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VOL. XVII. LITITZ, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8,1893 NO. 14.
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PALL AND WINTER
-AT THE-BROAD
STREET .
CLOTHING HOUSE.
i m and Superb Stock
To Select From.
My Fall ^Winter Styles
O OME and
celled in
A R C ALL
see them. Never before ex-
P R I C E ,
S T Y L E ,
|ga Q U K L I T V ,
Ready-Made Overcoats,
Ready-Made Suits,
For Men, Boys and Youths.
My Stock of Piece Goods
. is from the best and prettiest to be found in Philadel-phia
and the shelves are filled with all grades and all
patterns.
Nobby Styles in Hats and Caps,
Neckwear, and all other articles for gentlemen's wear.
Give me a call and see what I have. Fair dealing
and honest prices.
W. H. BUCH,
"Record" Bùildiog, Broad Str^t,
L I T I T Z , P C N N A.
Cold Weather Shoes!
It is a True Saying, and one in which doctors are unani-mous,
that to keep good health
The Feet Must Be Dry and Warm.
Knowing that Warm Lined Shoes are becoming more
popular each year, I have bought and received
The largest Stock and Assortment
I N L A N C A S T E R C I T Y.
Ladies' Plain Cloth, hand-turned Lace Shoes, $1.00 pair.
Ladies' Plain Cloth, machine sewed Lace Shoes, $1.00, 1.25.
Ladies' Cloth, leather-foxed, Lace Shoes, $1.00, 1.25, 1.50.
Ladies' Cloth, leather-foxed Button Shoes, $1.50 per pair.
Ladies' Plain Cloth Button Shoes at $1.50 per pair.
Cloth Boots and Shoes for Men at $2.00, 2.50 per pair.
CHAS. H. FREY,
(Successor to Frey & Eckert),
The Leader of Low Prices
in Boots and Shoes.
3 a i ) d 5 C A S T K I N 6 S T R € € T , L A N C A S T C R , P A.
WINTER GOODS.
L A R G - E S T S T O C K OIF
SOFT and STIFF HATS,
CAPS and GLOVES,
For Men and Boys, in Lancaster City.
C O n V C F L E l T E l LUCsTIE] OIF1
Ladies' and Children's Muffs 0 Sets
at prices lower than ever offered before.
Call and Examine Goods and get Prices.
H. L. BOAS,
1 4 4 N o r t b Q ù e e o S t r e e t , - - L a n c a s t e r , P a.
N E W T . W I N G E R T , M A N A G E R .
TRACED BY ASLENDER CLUE.
p j VERY small piece of fawn-color-f
- j ed, checked tweed, with jagged
•A edges, bearing traces of hard
wear. Not much of a treasure to look
at ; and yet I hoarded it for months
I built my hopes of bringing a flagrant
crime home to its perpetrators and of
restoring valuable property to its
rightful owner.
This is how I became possessed of it.
There had been a somewhat daring
robbery at a house in Shepherd's Bush.
Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard were giving a
party in honor of their eldest daugh-ter's
twenty first birthday. Needless
to say, the tiro servants found enough
to occupy their time all the evening,
and there was practically no one on
guard upstairs, It being assured that
there would be so much passing to and
fro as to render even the usual watch
fulness unnecessary.
But this sense of security was taken
advantage of by the thieves, clever
enough to avaH themselves of the
opportunity. The Blanchards occupied
a semi detached villa, the adj lining
one being untenanted. Into the empty
house the thieves had effected an en-trance.
They had stepped out of the
window, which was exactly over the
double-door-porch, and from this
porch they had found it easy to climb
through the bedroom window of Mr.
Blanchard's house. The room to which
access was thus gained was the one
occupied by the master and mistress of
the house, and in it some valuable
jewelry was kept, together with the
cashbox. Most of the jewelry happen
ed to be in use, but the cashbox con-tained
£200, intended to pay in
quarterly bills on the morrow, and
so me family papers of the greatest im-portance.
The first suspicion that something
was wrong was aroused when the
servant went upstairs to light the bed-room
ga3 and found the dressing-table
pushed to one side and the window
wide open. She at once gave the
alarm, and it was soon discovered that
the cashbox and its contents were
missing. So were the thieves, un-fortunately,
and they proved very
difficult to ti ace. The only clue they
had left behind them was a bit of
tweed, beforementioned. It was stick-ing
to a nail at the side of the window,
and had evidently been torn off some
garment worn by the thief in his
hurried exit.
