Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-02
STATE ITEMS.


STATE ITEMS.
Easton aims at board of trade. What
for?
State Senator W. E. Roberts is taking a
trip in Europe.
An incendiary attempted to set fire to
the Bloomsbury normal school last Thurs.
day.
Bayarl Taylo. Jones, a lad 10 years of
ago, was cut to pieces or the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western road by tie cars.
Shamokin bor ou.ii has decided against
water works by i majority Of :01 votes,
and against gas by vote OF 4G2.
The change Of superintendents Gu the
Philadelphia & Erie railroad will take
place on the 1st Of September, when Mr..
Baldwin will re.irc.
Many IIungal;ans il the ooal regions do
not like work and are going back to Eu-
rope rs fast rs they can earn enough
money to pay their passage.
A prize fight between two Norristown
pug;lists camo of in :: woods near that
borough On Sunday. One of the siadators
was pretty severely punished.
Last week the public bath houses i'll the
Delaware and Schuylkill rivers were
visited by II, 243 persons, who dipped be-
meath the waters.
The Wiikesbarre school board has
adopted resolution that no pupils be ad-
. mitted into the schools who cannot show
unmistakable signs OF having been vacci-
mated,
julius Guiteau, and uncle of the assas-
sin. is said to havo been the first man who
used anthracite for smelling iron in this
country. His furnace was started 1T Mauch
Chunk IL 1886.
Mrs. A. L. Lesher, of Vcnango, hAs
brought suit against the Roberts torpedo
company, in the sum of $4,000, for dam
ages resulting from the death of her hus-
band by u nitro slycerine explosion last
winter.
A man supposed to be an employee Of
Coup's show, was thrown from freig Int
train near Huntingdon and instantly killed.
The body was horribly manglcd and was
taken charge Of by the coroner.
The Delaware bridge company are at
present engaged in the preparation of a
handsome iron bridge to take the place Of
the Cumberland Valley railroad company,
While thunderstorm was passing over
the village of Uniontown in the upper end
Of Dauphin county, the wife Of Mr.. Jacob
Weiste was sitting under the door Of her
residence when the electric fluid struck and
killed her.
A team attached to hay rake ran
away with Glare II. CrOwse near Homes
dale. Crowse was thrown in front of the
teeth and dragged some distance at
terrific pace. His scalp was almost en-
tirely torn from his head and his body
terribly mangled.
Now it is Bloomington, ILL.,, which is
shaken with a scan. mag. While g. X.
Livingston was busy making money Inc
delighted that his handsome wife gave
royal social entertainments. Now in dis
grace and 4 divorce suit he mourns that she
found pleasure in other men.
PittstOn, White Haven, Wilkesbarrc,
Pittsburgh and Sunbury lavo the small
pox, hydropllobia hourishcs in tho west
| erl part of the state, malaral diseases
multiply in every county. and in the tier
of counties adjacent to Maryland lockjaw
is so common that the inhabitants regard
it as epidemic and contagious.
Mrs. Charles Snyder, of Meadville, the
second wife Of the man who was SEN
fenced to eight years in the penitcntiary
for smothering the illigitimatc child Of his
daughter. Of whom the daughter swore he
was the father, attempted suicide last
Thursday night by taking laudanum,
the alleged cause being Snyder's brutal
ity.
A charter has been issued from the state
department to tho Monongahela East
Shore railroad company, tho proposed line
of which will run from a point opposite
McKccsport eighty miles up the Monon-
gahela river to the West Virginia state
line. The capital stock is $500, 900.
President, w. G. Quincy, Pittsburgh di-
| rectors, David Hostetter, James Il. Ben
nett, Henry Hice, II. Depuy
! George F. Hardy, single and aged AZ,
! who boarded at the Matawana house,
Matawana, Mifflin county, in = fit of men-
! tai ALTERATION ended his life by Il dose Of
strychnia. When the poison began to
take effect he cried out, g Help. for God $
sake help" His pitilul cries soon brought
the inmates of the house to his door,
which they burst open, when lie was
found upon his bed writhing in the awful
agonies Of death.
At HughestOwn, a suburb of Pittston,
the pond over the Old workings of the Sem
aca mines about three hundred yards in
depth and fifteen to twenty yards wide
is observed to be gradually sinking. A
home of a miner named John Feeney has
been completely wrecked. The tunneling
through the bosoagh is not considered
safe rs tho cave in there is quite percep-
tib!e. Great excitement prevails among
residents, and much danger is feared
A docking boss, named Sebastian LAM
bach, was killed by lightning while at his
work in tho tower of the Dodge coal
breaker, Scranton: Lambach was on the
top floor of the breaker, about $50 feet
high, when the fatal flash entered the open
window. He fell with a cry and never
spoke or moved. The Cuttings house,
at Pittston, was struck by lightning and
somewhat damaged, and several persons
were stunned in the vicinity.
! For failure to render their quarterly re-
ports to the postofiice department for the
quarter ending June 30, 1881, which un-
der the law they are required to do within
one month after the expiration of the
quarter, the postmasters at Bloomsbury,
Brookville Huntingdon. Milton, Potts
town, Union City and Wellsborough, have