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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD.
Plucky Express Messenger Proves Too
Much TOR 1bem-MuroerOns Eobbsrs
in u nevada Town.

A Plrcky Express Messenger Proves To"
hsuch TOR 1ben-MuroerUns Robbers
in u nevada Town.
About O'Clock Monday morning from
eight to twelve mounted and masked men
rode up to Montello station, on the Central
Pacific road, 1G6 miles west of Ogden,
seized two white and half dozen Chinese
section men robbed them of what vaiua-
bles they Lad upon their persons and
locked them up i'll a tank house. They
then awaited the arrival of the east bound
express train, which came in soon after.
Two of the highwaymen jumped on the
engine, Overawed the engineer and fire.
man and ran the train on side track.
The remainder of the gang first seized the
trainmen, took from them their personal
effects and locked them also in the tank
house. They then attacked the express
car. but We're met by fusilade from L
NJ. Ross the express messenger. They
returned the fire, and slime thirty shots
were exchanged, when the robbers fading
the resistance more spirited than they
expected, and probably fearing a demon,
stratirn on the part of the passengers,
| deca,Dred. No one is known to have been
killed u wounded. The passengers wele
not mOeStcd.
| Mounted Nevada Robbers and Murderers
| A dispatch TO Wells, Fargo & Co., froIl
| Carson, says: A store at Gold Mountain
was robbed on Thursday or Friday by
mounted and ssked men. Tie proprietor
and two clerks were killed. The road
agents then went to a store at Silver Peal
and robbed it killing the proprietor ant
ole c,trk. Two of the robbers Were ais,
killed. Gold mountain and Silver Peal
are in Southwestern Nevada, remote from
telegraphic communication
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
THE G&kM AN FLOODS.
Inc Demand Upon America for Aid.

Inc Demand Upon America for Aid
Philadelphia Ledger.
Accounts of tbe disasters from overflow
of the rivers in Germany are tull of dis
trcss. The appeal for help has already
received prompt and generous response in
this city and throughout the United
States, bat it is only by considering the
large numbers Of homeless and helpless
people ruined by the floods that the public
Of this country can have an adequate idea
of how much that help is needed. We
leave out of account the obstruction of
property, which is enormous, and appeal
only for the personal distress. The shores
of the Rhine and of it's feeders, from
Switzerland through Germany to its
mouth in Holland, are lined with cities,
towns and villages, and between them are
thckly settled districts, covered with
fields and gardens, orchards and vine-
yards. More than Il hundred aud seventy
Thousand of the people living in
these densely populated districts
have been driven from their
homes. In the autumn floods the official
returns show that in Prussia alone 13O, 600
persons were lett homeless, 10000 houses
and 40, 900 acres of land were ruined.
Since then there have been more violent
larger injur es. Our contemporary, the
Philadelphia Demokrat, republishes iin
Germany extracts from the Continental
newspapers received by the last mails,
showing the extent of destruction on the
Rhine, the Main, the Weser, the Fulda
aad the Werra, converting the course of
these streams into scenes of wretchedness
and atfliction, requiring very large sums
to provide for the pressing instant needs
Of the unfortunate victims.
From Mannheim come reports of towns
and villages and all the country along the
banks of the Rhine, the Main and the
Ncckar under water, banks broken, cattle
drowned, soldiers helping to save lives
tiremen working in vain to protect pro-
pelty from the water and railroads and
highways cut Off by the floods. Many
tiourishing industrial manufacturing es-
adjustments have been destroyed and
taeir working men with their families
driven to seek refuge elsewhere, without
shelter or employment, all their means of
living lost. From the rich districts of
Rhine, Hesse, Worms and Speyer come ap-
peals for bread to meet the most press
ing needs of daily life. Churches
and court houses are made temporary
refugees for the people driven from their
homes and the authorities are taxed to the
utmost to provide shelter for them.
Americans who know the Rhine and its
lovely shores from seeing them in their
summer glory with all the beauty of the
landscape heightened by mild weather,
can hardly understand the widespread
ruin inflicted by these sweeping floods.
Our German fellow-citizens can better APP
preciate the story of this calamity, for
they know how wide is the stretch of
country Under water, aud how large the
population living in the closest manner on
small daily earnings who bave lost all and
have now to be fed and clothed and cared
for until new homes and new employment
can be found for them.
Such enormous devastation and distress
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
SONS OF AM ERICA.