I have done my best with it,"
slid Uncle B°ll to me one day, " and
I now tarn this scrap of stuff over to
you, to use as advantageously as you
cin. The money stolen from Mr.
Blanchard is irrevocably lost, but if
the papers can be discovered it will be
a good thing for the finder. There are
certificates of marriage and of baptism,
copied from registers that have since
been destroyed by fire. Without them
Mr. Blanchard cannot proye his heir-ship
to the Blanchard property. Re-store
them, and he will pay you well."
Early in the month of September,
this being six months after the rob-bery,
I found it convenient to use the
Drury lane as a thoroughfare between
High Holborn and the Strand. It
was already dusk, and I was not in-clined
to lose much time, but was com-pelled
to do so owing to a large crowd
which had assembled to witness one of
the many fires which flourish in this
neighborhood. The street was practi-cally
impassible, and the din for a
time almost deafening. I allowed my-self
to bs closely, and still more close-ly,
surrounded by the ever increasing
multitude, until at last it would have
been a matter of impossibility to make
my escape until the crowd was ready
to disperse.
But I did not want to escape. I was
fascinated as well as horrified by the
awful sight. I shall never forget it.
A five-story dwelling was being gutted,
and the flames, which had their origin
in the basement, in an oil and color
shop, spread* with such frightful
rapidity that the exit by ordinary
means was cut off five minutes after
the fire broke out. The frightened in-mates
crowded to the upper rooms,
and were shrieking for help from the
windows. The fiie-engines were very
prompt, but could do little beyond re-stricting
the fire to the building in
which it had broken out, and it seem-ed
doubtful if a fire-escape could arrive
and be fixed up in time to save all.
To the panic-stricken threatened
ones, the danger looked more immedi-ate
than to the firemen, wb.o shouted
to them to endure a moment longer.
" I cannot," shrieked one man, " I
am already burniDg." A second later
he had sprung from the open window ;
the crowd shudderinglv parted, and he
fell with a sickening thud near the
engine—never to speak or move again.
The sight was a dreadful one. But it
was still more dreadful to witness the
anguish of those who saw nothing but
destruction before them. The fate of
the unfortunate man was either not
realized or it was powerless to restrain
their panic, and a woman preparing to
jump out herself, threw her baby clear
of the devouring element.
'1 here was a cry of horror as the
poor little mite hurtled and struggled
in its frantic flight from one death to
another.
The next moment—I can never re-member
how I did it—I had torn my
cloak from my back, and. had flung it
to other eager hands that were ready
to break the fall of the baby. It fell
unhurt into the outstretched garment,
a loud cheer announcing the fact to
the anxious mother above. The next
instant the escape was placed into its
position, and the whole of the jeopard-ized
lives were saved.
Somehow, the baby that was tumbled
into safety was handed over to my
keeping, until the sobbing mother,
with inarticulate words of gratitude,
clasped her darling to her breast again.
I had not had time to think of my
cloak. When I turned to look for it
again it was gone, having been appro-priated
by a woman who stood near
me, and who was triumphantly retreat-ing
with her booty when she was
captured by a policeman.
I would fain have moved no further
in the; matter after recovering my
cloak, but was requested in the in-terests
of public safety to give my name
and address, and to attend at the
police court next morning. When
the hour of attendance arrived I was
punctual, but was eager to conclude
the business and get away as soon as
possible, iu order to keep another
appointment. But something occurred
soon that made me forget the other
appointment altogether that day.
The wSman who had been caught in
the act of stealing my cloak was a
spare, dark woman who looked as if
she had seen better days. When ask-ed
whether she had taken the cloak or
not she replied sulkily that it was no
use denying what everybody else seem-ed
to know, and then she began to be
somewhat abusive of our laws and in-stitutions,
averring that the time was
near at hand when everybody would
have their rights, and when the poor
people wouldn't have to work for a lot
of lazy swells.
Some of her animadversion was aim-ed
at me, as the owner of the warm
garment she had coveted, and she
flung her arms about somewhat violent-ly,
prompted thereto by the excite-ment
under which she had labored.
As she displaced her • old shawl in
throwing her arms about, I noticed
that she wore underneath it a shabby
jacket-bodice of fawn colored checked
tweed, and this tweed, be it known,
was identical in pattern, color and tex-ture
with the piece I had hoarded so
long to no apparent purpose. It might
be a shade dirtier, that was all. Fur-thermore,
it had suffered in some fray
or accident, a piece naving been torn
from the upper part of the sleeye, a
little below the elbow.
