Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-06-23
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crop this season that will surpass any
in recent years.
Park Patton, of Washington, Luzer-
enc county, recently sustained a brok-
en- arm when he was struck by bat
ted ball.
The first summer bathing accident
report comes from Union City, where
12-year- old Herbert Holden was seized
with cramps while swimming and
drowned.
John Allison, aged z, told his play
mate, John Sugars, also aged 2, that
he could stand in front of Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg engine on a
trestle at Punxsutawney longer than
he, and they tried it. When he start
ed to jump. he slipped and was crush
ed to death.
John A. Gettig, of Braddock, who
was to have been married to Miss
Mena Anderson, of Essen, disappeared
recently, on the eve of his nuptials.
He started for his tailor's to obtain
his wedding suit and has not been seen
since. The guests who were assembled
for the happy event dispersed on re-
ceipt of the news. Relatives are heart
broken The deserted fiance thinks
that her intended has met with foul
play Her opinion is that, after being
beaten and robbed, he was left to die
in some lonely place. He was young
man of exemplary habits and had talk
ed for days about his approaching mar
Iiage.
The presence of mind of Miss Alice
j. Fitzpatrick, the principal, probably
saved the lives of many of the $40
students in the Michael Arnold public
school, Philadelphia, recently. Two
boys who had played truant climbed
up an enclosed fire escape and threw
down a railroad cap. Every window
in the rear of the building was shat
tered and and dense clouds of smoke
came out of the place. The pupils were
thrown into a panic and would have
made a rush for the open air, only
Miss Fitzpatrick had presence of mind
enough to pull bell, which signal
made them form in rank. . Another
teacher went to piano and played
while the students marched out. A
policeman saw the culprits, Russell
Price, aged IL, and Roland Robley,
of the students in the school was over
IA.
So damaging was the testimony re-
Gently given at Wilkes Barre against
FIVE election officials of the Warrior
run district, who are under arrest on
the charge of election frauds, that
Judge H. A. Fuller, at the conclusion
of the bearing, increased the amount
of their bail from $500 to $500 each,
and they now will be held to await
the action of the next grand jury. Two
members of the board are said to have
admitted that some men credited with
voting were not at the polls on cleo
tion day. John Stinson, the youngest
of the board, is alleged to have con-
fessed that he wrote on votes not only
the names of some of those men who
were not at the polls, but of some dead
men, also. He says he acted at the
dictation of other members of the
board. 1t has not been decided yet
whether or not to throw out the vote
of the district. If the vote is declared
null, the nomination of McGeever for
the democratic legislative nomination
will vanish and Shannon will receive
the honor.
Burglars recently participated in
three desperate outrages in towns neaT
Butler Entering theIhome of Lemuel
Hindman, at Branchtown, by jimmy
ing window, thieves chloroformed
Hindman and his wife, an aged couple,
and ransacked the house, securing Sll.
Chloroform was used also at the home
of Simon Duffy, agent for the Bessem.
er and Lake Erie railroad at Harris.
vile, where burglars placed Duffy, his
wife and two children under the in
fuence of the drug, then took $40
James Pryor, of Branchtown, heard {
knock at his door shortly before mid
night and went to see what was want
ed. He was knocked down by a MAJ
and, after recovering, grappled will
the intruder. In the end the burgla
fled.
S. NJ. Milligan, representative of I
tobacco company, was fined IS recent
Iy by New Kensington justice TO
splitting tacks. He was in the habit o
filling his mouth with tacks befor
starting to fasten up sign, it is said
and would draw them out as he needle,
them with magnetic hammer. Whel
he was through all the tacks that re
manned in his mouth he would spi
out. J. L. Crytzer, an automobile own
er, objected to this latter action an,
brought charges.
Examiner j. a. NoeckeI, appointe
by the court to investigate allege