Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-25
The NEWS OF COLUMBIA.
sHH row r0 HAVE GOOD BAss
BALL ULUB vERY SOON.
whe a1ss Taken the Thing In Charge and the
Grounds That Have been seiecsed-kiched
In the Chin--Man seriously Hurt-Re-
cent Notes About the Borough.

Regular Correspondence of lNrEILiokNcER.
COLUMBIA, May 25.--lt il an assured fact
that Columbia Is to have base ball club, not
a one-horse affair, but nine that will COM
pete with leading clubs Of the county. VIM.
Z. Bear will manage the new nine, and his
interest in sports of all kinds, the national
game especially, is sufficient guarantee that
he will make a success Of his venture. he
has already leased grounds above Eighth
streets near Gohn's truck yards, and will
enclose them with an s-ioot fence. The club
has not been picked, but Koutz, Swingler,
King and Resh, Of last years Columbia club,
will be retained. 1t is probable several
players will be imported. On Saturday next
the new club will cross bats with the Key
stone, Of Mannheim.
Kicked by = Horse.
Joseph Weber, q fireman on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, recently purchased horse.
This morning he was displaying the good
qualities of the animal to an admiring crowd
on Walnut street ''He's as gentle rs a
lamb" humping the horse on the rear;
"wont kick" His sentence was cut short
by the gentle animal placing his rear right
boof beneath the chin Of his owner erasing
several inches Of skin. Had the horse been
shod the injury might have been greater.
False Alarm of Fire.
A false alarm of fire was sounded between
nine and ten o'clock last evening. 1t was
disastrous to the Columbia and Shawnee
steamers. The two companies were racing
across South Third street, and in turning at
Third and Mill streets the engines collided.
Both were somewhat injured, but not so
badly as to throw them out Of service.
sertousIy Hurt by Cart.
Daniel O'Conor, of Silver Springs, sustain
ed serious il not fatal injuries yesterday
afternoon by receiving a blow on the right
side from the edge of a cart he was "dump-
ing" Two ribs were fractured and internal
injuries of a serious character inflicted. He
now lies In critical condition.
Town Notes.
Lightning interfered with the electric light
last night and time and again they were ex-
tinguished. Later, about a. m, an eccen-
trio of the engine broke, aud our town was
wrapped in darkness until the damage had
been repaired, two hours later.
Lands Wanbaugh severely spraned his
right leg yesterday by fall from the second
to the first floor of a house at which he was
working.
The excursion to Philadel phia to-day
carried upwards OF halt hundred of ouI
citizens.
There is bowling in the ranks of the Re
puolicans of Columbia, and wait until the
election threats are heard on all sides.
A fight in which broken German could bt
heard for a square, occurred at market this
morning between two Coiumbians, both o
whom are blessed with lighting tempers. A
"clinch," cry of 'enougb," and the fight
was over.
+. z. d. Miller has a common chicken egg
which measures % ~ inches, and con-
tanned another perfect and full-sized egg.
The yelk and white OF egg No. !, partly or
wholly surrounded egg No. 2.
1t is said that Columbia assembly, Knights
of Labor, has membership of between three
and four hundred.
St Peters church fair was a success, about
$3.50 being the net receipts The candidates
for the ladies' gold watch--Misses Agnes
Brady and Julia Atwood, of Columbia, and
Miss Garritz, OF Shamokin-will not end their
contest until the evening of June L. From
this source at least S200 is expected.
The report that Thomas B. O'Elare, an en-
ploye in the Susquehanna rolling mill, is
suffering with hydrophobia is simply ridic
ulous. On Saturday he became overhead ed
and INDUCED too freely of cold water, which
resulted in his present illness.