Not only was the tear in a part of
the garment that is yery seldom worn
through, but it was so nearly the shape
of my hoarded bit of tweed that I was
positive one would fit the other, and
that I had at last discovered the means
of tracing Mr. Blanchard's lost docu-ments.
My hopes were well founded. A
little monetary diplomacy, combined
with promises of immunity from
punishment for the burglary, elicted a
full confession from the woman. As-sisted
and prompted by her husband,
she had effected the entry into Mr.
Blanchard's house. As we know, she
secured the cashbox and its contents.
Hearing some one approaching the
door, she climbed through the window,
tearing her dress-sleeve as she did so.
At this point in her narrative she
broke into vituperative language, all
aimed at her husband, who made off
with all the money and left her " with
nothing but a tin box and some rub-bish
papers, which I pitched under the
bed, and haven't seen since."
Fortunately for us Mrs. Jinks wasn't
given to cleaning up often, and the
papers were recovered intact.
O d d J o t s.
Alcohol is made from molasses.
Coffee grows wild in Arabia and in
the Soudan.
Fifty-year-old Tokay costs from $15
to $50 a bottle.
Bed spots on the nails indicate
very choleric temper.
A pie factory in New York city
turns out 20,000 pies a day.
Queen Victoria believes that articles
made by blind people bring luck.
I t is said that 32,000 varieties of
goods are manufactured from wool.
Tariff was originally the name of
a Moorish chief, who, having a port in
Spain, near Gibraltar, was accustom:
ed to levy toll on passing vessels.
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The W i n t e r t o b e L o n g a n d Cold.
J. Williams Thorne, who for many
years has been making weather pre-dictions,
based on what he calls the
" Lunar Cycle Rule," has a, communi-cation
in the West Chester Village Re-cord,
in which he predicts that the
winter of 1893-94 will be one of un-usual
severity. He states that accord-ing
to the " Cycle Rule " it will be
characterized by intense cold, deep
snows, and a long continuance of al
most uniformly cold weather. There
will be good sleighing for at least six
weeks. The Delaware river will be
firmly frozen over during the greater
part of the winter. The spring follow
ing will be more than unusually late
and cool. The summer will not be
above the average temperature of that
season, and will be sufficiently moist
to secure good crops of hay and grain
generally. The fruit crop will be a
full average one, excepting peaches ;
which in some localities will be great-ly
lessened or totally destroyed.
Mr. Thorne states that the " Lunar
Cycle is an astronomical period of nine
teeu years, which marks the return of
the earth, the sun and the moon to the
same relative position, very nearly.
This combined influence of the sun
and moon causes a return of a tide to
the same tidal port, or about the same
hour, every nineteen years. Now, if
the influence of the sun and moon
causes the great tidal movements of
the ocean, it must exert a far greater
force on the vast ocean of the earth's
atmospere, and this iorce must be re-peated
at any particular point oa the
earth's surface, every nineteen years "
I f this theory holds good, as the
present winter will be the sixth return
of the hard winter of 1780, ic is likely
to be alike severe in all its main
features, and Mr. Thorne makes the
prediction plausible by stating that
all the intervening cycles are on re-cord
as winters of intense cold and
deep snows."
P i g s a n d Thistles.
Two mites was all the widow needed
to show that she was the most liberal
soul on earth.
It is downright selfishness to try to
enjoy religion without saying some-thing
about it.
The best places in heaven will be
filled by those who have been the most
faithful on earth.
The louder a stingy man says
amen " in church, the more the cause
of God is injured.
The devil cheats us out of a great
mauy blessings by teaching us to be
close with our money.
The more house a man builds on
the sapd the more he will hive to lose
when the storm comes.
No matter what appearances may
do, there is no such thing as real
prosperity to the wicked.
The man who is not thankful does
not know half the time whether he
really has any God or not.
The devil's first work on earth was
to destroy the home, and he has been
at the same thing ever since.
Eyery time we find a new promise
m our Bible the angels open the
windows of heaven a little wider.
They are not building any mansions
in heaven for people who are neither
hot nor cold in religious matters.
I t is hard to find people in mis-fortune
who will not stick to it that
somebody else has been to blame for
it. - ^ .
H o w M o n e y Grows.
