Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-30
RECENT EVENTS.
KILLED WITH A BILLIARD QUE.
The Result OF Quarrel Between two EFisndi
Over q Game.-The Resignation OF

KILLED WITH A BILLIARD QUE.
The Result OF = Quarrel Between two Friends
over q Game.-The Resignation OF
Commissioner Ksum.
A curious case of murder is reported
from Cambridge Guernsey county, Ohio.
Jules McHenry, once a jeweler and promi-
nent business man of Cambridge, played
several games of billiards on Saturday
night with Darious Davis, another well
known citizen of Guernsey county, living
two miles from Cambridge. During the
evening the two men became involved in
dispute over the game, and they
finally came to blows In the quar-
rel Davis struck McHenry over the
head with his billiard cue, knocking
him senseless. McHenry was removed to
his home unconscious and remained In
that condition until his death. Davis was
arrested at his home, taken to Cambridge
and lodged in Jail. He burst into tears
when he learned of McHenry's death and
expressed great sorrow. He says he was
intoxicated when the quarrel occurred and
did not know what he was doing. NC.
Henry has been drinking very hard for
several years squandering small fortune
and losing his position in society besides.
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of the society bellies of the town and three
small children.
kaum's Resignation.
Green B. Raum, commissioner Of
Internal revenue, walked to the White
House Saturday afternoon in company
with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
New, and rendered his resignation to the
president. Mr.. New was unaware of the
sc Az Pn,o,tc visit IN thu
two mansion until the latter formally
surprised He urged tho commissioner to
reconsider his dissemination, but this Mr..
Raum politely refused to do. His resig-
nation will take effect as soon as his sue.
cessor is appointed. Mr.. Raum says he
has resigned to go into private business !;
that the salary Of his Office, So, 900, is
inadequate to his needs, and that he
wishes to resume his former profession,
the practice Of the law. Mr.. Raum has
been commissioner of internal revenue
since 1876. Tho retiring commissioner
has been persistant seeker for political
preferment in Illinois. He first tried to
get the nomination for governor of that
state in 1881, and his latest and most
active campaign was for a seat in the
Senate. He was defeated with compare
tive ease by Governor Cullom. During
the senatorial fight the commissioner was
away from his post many weeks, and it is
said that Secretary FOlger did not approve
OF his frequent and long continued ab-
sences. While the relations between the
secretary and the commissioner are friend
ly, they have not been intimate. This
circumstance, however, did not inspire
Mr.. Raum's resignation. There are two
prominent candidates for the Office already
id tho field. Deputy Commissioner H. c.
Rogers, of Pennsylvania, and ex-COngress
man J. G. Burrows, of Michigan.
Novel Experiment n Journalism.
John Mclean, the widely known editor
and proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
has essayed new departure in Journalism,
one containing an element of the humorous
He grew tired Of publishing the Enquirer
as 4 strictly Democratic partisan paper,
for the plain business reason that it did
not pay to do SO. He made an ipdepend-
ent newspaper of it cut loose from all
political trammels, the journal prospered.
Mr. Mclean was pleased, but not so lead
ing Democratic politicians of Cincinnati,
who approached the proprietor with pro.
position to change his sheet back to its old
political position. All offers to adopt such
course were declined, but Mr.. Mclean
expressed a willingness to manage new
party paper for the Democrats. Novel as
the plan was, it struck the politicians
favorably having confidence in the
ability aud integrity of Mr. Mclean, his
Suggestion was put into practice, and he
is at present engaged in the novel work of
Publishing the Neps as a rival morning
paper to his Enquirer. He conducts the
Meacs, according to contract, as straight
out Democratic paper. 1t is an eight
column quarto, managed with vigor, and
pertinaclously attacks all the Independent
political heresies uttered by the Enquirer.
In honest fuIfillment of his unique con-
tract, Mr.. Mclean sent gentleman of
ability and intense Democratic proclivities
to Washington as resident correspondent.
That writer has lost no opportunity in
tearing to tatters all the national capital
news and predictions printed in the En-
quirer. In short, SO far as politics are
concerned, John McLean's two news
papers, "both daily" are in fierce oppo
sitiou 20 each ether what one asserts the
other strenuously denies. The two dis
tinct editorial stats are managed with
rigid impartiality the editors try hard to
demolish each other.
Our Foreign Relations.
The exporters Of hay from Canada to
the United States, who were for many
years compelled to pay double custom
duty by American officers, have appealed
TO the Dominion government to obtain for
them rebate for the amount illegally ex-
tracted. The snm exceeds 1000, ,O00.-
In the Central Labor Union in New York,
Saturday, "ths relations of the labor
question to the revolutionary movements
of Europe" were discussed. 1t is said
most of the speakers favored the use of
dynamite, their main argument being that
kings and potentates use every engine Of
destruction in their wars, and particularly
against the people when revolutionary
outbreaks occEr."-The steamer Catalonia
arrived at Boston yesterday with 200
immigrants, most of them sent over at
tho expense Of the British government.-
Tho solicitor of tic treasury decides that
the collector of customs at Brownsville has
authority to arrest smugglers as we'll as to
seize contraband goods. 1t is estimated
that the government annually loses about
$5OO,OO by smuggling along the Rio
Grande.
LOsses by rlre.
A fire in Wellsburg, W. ", early on
Saturday morning, destroyed the wagon
and carriage factory of Robert Thompson,
the dwelling aad tin shop of John Char
mack, the general store of Hugh Barth, the
Office of the Pxni1ndle Mems the town