Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-23
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WANTED-Local agent to advertise
and introduce the new educational
work. WEBSTER DICTIONARY
and ATLAS of the WORLD. Must be
educated and able to furnish good re-
ferences as to ability and character.
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO.
Millersburg and Reading are now
connected by an auto line which was
put in service on Saturday.
Clifford Crawford swallowed false
tooth when he became suddenly SICK
and struck his head against piece OF
furniture. The tooth was removed at
the Harrisburg hospital.
Coopersburg is in the grip of ty-
phoid fever epidemic caused, it is be-
lieved, by a number of residents drink
ing water from well in woods near
the town during picnic.
Richard Barrons and Charles Stadt-
man were found guilty at Reading of
involuntary manslaughter in the kill
ing of Charles Francke whom they
beat mp The maximum sentence is
two years.
Going up the Allegheny river to hold
corn roast eleven couples from Yer
ona. Oallmont and Williamsburg We're
lost in the fog. They could not see to
guide their boat and We're forced to
stay ON the river all night until the
veil lifted.
Ten cattle were burned to death on
a siding on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Washington when a small boy,
whose identity cannot be established,
set fire to the straw i'll the car in
which there were twenty seven amin
ais. Other beasts will have TO be shot
Frank Folmer was found dead with
a bullet hole in his head in cemetery
at Lebanon. The condition of his
clothes indicated that he had first tried
TO end his life in the water but had
proba5ly found that way too cold to
be comfortable. He had been melan-
choly.
Henry Miller was hurt and valu-
able team of horses killed when they
were struck by a train near Aspln-
wall. The animals belonged to Robert
Hall. a noted keeper of fine horses.
Mr. Hall has had particularly bad
luck with his animals. having had a
number meet with violent deaths.
Miss Phoebe Johns lost her life by
falling from the second story of the
Lloyd house at Philipsburg. The girl
felt sick and went out to a balcony ON
the second floor and leaned on the rail
ing. The banister gave away and she
was participated to the ground Her
neck was broken.
Five hundred gallons of chemicals
were required to extinguish tar t1re
at the Bartlett Manufacturing COM
pany's plant in Johnstown. The fire
was caused by a lot of tar flowing
from a leak in one of the 5000 gallon
tanks and into the ash pits of nest
of boilers.
When his auto was struck by troll
lev car, Frederick Liebfried, u Bristol
merchant, leaped and was badly cut
about the head while his companions
escaped uninjured.
Stella Jones, of GlenwOod, is a pris-
oner in Pittsburg charged with the
embezzlement of 81 900 from the Ohio
and Pittsburg Milk company, by which
she was employed as bookkeeper and
cashier. Her family is above reproach.
While attempting TO board an east
bound freight train at Wernersville.
Reuben Stober, Stephen Schwartz and
Roy Long all had narrow escapes from
death. Long was the only who was
not injured. He was thrown between
the two trains and had presence of
mind enough to lie still until the
trains had passed.
Following the release under $4,000,
bail of Mrs Margaret Byers who had
been arrested on the charge of burning
twelve barns in Bucks county comes
the news of more fires Three other
places have been the marks of an un-
known incendiary. Two of the build
ings We're burned and in the hay NOW
of the other was found lighted candle
standing ON piece of oil saturated
cardboard and at the bottom of the
candle We're number of matches. In
about three hours the machine would
have gone off and the barn would have
been doomed
Miss Sarah Orelish, 'of Braddock,
tried to step from car while it was
in motion and was thrown to the
ground with such force that her in
uries may cause her death.
With a mortgage of 81, 800 coo is the
way the new trolley road from Waynes
burg to Monongahela will start out.