Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-18
KEYSTONE HAPPENINGS.
VI AND DOWN rns UoMmoSwrsLrs.
important Reduction OF Pb,isdcipniA's state
Tsxes-Miner's wives Joiaing tho

Ur AND DOWN Tne CoMMoSwrsLrs.
important Reduction OF Pbrsdeipni.ss,ate
Tsxes-Miners wives Joioiug tho
sttisers-ronf Boiiers Explode,
The state board of revenue commission. |
ers havo rendered decision Of great
interest to Philadelphia. at a meeting
| held July 80. 1884, the levy Of state tax on
personal property against Philadelphia
was raised from s2S7. 100 o. as fixed for
the year 1888, to S427, I'll. i6 for the year
1854. AT the same meeting it was de
cided to notify the board of revision of
taxes OF Philadelphia that for purposes OF
taxation for tho year 1885 they should
levy and assess four mill tax upon the
! loans and bonds Of Incorporated companies
of this commonwealth owned by citizens
of Philadelphia, This latter resolution
was rendered necessary by reason o, the
fact that until lately the tax on such loans
were collected by the companies and tho
tax levied directly upon them by the
auditor general. lu tho case Of the
Lehigh Valley railroad the supreme court
decided that the tax must be collected
from tie individual owners of the loans.
From this action the city of Philadel-
| phia, through its board Of revision of
taxes, appealed, and Wednesday William
LauGhlip, Simon Gratz, and George w.
ah MAUI composing shlG DDtTu, dHntaIeu
before the board Of revenue com mis- sioners.
Comprehensive statements were submitted
10y these gentlemen showing the accur cy
OF the appeal taken BY them, ard after
full Interchange of opinion the board of
revenue commissioners agreed that they
would reduce the levy as fixed for 1884,
| the full amount of legal generations for
which proof may bs filed. 1t is thought
this will reduce the tax against Philadol
phla round hundred thousand dollars
Ii was further resolved that as the board
OF revision of taxes had completed their
labors in assessment of tax for 1885 and
as they had acted in good faith they
would not be required to perform tho as
sessment of loans IN the hands of citizsus.
women Jnininx the strikers Ranks.
President Costello, of the Miners asso-
citation, returned to Pittsburg Wednesday
AFTERNOON from the camps OF the strikors.
| lie reports no change in tho situation.
| The women are now talking very strongly
| of joining the men in their usual morning
| parade to intercept the on-uuionists. 4
| number OF them got after one of tho nou-
unionisss on his way home from work at
| Harris mine, and tiu'panned him severely
A few nom unionists at the Umpire mine
were also tim -panned by number of
| farmers wives and daughters. About
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well equipped with tin pans, buckets, etc,
| to meet the uon-anionists as they came out
| OF the bank. A meeting of the women
| will likely be held to decide upon future
action. Ii is even probable that they will
effect an organization 100 strong. They
4 are very aggressive, and at the home OF one
| non-union'st who was besieged this eyea
| Ing froe for all fight was narrowly pre-.
vented. The non'uuionist took his sereusde
good uatursdly, but his wife's ire was
aroused aud a war of words followed.
| -Four Boilers Explode At Once.
A terrific boiler explosion occurred Tues
| day evening at the Ly kens Valley collery,
at Lykens, owned by the Pennsylvania
railroad company. The explosion occurred
| Little after D O'Clock aud was heard for
I many miles. Had is taken place q half
hour later the loss of life would un-
doubtedly have been great. The explosion
| was caused by detective boiler. Four
boilers exploded together. throwing iron
and timber in every direction for several
hundred yards. The explosion has olused
a total suspension Of work a. the Lykeus
Valley colliery for several days. Tne
shut down will last for weeks Paul
Shultz, Joseph Dunlap and George Bright
were somewhat painfully injured by being
bruised and scalded. The only person who
l u
driver boy, whose flesh was burned all
over his body. He also sustained internal
| injuries and, it is thought, cannot live
until morning. He resides at Coaldale
The loss caused by the explosion will reach
$4,000, without taking into consideration
ths loss by the delay in working the mine
Young womsn's Attempted suicide.
Tuesday evening Bella Snyder, aged
twenty years, Of Allentown, who has been
Tilted by lover, drank two ounces OF
laudanum. A short time later several of
her friends found her lying in bed uucou-
seious and the vial clasped in heI hands.
Doctors were summoned and the woman's
life was saved. Miss Say der is a native
OF WIlkesbarre. The dose she swallowed
was too big and much smaller quantity
would have done the work OF death
effectually. This is the sixth attemp. at
suicide inside Of three weeks.
| suTacsted In = Well.
While John d. Wa]ford was digging q
well in Luzerne township. Fayette county,
Tuesday. he put in blast which failed to
go off. Descending into the we'll, he was
suffocated. A friend went down and tied
a rope around his body, but while 1T was
being drawn up the rope became unfas
tened and tho body fell fifteen feet to the
bottom. When it was recovered life was
entirely extinct.
| A Cigar Factory Robbed.
The Cigar factory of Mages Brothers, of
Easton, located in Macungie, Berks county,
was robbed of five Thousand cigars Wednes
day and there are no clues 10 the bur.
glars. The cigars we're in boxes containing
fifty each and were unstamped. Tho mum
Der Of the factory, !, ,239 is stamped on the
bottom Of each box.
"A Sportsman Drowned
Frank Dowd, of Wayne township, Erie
county, while cunning on Tuesday, stood
on the bank of large pond and, shooting
duck, stripped and waded 10 for the
game. Going beyong his depth he was
drowned.
AGASu OF HUKsE THIEVES.