Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-11
! COLUMBIA NEWS.
0p:s neG02AK OOEREsFONDENUE
esenks Aloeo the susquehanEa-Items Of
tneSoooG1n and Around tho Borough
Picked up by the IrtcEi-

8tcnse At0D tho SusquehanEa-ltems OF
tneS1o1e1n and Around tho Borough
Picked up by the Irtelii-
gcncer Reporter.
Butcher alley requires attention. A
terrible smell issued from it this morning.
The contract for the new hose tower of
the Columbia fire company was awarded to
Jacob Sheath
The Vigilant tiremen threw plank
across the swollen gutter which crosses I'd
street near their engine house during last
nights storm, and then lighted psdes-
fl !ans across with torches. 1t was good
act.
Much damage was done by the heavy
storm which prevailed last evening. The
STREETS are, badly washed aud encumbered
in many places with the limbs of fallen
trees. Front street, between Locust and
Walnut, was coversd with water and Il
number of cellars are flooded.
- Ohurah Massers.
The E. EsLdtterau Sunday school pic
uic will be held at Iit:tz, June 10. Hour
for session Of the Sunday school will be
| n. m. on and after July 1st. The ladies
of the church will hold festival in Odd
Fellows hall next Friday and Saturday
evenings.
The late Presbyterian festival was not
much of a success financially, but was
! delightful social affair. Hereafter the
Sunday school session Of this church will
begin at Q o'clock a. M.
Officer VyittIg as n Detective.
Officer Wittis played the detective last
| week, and succeeded in capturing Richard
Malone, charged with having stolen 4
lotteiy ticket. The request for the arrest
of = man corresponding to the description
thcn sent reached the officer here last
Thursday. and the game was bagged
on Saturday. The prisoner was taken to
Middletown to- day by an Office who came
down from that place for the purpose
G.. Chiidcen's Day.
| An immense congregation attended the
CliIdrcn's Day sor7ices in the:Methodist
church yesterday morning. The "gates
ajar' was beautifully represented by
flowers and evergree,ls. Through the
partly open gates stood revealed u large
floral cross, o,nblematic of Chrst's grace
to sinners. Other beautiful floral decora
tons were about tue altar and pulpit
The choral singing WAS very fine, and the
responsive readings interesting. A plea
saiis address by tho pastor. Rev. r. W.
HGmphriss, WI; att 'nsivaly listened 10.
Rev. Elias Sheath, of Ialo eOlIegs, preach
G.! in the evening.
Committed suicide.
facob Browumllier, Il resident Of WASH
ipEtG borough, committed suicide on
Saturday morning by hanging himself il,
i tie cellar of his iesilelce. lie was dis
, covered there by his two step SONS, who
. had gono to call him to his dinner. When
cut down by the neiIhbors life was ex
! tirct. Coroner John Frank, of Columbia
l t,nlA ho fh.,
the jury's verdict WAS death caused by
: hanging, done while the victim was tcmpor
=, ariIy insane. The rash deed il believed
! 10 have been caused by disappointment in
not receiving more money for Il large
=, amount of tobacco which he sold severa
: ! weeks ago. This is believed to have sc
prcyed upon his mind as to- cause the
commission of the deed. lie was sus
pended by q rope from Il cross piece of th'
y cellar beams his bent legs touching the
the floor. lie Was 55 years Of age, MAJ
i. of some property and industriOus. Hi
a was not financially embarrassed so far Al
= known st present
Persnnal and Social.
Ladies Home Communion (H. F) &
, A., meets to -night.-Wii! Hartman seri
i; ously iIl.-Niiss Lillian Welsh cntcrtainin,
I | Misses Lizzie hicAilie: aI:a Lizzie Miller
n of York-5liss Minnie L,cilard, of York
x visiting Mrs. Frank Heckler.-J. NJ
G Mussor, oG ,iouEtV!ls-, is filling
@ clerksIp u. the First NatiOna
/ bank here-Mcs. James Perrotte
= and daughter home from Philadelphia
o p. r. r dispatcher, Reuben Fis!is, visit
ing Philadelphia Geo. Brenc
man, Frank Given a:,. Ammoa Shutter
of Philadelphia, spent yesterday in town
Miss BERTHE Corhin is q guest of Mis-
Mary S!,ansbvoOk.- dancing picnic viii
? be held on Saturday night at Chickie
0 rock, whero p,atiorn has been built
al DR.. Bockius and f,mily ara in German
J. town, where they attended e. day th
ii funeral "l his sister, Mrs. Jacob She!ien
N bcrgcr, who died last Friday night.
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