Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-10
STATE GLEANINGS.
A uHAm,I,uiM iMsaoaLio IN REApIs.
An Actress Bsngs Ber Managers Heat
agsin,ta waii-A Band of BOY Des-
peradoes 10 Oil CITY.

guests W Tue MauslOn mousse, heaulnk,
Saturday evening, and for time great
excitement prevailed In the private apart
ments of Miss Collingwood, member oi
the Frederick Warde dramatic company.
Miss Colliugwood and another lady mem
Der Of the company were in the room,
when suddenly tho former was seized with
| n fit Of Mysteries aud became uncoutrolla
| BILE.
She rushed TO the window, aud pedes
ttians below were startled to see five paueS
crashed aud the broken glass jin4led on
| the pavement below. AT first IL was thought
that the lady wanted to jump out or push
some one else out. Loud screams came
| from the room, which attracted the clerks
to the second floor. With others came
| John &. Collins, manager of the company,
The unfortunate lady had terribly cut
both her hands, which were bleeding from
many wounds, Instantly she seized Mr.
| Collins, pushed him against the wall, and
severely cut him on the head. The lady
had unnatural strength, and 1t was some
time before she could be restrained aud
pacided Manager Collins said to the
excited guests " The lady has been i'll
aud is not answerable for what she has
| done"
Nine hours before tho scene took place
Miss Boyle, the leading lady, left the
company aud won't to New York. Mr..
Warde, the leading man, was not at tho
hotel at all duIing the excitement and he
left the company permanently sunday
morning and went to New York A
member of the company said There
have been personal grivances in the com.
pauy tor some time prior to our arrival in
Reading. GA Friday night the play was
| delayed a half hour owing 70 the non
arrival of Miss Boyle and a quarrel among
| some OF the male members. Miss Boyle,
however, came and played. The trouble
et the hotel was precipitated by au
attempt TO adjust differences aud griev
auces between two other lady members of
the company-a sort If family fight"
Costumer Van Horn aud his son, of
| Philadelphia, made a hurried visit to
Reading on saturday, presumably in rela.
tion TO the separation of Mr.. Warde and
his manager. Sunday night one of the
members of the company was arrested for
accidentally firing q bullet through the
second story window of the American
house.
rhey Were TO Poison Their Mothers.
A band of would be cowboys, who's
members do not average 10 years Of age
has been broken up in Franklin by the
spanking process, literally administered
by parental hands. The boys had fixed
their plans in a manner that would have
done credit to the worst desperate OF the
West. They held their meetings, ma
tured their plans, aud a few days ago had
| everything in readiness for the departure
| Their captain, familiarly called " Dead.
| wood Jim" gave the final command. In
| order to have no cause to return he said
each member of the band must poison his
mother. He promised to produce the
poison aud have it on hand the next day
when it would be divided.
All the boys were TO poison their
mothers in the evening, and morning was
TO find them far away. No doubt they
would have carried out their diabolic a
plot but Tor one small, seveu.year old
| youngster, who was afraid his mother
would suffer too much. The captain, II
satisfy him, agreed to apply the poison OF
the servant girl first, and, if she died
easily, then the mother must follow. The
servant girl happened 10 oYerhear the
agreement and informed the boys parents
The result was tina. each particular mem
Der OF the gang was interviewed with @
strap in the wood shed.
Labor AskiHs Ala for Coiorix ,tion.
Labor officials are circulating in Pitts
burg a petition to Congress asking an
appropriation Of $4,000, 900 from the
| treasury surplus for colonization purposes.
"1his amount would allow 90, 900 fami
lies 800 each to locate an entry under the
homestead act. A mortgage, payable in
| fifteen years, would be given on the
land. Ii the settler should pay for his
homestead Of $50 acres in five years, no
interest should be charged. II he should
ia less than ten years the mortgage should
bear interest at the rate of per cont.
and II in over ten years, per cent" At
a meeting of the labor leaders in Pitts
burg on Saturday night the " supreme
council of the National homestead associa
ton" was organized for the purpose OF
assisting the labor:ng classes to secure
homes aud to cultivate the spirit Of econo
my. The following officers were elected
President, A. &. Rankin Vice President
ID. Il. Sturgeon, nj. ID. 4; Secretary, Mat.
thew w. Smith Treasurer, John Jarret
Attorney, J. III. Stevenson. Branch
associations are to DO formed IN all the
principal cities.
New bTidgs at Phenixyllls Opened
The new public bridge across French
creek at Ph9nixyille, was opened 70 the
public Saturday with appropriate ceremo-
nleb. The main structure is of iron, with
heavy oak flooring, II is thirty feet wide
twenty feet of which is the roadway and
five feet on each side are set of for the use
of pedestrians. Its length is l,l25 feet
The iron work begins at Taylor's alley,
and thence to French creek arc thirteen
spans from 81 feet to "a feet in length
French creek is crossed by single spar
of 1865 feet q inches. Then there ar,
fourteen spaus, ranging in length from
| .25 feet To GO feet. The total length O.
iron work is 920 feet A inches, and tn,
highest point is 55 feet above the creek
The cost is $4,000.
Robbed by n Female Fooipad.
Henry Essling, young German gentle
man now travelling in this country, arriyeC
in Philadelphia Saturday evening and lef
Sunday night for st. Augustine, Fla
after having been robbed by q woman il
mems clothes on Walnut street, neaI
Nineteenth. Mr.. Essllng dined with part,
OF friends, all becoming slightly exhileratec
during the evening. About half past thre,
Sunday morning, after bidding his friends
good near Ninth and WALNUT streets
he started up the latter street to the pri
yate house at which he was q guest. A
the south west corner of Walnut and Nine
teenth streets, the upper side of Ritten
house square, there is handsome priyat,
residence, next door to the Church of tn,
Holy Trinity, which is just on the corner
In 'front.' OF the private residence Is sor
OF alcoVe, or emorasure, slauting into tn,
, Just as Mr. Essling naasad n a,ao