FIRST Anniversary OF Washington Camp.
Monday evening Washington camp Ne.
p, Z. .. S. of A., celebrated their first
anniversary in Odd Fellows hall with
about sixty members present. The pro
eramme opened with an address by J. p.
Winower, followed by refreshments, after
which the following programme was Car
ried out:
Opening ole. by the camp.
Address, Our order" by Geo W. over
deer.
Music, by Kissing sun GIee club.
History OF camp, by H. Rill.
Lecture, by Ii. T.. Muckle.
Music. by the Glec ciub.
Refreshments.
hiaterial OF members by J. Winowcr
Music. johnny Smoker by Glee club.
Address by John Black, jc.
Recitation by A. NJ. Albright
Duties OF members by X. y. Boyle, OF Camp
Dialogue by A. NJ Albright and II. C..
Muckle.
Music by Glee club
Refreshments.
The members then rendered vote of
thanks to the following committee: j.
p. WinOwerr. chairman; A. j. Keller,
Chas. Kautz, G. +. Wolpert, Geo. Ressler,
S. S. R.nnels, II. NJ. Metzger, Geo. W.
Overdeer.
A little more than one year ago Il num-
Der of young men applied to the state
camp for a charter, which was granted,
after which the Mechanics hall was
rented, and the camp was installed on the
24th Of Jan. 1882 on the 25th the build
ing was destroyed by fire and the follow
ing week the camp met in II. Rudy's
carpet room on East King street, with
tallow candles for light they then rented
Old Fellows hall, where they have since
met: he charter bears r.. % names and ,1.t's the
total assets OF the camp for the first year
are $780,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

appeal for aid to common humanity, as
we'll as to the German element Of our pop
ulation. Iu the Fatberland, all purses
have been opened, frcm that of the
workman. who has anything lett to give.
to that of the emperor, VIII" has contri-
huted very large sum. In our happy
commonwealth. where We have been
spared such affiictioD. al! of us who can
help in the least degree should be prompt
TO show that American bene6cence can
again stretch its helping hand across the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Coming TO lis Senses.

The United States supreme court has
finally made a decision that indicates
the return to that tribunal Of a proper
sense of the even balance in our system
Oh the rights of the states and the first
powers of the general government. The
second section Of the civil rights bill
provides penalties of ine and imprisOn-
ment i'll case 8 two or more persons in
any state or territory c0nspire or 90 III
disguise upon the Highway or on the
premises of another for the purpose Of de-
priving, either directly or indirectly, any
person or class of persons of the equal
protection of the laws or of equal privil
eges and immunities under the laws. or
for the purpose of preventing or hinder
ing the constituted authorities of any
state or territory from giving or securing
to all persons within such state or ter
ritory the equal protection of the laws -
In case taken up from Tennessee the
supreme court has decided that there is
no warrant in the constitution for Con-
gress to pass any such law as this, regu
lating matters that are, and of right
ought to be, subjects exclusively of state
concern. ConspiracieS to hinder per
sons, on the highway, at the polls or in
the council chamber, in the free exer-
else of their rights ought to he punished /;
SO ought horse stealing and arson. But
it has not yet been broached that federal
powers must intervene to punish every
grade of crime and to create a conflict
between state and federal jurisdictions
1t is healthful sigc, therefore, to see
the supreme court, which has been too
often bent by political prejudice, set the
seal of its disapprobation upon law
directed exclusively against the action
of private persons without reference to
the laws of the state or Of its.oflicers. -
The political rights of the citizens of
Tennessee are conferred upon them by
the state, and that is the power which
should protect them in the exercise of
those franchises.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
DklVlNG ACCIDENTS.
Inc Road rer,Is of the Season.

inc 1SOAd IerilS OI LnO SeAsoh
About half-past eight o'clock this morn
ing, as Capt. George F. Sprenger's bust
ness wagon, loaded with bottled beer, was
being driven to Safe Harbor, one of the
traces broke, or came loose, at Rock Hill,
and the horse aud wagon went over a high
embankment-the wagon being badly
broken and the horse injured SD badly that
he will have to be killed. The driver es-
capped injury by jumping from the wagon
before it went over the embankment.
smash-up ON North Dueen Street.
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon,
a horse attached to sleigh took fright ON
North Queen street, near Walnut, and
ran off. In the course of it's flight it ran
into another sleigh, upset and shattered
it, and threw out the occupants. The
runaway was caught near North Queen
and Lemon. Both teams belonged to
countrymen, who drove off without !eav-
ing their names.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

and reports the loss of six Of her c1ew,
who were visiting their travis on Jan. TO-
4 gale setting in they were unable to re-
turn to the vessel. Their names were
Charles Ray. John McKinnan, John White
mar, Ned Brophy, Anthony Dunn and a
seaman known as English Bill" l. is
possible that they may have been picked
up 10y some passing vessel.
fatal Boiler Explosion.
The boiler in Il. W. Hodgnes' Eagle
Touring MILL at Portland, o., eight miles
above Wheeling, W. Va, on the Ohio
river, exploded, killing Herman Lewis,
aged Is years, and wouud,ng Ellsworth
Lewis seriously. The supply pipe was
frozen and this is supposed to have caused
the disaster
D,.tniery iinrned.
Roy'e's distilery, at Pixies Run, neal
Belle Nerdon, Pa, with 66, 00O gallons OF
whisky, was burned yesterday. Loss,
S75, 600 insurance. sl1, 900.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Editors and Governors.

