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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-25

SENATOR WALLACE is unanimously
invited to become the candidate of his
party in the senatorial district cOmposed
OF the counties Of Centre, Clearfield and
Clinton. What threatened at one time
to become a source of serious embarrass.
ment 70 tho Democracy of the district
and OF the state is obviated by the re-
tirement of Mr.. Alexander and his union
in the call upon Mr.. Wallace to bear the
standard of the party. Mr.. Wallace is
said to be sufficiently impressed by the
nature of the demand made upon him
10 forego his own inclination and
once more to enter the arena of poll
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-25
Funds in tho state Treasury.

The statement of tho amount in the
state treasury at the close OF business on
September 30 is just published. The de.
lay was owing to the fact that Auditor
General Lemon has been i'll in Holidays
burg for the past three weeks. The
amount in the general fund is given at
$1.544, ,079.69, of which Philadelphia has
its share as follows Peoples bank, $780,.
600 Townsend Whelen & Co., 800, 600 !;
Girard national bank, $2OO, 600 National
Bank of the Republic, $50, 900.
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KILLED BY FIREWORKS.

FrIShtful Accident In Paramount PARK
BY tho explosion of mortar containing
bombs, last evening, during the display of
fireworks in Fairmount park, two per-
sons were killed and nino wounded, four
of the latter probably fatally. Following
is list of the killed and wounded:
KILLED.
Mrs. David Coakley, aged 20 years, re-
siding at Forty Second street and Wood
land avenue top Of her head blown off.
John Cannon portion of his head blown
off :; died at German hospital.
MORTALLY WOUNDED.
Henry Bowen, aged 20 years, OF Atlantic
City arm and shoulder shattered.
Dorothy L. Miller, aged z years, No.
1923 Poplar street wound in head.
Mrs. Eva NcCairns, aged 81 years, No.
535 Gold street, near Twenty-Third and
Green streets both legs fractured.
William Love, No. 24s Stokes street
wounded in legs.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
David Coakley, husband of woman killed
injured in right leg.
Kate Bowen, wife Of Henry Bowen, aged
"A years; 4; wounded in the breast and arms.
Albert Sellers, aged 35 years, residing at
Twenty-fourth and Meredith streets; arm
injured, necessitating amputation.
Joseph Cahan, aged 90 years, No. 1247
North Twenty sixth street; head injured.
Thomas Harrison, a park guard, resid-
ing on Paramount avenue, near Twenty
second, received a frightful shock, and
was carried home insensib|e.
The exhibition of frework in Paramount
park last evening was made at Flat-irOn
Hill, within the confines of the Reading
Railroad, the main drive, Fairmount ave.
nue. and the Lincoln monument. Fully
80, ,OOO4people were assembled in the imme.
date vicinity of the display at an early
hour.
The exhibition was under the direction
of T. J. Scbarfenberg, of No. 1S9 Cooper
avenue, Brooklyn. He and his three as.
sistants had successfully shot into the air
many brilliant bombs of four, six and
eight-inoh diameter. They were fred
from mortars of suitable dimensions.
When Mr.. Scharfenberg decided to ex-
plode the ten-inch bombs he instructed
his first assistant, Joseph Keefer, to at
tend to that part Of the work, while he
and the others arranged for other displays.
One tel,-inch bomb was hurled into the
air, and when it burst cries of admiration
rang from thousands of throats. But sud-
denly an awful peal, like that made by
some tremendous cannon, was heard.
The mortar, which had been charged
with another ten-inch bomb, burst and
tho fragments of iron went screeching
into the air, hovered for an instant aloft,
and then swiftly descending, crashed into
the midst of people, fully square distant,
upon a hill on the east side of the Reading
railroad, between Twenty-seventh and
nty.eighth streets. Over 5000 per-
sops were massed upon this hill at tho
time.
Sergeant Swank, of the Ninth district
police, was on the hill at tho time, and
stood only ten feet away from Mrs. David
Coakley. He soon summoned aid and
had tho injured conveyed to tho German
hospital on Corinthian Avenue, near Gi.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-25
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.