At the birth of his son a father
placed on interest at 6 per cent, the
sum of $1000, and each year invested
all the interest at the same rate.
When the boy was twenty-one years
old he found himself the possessor of
,399.56. Being a young man of
pluck and energy, and anxious to try
his hand in unaided competition, he
told his father to keep the money, and
he would take his chances with the
poor boys of his acquaintance. When
the son was fifty years old the father
notified him that his fortune had
grown to be over $18,420, using round
numbers. At seventy the father
called his son's attention to his fortune
of over $59,000, and since the son had
received the rewards of his industry,
he did not still take possession of the
fortune. The father soon after died,
and in his will required his executors
to keep the principal and interest
loaned until the son should receive it
or be removed by death. The latter
lived to a good old age, and on his
100th birthday, besides the accumula-tions
of a busy and prosperous life, he
was incumbered with a fortune of
$839,300.
A B i g O r d e r f o r Locomotives.
The Baldwin Locomotiye Works, of
Philadelphia, has just received an
order for seventy-one locomotives.
The order comes from the Atcheson,
Topeka and Santa Fe system. It is
one of the largest orders the company
has ever received from a single rail-
1 road company.
P o s i n g o n t h e Stairs.
What huge chunks of delight a girl
takes in making a picture of herself,
remarks an English writer. That may
not be very lucid. I do not reier to
either painted portraits or crayon out-lines.
I mean real, live pictures, with
a leafy summer house or a dancing,
wavy lake as a background.
And stairways! Well, even a girl
without a particularly artistic tas
will linger while coming down stairs
if there happens to be a man at the
foot.
Oue can always grasp a banister so
gracefully, and when one i8 dressed in
a simple white frock and one's hair is
all loose and curly, the picture is very
effective. Lots of girls make it a point
to be at the head of the front stairs
when a specially treasured young man
calls.
Then they descend slowly, smiling
sweetly all the time and grasping yards
of fluffy skirts in one hand. No man,
however old and sour-tempered, can
resist a girl when he sees her coming
down stairs.
Small girls have the advantage to a
certain extent, because they can peek
over the railing and do all sorts of
coquettish things without appearing
utterly idiotic, as tall girls invariably
do under such trying conditions.
T e l l i n g a M a n by H i s S h a k e.
" Let me shake hands with a man
and I will tell you something about
his character," said a physician to a
delegate. " The firm, hearty hand-shake
of a sincere man may be rather
rough, so that one is taught he has a
grip, but it iodicates stamina. While
denoting absence of tact and refine-ment,
it points to strength of character.
The hesitating, insinuating hand that
slips away from you easily belongs to
the clever man. It's peculiar to the
Irish. Its owner is shrewd, never em-barrassed
and skilled at repartee. The
flabby hand that returns no pressure
belongs to the man who would not go
out of his way to meet you. The quick,
nervous handshake of an excitable,
nervous temperament and its opposite,
the nerveless, passive one belongs, __to
persons in ill health. The hand that
threatens to collapse in yours means
deceit. It is the same with the man
wh;ise hand feels like that of a snake.
Idlers shake harder and longer than
other people. Such a shake impresses
me as much as a loud speech that has
nothing in it."
B i g F i r e i n P h i l a d e l p h i a.
The old Thornton worsted mills at
10th street and Columbia avenue,
Philadelphia, owned and operated by
James E. Cochran & Brother, yarn
spinners and manufacturers of worsted
goods, were destroyed by fire.on last
Friday evening. The total loss is
about $225,000 and the insurance
«150,000. The loss on the building is
estimated at $52,000. The adjoining
building, 1645 North 16th street,
occupied by Robert Mitcheson, tobacco
pipe manufacturer, and other tenants,
was partially destroyed. Several fire-men
were injured by falling walls.
B o m b e r g e r I s C h e e r f u l.
Bomberger, the murderer, confined
in the Grand Forks jail, has enjoyed
his keeping as though nothing was on
his mind, says the Lebanon Report.
He tells his former friends that he
cannot undo what he has done, and he
does not propose to show the '.'white
feather " at the last stretch. In two
instances he has shed tears upon meet-ing
old friends, but the manifestation
was only momentary. He quickly
checked himself and assumed his usual
mood of cheerfulness. He laughs,
jokes and sings, and seems to enjoy
this way of diverting his mind from
more serious thoughts.
