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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03
THE AMERICAN MECHANICS.
$50 OF tn. state Councils Sessions.

CIoso OF the State Councils Sessions.
Tho state c3uncil .. U. a. N. met at q
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, State Coun-
cilor SendcrlinG presiding. The first bust
ness OF public interest was the passing OF
a resolution allowing all councils of the
order to wear their regalia in case any
desire to participate in the ceremonies Of
Decoration Day in any part of the state.
A resolution was offered and unanimously
adopted extending the thanks of the state
council to Edw. s. Smeltz, Of this city,
for tho able manner in which he furnished
the reports Of the proceedings of tho
session also vote OF thanks to the In
TELLIGENCER, Examiner and Nep Era, for
the cOurtsey showed the state members
through their columns.
49, Statistics Of the Orsier.
From tho report of state council officers
we obtained the following figures :. For
the year ending June so, 1SS2-number OF
councils in Pennsylvania, 157 number Of
members initiated during the year, 1850
total membership to date, GO, 325 amount
of money received by subordinate councils
during the year, SS9, ,972 43 /; amount paid
out by subordinate councils for benefits
and relief. $50, 4S5. II moneys in treasures
Of subordinate councils, 1924. 70S GA re
ceipts OF widows and orphans fund during
the year, So, 4S6.01 number of widows q;
deceased brothers, $50; number Of orphans,
9S5 !; amount of relief paid to widows dur
ing the year, 81 ,O5s.64; total amount in
widows and orphans fund, $50, ,OS5.39.
Tho Work OF the Order.
BY request of the state council Nations:
Secretary James N. Cally, OF Philadelphia,
exempliiied the unwritten work OF the
order for the benefit of the members and
representatives. Considerable other bus
iness Of 4 private nature was transacted,
and the session adjourned ut ) O'Clock by
singing and prayer.
This session was one of great Importance,
great deal Of business having been trans.
acted which was beneficial to tho order in
general. The best OF feeling and entire
harmony prevailed during all Of the meet
ings and from the expressions of many
tile prospects OF the advancement and
progress of the order never looked brighter
than ut this time. The visitors expressed
themselves very much pleased with Ian
caster and the hospitality of its people.
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CITY COUNCILS.
PROCEEDINGS IN BorH nKaNuaxs.

Monthly Report Of the CITY Treasurer
Action on tho purchase OF tho
Humane Hose House
4 stated meeting of select and common
councils was held in their respective
chambers last evening at 7:30 O'Clock.
SELECT COUNCIL.
Present-Messrs. Baker, Baldwin, Dill
ler, Evans, Wise, Wolf, Zecher. and
Berger, president.
The monthly report of the city treasurer
and receiver of taxes was presented and
read. 1t shows balance in the city treasury
on the 1st inst. amounting to IS, 81. SO.
The monthly report of the finance com.
mittee was presented by Mr.. Evans and
read. 1t states that the committee had
audited the city treasurer's accounts and
found them correct. Also. that G. w.
Zecher had been appointed to make out
the city duplicate that the mayor was
requested to call in SIS, 900 of city bonds
for the sinking fund.
Mr.. Zecher presented the monthly re-
port of the water committee, which was
read.
A communication from Mayor Mac.
GOnigle was read, announcing the resig.
nation of Henry Elias, policeman Of the
Seventh ward, and the appointment in his
stead Of Augustus Steinwandel, and ask.
ing the approval Of his action by council
Council unanimously approved the ap.
pointment.
The following petitions were read and
referred
To repair Lime and Low, and Frey berg
| streets to lay crossings at Christian and
North, and Christian and Duke streets
to grading Duke street south of Green.
Ordinances Passed.
Ordnance No. 1, providing for a clerk to
the committee on fire engine and hose com
panies, prescribing his duties and fixing
his salary at 500 per year was read q
second and third time and passed unani
mously.
Ordinance No. 9, appropriating the
public moneys for city purposes, for tho
| ensuing year, was read q second and thirC
time and the several items of the apprO-
| priation were adopted seriatim unani-
mOusly. Tie ordinance as passed finally
Is rs follows:
| An ordinance apprOpriating the public
| moneys OF the City of Lancaster to the sew.
| eral departments thereof tor the fiscal yeal
| commencing on the lst day OF June. 1883
| SECTION l. BE it ordained by the Select anC
| Common Councils OF the City Of Lancaster
| that the sum of S!63.90O be and the same i.
| especially appropriated to the several objects
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A WOman's Horrible Dea,h.
Harrisburg Patriot.


