Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-06
STATE ITEMS.

The Philadelphia cricket match, Ameri-
cans VS.. English resident, was won by the
former with eighteen runs to spare.
Chairman Dill says he intends to soon
call the state committee together to fix 4
time for the state convention.
A boiler exploded at Boston Run col
liery, Schuylkill county, with fatal effect.
Thomas Rourke was instantly killed and
mule met the same fate.
John Green, an aged citizen Of Sharps-
burg, has died under circumstances which
make it doubtful whether morphine or
want Of air killed him.
Near Youghiogheny, accommodation
train struck and killed Jerry Bragnel. The
wheels Of the engine ground his head into
jelly.
Pittsburgh expects to have big races
next week. Maud s., St. Julien and Hope
full will be there and eighteen other nags
with record of 2:25 and under.
Two boys and two girls in trying to row
across the river at Scranton. sank their
leaky boat and Catharine Thomas, aged
IA, was drowned.
Albert Wetterauch was found dead in
bed in Pittsburgh, and the jury decided
that he had committed suicide with dose
Of morphine.
Geo. Myers, an Allegheny county farmer
who was jealous of his wife, was found
dead with u bullet in his head and his
pistol in his hand.
A young son of William johnson,
Honeybrook, Chester county, who fell
from a cherry tree, striking the back of
his head on the pals of a fence, died in
six hours after the accident.
| In Locustdale, Robert Bennie and John
| Lennon, who were connected with the
Baschee murder several years ago, for
which Lennon was discharged on Saturday
from five years. term in the penitentiary,
got into an alteration Oh Monday about
the murder, when Bennie drew a revolver
disinterested party.
While the mayor of Allegheny and his
chief of police were standing in his Office
on the Fourth a pistol ball entered the
window, and passing near where they were
standing, struck the wall opposite them,
and rebouniing fell at their feet. The ball
was from 90 calibre revolver, and came
with considerable force.
Out at Waynesburg, NO.. picnic
party, 600 in all, partOok Of lemonade
that had been poisoned with acid. Eight
persons have died and hundred are in a
critical condition. The vendor was ar.
rested and will be prosecuted. Public
indignation is excited and The community
is in mourning.
The North and West Branch railroad
sold at sheriff's sale at Bloomburg to Chas
Parrish, Thomas Beaver, Charles r. Buck.
alew and Henry W. Palmer for 500, 600
The line is forty miles long, running from
Wilkesbarre to Catawissa, aud is nearly
graded from Catawissa to Nanticoke,
eight miles from Wilkesbarre. A new com
pany will be formed at once and the road
pushed rapidly forward to completion. II
will become feeder to the Danville and
Hazleton branch of the Pennsylvania rail
road and make a rail outlet for the mines
of that company at NanticOke.
Up in Meadville Edward Howard and
Charles KnOrr, while drunk and late al
night, demanded admission to the disro-
putable drinking house of Ferd. Bork.
The wife denied them admission. They
persisted, and began kicking at the door
A fight then ensued, during which Mrs.
Bork ran into her bedroom, procured a
revolver which she had concealed in the
bureau drawer, and returned. Without
saying a word, she aimed at Howard and
shot him dead through the heart, and then
turning upon Knorr, who was standing 4
4 short distance from Howard, fired the
second shot, the ball lodging in the fleshy
| part of the left arm,