Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-27

involves the question of the right of a
retired army officer employed in the con.
sular service to receive pay for both Offices
also, the general question whether the
acceptance by a retired army officer of a
position in another branch of the govern
ment is not equivalent to resignation of
his commission in the army.
| Agent Wilcox arrived at Tucson, Ari-
zona, on Monday, on the way to San Car
los. He expressed himself strongly against
the return of tho renegade ''bucks" of the
| Chiricahaus to the San Carlos reservation,
but said he was extremely anxious to
avoid conflict with the military author.
tiles, and hoped the matter would be am
icably arranged between the interior and
war departments.
The effect of the executive order issued
on Monday consolidating various internal
revenue districts is to reduce the number
of such districts 48, or from 126 to 80. It
will probably take until the LIST of August
to carry the order into final effect. The
saving effected by tho consolidation is
estimated at $4,000.
The thirty-seventh annual meeting of
tho association of medical supsrintendents
of American institutions for the insane
opened yesterday in Newport. Thirteen
states, the District of Columbia and New
Brunswick were represented. DR.. John
p. Gray, of Utica, was elected president,
and DIR. Pliny, Earle, of Northampton,
vice president.
Governor Pattison yesterday filed vetoes
of three bills-one the act authorizing the
| Improvement of streets in cities of the
second class (Pittsburgh) and describing
| the manner OF assessing the costs of said
improvements the second the act relating
| to schools in cities of tho second class, and
the third is the Pittsburgh charter.
The ship Proteus is at st. Johns New
foundland, preparing for the voyage to
Lady Franklin bay. She will probably DO
ready to sail tomorrow. The U. s.
steamer Yantic will accompany her to
Smiths Sound.
The Boston Journal publishes q cable
dispatch saying that tho city council of
Paris has appropriated q, 900 francs to
send delegation Of workingmen to the
coming exhibition in Boston.
The Continental guards of New Orleans
will leave New York for Philadelphia to-
morrow morning.
In the Methodist conference, at Var
mouth, Nova Scotia, yesterday afternoon,
vote Oh the basis of union resulted in "a
yeas to 81 nays.
Calamity and Crime.
The floods at St. Louis continued yes
terday, without abatement, but in the
evening, a slight subsistence was noted in
the river ut East St. Louis, which, it is
hoped, is an indication that the worst
was over. In East St. Louis tho low
grounds were flooded to a depth of from
10 to 20 feet. Three fourths OF Brooklyn
were submerged, and the country around
for miles north and south was under
water. The families of the farmers were
''scattered along the ridges and bluffs,
seeking shelter wherever they could find
it," 1t is feared that the aggregate loss
between Alton and Cairo will reach sew.
eral millions of dollars. In St. Charles
county, Mo-, the loss to farmers is esti-
mated at 5000, 900. Two levees, one above
Cape Girardeau and the other at Princes
Landing, broke On Saturday, adding to
the devastation.
A very heavy rain storm visited Bed
ford, Pa, on Monday night. Bridges,
fences and part of the tracks of tho Penn.
sylvania railroad wero swept away, and
tho lower portions OF the town were
flooded to depth of several feet. In the
western part OF the county much damage
was done to the crops.
A large fishing boat sank at TIepassy,
Newfoundland, on Monday night, and six
men were drowned. 1t is supposed the
boat was overloaded.
The steamer Rhinwiddo, from New
York for Miramaichi, in ballast, struck
Torbay Lodges, Nova Scotia, on Monday,
during fog, and will probably be total
loss. Her crew were saved.
1t is feared that tho yacht Hayward, of
New York, which sailed from Portsmouth,
N. B., was sunk in a squall which occur.
red on the day she sailed. She has not
been heard of since.
The Meridian Lumber company's mills
abont 16 miles below Eau Glare, Wis.,,
wore burned last night. Loss, $4,000
insurance. $4,000.
The Rubenstein brewery in OttOwa, ILL.,,
was burned yesterday morning. Loss,
$50, 600. The fire was caused by the OK.
plOsion of millers' dust in the malt room
1t is reported from private sources that
the yellOw fever in Vera Cruz is fearfully
fatal, six out of overy seven cases result.
ing in death.
At Wilkesbarre, eight men were ar.
raigned before court Tuesday morning for
the killing of John Briggs, at Shickshinny,
last February. A demand was made that
each of the defendants be given a separate
trial and it was granted. The trial prom.
ises to be long.
Roger Howcls, aged about sixty five
years, residing in West Pittston, commit.
ted suicide, Tuesday morning, by hanging
in shanty adjoining his residence. He
had to rest his knees on the floor to accom-
plish his purpose. He was man of means
The steamer Rhiwindda, from New
York for Miramichi, in ballast, struck on |
Torbay lodges off Halifax during a fog.
The crew was saved. The ship will prob |
ably be a total loss.
Charles Il. Lowry, nine year old son |
of John Lowry, a rich farmer near Clay |
County Court House, North Carolina, fell |
from the top of an immense poplar tree |
Tuesday head foremost and was impaled |
on an upright fence, tearing his head open
and killing him instantly. Tho child fell |
distance of forty feet. The mother wit
messed the terrible accident from the
piazza and rushed to the scene to find the
lifeless body of her boy.
Professor Edward F. Grady, teacher of
music in tho pubic schools of Baltimore.
was found dead upon the stairway of
kelley's hotel about daylight Tuesday
He was IS years Of age and un
He had been instructor of
music in tho public schools for eight
years. For week past he had been
drinking excessively and death was caused
by gastritis and alcoholism He be.
onged to nearly dozen orders and so
,ieties.
The cornerstone of the new building of
he University of Vermont, at Burlington,
vas laid yesterday and the atatne NJ ,