CONSIDER
TBESE CASES
Notwithstanding the vigilance of the j
truant officer there is now and then a
case which in the very nature of!
tilings lie is unable to cope with. The
truant not unusually combines along
with the indolent heedless qualities |
that make a poor student of him an
astute and crafty nature which makes :
liiui an adept in eluding the officer. '
There are cases, therefore, where the j
truant simply has the best of it aud •
the records at school show up badly |
on that account.
When truants of this nature have j
parents or guardians, no matter how
indifferent, there is some hope,as these ,
people under threat of arrest can be
induced to co-operate with the officer.
But when it happens that the boys are
without parents and there is no one
responsible for them it is altogether
another matter and whether they aro
at school or not depends upon whether i
they want togo or the truant officer |
is able to catcli them in a daily chase
about town and "terri'ory adjacent
thereto." Two of such pieces of hu
man driftwood without any one direct
ly responsible for them the officer has
on his list at present aud the boys goto
school when they want to, which is
seldom.
The question arises whether in such
cases something should not be done
that would be effectual in bringing
the boys under restraint aud prevent
them from pursuing a course that will
be sure to make vagabonds of them.
Why does not someone upon whom
such duties devolve take the boys in
hand and if it is necessary to send
them to some iustitutiou where they
will have to obey the laws that govern
other people, then let it be done. Un
der proper restraint there would at
least be half a chance tlmt the boys
would develop into lawabiding and
useful citizens.
Will Monopolize Court.
Mount Carmel will practically mon
opolize the attention of tlio judges and
officials at the sessions of criminal
court to begin at Sunbury the first
Monday in May.
Mt. Carmel will have almost fifty
cases, all developed since the term of
court held in February.
The list Includes cases representing
almost every known crime, from mali
cious mischief, one of the lightest of
the rainor offenses, to murder, the
worst of the major crimes. There is a
manslaughter case, two of highway
robbery, one of criminal malpractice,
several of assault aud battery, also
some of aggravated assault aud battery
with intent to kill, a speakeasy case,
anil even a witchcraft case.
The latter case is one of the oddest
known, aud is quite a novelty for the
present officials. It grows out of the
defense to be made by Walter Heavy,
now lodged in jail on a charge of bur
glarizing the Parsick home on Vine
street, Mt. Carmel.
Heavy's friends allege that the pros
ecution against him was instituted
because of "information" gleaned
from the incantations of several for
tune tellers. They claim that Mrs.
Miller, of Ashland, and other alleged
fortune tellers held seances at the Par
fick homo to discover the identity of
the burglar, aud that the "witches"
said tiie guilty man was Heavy. No
doubt the story will be vigorously
denied,but nevertheless the case is in
teresting.
ONE MAN'S VIEWS.
A member of our board of trade a*id
a practical business man Tuesday de
plored that more is uot being done to
promote the growth and development
of our town. Our present industries,
all of which are booming, theso pros
perous times,he held, should see their
way clear to expand, as a result of
which our population would grow.
The municipality should be carefully
looked after in all its relations and he
suggested that a taxpayers' association
be formed as exists in many other
places to see that there is no derelic
tion of duty ou the part of those in
office. A spirit of enterprise and of
civic pride should be encouraged and
this should extend to laud owuers in
the immediate vicinity of town,whose
property must rise or fall in value as
Danville grows and prospers or stands
still and retrogrades.
This suggested to the gentleman
that while the residents of Columbia
county are prospecting for all sorts of
minerals and are actually finding some
land owners in the vicinity of Dan
ville seem to feel no curiosity to kuow
what may lie under their farms. lu
these days when drilling has taken the
the place of slow and expensive me
thods in digging into the earth he
thought there were few farmers who
could not afford to do a little prospect
ing. Coal in some quantities is known
to exist as near cm Kipp's run audit
is not beyond the range cf probability
that underlying this immediate vicin
ity are both oil and gas. It might be
several hundred feet below, but the
probability is that the outlay required
to bore down in the oud would be a
pretty good investment.
nr. and Mrs. Mauser Entertain.