AS tho day express east. which leaves
this city at 4:25, reached Docks furnace
on the Pennsylvania railroad yesterday
evening, ~ woman was seen busiiY ell,
gagged in picking something from the
tracks. The engineer blew his whistle
expecting the woman to get ont Of the
way. She did not heed and before the
locomotive could be stopped sho had been
struck and hurled into the air. When
picked up she was still alive, bur died
shortly afterwards. Her body was put On
the cars and taken to Middletown, placed
in the tool house of the supervisor Of tue
division. She was badly cut up, but the
principal injury and that one from which
she so soon died vas a cash above the
right eye. No one knew her at that piaca
and her aame could not be asccrtained up
to midi ght. She is middle aged, small,
rather good looking and has dark hair. 1t
is believed she is from the neigh bol ;ncd
OF Steeitop.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

LADY HARCoURT, the American wife of
the English home minister who has an
only son of whom she is deyotedly fond,
received the other day while ut dinner, her
husband being absent. large official
looking envelope addressed in q clerkly
hand, and marked in the corner Gimme
diate.' She opened it, aud found square
piece of blanket with a note in a feminine
handwriting, saying that tho blanket had
been cut from the bed of man sick unto
death with continent smallpox.
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growing that the act was assassination.
The witness from whom Thompson learned
tho story of his wife's dishonor and his
own shame is reported to have had rea-
sons in her own experience for wishing to
involve the Davis and Thompson families
in trouble, and as the suspicion grows that
Thompson made mistake the feeling
strengthens that men prone to such mis-.
takes should not run at large.
THE Philadelphia Record, almost alone
among our contemporaries, emphasizes the
point originally made by the INTELLIGENT
GER that those who demanded the Legisla-
ture should refuse seat to Dukes ought,
in consistency, to demand the exclusion of
Thompson, the Kentucky homicide, from
Congress. The Record says truly that
| Thompson cannot plead self defense as
Dukes did, for Davis when killed was
running away. If not in danger of being
killed, Dukes was in danger of great bodily
HARM" And yet we have the first news.
paper to see that advocated I" a wrench Of
parliamentary law" in the Dukes case
which now proposes to apply the principle
to Thompson's.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks it a
curious case of "moral strabismus that
of James Carey, the informer, who be-
longed to a murderous secret society,
plotted with his fellow members to com
NIT murder, and then, when in danger,
betrayed them, but whose Sabbatariar
scruples prevented him from attending
meetings of the society on Sunday ! And
yet such cases as this are not all rare in
criminal annals. Has the Ledger neve
heard of the brutal Philadelphia MURDERS
who killed the child victim of his lust, but
who refused to take advantage Of an ap
peal to the supreme court, because to d.
) so he would have had to swear it was not
taken for delay and, he said, 81 never
took a false oath and won't now, not even
to save myself from the gallows." Ant
hanged he was.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

Charles F. Hager, Of the firm OF Haeer
BROTHERS, accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Mathiot and Mrs Hager, will sail from
New York for Europe on Saturday in the
steamer Brittania. They left Lancaster
this morning. MIR. Hager will be absent
three or four months, but the ladies will
remain longer.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03
ALARM AMONG LUMBERhIEN.

Spruce Trees Rapidly Dying From Some
Mysterious Cause.
Reports from the lumber regions Of
Aroostook, Me-, show that spruce trees
are dying at 4 rapid rate. Last winter
operations were begun Oh part of a
township where it was expected that 7O0,-
600 feet would be cut, but only 5000 feet
of sound spruce could be found. Exami-
nation showed that the sprucs in tho rest
of the township was in the same condition.
There is township that Fish river waters
that is we'll timbered, and there
is fine chance for lumber operations.
On this tract It is estimated that 1000, 600
feet of sound spruce lumber is standing,
but at the rate the trees are dying in five
years there will not be 100000. So far
as can be ascertained there are no worms
at work on the spruce, and tho cause of
it's decay is mystery. The tops of the
dead spruce trees have reddish color and
look as though they had been scocched by
fire. There are a number OF townships in
which it is estimated that three fourths
of the spruce trees are dead. The loss to
the owners of the land will be very heavy
from this cause. One gentleman suggests
that the trees are dying from old age.
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or made a Republican his private secre-
tary, and appointed another recorder IN
Philadelphia his successor and ap-
pointee in the controllers Office made
the general secretary of the Independent
Republican state committee bis chief
auditor, and the governors secretary of
state made the western secretary Of the
same committee his deputy. AS to lad
vice and cooperation" the governor has
not specially sought that from any set OF
politicians. He has depended largely on
his own judgment and submitted to pop
ular approval or condemnation OF his
acts. If the counsel of the Independents
has not been invited, neither has that OF
his own party leaders Senators Stewart
and Lee have, it is generally understood
had quite as open door to the executive
chamber as Senators Wallace and Coke
and if Mr.. Wolfe will offer his "advic:
and co operation" it will no doubt b'
politely received and given due consid
| Grafton. If he waits for special invi
tation he will keep on waiting and growl
ing.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03
LABOR'S STRIKE.
ADVANCED WAGES DEnANDEO.

