Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-20
STAR ROUTE mOVEHENrs.
Mr.. Merrlck to Go On IL flo Lives anu Has
Strength.


Strength.
Counsel for members Of tho Star Route
ring have availed themselves of tho report
that Mr.. Merrick, of government counsel,
would have nothing more to do with the
cases to create the impression that the
next Democratic House of Representatives
would not vote money to continue the
prosecution of pending indictments against
members of the ring. Mr.. Merriek was
asked bluntly whether he intended giving
up the fight. He said
"The attorney general has been true to
his Office and to tho cause OF justice and
me throughout these entire transactions.
He has never failed me in any instance,
and if live and have strength will stand
by him to the last
Swindies of All Kinds.
John Belly, harness maker, of Water.
bury, Conn.,, has brought suit for $40, 900
damages against DR.. s. B. Mum, an
electric physician, and his wife. Belly
allege that Mum compounded and Mrs.
administered a medicine which totally
destroyed his eyesight.
In the case of James Fitzgerald, /" the
Kid," serving sentence of five years in
Massachusetts, penitentiary, for swindling
Chas. Francis Adams, the supreme court,
| at Boston, has denied a writ of error and
affirmed the judgment of tho lower court.
A telegram from Wilmington says that
H. Clay Sale, Chicagoan, has victimized
several people in that city by borrowing
money on drafts drawn on Western banks,
which are coming back dishOnored. He is
supposed to have left for Philadelphia OF
New York.
John Jacob AstOr's Denial.
John Jacob Astor emphatically denies
that he has joined Gould in tho man.
agement of the Western Union. He
says
81 have neither directly or indirectly
made any purchase of Western Union
shares within the last three MONTHS
"It is stated that you purchased them
five points below the market value.''
ut is FALSE" (rather excitedly) 81
would not ba likely to accept presents. l
do not thing anybody has authorized the
publication of any statement that bought
these stocks. IL is obvious that I would
not permit my name to be used for any
thing like stock jobbing. repeat, the
whole matter is untrue. have bought
no telegraph stocks either at market price
or below them. I never speculate at all.
find the rents of my property sufficient
Income for me. may buy some stocks
for investment, but never for specula-
tiOn."
Cured by Dan Rico's Prayer
Justice Riman, an Erie county magis-
trate, and ex-member OF the state Legisla-
ture, has been lying at deaths door since
Sunday. Several clergymen prayed at his
bedside, but the afflicted gentleman sank
lower and lower every hour. Tuesday an
old friend, Colonel Dan Rice, tho great
Snowman, clown and Temperance lecturer,
knelt by the dying mans bedside and in.
vOked the Almighty to turn aside the dart
of death. The family wept while the sup
plication was being pronounced in falter-
ing voice. A minister present pronounced
the aged clowns prayer tho most pathetic
he ever heard. Opening his eyes the dying
man said family IL shall live,' and fell
into refreshing slumber. He improved
steadily, and his physician expresses no
solicitude as to the speedy recovery of his
patient.
O'BrionS Circus Again Attacked.
The O'Brien circus was again attacked
by the rough element of J0hnstown Tues
day night. As Special OaRcers Evans,