Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-04-14
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-ER OLD MIRRORS and MAKE
rEW ONES? Pleasant easy work.
roft dollars "a day. Sample and
articulars free. THE CROWN co. ,
1872 S ST.. Washington, ID. @.
The Scranton board of trade is max
IL an investigation of the commission
Drm of city government.
James n. Wampler, of McKeesport,
ill have his fine big telescope mount
on the.lawu of the Carnegie library
be used by the public in viewing
Lalley's comet.
John RodoyitchEescaped from Pit
burg hospital via the water spout
gently and is still missing. He is a
ictim of appendicitis and was with
at apparel. The police are looking for
i'm.
William Klusewitz, a German Pole,
ras shot by a policeman at Reading
hen two officers came across him
lille he was stealing a brass journal
OK from freight car. He started to
an away and would snot stop. The
fficers fired to frighten him and a
ullet struck him behind the ear.
Judge Thomas d. Carnahan, in
uarter sessions court at Pittsburg,
ranted the petition for the removal
the Seventh ward school board of
lie North Side, in the Smoky City,
nd new board was appointed 1t
as stated that the board was elected
ebruary IS last and that the members
Liled to agree enough for them to
-ganize.
Miss Mabel Nissley, clerk in the
tate library at Harrisburg, was pain
lilly injured Saturday when she was
IN down by an auto, the wheels of
'hich passed over her neck and should
IS. The young woman had just
lighted from a street car and many
oectators say that the auto was racing
18th another at the rate of between
lirty-tiye and forty miles an hour
he car was stopped and three of the
lmates gave their names.
Four solid blocks were swept by fire
Middletown, the oldest place in
lauphin county, Saturday. Half a
lillion dollars loss was caused and
IT a time the town was in danger
ynamite had to be used in checking
le flames. The telephone exchanges
ere destroyed but fortunately not be-
)re aid could be summoned from Har-
isburg, Steelton, Columbia and Ian
aster. The dynamiting was done by
ne concentrated fire forces under the
irection of Fire Chief Garverich, of
harrisburg. The flames originate from
n overheated stove in the market
ouse. The Auditorium, containing a
heatre, offices and stores, the Y. NJ.
=. \. building, the Odd Fellows hall,
he Middletown fair ground buildings,
usiness blocks and residences were
mong the places burned. Sparks car
led the fire to Royalton, across the
,watara creek, where twelve houses
we're burned
Sunday funerals are banned by the
}erwick Cemetery association.
Joshua Rozelle, of Wyoming, near
NilkesBarre, recently spoke at dim
Ter given in honor of his Tooth birth
lay anniversary.
While Mrs. Edward Greist, of near
Fairchild, was ringing the bell for the
nen to go to dinner, the bell fell on
Ter and she was seriously injured.
Harrisburg is to have an "industri-
Il incubator. " Steps have been taken
~ the subscribers to the $50, 900 raised
or that purpose for the carrying out
# their plans. The intention is to
rect building and to rent at low
'ates space to industries that want to
ocate in the city.
Pittsburg Protestant Episcopal min
jsters preached civil righteousness
from their pulpits on Sunday, in ac-
;ordance with request sent to them
by Bishop Whitehead last week. Some
received the letter too late but will
follow its directions next Sunday. The
bishop also requested special prayers
to retrieve honor in municipal govern
ment, in the churches and in the fami-
ly circle.
Thieves, carrying candle, wrench
ed the gas meter from the wall in the
house Of Antonio Batti, at Philadel-
phia, and the escaping gas exploded,
setting the residence on fire. BATH was
awakened by the noise made by the
men in making their escape and the
family and two men belonging to the
household were rescued. The flames
spread rapidly and the inmates of the
place were endangered.
John Hummel who suspected that
William Reynolds and Lincoln SNYDER
were the guilty parties in number of
petty robberies around Halifax, is said
to have caught those fellows in rath-
er clever trap He noised it about that
he had some rather fine cider in his
cellar, then sat up all night waiting
for the two. Soon it was evident that
somebody was at work on the barrels