Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-10-07
ITEMS CONDENSED.

WANIED-LOcal agent 10 advertise
and introduce the new educational
work, WEBSTER'S 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.
1t has been decided to give up the
merger of the coke interests in the
Connellsville fields for the present, and
the options have been surrendered.
Samuel Benford is York county S
first victim of football. He fell on the
ball and six boys piled on top of him.
A badly broken leg is the result.
Representatives of the workingmen
of Pittsburg have put the seal of ap-
probation on Mayor Magee's proposed
bond issue to get the town needed i'm
provements.
Citizens of Hellertown will be Civ
en- the opportunity to vote on the pro-
position to increase the borough's debt
$l2, 600 for the erection of modern
high school.
Ten of the forty three teachers in
Mt Washington, Pittsburg, will be
dropped from the pay rolls when st.
Mary's of the Mount new Catholic
school opens in January
Reuben Younga wealthy octogener-
ian, of Hanover, may die as the result
of the amputation of "A leg on account
of gangrene which developed from an
ingrown toe nail
Mayor Magee, of Pittsburg has sent
out 100 policemen in plain clothes to
find out data about the street car COM
panies, how they are keeping in the
bounds of the law, TO verify alleged
abuses, etc.
Philadelphia may not get the propos
ed immigrant station as she is throw
ing so many obstacles in the way of
proposed locations that the national
government is getting tired. The sta
tion may go to Camden.
Ground was broken at Homestead
for four new furnaces for the Carnegie
Steel company. A new plate mill will
also be erected and the wheel plant
will be enlarged. The improvements
will represent an outlay of about ST.
500, 600. The new furnaces will supply
steel to be used at the wheel plant and
at the new plate mill The additions
to the wheel plant will make its cap
acity almost equal to those of the COM
pany at Shoenville and McKees Rocks.
William Sell, of Centre Valley, al
most bled to death when n pane of
glass which he was carrying broke and
cut an artery.
Dr. Robert Morrison, of Sheridan,
was found lying dead on the floor by
his wife on .her return home from
church. Heart trouble was the cause
of his sudden demise.
Mrs. Mary Daniels is alleged to have
rushed to the office of Alderman James
Fulkerson, of Newcastle, and threat
ened to shoot him because her son was
arrested for illegal freight riding.
Anthony Bunshic, of..near Pottsville,
is believed by the police to be lost to
his parents forever as he was lured
away from his,home- on Thursday by a
stranger and has been missing since.
On the pulpit platform was minia-
ture farm, showing the house, barn,
fields and orchards cleverly produced
when Harvest Home and Old Folks
Day was celebrated i'll the Mount JOY
Evangelical church.
Constable Samuel Smale, of near
Pottstown, was presented with a cary
ed wooden hand by Elias b Webher,
as a birthday gift. The officer lost his
hand in the early summer by the eX-
plosiCn of a shotgun.
After poisoning the watch dog that
guarded the residence of ID. Owen
Brook. near Birdsboro robbers enter.
cd through "A window and ransackeC
every room in the house except that
one in which the caretaker and his
wife were asleep. Mr. Brook and hi'
wife are out west.
As the result of the PittSburg Gaz
ette Times contest to find ont by vote'
which are the most popular amateur
base ball teams in the region covered
by the papers circulation, the Feick
team of one-legged players got the
most votes, receiving 1872, 446.
Lawson G Martin, of Pittsburg
was ont automobiling with his daugh
ter and wife when horse belonging
to H. L. McClain scared and jumped
through the windshield of the machin
and put the auto out of commission
The animal was cut about the breas
but not seriously while the womel
were badly scared but not hurt.