Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-20
STATE ITEMS.

The First regiment n. u. 1alr IN Pliila-
dclphia nctted s3O, 600 for the regiments S
armory. 1t was far from an II. e. affair.
The corpse found in trunk checked to
Newcastle lras turned out to be ''stiff''
bought for S. and shipped to green med
ical student. Let him have it.
The mayor of Philadelphia has been re-
qucsted to appoint commission to con-
slider the matter of the establishment OF 4
standard of boiler pressure.
At Stcclton, Dauphin county, early on
Sunday morning Sam'l Gilbert was attack
ed by heart disease and died before medi-
cal aid could bc had.
Charles Sicklcs, Of Scranton, by mistake
yesterday gave his wife carbolic acid in
stead of chlor:tc. She died in few hours
and he has gone crazy.
Jacob F. kulp, soldier Of the war OF
1912 and the Oldest citizen Of POttstOwn,
died in that borough on Friday, aged SO
years, month and IS days.
After first reporting inability to agree
the jury in the BOrtree murder case, at
Honesdalc, found him guilty Of murder in
the second degree. The verdict was Il
compromise.
Yesterday was a day of tribulatiOn to
the thirsty of Philadelphia in consequence
of the general enforcement of Mayor Stok-
ley's recent order requiring all drinking
.,~ios... 60 ',o "1ncn.l IN Sunday
The State Grange Of Pennsylvania,
Patrons of Husbandry, concluded very
harmonious session At Greensburs, last
week. Tho following officers were in
stalled, to serve for the ensuing two years
Master, Leonard Rhone, Centre Hall :
Ovcrseer, Seth Hoagland, Mercer; Lee
turer, James Calder, Harrisburg Secre-
tary, Robt. II. Thomas, Mcchanicsburg.
Burt Buchanan, Cleveland youth, and
Mamie Davis, a beautiful school girl, also
of that city, elopcd, came to Pittsburgh
aud were married soon after their arrival
They then telegrlphed the old folks for
money to get home with. They were for
given, but their parents are at a loss to
know what to do with the child wife and
boy husband
To meet the S.. .O00, 900 first mortgage
per cent. bonds maturing March 81, 1881 the
Philadelphia & Erie railroad company has
resolved to issue under its general mortgage
IS, OOO, 900 registered per cent gold bonds,
and the Pennsylvania railroad company,
lessee, having purchased the same has de-
cided to endorse upon them its contract
agreeing to purchase at par rs they mature
the principal and interest of said bonds.
The drunken exploits of Philip and
Margaret Riley have claimed their due
share of attention from the Philadelphia
police. The tenement was found by an
agent to be absolutely bare of furniture
excepting little furnace and three
legged table. The woman had got the
start of the man and had arisen carly and
pawned his hat and shoes for ram money.
lie tried to sell = scrap of rag carpet
which his wife was lying upon, but she
fought him. The agent met him while
Riley was walking down tho street in his
stockings to buy a pair Of quarter dollar
shoes. While he was out the woman
pawncd tho stove, and was drunk when
he returned.
Nineteen years ago Miss Mary Shafftr
was abducted from WOo,lcock, Crawford
county, by an unknown man, who met her
while going to school. She was taken to
Lowell, Mass, where she lived for several
years with a band of gypsies in the sub
urbS. She made her escape, and was en-
ploycd by wealthy citizen !, nurse. She
remained in this capacity for two years,
when she got married, and is now the
mother Of five children, living in Lowell.
Last week she made her appearance at her
old home, for the first time in nineteen
years. She found that her parents had
long since died, and the only relative to
greet her after her long absence was
sister. Nine hundred dollars was her
share in her fathers property, which she
received and departed for her home in
Lowell.