Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-18
a Fight with a Burglar.
fKtsa >Ews rr"M ALL QUARTERS.
A COLLECTION Of the more Import Items
Of Recent Occurrence Ia the
COmmunwesltD.

cf Recent Occurrence Ia the
Commonwealth.
Ol City wants 70 become I borough
again, the city form Of government being
deemed too cumbersome.
4 conflict is feared between the authOri.
ties and striking miners az Bueua Vista,
near Plt.sburg, who persist in paradiug
the town with music and flags.
John and Joseph Suder and jeremiah 7.
Wilson have been sentenced t. years
imprisonment III Philadelphia for exposing
! lUr sale obscene photographs.
The commissioners of York county
have fixed the tax rate at mills, which
Is one half mill less than last year. They
expect 70 wipe out the entire debt OF the
county by Jan. /, 1855.
Evidence offered by the defense IN the
trial of James :. Mutt, in PItJsburg, on
Thursday, was entirely 70 prove thai the
prisoner was insane when he killed Dukes
was mOnomauiaC Oh the suOjec. Of the
latter death.
The borough of PLwui1yllle has applied
| for an injunction To prevent the Peuusyl-
vauia Schuylkiil valley railroad from
| building an abuLmeut inside the street
iurs Of North Main street.
Nathan Block, aged twenty-five years,
| committed a most determined suicide in
| tue Last park, Philadelphia. He sEal
| lowed two fatal doses Of different poIsOns,
then cut his throat and afterwards severed
the arteries Of his wrist. Death was caused
| by hemorTLage.
The Consumers powder company
MILLS, near Scranton, blew up, one mill al
a time, between lO:3O and midnight Tues
day. Nine Of the ten mills were destroyed
Certainly one man, L. II. Emery, and
| ,hgl1 "a, LII I.l
muuicItion is cut OF, and further particu
lars cannog be obtained. The company
WIS organized about year ago. The losl
is not known, but ii will be heavy
The second Of a series of billiard matche,
between Edward Mclaughlin, OF Phia
delpEia and J. Randolph Heiser, Of New
York, took place Thursday evening at th,
Assembly buildings. The game was GO(
points for 800, $3.50 a side. There were
sixty innings, aud the match was won by
Mclaughlin, HeisCr's score being 40
| kcLaughiu'5 highest run was 40, auC
! HeISer's IS.
The PenuSy lyania railroad COMPANY
aud the LeAigh Valley railroad company
have entered into number of contract
for au interchange Of business. COnsid
erable Of this will be accomplished By
building rev lines. Among these will b,
the line up the Perkiomea Valley to tai
the Lehigh Valley at Allentown. Anothe
Is tho line up the Schuylkill Valley t,
POttsyille and it is understood that tn
L0high Valley will furnish the PenusyIva
MIA with considerable anthracite coal 70
a delivery az points along the Philadelphi
aud Erie railroad.
Phil tdtlphit Gas Tru,tses Elected
The election of Gas trustees by Philadg
PAla councils on Monday caused an uuusui
number OF spectators in both chambers,
y, select council the candidates named wer
VIM. X. Leeds, John 5. Ritteuhouse, A
Ellwood Jones and John Huggard. Messr
Leeds aud RlttenhOuBe were elected. eao
Is receiving Is votes, as against l2 for Mess
n Jones and Huggard. In the commc
chamber the candidates were Efiingham
y MOrris, James b. Shedwick, James
% Salter and Granville b. Hainos. A cen
Il municatiOn was read from David IL. LaI
Il Withdrawing from the contest. Mr.. Morr
was elected on the first ballot aud NJ
Salter on the second.
Gave bis Life Tor Utnsrs
George B. Wurtz, of Schuylkill Have
d, who had his collar bone broken and 1
Z, skull fractured last Saturday night. bell
NJ struck by sled while endeayoring
10 save party OF coasters from being kin
ld by the fast express train, died at noon
Thursday. He never regained conscio,
ness after tho accident. He was thirt
eight years old, married, and was d
On patcher for the Philadelphia Il Readi
a railroad company for many years.
2. Uourting the Same airI.
At a country spelling school near Hi
vi boro, Ills, on Wednesday night Wall
nd Watcher killed Stephen Surgeon. II
d, believed that the tragedy grew out of
ed fact that both young men were COURT
0. the same girl. Watcher claims that /
shooting was accidental.