Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-03
NEWS MISCELLANY.
SATURDAY. NIGHT AND SUNDAY NEWS
A gondeusation OF Recent Events-The
way of the World, Its Grimes and
Other Dotpgs.

COndentAUOh
way of the World, Its Grimes and
Other Doings.
stephen Raymond, alias "Steve" Mar
shall was arrested in New York on Satur.
day on the charge of forgery, in altering
numbers on Union Pacific bond coupons,
supposed to bo part of tho bonds stolen on
Jan, 20, 1876, from the Northampton,
Mass, bank. He was recognized as q
forger, who, in 1878, aided in placing
SO, 900 of forged Erie and Buffalo bonds,
for which he was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary.
At Scranton, Pa, on Saturday, a magis.
trate heard the suit Of Mrs. Syndcr,
against a Mrs Kochert, for being sccused
by the latter Of bewitching her child,
who died recently of marasmus. Not only
Mrs. Kochert, but many of her neighbors,
it seems, believed that the child had been
"bewitched. The parties involved are
described as respectable.
Before q court martial at Vancouver,
Washington territory, on Saturday morn.
ing, Lieutenant Robertson, of the First l.
). cavalry, pleaded guilty to . charge OF
duplicating pay accounts, but said he had
no fraudulent Intentions The court
martial reserved its decision.
John Connolly. a watchman in the treas.
ury department at Washington, committed
suicide by shooting himself in one of the
vaults on Saturday evening. Fa mily
trouble had becn the cause.
The executive committee of the Demo
cratic state committee of Massachusetts,
met in Boston on Saturday, to draw up the
call of the stats convention, which is TO
meet in Springfield on the Goth inst. 1t
was said at the informally
! that Governor Butler wonld be candidate
for re election.
The body of Mary, the elder OF the two
dangters of Lewis d. Vail who were
drowned at Key East, n. J., on Friday
last, was recovered yesterday afternoon in
the undertow, half mile from the place
where they lost their lives. Search for
the Other body is continued.
The boiler Of threshiug machine burst
on Saturday morning near Frankfort, Da.
kota, killing four men and injurng five
others, three perhaps fatally. 1t is be
lieved the disaster was caused by pouring
water into the empty heated boiler.
| A special dispatch from Young
| o., says that the Churchill miners have
| decided 10 return to work to-day at the
old rates. and that the men Of the Gar.
field shaft have returned to work on the
same terms. 1t is also stated that nc
strike is probable in the Mahoning valley
Railroad wrecks
Two freight trains on the Western
Maryland railroad collided near Baltimore
early yesterday morning. William Abel
a brakeman, was killed, and Joseph
Dorsey, cattle drover, was fatally in
| jured. He died last evening. 4 fireman
named Fleigh was injured but not dan
gerously. One of the trains were detained
by hot box, and it was during the de
tentiou that the collision occurred \
| cOroner's jury last night attributed the
disaster To gross negligence.
4 train on the Long Island railroad
which lett kOckaway for Hunters Poiu
last evening. was stopped on u curve near
| Springfield station to put of person who
had refused to pay fare. While standing
on the curve a train from Long Beach ran
into the Rockaway train, wrecking the two
rear cars, the engine and first car of the
| Long Beach train being also demolished
Two men were killed and several passen
| gers severely injured.
| Two trains collided at COLCHESTER sta.
tion, on the Central Vermont railroad, OF
Saturday. Thirteen men were injured
and the engines and tenders were wreck
ed.
Few fires,
Lefring Il Avcry's tannery, at Saud,
Creek, n y, was burned with large
quantity Of stock and bark. The loss i
esti ated at $3.50, 900 Eighty persons ar
thrown out Of work.
The Boston boot and shoe factory iii
New Orleans was burned with an adjoining
building occupied by a hardware and
furniture store. Loss, $50, 900.
Half block of stores in Colorado, Tex.
were burned Loss st0 OOO
\ large four story brick building il
New Haven, connecticut, occupied by th
New Haven staple manufacturing com
pany, the New Haven manufacturin
company, the Strong cartridge company
John Adj machInists' tools and manufact
urcrs' supplies, aud Chas. Brow, scrol
saving, wood turning, &C., were destroye
by fire yesterday afternoon. The loss
estimated at 100000. 4 fireman wa
severely injured "A telegram from Sa
Antonio, Texas, says that during the pas
two days in that neighborhood, 18th
: losses ou hay, fences aud timber by fire
estimated at 10000. Upward Of 1900
acres of pasture land northwest of the cit
has bsen devastated. The fires have bee
set. The NuHnemacker milling con-
3 pauy's mill, in Milwaukee, was destroye
4 by tire last night to the extent Of abor
y s7j, 900. About sl5, 600 damage was dor
, to malt stored in an adjoining building.
Making Dodge City Good.
, The council Of Dodge City, Kansas, G
Friday night, instructed the marshal
5 enforce the ordinance relating to gan
/ bling and prostitution after the 9th inst
, and adopted an ordinance, 10 take effect
. tue same time, forbidding music in salOoI
: aud dance houses. This action of II
= city fathers is attributed to the persuasion
c of the officers Of the Atchison, Topel
@ aud Santa Fe railroad, who assured Il
4 city authorities that if an effort was MAJ
toward reform branch road would con
> there, and that the company would at on
e commence the erection OF permanent AZ
n expensive buildings. In the event that
such effort was made all their shops wOu
be removed and the road taken to son
other point" and yesterday, for the fir
- time in the history Of Dodge City, the
was a semblance Of Sunday, all busine
* houses, saloons, dance halls and gamblil
: hells being closed. The decent bod