Mr. aud Mrs. Alon/o Mauser enter
tained a large number of friends at an
oyster supper at their home at Grov
ama Friday evening. Those present
were : Misses Edna Shultz.Ella Boyer,
Pearl Heberling, Hettie Pursel,Flora
Linn, Ursel Mowrey, Emma Krum,
Hebecca Hawkins,Beulali Kuorr, Dora
Mowrey, Emma Foust, Cora Foust,
Maud Fry, Annie Kapp, Celia Beaver,
Alda Shultz,Flora Krum, Lydia Hart
man, Martha Boyer, Pauline Mauser,
Mary Mauser, Dorothy Welliver;
Messrs. Guy Mowrey, Charles Krum,
Joseph Cotuer, Fred Roth, George
Heimbach, Arthur Foust, Charles
Foust, John Thomas, Charles Thomas, •
Roy Weavor, Clarence Cotner, Roy
Fern, Hurley Cotner, William Drum,
Charles Heimbach, Stewart Hartmau,
James Beaver. Cleveland Boyer, John
Dell, Curtis Walter, Mrs. John Wel
liver, Mrs. Minnie Middleton.
The Buckhorn charge of the Luther
an ohurch has extended a call to Rev.
G. D. Strall.of Breworton.New York,
to take effeot May Ist.
CONTRACT WAS
NOTAWARDED
| Tuesday was the date set for the
. meeting of the trustees of the hospit- 1
al for the insane for the purpose of '
opening and examining the bids for I
I building the heat, light and power
plant at which electricity is to be em
; ployed. The occasion brought some
twenty experts to Danville,representa
j fives of the parties bidding, but they
: were obliged to return home disap-
I pointed,as the contract was not award-
I ed.
| The trustees present at the meeting
were: H. M. Schoch of Danville : Dr.
,B. H. Detwiler, of Wilkes-Barre; Dr.
Shoemaker, of Williamsport; Dr. Con
nell, of Scrantou; Howard Lyon, of
Hugliesville ; W. F. Shay, of Watson
town, aud C. G. Van Alen, of North
umberland. Mr. Van Alen, who was
recently appointed, met with the trus
i tes for the first time Tuesday.
The session occupied all day. The
trustees found tliomselves up against a
weighty proposition. The specifica
tions are voluminous, while the prop
osition involving as it does electric
ity leaves a good many different points
to be taken care of; but what soemed
to occasion the greatest delay was the
difference of opinion as to which of
the two sites should be selected.
At the previous meeting held March
15th, Philip H. Johnson, of Philadel
phia, the architect,submitted two sets
of plaus aud specifications for the
heat, light and power plant, one on
the site first selected at the coal dump
just west of the hospital buildings and
the other at the rear of the hospital
taking in the present steam power
plant, where the air compressor main
tained in connection with the new filter
system is installed. Both sets of plaus
aud specifications were adopted by the
trustees aud bids were invited ou both
of them.
There were a dozeu proposals ou
hand Tuesday and it waH in examin
ing these aud considering other mat
ters in connection with them that the
time was largely si>eut. Each of the
two sites has some features to recom
mend it. The principal objection to
the site at the coal dump lies in the
, fact that, there will be a loss in power
owing to the distance from the main
buildiug,about a thousand feet. Those
of the trustees who believed that the
loss of power could be obviated saw
many objections to the site at. the rear
of the hospital, which involves a re
buildiug of the present boiler house—
objections which they were not slow
to urge. On the whole there were so
many matters to consider that night
arrived before tlio trustees wore ready
to award the contract and adjournment
was agreed upon to reconvene at some
date yet to he determined upon.
Representatives of the bidding firms,
experts aud others, numbering in all
twenty or more appeared in Danville
early in the day. Many sought in
terviews with local contractors anxious
to get their views as to estimates for
certain lines of work, etc., the fact
I implied seeming to be that if they got
the contract the local men would be in
line for sub contracts.
Blue Print Ready.
! The blue print relating to North
Mill street, prepared by Borough
P Engineer Keefor, which failed to ar
■ rive in time for the regular meeting
Friday night, was acted upon at a
special meeting of council ou Monday
night. It was approved in all res]>ects
and delivered over into the hands of
( Borough Solicitor E. S. Gearhart, who
will see that it gets to Harrisburg in
t due time.
The borough solicitor will make an
other trip to Harrisburg to hurry up
affairs in tiie State highway depart
. ment. Council has now decided to
. pave North Mill street along its entire
length, provided aid comes from the
. State. It will be a fine improvement
. aud will add much to the value of
projierty in the northern end of town.
