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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Crazed by Loss of Leg.

A Nescopeck man named William
Darrah, who had his leg cut off by a
Pennsy train last July, has worried so
much over the loss of the leg that he
has gone stark mad, and yesterday
morning made vicious attack on Il
Berwick man with long knife.
Darrah was found one morning along
the track, having been run over by Il
tram during the night. Since his re-
cove1y at the Berwick hospital, he has
lived with relatives at Nescopeck, 60
ing about with crutch. The stump
has never healed and as he was always
a strong and powerful man, his incap-
acity troubled him until he went in
sane
Yesterday morning he got out OF the
house and went to Berwick, where he
got into an alteration with George
McAffee. Darrah pulled out long
knife and made lunge at McAtfee,
who lodged him and was pursued
about by Darrah until spectators in
terfered, and with the aid of Chief
Clayberger overpowered the insane
man and took him to lookup.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
SUNF|SH DESTROY
MOSQUITOES

DR.. Cameron ShultZ yesterday re-
ceived a communication from the State
health department relating to a novel
proposition for promoting healthful
conditions throughout the community.
The communication is from H. l..
Viereck of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia. who is in charge
of the mosquito investigation being
conducted under the auspices of the
State department of health. The prop
osition is to stock all permanent
bodies of standing or of slow running
water with sunfish. which devour and
largely subsist upon the worm stage of
mosquitoes.
Not only do mosquitoes prove great
pest because of the stings they intiict
but it has been demonstrated to the
satisfaction of Investigators that they
are active agencies in spreading NAL
aria. Because of the latter fact the
Pennsylvania department of health is
making a vigorous effort to extermi
nate the troublesome insects.
1t is considered therefore perfectly
feasible to stock such bodies of water
as those in which mosquitoes breed
with sun fish, leaving it to these little
scavengers to annihilate the mosquito
crop.
Professor Viereck writes DR.. Shultz
that the State fisheries commissioner,
Mr. Meehan, has a limited supply of
sunfish to distribute where they are
most needed until the supply runs out.
The fish are transmitted gratis, but
that the fish commissioner may be in
a position to ship these without ser
ious difficulty the communication asks
for certain data, which the secretary
of the board of health will supply.
The sun fish as shipped will be about
two inches long. In order that the de-
vouring of the wormstage of the mos
quitoes the object for which these sun
fish is intended, is attained it will be
necessary for the water i'll which they
are placed to have a margin that is as
clean and as nearly perpendicular as
possible. To make these little mos
quito policemen" absolutely effective,
not only must the edges of the water
be cleaned and made perpendicular,
but also care must be taken to see to
it that no water covered leaves of any
kind exist in any portion of the stand
ing or slow running water to be stock
! ed.
DR.. Shultz states that the large
ponds at the upper end of town as we'll
as those at the various brick yards,
where mosquitoes breed in millions,
are we'll adapted to the raising of sun
fish and will be stocked if the fish can
be obtained. The canal, he says, is ut.
terly out of the question both by rea-
son of its filthy condition and the fact
that i'll times of rain it becomes q
swift running stream.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
DanViIIe Stoves at Fair.

One of the attractions of the Blooms
burg fair is the new Queen Beaver
range, a thoroughly modern product
of the Danville Stove and manufactur-
ing company's plant, which is not yet
on the market. The stove is redressed
with movable nickel. 1t attracts much
attention and helps with the other
Danville stoves on exhibition to make
up an attractive display. Included i'll
the exhibition is the Imperial Beav
er, full nickel and the same stove with
reservoir also the Beaver Oak double
heater and the Beaver parlor heater.
The new stove, the Queen Beaver,
will be made in two sizes, both with
portable and with solid hearth, Nos.
8-233 and 8-2ll. Only the first size
is completed The latter size will be
ready for the market in short time.
The Danville stove and manufactur.
ing company is very busy at this sea.
son, the daily product of stoves being
over one hundred The shipping sea.
son is now at its height, the number
of stoves sent out from the plant daily
( being anywhere from one hundred tC
TWO hundred.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
final Stroke
Of D|SMANTuNC

