Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-28
NEIGHBOknOOD NEWS
near and Acro.. IN. County I,p

Near and Across the County Line.
The main building at the Centennia
grounds must go.
Samuel R. Shipley, of West Chester, i.
interesting himself with a white cat birG
that is raising brood on his lawn, of it.
own Democratic color.
BY the fall of one of the pavement archie.
at the Mansion house, West Chester, now
undergoing improvements, Eli and Elmond
Baldwin, contracting bricklayers. were
seriously hurt.
VIM. Beard, aged 26 years, who has a
wife and two children living in Philadel
phia, was drowned in French creek dam,
Phoenixville, being seized with cramI
while he was "pushing off, sand scow.
VIM. Il. Dickerson and Joel Vanarsda.
len, two lawyers, were convicted in Phila.
delph'a Yesterday of forging the will OF
Robt. Whitaker, by which it was proposed
to divert an estate valued at $500, 900 to
their own ends.
Elsie Levina Moore, pretty girl, not
much past sixteen years of ago, the child
Of Charles and Salome Moore, of Reading,
died on Tuesday afternoon at 1908 Wood.
stock street, Philadelphia, from what DR..
jerome l.. Artz has since certified to have
been puerperal peritonitis, after abortion.
At the Harrisburg tube works, Peter
Helsy, a young married man, while on a
car assisting to load pipe, lost his balance
and fell off tho Car and the ripe he was
helping to handle followed, striking him
on the head, fracturing his skull aud 9th
erwise injuring his head and face.
Springfield, Chester county, yesterday
was crowded with representatives of all
the leading manufactures of fire engines,
hose carriages and hose, in the country,
the authorities having announced that
they intend to purchase fire apparatus and
that they would give out tho contracts
last evening.
The water will be let out of the nine
mile level of the Pennsylvania canal about
MiddletOwn Oh Saturday at midnight in
order that more thorough search may be
made for tho head of the cOlOred woman,
Mrs. Andrews, murdered by her husband,
which the bOatmen claim to see floating
on the water occasionally.
Clark, Reeves g. Co., of OfPhGnixville, have
Just received an order for single track draw
bridge $50 feet for the Oregon navigation
company, over Snake river, in addition to
lot of smaller orders for the Great West
ern railroad and Mexican national con-
struction company. On Saturday they
closed contract for 26 spans Of iron
bridge, costing $175, 600, for the Galveston,
Harrisburg & San Antonia, in Texas.
Noticing in a West Chester paper an
account of some runaway boys, S. L.
Clark. from Christiana, writes to it
There were two boys answering to their
description passed me yesterday Monday
morning, Goth inst, inquiring tho road to
Lancaster and how far. They were on
the Strasburg road, about mile from the
Swan hotel. They each had a bundle
wrapped in paper and carrying-strap. One
of them said they were from Chester
county, and said they wanted about
ten days work and would like to hire to-
gether.''
Over at Lebanon the Shelby circus men
nearly got into another big row by order
ing off patent medicine vender whose
cause the citizens took up. The men
arrested at Harrisburg for shooting Moran
ut Pittston have been discharged after
pointing out to their captors, John Van
COur, also of the circus company, as the
murderer and Frank Sprong as witness
of the shooting. Both of these were al
rested, and on the way to Harrisburg
from Carlisle Van COur acknowledged
that Ie had fired two shots at the fight in
which Moran was killed.
The L. o. of S. A., now counts seven |
teen thousand members in PENNSYLVANIA,
consisting of 267 camps and 1S cOmman-
lcries. Camp 81, Reading, shows tho
agest membership, 226, but is closely fol- !
Owed by camp III, Philadelphia, with 213 |
members, and Camp 80, Reading, with |
,O8. Camp 155, Philadelphia, shows tho |
greatest gain for the term, increasing from |
lN members in January to 165 members |
It the date Of the last report. A number
If camps contain over hundred members
ZACH. Tho annual convention of the state
amp will be held at Pottstown, August
10 and II.
The barn of Jacob Ruth. jr., one and
half miles from Terre Hill was nearly
destroyed by fire. The house and barn
yere built since spring. Mr.. Ruth has not
'et occupied the dwelling, but tho barn
vas filled with hay and grain. The fire
vas caused by boy, seven years old, son
# Samuel Steffy, who was playing in the
wagon shed. He had some matches and
With them lighted the shavings under a
york bench in the she'd. He then tried
0 stamp out the fire ard poured tin-cup
t water on the flames, which blazed out
uriously. His screams attracted neigh
Ors to tho rescue. -
In Fishing Creek valley, so market
roman gave it to the Harrisburg Telegraph
make story reporter, Mrs. Mary Shoop's
lastiff and his little dog friend tackled a
iper snake. He pierced the cur with his
angs and sent him off bowling. The
'rger dog jumped on tho viper from his
ear, wounding him severely near the
cad, but before he could get away from
i'm the snake struck his second assailant
car the rump. Disregarding this wound
10 dog returned to the attack and killed
10 snake. but the little dog died in great
gOny. Milk saved the mastif and he
ad the satisfaction of seeing fourteen