Iron Workers ana Coal Miners-Cigar.
makers and Stone Cutters
Displaced BY Machinery.
According to a telegram from Mil
waukee, many shoemakers are idle in that
city in consequence of the introduction Of
machinery. ''In one establishment, where
over twenty men we're but lately en-
plOyed, there are but half q dozen work
ing at present. The change, which has
gradually come about, is said to be 'taken
philosophically by the men, who are
looking for other work. One man who
left his situation last night said I" he had
worked a whole week and earned only
$780,"
The coal miners of the Belleville, Ills,
district struck yesterday for higher wages.
They have been receiving from l. J to 2
cents per bushel. They now demand J
cents, which the operators refuse to give.
It is understood that similar actio4 will be
taken in all the districts of the state.
A few of the cigar manufacturers of st.
Louis, No., are paying slight advance,
but the majority of the men are working
at the old prices.-The striking cigar
makers of Philip Rufe, in Reading, have
returned to work. their demands having
been granted. Nearly all the other en-
ployers have voluntarily advanced wages.
All but two of the cigar manufacturers
of Buffalo have granted the increase asked
by their employees.
The union stone cutters and plasterers
of St. Louis struck yesterday for 81 per
day, an increase of so cents, About 500
stone cutters and GOO plasterers are out.
The bricklayers of the same city will TO-
day demand an increase of 80 cents per
day, which, 1t is understood, the bosses
will refuse.
The conference committees of tho iron
manufacturers and Amalgamated associa
ton, to settle the rate OF wages for the
ensuing year, will meet again in Pittsburgh
to-day. The general belief is that there
will be no agreement, and that a strike is
inevitable.
A telegram from Chattanooga says the
trouble in the Daily Times Office will be
ended to-day, sufficient number Of Eor
union compOsitors having been secured.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

By the breaking of a car wheel on a
coal oil train, on the Lehigh Il Susque-
hanna railroad in this state, yesterday
morning, the explosion of eight tanks Of
oil was caused, great fire ensued and
greater dangers we're only averted by the
prompt arrival and strenuous efforts of
liremen and their machinery. From all
accounts the damage and the danger
were tenfold those occasioned by the re,
ported bursting of an oil pipe line at
Leavittsburg, Ohio, some weeks ago
if, indeed, any such accident oc
Cured at all, which is disputed.
That incident was eagerly seized upon
by the newspapers opposed to free pipe
lines as an argument against them. 1t
was notably paraded in the editorial
columns of the Eranainer and Nep Era
of this city, to demonstrate the force Of
their opposition to free pipe lines. Now
that the much stronger argument:
against Carrying oil by railroad are ST
widely illustrated by a well-verilied oc
currence, near home, will they in tht
light of this blazing railroad accident
admit that the safer way to traEspor
oil is in underground pipes
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

read. Common council concurred in the
action Of select COUNCIL.
AdjOurned.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

The House having agreed to divert q
million dollars of liquor license tax from
an overfiowing state treasury into the
county treasures may well pause and
consider before it votes to reduce the
state revenues any further. But since
the sinking fund shows an immense sur
plus constantly on hand why not legis'
la:e to take from it and put into the
general fund? 1t seems that there is /,
steady flow of money, from fixed and
unfailing sources, into the sinking fund ;
that there are no bonds redeemable and
that beyond the constitutional redemp
tion of state loans there is great sur
plus of money which might for a time,
at least, be turned into the general fund
and the burthen Of taxation be lightenel.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