The big blowing engine at the Bess-
emer blast furnace, dismantled last
winter which has stood idle since
1900, is about to enter upon new
career of usefulness 1t has been puT
chased by the WellstOn Iron & Steel
company of Wellston, Ohio, and will
be removed to that place where it will
be installed in the large plant belong
ing to the above company.
The engine is a big one and was com
paratively new when the furnace was
mantled practically all the machinery
and iron work was reduced to scrap.
The big blowing engine, however, was
considered too valuable to dispose of
| in that manner, although the two
auxiliary engines were broken up. A
strong effort was made to sell it but
there seemed to be little demand for
second hand engines and since last
winter its fate has hung i'll the bal
ance. Once "wreckers" were sent here
| to scrap the fine piece of machin-
ery, but prospective buyer bobbing
up at an opportune moment the men
were recalled before they had a chance
| to begin work. While the engine has
stood awaiting a purchaser the brick
engine house, weakened by blasts dur
ing dismantling, has tumbled piece
meal. During the storm Saturday af-
ternoon the high brick wall on the
east side tumbled outward, which left
but one wall, that on the west side
standing.
The huge blast pipe of the big up
right engine extends through the side
wall near the roof and helps to hold it
| in position. There is an element OF
danger about the affair apparent TO
every one. 1t would be miracle if the
forty foot wall, tottering on its founda
tion, did not give way at some time
while work was in progress but just
when it is going to fall is the problem.
W. A. Shepperson has the contract
for taking down the engine and plac,
ing it on the cars. j. 5 Hopper OF
Scranton, who will erect the engine at
Wellston, is here marking the pieces
as the engine is taken apart. Work on
the final stroke of dismantling was be-
gun yesterday morning. Mr.. Shopper
son expects to have the engine OIL the
! cars in week or ten days.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
nercury a. Degrees.

The weather yesterday was very
chilly reminding us that grim winter
is within mailing distance. At a. III.
the mercury registered at Al degrees +;
at noon it had raised only to 4S de-
grees.
We are not yet Injured to such tenn
peratures and yesterday during the
forenoon, especially. people showed
little inclination to linger out of
doors. \ walk across the river bridge
was attended with real discomfort.
Those who are obliged to make this
trip daily are looking forward with
pleasure to the time when the Dan
Vile and Sunbury street railway will
he in operation. Such will be glad TO
learn that the resumption is an assur-
ed thing. Simon Krebs, the owner Of
the line, who is still in Danville per
fecting arrangements for starting mp,
stated Yesterday for publication that
plans are being perfected rapidly and
that there is not the least shadow of
doubt but that the cars will run.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Cold Weather at Bloom Fair.

At the Bloomsbury fair yesterday
the average Wednesday crowd was in
attendance. The cool weather made Il
long stay on the grounds rather un-
comfortable. The ice cream vendors
shivered in the cold, their stands de-
serted while their brethren of the hot
frankfurter did rushing business.
All preparations have been made for
big crowds today and tomorrow.
The 2 rs was the hest race yester-
day. Five heats were run and it will
be necessary TO finish it today. Le-
land, a Bryn Mawr horse, took the first
and second heat, Harry NJ, the third,
and Star Rane the fourth and fifth, all
of the heats being very close. The
county race and the ? 21 went in |, 2,
order
Today the racing begins at one
O'Clock, aud will include the finish of
the :l8, the 2:15 pace, the 2:l7 trot
and the , :2l pace.
/ Today, also, Harry J.. with n rec.
ord of 074 will try to beat the track
record of :O8ai held by Democracy.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Personal
PARAGRAPHS

