Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-06-08

shalltown, Chester county, will make
au effort this season to revive the to-
! bacco growing industry i'll that sec
tion, as big prices are being offered
for tine crop.
At meeting of the railroad broth
erhocds held at Freeland resolutions
were passed asking congress to oppose
the rate bill amendment which aims
to prohibit giving passes to railroad
employees and their families.
Mayor SALESMAN, Erie's chief eXecu-
| tive, is out with demand that the
valuations of the property of the lake
city be increased from S22, 900. 900 to
$50, 600, 600, saying that 1t will increase
the interest of people in municipal af-
fairs.
Fourteen-year-old Bertha Colling-
wood, of Clintonvi lie, Venango coun-
ty, was bitten on the calf of the leg by
a copperhead snake. The wound was
placed under the end of Che inlet pipe
of suction gas pump and the poison
drawn out.
John Mooney, after an absence of ten
years from his home in Allegheny
county, unexpectedly returned home
the other day. His relatives thinking
him dead collected $40, 600 life insur-
ance by having the court declare him
legally dead
Burgess Frederick j. Bromhall, of
| Conshohocken, says that juvenile laws
or not, the children of that town Will
be either kept indoors at night or else
sent to Jail, saying that the RESPONSE
bility for children's misdeeds rests
with the parents.
Bradstreet's S reports fewer failures
last month than in any May for thir-
teen years. The liabilities are higher
than in the same month of several pre-
ceding years. But business is on larg-
er scale; assets and liabilities increase
with the volume of trade.
The recent escape of two insane patti
ents of Dixmont asylum, Allegheny
county, leads to the statement that not
less than fifty of the inmates of that
institution have got away since Jan
uary /, many of whom are still at
large.
The board of health of Beaver Falls
is after those people who have the
habit of throwing old tin cans and
other refuse in the alleys, with a sharp
stick. In the hope of breaking up the
nuisance they advise the wrong doers
to procure garbage cans.
Although ordered by his physician
not to leave his house or to speak,
Judge Ehrgood will preside at the
quarter sessions court this week in Le-
banon county. 1t is thought lie is suf-
fering from paralytic stroke No
other judge could be secured to take
the sick mans place.
engulfed by an earthquake 200 men and
boys rushed from the Susquehanna
Coal company's Hickory Ridge break
er at Shamokin, as it settled one and
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crumbling away. A new breaker will
be erected within year.
The Louisiana, one of the new bat
tleships built in private yards, is ready
for LAUGHING. The South Carolina, be-
ing built at government yards and laid
down at the same time as the Louis
lana, is not ready. 1t would interest
the public, also, to know the respec-
tive cost of the two ships
The Easton Free Press tells us that
two ordinances, one providing for the
creation of board of public works,
the other authorizing the loan for per-
manent improvements will soon pass
the Easton councils, and that the loan
ordinance will be submitted to IA vote
of the people in September.
The lntelligencer is at your service
as a news or advertising medium. We
await your commands.
WANTED AGENTS-to take
orders for a fine line of Dry Goods
Specialties. Also Red Gross Towels,
a fine bath towel. We handle staples
as well as novelties. Spring samples
now ready. Address at once Rob't.
G. Wallace Co., Chauncy ST., Boston,
Mass.
Tuesday, June 10, 1906, at 1
O clock p. m., Richard Moser will
sell the farm and buildings, known
as the Thos. Robinson place, 2 miles
east of Washingtonville, joining lands
of Peter Rake and the Cromley and
keefer places, containing 20 acres,
see bills.
Manager Samuel Mccoy, of the
Danville Base Ball Association,
promises n series of the infatuating
game, at DeWitt's Park, during this
season, providing the lovers of the
sport give the players liberal support.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, attenl
and thus keep up the interest of our
great American national game.
Do not wonder the cause of the
particularly pleasant countenance of
our assistant, Mr.. Harry L. Ritter,
as he moves about among you with
his high-cocked hat on the side of his
head, carrying cane and nodding to
all so graciously as he passes by, for
Harry is now the proud father of
bouncing heir, which the stork so
generously bestowed upon the happy
family to add good cheer to the do
mestic freside on Wednesday morn
ing.
CASToH RIA.
Bears tho "A Tho Kind You Have ALWAYS BoIuht