Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-04
COLUMBIA NEWS.

OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS.
Excursion tickets to Lancaster on Whit
Monday at As cents.
The Columbia fire company held its reg
| ular monthly meeting last evening.
Mr.. Sterling Smith is visiting at Philar
delphia.
Another wonderful clock is Oh exhibition
here.
Jack Henry, the Examiner correspondent,
| is visiting at Philadelphia.
Robert E. Haldeman, of Columbus, O.,
is visiting friends in town.
Ex-JuStice of the Peace Samuel Evans,
has been appointed notary public for
Columbia.
Rev. E. J. Wolfe, ID. D., of Gettysburg
theological seminary, will Officiate to
morrow morning and evening in the E. E.
Lutheran church.
The picnic at Heise's woods, on Whit
Monday Of fChiquesalunga Tribe No. 80. l.
o. r. NJ, promises to be a very successful
affair.
Rt. Rev. ]. F. Shanahan, bishop Of the
Harrisburg diocese, will administer the
sacrament of confirmation in St. Peter s
Catholic church tomorrow evening.
About one hundred persons will bc con-
firmed and services will commence with
solemn vcspers at seven O'Clock.
Supt b. G. Ames, has issued the fol.
lowing notice e" All persons intending to
apply for positions as teachers in the pub
lie schools of Columbia, and not already
legally qualified, arS requested to NEE. for
examination in the high school building,
on Thursday, the 9th inst, at 8 o'clock a.
m. Come provided with pencils and paper
and be promptly on time"
A German tramp who was stealing a
ride on the freight train drawn by en-
gine No. 1873 on Thursday night, had
both legs broken just east of Bryn Mawr.
He was sitting on a bumper with his feet
resting on the opposite bumper when the
coupling Stacked. His legs were wedged
in at full length between the cars, and as
his knees did not bend the pressure was
dOwnwards and the bones of both legs
just above the knee joint were broken as
aforesaid.
Justice Franks decision in the suit
growing out of the Decoration day riot
! and the subsequent actions of police Off
GERS and deputies, now pending before
him, is that the parties to it may settle it
or allow it to 20 to court, just as they
please if not settled he will he compelled
to take bail for their appearance at court.
lie continued the case to this date merely
to give them an opportunity to make set
| tlemen.
Apropos Of the case of the persons
charged with assault and battery and car
rying "concealed deadly weapous-the
outcome of the Decoration day affray--
preferred by several Tow Hill darkeys, the
Spy says ''Next week. if We can have
it prepared in time, we propose to publish
an outline of the rights and duties of con-
stables and police officers, with the san"
tion and endorsement of high, legal or
judicial authority, SO that wherever the
| Spy is read, the officials, as well as tho pub
lie, may be fully instructed therein A
summary Of the rights and duties Of the
constabulary cannot fail to bc valuable,
and it would be we'll for the borough off.
GERS to thoroughly acquaint themselves
with their duty and know exactly how far
to 60 and where to stop.
isoy Drowned.
! Samuel Swamer, aged about thirteen
years, son of Charles A. Swaner, an en-.
plOycc in the Donegal furnace, was drowned
in the Pennsylvania canal near Donegal
furnace at about four o'clock yesterday
afternoon. 1t is supposed that while try.
ing to fish out piece of wood or block he
ovcrbalanccd himself and fell from the
wharf into the water. A grown-up brother
jumped in and tried to rescue him, but on
account OF tho heavincss of his shOes-they
| being iron bound, the brother being fur
mace emplOyee-he was compelled to desist
rs he could not keep himself to the surface
Of the water. Young Swamer's body was
recovered before being in the water any
time, but all efforts at rcsuscitatiOn were
unavailing. Deputy Coroner John A.
Frank empaneled u jury and held an in.
quest, the verdict being accidental drown
ing.
birthday Party.
Yesterday was the Seth anniversary Ol