Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-24
CONDENSED NEWS.
Election day approaches.

Election day approaches.
Once more we have visions of an ice
crop.
The slippery sidewalk is a great
peril.
The cold weather is welcome to the
majority.
No progressive community ever goes
backward.
Folly and repentance are never very
far apart.
The man with the ideas is always
in demand.
Good Roads is all interesting sub
ject just now.
Free and ank discussion promotes
right results.
The primaries are radically import
ant events.
The ruler of nations is often the un
happiest of men.
Poverty has saved many a man from
becoming 1901.
A song in the heart is better than
piano in the parlor.
A boy who isn't worth more than
his wages isn't worth much.
The primaries should be attended by
every citizen who can vote.
Albert Greenplate, of York, has been
arrested on charge of attempting to
kill his wife and assaulting his 49,
year-old daughter. Greenplate claims
that his wife and others had bewitch-
ed him and that he was trying to kill
che witches.
Sara Clemens, of Shamokin. had an
arm terribly burned and is under treat
ment. at the Miners hospital. Skin
grating is necessary and her father is
submitting to a removal of square
foot of his skin by small pieces to heal
his daughters terrible wound.
James Burdy, SO years of age, of
Montgomery county, has been arrested |
burglaries he is accused of having
committed in that county. He is the
oldest man ever arrested in that coun- |
ty for burglary.
Ex-Governor Frank Wayland Hig- |
gins, of New York. is lying in critic
al and semi conscious condition at his
home in Olean, and he is expected to |
die within few hours His heart and !
kidneys are seriously affected.
A telegram from Calumet, Mich, |
says the United States Steel corpora
tion is preparing to spend $4,000. 900 |
in draining Trout lake, and reducing |
body Of water four miles long and a
mile wide to mud hole.
The order directing that all the |
negro soldiers in the country be sent |
to the PHILIPPINES has been modified in
such way that two troops of negro |
cavalry will remain here after the !
three colored regiments have gone
across the Pacific.
The volcano of Mauna Loa, on the |
island of Hawaii, continues in state |
of violent eruption. The light from
the flames ascending from the crater |
is 80 intense that it is possible to read |
fine print by it distance of thirteen |
miles.
The announcement comes from Wash |
ington that President Roosevelt has |
taken the bit between his teeth and |
intends to carry out his Brownsville !
policy without regard to consequences. |
political or otherwise.
The Governor of Rhode Island is re-
ported to have lame arm, brought on |
by too much hand shaking on his in
augural day. Presumably he has re-
covered from the lame leg with which |
the candidate generally comes out of
the campaign.
An English physician has discover
ed that high collars produce head
aches. The kind produced by the COM
bination of high collars and high balls |
must be particularly fierce.
One hundred thousand barrels of |
pretzels were shipped by one baker of |
Reading within the past four years.
Two sons of James O'Neal, of Mid |
way, Washington county, aged respee-
lively Is and ~ years, took lantern !
to explore all abandoned mine on Sat |
urday An explosion was the result,
aud both sustained injuries that may
prove fatal.
Masked robbers are rather numerous
in various sectious of the country.
many reports appearing in the papers
of the robbery of men and women in
country byways or city streets.
Senator Alice, of Delaware, defeat
ed for reelection. has begun to get
even with his foes by filling all the
federal offices in Delaware by his
friends, thus expecting to pre-empt |
them for four years, at all events.
Governor Hughes, who is the sort of
Sunday school governor that counts,
has promised the people of Brooklyn
that he will take part in the next an
niversary day parade of Brooklyn's
Sunday school army.
B. F. Dorsheimer, of Coatesvi lie |
who recently sold his hotel to N. B.
Keely, Of East Greenville, for $l55
600, has presented $500 to each of his
four bartenders Mr. Dorsheimer paid
about $50. .o>A for the hotel about eight
years ago.