Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-03
INCIDENTS AND AoCiDEsTs OF LIFE


Financial and OommsecAa1-Calsnity and
Urime-Pers0nal ana Political IA.
tallties and Blunders.
There is possibility of another railroad
rate war at Chicago, tho management Of
the Wabash road having yesterday re-
duced the price Of limited tickets between
Chicago and St. Louis, either way, to
$3.50. The Wabash officials assert that
for some time scalpers have been selling
large numbers of Illinois Central and Chi
gaco and Alton tickets between Chicago
and st Louis at SO. so each, which is SIS
below the regular rate. The Wabash peo
pie claim that "this could not be done by
sclalpers unless they were given facilities
for getting the tickets at about &c." The
other roads, it is expected, will meet the
reduction.
The creditors of the Shaw Brothers, in
Bangor Maine, are placing attachments on
the property of that firm in the hope that
the Maine creditors will have the prefer
ence. In Penobscot county, in which
Bangor issituated, the attachments aggre
gate S72, 600, and in other parts Of the
state they aggregate over S100,000 Tho
Boston Journal reports the suspension
yesterday of F. T. & J. D. Finney, boot
and shoe manufacturers Of Summer street,
with liabilities of 100000. They are on
Shaw & Brothers papers to that amount.
The Calmut iron and steel company
yesterday executed a mortgage in Chicago
to A. J. Ives, for $500. 900 on the 81. B.
Brown Iron works." It is understood the
company needs the money to clear up out.
standing accounts.
Campos, Diaz & Co., of Merida, have
contracted with the government Of Mexico
to colonize the state of Campeche and
Yucatan with mechanics and farmers from
southern countries.
The first national bank of Independ.
ence, Kansas, was yesterday authorized
to begin business, with capital Of $780,
600.
Serious and Fatal Accidents.
railroad near Newport, Vermont, on
Wednesday. about fifteen passengers were
injured, two or three of them perhaps
fatally. The train ran off the track owing
to the spreading Of the rails.-The bodies
of three of the victims of the railroad COL
lision near North POwnalI, Vermont, were
found yesterday terribly burned. They
are believed to be the remains of Mark
Sutherland and Charles Marden, engi-
neers, and H. H. Bruce. telegraph opera
tor. The three missing bodies are be.
lieved to have been reduced to ashes.
The loss on property is $50, ,O00.-Four
Hungarians were injured, two fatally, by
the premature discharge of dynamite
blast in the new tunnel at Phenixville,
Pa, yesterday.-Four persons were in.
jured, two it is feared fatally, by fire in
tenement house in Brooklyn yesterday.
George Loust, aged 1G years, and his
sister Lena, aged IA, were drowned last
evening in tho North river, New York, by
the upsetting of o boat.-George w.
Conkling and Charles Krymer, the former
we'll known contractor, and the latter a
painter, persisted from suffocation in a
cesspool at Passaic, new Jersey, on We'd
nesday, while trying to rescue Il man who
had been overcome in the same vault. No
other lives were lost.
THO Annals OF Crime.
John Phillips, q colored hOstler in st.
Louis, was stabbed to death by white
man who he caught stealing chickens on
Wednesday night Roger Woods, a noto-
rious cock fighter, was arrested yesterday
on suspicion.-A salute of 80 guns was
fired in Hanover Square, at Syracuse, New
York, last evening, in rejoicing over the
killing of the informer Carey. Two gun
ners were badly wounded by the premature
explosion of a charge. - D. w. Presssll,
charged with having feloniously assaulted
nine year old girl, was taken from the
Jail at Mayersville, louisiana, by mob
and lynched on Wednesday night. -
Charles Ford, who killed Jesse James, was
arrested yesterday in Kansas City, under
the old indictment for tho Blue Cut train
robbery. - Arthur w. Oliver, 81 years
of age, committed suicide in Lynn, Mas
sachusetts, carly yesterday morning,
because of disappointment in love. - The
rebellion in the Mexican state of Tama
uliprs has been suppressed by tho troops
recently sent from Nueva Leon.