Good Enough for ;
t President Cleve
We are selling a SOLID GOLD WATCH in both
Ladies' and Gents' size for $20.00 which are good enough
for the President of the United States.
J A C K STRÄU
6 0 N o r t b QCicet) S t .,
Jeweler,
L a o c a S t e r , Pa.
L i k e H e r P l a y i n g.
Little Boy—" I'd a good deal rather
see you go to the piano than Miss De
Thumper that Mamma just asked."
Fair Guest (delighted)—" Would
you, really ? Why ?"
Little Boy—" Cause you only know
two pieces."
I t i s n ' t i n the o r d i n a r y way that Dr.
Pierce's F a v o r i t e Prescription comes to
t h e weak a n d suffering w o m a n w h o needs
i t . It's g u a r a n t e e d . Hot w i t h words
merely ; any medicine can m a k e claims
and promises. "What is done w i t h the
" F a y o r i t e P r e s c r i p t i o n " is t h i s : if it
i a i l s to benefit or cure, i n a n y case, your
money is returned. Can you ask any
better proof that a medicine w i l l d o what
i t promises ?
I t ' s a n inyigorating, restorative tonic
a soothing and strengthening nervine,
and a certain remedy for t h e i l l s a n d ail-ments
that beset a woman. In " female
c o m p l a i n t s " of every k i n d , periodical
pains, i n t e r n a l i n f i a m a t i o n or ulceration
bearing-down sensations, a n d a l l chronic
weaknesses and irregularities, i t is a posi-t
i ve a n d complete cure.
To every tired, overworked woman
and to every weak, nervous, a n d ailing
one, i t is guaranteed to b r i n g health and
strength.
OWEN P . B B I C K E R , E s q . , a t t o r n ey
at-law, is i n t o w n every S a t u r d a y a nd
M o n d a y m o r n i n g a n d can be c o n s u l t ed
i n a l l legal business. Lancaster office
48 N o r t h D u k e street.
"Wise a n d O t h e r w i s e.
There may be nothing in luck, but
The Memphis Commercial would like
to know why it is that one man will
catoh all the fish and another man, his
companion, will catch all the malaria
out of the same creek.
Wife—" Can you let me have some
money, dear ? I am going shopping."
Husband—"Great heavens, Maria!
you'll ruin me." Wife (calmly)—"All
I want is ten cents for car fare;"
" So you went and proposed to her,
in spite of my warnings ?" " Yep."
"And the result?" " The answer I got
was so chilling that I fell several der
grees in my own estimation."
When the impecunious stranger was
ejected from the tavern it was remark-ed
by a bystander that it was some-thing
out of the ordinary.
The Clergyman—"And why should
little boys say their prayers every
night?" The Good Boy—"So's the
Lord can have a chance to get what
they want by morning."
Mrs. Sharp—"A man always makes
a fool of himself for a woman." The
Bachelor—" How ? By marrying her?"
C o n u n d r u m s .
When is it easy to read in the
woods ?
When autumn turns the leaves.
Why are the Western prairies flat ?
Because the sun sets on them every
night.
Which is the largest room in the
world ?
Room for improvement.
When is a cup like a cat ?
When you're teasin' it.
Why is it dangerous to walk abroad
in the country in the spring-time?
Because the grass is putting forth
blades, every flower has a pistil, the
trees are shooting, and the bulrush is
out.
Why is a washerwoman the greatest
traveler on record ?
Because she crosses the line and goes
from pole to pole.
Why is sympathy like " blind man's
buff"?
Because it is a fellow feeling for a
fellow-being.
I f you throw a white stone into the
Red Sea what will it become ?
Wet.
Why is a cat on a steeple like a
ball?
Because she looks round.
Did Adam think Eve High or Low
church ?
He thought her Eve-angelical.
Why are horses in cold weather like
meddlesome gossips ?
They bear idle tails (tales).
Why is a dandy like the cassia-tree
?
The bark is worth more than the
body.
P o i s o n e d T h i r t e e n a t a Feast.
Lynching is the penalty which un-doubtedly
awaits Nathan Lamb, color-ed,
who, on Thanksgiving day, put rat
poison on the turkey and the steak
and in drinking water on the table of
the Houston Hotel at Port Deposit,
Ala. He intended only to poison F.
M. Searcy, who had thrashed him for
a trifling offense. But Searcy's wife
and daughter also partook of the dead-ly
drug, as did Miss Belle McQueen,
D. J . Little and five drummers, be-sides
two waiters and the cook. Four
of the company came near dying.
