Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-05-19
ITEMS CONDENSED.

Dprinp the month of April ia p1ls-
ouers in the Berks county prison made
1000 yards of carpet.
A2 year old daughter of John Bad
den, of Mahanoy City, fell into ket-
tie of boiling soap and was fatally
burned.
On the farm of Peter Smith at
Frederckville, Berks county, dande-
lion has been found which measures
eighteen inches in circumference.
Harry Carney, of Norristown, fell
from an auto while returning from
smoker given at the Norristown Auto
club house on Thursday night and was
fatally injured.
Charles Natro, aged 21 years, of OH
CITY. was burned to death in hre IN
"A two-story building in whlch ne
boarded. He was hunting for wallet
which contained $66 when the roof
fell in.
Lancaster county cherries are crowd
ing the season. There is n sour cherry
tree on the farm of Martin CARRIER
near Mount Joy, that has had perfect
lv formed ripe fruit upon it since last
week.
Seven hundred cases of imported
eggs have been received from England
in Philadelphia. There was no trouble
in selling them at remuneIative prices
after duty of five cents per dozen
had been paid.
Peter Weistenstein and Lewis Gil
christ, while working on scatfold at
ButIer. fell twenty-five feet when it
broke. Gilchrist was injured about the
head and internally while his COM
panion sustained broken leg.
Stricken with paralysis as she was
leaning over a gas stove in her kltch-
en- in Philadelphia, Mrs. Louisa Safri-
ed, &c years old, fell across the blaz-
ing burners. Her clothing caught fire
and she was so badly burned that she
died in a hospital an hour later.
The new steel street car has proved
is usefulness in Pittsburg. One of them
was struck by derailed trailer the
other day and the impact was so great
that had it been car of wooden con-
struction it would have been crushed.
No one was hurt.
William Wayne, in the Chester coun-
tv courts at West Chester, was on
Thursday awarded verdict of $76, 1875
in his damage suit against the Penn
svlvania railroad for land taken for
low grade railroad in 1905. The jury
of view gave him $26, 600. He appealed
and at a court trial was awarded $74,
ll6. From this verdict the company
appealed and the case has been tried a
second time with the result that the
amount has been increased.
Owls are cleaning up the rabbits in
the wiIds of Columbia county.
Fire, caused by spontaneous com
bustion, was discovered i'll the base
ment of the Chester county court house
and fortunately the flames were ex
tinguished before much damage was
done.
The grainware house of John w.
Eshelman, at Lancaster, was burned
TO the ground Saturday, entailing a
loss of $50, 600. After a hard fight sur
rounding property was saved by the
firemen.
Three prominent young Reading wo'
men Mennonites have affiliated them
selves with the Gospel Workers as
sociation of Cleveland and Pittsburg
and have gone to the latter city, where
they will engage in slum work.
At meeting of the Delaware Coun
ty Medical society the quarantining Of
school children suffering from minol
contagious diseases, under the State
laws for period of twenty one day
was severely condemned.
2 Twenty four sub-stations have beer
established for the State constabulaI,
during the summer months. Two arr
in the trout stream districts of tn,
eastern part of the State and the othe
twenty-five are in western Pennsyl
vania industrial Centers.
\ movement is on foot in Reading
to abolish the wearing of striped suit
by prisoners except as a mark of pun
ishment. The plan is to substitute
uniform of blue Those back of tn
movement claim there should be dis
tinction between the different classe
of prisoners.
The Pittsburg Civic Voters leagu
has started new anti-vice crusad
and has employed twelve detectives.
The different newspapers in the east
ern part of the State are all reportin
fine catches of trout by the anglers.
From unofficial sources it is learne