Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-25
STATE ITEES,

But seven women have been hanged ir
Pennsylvania in eighty-six years. VIII
Transport will soon increase the number to
eight.
A party of boys while coasting on East
Norwegian street. Pottsville. ran into a
mule team. and Frank Desmond had his
| skull crushed by a kick from a mule. Lit
tie hopes are entertained Of his recovery.
At Riyhtnour's mill, near Il cltelville,
Berks county, little daughter of John
Rightnonr was playing around q circular
saw. and in some manner got her arm
badly lacerated. 1t was found that am
| putation of the arm was necessary to save
the child's life. She is very weak. but it
| is expected that she will recover.
A driver boy at the Preston coiliery,
Pottsville, care!essiy threw a can Of lubri-
eating Oil into stove around which were
seated several miners eating dinner. The
explosion burned John Davis, a boy
named George Howells, Henry Jores and
| Edward Eagen-the two former probably
fatally.
Tie movement started some time ago
| for the abolishmeut oi the sessions of the
| supreme court in Harrisburg and Pitts.
| burSh, and their consolidation in Piiiladel-
phia, has eliminated in the preparation of
a bill for that purpose, which was read in
the Senate a few days ago by Mr.. Hall.
| The Harrisburg lawyers are Indignant and
blame Judge Green for the movement.
Majo: James G. McQua;ic of Norris
town has died at his home. He had been
at Harrisburg in the early part Of the
present session during the severe weather
and took cold, which resulted in his death
He was quite well known in political cir
cles, having been prominent and leading
Republican. He held the Office of master
warden Of the port of Philadelphia under
the administration of Governors Geary
and Hartranft.
| Asa sleigh loaded with six persons, con-
sisting of }. l.. Taylor, wife and two chill
dren and Mrs. ShattO, a daughter. with a
babe fourteen months old, were pass,ng a
Williamsport street crossing, a runaway
horse. dragging pair of shafts, dashe,. up
| the other street and jumped clear over
them. The shafts caught in one Of the
| seats and overturned the sleigh, throwing
| the occupants out. Mrs. Shatto, Mrs
Taylor and the babe were badly hurt, the
latter, it is feared, fatally.
While the congregation of the Presbyte-
rian church, Shenandoah, q frame struc-
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in the basement from the heater. 1t was
4 cold night and the church was crowded.
Tho people became panic stricken an,
crowded pell-mcll towards the main ell
frances, while many, including several
women weighing over 200 pounds, es-
capped through windows. Though the
scare was complete no one was injured in
the rush to get out, and the fire was extin-
guished before much damage had been
d, ne.
At the large furniture warehouse of \ =.
II. Heilman & Co., in Wiiliamsport, n
man named Howell, engaged Oh the third
floor, was in the act of placing Il dressing
case Oh the elevator, and forget that it
was open, and with the piece OF furniture
in his hands he stepped backward into the
pit and fell 4 distance Of 81 feet. In the
descent he turned completely aroand and
landed ON his feet.ss breaking the bone of
the left lee above the ankle and sending it
through his boot. The other leg was also
broken and he was seriously injured about
his head and shoulders, and probably i'll
tcrEally, as he is Il heavy man and must
have struck the ground with great force.