Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-23
COLUMBIA NEWS.

CULUMBlA NEWS.
OUK REGULAk CORRESPONDENT
C.'s . A.c:e tne eosqnenan.s-ltsms o
1neerooe In oAd Around tho Borough
Picked Up by the Intelll-
gsncsr's Reporter.
The silverwsre articles to be given
away at the Putnam circle package party,
on the evening of the 25th Of July, are on
on exhibition at Herr's jewelry store.
Messrs Alfred, Willie, and Harry BruDer
left to-day for Middletown, Conn.
A large party of gentleman from Ian.
caster and Columbia, spent the day on the
river fishing.
Six bows who went over the dam in q
boat last evening, were saved from drown.
ing BY Mr.. Wash Duck, fisherman.
A bass weighing ~ pounds was caught
this morning.
Mr.. Walter Wagner hurt his foot severely
yesterday by wrenching it.
A little boy of eight years, son of Mrs.
Mack. on Front street, obtained a bottle
of liquor some how yesterday, and re.
paired to the river shore to drink it. His
mother brought him homo in a beastly
state of intoxication. The child's sur
rOundings are none of the best.
The 11:25 q. m. York train parted yes
terday in two sections, breaking the air
brake connection.
The new pump for the water works will
be in position, ready for use, inside the
next two weeks. 1t is monster pump.
The Shawnee rolling mill will be here
after under the control of the Chestnut
Hill iron ore company. The mill is to be
repaired, but will not be put in operation
Immediately. It will probably be convert
ed into plate mill.
Word has been received here that Mr..
John Snyder's train of the p. r. R.,
freight, ran into another train in the
Philadelphia yards and wrecked it. Both
passenger tracks were blocked. The cause
of the wreck is attributed to the reduced
number of brakemen now on q train. The
speed of Mr.. Snyder's train could not be
checked by the two brakemen.
A new tin covering is being placed on the
roof of the p. r. r., depot, here.
Miss Caddie Bruner is home from the
Chambersburg school.
Charles Boyd left for Chicago to-day.
Miss Name Mobiles has returned to her
home in Pittsburgh.
A dog, showing signs of hydrophobia,
was killed on Fourth street this morning.
Mr.. A. G. Rogers was thrown under a
freight train in the west yard here last
night, but escaped injury, although sew
eral cars passed over him. He was badly
frightened.
Mr.. Robert Haldeman, formerly of Col
umbia, has gone into the elevator manu-
factory business in Toledo, o.
Mr.. Harry Lichty and bride returned to
town last evening.
The Columbia fire company had it's OIL
gine out for practice at the river last
evening.
Ono Man Killed and Another lDjurcd.
Yesterday afternoon about 1: Is, another
fearful railroad accident happened in the
west yard of the Pennsylvania railroad
here. The victims of it are John Hen
cricks, aged 10 years, and James Mack,
aged II. The disaster occurred by the
telescOping of two freight cars. The young
men, who are employed on the road as re-
pairmen, were returning to work from
dinner and had jumped on one of train
of cars which was being shifted. Tue train
ran back against a number of cars which
were standing on a side track, and the
young men, who saw that there was dam
ger in remaining on the bumper where they
were, were in the act of getting off the train
when the accident happened. Mack was
caught across Cn0 SCOUdcu, dIlu Olou dn
apparently painless death, in about half an
hour after being struck. Hendricks was
removed to his home, and his injuries con-
sisting of badly squeezed leg, and
wounds of a dangerous internal ma
ture, attended to by Drs. Craig and
L:neaweaver. Hopes are entertained
that he may recover. Father Russell of
st. Peters Catholic church, attended James
Mack, in his last moments. The awful
accident created intense excitement
throughout the town, and hundreds of
men, women and children flocked to the
dispatcher's Office, where the unfortunate
young men, were removed to Immediately
after the calamity took place
James Mack's funeral services will be
held in st. Peters Catholic church to.mor-
row, at 9 a. m.