Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-16
NEWS MISCELLANY.

Things That Happen In Various Depart
menIs Of Lifo.
Tho Mississippi river improvement com
mittee of the Merchants exchange OF St..
Louis, have concluded to request commit
tees from different places in the Valley to
send one or more delegates to a meeting
to be held in ST. Louis on July 11th, to
devise plan TO be put in operation next
fall and winter for securing necessary ap-
preparations for tho improvement of the
river.
Our total exports OF provisions aud tai
low during the seven months which ended
on the 31st of May last, amounted in value
to $5S, ,694, 975, against $50, 309, ,414 during
the corresponding period of last year.
Secretary Lincoln will wait until ho re-
ceives more definite information from
General Crook before deciding what dis
position shall be made of the captured
Apache Indians.
Tho president yesterday appointed
Albert Woodcock, of Illinois, to be consul
at Catania, Italy, aud Alexander l.. Schri
ner, of Maryland, to be delegate to the in
ternational trade exhibition to DO held III
Amsterdam this year.
The steamer Alabama arrived at St
Johns, Newfoundland. on Thursday night
from New York, with boats and stores
for the Greeley relief expedition.
The 'shigh license bill' passed the Sen
ate of Illinois yesterday by q vote of 30 to
90, and was soon afterwards signed by the
governor.
George Morrison, night distribution
clerk in the postofice at Toledo, Ohio, was
arrested yesterday, on the charge of steal
ing from the mails.
The exercises of the 136th annual com
mencement of the College Of New Jersey.
at Princeton, will begin to-day.
In explanation of the "deficit Of
Clinton Spencer, postmaster of Ypsilanti,
Michigan, it is said that he was sup
porting some helpless relatives, which
tempted him to overdraw his accounts" I"
lost a leg at Gettysburg.
Rev. ]. C. BRAGG, formerly a Catholic,
was ordained a minister in the First Bap-
tist church, in Burlington, Vermont, last
night Forty ministers from New York
and New EN- gland were present.
A Meeting of the Monroe county branch
of the Irish National league was held at
Rochester, New York, last night, when
$276 were subscribed to the Parnell fund
and larger amount promised for the next
meeting.
A Brutal Murderer Lynched.
The negro Jordan Corbin, who murdered
Benjamin Garden and seriously wounded
his wife and son for the purpose of out
raging Gardens daughter, near Rockford,
Coosa county, Ala, Monday night was
captured by citizens aud put in Jail We'd
nesday. That night he was taken from
Jail by a crowd of five hundred persons
md
deliberate and horrible that can be con-
about the house, which was barricaded by
lay her dead husband, who had been shot
in the head while asleep by gun pushed
through a window. The daughter escaped
to the woods. She was found almost dead
from fright and his not expected to live.
The mother and son will recover.
Missing from Reading.
Fears are entertained at Reading that
Daniel Koch, a we'll. known citizen of that
place, has either met with sudden death
or committed suicide. Tuesday morning
he donned his working clothes and left
the house at six o'clock ostensibly to 20
to work, since which time nothing has
been heard from him. His wife noticed
that he had a very peculiar look while at
the breakfast table, but supposed it to be
owing to having his hair cut, which he
generally wears long. On his way to the
shop he met friend, to whom he stated
he was tired of living and that in twenty
four hours all would be over. He has
been suffering for years With double
hernia, contracted in the army, and at
times became Respondent.
About tho WOrkingmen.
The trade tribunal, at Pittsburgh. met
again Friday, but transacted no business,
as Ebenazer Oliver, ono of the miners
rnnrasantafixas declined to aarxa anu