Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-15
SEIULTZ. NJ.
ITEMS CONDENSED.

William BTennlng, OoatesVllIe
boiler maker fell from the top of
forty foot stack and received fatal in
iuries.
Despondent over illness, William
Heddinger, farmer living near New
Kensington, ended his life by cutting
an artery in his wrist.
The production of coke in the Con
nellsville region has shown large in
creases each week for some time past,
an indication that business is picking
up.
Andrew FenIon, of Conshohocken,
has been notified that he is one Of the
heirs to an estate left by brother of
his mother who resided in the west.
Wallace Briner, IA years old of Chest
er. was kidnapped by two men Wednes-
day afternoon and taken to Whining
ton. Del. where he succeeded in es-
Gaping from his. captors.
Cuts in prices in family washing,
amounting in some cases TO 20 per
cent. have been announced by some
Allegheny laundrymen and a fierce
rate cutting war is promised in the
steam laundry business.
The power plant of the Greek coal
mine near McConnell's Mills, Wash
ington county, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is sl3, 600 and 400 men are
T. ;g k,,t.
the nlace on fire.
Mrs Elsie A. carney, Of Jefferson
township, Allegheny county, was sued
John V. Auselm, hotel proprietor,
for Sl0 600 damages, for the death of
her husband who received fatal in
juries in Anselm s hotel.
The record run CT q Pennsylvania
railroad passenger train between Har-
risburg and Lancaster was made by
Buffalo express and it made the dist
ance between the two points-thirty
six miles-in thirty-four and half
minutes.
John Homsher, the oldest postmaster
in point of service in the United
States, is dead at his home in Bart
willie. Lancaster county. aged SO years
He was appointed by President Buch-
anan and he has served ever since.
George L. Snyder, of Oil City, com.
mitsed suicide by shooting, after hav-
ing swallowed csrbo!ic acid. Ill health
was the cause.
Over /, 700 coo Easter post cards were
received and delivered by the Phila.
delphia postoffice force Saturday.
Northumberland county is infested
with peddlers who sell cheap wares
The business men are trying to drive
them out.
Flour has advanced twenty five cents
barrel iu Pittsburg because of the
manipulation of the wheat market.
Despondens because of she death of
her husband, Mrs. William Houck,
aged 60. Of Anster. committed suicide
with razor.
Mrs. Mary Bschman, of Elizabeth
town, Lancaster county, is the owner
of au Easter egg, with which she WAS
presented s!zty-one years ago.
The finance committee of Lancaster
councils has directed the city solicitor
to collect al taxsliens on city proper
ties, even If they have to be sold.
The statstician of the anthracite
strike award has announced that the
wages OF the,'mine workers for the
month OK April will he per cent.
above the basis
Since there is no signed agreement.
miners in the hard coal region think
chat the operators, instead Of ordering
a lockout, will reduce wages, which
has already been done at several points.
The Schuylkill county commissions
ars nave completed the figures on
which the duplicates for the ensuing
year will be based. PottsvilIe vslua.
tou has been determined to be 81, 21S, =
789, an increase of half million over
last year, This valuation is one-siyth
Of tile total Of the entire county.
There is out at interest from Potts
Vile a total of So. 5S2, 361.
City Treasurer John Strickler, Of
York, has rendered his report for the
fiscal year, showing the total expend-
itures Of the city to have been S19S,
290. 90. and actual RECEIPTS $l7S, 167. 93.
Commissioner OF Fisheries william
Meehau is hopeful that he will soon
be able to restock the Delaware river
with sturgeon. fish that was practic.
ally exterminated twenty years ago to
satisfy the demand for real Russian
caviare.
Trout experts around Pottstown ex.
pect the best season for years in the
s'r-ams ~ Upner Chester and Lower
BPr.s cuuutiHe.