Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-27
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1atrlCk Walsh, WIZ uleu at 0llDeItOn
as the result of injuries received in a
dynamite explosion.
Only architects in Allegheny county
can compete in drawing up plans for
the new 81, ,250, 900 court house annex
that is proposed for Pittsburg.
The first convent of the Passionist
order of Catholic sisters will be est
ablished in the Pittsburg diocese at
Mt Oliver The community is from
Italy.
Twenty houses were damaged as the
result of mine cave-in at Scranton
recently. No buildings collapsed but
doors. windows and plaster show the
results of the settling
Mrs. Ida Doney, aged 24, widow,
got a verdict for 81, 3l1 in the Lehigh
county court against Charles Schultz
for alleged failure to marry after he
had popped the question and had been
accepted She asked for $1,000 and
said to the court that she knew in her
heart when she accepted Schultz that
he never could be equal to her dead
husband.
Because his leg had been so badly
shot by an exploding gun that it after
wards had to be amputated, Ernest
Patton. aged IS, of Franklin, is alleg
ed to have tried to reach his weapon
to kill himself. From where he fell he
could not get the gun. A companion
ran for help, as they were on hunt
ing trip, and it was nearly an hour be-
fore aid arrived.
Wrapping his arms about a project
ing beam when he was being whirled
around a fly wheel and was about to
be crushed to death in a set of cogs at
a -four mill in Mahanoy City, William
Hill was stripped almost clean of his
clothing but escaped with a few
bruises. His clothes had become en-
tangled in the machinery while he was
making repairs.
Figures recently compiled by the
bureau of vital statistics at Harrisburg
show that 654 persons met Edeath from
consumption i'll the month of October.
This is seventy-two more deaths than
in the preceding month and damper
is put on the excellent record that has
been maintained in the fight against
this disease last year.
Some New Castle ministers discuss
ed the high cost of living from their !
pulpits Sunday.
Numbers of English pheasants are
being kept alive by the farmers of
Pike and other counties and are be-
coming tame enough to be fed with
the farmyard fowls.
Fifteen feet of snow blockade the
country roads in some districrts near
Butler. The rural districts are isolat- |
ed from the city except where there
are trolley and steam road connec-
tiOns
With his hands, feet and other parts
of his body frozen, Michael O'Brlen'
an aged recluse, was found dead in a
shanty near New Castle Junction. lie
had lived there for many years and
supported himself by doing odd jobs
in the summer. Little was known con-
corning him.
Oscar Engle, aged IA, and his broth
er Ernest. aged 8, of near Irwin, are
missing from their home, and it is
feared that they have perished in the
snow. The lads are said to have been
playing truant from school for twenty
DAYS, unknown to their parents.
Two new witnesses have been sub
poenaed for the commonwealth in the
trial of Joseph NJ Huston, architect
of the State capitol, which begins in
Dauphin county today. The men are
said to be identified with the furnit
ure business and to know something
of the relations between Huston and
John H. Sanderson, the contractor.
Almost ON the verge of death, his
body frozen stiff, Charles Shaw, an
old Patton miner, was found by two
men on their way to work at a colli-
cry. He was taken care of and later
removed to his home. He had left his
HOult dDOuI . y ClbCh III tllt llplh hiLS
for work so that he could quit early
and his weakened condition would not
let him rise again after he had fallen
ON the ice.
Guilty of murder in the second
degree" is the verdict rendered at
Brookville, Jefferson county, in the
trial of William Jones, accused of muir
dering his wife on August 6, 1908.
Mrs Minnie Kunselman, aged H. the
mans daughter, was the witness who
convicted him. She kept the secret of
the alleged murder for year because
she said her father threatened her
with death if she confessed what she
knew. The case consumed nearly all
last week. A new trial will be asked
for today.
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