Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-06-02
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ropolltan electric plant in that city
Thursday by his foot coming in con
tact with live wire.
The explosion of boiler in the Dill
worth Paper company plant, which il
located near New Castle, cost Tony
Salarki, an Italian laborer, employed
in the plant, his life.
NJ w. Kifer, aged 80, employed al
the Standard steel car plant at Butler,
was crushed to death by trolley car,
Thursday evening He leaves widow
and two children.
Inviting his friends to premature
Fourth of July celebration on a vac
ant lot near his Philadelphia home,
Harry Dhue, aged 10, had two fingers
blown off Thursday night by the pre-
mature explosion of a cannon.
Frederick Flinchbaugh, So years of
age, of FELTON,, York county, was
found dead in his bed Thursday and
his relatives are supposed to believe
that disappointment over the poor en-
tertainment furnished by Halley's
comet hastened the end.
William Parry, an air brake inspect
or, aged 90 years, was seized with gid
diness while mounting ladder at the
car shops of the Reading Railroad
company at Palo Alto, and fell, land
ing on his head. His skull was fract-
ured and he sustained other injuries
to such an extent that he died shortly
after the accident
Despondent because his family was
broken up by illness, Alfred Crow, of
Reading, cut his throat from ear to ear
and was taken to hospital, where it
is thought he will die.
Their ladder falling while they were
repairing barn, Samuel Whitmer and
Allen Sissler, of near Marietta, were
so badly injured that Sissler is but
emi-conscious and Whitmer may not
recover.
Alberta, 4.year- old daughter of AL
bert L. Guldin, mysteriously disap-
peared from her home in Reading Sat
urday night A searching party was
organized and the BODY was found in
creek early Sunday morning.
Six hundred representatives of the
Brotherhood of Railway TIainmen, of
the Reading system, held their fifth
week Sunday convention in Reading
Reports show that in five months the
membership has increased from ], $50
to 2,1O0.
Irate spectators at circus showing
at Rural Valley, Armstrong county,
because of the poor performance, clear
ed the tent, carried out the lights so
as to prevent fire and then cut the
outside ropes and let the big tent fall.
Mrs. Sarah Rice, of Philadelphia,
some days ago was taking down lace
curtains at her home, when she scratch
ed her knee on a rusty nail. She paid
little attention to the injury, but
tetanus developed and she died in one
of the hospitals of that city on Sun
day.
AS result of the withdrawal, sew
eral years ago, of number of the
wealthy members of another church,
the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal
congregation of Pottstown, with which
they then identified themselves, is to
have a new $50, 600 structure, built aft
er plans made by Joseph Huston, Of
State Capitol fame.
Coming from Russia, distance of
over 1000 miles, Michael Arhowich
arrived at Minersville Saturday ex-
pecting to see his son whom he had
not seen for ten years. He collapsed
when he was informed that his son
had been killed in the mines on the
very day on which he started from
Russia for this country.
John Gilfllan, a commercial travel
er, has complained that it cost him
sixty cents to ride from Stroudsburg
TO Bushkill and that he had to use the
ticket the same day for return or pur-
chase new one. The road is a branch
of the Delaware Valley Railroad COM
pany. The matter is to be taken up by
the STATE railroad commission.
James Toughty, of Pottsville, was
the owner of a new automobile, and
was coming up one of the streets of
that city which is crossed by rail
road 1t is said that a coming locomo-
tive gave warning it was on the track
but Toughty apparently thought he
had as much right to the crossing as
the engine. He has another guess, for
the auto was struck and demolished
and he was badly injured.
Playing with matches in the barn of
John X. Culp, at Norristown, his T.
year-old child fired the structure and
it was soon burned to the ground,
causing a loss of s., 900. The child and
live stock were saved.
Annie Diamond, aged l6 years, was
going from her home at Annville tC
Harrisburg to see a circus, when she
was taken i'll and was removed from
the car at Hummelstown. Taken to the