The editor of this journal has never
been in Controller Pattison's Office he
has never, directly Or indirectly, asked or
suggested either personal or official favor;
P.sttison and the editor of this paper never
met from the time of PattisOn's nOmiua-
tion until after his election they then
met by the governor elect calling at the
editorial rooms to confer about his admin
istration, and when invited to suggest
suitable cabinet officers, the only answer
made WAS that Pattison owed it to him
self, to his solemn reform pledges and to
the people of the state, to select accepta-
BILE Democrats, free from factious alliances
and eminent for their ability and tested
devotion to honest government.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Frank Bender, aged about 10 years, was
this morning committed TO Jail to- answer
for tapping the till of f. Il. Hardy,
dealer in the farmers northern market
The offence was committed several weeks
ago, but Bender managed to eude arrest.
Young as he If, he is an "old offender"
having served tenn in the house of
refuge, as an incorrigible boy and having
been guilty of several other petty larce-
nies, in connection with gang of bad
bows who infest the central and northern
markets.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Before tho n ayOr.

Baltimore Joe was released from Jail on
Saturday and he came out looking re-
markably we'll considering that he had
been penned up in Bnmmer's hall. He
told the story of the suffening and hard
ships in 81 to many persons and his
recital Of it is full of interest. Last night
he got load of whisky on and was ar
rested. This morning he got thirty days.
Another drunk got 10 day and two were
discharged.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Little Ike Smith, the barber, who was
beaten and had an arm broken during an
unp!easantness in which several other
mokes were participants, few day ago,
was not able to attend the hearing before
Alderman Sparrier last evening. and so
the case against Lewis Getz, one Of the
alleged assauitapts, was continued u6Nil
some future day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Discharged.

Yesterday afternoon Henry Leonard had
a hearing before Alderman Barr on the
charge of arson. The complainant was
Frederick Miller, who alleged that Brim-
mer made a statement to him, in which he
implicated Leonard in the burning of
Charles Whites clubhouse. At the hearing
Brimmer denied that he ever said any
thing of the kind to Miller, SO Leonard was
discharged for want of evidence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Election OIOfNcorA

The following named officers, to serve
for the ensuing year, were elected at Il
meeting of the American Mechanics build
ing and loan association, held last even
ing: President, Richard Blickenderfer
Vice Presidents, Daniel &. Baker, Edw. f.
Sny der Treasurer, John ID. SkiIes Sec
retary, VIM. L. Jeifries Directors, NJ. NJ.
Barton, B. f. Benedict, George W. Cor
meny, f J. Erisman, WIN. F. Humble,
Jno. s. Kendig, Geo. A. Marshall, Oliver
Roland, J. Gust Took {; Auditors. John II.
Baumgardner, Oliver Roland, Daniel q.
Baker
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
The CiO1k Man

Jacob Gumpf, the alleged cloak man,
who created CONSERVATION in the Eighth
ward some weeks ago, was to have had a
hearing before Alderman Spurrier last
evening, but, by consent, the case was
continued. 1t will be remembered that
Gumpf sued his captors for assault and
battery, and it is whispered that the CON-
plants on both side will be withdrawn
and the cases settled without going to
court
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

New YORK, like Pennsylvania, is
afflicted with lazy Legislat ure and the
public are beginning to complain that
members who draw seven days pay do
only three days work. There, as here,
the sessions of Monday and Friday
amount to nothing. If it be true that
legislators have not enough to do they
had better go home altogether. This
trifling with the time and patience of
the people is disgraceful. BY this time op-
portunity has been afforded in our
legislature to have offered and referred
business enough to keep the Legislature
at work all session, and yet nothing has
been oven fairly started. The response
bility in both states is almost evenly di-
vided hetween the parties, and in neither
is it worse than when the Republicans
were in control of both Houses. Bat, on
the other hand, the prospect Is that it
will be no better, and that is not what
the people elected 9 Reform" Demo
cratic House for.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Eusebio Sims, aged IS years, and we'll
connected at Charleston, S. c., committed
suicide there by shooting himself through
the head. The youth had a note pinned
to his coat stating that he had killed him-
self for love of young lady whose name
he mentions in the note. Sims recently
came from Spain,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Last evening Auctioneer Shubert sold
at public sale the engine house of the HUI
name fire company, situated on West
King street above Charlotte. The pur-
chaser was G. A. Bitner and the price
81, $50. The building is new and cost the
company $4,000.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Net saving to county by no insuring. 81 ,lGo %
We respectfully submit to the court,
and through the court to the grand jury,
that for tho reasons stated the county
commissioners are of the opinion that it
is cheaper for the county aud the people
that the county should be It's own insurer,
except in the instances mentioned and
for that reason the commissioners have
not as yet had any of the county buildings
insured against fire.
We respectfully submit our stat; ment
for your consideration.
SAMUEL VI. MYERS,
A. SUNNY,
Nj. HILDEBRANT.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

