Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-25
NEiunuuunuuu rEws.

Events scar aud Across the county LiuCs
John II. Nagel. a prominent citizen Of
Reading died yesterday.
Navigation on tho Sohuylkiii opened on
Monday.
Forty trdmpa are qulrtered, like a
small army in camp, IN a woods near
Reading.
1t is rumorcd that the employees OF the
Pennsylvania railroad will have their
wages reduced aud the number Of mn
employed will be diminished.
William lIaRer, well 10 do farmer OF
East Rockhll township, Bucks county,
committed suicide on Monday by shooting
hims slf.
George Irwin aged II years, Of Norris,
town, had his fingers blown OIL on Monday
by the explosion of o railroad torpedo with
which he was playing.
The anthracite coal trade is TN a NOR"
cheerful condition, at the prospect Ut t"c
resumption OF full working time at the
mines, which will begin on April LIST.
The Reading ice dealers have fixed upon
the same prices for loo as last year The
prices run B lbs. daily % cents pcr week,
10 lbs. daily 40 cents per wock, aud 3Oibs
daily, 10 cents week.
Madame do RacOuska, u Philadelphia
music teacher, shot aud seriously wounded
William Coad boy who had, under
| instructions, asked her to put out the
| light in her room at an early hour this
morning.
SalLie Himmclreich, the Reading girl
| who was thToRu into u trance AZ a recent
religious meeting, has revived, aud repeats
substantially what she SAID in her trance
state. The mombors Of her denomination
believe her condition the result Of Divine
power.
| At the lIillman vein GOAL CUmpaUy's
breaker, near WikeSbarre, Monday morn.
ing John Garry, nine years Old, employed
| as breaker boy, was pushing some pieces
of coal in the huge aud heavy iron rollers
with his foot. The heel OF his boot Was
caught by the revolving machinery aud
in an instant he was drawn in and killed.
Tho National Reform association, which
holds that God is the source Of all national
power and authority, that Christ is the
Ruler of nations, aud that the Bible con
tains laws for nations and Is tho supreme
standard, began n two days convention at
| Association hall, Philadelphia, last night.
John Alexander was elected chairman.
George VI. Rupert the treasurer of West
| Chester, has become dolaultcr to the
amount of $lj 600. ilo was solicitor for
the Penn Mutual fire Insurance. company,
and had been generally respected. Owing
To negligence of officials he had no bond.
|
some 50, 600 between tho two cOrpOratiOns.
James Richardson, aged 4S, wealthy
farmer Of Cecil county, Md, retired TO
bed as usual Saturday night aud th3 next
morning was discovered unconscious upon
his blood soaked bed Tho weapon was a
penkafe and the neck WAS terribly LAGER
ated. Thinking he would bleed tn death,
he stOically remained quiet until he became
unconscious. He cannot recover.
A party of sixteen Lafayette college
students have been taking some practical
lessons in mining aud civil engineering by
q trip to the anthracite coal mines Ot tho
Luzerne regions. They were under the
charge of Professor BulD, and visited tho
iron and zinc works at Bethlehem, the
SIatington quarries and two or three o the
Hazleton GOAL shafts.
AT the state department at Harrisburg
the following corporations have been char
tered Susquehanna Avenue building and
loan association, of Philadelphia 4; capital
81, 900 900. Delta building and loan asso.
clan, of Delta, York county capital,
100000. Enterprise building aud loan
association, of Lehighton, Carbon county
capital, $500, 900. Keystone loan and build.
ing association, of East Mauoh Chunk,
Carbon county capital, s2i0,OOO.