Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-30
STATE ITEMS.

InGrC arc now Ill course OF construction
at the iron shipyards on the Delaware, nc
less than fifteen iron steamers.
Miss Bessie Norris, the deserted bride
of Wilkcsbarrc, who became insane Ovel
her lovers perfidy, is reported to be con-
valescing.
The grand jury of Fulton county, Ga,
found true bills against the cashier, pres
i6cnt and directors of the broken Citizens
bank.
The Iaddington people rather than sub.
NIT to cent street car fares down into
Philadelphia. have put on a line of cent
passenger coaches.
George Deb. Keim, OF Philadelphia,
the hardware merchant, is off in North
Carolina hunting his wife has died sud
denly and he cannot be reached with the
news.
Burglars blew open tho iron safe OF
Fink & Shorb. produce and commission
merchants. at Littlcstown, Adams county
belonging to VIM. Kuhns were carried
away.
Two hot bloOded students at POttstOwn
undertook to settle quarrel by resort to
the "code," and when the time came for
an exchange of shots one of them did
actually pull the trigger, the bullet grazing
his opponents neck.
Since the board Of pardons refused elem.
ency to William Cannon, election officer
briber, of Philadelphia, his wife has died,
and lest mis- little children be parcntlcss
the judge and district attorney agree in
asking for a communication of the three
remaining weeks of his sentence.
An educated Hungarian refugee has died
in Scranton from all overdose of lauda.
mum. He was we'll educated, spoke Ger.
man, Greek and Latin, and is said to have
been lawyer at home. His companion
did not know his name, and the man
was unconscious up to the time of death.
George Furness, a boy aged nine, was
accidentally locked in a school room in
Erie, and was attacked by swarm of
rats. The boy fought desperately for
some time, but became exhausted and
when discovered was laying senseless,
with the swarm of rodents tearing at his
flesh. He will live, but his fright has
probably deprived him of his reason.
In Natrona on Friday Robert Welch, a
young man employed in the works of the
Pennsylvania salt manufacturing CON-
pany, fell from bridge twenty-five feet
high that spans a small stream which
passes through the property of the COM
pany. He was not discovered until Sat-
urday afternoon, when he was picked up
from tho bed of the stream where he had
fallen. He will die.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
wants to build freight depot on the north
side. o. Market street, Philadelphia, and
finds it desirable that the hollow at Thir-
teenth street should be spanned by a bridge
fifteen feet in height, and the street made
Of a uniform grade from Thirty-second
street to the bridge over the Schuylkill.
The work would cost about $50, 500, and
the company would undertake it for $685.
500, supplying tho remainder from it's
treasury.
Robert Craven. formerly in the grocery
business at 1868 Market street, Philadel-
phia, has died suddenly in New York. He
was rather eccentric in his ways, and had
habit of carrying large sums of money
with him. often amounting to $1,000 or
$1,000. He had will leaving all his
property to Miss Lizzie Chase, to whom
he was betrothed. She finds that not a
dollar was found on him or in his store,
and she has put detectives to work.