II iAhLlNai VI 4 A''S'O'A' ''i'-N
Sunday with relatives in this city.
Prof. J. H. Shaw spent Sunday with
relatives at Orange, Luzerne county.
Mrs. Athelia Harner and Miss Jen
ME Harner, of Littletown, are visit
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross
Harner, East Market street
Sam A. Mccoy spent Sunday with
friends in Selinsgrove.
Clarence Mcmahon, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday at the home of his moth
er, Mrs. Thomas Mcmahon, Spruce
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. p. Johnson spent
Yesterday with friends in Sunbury.
Miss Alice Heacock, of Brooklyn,
New York, is a guest at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Cole, Bloom street.
MI. and Mrs. Peter Bechtel, of
Hughesville, are visiting at the home
of Mrs. Rebecca Hess, Bloom street.
MI. anu MIS-. .. V. Ipolutl, VI w II
Transport, are visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Rogers, Mill
street
J. Ii. Cole and w. Kase West were
Sunbury visitors yesterday
James Magill and Edward Shultz re-
turned yesterday from "A stay in Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Henrietta j. Angle has return
ed from a visit with frients in Jersey
Shore.
Miss Dorothy Horton left yesterday
for a visit with friends i'll Blooms
burg.
Mrs. Ralph b. Diehl will leave to-
day for a trip to Philadelphia.
Miss May Books spent yesterday
with friends in Sunbury.
Miss Ida Gallaher called on friends
in Lime Ridge Yesterday.
Hon. Lloyd W. Welliver, of Ex-
hange, was visitor in Danville yes
terday.
Mis-. William Frans worth, of Kings
ton, is a guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicholas Hill, Upper Mulberry
street
! Daniel Mccormick returned ycster-
| day from a several weeks trip through
New York State.
Clarence Cromley returned to Burn
ham yesterday after spending several
days with his family on Vine street.
Mrs. Charles Haney, of Mausdale,
called on friends i'll this city yester-
day.
Frank Jacobs, of Sunbury, was a
Danville visitor yesterday.
Misses May Leader and Flora Har-
pei, of Shamokin, called on friends i'll
Danville yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Yeager and daughter
Dorothy, Upper Mulberry street, left
Yesterday for visit with friends in
Bloomsbury.
| Mrs. Lemuel Wells and Miss Eliza
beth Wells, of New York City, are
spending several days in this city as
guests at the home Of Miss Emily Will
kins. Ferry street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Watson and
son Charles will return TO Philadel-
phia today after a stay in Danville.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
An Underground Crossing

Following the recommendation OF
the coroner's jury in the terrible cross
ing accident which occurred on the
Reading railway east of Sunbury, sew
eral months ago, when seven members
of the Neidig family were struck and
killed by passenger train, it has been
decided by both the Reading and Penn
sylvania railroad companies to con
struct a subway at this death trap.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
States Bad Roads.

A report by Maurice o. Eldridge,
chief of records in the public roads
office of the department of agriculture,
at Washington, d. c., on the public
roads of Pennsylvania shows that of
30, III miles of such roads III the State
in 1904 two per cent, were improved
and that there was only one mile OF
improved road to every ,, 1876 inhahit-
ants. The funds collected and expend-
ed for road purposes that year amount
ed to $4S. 90 per mile of public road OF
II cents per inhabitant.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Filled Account,

Grant Herring, independent candid
ate for president judge IN this district,
yesterday filed his expense account
with the clerk of the Columbia coun-
ty courts. Mr. Herring. in his ac-
count, swears that he spent $4734. 0l
IN his endeavor to secure the Demo.
cratic nomination for president judge.
Again yesterday the Dauphin county
court at Harrisburg adjourned with
out rendering any decision in the
Herring Harman case.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Low Rates to Bloomsbury Fair.

Via the Reading. Tickets sold Octo-
Der 9th 18th, good to return until Oct.
18th inc. at rate of 30 cents for round
trip to Bloomsbury. On Thursday and
Friday, October 18th and 18th, a speci-
al train leaves Danville mt 8 20 "A. III.
for Bloomsbury, returning at 6.10 p.
IN. stopping at intermediate stations.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Broke a Rib.

