Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-06-04
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county, became i'll on Saturday while
painting ceilings in her home and
died in two hours from poisoning, sup
posed TO have resulted from the paint.
Three men were injured, two of
them quite seriously, on Saturday
evening near the Oakland police sta.
tion, Pittsburg, by trolley car which
struck the buggy in which they were
riding. The vehicle as badly wrecked.
A unique floral me emorial tribute in
Uniondale cemetery, Pittsburg, on Sat
urday, was life size figure of horse
formed of 1000 white carnations, in
honor of "Pittsburg Phil"-George
E. Smith-the race track plunger 1t
was tribute from his brother, resid-
ing in New York.
Large numbers of the bronze mark
ers that had been placed on soldiers
graves in cemeteries about Pittsburg
have been stolen, either by junk deal
ers or persons who sold them to such
dealers.
A mile of state road has just been
completed in South Whitehall, LehiPh
county, at a cost of $40, 1860.
Nike Sardie, of Coatesville, drank a
half pint of whiskey without taking
the bottle from his lips, last Friday
night. and died within half an hour.
Some Of the farmers about Birdsboro
are asking for the State constabulary
to come to that section TO prevent the
dogs from damaging their fields OF
standing grain.
Warden Sutherland of the Luzerne
county Jail, prevented a carefully
planned jail delivery early on Satur
day morning, a prisoner who would
not join the plot having informed the
warden of it.
The report of the-health bureau Of
Philadelphia for May shows the small
est number of typhoid fever cases for
any May in the last twelve years. The
number was twenty eight
a special service was held on Me-
mortal Day at Boyertown, in memory
OF the victims of the opera house fire
last winter.
Joseph Horila, aged 10 years, was
drowned on Saturday. while bathing
in mine breach near St Nicholas
colliery. at Mahanoy City.
The ushers association of the Croz-
er Memorial Baptist church, at Col
wyn, Delaware county, introduced
young women as ushers last Sunday
evening and so we'll did they perform
their duties that the custom may be-
come permanent.
On Saturday William and Charles
Davis of West Schuylkill county, sue
ceeded in stretching rope from which
foated large American flag from the
tops of two mountains. nearly 1000
feet above the narrow valley below
James p Brown, a veteran of the
Civil war, aged 10 years former chief
burgess of Stroudsburg and for many
years prominent in Republican poll
tics, who was stricken with heart fail
ure while attending a memorial ser.
vice died on Sunday.
William Haney, of East Carnegie, a
suburb Of Pittsburgh, aged s years,
while bathing in a swimming hole in
CHARTERS creek, on Sunday, was seiz-
ed with cramps and drowned.
\ little daughter of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John B. Evans, of Potts
town, on Sunday fell from q second
story window to the ground, a dist
ance of twenty feet, and escaped un-
injured.
To be penniless on Monday and TO
refuse S45, 900 for an oil gusher and
leases on thirty acres of land Saturday
night was the experience of Harry n
Hoffman, of Penn township, Butler
county, last week. The we'll he struck
hes flow that will make him rich in
short time.
In fight on Saturday, John Jamat.
ia, aged 20 years, a miner in the Pow.
ers mine, near Wilslow station, jeff.
erson county, had pick driven
through his chest, the point coming
out at his back, yet he is expected tc
recover.
While Mrs. Thomas A. Jones. Of
Bangor, Northampton county. wai
placing flowers on the graves of he,
children on Saturday she was stricken
with paralysis.
While engaged in stone throwing
battle on the outskirts of Mount Oar
mel on Monday, Frank Benning wa
struck on the head by stone throw,
by John Dornick and died half a,
hour later.