Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-13
STATE ITEMS.

and be successful, the country would need
no guarantee for its chief executive.
STATE ITEMS.
The McGibeny's appear in Scranton to-
night.
Judge Allison occupied fully three hours
yesterday delivering his charge in the cele-
brated Whitaker will case in Philadel-
phia.
The body Of Gustave Poetz was cre-
mated in the Lemoyne furnace at Wash
ingtOn last evening. The process occu
pied three hours.
The Mutual fire insurance company of
Montgomery county, at their last meeting,
decided, by unanimous vote, to donate
town.
Norristown has public square, which
it dignifies with the name of . a miniature
park The residents are correspondingly
happy, and young and old HE themselves
thither in the shades of the evening.
Lot.a Latta, child twenty-one months
old, of Monongahela City, was choked to
death by getting an acorn in her throat.
The doctors performed an operation, but
she died while they were performing it.
The grand lodge of Pennsylvania, 1. O..
o. F., will meet in Reading on the 18th
inst. A thousand delegates will be in at
tendance and the session will last the
week.
Boyer Altman, young man of Juniata
county, who several years ago went to
New Mexico, has struck a rather large
bonanza. He recently sold mine he
owned to New York capitalists for S16O,
600.
The National association of window glass
manufacturers met in Pittsburgh yester-
| day and resolved to suspend production
for the months Of June, July and August.
| A proposition to reduce prices was unani-
mously rejected.
At the regular meeting of the Western
nail association, in Pittsburgh, yesterday,
it was decided to rednce the card rates to
$3.25, and also to suspend operations for
two weeks out of the next three, beginning
on the 18th inst.
Michael Mcguire, who murdered his
wife Bridget, in tenement house, on
Temple street, Philadelphia, was found
guilty yesterday of manslaughter, and was
sentenced to three years. Imprisonment in
the Eastern penitentiary.
As an express train on the Bound Brook
branch of the Reading railroad was CON-
ing in at the Ninth and! Green street depot,
Philadelphia. yesterday morning, the en-
gine struck Joseph Kite, the tlagman, at
the crossing, killing him instantly.
A meeting of tenants and property
owners on Market and Front streets, Phil
adelphia, as we'll as others opposed to the
projected elevated railway on those streets,
adopted, last night, resolutions protesting
against the project.
| William c. Neissel, the pickpocket
with many aliases, arrested on Tuesday
for stealing 81, ,026 from citizen while
riding in Girard avenue car. Philadel-
years. Imprisonment in the Eastern peni-
tentiary.
Four large bark sheds, at the Tecumseh
tannery, at Everett, Bradford county, Pa,
were burned yesterday. Loss, $50, 900. The
hospital and stables of the Carbon county
| (Pa. almhouse were burned on Tuesday
night, with 9horses, "a head of cattle and
40 hogs.
Samuel Barr. ex-senator Cameron's pri-
vate secretary, is a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Congress in the
Lebanon, Dauphin and Northumberland
district. The friends of Congressman
Killinger, in Lebanon, will probably press
him (Mr. K.) for a denomination.
| A colored man committed infanticide at
Columbus, Ga, about ten days ago, and
disappeared. His mother informed the
police that he was hiding in the lattice
work of the Western railroad bridge across
the ChattahOoche river. They went to
the bridge yesterday and demanded his
surrender, when he jumped into the river
and drowned himself.
The national convention Of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, in session in Phila-
delphia, was addressed yesterday by Mr..
John Dillon, NJ. P, in favor of the objects
of the Irish land league. A letter was
read from Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell,
| NJ. p, denying that the funds raised for
the land league and for charitable purposes
| were used for political ends.
Milton Baldwin found very curious
growth, in the shape of woody fungus,
in Warne's mine, Monongahela City.
Nearly every kind of vegetable growth re-
quires light, but this formation which is
two feet long and of the most fantastic
shapes, was growing pendant from pit
post about 200 feet from the pit mouth. In
one place it takes the shape of baby's
foot, with remarkable distinctiveness of
outline, and resemblances of various kinds
are found in this very odd excrescence.
Nathan Bell, at one time typo of the
M6aintoun Democrat and Register, has
returned to his home in that place from
trip around the world, occupying him three
years and nine months, during which time
he was in the United States government
surveying expedition, and was in Europe,
China, Japan, and some of the Pacific
islands. He is but twenty-five years of
age, and intends shortly to enter Russian
surveying and exploring expedition in ST.
IBERIA. Printers are proverbial tramps,
but Mr.. Bells has been to some purpose.
Church Assemblies.