End OF tho Protracted Deadlock In Wesl( I'm
PonnsylvSnta.
After three months deadlock tho Re
publican conIarees M the Twenty fourth
congressional district of Pennsylvania
yesterday nominated George V. Lawrence,
of Washington county, over W. S. Shal.
lenbercer, the present Congressman.
Lawrence is at present in the state Senate
and has previously represented his dis.
trict in Congress. ..l
Ex-Mayor Fielder, of Newark, has
written a letter accepting tho Democratic
nomination for congressman in the Sixth
New Jersey district. In his letter of
acceptance he avows himself protcc.
zionist.
The Repu blican congressional committe
of the First New York district met yes
terday in Jamaica, l.. l. After long
session it was decided to make no nomina-
ton, but recommended all Republicans
to vote for any candidate who is opposed
to the regular Democratic nominee"
D. D. Twiggs, Independent candidate
for congressman in the Eighth Georgia
district, has Withdrawn from the contest
''iu the interest of peace and good will"
Sovereign, the Greenback congressional
candidate in the Lemars. Iowa, district,
has withdrawn in favor of Patterson, the
Democratic nominee.
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PARDON REFUSED.

Another Of the Kintzler Murders to Hang,
the board of pardons has refused to in
terfere with the execution of the death sen.
tence in the case of Uriah Meyer, who was
convicted about year ago in Snyder
county for the murder of Mrs. Gretchen
Kintzler, on December Q, 1877. John
kintz'er and wife were murdered and
their bodies burned. About a year ago
Emanuel Ettinser, the principal in the
crime, committed suicide after having
been sentenced to be hanged. Last March
Jonathan Mercer was executed for COM
plicity in the crime. There are now under
sentence of death for participation in the
murder Uriah Meyer and Israel Erb. No
action will probably be taken in Erb's case
until the execution of Uriah Meyer in the
hope that he will either exculpate or in.
culpate Erb in the crime, there being some
doubt as to tho guilt of the latter.
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A Budget of Fatalities,

Thomas J. Gorgan, we'll known lawyer
of Boston, was probably fatally injured
yesterday morning while getting off a
moving train.
William Northerly, 13 years of age, was
killed yesterday at MahanOy City by fall.
ing into tho breaker of the Tunnel Ridge
colliery.
Michael Day. while walking on rail-
road bridge at West Troy, was struck by
an engine and fell to the ground, SO feet
beneath. His injuries are fatal.
Two sons of ID. S. Baird, aged respect
lively 10 and 18 years, were drowned yester-
day, at Ottawa, by the upsetting of a
boat.
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rard college, where their wounds were at
tended to. Mrs. Coakley died instantly,
and her body was removed to The Ninth
district station house, Twenty. third and
Brown streets.
ThAoontEact for furuishing tho pyro-
techuic display Wns Obtained by Willism
p. Heyer s. Sons, located on Market
street, above Fourth. Mr.. ScharfenberR
was engaged by this firm to superinteId
the exhibition. When he was called upon
last evening at the hotel to learn his ex.
planation of the catastrophe he was star.
tied to hear the dreadful result.
He covered his face with his hand and
sat like one bereit of reason. In q little
while he summoned up sufficient strength
to give this account:
Previous to the explosion We had dis
charged ITO six-inch bombs, 30 eight. inch
and 60 fOur-inch. The mortar which did
tho damage was made of wrought iron,
and was half an inch in thickness. Tho
only reason can give for tho accident is
that the powder in tho mortar used to
propel the bomb was previously fired.
whereupon both it and the bomb exploded
inside OF the mortar. There were in the
mortar seven ounces Of powder which is
known to the trade as + G rifle powder.
The bomb contained various chemicals,
the principal being chlorate potash, nitrate
of barytes, nitrate Of str0ntian and shell
lac. do not think Keever overcharsed
the mortar, as he is very careful and has
been in my employ fourteen years, and
never had such a thing to occur
before. For twenty years have conduct
ed the business, and it has always been
my boast that never had An accident to
occur while making public exhibitions -
Strange as it may appear, only tie
smallest fraction of that vast assemblage
which had gathered to witness tho fire.
works were aware that the explosion had
dealt death to some of the spectators.
The full programme of the exhibition
was carried out without delay, and the set
pieces, which were numerous and magni-
ficent, were all that had been expected.
The neighbOrhood had been densely pack
'ed with people from all parts of the city,
and the street cars, going and returning,
were crowded to sufiOcatiOn.
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les, in which he was for long time
i conspicuous figure. With Mr.. Wal.
lace a candidate, and the district united
in his support, there is no question Of his
election, and the whole thing settles it
self down to matter of majority. 1t ID
pleasant to contemplate the adjustment
of quarrels such as have threatened to
distract the Democracy of Adams and
Cumberland and Of Clearfield, Centre
and Clinton. Each day finds the Dem
cratic ranks more compactly united and
moving forward with resistless tread to
complete and overwhelming victory.
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PERSONAL.

