Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
CURRENT lhTkLfleENUE In BRIEF.
Tho Cigarmakers' strlke-The Telegraph
Operstors-RaiIroad Nows-Happen-
lDgs and Doings East and Wesr.
The cigarmakers belonging to the protec
tive union who we're employed by Gutenberg
s. Co.. in New York did not return to work
Wednesday, and in consequence all the
members OF the united cigar nianuiactur
ers' association, to which the Messrs.
Ottenbergs belong, Informed their en-
plOyes Wednesday evening that there
would be no work for them until the diff
Guilty is adjusted. The lock out deprives
nearly seven thousand cigarmakers, most
of them women, of employment, the fac
tories closed being those of James Russell
& Co., s. Jacoby s Co., Mccoy q Co.,
Sutro & Newmark, Kaufman Bros. &
Bondy, Lichtenstein Bros. q Co., kerbs
& Spiess, Levy Bros, S. Gutenberg &
Bros, Forster Hill, Son & Co., Bondy,
Lederer s. Co.. D. Hirsch s. Co., Brown s.
Earl, and George P. Lies s. Co. The
secretary of the international union said
last night that the members of that organ
izatiOn could easily stand the lock out,
most of them being employed in the
smaller shops, which were not members of
the manufacturer union. A number OF
the men thrown out of work have found
employment elsewhere. The manuiactu-
rers say they have a large stock of cigars
on hand.
The strike of the telegraph operators,
which it was anticipated might occur at
noon Wednesday, did not take place.
After a meeting of the Philadelphia tele-
graphers' assembly Wednesday night Pre-
| sident Laverty said he had been unofficially
informed that a subcommittee of the ex-
ecutive board had met the sub committee
appointed by the Western Union company,
| and he expressed the opinion that com
promise would bs effected and there will
| be no strike.
The state convention of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics at
Pittsburg yesterday elected the following
| officers State councillor, Henry ]. Riley !;
state vice councillor, F. Kochlin state
council secretary, Edward s. Deemer !;
state council treasurer, John W. Calver !;
state council conductor, William r.
Stroh state council warden. William
A. Medium; state council sentinels,
Joseph II. Cobaugh and Charles A, May :;
national council representative, D. B.
Conoway.
The American Ophthalmological aud
Geological society held its sixteenth annual
session in the Hotel Kaaterskill yesterday.
Papers were read by Drs. Thomson, Bur-
nett, Little and Strawbridge. of Philadel
phia
The general convention of the North
American Saengerfest, in session in Buffa-
10, New York, has selected Milwaukee as
the place for holding the next Saengerfest
The journeymen plasterers' national
convention at Cincinnati spent yesterday
in discussing the constitution, without
completing the work.
| Domestic Tragedies.
Charles Seitz, a paper hanger of Alleg
hepy city, fatally shot DR.. G. Fl. Lanfelt,
at the latter's home in Bellevue, seven
miles from Pittsburgh. Langfelt was
engaged to Seitz's sister for several years,
but recently broke the engagement without
! explanation, and this 50 enraged Seitz that
he borrowed a revolver and went down to
Bellevue and shot Langfelt on sight.
A young woman named Sophia Wart-
man committed suicide by cutting her
|
the residence of her grandmother, in Phil
adelphia, with whom she lived. She had
made at attempt on her life on previous
occasion. She is believed by her relatives
| to have been insane.
Last week William Shingledecker, of
Millyale, Pa, elOped with his sons wife.
A detective and the son gave chase and
caught the woman at Syracuse, N. Y.
The wife made full confession and, with
her husband and the detective, passed
through to Kinsman, where she says the
old man is waiting for her.
Miss Ida Bussells, residing on Corlus
creek, Lancaster county, Va, shot her
self through tho temple. No cause is
assigned for the act, but it is thought to
be attributable to a lovers quarrel. She
was very pretty and highly accomplished.
She was the daughter of Captain Isaac
| N. Bussells, wealthy resident of Ian
caster.
A special dispatch from Galveston Tex,
say that in an affray at Toyah, between
cowboys and state rangers, ons of the
former was killed and another mOrtally
wounded.
John Dougherty, living near Greensboro,
Greene county, got into an alteration
with his brother, whom he instantly
killed by shooting him. No arrest has
yet been made.
Mr.. Leunig, the German American
student who recently killed fellow stu
dent in duel, near Wurzburg, has been
arrested in Switzerland.
A FaithIess Wife,
When William Huffman, employed on
a night freight train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad, returned home be
found the house deserted by all except the
three older children. Taking advantage
of his absence, Mrs. Huffman had eloped
with Henry Wagner. boarder in the
family and relative of the husband. The
guilty pair took the two younger children
with them. They have fl d to New York.
Hurllman will make no effort to bring
them back, but says he will receive his
erring wife if she returns voluntarily.
MAN UNDER THE BED.