Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-12-09
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educated and able to furnish good re-
ferences as to ability and character.
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO. .
1t is probable that the state will
build narrow gauge railroad from
Mount Alto to the White Pine sanitar-
ium.
While she had crawled part way I'M
der a coal wagon TO pick up fuel to
use in warming her six children, the
driver started the team and crushed
the life out of Mrs. Lizzie Poshak,
aged A, of South Bethlehem.
If their baby had not cried, William
Hesell, his wife and their two other
children would have been burned to
death when their house near Ford City
was destroyed with all their belong
ings.
Judge Wiltbank, of Philadelphia, i'll
passing two years sentence on
Charles Wilson, a negro, for killing
Claude Williams, also colored, praised
the lawyers for not trying to free
Wilson by bringing in the "unwritten
law" Williams is said to have been
unduly familiar with Mrs. Wilson.
One years extension of time has
been granted to the Monca and Am
franchise for rights through Monaco
and Moon expired on December !. The
railway officials have assured the bor-
ough and township officials that work
will commence in the near future.
4 potato weighing twenty-five ounc-
es and of freakish formation, was
raised the past season by Martin Hass-
Ter, of Perry township, Berks county.
John Hay, of Girard township, Erie
county, lis dead, the result of being
shot by chicken thief. Tuesday
night he heard a suspicious sound in
his chicken coop and arming himself
went out to investigate, his wife gong
with him. When he reached the corn
er of the chicken house thief shot
him and he died at noon Wednesday.
At York Wednesday, Eli Spang Ter, a
contractor, took the place of the reg
ular driver of the Good Will Are en-
gine in responding to an alarm of
fire. The horses got beyond control,
and when the steamer rounded corn
er he was thrown from his seat to the
street and his head was crushed He
was SO years Of age. The fire was
trifling and was extinguished before
any apparatus arrived.
Two hundred and fifty foreign lab
orers at the Colonial steel works at
Colona, after striking for an increase
of fifteen cents day, beat up two of
their bosses. Assembling near the
works they threatened those who re-
mained at work and the officials.
Sheriff Hartzell and twenty deputies
went to the scene of action.
William Il. Adams, of Charleroi,
was shot, probably fatally, it is al
legged, by Thomas l.. Kinney. No rea-
son is given for the shooting. Adams,
who is superintendent of the Charleroi
plant of the Macbeth Evans Glass com
pany, WAS shot on his way to work
and walked to the factory and then
home, after the accident.
It is alleged that there is a shortage
Of 81 100 in the accounts of Mrs. Tru-
man Campbell, postmistress of Cam
NAL, Lycoming county. The Office is
now in charge of +. F. Bonnell, one
of her bondsmen. The woman has dis.
appeared and it is thought that she
has gone to the mountains to escape
arrest. Her husband has advanced
500, all the money he had, to cover
part of the shortage
Joe the Leopard Boy" famous
years ago as one of the freaks of p T.
Barnum, was killed by falling through
trap door recently at Pittsburg His
real name was A. E. Bishell and he
was brought from Africa Peculiar
spots, which faded as he grew older,
gave him his name.
John Warren and Thomas Filbren,
who reoently pleaded guilty to the
charge of breaking into the New York
Central station, entering the railroad
tool house and breaking into the Jor-
soy Shore post Office, were sentenced
each to "a maximum of twenty wears,
and "a minimum of five years impris
onment i'll the eastern penitentiary,
as well as II fine of 5000 Joseph Man
ton was given a maximum of ten years
and minimum of two We ars and six
months and "a fine Of 500 for the same
crime. He would not admit his guilt
Those who frequent the rooms of
Pittsburg harbor No 25, Masters and
Pilots, were thrown almost into nan.
ic when one of them happened to sec
under the stove "A thing which WAS
thought to be bomb and they rushed
from the room expecting the thing tc
explode. Then somebody wanted tc
put the fire out and some excited per.
son threw the contents of the water
cooler on the stove, the resulting
steam causing such cloud to arise
that another general exit was in or