Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-07
BY WIRE.

Vne Vol0SropnlO N0WD Oh tn6 D0y.
| DR.. Joseph Pancoast. emeritus profes
sor of anatomy at Jefferson college, Phila.
delphia, died the morning, aged y, after
short illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Harriet Bell, a respectable tailoress
was fatally stabbed on Kirkland street
Boston, about o'clock this morning by Q
man whom few minutes before she died
she declared she did not know. The mur
derer escaped.
The funeral of the late Judge Lathrop,
receiver and president of the Central rail-
I road of New Jersey, took place to-day and
was largely attended by prominent rail-
road officials.
"Mysterious flames last night caused a
$40, 900 loss in Oberlin, o., including Row.
lands & Brokson's drug store which the
| temperance people have been seeking to
close up because Of the spirituous liquors
alleged to be sold there.
J. N. Dubarry was to-day elected presi-
dent of the Southwest Pennsylvania rail-
road, a brahch of tho Pennsylvania.
The accused Philadelphia star reuters
have renewed their bail for appearance at
the May term of the United States court.
Theison's furniture warerooms at Cam
ton, N. Y, burned to-day. Loss $50, 900,
partially insured.
There was a timely discovery of an at
tempt to wreck a passenger train Oh the
Illinois Midland railroad, near Decatur,
ILL.,, last night.
More Nihilists Lave been arrested at
Odessa and further plots discovered.
Largen beat Gookin by two lengths in
the boat race ON the Thames championship
course to-day.
Gen. Ringham's resolution granting the
use of arms, tents and equipments to the
G. A. r. for their encampment on the
Gettysburg battle field next July, passed
the House to-day.
Mr.. Beecher, whose sudden illness last
night is supposed to have been caused by
the bad water of Chicago, is much better
and left there at noon to- day for Rock
Island, where he will lecture tonight.
Hamilton Howe, an undertaken, was
instantly killed and ten others were seli-
ously wounded by the fall of wall at q
fire in StrathrOy, Ont, to day.
Masked men attacked the Jail at Del |
Norte, Col, and riddled with bullets Ar
mold Howe and Frank Young, confined |
there Oh a charge of stealing cattle. Bob !
Sawyer, a negro, was lynched at franklin,
KY, for an attempted assault on Il white
girl.
The New Jersey Central railroad depot,
at Valley Station, about ten miles from
Easton, was with its contents entirely de-
stroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning,
by spark from tho locomotive.
Work was generally suspended to-day at
all the mines of the Lehigh & Wilkes
barre coal company,cn account of the
funeral of F. S. Lathrop, late president of
that company.
The United States grand jnry at New
York to-day brought an indictment against
General N. NJ. Curtis, special treasury
agent, for having collected money from
government employees to defray the ex-
penses Of the Republican state committee
Two buildings connected with the
American powder company at Acton, five
miles northwest of Sudbury, Mass, exploded
1T twenty minutes past 8 o'clock this
with terrific crash. The par
ticulars of the disaster have not been re-
,eivcd as yet.
In the United States court at Trenton,
this morning, Henry 3. Marshbank,
who pleaded guilty on five indictments
Tor embezzlement and conspiracy to de-
fraud the First national bank of Newark,
was sentenced to five years Imprisonment
IN the state prison. Edward White, a let
;er carrier of New Brunswick, N. j., was
sentenced to pay fine Of $3.50 for pur-
oining letters.
Mrs. Peter GOodhart was run over and
killed by coal train at Reading
Today.
Good authority says that the President
rendered to Senator Edmunds
The position Of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, and that Senator Ed
munds declined it.
The anthracite coal interests have agreed
70 the stoppage of coal mining on the 9th,
10th, 18th, 10th, 9th, 18th, 23d, 9th
md 25th of this month.