Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-17
STATE ITEMS.
Items Here and There From the River
to the Lake-AlinOr Matters that
Interest Pennsylvanians.

Items Here ana There From the River
to the Lake-Minor Matters that
Interest Pennsylvanians.
A meeting has been held at West Grove,
Chester county, for the purpose of discus
sing the plausibility of erecting national |
bank in that town. The proposed capital |
stock is $50, 600, and no one was permitted
to subscribe for more than 90 shares at a |
par value of 81 900.
Johnny Kaye, an eiyht-year-old son of
DIR. John Kaye, of East Coventry, Chester
county, found bottle Of medicine on the
table. The child filed q glass and drank
freely of tho mixture. The boy was i'm
me,iiately taken sick, and writhed in great
agony for two days, when he died.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Leb-
anon county will DO held in tho court
house at Lebanon on Saturday afternoon,
for the purpose of investigating the county
account. Speakers will be present to ad-
dress tho meeting in English and German.
vein of iron ore has been struck in
Windsor township, York county, which
promises to result in a good yield. The
ore was struck about six feet from the
surface, and SO far is between six and
seven feet deep, and it is not known how
much deeper it runs, while there seems to
be ore all around the place.
A new railroad, constructed by the
Wheeling s. Harrisburg railroad com
pany,' is to be built, commencing at
Wheeling, West Virginia, and running to
Harrisburg, this state.
A petition is being circulated among the
employees of the Reading railroad COM
pany asking the company to fix regular
payday between the LIST and 10th of each
month and has received many signatures,
aud it is believed that the request will be
farorably considered.
A baby was born in Erie the other day
which weighed a pound and three qaarters:
1t is perfect in form and feature, sound
and lusty, the pride Of its parents and tho
wonder of tho community.
The new station of tho Pennsylvania
railroad company at Harrisburg is to be
modelled after railroad station that Col.
Thomas A. Scott saw while iu Nice. 1t
will be oblong in shape, 800 feet long and
open in the centre. The grounds will be
beautifully laid out and filled with foun-
tains and statuary and shruthsry. The
plans are in the hands of tho board of di
rectors. The site has not been tiually de
cided upon, but it is expected that it will
be in about a week, when the work Of its
construction will begin.
Heck's Touring mills, situated along the
COnodogwinet creek at what is known as
Oysters dam, was destroyed by fire, to
gethcr with large quantity Of grain and
flouo. The mill was large frame struc.
ture, rather dilapidated in appearance,
having been built many years ago.
At NOrristOwn train struck and killed
Michael O'Keefe q short distance above
the station in Manayunk. His skull was
crushed and his left leg broken, from
which injuries he died in few minutes
after he was carried to the station.
Lower rents'' is the song Of the Brad
ford people.
A young man named Mike, employed
ut the Bessemer department Of the Bald,
win steel works near Harrisburg, had his
left foot mashed this morning while al
his work.
Frank Cunkle, an employee on thu
Pennsylvania railroad, had one of his arms
badly injured yesterday morning whili
coupling cars at Harrisburg.
A new penny daily. it is rumored, will
appear in Harrisburg about the first O.
May, and will he called the Star.