Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-08-19

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PANY, AKRON, OHIO.
A car of lumber collapsed at Layelle
and fell on Oscar Yoder, killing him.
Some Of the hotel men at Mercers-
brug have been prosecuted for selling
three bottles of beer at time to one
customer.
The prisoners n the work house at
Olaremont, AIIehgeny county. are
kept busily engaged in building the
walls OF an addition to the edifce.
The forest fires in the vicinity o.
Willismsport are now all under con-
troll. but are not yet out, and require
the efforts of 800 men TO fight them.
Samuel Darkus, cigar manufaot-
urer Of Msckville, Berks county, kill
ed himself by shooting at Freeland.
UnIequited love is alleged to be the
Csuse.
There are more alleged ballot frauds
in the Schuylkill county primary elec.
tions reported. The Patriotic Order
Sons OF America in a recent nesting
decided Join the fight to purify the
ballots
A lamp exploded st the home of
Ralph Detwiler at Vandergritt Height
and a. the result the houss is badly
damaged, one child is dead and anoth-
er is dying,w lille the mother sustain
ed severe burns.
A meeting will be held in Pittsburg
on Monday 90 consider the advisable
ty of building a tunnel or bridge to
cross under or over the Monongshela
river TO connect the city proper with
South Hills.
A dog owned by Stephen l. Ham
mond, who is dead in Chester and
who adopted the animal few years
ago, when it had broken leg, made
frantic efforts to Jump alongside the
master when he was dying. Now 1t
hovers near the death chamber, refus.
ing food
Thieves who entered the hardware
store OF Price & Strict at Rochester,
stole half dozen revolvers and some
ammunition and then set fire to the
building. causings3, 900 damage.
Seven persons are mysteriously miss
ing from home in the vicinity Of
Wilkes Barre and resist all efforts Of
the police or their relatives to locate
them.
Howard Curl, OF Darby, has a sun
flower measuring twelve feet in his
garden. 1t is the biggest plant OF that
species ever grown in that section and
naturally is attracting much stten-
tiol.
Three thousand strikers of the Press
ed Steel Gar works attended the fun
eral Of Steve Horvath a striker, who
was killed in an attack on Major
Smith, a ooloTed man, at McKee's
Rocks, on Thursday.
Fifteen election officers and the
Democratic members of the board OF
county commissioners are under arrest
as the result OF the wholesale investi-
cations being made in the alleged
Schuylkill county election frauds.
Bucks county farmers in the vicin-
ity of Warrington and ChsIfont are
beginning to wonder whose barn will
go next as the result Of the depreda
tions of a FIRE bug who has been ex-
ueedingly active in thst region Ia;elv.
An auto skidded at the entrance 70
Fsirmount park, in Philadelphia, and
overturned As a result the ohatTeur,
James Dugan. was caught under the
machine and had his lie ~.ushed ogt,
while three other occU pants were IN
jured
Mrs. Marie soherer, szed IS yaars,
was found dead in the Allegheny riv.
or near Pittsburg She is thought to
have committed suicide while de-
spondent over quarre! with her SON
in-law over the burning of some pap
ers
A thousand delegates are expected TO
gather in Pittsburg at the convention
of the United Boys Brigade OF Am
erica to he held October /, 2 and 3.
Preparations are being made for the
biggest meeting in the history Of the
organization.
Determined to stop the number Toi
mine disasters there has been rescue
station established at the South Wilkes
Barre colliery at Wilkes Barre. One
feature is the installing of six helmet!
into which oxygen can be pumped and
with which miner can enter ga'
filled mine with impunity