. Tlio same change will occur that took
place in the other jiortiou of Mill
( street. The driveway will be made
: narrower, which will result in a cor
responding widening of the sidewalks.
In addition to this a sewer will be
l laid along the east side of North Mill
street from Ceutor to Chambers street.
! The sewer will be of 8-inch terra cotta
pipe to connect with each of the dwel
lings and from Mill and Centre stroets
it will be carried down to the rear of
the armory where it will connect with
the northern terminus of the present
sewer.
Danville Defeated.
Fresh from a conquering tour
through the West, where they earned
the title of champions of the United
States, the Tamaqua basket ball play
ers came to Danville evening
and easily took the locals into camp.
It is doubtful if such brilliant bask
ot ball was ever seou in Danville as
the Tamaqua boys put up at that time.
The locals, too, were playing good
ball, aud made the champions work
for each point. Iu the first part of the
second half especially the Danville
boys for a while out passed aud out
tossed Tamauua, but the spurt soon
passed off and the visitors once more
started forging ahead. Fogarty, one
of Tamaqua's forwards, that night won
the distinction of making a record for
goal throwing iu one game, tossing 27
baskets. Score was 10.1-48.
The line-up:
Tamaqua Danville.
Fogarty...... forward Bedea
forward . Welliver
O'Douuell forward Johnson
Mulliuer ... center .Secliler
Kinkaide guard Gilmore
guard Russell
Hough ...guard Peters
Goals from field : Fogarty 27, Mul
liuer 12, O'Douuell 8, Hough 4, John
son 7, Welliver 5, Secliler 4, Bedea 2,
Russell 2, Peters 2, Gilmore I. Goals
from fouls: Bedea 2, O'Douuell 1.
Trains Taken Off.
On account of the mines 'beingfclos- I
ed down two of the miners' trains ou 1
the Pennsylvania railroad plying be- i
tweeu Shamokiu and the collieries i
have been taken off and will not be re- i
placed until the strike question is set- <
tlad and op«ratious resumed. , 1
LEGAL CAMPAIGN
iIPENSES
There are many inquiries as to what
are legitimate election expenses under
the corrupt practice act passed at the
rocent extra session of the legislature.
Ijjie act defines them as follows:
1. For printing and traveling ex
penses and personal expenses incident
thereto, stationery, advertising, post
age, expressago, freight, telegraph,
telephone and other public messenger
service.
2. For dissemination of information
to the public
SI. For political meetings, demon
strations and conventions and for the
pay aud transportation of speakers.
4. For the rent, maintenance and
furnishing of offices.
5. For the payment of olerks, type
writers, stenographers, janitors and
messengers actually employed.
fi.f For the employment of watchers
at primary meetings aud elections to
the number allowed by law.
7. For the transportation of voters
to and from the poles.
8. For legal expenses, bona fide, in
curred iu connection with any nomina
tion or election.
Theso are the authorized expendit
ures. Candidates or treasurers of
political committees are forbidden to
pay, lend, give or lend, agree to pay,
give or lend either directly or indirect,
ly any money or other valuable thing
for any nomination or election ex
peuses whatever, save as declared in
those eight exceptions. Considerable
latitude is allowed as may be seen.
All the expenditures permitted are
perfectly legitimate however. There
are sume things that both candidates
and political committees must do, and
there is no purpose in the new law
to interfere with anything that may
be proper to promote the interests of
a candidate or party. The purpose is
to prevent the corrupt ues of money in
politics, to prevent the purchase or
support through bribery, either with
money, or othor valuable thing, such,
for iustauco, as the promise of a fut
ure office. It puts iu more ilefiuite
form the principles of acts which
have been iu existence for many years.
The law provides for an accounting
by which the candidate aud the trea
surer of the party committee must
stute under oatli just how much raouoy
has been expended audgivotho details
of such expenditure. Iu fact the state
ment must be itemized, and the law
rtates very clearly what are legitimate
expenses. Furthermore, every expense
account incurred by a candidate for a
state office must be filed with the sec
retary of the commonwealth, aud can
didates for other offices must lilo with
the clerk of the court of quarter ses
sions.
Chief Clerk Bartho has now in course
of preparation blanks to be sent to all
candidates for state office, including
senators and members of the houso of
representatives, aud they must all file
their accounts, which will be open to
public inspection. Theso blanks will
bo forwarded to candidates from the
department. Danville aud those for
county offices must bo supplied bv the
county commissioners.
