Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-02
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDING

OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE,
The regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee fire company will be held this
evening.
Carncross will positively be here with
his company next Tuesday evening. The
box sheet for the performance is now Open
at Richards book store. Reserved seats
are selling for fifty cents.
The condition of Emanuel Fry. who was
hit on the head with . large stone while
the Decoration day fight was going on, is
said to be critical in the extreme to-day.
Allison, the man who threw the stone, is
yet at liberty.
"A robbery of some kind was committed
last night at the toll gate on the road to
Marietta.
Traffic in freight is again picking up on
the Pennsylvania railroad.
Whit Monday bids fair to be quiet day
in Columbia.
The new school board will meet for Or
ganizatiOn some time between this date
and next Thursday evening. The exact
time has not yet been appointed.
A child named Fink, whose father is the
tenant on General Simon CamerOn's Done
gal farm, fell into the spring a couple of
days ago and almost drowned before being
discovered.
Bernard Sewers, of Lancaster, was ar
rested hero this morning on the charge of
having surreptitiOusly obtained posses
sion of some hide which he was trying to
sell to Henry HOllinger, the tanner. 1t is
supposed he got the hide in York county,
lie tangled himself by telling two stories.
Sewers was arrested by Officer Struck
while driving in market wagon with his
wife and two children. lie has been
lodged in the lookup.
w. J. Rose, of Harrisburg, the Pennsyl-
vania railrOal cOmpany's general agent for
fast local freight, was in town to-day.
Another land slide and detention to
trains has occurred ON the Columbia &
Port Deposit railroad near McCalrs Ferry.
At last evenings congregational meeting
of the 4. Z. Lutheran church it was unan-
imOusly decided to extend call to Rev.
w. y. Evans. of Cohansey, N. j., to ac-
ccpt the pastorate. Rev. Mr.. Evans,
who is man of abort thirty five years of
aye, with wife and two children,
preached for the congregation ON Sunday,
May u, and created a very favorable inn
preston hence the call.
The sympathy of the community is with
the young men who were given a trial yes
ter!ay before Justice Frank on the charge
iudbUO Wy uuohy uCAlLCuo VI H." I'LL,
of carrying concealed deadly weapons.
The riot which was stirred up at Third
and Locust streets by the blacks on Deco.
ration day was suppressed only by the
efforts of a few men who gave their aid to
the officer, who alone and unaided was
unable to perform his duty. Tho conse-
quencc Of tina: atfray made the arrest of
the blacks necessary and the white men !
who figure in this case volunteered to serve |
as officers to make the arrests. Only two |
of tho darkeys who took an active part in !
the riot were arrested, but they were both |
brought in by these volunteer Of
ficers who as officers pursued
them to their rendezvous and |
finally. after 4 long chase, succeeded in
capturing them. 1t was while carrying
the weapons of an officer that they gave
the offense to the darkeys of the " Hill,'
which led to the suit now pending. Justice
Franks decision may bc expected on Sat
urday. If it goes against the whites the |
probability is that in the future, when at,
tempting to make an arrest from among
the favored population Of the chill pol
tiOn of the town, an officer, if resisted,
will have to look far and wide for any as
sistance from his white brethren, as in the
face of such a precedent, it would not be !
healthy to lay hands on a darkey, even
though he was in the act Of blowing up |
fl,e town