Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-11-08
CONDENSED NEWS.
The FOUNDERS occupation is gone.


Well they all couldn't be elected.
Il was a narrowing time for the can
didates last night.
II is announced at Baltimore that
owing 10 tie paucity of the peanut
crop the price will be almost double
that If last year only a few weeks
ago peanuts were said to be plenty.
\ petition seven miles in length and
containing over 900. 600 signatures is
to be presented to the British parlia-
meut next session asking that bill
be passed prohibiting the viyiseetion Of
dogs.
The Boston and Albany railroad on
November ! reduced passenger fares
10 a hat two cent rate, in accordance
with the announcement posted Octo-
Der The two cent rate was made
effective also on the Midland divisions
OF the New Haven road.
The dead letter office has turned ov-
post Office department the sum Of 81,
500. 10. which constituted the dead let
ter fund for October. or money found
in letters for which no owner could be
found
-Four Of the five cotton oil companies
recently sued by Attorney General
Rodgers for alleged violation of the
Arkansas antitrust law effected
compromise with the State by paying
o.. $50 in each case
Can you imagine anything meaner
than the man who growls all the time
while his wife does the house clean
ing.
November usually brings some pleas
ant weather in her train.
Within IS hours persons We're run
down by trains at Scott Haven.
Merchants are preparing for the
holiday season.
Miss Fannie +. Print2 who for for
" wears had been a teacher in the pub
lie schools Of Philadelphia, dropped
dead in the hall way of the girls
normal school as she was going TO a
teachers. meeting She had taught the
same school during the whole term
OF service.
Four Connellsville boys who used
whitewash in their squirt guns were
arrested and severely lectured, but let
q on the payment Of costs and the
price Of cleaning the whitewash off
the houses they had marred.
The Stewart Construction company,
which Is erecting thirteen mills at
Fredeuthol. near Nazareth has vol
unfairly increased the wages of the
American laborers from 1879 cents to
20 cents an hour
Factory Inspector Joseph Quinn pub
licly commends the people of York for
the very little trouble they occasion
his department. He says factory own
ers and others there are observing the
laws, and that there are no reports of
violations of the child labor law.
George Calder a McKeesport law
yer, has sued the Pittsburg Railway
company for $50, Ov0 damages on ac-
count Of cold contrac ted by riding
IN cars not properly heated.
James r. CLARK, private in the Unit
ed States army and thought TO have
been killed in the Spanish American
war. has returned 10 his home at Sha-
mokin.
Patrick Scully, who had his foot
caught in switch frog at McKees-
port, deliberately broke his leg to save
his life from being crushed ont by an
approaching train. He is now in a
hospital minus one leg.
Now the farmer can make war on
the san Jose scale.
Albert Baker. Of Reading had a
fierce battle with a mammoth hawk
that he had wounded, and during the
encounter that continued for fifteen
minutes before he killed it. he was
badly clawed in the face, shoulder and
hands
More than 400 men were given Sun
day breakfast and attended the relig-
ious service Of tine Sunday Breakfast
association at Philadelphia In the
evening the crowd numbered $50. and
an overflow meeting was held after all
were fed.
On the farm of Samuel Herbein
near Fleetwood, there is a barn built
iO7 years ago. which has never been
painted. and the boards, held in posi-
ion by handmade wrought-iron mai Is
are so hard that il is almost impOssi
bic TO cut them with a saw
The old iron mines in Warwick,
Chester county, from which ore was
taken for the iron that went into the
cannon made at the old time forge'
for the Revolutionary army, will be
reopened by New York syndicate.
A potato closely resembling a snap
ping turtle was picked up on {. \.
Troutman farm at Schatferstown.
Another. resembling baboon. wat
grown by I>sac Taylor Of East Nc
KeespOrt
With the sailing OF the transport
Logan frOm san Francisco Noyembel
the government established TegulaI
service on the fifth of each month t,
the Philippines.