To what base uses may We come at last !!
A great grandson of John Quincy Adams
and a son of August Belmont freshmen
at Harvard, ambitious to serve as supes
On theatre stage in Boston. we:o isno-
mniously ruled out for undersize.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

MANY years ago the farce of Box and
Cox" was very popular. The author Of
it is now charity patient in PhiIadel-
phia asylum.
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THERE are some signs of healthy re
action in popular sentiment in Kentucky
in the case of "Phil" Thompson, who
has been indicted for the cowardly murder
Of Walter 3. Davis. A sentiment is
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obeyed.
JOHN H. LANDS, who will dream for
Blaine until the long halt comes has made
canvass of tho presidential preferences
Of the House with this result Blaine, 43 !;
Edmunds, 81 {; Lincoln, 3; Grant, :;
Sherman, 1; W. D. Kelly, 1; Blaine or
Edmunds, / ; Blaine or Lincoln, / Har-
rison or Edmunds, undecided, 10 :
absent, 4.
THE selection by President Arthur of
the familiar but significant names "Bo.-
ton, Chicago" aud Atlanta " for the
new men of-war is sensible reaction
against such nomenclature as the ''MOs.
alu," tho "Naumkeag," the '.Sbokokcu." "
the "Squando," the "Umpqua - and he
"Waxsay." Besides tho president grace
fully hororcd three great sections Of the
country.
"TIME sofSens all asparities - has pass
ed into a proverb, and 2 striking il.ustra
tion of i. will occur at Niagara Falls on
May 90, when the survivors of the Twenty
eighth regiment, New York volunteer,
will meet and entertain as their guests the
survivors of the Fifth Regiment OF Viz
ginia volunteers. The last meeting ,i
these organic zstions was lats in tho after
noon of August 0, 1862, in the bloody ccn-
tlict at Cedar Mountain, Virginia
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, On her
Way home from Florida, expresses the
opinion that the South will in the next ten
years make rapid progress in all internal
developments looking to the gradual buil3-
ing up of places now lying idle for want of
energy and capital. A better class of i'm.
migrants will soon seek the fertile fields of
the South, and it is only question of
time before it will be swarming with
manufactures and industrial pursuits
equal to Manchester and Lyons.
THERE are some signs of healthy re
action in popular sentiment in Kentucky
in the case of "Phil" Thompson, who
has been indicted for the cowardly murder
Of Walter B. Davis. A sentiment is
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-03

Cardinal McCloskey, in New York. yes
terday received MIR. Alexander Sullivan,
president of tue Irish National League of
America. There we're present Archbishop
Corrigan, Very Rev. Isaac T. Hecker,
Father Farrelly and Mr.. G. A. Hardy, OF
Philadelphia. 1t is said the cardinal and
the other gentleman present warmly
endorsed the proceedings of the Philadel-
phia convention"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-11

Baron Tennyson win be the first great poet who
has sat 10 the House OF Peers since the days OF
I0-d Byron. and ne Will De the first poet OF classic
excellence who has Won and taken such political
honor. Other mer famous in literature have been
raised to the same rank, still higher; but, as in
The cases of Bacon, Bulwer, Macauiay and DisraeIi
they have generally been conspicuous as states
men as well as authors The Right Honorable
Baron TennysonS duties a feudaI lord will not
be onerous. ard many people who have loved the
poet viii object 70 the peer. But the honor is ten
dered TO him as public recognition OF his emf
hence in letters and that he accepts 1t and enters
On the formal duties Of hereditary maker Of
his country is not a matter Of fault-1nding even
among staunch republicans, especially as he has
retained the name by which the world knows him
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" ANTED--HOUSES.

WANTED.EoCsEs TO RENT. APPLY B. Il.
w WARNER, GIG 7 street northwest. dS-3t.
"AETED-TOP PURCHASE RESIDENCE IN THE
w northwest section Of tie city suburbs for uniIn-
proved lands in Florida. Apply to W. L. McGARY 40
louisiana avenue northwest. r2O-2uSly-
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Inc order recently issued by the police authorities
o. New York, 10 the effect that .every professional
tnlei should be arrested on sight, proved 70 be a
good thing for that city, but It's effect upon other
places nas not been so pleasant II has driven all
Sse crooked men out OF the metropolis. but there
nave never been so many burgaries and cases OF
sneak-thieving In Brooklyn and other nelghboriug
cites as since the PRONUNCIATION Of the order Gre
sting the exodus OF Course. after working the
ueids nesir at hand. the criminals thus driven out
on New YORK win soon widen tile circle Of their
operations, and some OF them VIII find their way to
washington IN due season. Forewarnei IS fore
armed, and our police force Will doubtless take all
measures In Its power 10 Illustrate the r0gues and
protect the community from their raids; but it
would greatly simplify Its Labor md at the same
time AFFORD additional safeguards TO law-ablding
people, II some such order IS thtt promulgated in
New fora, could be issued and enforced here It
must come TO that in the end. IN ali large cities, II
their Inhabitants are not 20 be given UP as easy
prey to the criminal classes and the sooner the ex-
ample OF New York In this respect is followed the
better.
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FOR RENT-FLATS.

