Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-01
NElsIHsORHOOD NEWS.

| Events Across the County Lines.
| Zacharias Garman, residing three miles
from Dauphin, committed suicide by hang
ing. He was about to feed the cattle and
previous to goin. to the stable he took a
line from the porch. On reaching the
stable he fastened enc end of the rope to a
ratter and tied the other around his neck.
Then he jumped, falling distance of
about six feet, ,and dislocated his neck. De-
ceased was of unsound mind. was fifty six
years old, and unmarried, residing with his
brother.
Over 500, 900 of the capital stock Of the
proposed Ephrata national bank has been
subscribed, and the project will now be
fully carried out. 4 meeting of the stock
holders will be held this week, when q
board OF directors will he organized ard
! steps taken to put the new institution in
| operation as soon as possible.
A man giving his name as Stein, an
agent, and claiming to have relatives III
Lancaster, stopped at a Middletown hotel
with girl who stated that she was four
| teen years old, although believed to be
older, and represented that she was his
wife. Afterwards he denied that they
| were married. Some of the citizens got
out warrant for his arrest and took him
before Il justice Of the peace, and there
| compelled him to marry her. The cere-
mony was performed and the wrath of the
complainants is appeased. The girl seems
to have been enticed from her home by
this fellow. She has at times resided ut
Bainbridge and Wrightsville.
Chester county farmers have been trying
to feed the partri9ges, but they 'oIl stray
off and freeze, and the chicken hawks have
made short work of some cOveyS.
Mrs Howard Snyder. wife of an engi-
ncer on the Peach Bottom railway, in
York knocked the lamp from the organ to
the floor The oil taking fire she attempt
ed to eXtinguish it with her clothes her
lower limbs, arms and body were shock
ingly burned. Her G,iltiition is extremely
prtcarious, and should she recover, one
hand winch is badly charred will hardly
| regain its usefulness.
The infant child of Jacob B. Oberholzer.
near Boyertown, Berks county, has died
| suddenly under such circumstances that it
is to be investigated. The child being uu-
| we'll, q physician was called in, who ad-
ministcred certain remedies. After taking
| some of them the child was seized with
| terrible spasms and died Il few hours after
in great agony. The veins in the head and
other parts of the body became enlarged to
treble their natural size. Some Of the
| neighbOrs who partOok of the medicine
complained of similar symptoms.
Many of the leading farmers of West
Fallowfield and Salisbury. Chester county,
are agitating the subject OF erecting a
creamery at Or near Atslen, on the line Of
the Pennsylvania railroad. 1t is believed
that dairies aggregating some 600 cows
would he accessible.
The Republicans of Harrisburg have
made tho following nominations: Mayor,
J. c. Herman Treasurer. B. F. Peters !;
Controller, D. ". Cox. Herman was re-
Gently chosen by council to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation Of Mayor Pat
tersop. Cox is the present controller.
Peters is a clerk in the city treasurer's
Office.