Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-07
NElGABORAOOO NEWS.

Events Near aud Across tho County I.'nss.
Barnum took in nearly $50, 600 and 150.-
OOO people in Philadelphia last week.
The Public Ledger has just fitted up pala-
| tial quarters for its editorial and reportoriai
| staff, and the delighted public viewed them
on Saturday.
John Browse, IN empiOye Of the Lehigh
| Valley car works at Delano, was crushed
to death ON Saturday by locomotive
tank falling upon him.
In terrible thunder storm in Franklin
county on Friday night, Shank's Tunker
church, near Greencastle, was struck by
| lightning and burned to the ground &: and
also several barns.
Martin Overdorf, a brakenen ON the
| Philadelphia s. Reading railroad, was run
over and killed by train at Catawissa on
Friday. He was widower and leaves
! four small children.
Laura Bender, of North Pine Grove, has
become crazy from the effects of having
her fortune told. The fortune teller pre-
dicted that she would shortly commit sui
eide.
The jury trying John Coyle, Of Coyle'e
ferry, for numbering Emily Myers, found
him guilty of murder in the first degree in
Gettysburg on Saturday. The mother of
the prisoner burst out mourning and cry
iDg,a fearful pailor spread over the face of
the prisoner, but he spoke no word, and his
counsel moved for new trial.
Rev. Theodore Richard, . prominent
Moravian clergyman at Berthelsdorf, near
Herrnhut, Saxony, has arrived in Bethle-
hem. Rev. Mr.. Richard has como to this
country for the purpose Of making IN
official visit to all the congregations here.
He is the guest of Bishop Edmund De
Schweinitz, s. T. d., president of the
provincial elders conference.
Edward Lafferty, of BoyertOwn, Berks
county, aged %, thin and spare, has
undertaken on . wager of 500. to eat five
goose eggs . day for twenty days. Thus
far he has succeeded. He is privileged to
eat them raw, boiled, poached Or fried.
He generally eats them ut noon. Thus
far his novel and strong diet has not
affected him. He works on truck farm,
and takes great deal of out door exercise.
A large force of men were engaged all
Friday night in fighting fire on Fancy
Hill, in the eastern section of Berks cOun-
ty The dry leaves had been set on fire,
and owing to the high wind that prevailed
the flames spread rapidly, and endangered
a number of buildings in the vicinity. Tho
fire covered large area, at times being
over three miles long. Some OF the men
were badly burned, but with fortunate
change of wind the fire was subdued before
any damage had been done to the build
ings.
Young Roller, Of Glen Rock, YORK
county, who was suffocated BY gas i'll 4
Baltimore hotel, went there at O'Clock
in the morning and left orders to b.
called at 6. The hotel clerk, in arOusing
him made much noise, and the awakened:
proprietor told him to desist, thinking
that the occupant was 4 gentleman who
boarded at the hotel and was in the habit
or retiring late in the night. The night
clerk went Off duty and went to bed
During the afternoon the smell Of gas be-
came so strong as to be perceptiblc
throughout the house. About $50 O'Clock
one of the chambermaids in the hotel
wanted to Aake the bed in the room where
Roller was. The proprietor tried the
door and found it locked. He then pushed
open the transOm, and an OverpOwering
odor of gas rushed out. The clerk got
into the room through the transom and
unlocked the door Oh tho inside. Roller
was lying in bed, cox! in death, with the
gas turned on.