Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-02-10
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NEW ONES? Pleasant easy work.
Profit 8 dollars day. Sample and
particulars free. THE GROWN co. g,
1882 ST., Washington, D. G.
Diphtheria has rendered necessary
the closing of Northumberland pub
lie school.
Mt. Pleasant $ new municipal build
ing was opened formally last week 1t
cost SO, 500.
Miss Helen Wagner sustained
broken collar bone and four others
were slightly hurt when "A sled over
turned at Sharon.
Dissatisfaction over pastor caused
he Baptist congregation at Monong q
hela to split and the seceders have
organized a new congregation.
Any dealer selling fireworks will be
fined promptly says Burgess Hetler, of
Berwick He is a warm advocate of
the safe and sane Fourth of July
Despite the fact that the law states
self, the reelection of James X. p.
Fenner, of Ashley, was upheld at
Wilkes Barre. This is his third term.
After he had served his first term he
was reelected and his tenure of office
was not disputed. He was elected for
the third term last year and the case
was taken to the courts. Judge Full
er, who dissents with the opinion of
the other three judges, calls the de-
cision a "grotesque result of the
law. -
Notice has been filed at Harrisburg
by the Union Drawn Steel company.
of Beaver Falls, that it will increa'
its capital stock from $500, 900 to 81,
500, 600.
Flames are raging in the Philadel-
phia and Reading Coal and Iron COM
pany's Beaver Valley colliery, near
Reading. So bad is the fire that flames
are shooting from the air holes in the
mountains.
Five girls 10 years of age .have been
granted licenses to wed in Reading
within two weeks. Daniel H. Wagner,
aged y, of Wyoming andM iss Jennie
L. Stump, aged 15,of Sinking Spring, |
were granted a license ON Saturday.
Sight has been restored to the eyes
of Mrs. Anna I. Paschall, an aged
Quakeress, of Concord, after having .
been denied to her for ten years. She .
declares that she feels as if she had |
been born again and that she is at
least thirty years younger. y Chester
specialist restored her sight by smeans
of his knife.
Waynesboro people have advantage
over the residents of other towns in
that some of the snowballs that are
thrown at them have steel cores. In
the ruins of the fire destroyed Victor
T ool copmany's shops there are many
little balls, made for ball bearings.
The boys of the town have started to
mold snow balls around the balls and
the sensation of being struck by them
is declared not to be exactly pleaasnt.
In school the lads roll the balls over
the floors and the teachers cannot tell
whence they come.
To be bound and gagged, then to
have her face and body slashed by a
sharp knife in the hands of two men
who had been rooming in her ho ouse
I,a hpr /, 10 d
experience of Mrs Rebecca Sachs, of
Philadelphia She was threatened with
hot irons until she revealed the hiding
place of the family jewels, worth
more than $4,000. She was forced at
the point of knife to go to the safe
which held them and her torturers
stopped their cowardly work only
when she tainted. No valuables were
obtained, as the safe was not opened.
She managed to let a neighbor know
of her plight by crawling into the
street. She probably will die. The
woman was alone in her kitchen when
the men came in and offered to pay |
their rooming bill. She turned to get
ClldLSt lol a DlIl lllty btntltltNt W llCl
when they drew a towel over her face
A fierce struggle followed and she was
bound and gagged. Then the other
torture began.
An upsetting coffee pot seriously
scalded 4-year-old Frank II offer, at !
Marietta
One thousand dollars wroth of jew
elry is said to have been stolen from |
the home of George E. Fear, at Wash
ington.
Police all over the country have
been asked to assist in locating Jacob
Lentz, who disappeared from his home
at Lehighton last July
Ten-year- Mary Morgan. the
daughter of a Wilkes Barre miner,
rushed into a burning building at the |
risk of her life and saved baby.
Florence Karlosky, imprisoned sew
eral days ago by fall of coal in
Shenandoah mine, is still alive as his