Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Events Across the County Lines.

LvcntS ACROSS the county Lines.
Sir Knight. p. 8. Goblin, of Lebanon,
commanded tho Pennsylvania division III
the grand parade in Chicago yesterday.
John II. Pritz, q Reading carpenter,
while shingling kitchen roof, fell dead
from paralysis. He was 70 years old.
Jacob B. Mast, foreman of the lumber
yard at the Reading car shops, was
| stricken with paralysis last Wednesday
evening, and died last night.
A second audit of the Reading railroad
receivers shows a cash balance in the rail-
road account of $1O1, 24S.6S and in the
coal and iron company of $23, ,614.43.
The thieves arrested at Allentown for
tho Ncffsyillc burglary had in their pos
session revolver taken from tho Fleet
wood pOstOfficc when it was robbed A
decoy letter arrested them.
Owen B. Benner, the conductor of the
shifting engine ON the Wilmington &
Northern railroad, who was run over at
Wilmington and had one leg cut of, has
died.
On Tuesday next will begin tho trials of
George F. Smith, OF Philadelphia, and E..
J. MCune and Christian Long, all charged
with corrupt solicitation during tho riot
bills brief career before the House of Rep
rcscntativcs.
At Jones & Laughlin's mill in Pitts
burgh VIM. Campbell had his leg cut off
by \ shifting engine at tho Eliza furnace
man named Welsh was crushed to
deoth and at Byer's tube works little VIM
Cramcr was terribly lacerated by being
torn at belt.
Only eighteen furnaces were in blast on
the line Of the Philadelphia s. Reading
railroad at this time last year. Now there
arc forty-nine in blast, with thirty-sevcn
awaiting certainty of steady continu-
ance of the advance to begin operations.
On tho line of the Lehigh the number of
furnaces is less, but the proportion at work
is greater. Out of forty furnaces thirty
| arc in blast and ten out.
The four-year-Old child of colored man
named Elisha Lomax, living near Locust
Grove, Pocopson township, Chester county,
was standing with its back to the cupboard
when tho electric bolt entered apparently
by the window, where light of glass was
broken, and passed down tho cupboard,
shattering it, thence to the body of tho
child, from whose head most of tho hair
was burned, and who was killed instantly.
A colored young man from West Ches-
ter at Frazer station attempted to commit
suicide by jumping in front of tho $40
passenger train east of that point. He
was rescued from his perilous position by
young lady who was in the party. A pic
mic party from Philadelphia had gone to
DOwningtown to spend the day, and an
other beau had cut him out of his
favorito lady.
There were two counts in tho indictment
for libel found against Vosburg N. Shaffer,
editor of tho Phenixville Independent, at
the instance of John o. K. Robarts, of the
PhGnixville Messenger, one in reference to
the editor of the Messenger being drunk in
Reading and one in regard to meeting a
woman called the Bohemian Girl - at
the depot in PhGnixville. The jury found
Shaffer guilty on the first count and ac-
quilted him on the second.
A son of Reuben Shelley, ten years old,
whilo playing with a revolver, at Bangor,
Berks county, was so badly wounded in
the hand by the accidental discharge of
the weapon that his arm will probably have
to be amputated. The lads father hearing
the report, seized tho pistol, and in his
anger, tossed tho weapon out into tho yard.
In falling the revolver struck stone, and
the conclusion caused another discharge
the ball imbedding itself in the gentleman's !
leg, and causing very dangerous wound.
AT the Vesuvius iron works a piece of |
iron was running through the rolls, when,
by some mishap, it was caught in a wrong |
groove, and tho snake-like piece of hot |
iron wound itself around the body of man |
named Hartman, completely cncircling
him. The rolls were stopped as soon as
possible, but not until he was horribly
burned about the legs and abdomen. When
tho machinery was stopped it was found
necessary to straightcn out tho iron before
lie could be released.