RICHARD A. PROCTOR says that the
comet il likely to return in . few months.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has 70.
signed the Parkman professOrship of auat-
omy in Harvard university.
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON arrived In
New York yesterday afternoon by the
steamer Gallia.
SECRETARY FOLGER has Gone to New
York, and will not return to Washington
before the close of the week.
Mr.. A. BRoxsoN ALcOrr had para
lytic stroke yesterday ut Concord, Mass
and last evening was only partially con.
sciOus.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON said in q
speech in Chestsrfield county, 8. c., the
other day that he would never be can
didate for Office again.
MRS. LANGTRY's photographs arc even
moro numerous than William Penn's.
Those of the imperial size, cOlOred and
with guilt edge, are now sold fastened On
to strip of bright cOlored satin ribbon.
Col. LONG, explorer, writer, soldier,
and lately American consul in Egypt, has
been spending several weeks in Paris.
Arab, he says, 10 . bad man, with many
vices and almost no virtues.
BRAMwELL BOOTH, son of tho general
issimO of the Salvation Army, was mar
ried q few Gays ago at Clapton. England.
his father officiating. The ceremony was
performed in the presence of several
thousand persons, admitted at shilling .
head.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, governor
elect Of Georgia. arrived yesterday in At
lanta, where he will be installed in . few
days. He was met ut the depot by an en-
'thusiastic crowd, and driven to tho execu-
tive mansion in q carriage drawn by four
white horses.
Miss DURR of North Carolina, to whom
Senator David Davis is to be married soon,
was young friend of his late wife and
used to visit her at the National hotel, ut
Washington. She il about thirty years
younger than Mr.. Davis, and he has been
paying her marked attention for at least a
year.
QUEEN VICTORIA is 80 much annoyed by
the staring of summer visitors in tho little
Crathie Established Presbyterian church,
near BalmOral, that she seldom ia seen in
her pew there until the end of the season
has taken the strangers to their homes.
She usually has special services conducted
in Balmoral Castle during August and
September.
J. B. NEwDROUGH, of New York, has
written by typewriter q new bible en-
titled "Oahspe, New Bible in the
Words of jehovah and his Angel Embas-
sadors." The book has just been printed
Mr.. Marlborough claims that it Was writ
ten under spiritual influence. He says while
he was writing very bright light shone
over his hands.
LORD RONALD COVER, who is described
as I" a dilettante painter and a dilettante
SCULPTOR" recently wrote few articles
about his friends and the English court
circles, which were published in Vanity
Fair. The sketches suddenly ceased, and
it is rumOred that the titled reporter was
administered . smart rebuff by the Prince
of Wales for writing of things he had bet
ter have passed over.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-25

An immigrant girl whose shoes were
not suggestive Of Cinderella's sat with a
man on a bench in City Hall park yester-
day, New York. A boOtblack with q
wooden leg offered hor shine, and seth
box before her. She put up foot, dis
playing about as much blue stocking as is
ever seen on wash day. A crowd of men
and boys gathered around. Apparently
they had nothing worth while to do. She
gazed upon them with a placid smile and
put up the other blue stocking in its turn.
Then she paid the bootblack and walked
away, chatting in some foreign tongue
with her companion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-25
On Duty In Philadelphia.

Yesterday Officer Burns, of this city,
was in Philadelphia, for the, purpose of
taking in the great show. While in tho
crowd on Broad street, he detected .
negro in tho act of picking . gentleman's
pocket. Burns at once arrested him and
handed him over to the lieutenant of tho
Philadelphia police. The darkey ave his
name as William johnson.
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Warrants for Alleged Jury Br,ber,

Warrants for Alleged Jury Brlbers.
At the instance of the department of
justice warrants have been issued in Wash.
ington for the arrest of Frederick H. Fall.
lately an employe of that department !:
Arthur Payne and Thomas R. Foote, his
gO-betweens in the attempt to bribe
Juror Brown and Frederick c. Shaw. one
of the original panel in the Star Route
trial, who is charged with corruptly ap-
preaching Juryman Doniphau. FAN and
Payne are said to have left Washington.
Foote resides in Newark, New Jersey, and
at late hour last night Shaw's arrest had
not been reported.
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Where the Railroads Via.

