Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-12-16
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THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, AKRON. OHIO.
Connellsville chamber of commercC
is going to raise guaranty fund o.
$40, 900 to get industries, on the Will
Transport plan.
William Kilton will spend term il
the Columbia county Jail for assault.
ing George Leiby by mistake. The con-
victed man has no hands.
Gettysburg will have a $50, 900 monu.
ment erected to the memory of Gen.
eral Lee 1t will be ON West Confeder-
ate avenue, near Spangler woods.
Andrew Paola was sentenced to five
years imprisonment at Philadelphia
for shooting at Frederick Franks, q
policeman who arrested him, and bit
ing off part Of the officers finger
Rhoda Thomas, of Whitesburg, near
Ford City, was burned to death when
her home caught fire and John Her
ron, aged 2,died at Monongahela from
burns received at an open CRATE.
Twelve year old John Donaldson,
who set his clothes ON fire at Kittan-
ming while he was playing at an open
CRATE asked his mother not to scold
him as he thought he would not live.
He may die
Mayor Magee, of Pittsburg, when
met by delegation of Bellevue citiz-
ems, stated that he will not aid them
in their attempt to get free bridge
over Jack run, unless their town be-
comes part of Pittsburg.
Edith Schmidt, of North Side, Pitts
burg, was burned fatally when her
dress caught fire while she was stand
ing in front of an open CRATE. She ran
TO the street screaming and neighbors
succeeded in putting ont the flames
Mrs. L. w. Bamer, of Jersey Shore,
routed would-be highwayman in a
str ct of that town recently, by de-
Tending herself with hat pin. The
fellow demanded her money, of which
she had a considerable sum with her.
She defended herself with the pin and
called for help. He took to his heels.
Mrs. Joseph Stoeckel, wife of
Wilmington brewer, went over an en-
bankment in her automobile near
Chester and both she and the chauffeur
landed in pool of water. They es
capped injury although they were
dreuohed to the skin. The machine
struck a rut and the driver lost control
Of it.
John Douglass, of Bradford, brought
charges against his bride of few
months for alleged perjury, she having
sworn that she was not married be-
fore she welded him, whereas she was
a diyorcee. But the grand jury at
Butler upheld the woman, saying that
it was up to the man to find out
whether his wife ever had been marrl-
ed before. Douglass was placed i'll Jail
because he had no money to pay the
costs which were placed on him.
William Green, a Bethlehem Steel
company foreman, stepped in front of
= locomotive which was hidden by a
cloud of steam and had his skull frac-
tured and his right arm pulled from
its socket.
Within the next week almost Sl,-
000, 600 will be drawn from banks and
trust companies having State money
deposited in them to meet the approp-
riations which fall due near the be-
ginning of the year
William Skillen was blown into an
adjoining lot suffered burns on the
face and hands, and tho side OF the
house was blown out when he tried to
light the gas in stove he had just
erected at McKeesport. y leak had al
lowed considerable gas to escape.
Reports show that Pittsburs has re-
duced the number of cases OF tubercu-
lgsia 50 per cent. within the past ten
years. More than Is, 900 residents new
are suffering from the disease and it
causes as many deaths as al o'Hereo
tagious diseases combined.
@. G.. Trimmer, Of York, was beld
mp and robbed of about $40 in broad
daylight He had been accustomed so
take the money every Saturday from a
bank to his factory aad when he was
in the alley where :Lo factory is locat
ed three men pouucel on him and tool
the money.
SO anxious are Philadelphia polio,
to obtain costly jewels stolen from St
Jude's Greek Catholic church tha
they will send divers to the bottom o,
the Delaware river TO get them j.
Eugone Bircher, the alleged confessed
robber, cau, locate the spot where h,
threw them away.
Abraham Fisher, who introduce,
corn as an article of food into Irelan,
during the great famine, died at Iii
home at Malvern, near West Chester
He was aged 81 years. When tn
famine was in Ireland, after the pota
to crop had given out, he sent carg,