Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-12

VI hNnlbucan plurality last year. .---tharles
G. Reed Citizens candidate, was elected
mayor oi Worccstestcr, Mass, Tuesday,
by 3l1 majority. The city gave Si2 ma
iorty tor llccucc.
Tho Republican state central cnmm'ttcp
OF Arkansas met Tuesday In Little R)cS,
and elected Powell Clayton chairman to
succeed Torrcus, deceased. Tho committee
resolved unanimously that \. w. Dorsey
was no longer n citizen of Arkansas, and
recommended Powell Clayton for the
vacancy in tho national Republican nom
mi'trc caused by DJrsey's removal
mrccIIsucous Paragrapns
The senate, In executive session yester.
day, confirmed the nomination OF Walter
q Gresham, of Indiana, to be postmaster
general.
The Quidpook company at Providence
Rhode Island, yesterday decided to sell It's
mills, machinery ami real estate at public
auction ON the l0th of January next
The trial of cS.Spoaker Bagau, at New
ark, Now Jersey, for offering bribe, has
been again postponed on account Of de
tendant's Illness. IL is set for the Goth
instant.
Frederick Rogers ran race with mus
tang pony at Echo Park, Philadelphia
yesterday. The distance was 65 yards aud
return, and Rogers won by 15 yards.
Tho university Of Penusy lvania has
challenged the Harvard University to row
au eight Dared shell race, with coxswains,
at any time, over any distance of water,
aud a. such place as may be elected by
Harvard.
It is expected in Ottawa that tho GUS
toms returns for November will show that
the imports of hour from tho United States
have greatly increased aud that the
l. sht an 4
large,
Judge Wylie, 10 Washington, Yesterday.
directed that tho case of ex-senator Kcl
logg DO continued until the next term of
court, because ot the absence of the
witness Walsh. II is not believed that
Nalsh attendance will be secrred
Inc cabinet meeting yesterday was
attended by all the members except
secretary FOlger, who Is sick. The
. pounel case was considered. IL is
learned that Secretary Freliughuyseu
several days ago instructed Minister
Lowell % recognise O'Donuell's citizen
ship, aud that further Instructions were
telegraphed yesterday.
UaIsnusr OF Urims.
DAvt Hall and Joseph Wells fatally
~ouI ded each other few days ago, IN a
quarrel ~ the mountains of Letcher
county. kontucky.-A special dispatch
from Wheeling, West Virginia, says "Biv
BIZ Kinney, whose trial for murder at
West Union on Monday resulted in dis.
agre"ment of the jury, was taken from Jail
by mob duriug the night and hanged -
At Browington's distilery. IN Madison
couutv, Wisconsin, a few days since, in a
quarrel growing out Of an old ieud, VIM
Boyer shot and mortally wounded VIM
berry aud Bart" Kelley, and was him
self shot and killed. Kelley has since
died .--Trevelyad Rdout, a prominent
lawyer oi Toronto, disappeared two
months ago. Tuesday his body was found
IN High Park, with a revolver In Que hand
anu bullet hole 10 the head. It is sup
posed he committed suicide because a
young lady refused to marry him.
Dissstrous flames.
The boiler of Shiplsy Brothers saw
mil, at Clay Pool, lud burst on Monday
morning, wrecking the building. John
Haddix, the engineer, was killed, aud
Harris Ramsey and WIN. Bloom were
fatally injured.
Ferdinand Wrtmanu, who was injured
oY the burning OF a sleeping car on a
Chicago express train last week, died
Tuesday at CasLletou, n. Y.
The court house at Butler, Pa was de-
stToyoi oy DIRE Tuesday morning. The
fire vas started by detective aue Two
meu Tcro injured, one, Curt Smith, who
fell from ladder, perhaps fatally. The
building was erected in 1852 az cost OF
$4,000 The county records were saved
Labor Sotes.
It is announced that all the coal mines
along the Nonongahela river will this week
suspend operations for an indefinite period,
a p ha -, Aa a..
caused oy the unseasona0ls weather aud
Overstooked markets. The suspension will
throw nora than 5000 men out of work.
Tho UEtIge business of the Canadian Pa
cltc railway IS at a standstill, no trains
aT" moving, and the workshops have all
SHUT down. This state OF affairs is owing
TO the refusal Of employees to sign bill Of
prices submitted by tho company. The
mail South was sent 10 Emerson by sleigh
yesterday morning. Three thousand men
are out. The company has telegraphed
East for engineers.
Pnoumonia la Washington
At Washington leading physicians say
that there is remarkable popularity
about dangerous colds contracted 10 Wash
ington this winter, 50 far in that instead
OF attacking the lungs they affect the
bronchial tubes. There are more cases OF
bronchitis aud pneumonia in the capital
this season than for many years
First shot ana Afterwards Hanged.
The negro who assaulted young white
girl near Jackson, Miss, last Friday, aud
who was pursued aud shot and left for
dead on Sunday, was in fair way to re.
cover, when body of enrsged citizens
took him from his house last night aud
hanged hin TO the nearest tree.
baron Tsnnyson D'Eyncourt.