Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-20

refuse the demand.
Tho cigarmakers of Chicago have given
formal notice of their intention to strike
on tho 7th of May against certain firms in
that city who have not yet granted their
demands. The firms say they are await
ing the action to be taken by the New
York manufacturers on May 1st.
The places of number of the striking |
tanners in Pittsburgh were filed yester-
day with non union men. All night the |
strikers gathered riotously around the |
tanneries, but trouble was prevented by |
the police.
The works of the Akron iron company,
in Ohio, have been closed.
CRIME AND CALAMITY.
Progress of tho Indian Troubles.
1t is stated that General Crook, with
two hundred Apache scouts and one COM
pany of cavalry will move into tho noun
tains OF Mexico next Sunday, and that the
Mexican troop will cooperate with him.
tha Apache scouts and tho " Rangers
from Tombstone, Arizona, who are re-
ported to be OH their way to attack the
San Carlos Indians. The war department
has sent seven hundred recruits to the
| various regiments in tho department of
Columbia, Arizona and tho Indian terri.
| tory.
A dispatch from Hermosville, Mexico,
says - The de ,achment of troops which
followed the Apaches from Southeast
Ules had several running fights with the
Indians from Ures to Candies, and
claimed to have killed nearly the whole
band. After losing the trail of the rest,
some of the soldiers visited Candies,
where one of the number in the campaign
last year recognized l.. n. Streeter, for
merly United States agent, as the man
who at that tlmo was with the Indians
acting as chief. For more than two years
he has been the leader of band Of
Apaches. Governor Torres ordered him
to be brought to Hermasillo, but it is
doubtful if he will be alive when the order
reaches the trOops.'
i Gel eral Crook has ordered 800 scouts
to be in readiness for {. long scout into the
Sierra Madrcs.
Tragedies In Different Sections
News has been received at Fort Smith
that U. s, Marshal Lyman has been muir
dered by roushs in the Indian territory,
and his prisoners have been released.
!, Thomas Pieiffer,a young man, yesterday
shot aud killed his Is year-ol cousin,
| Mary DellnlruG, anu Iucu CouIultIco
8 suicide, near McDade, Texas.
During gust at Williamsport, Pa, last
o evening two boats in which men were
4 returning from boom on the river were
causized. Three young men named Her
, man Hartman, Del Rhoads and Grant
Moore, and a boy, named Willis. were
drowned.
Four Swedes were drowned by the up
t setting Of boat on Lake Washington
| Washington territory, on Wednesday.
o A "scale. eaten" boiler IN Donald Nc
Cleary's planning mill, as Portland, Oregon
D burst on Wednesday, blowing out th'
Q front of the mill and killing the engineer
i Two other men were injured.
Mary Ayres, ten years of age, wa
burned to death at bonfire in Fall
Village, Connecticut, on Wednesday even
ing.
n The robbing of the pillars in tho Tunne
IL colliery at Ashland, Penn'a., caused
Il house to settle and sink yesterday. Othe
- house, in the vicinity are being removed
70 The occupants Of tho houses removed
i some weeks ago.
Losses by Fire.
One Thousand acres of woodland il
Milford and Hopkinton, Massachusetts
were burned on Wednesday night, an
n several hundred cords Of cut wood wer
also destroyed.
= The paper mill of McCready & Co., a
Catawissa, Penna., WAS destroyed by fire
last evening. The loss is estimated a
!" $4,000. The mill employed $50 hands
n An incendiary fire in Bethany, Missouri
on Wednesday night, destroyed nearl
N two blocks, including two banks an
several stores.
= The old parliament building in Quebec
a wooden structure, was destroyed by fir
Is last night. Very little of the valuabl
70 library was saved.
Other Disasters.
70 A snow storm prevailed yesterday q
Montreal and other points iu Canada. III
+ ice between Montreal and Quebec remair
firm.
re General Hazen yesterday telegrapled
10 the weather bureaus in the West Indies I
make no more reports on cyclones after tt
~ 3)th inst Congr;s; having failed to NAL
appropriations for the purpose.
IL Tho Mississippi Rise.
A partially restored levee, three quarter
le Of mile in extent, protecting an area
K cotton lands Immediately south of Helen;
Ark, the aggregate annual yield OF whic
amounts to $4o0, 900, gave way Wednesda
IL night, submerging and laying waste fl
IN this year the entire belt. Thus it will /
seen that even where prompt efforts at tt
10 restoration Of waste places in the levet
a have been made they have proved of litt
?" avail, the earth of which the embanl
ments are constructed being light alluvi
at soil, easily succumbing to the pressure
IN the water. The river continues rising Or
;e iuch per day, enough water having flOwe
into St. Francis basin, above, to maintai
the present gauge there for at least for
s. weeks, with q certain rise yet of fiftee
ne inches.
o Anniversary CoIebratiOns
70 Flags were generally displayed at New
~ burgb, New York, yesterday, it being th
centennial of " the celebration by Wasl
ington's army at Newburgh. over tn
declaration Of the cessation Of hostilitie
II between the United States and Gres
~ Britain" At noon salute of 13 guns W.
y fred at Washingtons headquarters, an
:. was answered by salute of 13 guns a
~ West Point, by order of the secretary {
~ war. Church bells were rung and salut
a. a. fired at Fishkills.
- The 10Sth anniversary of the battles G
20 Concord and Lexington Was observed yei
"a terday in, those towns by the firing {
70 cannon, the display of flags and the parad
n OF the local military organizations.
,s| france and America.
III M. Chailemel Lacour, minister of foreig
r. affairs, presented to the Chamber of Del
as uties at Paris yesterday the draft of a Col
ID vention concluded between France and th