Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1907-02-22
Brief News Items.
Compiled for TASTY Read
ers of the lntelligencer,
the Acknowledged Off
cial Organ of riontour
County.

County.
The religious bigot is usually de-
stituto of real religion.
No progress is made by that cause
which depends for success upon cal,
umuy and defamation.
Catching his hand in II circular saw,
John G. Browne, member of the Potts
town board of trade, lost two fingers
Fellow workmen saved William
Bodiue from drowning in Catawissn
creek, at Bloomsbury, when he fell in
while cutting ice.
The average coaster and skater learns
no wisdom by the unhappy expert
ences of his comrades.
William Jennings Bryan has been
talking to the editors of Minnesota,
saying among other things that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has done and is still
doing many things which he approves.
Charles E. Hughes, Governor of New
York; Edward @. Stokes, governor of
New Jersey and James II. Higgins,
governor of Rhode Island, are gradu-
.tvs of Brown university.
President Roosevelt is having made
full-length portrait of himself which
is to be put in the Peace Palace at
The Hague. The gift will be from q
group of friends in Europe who are
pledged to the peace movement.
In three successive oysters that Hugh
Garren opened in Bethlehem restau-
rant he found three good sized pearls
which gem broker valued at $500.
J. B. Martin, of Tacoma, owns a
mine in Alaska, the profits of which
he has sworn to devote to the cause Of
total abstinence even though these
profits should reach $500, 600 year.
Official announcement has been made
that the Erie Coal company, which
operates fifteen collieries in Pittston
and vicinity. is about to establish re-
lief fund for the benefit of its en-
ployes.
A "poke" bonnet is not essential in
good Quakerlsm. Such is the consensus
of opinion of those in attendance at
the Plymouth Friends association in
Plymouth meeting, says a Norristown
dispatch.
In the criminal court at Scranton on
Saturday Saverio Curico was for the
second time found guilty of murder in
the first degree for the killing of
Nicholas Ferrias, in North Scranton,
on December "a, 1906.
William Blackman, resident of
Chester aged 30 years, while suffering
with religious mania. slaughtered a
pet dog owned by members of his fam
lily.
Harvard university is quietly antc-
ipating an interesting day on next
Saturday, for then, for the first time
since class day two years ago. Presi.
dent Roosevelt is to visit the univer-
sity.
Ralph Rudy, ~ years of age, wa!
drowned in the Susquehanna river al
New Cumberland on Saturday while
skating. He skated into hole WHERE
the ice had been removed by ice cut
ters.
Under a new ruling, telephone girl'
in France must respond: "l listen.
In this country that is just what WI
are kicking about.
New Workers are enthusiastically in
dorsing a movement to stop the ring
ing of church bells on Sunday morn
ing. Most of them are just going t.
bed at that hour
The Iowa man who committed sui
eide because he had too much money
and it worried him, turns out to hav,
been bachelor. The explanation, Will,
tardy, is satisfactory.
The Italian public schools are to cele
brate Washington S Birthday this year
This may be considered the first stel
in the making of future American
citizens of Italian descent.
And now the women are after Senat
or Knox's scalp because of his defens
of Reed Smoot, and when the womei
get after man he might as well TAKE
to the tall timber.
Boys will be boys and it would be {
good thing if some of them would no
try to be men before they have cut
their eye teeth.
Berwick is still afflicted with
large amount of disease. Besides nine
teen cases of typhoid fever, a large
number OF diphtheria, chicken pox ant
other cases are heinp rennrted