Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-21
LOCAL INTEL IGENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Near and Across the County Lines.
The Pennsylvania Millers' association
will meet in Reading while th6 state fail
is in progress.
In PottstOwn, a lot of gamblers, accom-
panying Batcheller s. Doris circus, were
arrested and fined to the utmost extent Ol
the law.
On Friday a premature explosion OF
powder in blast in Jones s. CO. 8 quarry,
Hartford county, Nd, about mile and q
half from Delta, killed George Hope,
and dangerously wounded William Morris
Four others narrowly escaped with thcil
lives. Morris was thrown twenty five feet
in the air and injured all over his body.
A rock weighing at least ton and half
crushed the life from Hooper.
A temperance crusade has been in.
auguratcd in Reading, under tho lead OF
Will NJ. Wannamacher, the young CalifOr-
MIA advocate. War will bc wagcd rclent-
lessly against the saloons, and consider
ably feeling has already been stirred up
for and against tho movement. major -
Daniel Davis, Readings smallest man,
and we'll known in this city where he
formerly resided, has been enlisted in the
cause, being tho fifth to sign the pledge,
and will deliver short address on Monday
evening.
The Columbia Spy says: Catfish are
very abundant. A catch of forty or fifty
pounds in a day with hook and line is not
unusual. We saw wheelbarrOw load of
them on Wednesday, and they weighed
from three to four pounds each. Bass are
said to be abundant too, but no one thinks
of catching them before the first of June.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: Ac-
counts from Columbia indicate that the
fish pirates at that point on the Susque-
hanna have things all their own way.
They are now fishing close up to tho raft
chutes, and within illegal limits of the
fishway. A new battery has been erected
close to the dam, where the pirates defy
all legal interference. As long as the river
is low these mauraders do not go near tho
dam to fish, but at all times during a rise
they seine for shad close up to the dam,
the raft chute and the fishway.
Inland City division, No. 2, X. of P,
of Lancaster, have made arrangements to
visit Reading the third week in August
next, on the occasion of the annual ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
They have already made application for
quarters for ono hundred persons, and will
be accompanied by Clemmens' City band.
Petitions being circulated in York coun-
ty, asking tho Legislature to repeal the
act creating an associate law judge for
said county. Tho petitioners hold that
ono law judge would be sufficient to do all
the business of the county.
VIM. j. Steese, superintendent of the
Harrisburg car company, while driving
across the railroad track, was struck by a
locomotive, thrown from his wagon, and
falling in front of the locomotive was
dragged for about one hundred and fifty
yards before the train was stopped. When
taken from under the wheels he was dead
and in terribly mangled condition. His
head was badly cut, one leg was cut off
above the ankle and the wheels passed
over the breast and stomach.
DR.. c. l.. Yorgey, of Pottstown, and A.
Do Haven of Monocacy, Pa, were arrest
ed, yesterday, on the charge of conspiracy
to defraud the State Capital insurance
Of Harrisburg. It is charged
that they effected an insurance on tho life
of the lato Daniel Gehris, aged "a years,
on his death bed, two days before he died.
Other arrests are expected. DR.. Yorgey
has been arrested before ON q similar
charge.