David Shelhart, Center street, while
doing some chores in his barn yester-
day afternoon met with IA fall, in
which he sustained fracture of one of
his ribs. He suffered very much from
the effects of the injury for awhile,
but last evening was resting very
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Meeting Of
SCHOOL BOARD

The school board Monday night gave
considerable attention to the subject
of contagious diseases, especially diph-
liberia, which just now is causing some
anxiety.
Patrons do not seem to understand
the provisions of the school law relat-
ing to infectious diseases and are at
times very severe Oh the teachers, who
are merely doing their duty. 1t was
claimed that children from infected
families, excluded from the school
room by the law. are in the habit of
mingling with the pupils on the school
grounds at recess and at other times.
On motion of Mr. Fischer it was
ordered that the teachers and janitOrs
of the public schools strictly enforce
the State law, which requires pupils
to remain out of school until the ex-
piration of thirty days after fumiga-
tion also that every means be em-
ployLd to keep children belonging TO
infected families from mingling with
the pupils in attendance at the public
schools.
President Burns called attention to
the fact that boys of the first ward
school are in the habit of persistently
annoying persons living in the vicin-
ity of the school building. In his OPP
inion, he said. it was the duty of
principals and teachers to hold the
pupils in cheek in this relation by
showing them the folly and injustice
of ANNOYING older persons. Superin-
tendent Gordy explained that the
teachers have been working very hard
with the pupils to break up the con-
temptible practice complained of, but
that in every school there are certain
characters who can not be controlled in
that way, and he recommended that
the police take hand, arrest these
fellows and make severe example of
them
The board is determined in the mat
ter and the teachers will be instruct
ed TO take drastic measures when pu-
pills are found guilty of annoying any
one on their way TO or from school.
4 petition was read from pupils of
the high school, grammar school and
fifth school, of the first ward, asking
the school board to close school on
Thursday in order to enable the pupils
to attend the Bloomsbury fair without
loss of time There was a large num-
Der of signers. None of the other
wards were represented by petitions.
Mr.. Haring moved that the request be
granted, but no one would second the
motion The principal objection urged
was the prevalence of diphtheria in
Bloomsbury. Others, too, were of the
opinion that not more than % per
cent. of the pupils would go to the
fair. Several of the directors had been
waited on by parents and asked to
vote against the measure.
Mr. Haring of the supply committee
reported that large table for the lab
oratory had been ordered from Samuel
Werkheiser. He also reported other
purchases of minor nature.
Treasurer Schram presented state
ment of finances to date, which show
ed a cash balance on hand of $l37S2. SO.
The following members were pres
ent: Burns, Orth, Harpel. Swartz,
Pursel, Fish, Fischer, Heiss, Haring
and A. II. Grone.
The following bills were approved
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
King Bridge Co. Loses Charter.

The Philadelphia Ledger yesterday
announced that the King Bridge COM
pany, of Cleveland, which built the
river bridge at this place. has surrend-
cred its charter. This action was tax
Ell by the bridge company as a result
of the war that is being waged on the
bridge trust in Ohio by Attorney Gen
eral Ellis of that State
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
BeVer- Seidel.

Miss Ada Seidel, granddaughter of
Joseph Seidel, of Derry township. ard
Josiah Boyer, son of Hiram Boyer, of
Valley township, were united i'll matri-
mony Saturday evening by Rev. W. j.
Kohler at his home III Strawberry
l. i1pp
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
Sixteen Wires Stretched.

The linemen of the United Tele-
phone and Telegraph company have
completed stringing wires over the
river bridge. There are just sixteen
wires in use with room to increase the
number. The effect on the eye is by
no means displeasing, the wires strech-
ing from the tall poles on each side of
the river clear over the top of the iron
superstructuTe.
The linemen yesterday were engag
ed in taking down and coiling mp the
cable, which since the completion of
the bridge was supported along the
outside of the upper sidewalk on "A
level with the floor
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
rIr. and rIrs. Cloud Entertain.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Cloud de-
lightfully entertained a number OF
friends at their home on East Market
street, Friday evening.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
JOB PRINTING

The office OF the AMERICAN
being furnished with a large
assortment of job letter and
fancy type and job material
generally, the Publisher an
nounces to the public tnat he
is prepared at all times to ex
ecute IN the neatest manner.
JOB PRINTING
Ofall Kinds and Description
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11
A BIG SQUIRREL.

David Stetfen, Derry township, on
Friday shot gray squire, that weigh
ed one pound and nine ounces.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-10-11

The busy man seldom has time to
nurse imaginary troubles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-05
Liuuified Air.

