Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-02

creek and threw the child in the water !;
that it lived from the time it was born
until she threw It in that she walked back
| to the house and went up stairs unassisted
and then went to bed, where she still re-
mains. She will be arrested when she can
be safely removed. She makes no state
ment as to the paternity Of the child.
PANIC IN A CuUKCH.
The Work of Some MischievOus Boys With
| aCannOn Two Feet Long.
During the height of watch h-meetin g
services in the Cotton street Reformed
Evangelical church at midnight, at Read
| ing, panic was caused by an explosion
in front of the church. A shower of
broken glass fell on the congregation
and in a few seconds tho audience room
was filled with smoke. The congregation
was very large, consisting mostly cf
women and children. They shrieked in
alarm, because at the first explosion the
church was shaken and the front windows
were smashed. Order was finally restored
before any one was tramped in the excite.
ment. 1t was subsequently learned that
about twenty mischieyous young men had
backed up q cannon two and -a.half feet
long with two-inch bore quite near to
the front Of the church. They then loaded
the cannon with two pounds of powder
| and fired it. Owing to the force of the
Overcharge, the cannon was hurled with
terrible force against the church, crack
ing tho wall, shaking the building and
smashing the windows. Seven Of the
offenders were arrested and placed under
bonds for court and warrants were issued
for the arrest Of thirteen more.
a Disastrous New Years Salute.
At Bethlehem Samuel Houser and sew
eral members of Liberty fire company met
at the hosehouso of the company before
midnight Sunday night, for the purpose
of firing salutes in honor of the birth of
the New Year. Houser was armed with a
Springfield rifle. Several loads had been
| shot OIL after IL o'clock. The rifle was
loaded for the fourth or fifth time and Mr..
HOuser went out of the house to fire 1T.
The rifle exploded and Mr.. uouser is
minus several fingers from tho left hand.
The stock of the ritle was shattered into
splnters and the barrel was split and
twisted. The flesh was torn from Mr..
Houser's left hand and his fingers blown
away. A surgeon amputated portion Of
the hand.
He Mentions Baldwin md Dies.
Samuel r. Lentz, II years old, died
suddenly at the dinner table at his resi-
dence, 1924 Jefferson street, Philadelphia,
Monday. He was an invalid and had been
seated at the table but few minutes,
when, after making remark about the
suddcnness Of Commissioner Baldwin S
death, he Suddenly leaned back in his
chair, became unconscious and died before
Il physician arrived. Mr.. Lentz served
@f In nod
where he was formerly in the grocery
business. lie served as Il deputy col!ec-
tor of delinquent taxes under several re
ceivers of taxes and was recently reap
pointed. Two years ago he was partially
disabled 10y an apoplectic stroke.
| Killed by Falling Window Sash.
Monday morning y daughter of Perry A.
Conner, OF Lackawanick township, this
state, aged II years, was sent by her
mother to the house Of o near neighbor to
borrow household utensil. The neigh
bors were not at homo, and all the doors
bcing locked the child raised window
and was partly through the opening when
the sash fell. striking her on the back Of
the neck. The blow broke her neck. and
when the mother, alarmed by her long
absence, went to look for tho child she
found her lifeless body hanging to the
| window.
| u Fatal Accident.
At P0ttsville Christian Bssslcr thir.
teen years old, son Of Gabriel Bsssler, a
st. Clair carpet weaver, met with instant
death, Monday morning, while playing
with some friends at gin in use at a shaft
on Mount Hope. The boys lad wound
the gin up, and while allowing it to run
down yOung Bessler Was struck by the
handle and knocked down. His head
struck rock so violently that his skull
was fractured, and he died before he could
be carried home.
| Suicide of Is Massachusetts Mayor.
Mayor Samuel Galley, cf the city of
Salem, whose term of Office expired Mon
day, committed suicide Monday afternoon.
He went home about 3 O'Clock and told
his family he was tired and would retire
| to his room and rest. His daughter went
up stairs later to call him and found his
lifeless body hanging to the bani5ters Of
the back stairs. He had served two terms
as mayor and was about fifty years old.
| Wife Murder In New Jersey.
Information has just been received at
Eaten, of a murder committed at Oxford
N. j., last week. On Thursday last Chas.
Foley and his wife, who kept liquor sa-
loon at that place, quarreled while intox-
icated, and Foley struck his wife with a
blunt instrument aud then threw her
down stairs. Mrs. Foley was unconscious
until Saturday, when she died. Foley is
| in custody.
| Black Ballots win.
At New Haven, Conn.,, City Clerk
James p. Pigatt and Auditor John W.
Lake, who were elected at the late city
election, and whose election was contested
by John II. Whiting. who claimed the
cler1ship. and Chas. Kimberley, claiming
the position of auditor, on account Of the
"black ballots" were on Monday sworn
into Office without opposition. Kimberley
| delivered the keys to Lake without pro-
| test.
| Influx of Chinese Women Denied.
T. A. Bee, the Chinese vice consul, de-
nies the report of the influx Of disraput-
able Chinese women into Washington ter
ritory from British Columbia. lie says
| only one woman has SO far entered this
country, and she was the wife of a Port
land merchant, since the restriction law
went into force. Ho reports 20 Chinese