Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-12
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NEWS.


Near and Across she County Line.
West Chestcr's new reservoir is not fin
ished but the little boys arc tumbling into
it all the same.
Harvest hands are scarce in Chester
county and wages run from 51.5O up to
$50.
A Reading rats nest has been found
lined with stolen Grcenbacks. That is the
case with many " rats nest.
The intcrlockinS switch and signal COM
pany, employing GO or 20 hands, has moved
its works from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh.
our Tucsluancrs, have pitched their tents
near Newport, Perry county, for ten days
fun. They are called Merry Ten'' be-
cause there arc fifteen OF them.
The Dauphin county coroner held an ill.,
quest, at Ilighspirc, yesterday, over the
remains of Mrs. VIM. Andrews, alleged to
have been murdered by her husband. The
jury so found.
In Pottstown early yesterday morning,
Henry p. Engle, prominent citizen, who
has suffered financial rcvcrscs, took a shoe
makers strap, fastened it to- joist, and
hanged himself. IIe was aged 62 and a
widowcr.
Henry IIipple, of Roycrsford, Montsom-
cry county, u plastercr by trade, while
mind, supposed to have been caused by
excessive drinking and malaria, cut his
throat with a razor, from tho effects of
which he died. IIc was at tho depot
awaiting the arrival of tho train preplra
tory to being removed to the hospital.
Yesterday afternoon, after tho fast lihc
W. xrnr1 Gn,,v,1 bn.1 loft thu S1,,,,.
depot, and when striking 4 curve near
Rockville, six miles above Harrisburg, q
passenger named George ii. Won Speckel-
one car to another and was .jOlted from the
juries Us to cause death in half an hour
after the accident.
Chief Clerk LOsch, of the secretary of the
commonwealth office, yesterday at 12
o'clock noon, according to law, made pub
lie proclamation from tho steps of the
main capitol building of the bills which
have been vetoed by tho governor. He
collected quite lttlo audience of clerks
from the several departments, who despite
tho heat frequently interrupted the read
ing Of tine proclamation with vOcifcrOus
cheers.
Gottlieb Enninger's barn in East Pike
land, Chester county, was buried by "a
little boy playing with matches " on Sat:
urllay. There were about 2j or 30 tons of
the farm in sheaf which when thrcshed
would have yielded at least $50 bushels of
grain. A moving machine and i number
of farming implements and a lot of chick
ems were also consumed by the flames.
Tho Il 1,slI,r conr,l,ns1
Charley Swartz, aged about fourteen, Of
sided about one mile southeast of Railroad
ing cream to the latter place. After de
u sOuth-bOulld freight train between the
his foot slipped and ho WAS caught by the
wheels, the cars passing over his left leg,
badly mangling it from the foot to nearly
the knee. lie will die.
At BushOng's paper mill in Reading,
others were unloading coal from i canal
several hundred pounds attached to i
crane. This bucket had been raised some
distance from the boat. Young and tho
OtuCIO NClC "ICH
denly tho chain broke and and the bucket
head. from which death resulted in 4 few
minutes. He leaves u wife and two chill
drcn.
COppcrhc:,lS, rattlcsnakcs and black
snakes arc frequent visitors to the grounds
of the handsome residences On lIarrisburg's
river front. Miss Lilly Porter, daughter
~ I. IL
on Saturday. her thirteenth birthday.
She WAS standing on porch in the rear
of the house when she discovered the rep
direction from the house. SeiZinG Il
hatclct the DARN. girl pursued the snake
and with one blow nearly severed its head
from its body.
MIR. John z. ROhrbauSl,, an esteemed
citizen of Codorus township, York county
on Saturday ovcnin., visited Portcr's Sid
ing, and started for his home, walking on
the Hanover Branch railroad in the ,li-
rectiOn of Valley Junction. While pass,
ing. curve of the rOa,l, -ncar the Junction,
the evening passenger came along ut the
usual rate of speed, striking and running
over him, causing instantaneous death.
As Mr.. R"hrbaush was quite deaf, the
presumption is he did not hear the train
lIc was about 70 years of age,
and leaves six children.
During the thunder storm in Harrisburg
yesterday, the connection in the telephone
in ono of the Patriot editorial rooms which
adjoins the composing room had not
been cut off, and almost simultaneously
with the clap Of thunder both rooms were
filled with electricity, which flashed over
tho long gas pipes and the tops of tho
cases in Il bright lurid flame. Mr.. w. p.
Coulter, who was sitting quite near the
was very severely shocked,
and the fingers Of the compOsitors who
were throwing in'' type tingcd so that
they involuntary dropped the bits of metal.
The lightning did no dam.e except to
break i globe over Il gas jet. In the
Telegraph Office job room the light
ming ran over the machinery, jump
ing from 4 press, going at full speed, to q
paper cutter, but hurting nobody.
Improvements at Lincoln University.
The foundation for TIOnStOn hall has