Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-02
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Near and Across the County Lin

East Goshen, Chester county, boasts of a
blacksmith named George Kerney, who
has thirty eight biles on his body, but
patiently works right along, and shoes on
an average ten horses 4 day.
Tobacco growers in the vicinity OF
GOuglersville, Berks county, are discour.
aged on account of the slow sales and low
prices received, and therefore will not
raise any tobacco this year.
One hundred aud twenty five men en-
plOyed in Mellert's foundry, Reading, re
fuse to go to work, unless Mr.. Otto Mellert
member of the firm, and foreman of the
pipe foundry is reinstatcd in that position,
from which he was recently depOsed.
All the work on the track and road bed
of the Dauphin & Susquehana railroad is
now done by gangs of colored men, from
llauphin to Cold Springs. This has been
the case for several years, and the SUPER
vls0rs regard the men as the most reliable
ever had for that purpose. The road from
Dauphin to Cold Springs is now one of the
safest and finest for travel in the state.
The managers of the Reading railroad
have concluded to adhere to the use of the
red light as a danger signal. but have
abandoned its employment in signaling
trains, and in lieu thereof have adopted
the use of green colored light, which will
be employed exclusively rs signal in the
running of trains according to the schedule
rules.
Mrs. Maggie Laird, who mysteriously
disappeared from her home in Harrisburg,
on Monday night, as mysteriously returned
last night. She could give no Ineligible
account of where she had been, and dis
claims all knowledge of writing the inco-
herent note published yesterday. It is
said that she was seen to run past her
home yesterday afternoon, as if frightened,
and disappear around the nearest corner.
Yesterday Councilman Richard Rich
ard, of Boyertown, Berks county, who
for many years superintended the Phoenix
mines at BOyertOwn, while down in tho
slope and after ordering his men to make
some repairs in the slope, reached for the
bell wire to signal the engineer tc draw
him up, when the wire broke and Mr..
Richards lost balance and fell backward
out of the cart and rolled down about 70
feet in the slope, and breaking his right
arm in two places and dislocating his left
and also sustaining internal in
juries.
Ward Shockney, Of Philadelphia, who died
at the county hospital, York, from the
injuries received from falling from train
month ago, as noticed in our local column
yesterday, was fifteen years old, and
after running away and wandering around
the country for time he endeavored to
steal ride on a SOuthern-b bound freight
train, and had ridden to Hanover Junction
where he received fracture of the skull
besides other injuries, and has been uncOn-
scious at times. When rational he would
refer to the matter frequently, and always
asserted that he was thrown from the train
by two cOlored men with whom he had
talked. He could have identified the
guilty parties had they been found, but
efforts to discover them were futile.
On Tuesday evening the dead body of
Mrs. Louisa Mahlborn, of Reading, aged
eighty years, was found lying on lounge
1t her residence in an advanced state of
The old lady resided alone,
md as she was not noticed about the
iwelling for some days two of the neigh |
'Ors made a search of the premises. They |
Ound tho woman lying on lounge, and
supposed her to be sleeping. They gave
he body push, when, to their horror,
hey found the lady to be dead. They no. |
flied the proper authorities. It is sup
,osed she died a natural death during Sun.
lay or Monday, and as she occupied the
louse alone, the fact was not discovered
nti] last night. Coroner Kelly held an
inquest. The old lady is said to have been
Tcll to do. but YerV miSerlv