Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-11-12
ITEMS CONDENSED.

Middletown. Dauphin county, has
landed a shoe factory. For this pur-
pose the citizens subscribed over $780,,
600.
Reading is now endeayoring to form
an association with so members,
whose object will be to promote the
material interests Of the city.
AT Lancaster, John, the 5-year-old
son of Daniel Eshbach, ticket agent
for the Reading Railway company,
was burned TO death while playing
with matches.
The mayor of Wilkes Barre and
thirty-two councilmen have entered
bail for court trial on the charge of
maintaining a nuisance. The alleged
nuisance consists in not keeping the
streets of that city in repair.
= After long litigation in the Schuyl-
kill county courts a valuable estate
has been so eaten up with expenses
that now, when settlement has been
reached, there is little for distribution.
1t is the T. r. Haupt estate at Fraok-
willie. The receipts and expenditures
filed with the register foot up over
$50, OOO leaving bat 81, 900 to distri.
butte.
Should the threatened war in the
Balkans become reality, seventy
Montenegrins, residing above Halle
ton, will respond to their country's
call
George Drummond, of Chester. a
freight conductor on the Pennsylvania
railroad, on Saturday fell between the
engine and tank of his train but es-
capped with slight injuries.
Among the largest features OF new
business announced in Pittsburg on
Saturday, was 81, 600. 600 pipe line
contract awarded to the L. A. Giles
pie company, of that city by the wat
er commissioners and controller of
Greater New York.
A trolley car loaded with passeng
ers from football game at College
vile, Montgomery county, on Satur-
day afternoon jumped the track while
crossing the bridge across PeIkiomen
creek, knocked out ten feet OF the
stone wall at the side and was only
checked from falling forty feet into
the creek by three telephone poles
against which it ran.
A few days ago, large unocoupied
frame mansion on the farm OF Richard
Meredith, in West Whiteland, Chester
county, was totally destroyed by fire.
Jacob Biddle, Jr., an inoorrigible boy
of the neighborhood was arrested on
suspicion of having set it on fire and
confessed that he dropped a match on
some loose paper in the house just to
see it burn.
After Mrs. John Kohler, of Fleet
wood, Berks county, had kindly given
three strangers a meal, they became so
threatening to her that she fed from
the house across field where her hus-
band and his farm hands were work.
ing. They hastened to the house and
captured the trio, who were sent to
prison, on Saturday.
The Berks county sImshouse has at
present 306 inmates
The park gardeners of Reading, un
der the supervision of Superintendent
William Hoch, have just finished
planting 30, 600 tulip bulbs, in the park
flower beds
Louis Greenburg, a 14-year old boy
of Reading, who delivered a Taft
speech at Kutztown, during the recent
campaign, is claimed to be the young
est stump speaker in the State.
Two heavy freight traius collided
at Erie early Sunday morning, caus-
ing the death OF Robert Burke a fire.
man, and the serious injury of j. M.
Wolfe an engineer and William Dun.
don fisgmau.
Henry Stanzhora aged 10 years, was
instantly killed at Scranton, on Satur-
day by Frank Mcmillan. a companion
while the two we're out hunting. Nc
MILAN ran seven miles to get assist
auce after the fata! shot was fired.
Services in memory Of Ira d. San
key, the noted singing evangelist, who
was born and reared in New Castle,
were held in the First Methodist Ep-
iscopal church in that city on Sunday.
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian association for which Mr..
Sankey erected home there eighteen
years ago at cost of s4O 600
Albert Smith, Of Pottsville, aged 6
years, fell down stairs several days
ago and bit off his tongue. The parts
were stitched together, but nausea fol-
lowed and the stitches pulled out. The
parts we've again stitched but blood
poisoning set in on Sunday, when the
tongue was removed entirely. Should
he recover he will be entirely speech
less.