Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-10
STATE ITEMS.

Cambria cOunty's coal lands, near Ebens
burg, will be developed this spring.
Jacob HOuser, a prominent citizen Of
Harrisburg, died on Thursday, aged 7s
years.
Ex-Congrcssmon Wright has stocked
Harvey's lake, Luzerne county, with 1OO,-
600 white fish.
Frank Hazard, aged II, while bending
over an oil tank near Derrick City, was
asphyxiated by gas. When found two
hours later lie was dead.
John w. Pittock, one Of the best
known citizens and most popular of Pitts
burgb, who was the founder of the Leader
died yesterday morning, aged 80 years.
Shenandoah is excited over the presence
of hot water in one OF it's mines. It is
feared that the colliery is Oh fire, and a
watch is kept constantly in the lowest lift.
The temperance people OF JOhnstown
and vicinity have demonstrated against
the granting Of licences to 2j persons
in JOhnstOwn, in East COnemaugh and
in Franklin borough.
On the Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road, near POttstOwn, coal train ran into
a gravel train. Fifteen sand cars we're
telescOped and the cab, water tank and
ten cars of the coal train were demolished.
W. II. Hilton, colored, Of Chadd's Ford,
Chester county, is held in DOwningtown
for persuading Maggie Strickland, four
teen-year-Old white girl, to elOpe with him.
The girl was formerly an inmate of the
Industrial home, of Philadelphia.
John E. Schooner, alias Shannon, who
has been employed as 4 clerk by John E.
Van Leer, ticket agent for the Pennsyi-
vania railroad company, at Broad and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, was ar
rested yesterday Oh warrant charging
him with the cmbezzlement of S253. 90 in
cash and seven tickets worth $500. 20 be-
tween November Sd and December 18th.
$780,
Agent Dean, of the Pittsburgh Humane
society, says that a lad of ShousetOwn vas
stripped stark naked by his mother and
forced to read three chapters from the
Bible. While he was reading his mother
stood over him with whip, and when the
boy went to school next day marks of the
lash were seen on his neck. The lad ran
away after that and slept under the Ninth
street bridge.
Sixty-seven Of the female patients from
the burned Danville lunatic hospital have
been transferred to the. hospital at Harris
burg. TIE rest, except those claimed by
friends or taken by the counties from
which they were sent, will be removed to
Warren. 1t is estimated that it will cost
$4OO, 600 to rebuild the Danville hospital,
independent Of the insurance money,
which amounted to s2GG, 900.
The Bradford Era commenting on the
that, rs far rs heard from, a
lady of that city is the leading competitor
for the SIC, 900 premium offered by the
agent Of the FOrcpaugh circus for the SER
vices of the handsOmcst woman in Amcri-
,a, for q thirty weeks engagement, states
hat "the present favOrite face for the for
tune is only regarded here as OF the mo-
liOcre grade. After all the rest Of the
universe has been permitted to apply
Bradford intends to forward photograph
If the worlds peerless beauty. Besides
his matchless specimen of her sex, the.
much advertised Langtry, of foggy Lon
lon, would tear her fair features in lust
.nvy."
MahanOy is alarmed. The ground round-
bout the place is still sinking. The road
Il front Of the Methodist Episcopal church
as sunk several inches, and the board
1alk running from the superintendent
tlice to the bridge has been drawn apart
4 . number Of places. The cottages &C.
upied by the superintendent and resident
nginecr have been quite seriously dam
ged. The plaster Of the walls has be-
one lOOsened. The yard Of the former is
al of small holes. Not long ago the floor
f the hot house had become flooded with
,vcral' inches Of water, and the gardener
as in quandary as to how he should
rain it. lie was saved any further trou-
le, however, by a small opening being
,ade in the ground floor by some unseen
gency, which relieved him of the flood.