Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-06
TU-DAY'S TIDnNGS.
rns suEDasn OF THE .AIls.

lF0m East ana WooS lHom 0o1Boo0UO 1
to Das."-IDesasass asd Acesdents
Of Current IAfe.
The steamer Ontario. which arrived ct
Baltimore on Sunday, brought from Eng
and ono of tho finest lets of thoroughbred
,attle ever imported. Il included 161
Hereford bulls and heifers, IA p0lled An.
gus and and 1s shrop:hire sheep. All the
sheep. IA of the Herefords and the polled
Angus 60 TO Missouri the rest 60 to
Cheyenne, Wyoming territory. Among
chased for 700 guineas.
A very large and brilliant meteor was
seen early on Sunday morning at Peters
burg, Va. 1t is described - s.an immense
ball Of fire darting across the heavens,
brilliantly illuminating the entire city, 50
that newspaper might have been read
with ease. Its course was northwest and
its explosion was heard shortly after
wards"
The corner. stone of tho 'Great Saenger-
fest Music Hail." in Buffalo, was laid
Monday, the mayor and prominent Ger
man citizens making addresses. The
building is to seat $500 persons and cost |
s16O, 900. The next festival of the North |
American Saengerbund is to be held in the |
new hall in July.
An exhibition game of billiards, 800
point straight carom, balk line game, was |
given yesterday in New York by Maurice
Vignaux and William Sexton. Vignaux |
won by score of 800 to 141. His last runs
were "a, 33, IS ard IS. The best run |
made by Sexton was 40.
The police of Bridgeport, Connecticut,
yesterday discovered a nest of thieves"
and arrested two families of six persons, |
in whose possession were stolen goods to |
the value of 81, 500. The articles were
stolen from seven different houses. VIM.
Rupert and Augustus Jabolt, the princi- |
pals of tho gang, made confession.
Political Points.
Local elections were held yesterday in
Maine. In Portland, Deering, Democrat,
was elected mayor by 174 majority over
Libby, Republican incumbent. Lewiston
elected DR.. Garcelon, Democrat, mayor by
219 majority, and gave the Democrats
majority of the council. Auburn elected
Geo. A. Woodman, Republican for mayor,
by 10 majority. In Rockland, George
Gregory, Democrat, was chosen mayor by
80 plurality, but the Republicans carried
the council. In Saco, the Republican
mayor was reelected by 1913 majority. In
Gardiner, Perkins, Republican, was elect
ed mayor without opposition. The Citi-
zons' party control tho council.
The official canvass Of the vote at the
charter election in San Francisco last
| week shows that the charter was defeated
by 80 votes. Fraud is suspected, and
many protests have been filed.
The city council Of Altoona last evening
adopted resolution denying that Altoona
had repudiated, or intended to repudiate,
any of her indebtedness.
The Trail OF Blood.
The Apache Indians are reported to be
| depredating on the Mexican frontier. At
La Pastoria rancho, near Wres, on Sunday
they killed all'the people, leaving only one
woman alive.
Jane Lovet-, saloon keeper, died on
Sunday, in Fairfax, Iowa, from the effects
of blow inflicted by Martin O'Connor
during quarrel in his saloon on Saturday
night.
Frank Hunter was yesterday found
dead at the bottom of water tank at a
stone quarry in Massillon, Ohio. His
wife, mother and father-in law and a man
| named Drummer, were arrested on suspi-
| ciOn.
While Louis Stancin and his wife were
handling pistol, at Jeanette, Louisiana,
yesterday, the weapon went off and
Stancin fell dead with bullet in his
heart.
| railroad Items
The New Haven and New York Central
railroad companies have thus far paid out
| in settlements for the recent tunnel disas.
ter the sum of 100000 There are four
or five claims yet unadjusted.
Mrs. McNalIy and her daughter, Mrs.
Brown, were killed yesterday by a train,
while crossing the railroad, at Bangor, Me.
in sleigh.
by the fall of the scaffolding OF a rail.
road bridge, at Highland Falls, New
York, on Saturday, William s. Miller was
killed and two other men were severely
injured.
Tho Mississippi.
The latest reports from the Lower Mis-.
sissippi show that the water at Helena is
rising at the rate of half an inch pei
hour, and it is feared the highest water
mark of last year will be reached. The
trestle on the Belena branch of the Iron
Mountain railroad, at Longville river,
which week ago was forty feet above the
river, was threatened yesterday with total
submersion. The water is also rising at
Arkansas City. Tho levees in the dis.
tricts mentioned remain intact. and the
planters are putting in their crops. A
later dispatch reports serious break in
the PastOria levee in ChicOt county, Ark,
which will food many plantations.
On tho Coast.
The schooner Mary J. Carson, from New
York for Jacksonville, with coal, grounded
on St. Johns bar, Florida, on Saturday
afternoon. She is in danger of becoming
total wreck if the wind shall change to
northeast She is owned by F. Smith &
Co of Philadelphia.
The schooner J. D. Burdette, of Tren
ton. New Jersey with coal, ran on Whcst.
on's reef, of Thimble islands, on the
morning of Saturday last, owing to mis-
placed buoys She is in dangerous
position, and has been deserted by her
crew.
i A Rough Funeral In Oiidem.
G.. w. Coyle, a rough character in the
oil regions, was wounded in fight by a
pistol ball at Forest city, on Monday, and
died very soon after. Thirty dol
lars we're raised to give him a burial,
and q party started with the remains tc
tho Sheffield cemetery. 1t is supposed that
the bearers used some of the funeral
money to buy whisky /; at any rate, the
next morning the citizens of Sheffield
found the coffin containing Coyle's body
in the middle Of the street, while the
funeral party was off on a spree. That day
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