Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-28
STATE ITEMS.


Geoge Heimbacb, conductor on the
Northern Central railroad, fell from . car
near Mount Carmel, and was cut to
pieces.
Speaker Hewitt has received billet
doux of eight pages from ex-Chief Justice
Agnew favoring the catching of bass in
April and May.
Henry Randolph, Hawley youth, was
almost instantly killed, while carelessly
handling a gun. The weapon was dis
charged, tearing away his right side of the
boys head.
A violent thunder storm passed through
the Catawissa Valley Thursday night.
The lightning shattered several telegraph
poles and struck and instantly killed WIN.
Davis, a boy, who was plowing in field
at lions Grove.
A tramway in the Beaver mill yard,
Williansport, fell fourteen feet, laden
with four trucks oflumber, six men and a
horse. George Hoffman had q limb
broken in two places above the knee, and
Nelson Byers, foreman of the mill, was se-
riously injured. The other men escaped
with trifling injuries.
If Representative Wolfe were to frame
a general law in this Legislature upon the
subject Of legal advertising he would
wisely favor provision that it should go
into papers having the largest circulation
in the county, because in that wav it
would reach the largest number of people
interested.
The Northern Tier Reporter, published
at Port Allegany, McKean county, en-.
ters upon the eighth year of its existence
with bright prospects for continuance of
tho prosperity that has thus far signalized
its career. The Reporter is an excellent
local and family newspaper, while its De-
mocracy and earnest devotion to the cause
of good government are of the most posi-
tive character.
While assisting to put up q foot-log in
position at Morr0w's crossing, on Sher-
mans creek, in Tyrone township, Perry
county, John Wormley was literally crush
ed into shapeless mass by the log slip
ping and falling on him, bearing down
under water, which was about four feet
deep. His body was hidden from his fel
low workmen's view, but the blood flow.
ing from his body bubbled to the surface
and thus indicated the terrible condition in
which he then existed.
The cylinder head of passenger engine
4G, on the Philadelphia & Reading road,
blew out at New Castle and instantly killed
jeremiah Reed, superintendent of the
POttsville water works. Mr.. Reed had
been up to one of the company's dams and
returning to New Castle station waited for
the train from Frackville, which comes
down the mountain backwards. As il
was in the act of stopping at the station
the explosion occurred. Reed was stand.
ing alone few feet above the station and
was struck by pieces of iron, which crushed
in all his ribs and his skull.
At the summer meeting of the state
board of agriculture, in Williamsport,
June z, The Laws and Customs of Public
Highways will be discussed by Geo. w.
Hood, from Indiana Manual Labor and
how it may he Encouraged, by Hon. T.. C.
Musselman, Somerset The Preparation
of the Ground for Wheat, by J. D.
Lytle. Butler Roads and Road Making,
by w. G. Moore, Berks The Economical
Use of Stock Foods, by Prof. w. H. Jor.
dan, State college Division Fences, by
Hon. A. N. Perrin The Apiary, its care
and profit, by NJ. w. Oliver, Crawford ;
Creameries, E. Reeder, Bucks Is the
Importation of Foreign Live Stock Benefit
to tho Pennsylvania Farmer {? A. D.
Sinner. Northampton.