Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-01-06
ITEMS CONDENSED.

900 has been harvested by growers il
Tioga, Potter and Bradford countie
this year.
Rev. Barnes, a Methodist ministe
of Joanna, was found in snow drift
by horseback riders and rescued. HI
was almost exhausted.
Mahanoy City and Shenandoah cap
italists have bought the John +. Nc
Ginty brewery and bottling works at
Tamaqua, paying over 500, 900 fol
them, it is said.
DR.. Samuel G.. Hefelbower, who has
been president of Gettysburg college
for five years, has rendered his resig-
nation to take effect next June The
trustees have accepted it.
While the recent cold spell was do
ing its worst, a hen of Frank Gemp-
erling, of Pottstown, Matched out eight
eggs from a setting of nine and all the
chicks are doing well.
Harry Cikot, 10 year old West
Shenandoah athlete, was killed in a
colliery when his clothes caught on an
elevator and he was hoisted fifty feet
into the air, then fell, his garments
tearing. His brother was killed in the
same mine last April.
Mrs Margaret Singer Milligan, one
of the extremely rich and fashionable
matrons of North Side, Pittsburg, had
all the hair burnt from her head and
is in serious condition as the result
of the explosion of celluloid combs
while she was drying her hair.
Archbishop Ryan, of the Philadel-
phia archdiocese Of the Catholic church
is suffering from a severe cold and has
been advised by his physician to avoid
excitement. He has cancelled all en-
gagements for one month. Some alarm
is felt on account of his advanced age.
One of the big engines of the West
en Maryland railroad recently fell
from thirty-foot trestle just outside
the Gettysburg yard limits into Rock
creek. Several cars and caboose
drawn by the engine went down with
ii and were demolished. The crew es-
capped by jumping,
George Urban, foreman of the men
who were cleaning snow from one of
the streets of Philadelphia, was struck
on the head by an Italian whom he re-
fused to permit to leave his work long
enough to get drink and sustained
fractured skull. The fellow struck him
with a pick handle and escaped.
As result of remonstrances of the
law and order society of Schuylkill
county against the granting of licenses
to hundreds of saloons in which it is
alleged the breweries have interests,
the brewers are organizing holding
companies to take over the saloon bust
ness and the society says that matters
will not be bettered. The Schuylkill
county court recently declared that it
is illegal for breweries to be inter
ested in saloons or to hold leases on
saloon property.
Mrs. William Minnigar, an aged
resident of Yatesville, died from fright
when her son-in-law called at her
home and demanded to see his wife
from whom he is separated, then fred
three shots when he found he could
not. One of the bullets grazed the
head of the woman s husband. She
sank to the floor with a groan and was
dead when picked up.
lynn Morris, strike breaker employ
.d at the South Sharon tin mill of the
An, ,rican Sheet and Tinplate CON-
,onv, was shot and instantly killed by
ono Of two assailants who escaped. He
was helc up and is thought to have
been struck by one of the men for he
pulled n revolver. Then he was shot.
His father says the lad had been
threatened.
On account of the fact that the gem
eral balance in the treasury of the
N'''VV - btIoN -, OVO,OOO lot Ille HrSt
time in several years, with prospects
that it may go lower, it is being COM
mented on about the capitol as the
strongest endorsement of the stand
Governor Stuart took last spring when
he reduced the appropriations made
by the Legislature in the neighborhood
of Sl9, OOO. 600
Charles Brunner, aged 30, and his
sister Anna, aged 24, of Reading, were
found dead in a room at PHILADELPHIA,
having been smothered by gas which
was escaping from an unlighted radi-
ator The deaths are thought to have
been accidental. 1t is thought the sis.
ter was under the impression that she
had lighted the gas but had not and
that both went to sleep. They went to
Philadelphia to celebrate New Years.
Winfield Gibson, of Munhall, a Pitts.
burg suburb, killed his wife, injured
his 15-year-old son and killed himself
at his home after spending some time
with friends in Homestead and getting
drunk. He shot at a daughter and bare
ly missed her. His eldest daughter,
Mrs. Frank Moore lay in the room