Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-01
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Three men have been arrested in Toronto
for undertaking to thrash every dude >
they met
The postoftices at Williamsport. Pa =,
and Emporia, Kansas, were robbed on
Saturday of $500 and $1,000 worth of
stamps.
The Little Rock cotton gin factory at
Little Rock, Ark, was burned Sunday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
The carving and finishing department of
Schlepel, Zeigenfuss Il Co.'S furniture
factory in Allentown. Penna., were burned
Sunday evening, with quantity of lumber
and furniture. Tho tools of many of the
employees were ruined
II is believed that the wheat crop OF
Minnesota and Dakota this year will be
1000, 600 bushels. That of Ohio will be
Az, 9S2 $50 bushels; quality 101 per ceut.
This is the largest crop of Ohio, except that
Oh iSSo, which amounted to iS, $40, 900
bushels.
A meeting of supporters of General But
Ter was held in the Masonic temple in New
York city, on Saturday night. The gath.
oring was to have been held in Union
Square, but a drenchiug rain caused it TO
be held indoors. There was an attendance
of less than 1,000.
stephen Coolidge, produce merchant
OF Greenfield, Pa, committed suicide on
Friday night by cutting his throat and
breast because ho was suffering from pain
and loss of sleep.
Emanuel Smith, a farmer residing about
four miles from York, Pa, and his wife.
were returning homo in their market
wagon on Saturday night, when an un.
known man fired stono at them, strikiu O
Mrs. Smith on the head. The assassin has
not been arrested.
An attempt to break out was made
Saturday morning by the prisoners in the
Jail At Bennington, Vt. Two of them,
!arnby, confined for bigamy, and Dunn,
for implication in an incendiary fire, had
almost succeeded, when they were dis
covered by the officers and their escape
prevented.
Wallsce's saving bank at New Castle
Pa, suspended on Saturday. The suspen .
sion was due proximately to the bank at
Jamestown, Dakota, in which Wallace's
son Robert was largely interested Il is
thought Wallace's liabilities will reach
slO0OO with no assets worth mention
ing"
Albert Wilson, colored waiter at Cres
son Springs, Pa was shot by q companion
whilst playing cards Sunday. He was
brought to Altoona and died in tho after
noon. Wilson made a statement before
he died and exhonerated the man who
shot him. He says it was purely accden.
tai. George Washington is the name of
the man who did the shooting.
The trouble at the mines in the Hook
ing Valley, Ohio, eliminated Sunday
morning in an attack on the guards at
Snake Hollow. One of tho guards was
killed and two were wounded. A hopper
was also burned during the right. The
strikers concentrated sunday night at
Murray City, five miles from Snake Hol-
low, and the deputy sheriff there applied
to the sheriff for aid. At last ACCOUNTS
the rioters were firing on the guards at
the Sand Run and Longstreth mines.
The Empire laundry association started
Sunday morning on the barge Union for
Linden Grove, Staten Island. On the trip
one OF the excursionists attempted to steal
sandwiches from the bar, when the bar
keeper struck him with club. The
crowd then pounced upon tho barkeeper.
beating him to death with glasses, plates,
pitchers aud whatever else they could Law
their hands on. The barge was brought
to standstill, and the captain sent a man
ashore to notify the Staten Island police of
the murder. The police, however, took
no action, and the barge returned to New
YORK. When the man was killed the
lighting was general.