Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03
NEWS NOTES.


The city council Of Danville, Illinois,
having fixed the yearly rate of saloon Ii
censes at 5000, all tho saloon keepers in
that city yesterday refused to pay the
license and closed their places. A large
number of citizens signed call for 4 pub
lie meeting to urge that the license rate
be raised to 81 600, whereupou the saloon
keepers yielded aad agreed to pay tho
5000.
A tow boat was to have left Helena, AR
kansas, last evening, for St. Louis with
three barges laden with $1,000, 600 feet of
ash lumber from tho Helena mills. The
timber will be distributed by rail through.
out tho Northwest, and similar shipments
will follow once a month during tho sum
mer.
Fifty cOlOrcd emigrants from Kentucky
passed through St. Louis on Tuesday on
their way to Kansas. They said they were
the advance guard of a number who cx-
pected to settle near Topeka, and that
there will be large immigration Of
colorcd people from Kentucky in the fall.
The supreme court Of Rhode Island has
ratified the settlement by the heirs of the
will Of George +. Wilson, who left $780,
600 to Brown university and $4,000 to
Dartmouth college. The ratification as
sures thesas sums to the institutions
named.
More Indian depredatious are reported
in New Mexico. and several companies Of
soldiers have been sent in pursuit Of tho
offenders.
A telegram from San Fraucicco reports
the failure of Dickey Brothers, "the
largest ship builders on tho coast. for
500, ,OOO."
The Track "f Crime.
In New Orleans, on Tuesday night, John
O'Callahan challenged his brother in law,
Michael Naalan, to pistol duel. They
met on the street and fired at fifteen PAGES.
Nealen was wounded and both men were
arrested.-Henry Guidry, of Opelousas,
Louisiana, was waylaid and assassinated
on Monday morning while returning with
his family from Deishbor's house. He
was riddled with buckshot. The assassin
Is unknown.
w. 3. Searight, mayor OF Vincennes,
Indiana, committed suicide yesterday by
shooting himself. He had been mayor for
six years, but was defeated at re elec.
ton on Tuesday," jim ~ Woods and
Ben Fletcher, who were sentenced to
hanged at Natchez, Mississippi, to day,
have had their sentences cOmmuted to
Imprisonment for life.-Henry Forham
was hanged yesterday in Helena. Montana.
He bequeathed his body to tho surgeons.
II. NJ. Fulton entered q saloon in
Chicago and, while drunk, began a con.
| versation with lounger named Filker.
Believing that Filker was employed in the
saloon, Fulton gave him 81, 800 worth OF
jewslry to take care of temporarily, soon
after which Filker and the valuables dis.
appeared.-OD Monday in Baltimore; while
Anna Travers was going from the house
of her sister to her own home, three
blocks distant, she was assaulted by two
colOred men, who felled her with a stone
and then cut her throat and robbed her
of a few dollars 1t is thought her injuries
will prove fatal.-A difficulty occurred on
Saturday between Isaiah Cain, promi
nent farmer. and Amos Bailey, colored, at
Summit, Mississippi, when Cain was
struck on the head and so badly injured
that he died on Monday. On Tuesday
night fifty armed men took Bailey from
the sherid's posse and hanged him near
the scene of the murder.-J. 3. Egler was
shot dead by Foster S. Wines in a quarrel
at Greenville, Ohio, yesterday morning.
Horse Against Bicycle
The Boston race for $4,000 at Casino,
between Leroy, cham pion horseback rider.
and Prince and Woodside, bicycle cham
pions, which was broken off by Leroy dis
locating his shoulder, was resumed yester.
day. Leroy had his arm strapped to his
side, and was assisted in mounting. The
bicyclers had gained lead Of nine miles
and three laps on him, and ne at once be-
gan to cut their lead down. Prince pre-
ferred to open the race against Leroy and
when he started it was evident that his
two days of hard work had made him stiff
and sore. Leroy gained lap after lay on