Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-05-11
Brief News Items.
Compiled for fiasty Read
ers of the IntelligenCer,
the Acknowledged Off
cial Organ OF Little rlon-
tour County.

Looks like May cold wave.
Not much like May weather, this.
The picnic season comes on apace.
Has the winters debris disappeared
from your back yard?
Blossoms and frost could not be rec
onciled at this stage.
Real wisdom seldom diffuses itself
by brass band methods.
Reading real estate values have in
creased Il million and a half in one
year.
The government has spent S23, 900 in
trying to GUST Senator Smoot from
$1,000 job.
The determination of the miners TO
resume work means much for all lines
of industry.
There might be a decrease in the
canine population without any lasting
loss to the community.
A number of Danville people are ar
ranging to take i'll Wilkes Barrels Old
Home Week celebration.
With rifle Samuel Entriken, of
Westtown, Chester county, killed 46
rats, firing but 45 shots.
The earthquake may shake San Fran
cisco, but the people of this country
are showing that they never will.
Nearly a million volumes, including
complete Bibles, testaments, Biblical
gnides and other religious publications
were sold or distributed by the Penn
sylvania Bible society during the past
year.
Sunbury is planning to have a big
celebration on July 4th in honor of
the arrival of new trolley car for the
Sunbury and Northumberland road. -
Milton Standard.
Texas is getting jealous of Italy and
California. Isn't she bigger than eth
er of them? Look out for something
big and up-to-d date in the way of casu-
alties down there.
The Shamokin borough authorities
have decided to arrest the entire crews
of Pennsylvania railroad trains for
blocking crossings with cars there
more than half hour at a time.
The British are profuse in their ad-
miration of the way the American
soldiers took hold of the situation in
San Francisco, and the able manner in
which they handled it.
The Womans Baptist Missionary So
ciety, of Pennsylvania, has just been
holding its twentieth annual session
at Norristown. 1t rejoices that it has
raised $50, 900 for missions this year,
the largest sum ever raised in year
Four postal clerks were killed in the
Glover Creek Junction collision last
Friday. 1t is about time Uncle Sam
puts stop to such slaughter by max
ing the use of steel postal cars general
and compulsory.
DR.. Charles A. Eastman has been
commissioned by the United States
government to rename each individual
in the Sioux nation. He is himself a
full-blooded Sioux. He hopes to ac-
complish his task in two years.
Mayor McCaskey, of Lancaster has
introduced the practice of compelling
boys brought before him for trivial
offenses to read extracts from -the
Bible, after which he reprimands
them. He thinks it will do them good.
Pursuant to orders from the depart
ment commander of the G.. A. r.,
Lincoln post, of Shamokin, has ap
pionted Wesley VanGaskin, orator tC
visit the public schools and make ad
day.
a gratifying report comes from Sal
Francisco to the effect that the steam
ship wharves of that city are intact
and also the railroads leading to them
This assures that the city is not likel,
to lose the commerce which has beel
coming to it, and for which rivals ar,
said to be reaching out.
1oLh SuihdtId, Ille hlleulSn mis-
sionary society reports year of har
vest such as it has never before seen
The number of pagans baptized durin,
the year was 4,712, besides 1856 Moham
medans. The total number of Chris
tians is now 81, 764. In 307 schools IA
Sl9 boys and girls are under instruc
tion.
The idea of Gov. johnson, of Min
nesota, that no man is worth more tina,
$40, 600 year gets rude shock in th
refusal by the New York Base Bal
Club of $75, 600 for their crack player
Mathewson of the "Giants'. Thi
makes the $40, 900 beauties of the oil
days seem rather cheap, and is pric
on level with the insurance officers
Mr.. B. G. starner, of Washington
vile, was q pleasant business caller t
our office Tuesday. Mr.. Starner
one of the good old Jeffersonian Dem
ocrats that believes in pure polite
and good capable men in Office. Fl
Is one of the supporters of the Intelli
gencer, the party paper of MontouI