Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-10
STATE ITEMS.

Wolfe had big audience Of big people
in Titusville.
| Four EaStOn women were Sickened By
eating potatoes which had been boiled With
their skins on, and the supposition is that
Paris green had fallen on the potatoes.
Katie Sheafer, the young woman who
disappeared so mysterOusly from her home
at Summit station about six weeks ago, has
returned, barefooted and partially de.
ranged.
George Hall, aged 81. of Harrisburg,
had his arm amputated yesterday, it
having been injured while Hall. who is
freight brakeman, was coupling cars
near Spruce creek.
The Control iron works company are
builing new rolling mill, 12O feet long
and sixty-five feet wide. in addition to
their present large mill in south Harris
burg. They expect to have it finished by
December.
Erie raised 81, 1875 for the Michigan
| sufferers and Henry Ebersole, who died
up that way. worth $4,000. left an sS, 900
farm to the Erie home for friendless chill
dren and another farm to the Harborcreek
NJ. E. church.
The Courant, the Oldest Republican
paper in Lawrence county, has hoisted the
name of Wolfe with that Of Baily, imply
ing that it has no choice between the two,
and the Ners, another Republican paper,
has come out for Wolfe direct.
eve not only licked 'em; VIC mopped
up the floor with 'em, " was the triumph
ant boast of one of the delegates of the
bosses, telling the story of the machine
triumph over the Independents at the
Cameron state convention.
The wife of Mr.. II. B. Angle, Of Welsh
Run, Franklin county, lately gave birth to
three children, two boys and girl, aver
aging seven and three-quarter pounds in
weight, or twenty-three and One-guartcr
pounds of baby altogether. None of them
got away and all are doing we'll.
Ex-Judge Edwin Owen Parry, aged
sixty-four, years, died suddenly in Potts
vile yesterday. of heart disease He was
leading member of the Schuylkill county
bar since 1888, has been vestryman of the
Trinity church, and for the past forty
years represented that church in the diO
cesan conventions.
Senator George Handy Smith, armed
with buttOnhOlc bouquet and with the
aid of the steamer Galatea, fitted out from
Philadelphia, expects to convey 700 nation
al guardsmen, governor and staff, legisla-
tors and cOuncilmen, mayors and judges
from Philadelphia to Yorktown and back
on the 1922 inst, the trip each way to
take day.
Tramps have again been committing
depredations in Williams township, Nor
champion county, and complaints from
farmers are numerous. A new feature of
tramp life is that of having a girl to do
the begging for the gang and supply them
with food and when she is refused she
swears, threatens, and makes the air blue
with her demonstrations.
John B. Hamilton, an inexperienced
brakeman on the N. Y, P. s. o. r. r.,
was standing on 4 platform, and as the
train was rounding 4 curve near Cory he
was thrown from the car to the bank be
side the track. Before he was able to
help himself he rolled from the bank to
the track where both legs were horribly
crushed, his skull fractured aud other
serious injuries inflicted.
A couple Of days ago two dogs were ell
gagged in fight at Frankford, when John
Lewis, boy of years attempted to sep
arate them and was severely bitten in the
hand by one Of them-a "Spitz." The
wound was cauterized and nothing more
thought of it until Saturday when he was |
taken violently ill and showed signs of
hydrophobia, resulting in fatal and most |
agonising spasms.
That staunch Republican paper and
special object of the Examiner admiration,
the Philadelphia Erening Telegraph, fiercely
assails tho Press for its charac, eristic
burst of stump rhetoric, "Let us stand to-
gether in defense of the great principle OF
Popular Rale and Free Representation. but
let us also uphold and carry forward the
Republican flag" The Telegraph declares
that the Press is fighting not for the party,
but for the Bosses, aud tho Press knows it,
It it fighting against the best interests Of
the party, and it knows it.
Jonas Zindle was the proprietor Of the
Farmers hotel, Lock Haven. Samuel
Blair, under the influence of liquor. had
been quarreling in the barroom and Zindle
walked him outside. Instantly there was
. heavy thud heard on the pavement
Iindle's wife ran out and found her hus-
,and lying in tho street. Blair was ON
lis hands and knees, but got up and ran
IF. Mrs. Zindle called for help and it
vas then found that Zind!c was dead, the
light side Of his face being terribly
bruised.