The Philadelphia Bi-Centennial has
had astonishing snccess in attracting a
multitude to Philadelphia. Why they
60 no man car find cut. There IS moth
ing of consequence for them to see or hear
when they get there, and the only thing
appreciab|e OF the Car loads of human
beings who are dumped into the Centen.
nial city is the comfort Of being in a big
crowd. 1t does really seem as though
many peoples highest idea Of enjoyment
is to be made uncomfortable. They
seem never content unless they are
struggling for room to move, air to
breathe and food to eat. It is hard to
understand the feeling which has taken
pretty nearly all the mechanics out Of
Lancaster and has swept all parts of the
state away gu. to the Ohio, and
has even affected the country away
off in the prairies. Possibly there may
he some sentiment about Penn and his
settlement which leads the people to de-
sire to honor the celebration Of tho an
niversary :; and probably there has beer,
a good deal Of indefinite expectation of
great things to be seen, such as were to
be seen at tho Centennial but yet the
mass of the visitors must be credited
with no other impulse than the desire to
60 where other people were going. Like
q flock of sheep they have followed one
another. When they get home they will
have their experience and will not
have their money. They will hardly
be satisfied with the trade. 1t is
amusing to note how feeble have been
the efforts to give the visitors any value
for their money or perhaps the efforts
have been great, but their result has been
ridicuously small. The railroads that
have profited SO largely by this pro-
ject can afford in future to get up
an annual Centennial celebration of some
historic event, and provide better show
than the Penn Bi-Centennial has been.
The demonstrated desire of the people to
flock together should be duly taken ad.
vantage of by enterprising railroad pas
senger agents.
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Yesterday Deputy Register C. L. Stoner
and Tipstave Jake HOllinger went fishing
for bass at Safe Harbor. The day was
cold and uncomfortable. but tho fishing
was good, nineteen fine bass being taken.
Mr.. Stoner landed one that weighed over
three pounds, which he presented to his
honor, Judge Livingston.
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A 0uartetse of Military Men.

The Republicans will hold q meeting at
Millport on Saturday evening. The first
speaker on the bill is ex-District Attorney
Eshelmau, before whose Dame the title
"Col." appears. There arc three other
speakers whose names appear and some
wag, who s7mphathized with tAsu. thinks
they arc as deserving OF titles Is Blr. Esh
Gilman, and has changed . bill in promi.
nent hotel 80 that it now reads Capt Res
enmiller, Gen. Ptter Hershey and Corp.
A. F. Schenk.
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Attempted smugsnpg Frustrated.

At attempt at smuggling was made
from the Chinese steamer Arabic, at San
Francisco. on Monday night. An officer
saw boat run alongside the steamer and
receive packages at the mail dock, and the
boatmen. trying to get away, were fired at
by the officer. One of them cried out that
he was shot, and dropped his oar, where
upon his comrades threw the package
overheard and escaped in the darkness.
The packages were found to contain opium
and silks to the value of $4,000.
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COLUMBIA NEWS.


GvsDas Assag the Susqusha..a-lssms Of
lntsrase an and Around the l8oeoagh
Rseked Up BY the lntslls-
eenesr's Reporter
Miss Mary Wall bas returned to her
homo in Carlisle.
H. F. Yergey returned to-day from q
visit to friends in Psttst0Wn. ~
Messrs. Emory Stevenson, W. II. Lewis,
and VIM. b. Given have gone to Philadel-
phia.
The addition to Joseph Desch's plsss
will bo 6S feet deep 20 feet Of that will -
two story brick structure.
4~ Jennie Bowman. who has been
visiting friends on Cherry street, retufusd
this morning tO Baltimore. ..
A handsome phaetou which will be
chanced OF ut the u. A. r.. fair next
month, il now On exhibition as Bscker's
carriage shop 1t is 6us pisss Of work
mauship. ..--..
A double canal boat broke from it,
m00riDgs ut the bridge, yesterday after
noon, and drifted down to the coal basin
of the Reading 4 Columbia railroad sen-
peny, Vhere it vaS secured. a. 4 ~.
The Penusy lvania railr0ad brakeman,
Mr.. John Wolfe, who was Injured in the
accident in the west yards, on A00dsy
morning, is ON q fair r0ad to rsoovsry Il
was at first supposed that his injuries
would have fatal termination.
Boeh Leg Cat ~ ~
Yesterday Afternoon Mi31lttoWn nan
was thrown from 5th Union line freight
train, and had both legs cut of. Ho had
boarded the train in MiddletOwn, intend
ing tO take short ride. Tho accident
occurred but few minutes after ho had
COTTON on the train. He was yet alive
this morning. q
Duck Shooting,
The great number of duck hunters has
thinned the feathered ranks considerably.
Comparatively few were shot yesterday, ~
compared with the results Of previous
days. Every person who can command .
gun and boat is now dusk hunter. Tho
report Of the great quantity being killed
at this point must have spread widely, n
persons from distant points arrive in town
daily to enjoy the sport.
A Cavalry TrOOPs MlshsDs.
The ''Sheri,iau Troop" Of cavalry, IS
strong, from Tyrone, passed through this
place at 9 O'Clock this morning. They have
been on the road since yesterday afternoon.
The passenger coach cOutaining the mon,
and the four stock cars with their horses
aboard, were attached to freight train.
Tho men are in anything but . good humor
at their detenti,n along the routs. :
A BLACK Lothasj0.
Squire Young will give Uriah, alias
Sun " HolsiDger, colored, hearing this
evening at o'clock, charged, on COM
Paint Of James Reynolds, also oolored.
with drunk and disordsr!y conduct. Roy
n0lds has had Holsinger sent to Jail
several times on the same change. He il
reported to be in love with the latter's
wife, and, she being willing that it should
be done, takes this method of securing his
absence. His diplomatic ability 10 worthy
Haytien consulship under tho Arthur ad-
miuiBtratiOB. r. '..E.n ,rF' F..
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An Imporsans Subject,

