Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-10
CONDENSED NEWS.
Don't flirt with typhoid.
Houses are in demand.

Don't fiirt with typhoid.
Houses are in demand.
Character. like water, will find its
level.
Lackawanna county's record OF
crime for 1906 shows eleven murders
and fifteen suicides.
What do you think of 1907 by this
time?
Some people are predicting financial
upheavals for 1907.
Penusylvanians will watch the next
legislature with unusual interest.
The disinclination of good man to
serve the public is always the bad
mans opportunity.
Did you go to church on the first
Sunday Of the new year?
1t is very unfortunate to be poor,
friendless and without pull.
There are some lessons that some
persons find extremely hard to learn.
Justice is not on speaking terms with
some of the law that is administered
in her name.
Philanthropy of a certain sort con-
Germs itself chiefly with feathering Its
wn nest.
There has been twelve cases of ap-
pendicitis in Coatesville, Chester
county, within two weeks, and in con-
sequence an anti-appendicitis club has
been formed, of over 100 prominent
men of the town. Each member is
pledged to live according to prescrib-
ed set of by laws and rules, which set
forth what to do to keep away the
dread disease.
Engineer Samuel Kaufman, of
Selnsgrove, who served the Sunbury
and Lewistown Railway company as
passenger engineer for twenty five
years, was found dead at his post On
Saturday morning with his hand on
the throttle of the engine.
Forty-six we'll known residents of
Philadelphia have been entered for
the nomination of mayor of the city
by the various parties and independent
organizations existing there.
Harry L. Graham, leading mem
Der of the Butler county bar. shot him
self near the heart with revolver at
his home in Butler ON Saturday even
ing and is not expected to live. He is
S4 years old, prominent in fraternal
societies, clerk of the board of educa-
tlon and vestryman in the Episcopal
church.
Has the weather man entered into
conspiracy against the ice man.
The college boys are all back at
work. at least they are supposed to be
working.
Charles Lewis. the oldest resident
OF Norristown, celebrated his Goth
birthday anniversary on Sunday. He
has always lived in the Third ward
and was never out of the town over
night in his life. Mr.. Lewis is one of
the directors of the Penn Trust COM
pany.
While Amelia Tardella, pretty
Italian girl of 81, was at her home in
New Castle on Sunday evening a man
said to be rejected lover, entered the
house and shot at her. The girl faint
ed and the shock was so great that SER
ious consequences are feared.
Be of good cheer, the sun will shine
again-sometime.
Joseph Smith, aged II years, of
Homestead, found an internal machine
in an alley on Monday, and while ex-
amining it in the presence Of a young
er brother and two other bows, the
thing exploded and all four were sew
erely burned and had their hands lac
Grated.
The best advise in the world is
sometimes the most distasteful.
The crooked tongue tells many a
singular story.
The sun tried to shine Yesterday, but
it was little out of practice.
The outside labors and breakers, to
the number of lE0, employed at the
Coal Brook colliery, Lackawanna coun-
ty, have struck because they were re-
fused an increase of wages ranging
from IL to Is cents per day. There are
1,5O0 men thrown out of employment
in consequence.
Levi Bubb, youthful horse thief of
York county, who was charged with
having stolen about dozen horses
within year, was called for trial on
Monday when he pleaded guilty to
the theft of three horses and was sent
enced to fifteen years in the peniten-
ary.
The law and order society of Ma
banoy City has been fighting the il
licit liquor traffic carried on, and on
Sunday all the saloons were closed,
giving the town dry Sunday. which
it has not had for many years.
Eliza Armstrong, the oldest re sident
of Adams county, is dead at the age of
106.
Prospects for an ice crop are still
4gue.
Shamokin firemen threaten not to
attend fires in the business district be-
cause a number of merchants refused
to purchase advance tickets for fire.