IT would he an odd year, indeed, that
did not chronicle mysterious,
though none tie less disastrous,
explosion of melting at the giant
powder works near San Francisco
Annually that town is shaken up that
way, but as no such incident was
needed this year to complete the cycle OF
calamities that have stained the first
month of it, the explosion, which has
cost twenty Cinnamon their lives
and shattered the hinges of the golden
gate, might have been dispensed with.
Probably the workmen at these mills
know that they go into them with their
lives in their hands, and are paid wages
commensurate with the risk of nevel
coming out of such employment except
in unrecognizahle fragments; probably
the life of a workngmen in such a Ser
| vice out there is not rated very high, as
| the announcement is made with some
| signs of relief that one white mau an(
only thilty Cinnamon reported missing
reduce the casualties below the first re.
port. But the Californians had bette
import their powder than run the con
slant risk which they seem to incur from
these Oakland mills, blowing up period
ically and with unerriDg fatality.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

time. There is nothing in reason and
good conscience to prevent six hours
work per day in four days OF the week
and three hour sessions on Monday and
Saturday. 1t may take a cyclone to
make the members realize this, but it
will surely come.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Nothing is clearer-to the North Ameri
can-than that Governor Pattison ''has
entirely separated himself from the inde
pendent Republicans of Philadelphia and
of the state by "raising a hue and cry
against railroads as being corporate mo-
nopolies' Governor Pattison has simply
demanded the enforcement of the provis-
ions of the new constitution. Are the Iu
dependent Republicans opposed to this?
1T seems that in the camps of railway
builders in the far West the consumption
of lager beer is enormous. At Bismarck IA
correspondent saw an entire isht train of
80 cars laden with bottled beer fl iom 4,
Chicago brewery, bound for tho town
nearest the end of the track. The chief
engineer Of the construction force said that
an average of bottle for every tie laid
Was consumed, and that the tie and the
beer cost the same-50 cents.
AN anonymous CORES pondent complains
that the INTEILIGENCER did not print an
item Of local news as he sent it, Anony-
nous correspondence usually finds its
place in the editorial waste basket, unless
reported facts are first carefully veI fled
by persOE"l investigation. Ia the case
under consideration so much Of the report
furnished Us rs was found TO be correct
was used wherein it was incorrect it was
corrected.
GOCNoD considers his new trilOgy OF
"The Redemption" the work of his life.
The New York critics vary in their esti
mates, but all consider it to abound in
noble conceptions of genius. Philadelphia
will have it's first hearing of the oratorio
at the Academy of Music on Friday eve
ming Of this week, when the Cecli III
society, of that city, comprising a chorus
of some four hundred voices will sing it in
connection with Theodore Thomas solo.
lists and orchestra.
LOGAN is not averse to giving it out that
he has parted company with Grant on tho
Fitz John Porter question, and it is to be
inferred that he has set up for presiden-
tial canIidata against Grant. Ho admits
that he knows as little about grammar as
the ''oid man. but be is not ashamed of
his ignorance 81 SEQ that some of the
papers are pitching into my grammar
Well, grammar won't save Fitz-Jo John Por-
ter, and what say, say, aud don't sign
my name to the articles on the Nicaraguan
canal that are written by somebody else."
THE Philadelphia man who travelled up
to Niagara to throw himself over the falls
not only adopted a sublime method OF
suicide but gave himself the advantage OF
long time and travel to consider the rash
step he was about to undertake, and to
change his purpose if it seemed good to do
SO. Thomas Hilsen was a wool broker,
who had cut some financial and matri-
monial capers, winding up with poverty,
despair, irreligion and a determined pur
pose to commit suicide. In the execution
of it he travelled to the falls, drove to
Luna island, took off his coat and hat and
made the fatal leap.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23
Boys Log Broken.

John Doerson, 500 of Franklin DoersOn,
was shedding yesterday afternoon near st.
Joseph street ard Laurel alley, when the
sled struck a lamp post. Tho boy had
is right leg broken below the knee. DR..
Warren attended him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-23

Against the coll clear sky a smoke
Curls like some column to its dome
An axe with far. faint, DOyi-h stroke.
Rings t"ebly from Il snowy home.
.Dh fat her CONF! The flame burns low
We freeze in this vast field OF snow"
But tar way, and long and vain,
Two horses plunge with snow TO breast.
The weary father drops the reln-
He rests III the eternal rest.
And high against the blue profound
\ dark LirI circles rOnnd and round.
-J0nIuin Miller in the Century.