Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17

correspondent undertook tho delicate task
of measuring the feet. The right foot is
one foot six inches in length, and the left
one inch shorter. Over the instep of the
right foot is twenty one inches, and over
| the other one inch less. The big toe of the
left foot is eleven inches in circumference.
| The right foot is longer than the
left by an inch, but the latter is heavier
| and thicker. The feet are respectively
seven and eight inches wide. From this
actual measurement of Fanny Mills's feet
any one can readily imagine what mar
velIously large shoes she must wear.
Heretofore they have been manufactured
in Albny, N. Y, but Sandusky shoe
firm has the lasts and pair of shoes on
exhibition, which have attracted great
attention. Her feet have increased in size
since the display in the shoe store window
was made.
The left shoe is 16! inches long, the
| right 18 inches in length the left is Z!
| inches wide and the other s inches. The
right instep of the shoe measures 49,! inches
and the left II! inches. Fannie Mills
weighs 100 pounds and although delicate
looking, says she has good health. It
takes two calf hides to make her pair
of shoes and all her vitality goes to sus
had unusually largo feet when she was
born, and they have continued to grow
alarmingly fast ever since. The girls of
Chicago, whose big feet are proverbial,
! must now surrender the palm to poor
little Fannie Mills, who bears her hard
fate cheerfully.
Crime and Calamity.
Frank McIlwayne was shot dead by
nd N,11b OF chY,r in
consequence of a family feud.
Philip o. Bernhauser, while going home
at New Albany, Indiana, on Saturday
night, was attacked and murdered by John
Rourke and Thomas Leecke. There does
not seem to have been any prOvOcatiOn
for the deed. The murderers were ar
rested.
Two parties of German picnickers got
into free fight at Newbury, Ohio, on
Sunday, the contest having been started
by ono man knocking anOther's beer glass
off the counter. The barroom furniture
and glassware of hotel were demolished,
and the belligerents belabored each other
until somebody cried police" when they
all fled.
Early yesterday morning the bank
ledger of OK Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee,
recently stolen from the state treasurer's
Office, was found lying at tho office door
of the editor of the artisan, in Nashville.
There is no clure to the thief.-About 25,-
600 cigars we're seized by the customs
authorities in TORONTO yesterday for not
having the boxes properly labelled.
The electric tower at FOn de Lac, Wis
consin, fell yesterday morning, and piece
weighing 800 pounds crushed through the
roof of saloon. A stove at which
woman was cooking was demolished, bat
the woman escaped iDjury.-TwO little
by train on the Stonington railroad, near
Richmond, Rhode Island, yesterday after
noon. On the same road, at East Green
wicb, man named O'Nell was killed last
evening.
Losses by Fire
The new chemical works and saw mill
at Newberry, Michigan, were burned on
Sunday loss, $125, 900. A building in
Stayner, Ontario, occupied by three firms,
was burned yesterday loss, S25, 600. A
fire in Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon
destroyed Bell & Days pork factory, Tay-
lor s. Bullock's cement warehouse, and
Rea & Co.'S. pork packery, causing a loss
of $50, ,000 The building and machinery
of tho Silver Cord mino at Leadville, Col
OradO, were burned yesterday morning,
the fire being started by the upsetting of a
kerosene lamp tho loss is estimated at
$40 900. A fire at Texarkana, Arkansas,
early yesterday morning, destroyed nine
or ten stores, causing loss OF So, 900.
Girl Killed. by Lightning.
During severe thunder and wind storm
which caused much injury to crops in
Queen Anne and Caroline counties, Nd,
lightning struck the house of Francis NJ.
Willis, near Wye Mills, and passing down
into the room whero the family were sit
ting, killed tho thirteen. year. old daugl-
ter, paralyzed small child, stunned Mr..
Willis and several others and badly injured
Miss Daisy Welby, 4 school teacher. The
fluid that killed the young girl entered her
neck and passed through her entire body
and out the sole of her shoe, leaving hole
rs if made with pistol ball.
n WOman's Fall From q Wagon.
At White Pine, Lycoming county, near
Wood, Mrs. Anthony Bumgardner aad
another lady and a child riding in a carri
age stopped at the house of James Wood.
When ready to start the driver gave the
horses sharp cut with the whip, which
caused them to spring violently forward.
Mrs. Baumgardner was thrown out back
wards landing on her head and back and
tho other lady and child fell upon her.
When picked up she was insenSible, and it
is doubtful if she RECEIVERS from the shock
The other woman and child escaped injury
n Very impatient Guest.
In Columbus, Ga, man named Ste wart,
from Mobile, went into the dining room
Of the Rankin house for supper and, not
being waited on with expedited prompt
tude, drew a pistol, and, leveling it at q |
waiter, said sc Bring me supper ut once"
The dining room was soon cleared and D |
plentiful meal made its appearance, but |
before he was through with it thu guest |
was arrested and pnt in Jail.
Horrible Death Of u Farmer
Near Hessville, w., Mr.. J. Bolts, q |
prominent farmer, was moving with 4
machine, when his horses took fright aad
both became unmanageable and run away.
Belts was thrown from tho machine and
fell in front of tho cutter bar, tho sharp
knives of which cut and mangled his body
in horrible manner. The flesh was torn
were cut in his abdomen from which
bowels protruded.
Saved From Drowning
At Long Branch, Mr.. VIM. Whittleson.
of Iowa City, at tho risk of his life, saved
a young lady. named Miss Coombs, from
drowning. The friends of the young lady
offered sum of money to Mr.. WhittlesOn.
He declined it.
BASEBALL.
Tho AnIhracitos, of POtusvIIle, In Town.
This afternoon tho game between the