I n D i f f e r e n t P a r t s o f t h e State.
Diphtheiitic croup is epidemic at
Slatington.
Falling from a roof in Reading,
Nathaniel Paff met a speedy death.
Joseph Gruver was found dead by
his wife in his diniQg room at York.
A great fall of coal in the Central
Mine, Scranton, crushed James Mullen
lifeless.
In the anthracite coal regions four
inches of snow coyered the ground on
Sunday.
After hiccoughing twelve days Ed-ward
Erbe, near Lebanon, has re-coyered.
Berks county jail inmates haye
woven 10,000 yards of carpet, which is
still unsold.
The Coroner's jury at York failed
to throw any light upon the mysterious
Jordan murder.
Gen. Wm. Lilly congressman-at-large
from this state, died at Hazleton,
Saturday afternoon, aged 72.
After the lapse of a week the man
killed on the railroad at Reading was
indentified as Jacob Keymlesak.
The Orwigsburg Fire Company pur-chased
a steamer from the Good Will
Company, of Pottsyille, for $500.
Daniel P. Ely, a car inspector's
clerk, at Reading, was crushed to death
by a Philadelphia and Reading train.
At least twenty building and loan
associations in Western Pennsylvania
have gone out of business since last
spring.
Over $48,000 was on Saturday paid
to the 3400 employes of the Pennsyl-vania
Steel Company, at Steelton, for
two weeks work.
The half-dozen hunters who were
tried at Reading for mutilating a live
fox by cutting off its legs, ears and
tail, were acquitted.
Ex President C. W. Pool, of the
Pool Coke and Coal Company, accused
of embezzlement, was captured and
will be tried in Pittsburg.
By falling from a Pennsylvania
Railroad train at Harrisburg, Con-ductor
C. B. Lowe, one of the oldest
on the road, and residing at Altoona,
met death.
Fire at Ridgway, at midnight on
Friday gutted the Ridgway bank
block, about a score of tenements
suffered considerably. The principal
losers are Kauffman & Selman, dry
goods.
I t is said that Mr. and Mrs. Wright
of Hummelstown, whose daughter,
Agnes, was . murdered by Benjamin
Tennis, have asked for tickets to wit-ness
the hanging, which will occur in
a few days.
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Little Edna Hague, aged eight years,
of Philadelphia, was on last Saturday
burned about the body and legs at her
home and died at the Episcopal
Hospital a few hours later.
Sne climbed up to a shelf above the
stoye to get some playthings, when she
upset a box of matches, which fell on
the hot stove and set fire to her cloth-ing.
Her mother, attracted by thesereams
of the child, rushed into the room to
find her enveloped in a mass of flames
which she extinguished after consider-able
difficulty.
—ST. E L M O HOTEL, NOS. 317 a n d 319
A r c h street, P h i l a d e l p h i a . — Bates re-duced
to $1.50 a n d $2 per day. The travel-i
n g public, w i l l s t i l l find at t h i s hotel t he
same l i b e r a l p r o v i s i o n for t h e i r comfort.
I t is located i n the i m m e d i a t e centre of
business, a n d places of a m u s e m e n t and
the different r a i l r o a d depots,as w e l l as a ll
parts of t h e city, is easily accessible by
street cars constantly passing the doors.
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v i s i t i n g the c i t y for business or pleasure.
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oc7-ly GA B L E <FC KRAUSE, Prop'xs.
New E l e c t r i c R a i l r o a d.
On Wednesday an inspection was
made of the route of the proposed ex-tension
of the Reading & Southwestern
railroad from Mohnsville to Adams-town.
A large party from Reading
went to Mohnsville, where they were
met by the following from Adamstown :
L. T. Custer, chief burgess; Hon.
Esaias Billingfelt, Henry Fichthorn,
Allen C. Snyder, S. W. Miller, Daniel
E. Stauffer, Henry G. Mohn, Daniel
L. Binkley, John Zerby, James F.
Grseff and R. M. Hyman. The party
walked over the whole road and upon
arriving at Adamstown had supper at
Miller's hotel. It was decided to go
to work at once to obtain subscriptiocs
for the construction of the road. Sub-scription
books were issued and it was
decided to make a house to house
canvass of Adamstown. The work of
locating the line will be begun at once
and it is expected to cost $50,000 to
build the road.
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