Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-05
COLUMBIA NEWS.
Events Along tito susquohanua--Iicma OF
Interest In nnd Around tho Borough
ricEcd up by tho IutcIu.
gCnCcr NopcTttr.

Events Along tho SusquOhanua--ItCma OF
Interest In and Around tho Boroush
ricEcd np by tho Intciu-
Ecncor Norortcr.
Tho ground was covered by u heavy
frost this morning.
Olive Branch lodge, No. 1877, q. L. q.
of q. f., will meet to night.
MIR. +. :. llagman, of Philadelphia,
spent TO day IN town.
The now depot is expected to DO finished
by to morrow n week.
Last night tho new officers of Osceola
tribe of Rod Men wcro installed.
The coal yard % Washington borough
of Mr.. lioyi llayorstick, is being exton.
svely improved.
Yesterday the heaviest cast ever made
Mt the stone works WAS made, weighing
II tons aud 800 pounds.
This evening at 1:3O o'clock tho regular
monthly meeting of the Columbia fire
company will begin.
Mr.. Orsan Adams, of Washington, DC.
"a national bank examiner, inspected the
banks of town to day.
The mon employed in digging sand in
the river arc still Mt work. Thor labors
will soon be closed 10y tho cold weather.
With tho usual devotion of York Coun
tiaus to their annual fair large number
considerable number to day.
That part Of sd street west of Chestnut
which has not had gas pipes laid in 1t yet
is now boing prepared for their introduc.
tlon, a. Is also Poplar street between I'd
and Sd.
There is no present prospect Of tho
Aurora furnace of Wrghtsvtllo going into
operation Many men who cannot we'll
afford II are compelled To hn idlo on 40 d.
| count of it's stoppage.
The New Orleans miustTCls played to u
! largo and delighted audience last night.
| Tho conduct of several Ill hammered clowns
! in the gallery was extremely annoying to
| tho respectable portion Of tho audience.
| Where were the police?
Miss Mary Welsh has lost tracing
wheel and several other small articles, all
| of which were contained in small spool
box.
\ woman created quite a furorc on Fifth
street, yesterday, during n tit OF insanity.
brought On by trouble OF domestic char.
actcr Shc is now receiving treatment
from DR.. {. T. Markell.
Nouuor, the weather prophet, predicted
a mild winter for this section. 1t he had
been here this morning, on the banks Of
tho SuSQuchauua, hu would surely have
been housed, or wrapped up IN an over
coat.
Thirteen cars left York for Columbia
last night, loaded with CxcursiOnists to
the fair. Many of the men left the train
at intermediate stations. Columbia was
well represented At the fair both yCstor-
day aud today. Yesterday nearly five
hundred tickets weJo sold at the Z. Il. x.
ticket office here.
Police Intelligence.
officer Wittig las: night arr ested Martha
| Ruby, of Lancaster the woman who 70.
Gently decampcd from this place with the
dead body OF an infant covered up in a
basket. An account Of the case was pub
lished in the INTELLIGENCER az tho time.
She was taken before Squire Frank, but
refuses to converse upon the subject.
| Another hearing will be given her to day,
when something may bo developed which
| will throw light upon the matter.
Frank Jones, coored, had Jas. Russell,
also cOlOged, worc arrested yesterday, on the
| charge Of committing fclonous assault
upon q niece Of JOnes named Matte J John.
son At tho bearing before Squire Frank
tho girl denied the charge and Russell was
! discharged. Matte then prosecuted her
unclC on the same charge at Squire
! Young's, but she gavO such contradictory
evidence that the case was dismissed