Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-03
STATE ITEMS.

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A man at Tarport, agreed to sell his
wife to milk vender for two dollars and
a COW, and the woman consented.
An unknown man, about 90 years Of age
was found lying on the railroad track be
low PottstOwn, his nose broken, his face
terribly cut and unconscious.
Prof. Jacob Ennis, of the state normal
school, Shippensburg, advances the theory
that comets tails are composed of electric
ity generated by evaporation.
Charles Comley. jr., of Philadelphia
was yesterday sentenced to an imprison
ment of one year for carrying concealed
weapons. Mayor King means business.
There are some GOO physicians in Phila
delphia who are liable for fine of S1OO
for not having registered in the prothono.
tary's office as required by law.
Edward Phipps stabbed James Clifford
in Philadelphia, yesterday, and while
being taken to the station house sue.
ceeded in stabbing the Officer, Miller. in
the abdomen.
Steuben Butler, 90 years old, is lying
very low at his home in Wilkesbarre. He
is the only living son Of the famous Zebu
lon Butler, so conspicuous in Wyoming
massacre history.
John Spillman, the companion of E. A.
Abbott, the supposed murderer of Samuel
ClugstOn, at Valley Forge, in March last,
was given a hearing and was committed
to prison to await the charge of murder.
The epidemics ravaging Pittsburgh arc
50 disastrous that in a cOlOred graveyard
the bodies have been doubled up. In dry
weather the graves crack open and the
stencil is SO loud that waiting dogs Prov
around the resting place of the dead.
John saeger, of the Stearns manufac
turing company, Of Erie, and William
Seller. one of the editors of the Eoenin5
Herald. were seized with cramps while
swimming in Lake Erie. Saeger was
drowned. Seller was rescued.
BY IN explosion of fire damp in the
Phoenix Park colliery, operated by the
Philadelphia & Reading coal and iron com.
pany, John T. Welch and Edward Brady,
miners, and Michael Moore and James
Brown were badly burned. Welch was a
Labor Reform representative in the last
state Legislature.
According to Mr.. Wharton Barker's
american. of Philadelphia, although
the finances Of the state are not mis-
managed. there are many Republicans
who would rather see the trcasurership in
the hands of a good Democrat than in
those of AL equally good Republican.
They think it will do the public interest
no harm to set one party to watch the
other.
Four weeks ago Mr.. Mcclure, Of McKces
port, was robbed of considerable stock in
his store. He discovered 4 clew to the
perpetrators, and yesterday, in company
with four policemen, he started in pursuit.
Soon the party came upon the robbers,
when the latter, being we'll armed, opened
fire Oh the pursuers, which was returned.
After exchanging shots for some moments
the thieves made good their escape, but
not until they had killed one policeman
and fatally injured two others.
The entranced Hungarian John Gyum
Der, who has been an inmate Of tho Le-
high county almshouse for the last six
months, and whose case has batfled the
medical fraternity for that length of time,
having finally broken silence, cOrrobOr-
ates the story Of his life previously pub
lishcd in these columns That, having
been victimized by a negro woman in Vir
ginia who put pepper in his coffee, he
thought he was poisoned, and has since
been wandering about in trance-like
state Of Inconsistencies.