Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-03
OVER THE STATE.


In Bslsf from Various Counties
OF Pennsylvania.
The Reading board of trade is agjtating
the subject of ab0lishing toll bridges on
the roads approaching the city.
A sixteen year old girl has died in Har-
risburg of smallpox and was buried by two
faithful brothers.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in Chester
county with alarming fatality among
children.
In Chester county the acreage put in
tobacco this year will be more than double
that of last year.
Over one hundred workmen have been
discharged from tho iron works at Steel
ton, Dauphin county. the reason for which
has not yet been made apparent.
Reuben Wallace, of Perry county, ,plowed
up two large black snakes the other day.
One of the reptiles made war and it re-
quired two to kill him.
A passenger car. filed with people, at
tached to train, caught fire near West
Chester the train was stopped, the pas
sengers rushed out and the car burned to
its wheels.
Reading recently purchased steam
road roller, and on Saturday it was re-
moved to permanent quarters amidst
throngs of people and vociferous yells of
approval of Readings "Jumbo."
The managers of the Schuylkill canal
have set workmen to cutting down the
trees on tho towpath side of that water
way. The reason assigned is that the
trees shade the water and make it difficult
to steer the crafts.
Mrs. Dora Kohn, thirty-five years old,
committed suicide by hanging in the
cellar of her residence, CAB Auburn street,
Twenty-fifth ward, Philadelphia, at II
o'clock last night. She had been suffering
from melancholy.
Joaquin Bishop who is the only platinum
worker in the United States has broken
ground and will erect a building at Sugar
town, Chester county, to accommodate his
business, which has increased so much
within the last two years that he finds his
present shop too small.
1t is rumored that Broch and Rauch,
the two escaped prisoners from the Leba-
non Jail and who are supposed to be con-
cerned in the attempted robbery at Or
wigsburg recently, have been several
times seen in the streets at Lebanon late
at night.
Dr.Dewees, of Fleetwood, Berks county,
recently disintorred for examination into
tho manner of his death, proposes to pro-
secute all the parties who have aided in
circulating the report that he was con-
cerned in the cause of his fathers death.
A committee composed Of members
from each of the fire companies at Norris
town are hearing reports to take action
towards the establishing of an electric
system of fire alarms, for the better pro-
lection of the lives and property of the
citizens.
In Reading a handsome young servant
woman, upon seeing John Teger, who had
been paying her attentions, walk off with
another woman, took dose of laudanum
with suicidal intentions, and lay down
along side of fence, where she was found
unconscious. Proper remedies saved her
from death.
The Reading Ecening Neacs has COM
pleted the second year of its prosperous
and useful existence. 1t. is an able and
enterprising journal and has won its ad-
vanced place among the newspapers of
Berks county by strict conformity to
business principles and faithful adherence
to the best interests of the community
from which it draws support.
When the special train containing the
Knights of Birmingham, of Philadelphia,
visiting Reading, reached Ph@nixville,
blood was seen to be trickling from the
roof, and further search revealed the dead
body of man lying on top of the car, his
head terribly cut from contact with a
bridge. None of the excursionis:s could
identify the body.
Surveyors are at work determining the
boundary line between Lehigh and North
ampton counties. The work is very
tedious and unpleasant, having to pass
over hills, through dales, wood sprouts
and innumerable rocks. At the hotel of
Mrs. Wierbach, in Colesvilie, near the
famous zinc mines, the surveyors rested
the others in Northampton county, the
dividing line passing through the bar
room.
In Wes.more;and county, the house of
MIS-. Elizabeth Stamp was broken into by
three men. masked and disguised so that
they could not be recognized. The old
lady and her two daughters werc bound
and gagged. After searching the house
the elder daughter was taken and a rope
placed around her neck and hauled up to a
rafter. About 5000 in money was all that
was secured. An effort is being made to
discover the perpetrators, but thus far it
is unsuccessful.
While boy named Gauntz was cross
ing field lying east of Rockville near
Harrisburg, he discovered tho feet of a
man sticking from beneath a quantity of
brush. A closer examination revealed
the fact that the man was dead. The lad
at once went for assistance and tho dead
mans condition was fully examined. The
body was found to be considerably decom-
posed, and it was with difficulty that it
could be handled. A bullet hole was
found through the head, the ball having
entered one of the eyes. Near the body
a revolver, partly loaded, was found, and
it is supposed that the man committed
suicide. The man was unknown.
Three Supposed swindlers.
In Reading, three richly dressed stran-
gers visited the various banks. at the
Farmers bank they procured draft for
fifty dollars, made payable to a party in
New York. Subsequently they came to
the bank and had the draft made payable
in Philadelphia. At the Second National
bank they procured draft for $26. How
many other drafts they procured is not
known. They were shadowed at the va
riOus banks and sufficient was seen to war
rant the police officers arresting two of
them at the railroad station when thew
were about leaving. The third man was
not apprehended. The prisoners refuse to
give their names or any reference. They
were given separate hearings and their
stories widely differed. They were CON-
mltted for a further hearing until the