Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-18
FRESH NEWS OF THE DAY
IMPuKrANr ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Embrsoing Accident, Crime ana CsIsnity-
wnat the morDing MsiIs ContRiu
In Brief Form,

'iSh NO"hShAhf Sliy OouONgt Wao hb WIN
Friday, on the top of n straw stack, when
he was suddenly precipitated to the ground
in some unexplained manner. In his
descent he was followed by a heavy hay
knife, which he had been using, aud which
cut him SO badly on the left arm, severing
all the veins and muscles, that he speedily |
bled to death, despite the efforts of two
surgeons.
Christopher Seebold, d we'll to-do far.
mer of near New Berlin, Snyder county, |
committed suicide by hanging himself to |
a fence Thursday morning. For time |
Mr.. Seebold had been in poor health. His |
wife also committed suicide about two |
years ago by hanging.
George Burger, employed at Locust Gap |
colliery, near Pottsville, was caught in a
rush OF coal in counter Gapgway shute |
Friday morning. and was carried down
into q bre asst with ten tons of coal on top
of him. He was buried for four hours and
was extrioated with the greatest difficulty,
as the coal piled upon him as fast as 1t
could be taken out for some time. lie
was only slightly injured.
Captain James Dunlap, of Erie city, was
found dead in his bed Friday morning.
Capt. Dunlap was past 50 and was one of
Erle's first contractors and wealthy men.
He was commissioned captain in 1927 By
Govneror Porter. He had been EEie's
harbor master thirty years.
State Senator j. Il. Swatford, of Tenue'-
see was shot dead by q jailer named Hud-
son, whom he attacked on the street in
Sparta, Friday morning. Swadord was
q drunken rough, who had killed three
or four men, among them his fatherin-
law.
The body of the late DR.. Emile B.
Dubois, demonstrator of anatomy and
instructor in the department of materia
aud general therapeutics i'll the Woman's
Medical college, Philadelphia was taken to
Doylestown, Friday for interment. The
funeral services were held on Thursday.
Mr.. Gibson, proprietor Of Vanity Fair
London, has been summoned to answer q
| charge OF assault made against him by
Lord Marcus Beresford.
STATE BREvITIEs.
Tho receipts at the recent exhibition of
| the York county fair aggregated : GA 80.
A burglars den has been discovered in
tho mountains in Forks township, North
amptou county.
| The body of Mrs. Annie Madison was
found in her home in Coviugton Friday
morning on the floor. She had been
choked with rope and her throat had
been cut. Her husband, who was absent
when the discovery was made, was sent
| for aud arrested, bnt denied all knowledge
| of the deed. Her little boy says an old
man with gray whiskers committed the
! crime.
| POLITICAL GOSSIP,
| Judge Hoy was renominated for judge
| by the Democrats of the Centre Hunting
| don district after prolonged deadlock.
| II, ). McAteer has been nominated for
| the Senate by the Democrats of the
Franklin Huntingdon district.
F. E. Warren, of Cheyenne, Wy, was
nominated for Congress by the Wyoming
Republicans Friday.
The Greenbaokers and Peoples party
Friday nominated W. G. Hanson for Con
greSs.
Gen. Logan will leave Chicago on Sun
day night for Dubuque, where he will
begin his Western speaking campaign,
covering the states of Iowa, Illinois d
Indiana.
The Prohibitionists of the Third Assem-
bly, district Of Westchester county, n. Y.
have nominated Stanton Cady, Of Sing
Sing, for member of Assembly from that
district, and Henry White, or Yorktown
for school commissioner.
The Hon. William Daniel, OF Maryland
the Prohibition candidate for the vict
presidency, spoke Friday night in Wash
ington to an audience of about 1Ot
, persons. lie goes from Washington 4
, Alabama, aad expects TO remain in the
Southern states until after the NOyembe
election.
7 The first Independent Republican rail-
of the campaign was held in Horticulture
. hall, Worcester, Mass, Friday evening
Frederick Kimball called the meeting t.
order and J. II. Walker presided. Onth
l
nent anti Blaine Republicans, among thel
cis, Albert s. Brown, Z b. Sprague, AM
G. II. Hall, jr. The principal speech {
the evening was made by Col. c. /
} Goldman, OF Boston, who was followed b
. Josiah Quincy. The hall was crowded an
and the audience was very enthusiastic.
i THE WEST VIRGINIA MAJORITY.
= AS far as heard from 2S counties
Il West Virginia give Democratic majoriti'
of 12,133. Twenty-Five counties Civ
Republican majorites of 9,277, leaving
Democratic majority of 1850. with foi
" counties to bear from, which may increai
u the Democratic majority 200. The Den
= ocratic plurality IN 1880 was 18. 1885 al
Z their majority 3, 100 over the Republican
ID and Greenbackers. The total vote wi
surpass any in the history of the stat
PROF. SUMNER FOR CLEVELAND.
In response to an invitation from Il
students of Yalo college, Prof. VIM.
-" Sumner addressed them Friday night
~ North Sheffield hall, New Haven, Conn
81 on 'Tudependent Voting" After discu
~ u sing the growth and future of the ind
~ pendens voter aud the necessity for b
"a existence, Prof. Sumner said " N
10 Blaine is under charges that touch
60 personal and political integrit
~ Mr.. Phelps and others of M
Blaine's friends have tried to di
= prove them, but they have only made
I' case worse. He lB antagonized 10 d
4 Independents on ell vital questions. {
= civil service rstorm he is utterly
= variance with what we Independent vote
- want. That reform Is at critical sta
II now, and much depends on who
elected to administer it. Here NJ
$ Cleveland's Lcheersl record ia sound. /
h has been placed in a critical position in
position as governor Of New York, and
'e has proved that no Is fer purity in ofiic
20 IT Mr. Blaine is defeated" he furth
j. said, :" believe there will be a breaks
D up OF the old parties, and in the reorgar
ii cation resulting from 1t there will be {
opportunity of the Independent voters
both parties to ally themselves to get
tariff reform, sound coinage, and oil
1 service reform"
d To ASNIHILATE sPAUE.
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