Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-03-17
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John Strasser, a non-union man, wa
shot in walkout of 500 union miner
at Carbon. The men refused to worl
beside non union workmen
Wholesale and retail liquor license
profted Dauphin county $42, S57. 4
this year. This is falling off of owe
700 as compared with last year.
Alonzo Nabors was given $40, 900 il
his suit at Uniontown against George
W. Lennox, Baltimore e Ohio eng
ineer, whom he accused of alienation
of his wife's affections.
Thirty seven high school boys strucE
at Sharon because the faculty forbade
a scheduled basketball game. There
has been trouble between the teachers
and boys over basketball.
McKeesport school officials have dis.
carded slates acting on the suggestion
of the board of health, and will have
the students use.pencil and pads in the
future The states were given to the
students and smashing contests were
the order of the day in most places.
Pittsburgers are planning a royal
reception for Theodore Roosevelt when
he nears American shores from his
foreign tour. The idea is to charter a
steamer and run out to sea for the
purpose of meeting the president
A committee of the Young Mems Re-
publican Tariff club is working out
the details.
Allen Faltz was found dying on a
bench in the City park at Reading re-
Gently. having swallowed carbolic
acid The fellow did not regain con-
seriousness from the time he was found
until he died.
Alderman A. X. Spurrier of Lam
caster, ON Saturday completed the
thirty-f fifth year of continuous service
as a Justice of the peace in the same
ward, making record never equaled
in the history of that city.
Senior class students in the Reading
high school threaten to strike if the
school board passes a rule passed by
the teachers committee, relative to
commencement exercises and social
affairs The ruling would forbid pro-
posed class dance and the class play.
Nine-year-ol Naomi Branshaw, of
Reading, probably was saved from
felonious assault by negro when a
colored woman yelled at the fellow
while he was dragging the little girl
into kiln at Laws brick yard. The
man had enticed the child away by
promising her some blocks and mana
ged TO get rid of her brother, who &C
companied them, without exciting his
suspicion.
DR.. Charles Coleman Benson, aged
10, man of mystery and boyhood ac-
quaintance of King Edward VII, with
his wife aged 67 committed suicide in
their boarding house at Philadelphia,
by taking cyanide of potassium. Dis
appointment over plans for great in
ventions of his that went astray, with
the poor-house and separation staring
them in the face, is said to have made
the old couple decide ON suicide. He
was rich once.
Leo, big lion performing in an
animal act at the North Third street
zoo, Harrisburg, calmly walked out
through a door that had been left
open leading from the cage in which
he did his act and put an audience in
a panic. Placidly walking to the
front of the stage, the animal looked
at the fleeing audience, then turned
around and walked to whence he
came. Some few minutes later,
sheepish looking audience drifted back
to their seats.
The congregation of Tabernacle
Baptist church, Harrisburg, opened
the celebration of it's twenty first an
niversary Sunday. The exercises will
be continued until Friday evening. At
a meeting of the congregation year
ago arrangements were made to raise
81, 100 to clear off the remainder of
the church debt. Thirty mine hundred
dollars had been raised on Saturday
and the remainder will be subscribed
before Thursday when a mortgage
burning service will be held.
The Marysville police authorities
are to be the defendants in suit
which it is said citizen will bring
against them to obtain the reward
offered for the arrest of an outlaw,
the mans brother, Amos Kinert says
that he delivered his brother Albert
to justice. Albert is said to have been
the bandit who terrorized the neigh
borhood of Marysville last summer,
Certain parties are trying to oust
Sheriff p. ]. Murphy, of Pottsville,
from the Office he has held for three
months. 1t is said that Milton II. Mas
ters was promised job as deputy
sheriff by Murphy, before the latter
had been elected, which is contrary to
law. 1t is alleged that there are a
number of witnesses to the proffer.
Masters, it is said, is likely to be ar
rested on counter charpes