Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-03
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East Prospect, York county, al load
was accidentally overturned upon JAG
OBJ Gilbert and his son Frank Both
were dug out alive, but considerably
bruised and almost suffocated.
The Lancaster, o xford and Southern
railroad, in southern Lancaster coun-
ty, twenty eight miles long, which has
been running successfully as steam
road for number of years is being
equipped for running by electricity
hereafter.
Chief Fish Warden Cresswell last
week entered suit against number of
prominent residents of Earl township,
Lancaster county, for violating the fish
laws. Among the number was Rev.
j. S. Kurtz, a Mennonite minister,
who on Saturday pleaded guilty to
having aided in erecting fish screens
in the Conestoga. He was fined $50
and costs and so also were five other
men.
A movement is on foot to connect
North Bethlehem, having population
of 5000, with Bethlehem, start to-
ward greater Bethlehem.
Twenty-fv five thousand boys and girls
in Philadelphia. between the ages Of
6 and IA years, proved to their inter-
ested and admiring parents that they
had mastered many difficult athletic
exercises when the ffty-three play
grounds maintained by the board of
education closed their gates on Satur-
day.
Isaac Messer died at the Lancaster
county hospital last Wednesday, aged
55 years. He had the unique distinc-
tion of not having any hair on his
head and not single hair on any
part of his body. Many years ago he
took an overdose of saltpetre which.
he said, caused all of his hair to fall
out and none ever appeared again.
DR.. McWhorter. of Philadelphia,
while Fastening to answer telephone
call early on Saturday morning, fell
over his bulldog. which guards the top
of the stairway, and fell headlong to
the bottom, the dog tumbling after
him, disposed to start a fight in the
mixup. Dr. McWhorter had an arm
fractured
While Earl Mearig, aged 10 years,
was walking narrow sidewalk in
front of the Reading paper mill in
Reading on Saturday, a wagon was
backed to the Office door Of the mill
with the tail board extending out,
which caught the lad head and crush
ed it to a pulp against the door sill.
There were 39S deaths in Philadel-
phia last week, a decrease OF 1O1 from
the preceding week, and forty five
less than for the corresponding week
last year. Six OF the deaths were from
diphtheria and five from typhoid few
er. There were IO2 cases of typhoid
fever in the city.
While working at powerful steam
hammer IN the Duquesne steel plant,
near Pittsburg, on Saturday, foreign
er slipped and fell his head going un.
der the hammer, which crushed it
flat, causing instant death.
The Portuguese chamber of deputies
has passed the budget which estimates
the deficit at e, 600, 600. Emigration
and arbitration treaties with the Un.
tied States have also been passed.
On Perrysville avenue, Allegheny,
live Samuel and Thomas Morrison,
twin brothers, 81 years Of age, believ-
ed TO be the oldest twins in the State.
They ara Civil war veterans have nev.
er been sick, have always lived in Al.
legheny except few years after the
war when they resided in Kentucky.
Their sister, Mrs Nancy Neeley, aged
IS years, keeps house for them and
5heir baby brother, David aged 50.
lives with them. Their father died at
the age Of lo7 years
Benjamin Lands, of near Middle.
ton, Dauphin county, has not spoken
TO any one for thirty years, because
the girl he loved Tilted him and mar
ried another man. Her husband was
killed in railroad accident sixteen
years ago and she lives near the Land
is home, but he never speaks to her
Flying gnats swarmed in Frankford,
Philadelphia, in such immense mum.
bers on Sunday evening that it was
almost impossible to endure being out
doors. a number of persons were OBJ
liged to have their eyes treated be-
cause of the numerous gnats that flew
into them.
William Hammer, of Tarentum, AL
legheny county, aged 8 years. on Sum
day fell into we'll forty feet deep
and was rescued uninjured by his
l.