Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-08-13
ITEMS CONDENSED.

The valuation of real estate i'll
Northampton county this year subject
to taxation is S62, ,3l3,l72.
The borough council of West Ber-
wick is in deadlock over the election
OF chief Of police to succeed Charles
Weikel, deposed.
A fine vein of kaolin has been dis
covered on the farm of Lewis Lafferty
in New Garden township, Chester
county.
Mrs. Lewis r. Granger, of Cain,
Chester county, recently opened jar
of peaches that she had canned forty
wears ago, and found the fruit still IN
splendid condition.
Josiah H. Essig, of knauertown'
Chester county, has been the town
ship constable for twenty-five years
and lives in the house in which he was
born.
The wool clip of Greene county this
year is the largest ever turned out.
Thirty cents was the market price and
conservative estimates place the total
value at $3.50, 600.
New Castle has made arrangements
with Mercy hospital, Pittsburg, for
giving the Pasteur treatment TO per
sons bitten by mad dogs, and 500 for
each patient.
A woman became hysterical in the
Grand Opera house, Reading, on Fri
day night when some one cried Fire y
This caused panic and there was a
mad rush for the doors. Fortunately no
one was seriously injured.
After travelling for month and COW
eripg nearly fifty miles, the greater
portion of the flock of turkeys which
left the barnyard of David Narrigan,
of Mount Hope, Washington county,
was recovered in Beaver county, on
Saturday.
Salvatore Di Ssndola, banker, 90
years of age, of Hazleton, who had the
custody Of about $50, 600 Of the savings
of foreigners, has disappeared leaving
little if anything for his creditors, his
property being mortgaged to almost
its full value,
Ray Smith, a machinist, OF Coium-
bia, Lancaster county, while going
home on a trolley car on Saturday
night fell asleep while standing at the
open doorway of the. baggage depart
ment Of the car, and fell out sustain
ing serious injuries.
During a severe electric storm in
Delaware county few days ago, a
horse on the farm of Edward S. Lovett
near Yardley. was rendered deaf.
Veterinary surgeons say his hearing
may return.
The steeple of the United Evange-
lical church at Loganville. York coun-
ty, has been struck by lightning a
number Of times. entailing cost for
repairs needed. To avert further dam
age, il possible, it has been decided to
lower the steeple.
The residence of Samuel Andrews
in Bloomsburg has been built like
Solomans Temple was, in silence.
Andrews is a deaf mute and all the
work done on the home was done by
mute friends of his from different
parts Of the State.
NorL 1ouptv hos tpautvnina raups
Patriotic Order Sons of America with
1000 members, and at a county conven.
tion held in York Saturday there was
a parade with !, 500 men and twelve
bands of music in line. The number
of districts will be increased from
three TO five.
About twenty residents of Washing
ton were summering in a camp a.
Vanceville. Washington county, which
they named Dew Drop In. " Friday
night some marauders did drop in ant
stole nearly everything of value, in
Guiding clothing and.victuals, so tina
Saturday morning they had scarcel,
enough clothing to reach around ant
only few loaves Of bread were oil
hand for breakfast.
While William Symons was painting
girders at an annex to the York Havel
power plant on the Susquehanna, OF
Saturday, the platform he was stand
ing on gave way. After dropping TWEEN
ty feet he caught on to windo,
ledge with his finger tips, and was res
cued by other workmen, thus savin
him from falling thirty feet furthe
upon the rocky bed where the waite
was very shallow, and death woul
have been certain.
On Sunday morning Mrs McClosky
of York, found her son David, aged
years, lying in the back yard at ht
home dead There were indication
that he had been drugged and robbed
An investigation is in progress.