Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-17
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william Schubert, near Hereford,
Berks county, has four acres OF his
farm planted in cabbage and expects
to have 40, 900 heads for sale.
Diphtheria has broken out among
the children OF the Lutheran Orphans
home at Topton, Berks county, and
the institution is under quarantine.
Oliver E. Erb, rural mail carrier
in Lancaster county, has sued the sup
ervisors of Martic township, for $500
damages, claiming that he lost two
horses because of the bad condition OF
the roads.
Building Inspector W. D. Colvin, of
Scranton, has been removed from office
on the charge Of having neglected to
report the dangerous condition of a
fire escape that dropped weight on
ohild's head, causing its death, recent
ly.
Water is SO scarce about Pottsville
that in their desperation number of
people have been securing their water
supply from a spring in the Barber
cemetery, which the sexton alleges
passes beneath TIE graves. The water
is to be tested.
Cornelius O'ConneIl, of Ysrdley,
Delaware county, who resides across
the canal from the johnson trolley
power house, claims that the vibra-
tions caused by the exhaust have NOV
ed his cookstove four inches from it's
H,roper resting place, and has petition
ed the court to have the nuisance re-
moved.
Twenty sunfsh caught in twenty
minutes with hook and line in Perk-
iomen creek, is the boasted record OF
Augustus Kemmerer, of Pennsburg.
Montgomery county.
The Rev. David johnson, of Mason
town, Fayette county, is 90 years OF
age and has preached at the Mennonite
church near Masontown for sixty years.
W. f. Berry, former tax collector
of Sunbury, now conducting restau-
rant in Shamokin, was arrested on
Saturday on charge OF embezzlement
brought by several Of his bondsmen.
He is accused of having appropriated
SO, sos. 67 to his own use of the taxes
co llected.
Mrs. John T. Windim, wife of q
prominent Philadelphia architect who
resides at Devon. is the happy possess
or of one Of the smallest dogs in ex-
istence, mile. Atom" bought near
Brussels, in Europe. 1t weighs less
than TWO pounds and the price paid
was 81, 900, or about $40 per ounce.
Grace Reformed church just com.
pleted in Mahanoy City, at cost OF
8 20, 600, was dedicated on Sunday with
special services.
Tamaqua citizens are happy over {
rumor that the Lehigh Coal & Naviga
tion company will build one hundred
houses there in the near future.
Forest fires have been raging TO
several days on the Blue mountain
near Shenandoah and several Thousand
acres of valuable timber land have
been burned.
James McCaffrey, of Uniontown. ha
been arrested on charge of having
burned all his wife's clothing so sht
could not appear as witness before ;
grand jury against MIN.
At a meeting of the church council
of St James Lutheran church il
Reading, on Saturday, Rev. DR.. NJ
@. Horine, pastor for twenty-seve
years, rendered his resignation and
was accepted.
Zion Lutheran congregation, at Iior
Vile, Lehigh county, celebrated il
one hundred and f:ieth anniversar
with special services all day on Sur
day Rev. D. @. Kaufman, of Eman:
is the pastor
Peter Wright, of Erie, aged II years
was killed on Sunday as the result {
the accidental discharge of doubl
barreled shot gun, while he was dras
ging the gun from boat on the sout
shore of Pressure Isle.
The family of the Rev. James n
Cain, Methodist Episcopal minist'
in Waynesburg, Green county, is sor
ly stricken with typhoid fever. A /
yearold daughter, Bessie, died fro
the fever on Sunday morning and NJ
Gain and three other children al
critically i'll.
David Wharton, of Philadelphia
made an attempt to steal ride on
Reading railroad train at Sixth sire
and Allegheny avenue on Sunday eve
ing but missed the step when tryiI
to get on car and slipped under Il
wheels. Before the body was discove
ed twenty-five cars had passed over
grinding it into a shapless mass.