Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-13
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ESeu,s Near snd soro.. the uoanty Limos.
The Gettysburg & Harrisburg railroad
Is rapidly nearing completion.
A Franklin county weather prophet
predicts forty eight SHOWS for this winter.
ten of which will bo OF great depth.
The Pottsville iron aud steel. company's
Fisbback mill and girder rolling mills have
shut down for want Of orders.
The Middletown car works have about
completed contract Of ono hundred cars
Tor the Pennsylvania railroad company.
Down In Chester county the "dandeliops
are blooming In tho green grass, and the
helds are dotted with cattle and sheep"
1T announced auiboritatiyely that
Harry areenawalt, the present assistant
oNn.er ~ III the state treatury will be ap
Po,n'ou cashier under Treasurer Livsey.
:, Inc fennsylvan,a, Slatipgton Il New
England railroad, which was In the shsritis
hands, has raised loan Of sl GOO. 600 and
the work will be continued,
Inc hog cholera is raging 10 the neigh.
borhood of Big Mount, York oountv
Some farmers have lost every pig on their
farms.
Gov Pattison has appointed Leonard
hhone, master of the state grange, as a
commissioner of the Huntington reform
atory.
hO h'k CnVlula hlifulnK IAftn
the lower end Of Cumberland county, Tbe
disease seems to prevail only among bovs
shipped from the west.
Mrs. Valentine Festes of Swopo's valley.
Lebanon county, shot wild turkey near
the Blue mountain recently that weighed
II pounds. She is In her 5Sth year,
Tho trial of James Gaffoy at Norristovp
for the killing of w. A. s. Fiss In the
state hospital for the insane resulted ia A
verdict of not guilty.
Statistics are said to prove that the oitv
Of Wilkesbarre and Its outlying suburbs
send, on an average, one person a week to
the insane asylum.
James Clarke, who escaped after oon-
yiotion for burglary, at Media, Pa , on the
I'd inst, was captured at Baltimore and il
held for the authorities Of Delaware
county.
The Hanover Junction. Hanover aud
gettysburg railroad company are laying
track on the old "1apeworm" railroad,
Adams county, and are pushing work
ahead rapidly.
Number Of pupils ut the Carlisle Indian
school Boys, 27+ girls, l6l total. AS.
Tribes represented, 80 of the whole mum.
ber there are on farms attending district
school, boys, SO girls, 30 total, So.
A number Of employees of the Philadel-
phia y Reading railroad shops in Reading,
who have been IN the employ of the com
pany for 30 years were suspended Tuesday
| Tor quitting work before the whistle blew
The governor has commissioned Potter
T. Buck, prominent hardwar mere hant
| OF Ashland, Schuylkill county, a member
| OF the board Of trustees of tho state hos.
| pttal Tor injured persons Of the anthracite
coal fields OF Pennsylvania" vice Senator
Charles +. King.
At a special meeting OF the trustees OF
the University Of Pennsylvania, the facul-
ty OF the new veterinary department was
appointed. J. B. Lppincott announced
that he would make an additional doua-
tion Of $4,000 to that department. IL
els, 900 were subscribed by other parties.
While Winfield Divine was working in
the Reading iron works . heavy log,
sixteen feet long aud eight by six inches in
dimensions, fell from the top of the roof
and struck him on the top of the head
frsotufing his skull aud Knocking him
from a platform. His wounds proved
fatal.
The sessions Of the state grange Of Pa
irons of Husbandry, in Harrisburg, yes.
terday, were devoted to routine business.
Eleven new oranges were established
during the past year and about one thous
and new members added 70 tho order
| 'fSI ApV hdi tub IliLu uOREbt Ot
the order conferred upon them last night
The following Pennsy lvanians were ap.
pointed to positions under the House Of
Representatives NJ. J. O'Brien, OF
Williamsport, on the recommendation OF
Representative Elliott Robert Dougherty,
of Greene county, credited to Representa-
tive Boyle, and 5. II. GisoD, OF Allegheny
county, indorsed by Representative Hop
kins.
The hnisheis employed at the ha
factory Of Hendel, Bobst & Co, in Read
ing, who quit work Tuesday, were paid
I off during the afternoon. Somo Of the
men have already secured work at other
factories. Those who remain idle will be
paid by the union until the difficulty with
; the firm is settled, which it Is believed
will be before long. The factory Is not in
! operation.
= The Reading company has purchased
1900 acres of valuable GOAL land in th'
4 Silver Brook district near the Honey
Brook fields. 1t Is considered very i'm
portant acquisition and together with the
. output Of number of oollierios which the
{ Reading will come into possession of Jan
lst will make the total production of tn
. company and its leased lines fully 80 pei
cent. Of the anthracite output OF the state