NOR RENT-IN
Il THE PORTLAND"
Several small, handsomely furnished apartments
THOS. j. FISHER CO..
DIST 1894 st. n. ".
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Dr.. Rosecrans seems to have the largest practice
o. any OF the Congressional Medicine Men Yester-
day he stood sponsor to ty-fve t;lls In the state
competition Indiana, so far. carried oil the PALM
with total OF l5e bills and resolutions: but one or
ewo large states are 10 be heard from today
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The Holiday Season.

Owing to the demand for advertising space. Incl
cent to the holiday season. The STAR VIII be issued
IN double-sheet or eight-page form Tomorrow
IN order TO Insure insertion and classification
advertisers viii confer favor by sending in their
orders as early as possible
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OvERcoA7s AND STORM S1asA1s
ORDERED OUT

ID 7.
TIE WEATHER FOR SEVERAL DAYS PAST HAS
-EEN ALTOGETHER TOO MILD AND BALMY FOR
DECEMBER, AND
WINTER OVERCOATS
HAVEN'T GONE QUITE AS FREELY AS THEY
WOULD HAD THE THERMOMETER BEEN AT
ZERO. WE CAN DO NO BITTER SERVICE THAN
20 DIRECT PEOPLE HERE FOR THE SUPPLY OF
THEIR WANTS IN THE MATTER OF WEARING AP-
PAREL. AND WHATEVER !, WANTED WILL BE
FOUND HERE IN CHOICE VARIETY
IF THE PRESENT INDICATIONS PAN OUT" TOP
OATS WILL HAVE THE CALL TO-DAY AM SUCH
CUSTOM-LIkE LOOKING AND PERI ECT FITTING
COATS AS OURS AREt THE POSSIBILITIES OF
TIE BEST AND FINEST CLOTHING AT SAFE AND
HONEST PRICES CANNOT BE FULLY COMPRE-
dENDED WITHOUT SEEING WHAT WE HAVE
DONE IN THAT DIRECTION.
GEORGE SPRANSY
ONE PRlCL CLOTHIER AND TAILOR
oil SU. SESENIN STREET
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l. upon the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association wss
intended to utterly ruin its business but it seems to
have had the opposite effect for on one single dav last
month applications were received for $4,000 nsur-
ance- Assessment No 10, just collected brought in
e65000 1he reserve fund now exceeds 10000 which
IS being invested IN U.S. Bonds by the trustee the Cen
trL Trust Company Of New York The Association COM
peted its third year in October and has already written
covering 10000 600 Of insurance The
admission fee and years dues in advance are $40 ON
$4,000. and $50 on $1,000 The annual dues for ex
renses are % for each 600 Of the certificate The
aeasneuts for death claims are ct age Is Al on each
$1,000 of the certificate s. 81 age as 81 GA a
S. &S eye S. e. One fourth Of each assessment goe
into The deserve turd TO protect the conn any against
.apees and extra mortality Come and insure Ofice
1909 b street
ul5 L KNIGHT
h Or LATEST STYLES NEW MARKETS RUsSIAN
b.sAa esese = 9s Is 49,
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As might have been expected, the French gov
eminent has been sustained by a vote in the Cham
pers, where the prime ministers speech asking for
money TO carry on the Tonquin campaign was
greeted with cheers and warllke shouts Thus
strengthened, the government can now treat the
question with greater confidence and yigor and It
Is reported steps viii be taken al once to terminate
the present uncertainty way q the other From
CHINA the latest adv1ceS are pacific II being said
mat the ministry have counSeIed peace In an inter-
view with the royal family
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= FURNISHED OR UNFINISHED FLATS
In the Seminary" 1901 Stth street northwest THOS
e. wAGGAMAN. BIZ F STREET northwest. d5-lw