The price of liquified air has pre-
viously been $4,000 per quart, but
recent discoveries have made it pos
sible to manufacture liquified air and
sell it at about the same price as
ammonia, which is exceedingly cheap.
Air, or atmosphere, is turned into
liquid at temperature of S12 degrees
below zero; thus liquid air is the cold
est thing known to science. We call
attention to this subject owing to the
fact that liquid air must become
great factor in refrigeration. Liquid
air will make it possible to preserve
fruits In cold storage with greater
ease and success than heretofore.
Liquid air will be used to cool rooms
on hot days in Summer, and for vari-
Gus practical purposes. Since ice is
only so degrees above zero and liquid
air S12 degrees below zero, you VIII
get some idea about the GOODNESS OF
liquid air. Pour liquid air on the ice
and it will boil at once.-Green's Fruit
Grower.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-05
WILD HORSES IN A CHASE.
Sport of the Vaqueros in Eastern
WaShinqton.

Blood will TELL" said a horseman
we'll known among the reckless va
aueros of eastern Washington, in re-
Iating stories of the last great round
I'D of wild horses in the far Northwest
State Blood will tell, and it will
tell even more noticeably in a wild
horse than in one that never has been
outside the corral and that had been
halter-broken before it was weaned.
"Any bunch of wild horses gives
the riders trouble, but for sheer, I'M
adulterated deyiltry and meanness,
the youngsters bred from the fleet old
Arabian stations are the hardest pro-
position We ever get UP against.
"And yet, while they are the hardest
to capture, there's a zest about the
chase that a true rider never tires of.
It gets the rider on his nerve, like
fight with a silver bass, right out of
cold water, affects a fisherman who
has been fooling with plymouth
blacks in a mill pond.
zone Saturday, about the last OF
April, we were sweeping Saddle Noun
tain for the wild herd We spread
our men well, arranged to give them
fresh mounts at proper intervals, and
by nightfall we had about nine hun
bred wild horses rounded up. But
even at that herd of one hundred or
one hundred and fifty of these young
Arabian bloods could not be captured,
in spite of our craft and efforts.
"They composed what is known
throughout that section of the State
as the wild goose band They all
run from white to gray or spotted
black and white in color. The herd
gets its name from the prevailing
color and from the straightaway runs
which these transplanted half-sons or
the desert make when pursued.
When the herd leaders started to
make a break we riders had to give
way or be overturned, and the best
and freshest mount in our bunch
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-05

bled as she placed the thermometer
under Donald's tongue. One minute
two minutes-three minutes!
The doctor removed the glass and
read aloud, "One hundred and two
and three-fifths!"
Some moments passed. Again the
thermometer was resorted to, again re-
moved. and the doctor read aloud.
zone hundred and one and two.
f1fths!"
She waved the glass exultingly.
"Shes heavin' the lead, Donald"
cried his dory mate. You're over the
shoals. It's deepenin the water you
are. Come on! Come on"
1t was plain to all. Any one could
see the red tide going out of the pa
tents face and the peace replacing It,,
as the sun follows over the sands the
receding sea.
run, Rcry, run!" cried the sister
to Big Mary's oldest, as she dashed
off telegram without counting the
words. Donald is safe! Hurrah! Hur-
rah!"
The December sun came up and
crept sparkling over the crisp snow,
and at last laughed into the sick-room,
shedding it's radiance over Donald
and the jubilant group that surround
ed the doctor. The little woman's
form fairly trembled under the cares
sing blows that Big Mary struck her
between the shoulders; her hand was
wet with the hysterical tears of the
sister; the patient threw the bed
clothes from his still brawny arm,
and reaching out, touched with the
tips of his fingers a fold of her dress.
There wasn't much water between
your forefoot and the rocks" said the
dory mate, "but she brought you over
the bar all right. 1t was live reek-
oning she made, not dead"
Meanwhile, the strait that runs be-
tween the island home and the main
land had been sealed up with ice, and
because of great storm the ice-boat
did not cross for week. And all the
letters, embodying the cold truth, that
would have kept the old peoples
souls on the rack for days, came In
with the elegram.-Youth's Compan.
ion.