Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
sBouaHr ny TBE MORNING MAILS
Incident. Accident and Crime 10 various
Sections - work OF Potato Bugs-
Tyenty Wen Thrown ia n River

Sections - work OF Potato Bugs-
twenty men Thrown In . River.
The occasion of the unveiling of the
statue of Governor Buckingham was on
Wednesday celebrated at Hartford, Conn
with eclat
On the new Ohio river road, construc.
ton car attached to mixed freight bound
South, jumped the track on Wednesday at
q trestle at Sugar Landing, 3j miles
from Wheeling, instantly killing William
Collins, aged l6, fatally wounding his
brother Robert, and seriously injuring y
carpenter, whose name is unknown.
Great excitement was occasiOned in
Fairbault, MINI, Tuesday night, by the
disappearance of Miss Lizzie Spencer, the
daughter of a prominent citizen. She had
Just returned from st. Mary's school.
Searching parties hunted for her all mig ht.
She was found Of o'clock Wednesday
morning wandering far from her home,
in great mental distress aud physical eX-
haustion, owing to hard study and her
failure to secure school hopors. ,
Hiram Edmuudson, prominent Goa
dealer of McKeesport, Pa, disappeared on
the 22d Of December last, and his body
was found on Sunday in the Monopgahels
river. No marks OF violence being visible,
the corouer's jury returned verdict of
accidental death. On Tuesday night, how
ever, Gustavc Jacobson and John Wagner
were arrested on suspicion OF having
murdered Edmuudson.
work OF Potato Bugs.
At rural stations near Troy, n \ where
two weeks ago potatoes were worth - cents
Pc bushel, 90 aud 65 cents now is paid
TIE potato bugs are said TO be very
numerous, and their visitation brings de-
struction 70 the young plants which
we're delayed and made delicate
by the recent irosts, The farmers
declare that the outlook for potatoes is
discouraging and the yield is likely to be
small and OF an inferior quality. Nu'
merous fields of potatoes were entirely
destroyed by frost aud have been plowed
up and other frostbtten potatoes will be
three or four weeks later.
Killed by AN Exploding BOlIer.
IN accident occurred at the sawmill of
Jackson x Speers, at Laurel Run, seven
miles from Bolton, W. Va, Wednesday
afternoon, which resulted in tie instant
death Of two men, one Of them the junior
member Of the firm. Three others were
seriously injured. Without q moments
warning the boiler exploded with terrible
crash, almost entirely wrecktug the build.
ing and scattering scalding water, steam
and flying fragments of timber iu all dl.
rectious. AS soon as the shock of the eX
plOslOn was over a search OF the ruins was
made, bringing TO light the following
casualties Killed, J. II Speers, William
Gatz seriously wounded. p. Z. Amos,
Aaron Forsythe and Jack Wagner. Several
others received slight bruises. The loss
will be heavy.
Twenty Men Thrown ia a River.
Some men were employed in unloading
a large barge of gravel Wednesday III
Louisville when suddenly the barge,
which was Old and rotton, sprung leak
aud collapsed before the men could get of,
breaking violently into three pieces. 1t
threw twenty men high in the ali, and they
all fell in a N ass into fifteen feet Of water.
The men on shore threw ropes and plauk5
TO them and all we're drawn out except
one, a negro, named Fletcher Phillips,
who went down with the barge. The
majority of the men were uninjured but
three or four were seriously hurt by being
struck by the timber of the barge. These
are George Warren, George Smith and
Jim Hatch. Hatch was drawn ashore
after having been under water for several
minutes. He is in an unconscious condi-
ton, having received internal injuries, from
which he will die.
1t Goes TO the PRESIDENT at Last
In the L. Senate Wednesday, message
was received from the House announcing
its concurrence in the Senate amendments
Of the FItz John Porter bill. II now goes
TO the president for executive approval.
The bill restores General Porter TO the
rank of colonel in the regular army though
it does not give him pay for any time dur.
ing the twenty.one years he has been
deprived of it.