Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-03
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR EEGULAR COHREs1oNDENCE

QUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Err. Black, Of the p. r. T., is in town
to day.
Tho regular monthly mcetin. Of the
Columbia fire company will bc held this
evening.
The Shawnee fire company held its reg.
ular monthly meeting last evening.
The robbery of which We spoke yester.
day was at toll gate on the pike between
here and MOuutville, instead of on the
Marietta pike. The burglars effected a
fOrcible entry and got away with about
fifteen dollars in money, and a pair Of gold
ear rings.
Cyrus Bruner & Co. have sold their
pleasure steamboat "COlumbia to a
Philadelphia party, and it left here for
that city yesterday, via the Tidewater
canal. The boat will be put OH the Della
ware river.
Horace West, of Bainbridgc, a United
States revenue marine cadet, stationed at
New Bedford, Mass, was in town yestcr-
day.
The recent heavy rains down the river
have done more damage than VIC reported
yesterday. Besides the landslide on this
shore of the Susqueilanna which covered
the tracks Of tho Columbia & Port Deposit
railroad and caused detention of trains,
navigation Oh the '' Tidewater - canal is
virtually ut an end for ut least Il week, a
slide of earth, stone, etc., near Mccall S
ferry filling it chuck full for distance of
almost forty yards. 1t will take the time
mentioned, il not longer, TO clear away
the rubbish.
The Columbia fire company's engine
Was shipped yesterday to the Spawn g.
DennissOn manufacturing company OF
Reading for a complete overhauling. The
town council, at 4 special meeting the
night before, decided that the repair of the
steamer was necessary and acted without
procrastinatiOn.
Excursion tickets ut two-thiItlS rates
will hereafter Ike sold to points OH the Col
umbia & Port Deposit railroad to parties
of five or more. No less than five tickets
will he sold, the idea being to todiscriminatc
in favor Of persons who go down the river
on fishing or cunning expeditions.
Mr.. Wash Supplee, aged 81, a Pennsyl
vania railroad brakeman on freight engine
No. S24, and residing ut this place. while
in the act of making u coupling last night
ut sd street, Philadelphia. was caught
between the "dcadwOod' of two cars and
terribly squeezed. He was taken to one
of the West Philadelphia hospitals, but
died in few minutes after reaching it.
Deceased was stcp-brother of Dispatcher
James III. Daily, of this place. The body
will be brought here for burial.
The report of the movement Of ears over
the Pennsylvania railroad at Columbia for
the month of May is rs follows East,
loaded, 3S,S3S; total, 40,3i5. West,
loaded, 12,S47; total, 81, S32. Total, load
ed and empty. east and west. Is. III. This
report shows an increase of 9,23O over the
movement of the month OF April, and an
increase of 4, 41G over the mouth of May,
1880. Freight is now livclicr than it has
been for some time. and the report for the
month of June, if this heavy traffic keeps
up. will show another busy month.
Burglars rummaged the safe in the store
of Isaac Snyder, the saltllcr, Oh Wcdnes
day night, but got less than a dollar for
their pains. IIr. Snyder says that he
keeps his books in the safe to preserve
them from fire, but that he seldom keeps
anything of value in it, hence he never
locks it up. The safe was discovered to
have hinge broken and marks such as
would be made by prying ut the door were
noticed yesterday morning. and it is likely
from this this that the burglars went to
work to break it open, not knowing it was
unlocked. A son Of Mr.. Snyder's slept al!
night in the store room where the safe is
kept, but knew nothing Of What took
place until the next morning. The post
office robbery of about a year ago has de-
stroycd Mr.. Snydcr's faith in safes, and lie
saws lie does not believe there are any
made that :: burglar cannot get open.