Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-05-20
ITEMS CONDENSED.


streets because it allays the dust bet
ter than water and does not cost any
more.
Running in front OF trolley car IL
front of his home in Philadelphia, 2
year.old Samuel Aokerman was de
capitatad in the presence Of his moth
er.
The fifth annual reuuion OF the I'm
proved Order Of Red Men of the coun'
ties of Armstrong, Cameron. Clear
field, Elk, Forest, Jefferson and Nc
Kean will be held at Kittanning on
Tuesday and Wednesday OF this week
Carl Burkholder, l2-year- office
hoy employed by DR.. Alfred Weiss of
Lebanon, while playing with the slack
rope of porch awning at the Weiss
home, placed the rope about his neck
and was found dead two hours later,
having been strangled.
Cyrus W. Klopp living on large
farm near Scull Hill, Berks county
has entertained more visitors in year
than any other farmer in Berks. From
May 1, 1908 to May 1. 1909, he has fed
1928 people who visited him besides
furnishing meals to 800 tramps.
Tuukhannock will annex a portion
OF the township of the same name. add
several hundred to it's population and
gain abundant room for future growth
An equity suit to prevent the propos-
Ell annexation has been dismissed.
Farmers in West Franklin and Wash
ington townships, Adams county, have
lost many valuable horse recently by
q disease that resembles the old fash
ioned distemper or epizotic. The dis
ease is contagious to nigh degree aud
affects all domestic animals.
Captain E. Y. Breck. of Pittsburg.
one of the best known attorneys in the
State. has interested himself in the
case of Mrs. Ellen Boyle, sentenced to
serve twenty five years in the western
penitentiary in connection with the
Whitla kidnapping, and will try to
have the case reopened
The mystery of the wild man in the
regions of North Strabsne township,
Washington county, has been cleared.
The man with the long and woolly
whiskers and hair, who terrorized the
good people of that township with his
supernatural strength, continuous run
ming and jumping has been caught,
He is Joe Palanta. demented Aus
trian.
Mrs. william B. Scott, bride Of
two days, has been arrested at Erie and
lodged in Jail on the charge of bigamy
1t is alleged that when II years old
she married Jerome Custard, in Mead
Vile. The woman says she was only
10 when she married Custard and that
the marriage was not legal.
Arrested for displaying and wearing
a button of the United Mine Workers
Of America, John Fry, a non.union
man of Mahanoy City. was held in
bail for court on the charge OF false
pretense.
Two robbers gave battle with pistols
TO a posse of New Castle residents, one
of whom they seriously wounded.
They were surrounded and after no Id
ing the posse at bay for an hour gave
themselves up.
Falling sixty feet into the Hazel
Miners stripping, Morris Kerst, II
years old, of Hazleton, escaped with
broken arm and a confused leg. COW
which fell at the same spot recently
was instantly killed.
The Reading Goal and Iron company
has struck seven valuable veins at
their Otto colliery No. ? at Branchdale
which expose coal for the miners
picks worth $40, 900, 600, the mining Of
which will take fifty years
While bathing with companions in
Ten. Mile Creek at Mariana. Wash
ington county. John Barney, II year
old son of Frank Barney,a miner, was
drowned. He was taken from the wat
er a few minutesSattsr he sank, but a
half-hour's work failed to revive him.
The brass end of a shoe lace tucked
In his shoe, worked its way into the
flesh of Joseph Lake, of Pottsville and
gave him blood poisoning. The foot
has been amputated IN an effort to
save his life.
Robert Mcfarland, who disappeared
from his home near Allentown fifteen
years ago and had been legally declar-
ed dead, walked into his mothers
house to find his wife wed.
While going to see his parents. David
Powell. 45 years old, of Lancaster, was
struck by a train near Pequea and in
stantly killed.
II evsTv man Rn5 what he deserved