Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-03-31
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Joseph Bouva, an Italian fish dealer
of Beaver Falls, made wager that he
could drink $50 glasses of Book beer in
three days. He did, and he is dying as
the result.
More than 300 acres of valuable tim
Der were destroyed near Orangeville
by forest fire recently. Forest fires
have caused damage in many other
places in the State.
Many buildings at Washington park,
recreation spot near Ashland, were
destroyed by fire that started in brush
near the resort. The flames have been
entirely extinguished.
Julian Kennedy,a a well-known Pitts
burg civil engineer, at a recent meet
ing of citizens held in the Fort Pitt
hotel, estimated the amount of graft
collected in the "red light district
of the Smoky City at $1,000, 900 a year.
Extraordinary preparations have
been made at York for the celebration
of the twenty-fifth jubilee of the
Knights of st Paul, a Catholic So
ciety that boasts of being the strong
est organization of that faith in that
section of the State.
A merger of the electric companies
in the two Stroudsburgs is expected
in the near future. The Eastern Penn
sylvania Power company, which re-
Gently bought out the Eastern Power
company, is the new corporation that
is behind the movement, which is eX-
pected to bring great things to that
vicinity.
Joseph Howard, aged 90, maddened
by drink, on Saturday evening shot
and killed his wife at Latrobe, then
ran upstairs and shot himself through
the heart. The man is believed to have
been deranged mentally through re-
cent illness. He lost his job in brew
cry ON Saturday and quarreled with
his wife, following up by numbering
her. He is said to have been drinking
heavily for a week.
Sunday was appropriately spent in
the McKesport plants of the United
States Steel corporation, including the
National Tube company and the Am
erica Sheet and Steel works. For the
first time in many years the plants
were closed down, excepting in places
were they were making repairs or do
ing work that was absolutely neces-
sary. Every Sunday will be kept here
after. The men declare themselves
pleased with the order.
An obliging resident of Suter almost
caused Frank Estep, of McKeesport, to
lose his life and precipitated an eX-
plosion that wrecked the latter's $500
automobile. The machine broke down
and Estep cIawled under it to fix
things up The Suter man crawled af-
ter him and was kind enough to light
a match so that they could see. Estep
was dragged from beneath the auto
with his clothes ablaze as the result
of the explosion that followed but
standersby put out the flames before
the man was burned much. The mach
inc, however, was destroyed and the
people in the auto went home in the
train after telling the obliging man
their opinion of him.
Alexander Mcbride, aged 81, who
fought Indians and Mexicans in de-
fense of his country's flag, died re-
Gently at Pittsburg of pneumonia. He
was born in Ireland and was a Catholic
by faith Mr.. Mcbride saw service in
the Civil as well as in the Mexican
and Indian wars, :having come to this
country in 1889.
The members of the International
jury to meet in Pittsburg ON April
to accept paintings and award honors
for the fourteenth annual exhibition
at Carnegie art gallery have been an
nounced by John W. Beattie, director
of fine arts, Carnegie institute The
jury comprises number Of leading
American artists. Three medals and
cash prizes will be awarded by these
men.
Pennsylvania Dutch was used in
the Norristown court for the first time
in many years recently when Amos
Koffel, of Hatfield, the defendant in
non support case, said that he did
not understand English. 1t did not
take long to find out that everybody
else interested could understand Dutch
so the trial proceeded in that language
The defendant was put under bond,
which he was unable to furnish, so
the judge told the sheriff to "nem en-
noch der Jail. "
Because the girl he loved would not
mrary him, Fred Gilman, aged 81. of
Wilkes Barre, committed suicide re-
Gently by taking carbolic acid. He had
told his sister that if the young OBJ