Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-02-17
ITEMS CONDENSED.

NEW ONES? Pleasant easy work.
Profit dollars day. Sample and
particulars free. THE CROWN co. =,
1882 S ST., Washington, D. @.
Twenty priests and Bishop Shanahan
attended the funeral of Rt. Rev. Mon
signor G. L. Benton, at Harrisburg.
Alonzo Hambright and Eva j. Worth
both of Lancaster, have been granted
license to wed. Both are 81 years of
age and never were married before.
When Anthony Gregus, Shenan-
doah school boy, took hatchst and
struck dynamite cap that he had
found, he caused anseXplosion that left
him without. his left hand.
BE a farmer and snap your finger
at the monopolies, is the solution
that o. c. Sigworth, ga progressive
Nenango county agriculturist, gives
to one of the greatest questions of the
day.
Martha Greuning was indicted by
the grand jury at Philadelphia for riot
in connection with the strike of the
shirtwaist makers. She is postgradu-
ate of Bryn Mawr Her sociological
studies led her to sympathize with the
strikers
Two freight trains met in a rearend
collision at Hills station onsthe Char
tiers branch of the Pennsylvania rail
road recently and two men Harry Nc
Gowan suffered bruises about the back
and head and @. p. S. Christian was
crushed about the back and legs.
Ten thousand dollars has been given
by the American Sheet and Tin Plate
company, subsidiary of the United
States Steel corporation, to the Young
Mems Christian association of Pitts
burg, which is conducting campaign
to raise a $500, 600 building fund in a
limited time.
William f. Taylor, aged ii and
blind, of Hatboro, is the defendant in
a breach of promise suit brought by
Josephine Olshefski, of Prompton.
The girl says that she was employed
at the Taylor home at one time and
that the old man often paid attention
to her and asked her to marry him.
Then when she did agree he would not
keen his part of the bargain. He de-
nies her tale.
While searching for thieves who last
Monday stole $500 worth of goods
from the Dilworth Supply company at
Rices Landing, employees of the Dill
worth Coal company found several
thousand dollars worth of booty hid
den in an abandoned coal mine across
the Monongahela river from Fred
erickstown, Washington county. The
mine is heavily guarded but there is
no clue to the thieves.
Lewis Snyder, school teacher at
Copley, aogged thirty two pupils who
followed the old Pennsylvania Ger
man custom of locking the teacher out
on "Fastnacht. " He had warned them
not to follow this custom and they did
it in spite of him. When he found
what had been done he went for an
officer of the law This so scared the
youngsters that they let him in. All
but those who were quick in saying
that they, ,had.opene the door were
whipped. The children held an indig-
nation meeting afterwards but Older
heads ridiculed the idea of having any
thing done to the teacher
All Gettysburg dogs are under 100
day quarantine, ordered placed by the
State. A mad dog ran wild there re-
Gently, biting three persons and num-
Der of other canines
Molten metal from huge ladle that
had been jostled by shifting engine,
ran down the back of Reuben G. Vein
at Pottstown. His clothing was set on
fire but fellow workmen extinguished
the flames.
Citizens of Germantown and the
Chestnut hill, Philadelphia. district,
having failed to obtain enough funds
from the city to build $500, 600 high
school, are going to raise enough mon
ey for it by popular subscription.
Rivermen who have kept tab on the
number of towboats having Pittsburg
as there port of entry in the last ten
years, say that eighteen steamers have
replaced twenty eight which have
been lost to the service from one rea-
son or another, in that time.
Another form of graft is alleged to
exist in LuZerne county. 1t is said
that i'll the lower end of the county at
the last elections, poor boxes" were
in evidence at the polls. Those who
desired were at liberty to drop con-
tributious into these for the use of the
board members.
At the mammoth coal shutes of the
Philadelphia and Reading company,
just below Schuylkill Haven, on Sat
urday, ten men were buried under
about 900 tons of coal, following an
avalanche in a vast bin. One man was
killed, another injured fatally and the
other eight men hurt more or less sew
erely Owing to the recent cold wealth