwards
seized Hayes by the throat, as he says he has
done many times before in fun, when Hayes
drew back and seized large butcher knife
that lay on the table and cut him on the left
shoulder blade, making an ugly wound two
inches long, and then with both hand cut him
again near the left nipple four inches long,
and again across the bowels seven inches, let
ting out the intestines. Drs. Small and E. M
Fuller dressed the wounds His recovery is
extremely doubtful.
A Terrible Fall.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 16-Willis E. Gardiner,
II years old, fell from the fourth story OF the
shoe factory through the elevator passage this
afternoon, distance of forty feet, sustaining
injuries which will probably prove fatal.
Death from Heart Disease.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 16.-John McDon-
aid, seaman on the schooner Sally b, which
arrived here yesterday from Boston, died sud
denly of heart disease at the Lagrange House
this morning He was So years of age and be-
longed in Calais. He leaves wife and one
child.
Baths Postmaster.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Among the nominal
lions sent to the Senate to-day was that OF
WIN. e. Hogan as postmaster at Bath.
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WASHINGTON.
The Small Pox Record.

The Small Pox Record.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The National board
Of health reports the small pox to-day as fol-
lows: For the week ending Jan 7th one death
in Buffalo and II deaths in Hudson county, n.
]. For the week ending Jan. 18th, one new
case and two deaths in Boston, IL deaths IN
New York city and three new cases in Roches-
ter; one death in Wilmington, DEL; one new
case in Tarrytown, N. Y; three cases OF var
ioloid in indianapolis.
The gricultural Convention.
The morning session of the agricultural con-
vention was consumed in the reading OF
States by Isaac A. Hedges of Missouri who at
tends the convention as delegate from the
Mississippi Valley Cane Growers Association.
The delegates to these conventions have &C
copied an invitation to visit the national fair
grounds tomorrow, and if the premises are
found TO be suitable it is likely they will rec
ommend the holding of grand national lair
here next summer.
Message of the Governor OF Utah.
A COPY of Governor Murray's message to the
Territorial legislature of Utah has just been
received at the Interior department. The
greater part of the document is devoted to the
resources of Utah and the desirability OF bring
ing the Territory into harmony with the rest
of the country SO as to promote their develop
ment. In regard TO poiyganIv Gov. Murray
SAYS 1.-THE system of plural wives was by an
act of Congress in 1862 denounced as crime.
1t being claimed that the people of Utah are
law abiding people submit as
strongly recommends restoration to wives of
their right of dover of which they have been
deprived Of by Territorial LEGISLATION and lays
that to grant women the right of franchise and
deny the right of dover is entirely inconsist-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17

at 521ac: Mixed Western 4s1a@50e; White do so
Q52c Mixed State at 5O9511ac; White do at 52@
54cincluding Sc, 900 bush No for January 491s:
shade lower; fair to good refining quoted at 7ss@
718c; refined is about steady White Elk at STAG
a14 yellow do 1903; Yellow at 6s4@71s; Con-
fectioners A at go; crushed 101ac; powdered at 10
D101sc granulated at 9s8c; standard 91s; Cubes
at 10c. nloiasses unchanged; New Orleans 53@67
united at 81 1ac. TallOw rather weak sales $4,000
lbs; prime city at 81a@85s. Pork unsettled and
declining; sales 1925 bbs mess on spot at 16 BOG
16 rs old, new quoted at II 50a17 621s. Lard
opened very steady. became weak and declined 712
@10,closing about steady saes $50 ties prime steam
on spot at II 20; 275O city steam IL TO- refined for
Continent quoted IL 20. Butter unchanged. Cheese
firm for choice
Freights to Liverpool frm Wheat % steam 314.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Flour quiet and unchanged.
Wheat is in fair demand and lower: No Chicago
Spring at 271a cash: 2714@1 271a January;
/ 27A February;1 28s4 al 287s for March;l 295s
for April; No 3 do at 10: rejected S9@93c. Corn
6O5sc January; 60A c February; 613sc for March:
rejected at 6Oc. Oats are dull and lower at 431sc
for cash; 9SAc for January 43c for February and
steady 06@1 OF. Dressed Hogs easier at z 25@
80. Pork is in fair demand and lower at IL O5@
IL 10 cash; IL 1924 bid for February; IL 321a@
@I7 35 for March; IL 521s@17 55 April. Lard Is
active and a shade lower at 10 95 cash; IL 021s9
II o5 February; IL 171A@11 90, March; IL 321a
GIL 30 for April. Bulk Meats shoulders at 40;
short ribs So; short clear 20.
At the afternoon call of the Board Wheat closed
r%sr at 2s for 6 ~
steady and unchanged. Provisions irregular; no
marked change.
Receipts 600 bbls -four, 25, OOO bush wheat,
10000 bush corn, 10000 bush oats. $500 bush
rye "a 900 bush barley.
Shipments-1 Q 600 bbls -four, % 900 bush wheat,
$4,000 bush corn, LOG, 500 bush oats. $50 bush
rye, 5000 bush barley.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 16-Flour quiet and unchanged.
Wheat opened higher, declined and closed with a
slight reaction: No RedFall 4019 cash; 1 4212
for February, March and April; NO 8 do S514 bid;
No do at % asked. Corr unsettled and lower at
641ac for cash. 65ssc for January; 651Ac Februa-
~; 657sc for March; 667sc April. Lard lower at
10 80.
Receipts-7 900 bbls nour, 1900 bush wheat,
1874 900 bush corn 33 600 bush oats. O,OOo bush
rye 81 900 bush barley.
Shipments 80 900 bbls -four, 1000 bush wheat,
6,0O0 bush corn, 5000 bush OATS 10000 bush
Barley. 0000 bush rye.
DETROIT Jan 16.-Wheat dull: No White cash
and January at $685. February at 361z bid;
March 1898; April 39Ss@1 1884.
Receipts 81 900; shipments 5000 bush.
NEW YoRK, JAN 12.-Cotton is quiet; Middling up
lands 12c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-17
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

Hanan, the oarsman, arrived at Queens
town yesterday. He is in perfect health.
One of the buildings of the American Oak
Leather Co, tannery at Cincinnati, O., was de-
stroyed by fire last night Loss $4,000.
Both houses of the New York legislature
met last evening and without rransacting any
business adjourned until Wednesday out Of
respect to the memory of the late Senator
Wagner.
Chicago tramps robbed John Griffith Satur-
day night, and beat him SO badly that he died.
Five more of the Jeannette's crew have
arrived at Irkutsk.
Ex-Postmaster w. FL. Locke, of Eufaula,
Ala, who was arrested Saturday evening ON
charge of embezzlement, shot himself dead on
Sunday morning.