Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-27
COLUMBIA NEWS.

OUk REGULAk CORRESPONDENT
Events Along the susqushanpa-ltems o
Interest In and Around tho IsorOugh
Picked Up by the IntelM-
gonosr's Reporter.
Pa, is visiting Mr.. J.B. Bachman, on snd
street.
Mr.. Charles McCulley, OF Lancaster, il
guest of of Mr.. William English, on Bird
street.
A large picnic was held iD::Heise's woods
to day by tho United Brethren Sunday
school of Ironville. A number Of COlum.
bians attended it.
This morning twenty car loads Of fine
blooded horses passed through. They
were handsome animals.
Last night, at his late residence, in York
county, died Mr., George Hubley, who was
well-known iu Columbia. He will be
buried in York county on Saturday morn
ing.
Will Fendrech took another ''header''
from his bicycle On Locust street. yester.
day. Tho bicycle was broken, but Will
was not injured.
Squire Young this morning committed
two strangers to the county Jail for
drunken and disOrderly conduct.
The cxcursiOnists to the Gettysburg en-
campment returned about eleven O'Clock
last night, tired but delighted with the
trip. The train came over in two hOui 9
and thirty minutes.
Unfortunately for the people Of Co..
umbia, the date on which the celebrated
Janauschek desired to secure the opera
house for a performances, lad been already
secured. An attempt to have her take
another date is now being made.
Mr.. Ed. Carter is having neat new
front placed in his uphOlstering shop, Oh
Third street.
Columbia's t~o new grocery merchants,
Messrs Frank Miller and Thomas liam
aker, have returned from tho city where
they have been buying goods for their
new stores.
For driving at full speed across the
river bridge, last Friday night, Squire
Frank fined A. Fleckenstein, one Of COL
umbia's beer bottlers, the sum of $40. 1t
does not do to break the rules of the
bridge.
Butter sold this morning as low IS 1S
cents per pound and eggs at IA conts per
dozen.
Surprise rarty.
Last night, at The residence Of Mr.. Jas.
Poplar streets, a birthday surprise party
was given 10 his wife. A large number
of friends aud acquaintances assembled to
wish the lady many happy returns of the
pleasant occasion, and to help the gener-
Gus host dispose of his fine refreshments.
Foot Crushed.
While shifting cars at Grubb's stone
quarries, near Columbia, yesterday. Geo.
Smith, one Of tho employees, had his foot
SO badly crushed that amputatiOn may be
necessary. At the time of the accident he
was standing on the bumper of a car that
was being shifted, and this was run
against another car with such force as 10
cause the bumpers of them to lap over,
catching and crushing his foot.
Slight Fire.
Yesterday, about 1890 p. M, tho alarm
Of fire was given. 1t proved to DO at tho
American house, Oh Front street, and was
caused by some person having left
lighted cigar lying on the bed. The Viyi-
liant fire company was promptly on the
spot. but their services were not required,
the fire having been extinguishcd by the
inmates Of the hotel. Had the flames not
been discovered when they we've the fire
might have assumed very formidable pro-
portions.
A Mule BADLY burned,
While large lump of hot cinder was
being hauled from tho casting house of
one Of the Shawnee furnaces, yesterday
afternoon. it exploded. and tho molten
cinders cntilely surrounded the mule, by
which the cinder car was being drawn.
The hnOfs were burned from the feet, and,
unable to start. the poor beast lay down
in tho molten matter. 1t was Of course
terribly burned before it could bc extri-
Gated from this position. Its euro was
undertaken by ono of tie furnace EN-.
ployees. although there is very little pros
poets Of it's living.
Died of His lnjuries.
The lad who had his leg SO badly man
gled on Tuesday evening by the cars, that
it was necessary to amputate it close to
the body, died this morning at 6 o'clock.
His jaws began stiffening last evening,
and lock- jaw finally ended his intense sui =
fering. The lad, who was eleven years
old last April, bore his agony manfully,
throughout. The funeral will take place
on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from
his late home on Perry street, at the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The Yoaklo BObbery.
The loss by the robbery of Yeakle's drug
store, few weeks since, has been discov-
cred to bc much larger, by late examina
tiOn Of stock, than was at first supposed.
The loss will aggregate nearly hundred
dollars. A number of drawers have been
found to contain gun powder, though why
it was placed in thcm is quite a riddle,
unless the thief had expected to find safe
in the store, which ho intended to blow
open, and finding none, put the explosive
matter in the drawers to be rid of it.
LANDlsvILLE CAMPMEETINa.