Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-01-31
MKIaHnoRINa couN1IKs.


Henry Connsrd, we'll known cltizsn
OF Reading, died on Friday in his s4.h
year.
Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, ,boasts
OF boy, George W Ksrs.y, Jr.. only II
years old, WHO measures feet Z inches
in hight.
Jackson Sherman, one of the old, st
freight conductors on the Reading rail-
road, was killed Thursday night at
Reading.
Th@ Norristown Register reports that a
lumbar OF detectives are in that section
terreting ont persons engaged in seling
butteriue and oleomsrgarine.
X. +. Bertolett of Pbmnixville has
heen made chief engineer Of the Della.
ware River Lancaster railroad. II ia
thought that the stock subscriptions conf
ing in will build the road.
William Ii Atkins, an inmate NJ tho
Montgomery county prison, at Norris.
town, made his escape Tuesday while
engaged with several other prisoners in
hlling au ice house in the rear ward of
the isil.
Those who have tried 1t report ,ha. the
sleighing r"v.r was better in w ,st
Chester and the surrounding country.
There has heen five tnll and consecutive
weeks of -lsiRhing The irst snow that
tell which was Of sntficient deuth for
slsiabinR was On December 18th.
Al Bitdsboro, Bsrks county, on Satur-
day night,a lot Of giant powder cartri1ses
which had been placed in the PbilaieI.
phia x Reading signal tower to thaw.
exploded The inside of the 10 y.r was
wrecked. James Kenney was instantly
killed, aud Benjamin Trout was seriously
injured The force Of the explosion vas
heard at : great distance
The Pam Street Passenger Railway
Company hOught OF the K'ndt estate, on
PerkIomen avenue, near Chestnut street.
lot having frontage of 80 feet on the
a7enne and extending in an irregular
shape $50 feet to this Mineral Sprinp
road. The company will erect on this
plot large brick stable and car house.
after which the stable and car house at
the city park Hill bs abandoned Read.
ing Tunes ...-
This mystery which the detective who
arrested the Buzzard gang wove about
him has been penetrated by placing his
conhdeaoes in the keeping of too many
persons, aud 1t is now ascertsipe5
oVyuhN oil uuubb LuAt MS nbHa Ia fHOTRe
X. bartholomew, and his residence Phila
delphia He has changed his mind about
deserting the scene of his recent exploits,
and will remain in Lancaster county
until the April quarter sessions, in order
TO testify against the prisoners. Mean
while he will devote himself to the laud-
able endeavor of catching Abe Buzzard,
the leader of the gang.
The hearing OF Eli Heiney, Daniel
Hornbereer, Isaac Breneieer and Mrs.
Julia Ann Buzzsrd, the wife Of Abe
buzSard, of the notorious gang which
inhabited the Ephrata mountains and
Welsh mountains, was held Tuesday at
hphrata, Lancaster county. Heiney
made general denial of 81 charges
against him. Hornberger, against whom
there are Is charges, confessed that he
was guilty OF some of them. Mrs. Buz-
zard is charged with receiving stolen
goods on three counts from Heiney,
horn berger and Breneiser. She WAS held
ior trial, her father, William Hover,
going her security in the sum OF $500
me three men we're held In default Of
pail' which in Heipey's cass would
amount to u 500; Hornbergsr's, $500,
and Brensiser's, $500.