Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-25
STATE ITEMS.

David Tees, Of Pittsburgh, of tie 14th
regiment n. G., was stricken with paraly-
sis on the voyage home from Yorktown.
A woman taken with fit in York, was
mistaken for drunk, wheeled to the county
iail, died a miserable death, and is now
the subject of great popular attention.
The pink-eye disease mace it's appear
ance among the horses in Pittsburgh last
week, and within 4S hours "a horses be-
came affected. Four of them died.
VIM. Ehrenfclt, a fireman on the Pitts
burgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad
while running over the top Of the cars,
about ten miles above Altoona, fell OF, the
train passing over his left shoulder. The
arm was amputated.
The Democratic executive committee Of
the Allegheny county committee has de-
cided to print the name Of Daniel McWill-
Jams as a candidate for county commissioner
on the ticket, but will also print the names
of Joseph Stokely and William McGee on
the posters as candidates.
The popularity of Orange Noble at his
home is attested by the fact that the Erie
| Lighthouse, German independent paper,
and the Erie Graphic, an English paper,
also independent, both give him vigor-
Gus support. He is at least a thousand
votes stronger than his party in Erie
county.
1t is really comfort to know that the
persons who threw vitriol from the gal
lery of the Centennial building the other
night and burned some forty people, were
mischievous boys who mistook the fiery
stuff for water and whose act was piece
Of juvenile mischief and not a new device
of tiendish deviltry.
Judge Hagenman, of the Berks
court, has shut down on the marriage in
surance business, and refuses to grant any
more charters to associations of this class.
He says the matter has gone farther
than was expected. Hitherto the business
has gone forward boomingly III our ad
joining county.
A fire at Row City, Mexican county,
destroyed J. NJ. Frances drug store,
Smith & Rouse's hotel, J. II. Pau ling's
wagon house, ]. w. Browns two-story
frame building, Hock's hotel, II. B. Miles
shoe house and three other small build
ings. The total loss is put at s4,50O,
mostly held in New York companies.
The Presbyterian synod of Erie occu-
pied two days over the appea! of Heber
Donaldson, expelled from Emlenton
church for dancing. After heated dis
cussion Of every phase Of the case tho vote
stood: For sustaining, 20; against sus
tanning, s3. Three voted for sustaining in
part. The General Assembly will be
given all opportunity to act thereon.
Our neighboring city of Reading is just
tickied to death because the Emma Abbott
opera company gave two fine performances
there on Saturday; and she has right to be,
too, for it was a big day for Reading, as was
the day preceding for Lancaster. Read
ing's morning paper, the Times has long
editorial leader calling for more of the
same sort, declaring that the best culture
of the city demands it, and promising sub.
stantial encouragement if it is afforded
On behalf of the people Of our own good
city we may fairly echo "us too
One of Baron Won Stcuben's heirs turns
up rs au Allentown Dutchman, bent or
reclaiming the ancestral estates. The ex-
humed will shows that the old baron
made devscs to his servants on the follow.
conditions, which were never carried out
"That on my decease they do not permit
any person to touch my body, not even tc
change the shirt in which die, but that
they wrap me up in my old military cloak,
and in twenty-four hours after my decease
bury me in such spot os l shall before my
decease point out to them, and they never
acquaint any person with the spot where
I shall be buried"