Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-17
SEIuunoRaooD NEWS.

SNchUs Nehr ana across tho County Linoa
Tho citizcns of Chester county have
determined to iind homos in private fami
lies for paupor children instead of commit
ting them to the nlmshousc.
Tho trial Of James Jack In Norristown,
ON the charge OF having murdered his
wife on the night Of July 4th, resulted on
Saturday evening in n verdict of not
guilty.
Tho thirty.iirst annual session of tho
Dauphin county teachers institute began
In Harrisburg to day, the opening meeting
taking place in tho hall of tho House Of
Representatives.
The Pennsylvania steel company s office,
Mt Harrisburg, has been thrUngcd for tho
past ton days by applicants desiring to 20
to Cuba to engage ~ mechanics, laborcTs,
trackmen, 80, but the number wanted
has been engaged.
Frederick J.. Miller, aged eight years
aud three months, u bright sou UI l.. X.
Miller, of Harrisburg, au engineer on tho
Pennsylvania railroad. died on Saturday
night from that much dreaded alllction,
hyrophoba. lIo was bitten about month
ago by a small terrier.
The annual mOe;ins of tho botanical
section o. the Academy Of Natural Sciences
in Philadelphia, was held last week. The
reports stated that the horbarium Is DO.
lieved to contain representatives Of nearly
thrco -fourths of the whole ilDga OF tho
earth, which at the present tne is Cum
puted to bo about 100, 900 species.
Governor Pattison has not yet publicly
announced his action in tho case Of the
murderer MoGinns, of Philadelphia, the
question of whose insanity was left TO a
board OF fivo medical experts. 1t is stated
that tho majority report Of tho board
which classod McGinuis rs insane will bC
acted on and the murderer committed 10
au asylum for life III place OF being hanged
on January 3, 1854.
Peter Heller cut his throat with razor,
in the proS0ucc of his vile, at his resi-
dence in Reading, Sunday night, and
rushing out OF the house. fell upon tho
pavement, whore no died in few mo
monts. uo had boon sick for long time
with disease contracted ia the army, aud
of late was subject 10 fits aud melancholy
He was fifty years OF age and leaves
several grown up children.
Hughey Fox, of Baltimore, entered thg
house of Oliver Hoover, in Bachmau val
Icy, Carroll county, Md, near Hanover
and stolo Mr.. Hoovcr's pants from tho bed
post in which no was sleeping, from which
hc extracted $50 aud gold watch. HC
was tracked through tue SNOW 10 OAfN Al
Hanover, aud whop Constable Kuhr
attempted TO arrest him ho drew revolver
when the constable shot him twice in sell
defense, the balls taking effect in the neck
He was taken tO the York county jail L
await Maryland requisition.
Two more paupors died at the county
almshouse Reading yesterday and accord
ing to the new law relating to the disp9Si
tiou OF dead bodies Ci paupeTs they will b.
sent 70 some medical college for dissection
This new order of things has caused terri
bic excitement among tho poor inmates
II has been rumoyed that body saatchng
has been carried on for some time a
county burial grounds. Recently light
have been seen IT night in the gravoyaTd6
Tho fact thai the dead paupers have beer
buried In SO small . space FOR years indi
Gates that something is wrong.