Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-11-09
Brief News Items.

Compiled for FIasty Read
ers of the Intelligencer,
the Acknowledged Off
cial Organ of rlontour
County.
The rounder's occupation Is gone.
Well they all couldn't be elected.
Best County Paper, s1.0O year.
It was narrowing time for the can
didates last night.
It is announced at Baltimore that
owing to the paucity of the peanut
crop the price will be almost double
that of last year. Only few weeks
ago peanuts were said to be plenty.
A petition seven miles in length and
containing over 900, 600 singatures is
to be presented to the British parlia-
ment next session asking that a bill
be passed prohibiting the vivisection OF
dogs.
The Boston and Albany railroad on
November l reduced passenger fares
to = fat 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-
or to the division of finance Of the
post Office department the sum of $l,-
8e8. l3, 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 a
compromise with the State by paying
81, $50 in each case.
Gan 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 4S hours persons were run
down by trains at Scott Haven.
Merchants are preparing for the
holiday season.
Miss Fannie E. Printz, who for for
ty years had been 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
60 on the payment of costs and the
price OF cleaning the whitewash of
the houses they had msrred.
The Stewart Construction company,
which is erecting thirteen mills at
Freden thol. near Nazareth. has vol
uutarily increased the wages of the
American laborers from 1917 cents to
30 cents an hour.
Factory Inspector Joseph Quinn pub
lioly commends the people of York for
the very little trouble they occasion
his department. He says factory own
ersIand Others there are observing the
laws, and that there are no reports OF
violations of the child labor law.
George Calder McKeesport law.
yer. has sued the PittsburR Railway
company for $50, 0G0 damages on &C.
count of cold contracted by riding
in oars not properly heated.
James +. CLARK, private in the Unit.
ed States army and thought to have
been killed in the Spanish American
war. has returned to 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 out by an
approaching train. He is now in a
hospital minus one leg.
Now the farmer can make war or
the San Jose scale.
Albert Baker. of Reading. had 9
fierce battle with mammoth hawk
that he had wounded, and during the
encounter that continued for ffteer
minutes before he killed it, he wal
badly clawed in the face, shoulder and
hands.
More than 400 men were given a Sun
day breakfast and attended the relig
tous service Of tine Sunday Breakfast
association at Philadelphia. In th,
evening the crowd numbered $50, ant
an overflow meeting was held after al
were fed.
On the farm of samuel Herbein
near Fleetwood, there is barn bull
1N years ago, which has never beer
painted, and the boards, held in posi-
Ion by hand mad wrought-iron mai Il
are SO hard that it is almost imposs |
Die to cut them with saw.
The old iron mines in Warwick
Chester county, from which ore wa
taken for the iron that went into the
cannon made at the old time forge
for the Revolutionary army. will bt
reopened by New York syndicate.
A potato closely resembling a snap
ping turtle was picked UP on @. A.
Troutman's farm at Schafferstown
Another, resembling q baboon. wa
9rown by Issac Taylor. of Fast Nc
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