Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-05-12
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1882 S ST.. Washington, d. @.
Henry J. Smith, of West Reading
who fell into tank of scalding wat
er few day ago, is dead.
The $50 public school teachers o
Reading have formed an association
for the purpose of mutual benefit.
a new Lutheran congregation ha'
been organized at New Cumberland
with a membership of thirty-tive.
Mrs. Cora Abel, of Nazareth, has
been committed to the Easton Jail OF
the charge of abandoning her sever
children.
A blacksnake, nine feet long, so the
man who saw it says, has set the peo-
pie of Cumro, Berks county, by the
ears and is being hunted for
Mrs. Lucy H. Chaplin, of York, is
dead. She did much for the advance
ment of the work to make that city
beautiful, having for twenty five
years been interested in that work.
The heaviest pair of shad ever taken
from the Susquehanna river at Column
bia were caught Wednesday and sold
for 81. 20. One weighed ten pounds
and the other ten and one half.
Congressman Olmstead's candidacy
for denomination in the Dauphin- Leb-
anon district is not to go uncontested
Another candidate has appeared in the
field in the person of Captain J. NJ.
Shindel, of Lebanon.
There is proposition before the
citizens of Allentown to erect a $780,
900 high school, The Central Labor
union of that city has entered pro-
test and wants the money expended in
the building of a manual training
school instead.
Causes of death in this state during
the month of February, as shown by
the reports to the state board of
health, place pneumonia in the lead,
with consumption a close second.
and 794 of consumption.
The First Methodist Episcopal
church at Greenville was considerably
damaged by fire Thursday afternoon.
During the progress of the blaze and
while the flames were being fought in
the cellar, the gas meter exploded in
juring five persons, none seriously.
Henry Giles, steeple climber, was
working on top of ninetyfoot stack
at Wyomissing, Berks county, when
the rope parted and he fell. When
twenty-five feet down he succeeded in
catching with his toes on guide
wire and hung on until rescued by
fellow workmen.
Philadelphia Rapid Transit condi-
tions are to be examined into by the
State Railroad commission next Tues
day. The commissioners ARE receiving
a large number of letters from Phila-
delphians, commenting on the coming |
examination and for the most part |
they are commendatory.
While getting into his carriage
Thomas II. Cassler, a we'll known cit
izen of Bethlehem, was stricken with
paralysis and fell dead. He was 46
years of age.
The thirteenth annual session of the !
knights of Columbus of Pennsylvania
will open at Shamokin today. 1t is
expected that 25O delegates will be in |
attendance. A fine social program
has been prepared by the Shamokin
knights.
The will of John II. Converse, head !
Of the Baldwin works who died Mon /
day of last week, has been admitted |
TO probate. The estate is estimated as |
being worth $40, 25O, 900. He leaves
5000, 900 to the various boards of the |
Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Stephen Longus, aged &c years,
Of Sharon, while insane, broke from I
the grasp of woman friend and end |
ed her life by jumping into the Shen-
ango river Saturday morning. Last /
November she saw negro. Jack the !
pepper, looking through her win
dow and the fright unbalanced her
mind.
TIL viii of the late General ]. p. S. |
Gobln has been probated at Lebanon. /
1t contains a number of public be- |
quests among them being To the |
Loyal Legion of Pennsylvania, his
military library and $500; to the Ma
sonic library of the grand lodge of the !
state his Masonic books, badges, etc.
and $500; to the LebanonY M C "A. |
81, 800; to Susquehanna university,
Selinsgrove, ST. 600; to Tressler Home |
for Orphans, s., 00O to the invested
fund of the national encampment, |
Grand Army of the Republic, 81 900: /
10 Zion Lutheran church of Lebanon, /
$4,000, the interest to be used in the
purchase of fuel for the worthy poor
of the congregation. The income of !
the estate is estimated as being worth !
500, 900 and it is bequeathed to his |
widow during her lifetime, and mol
distribution is to be made during that
time. At her dnath IN il to ba 1;,.;1o,l |