Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-06

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Smiths face being almost pounded to
jelly.
The Famine IN Labrador.
1t Is announced that famine prevails in
Labrador through the failure of the
fisheries on its coast, that three Thousand
people are threatened with starvation,
and that an appeal to the dominion
authorities will be made in their behalf.
The entire population of the country is
but little over four thousand, and never
has been counted exactly in any othcr
country, for it 1t is not part Of the do
minion. 1t Is a dependency of Newfound.
land which 1t always has refused to enter
the dominion. Through the supposition
that 1t belongs to the dominion il has
been omitted In nearly all the state.
ments a. to the area and population OF this
chief employments, but some petty manu-.
features are carried on by the native
converts around the Moraviau missionary
stations, and their products sold in this
country.
Tho Electrical Exhibition.
This week will be the last Of the electri.
cal exhibition, as the managers have
concluded to adhere to the original date
for closing the show. There is so much
that is instructive at the exhibition that
the people of Philadelphia and vicinity
should avail themselves of the opportunity
before 1t Ia too late. Among the many
interesting things to be seen is the
synchronous multiplex telegraph, by means
OF which seventy-two persons from one
place can communicate over the same wire
with scventy-two other persons in distant
place, as between Philadelphia and
Chicago, without either of the operators
| knowing anything about any message
| except his own. 1t is exceedingly simple,
| and is said to be the greatest advance
made in telegraphy since Morse sent his
| first message over the wire.
An Artists Tragic End.
Hans Makart, the celebrated painter Of
| the entry of Charles V. into Antwerp, is
dead in Vienna after long agony. Two
weeks ago he was apparently well. He
drove in the Prater and worked, though
only at intervals. At last came his out
break of insanity. He began TO rave aud
wanted to tear the paintings and tapestry
Of his magnificent studio. He would
scream, lily head is = box of oolors, ="
and then become apathetic. The day be.
fore yesterday he lost consciousness. He
was most seriously attacked by intlamma
tion of the brain. Last night strong chest
cramps obliged him to send for physicians.
Among them was the celebrated psychst
Professor Meinert. They decided that
many weeks would be necessary for his
recovery, but the malady suddenly took a
fatal turn and he su ccumbeG.
Murder I'm Ubiontown.
Shortly before midnight Saturday night
VIM. Nandeveer, noted character.
stabbed Charles Lally, q miner, killing
him instantly. Lally was standing in
front of the Clinton hotel, Uniontowu,
talking with q couple of friends, when
Nandeveer came along and made a boast
that he could whip ten men in ten minutes
Lally laughingly remarked "Oh, reckon
not " and immediately Vandeveer rushed
at him with knife and stabbed him to
the heart. Lally fell dead, and the murder
or ran down White street, but was captured
and lodged in Jail. The Indignation over
the cold blooded affair was intense, and il
the officers had not hurried their prisoner
to the Jail he would have been lynched.
Tho Missing varsity Actress.
Ii turns out that the actress who has
SO mysteriously disappeared from the
Grand Central theatre is Trenton, N. j.,
is not Virgie Melville, as telegraphed Fri
day night, but Libbie Kirk. She is @
brunette, eighteen years old. She arrived
at Trenton last Monday night, bringing an
extensive wardrobe. The colored man
who brought note to tho actress said that
the note was given him by young man
at the Trenton house, who did not want
any one to kr ow of his movements. Chiel
OF Police McChesney, who is at work on
the case, believes the young was q com.
mercial traveller aud that ho has eoped
with the young actress. The managers OF
the theatre are desirous of ascertainine
her whereabouts and are holding her
trunks.
Taking a Girl Homo In Georgia.
| From the American Recorder.
A few nights ago a young man Of a
Georgia city, was at church across the
creek, and was introduced to a young
lady. After services he asked permission
| to see her home, to which she gave a shy
consent. Taking the big road, he walked
by her side talking nonsense some two or
three hours and began to tire. He then
asked, :" How much farther do you live ?"
"Oh, we've got about half way" Two
or three times he had to sit down and rest,
aud at last he got her home. When he got
back to his roosting place it was 4:30
o'clock the next morning.
| a View OF tho UhIp Uontest
| gloomy tepuoi1cau VINO has been in
| Ohio for the past month writes to the
Philadelphia Times that he "will vote for
Blaine, but is convinced that tho jig is ND.
| Seventy-five per cent. of the German
| voters and liquor men with their influence
are on the Democratic side of the fence
and the bulk of the balance will flop over
before the 14th. The Democrats are
jubilant, the Republicans fearful. You
| may as we'll prepare to head your column
October 15 "Blaine's Waterloo"
a Train Down u PreoIpice.
A Northern Pacific freight train on the
St. Pau s. Duluth railroad, whi'o passing
a steep bluff near Fon du Lac, Mimi,
Sunday morning, left the track, which had
been undermined by heavy rain Saturday
night. The locomotive and tender and
six loaded and two empty cars went down
the precipice into the st. Louis river,
taking with them three men, who were
drowned. Their names were b. g. Harter,
engineer stephen Judgkins, fireman and
Olson, brakeman.
Hundred Miles Bicycle Race.
George Webber, OF Smithville, N. j.,
won the hundred mile road championship
OF the Boston Bicycle club, at Boston,
in 0 hours 30 minutes, beating the record
made October 6, 1882, by Thomas Midgely
OF Worcester, y hours Al minutes The
winner received a gold medal. J.E.
Wood, OF Beverly, was second. in 0 hours
81 minutes, Roche aud Falls, also beat