Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-13
VI,iNAUX'S REVENGE.
Tho Frenchman Defeats Scnaefer Mt lsall
Line Billiards.


At New York the match game of balk
limo billiards, between Maurice Vignaux
and Jacob Schaofer, Tuesday night, at the
remarkable for the closencss OF the scores
up to tho turning of the first 800 points
and the brilliancyof tho Frenc!lman's play
from that point to the close. Schaefer,
who evidently had great preponderance
of the sympathes of tho audience, began
with rather jaunty air. He seemed to
undcrvalue the strength of his adversary
and was the first to give al exhibition of
the peculiar style of nursing ho had previ.
Ously devised for the balk-line game But
the Frenchman soon showed that if he
had not mastered the art at Chicago he
has done so since, Tor he speedily fell to
nursing with 4 delicacy and rapidity that
astonshed Schaefer himself, and added
$40 points to his score in ono inning. He
finished the game, 800 points, in the ;;Cth
inning, with run of Is, Schaefcr's score
being only GA. His average was % 3 8,
while Schaeier's was II 80.
Matters Of Labor
A telegram from OSwego saya grain
rates by rail have bsen reduced to New
York and Philadelphia 1. cents per hun
dred weight, and to Baltimore 2! cents.
A conference between the shoe manu-
facturers and workmen, at Marblehead,
Massachusetts,, yesterday, accomplished
nothing. The manufacturers offered to
conccde "about half" but the workmcn
adhered to their full price liss.
The now iron sailing ship Til!io E. Star
buck cleared yerterday from Roach $
shipyard, Chester, for the Pacific coast,
with a valuable cargo consisting chiefly
of machinery for locomotives and steam
boats and supplies for railroad construc-
ton.
Tho trade tribunal at Pittsburgh ap.
pointed to settle the differences between
the railroad coal operators and miners did
nothing yesterday beyond examining sta
tistics presented by the operators to- show
the cost Of mining. 1t was announced,
however, " that the disagreement over
the discharge Of u miner on account of his
connection with the tribunal had been ad
justed, and that there is nothing to inter-
fcro with IN amicabe arrangement of the
rate of wages.
Pennsylvania Editorial Association.
The Pennsylvania Editorial association,
about 1o5 in all. arrived ac Fortress Mon
roe Tuesday, at the Hygea hotel. A large
addition to the delegation is expected in
the morning boats The cxcursionists to.
day went sailing and fishing, visited the
Soldiers Home in Hampton, and witnessed
an artillery drill AMI dress parade in For.
tress Monroe. TO morrow they 60 to
Norfolk, where numerous courtesias have
been extended. The Gosport navy yard
will be visited, and on Thursday an excur-
sion will be made to Richmond. Governor
Cameron aud wife are here and the mem
bers arc being presented. Tho wcathsr is
tine and all are enjoying themselves.
The Mississippi Republicans.
The Republican executive state CON-
inittee met at Jackson, Miss, on Tuesday.
The committee, which consists of seven
teen members, were all present, with one
or two exceptions. John r. Lynch was
elected chairman. United District At.
torney Chandler, General Fitzgerald,
Colonel Morphis and numbsr of other
Influential Republicans were present and
took an active part in the meeting.
General Chalmers is in tho city. Chairman
Lynch is said to be working quietly to
prevent the disorgaGizatiOn Of the Rspub-
lican party Of the state as a political body.
Hanging nimsoIf to "a Bed. Post.
James O'DonneIl,a "a resident of Newkirk,
near Tamaqua, committed suicide by
hanging Tuesday. Tho deceased worked
in the mines until recently, when he
started to peddle notions. He had lust
returned from trip to Mauch Chunk and
of feeling unwell. In the ab
sence of his wife and family he hanged
himself to tho bed post. He was 50 years
Of age.
Fatally Beaten with Cabs.
At Scranton George Lashet and P. CAT.
ierty were arrested on Tuesday night
charged with fatally beating John Grogan.
q brakeman, with clubs. GrOgan il still
alive, but his physicians say he will die
before morning. Grogan refused to give
the cause of the trouble. Charles Lasher,
another of the attacking party, is still at
large. Officers are on his track.