Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-02
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work. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY and
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PANY, AKRON, OHIO.
1t takes 2S6l% tons of silver dollars
to run the municipality of Pittsburg
for one year.
At a sale of the effects of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Levenright, near Marietta,
bed spread made i'll 1913 sold for 5000.
Fifty thousand Disciples of Christ
are expected to attend the convention
of that sect at Pittsburg during the
second week i'll October.
Mr. Lewis Foulk, of Littlestown,
was married three times and has TWEEN
tv-seven brothers law and is uncle
to l35 nieces and nephews.
The 9-year-old daughter of John
Amspacher, residing near Marietta,
was bitten by copperhead snake and
her arms and legs are swollen to twice
their natural size.
A 1-month-old white baby was aban-
doned on the doorstep of Aaron Rol-
Inns, colored, of Darby. He turned it
over to colored woman, who turned
it over to an orphan asylum at Phila
delphia.
A movement will be started in Oar
by creek dredged to make it navigable
as far as Chester pike. This creek was
navigable for three -masted ships years
ago and it is hoped to interest congress
in the movement to improve it,
Mrs W. 4. Stone, wife of a promi-
nent citizen at Uniontown, who mys-
teriously disappeared from her home
on December 2 and eluded all attempts
of detectives to locate her, has return
ed to her husbands home. They will
not tell where the woman was.
Mrs Ella Bryan, of Philadelphia,
fell downstairs and her head went
through a window at the bottom. Her
throat was cut and she died as the re-
suit. Mrs Margaret Hague, of the
same place, died from injuries receiv-
ed by falling down stairs, while Yep
ella Tilley fell from third story
window and died
Samuel Kerr, the young Pittsburg
boy who invented a wireless telegraph
with which he hopes to surpass Mar
conf, was honored by visit by Jack
Binns, the wireless telegraph operator
whose heroism on the fated ship, the
Republic, stirred up the land. The
two will conduct experiments with
the machinery tho boy has built
The stockholders of the Lustre Min
ing company, largely composed of
Pittsburgers, held another meeting in
which they continued to make efforts
to raise the $3.50, 900 needed to pay off
the debts and keep the valuable prop
erty of the company out of the hands
of Mexican creditors, in whose land
are lIlt IlAlNlluSS L lIt lpltltlOli VI u
bond of 81, 900, 600 to clear away all
the debts of the concern and raise u
working capital was also discussed.
James McCafferty, who was arrested
at Chester for shooting William Gill,
declares the killing was an accident.
He saws that Gill and he were the best
q ~, L., i,,gN ,l,n
ing his gun to Gill when the weapon
went off. The only witness to the
shooting, William Twoomey, has been
placed under arrest
Mrs. Katherine Soffel, the woman
who freed the Biddle boys from the
Allegheny county jail several years
ago and served Il term III prison for
her part in the notorious escapade, is
dead at Pittsburg. Her husband di-
vorced her and she has been living
under her maiden name, Dietrich,
since. She acted i'll the drama depict
ing the crime for "a while but was not
very successful in this. She had been
living at Pittsburg until her death in
the West Penn hospital making dress
es for a subsistence.
". 4 Stone. the prominent citizen
of Uniontown whose wife disappeared
and in tracing whom about $40, GOO
were spent and who returned home the
other day the family refusing to tell
of her whereabouts, has made public
statement. He says his wife did not
know what she was doing at the time
she left home and remained in seclus-
ion until she was found. Her travel
ing companion Martin, is said to be
in St Louis at the present time. His
wife says that she will not become re-
conciled with her husband and says
that she will work over the washtuh
the rest of her life before she will re-
turn to him.