Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-10
STATE ITEMS.

Henry Ryan, a miner at Bear Ridge col
liery, was buried by a fall of coal. His
body has not been recovered.
A Mr.. Weibley, of Saville township,
Perry county, recently killed rattles make,
carrying eighteen rattles.
The interest in the Pittsburg P5st-one
fourth-owned by the estate of Joseph s.
Lare has been purchased by the surviving
partners for $4,000.
Yesterday morning the body of George
Baum, of Snufftown, near Easton. was
found in the Delaware river. 1t is sup,
posed to have been case of suicide.
The lockout ended; Pittsburgh iron
manufacturers will sign the new scale
five firms have already done SO puddlers
win again.
The summer meeting of the state board
of agriculture convened in Gettysburg,
yesterday, Gov. Hoyt presiding. A num-
Der of papers of interest to agriculture
| were read.
The twelfth annual commencement Of
Crozier theological seminary (Baptist) was
| held yesterday, and class of twenty
young men were graduated, the largest
number since its organization.
An unknown man, aged apparently
about sixty years, was struck by train
| on the Pennsylvania railroad, a short
| distance above the CallOwhill street
bridge, Philadelphia, on Monday after
noon and was instantly killed.
Annie Coppin, Philadelphia girl, aged
II, harshly accused by her step-mother
with undue intimacy with VIM. Candon, a
| married grocer, cut her throat in shame
| and anger and died. CandOn SAYS she
was falsely accused.
During the progress of the Edenburg
| fire man who thought the fire would
| only be checked when the suburbs were
reached, offered his building on State
street for $40. A bystander accepted the
proposition, and the next morning rented
the building for $50 per month.
English, the desperate outlaw of Elk
county, is still at large. He is fully armed,
and expresses his determination not to be
taken alive. He spent two nights last week
on the lower branch of the SinnemahoninS
and talks freely of the murder he COM
mitted.
DR.. Benjamin Becker, of Pottsville, who
has reached his SOth year, has been admit
ted with his wife to the Schuylkill county
almshouse. He twice amassed fortune
anu IOSI IL edcIl IlIHc Ill speculation. Az
one time he was superintendent of the
almshouse of which he is now an inmate
At a regular meeting of the Western nail
association yesterday resolution was
passed ordering a suspension in all the nail
mills for period of three months out of
the next four, commencing on Monday,
June IA. This action was taken in order
to hurry up a revival in the dropping
market.
The grand lodge I. O. G. T., of Penn
sylvania, convened in Lock Haven. Tues
day morning. The grand secretary re-
ported no special increase in membership.
the total number footing up to II, ,O4O, with
3O7 active lodges. There are now twenty
three juvenile temples, with membersh ip
of 1000.
John Kelly, of West Conshohocken, a
middle-aged man, while drilling rock in
Michael O. Brien's quarry near Conshohock-
en-, yesterday, was struck by stone weigh
ing about two tons that had loosened from
overhead. Kelly was knocked to the bot
tom of the quarry and instantly killed, the
rock cutting his body in two. He leaves
a wife and four children.
Quite dramatic scene occurred in Erie
in the homo of Mr.. P. Kelly, whose wife
died mysteliously Tuesday night. The cor