Last Sunday Mr.. Hark announced in
the MOravian church that 10 would Dext
Sunday evening begin series Of dis
courses ON " Books and Reading" in
their relation to Christian life and culture.
This is subject we'll worthy Of moro at
tentioD than is COMMONLY given it in the
pulpit, and ID year by year becoming moro
important. Mr.. Hark tells US that next
Sunday evenings discourse will bs do
voted to the general topic Of '' Literature
and Life." to be followed by Othors on
Literature in the House." What to
Read" How to Read. " /" Papers and
Periodicals" and The Truo Purpose Of
Literature" We suppose Tie nswspsper,
Sunday reading, fiction and such sub
tion. -.. ..r".i
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Tho Fro Record.

The four story planning mill Of the Goss
D. Phillips manufacturing company, in
Chicago, was barut last night. Loss,
$4,000.
The lumber and planning mill of A..
Backus, ir., & Sons. in Detroit, was
burned. Loss, s170,O0O
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ELDERSuIP APPOlN9asNTS.
Made for tho Year at Mg. Joy During q
K0c0De SO0n1OU.

Made for tho Year ut Ms. Joy During the
Roc00e session.
At the late East Pennsylvania Elder
ship of tho Church of God, Elder J. w.
Deshong, Of Altoona, was elected speaker,
d. 8. Shoop, stated clerk, +. L. Nicode-
mus, transcrib;ng clerk, and J. Halfleigh,
financial clerk. The following arc tho
local appointments for tho ensuing year !:
Lancaster-G. w. Seilhamer, w. 8.
Smith and A. H. Long.
C0lumbia-S. d. e. Jackson.
Mount JOy-A. T. Fox az, s--uf,
WashiDgt0n-J. M. Speese.
BaipAridge and Mayt0wn-G. w. Getz.
Elizabethtown and Highspire.-S. w.
Nail.
ChuTchtown and Shlremanstown-O.H H.
Belts. -vF. ~,
Moral Instructor at Lancaster Aims
J. M. Swank. - j
Rev. d. A. Lsverty, formerly of this
city, is appointed 20 Mechanicsburg, Cum
berland county, and Rev. J. B. Lockwood,
Of Mount Joy. is transferred to Middle
SOWhs .Fr f..f ..r.r.
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Only four guests graced the mayors
levee this morning. One . poyr traveller,
was discharged with instructions to travel
farther. One who was too utterly too
too, p.id $2.O2 and was discharged, ard
two Others were sent to Jail for fiue and
fifteen days respectivoly..
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Suicide OF q Young Man.

Arthur Breton, aged 20 years, a
wealthy, temperate and industrious young
man, shot and killed himself at Victoria,
B. C. No cause is assigned for the act.
His father is merchant in London aud in
Victoria,
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Sale Of Real Estate.

John Gundaker, auctionser, sold ON
Tuesday evening. at the Cooper House,
Richard ]. McGrann for S10,50O.
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An experts examination of the financial
condition of the city government of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, shows deficiency
existing in the accounts of City Treasurer
F. W. George, deceased, which foots up
427, 900.