Delays Trout Fishing,
Fish Commissioner Meeliau has issu
ed the following warning iu connec
tion with the opening of the trout sea
sou : "The trout season is fixed by law
to open April 15th. That date this
year falls ou Sunday. Tlio season, will
not, therefore, open until next day,
Monday, April ltitli. Any oue caught
fishing ou Sunday, will uot be pro
secuted for fishing on Sunday, but for
having iu his possession fish caught
out of season. The penalty for fishing
on Sunday is a fine of $25. but the
penatly for catching fish out of season
is $lO a fish. This warning is issued
in order that there may be no misun
derstanding between fishermen aud
employees of the department of fish
eries. ''
Destroyed by Hire.
After Mr. F. G. Delbaugh,of Lower
Augusta township, Northumberland
county, attended market at Sunbury
Saturday morning he learned that af
ter he had left (iome fire broke out iu
his smoke house which was consumed
with a quantity of moat in it, the lire
communicating with an adjoining
chicken house, which was also burued
with a number of fowls. Although
these buildings were not far from his
residence the latter was not ignited.
No one was at homo but Mrs. Del
bough. The fire evidently originated
from matorial that was being burned
for tlio smoking of ment.
Col. C. Bow Dougherty Promoted.
The aunouncemeut of the appoint
ment of Colonel C. Bow Dougherty, of
the Ninth regimont, Wilkes-Barre, to
be Brigadier General commanding the
Third brigade, National Guard, to suc
ceed General Gobin, promoted to bo
Major General, will be mado next
week by Governor Penuypacker. Col
ouel Dougherty is the oldest colonel in
commission in the brigade, aud uatur
ally succeeds to the command of the
brigade.
Installed Officers.
A delegation of Odd Fellows con
sisting of Dr. Jno. Sweisfort, district
deputy, and John Foust, Robert Rich
ardsou aud D. C. Williams, as mar
shals, drove out to Washingtouville
and Exchange Saturday night at each
of which places they installed the
newly elected officers iu the Odd Fel
lows lodge. Dr. Sweisfort aud Rob
ert Richardson officiated at Wasliing
tonvillo and D. C. Williams and John
Foust at Exchange.
Favor the Widow.
The term of the postmaster at Ash
land being about to expire there were
a number of applicants for the office,
but all of them, including the present i
incumbent, who would like to have i
had auother term, have withdrawn in <
favor of Mrs. Patterson, widow of i
Congressman George R. Patterson, who I
died some three weeks ago iu tlio <
midst of his congressional term. Presi- I
dent Roosevelt will probably appoint (
h»r thii WMk. i
HATE TOD MONET
THBNFOMIGATE IT
Bankers of Pennsylvania will at
once get ready to fumigate all money
that passes through their hands, and
from a health point of view this is the
proper thing in order to ward off con
tagion.
State Health Oommissioner Samuel
G. Dixon will call upon bank officials
thoughout Pennsylvania to assist him
in checking the spread of disease by
taking tiie precaution to fumigate
money before it passes out the
bank's hands.
Dr. Dixon has fouud disease produc
ing germs on filthy paper money in
circulation and says that undoubtedly
rnany cases of communicable disease
throughout the State must be traceable
to infected money.
He lias prepared the following cir
cular letter to be sent to every bank
in the State which he believes will
not only prevent infection but be of
direct benoflt to the institution itself
as a business proposition.
"As the germs of disease are fouud
in'money in circulation, the depart
ment of health respectfully suggests
and requests that you co-operate with
it in the protection of the health of
our people by fumigating all money
received by your bank before it is
again putin circulation. Such a pre
cautionary measure, I am confident,
will avoid many cases of sickness and
deatli in your community.
"The disinfection of money maybe
accomplished by spraying with a form
aldehyde solution or exposing to the
fumes of formaldehyde gas."
Dr. Dixon's attention was called to
}he importance of washing and disin
fecting money through the action of a
bank in the eastern part of the State,
which invariably fumigates all of the
paper money that passes - through its
hands thus insuring immunity from
disease germs. This vas a pretty good
idea, and led the State health com
missioner to send out the above cir
cular. Another bank in the western
part of the State gives a bath to the
dirty paper money that it receives. It
places the notes in a basin of clean
water, and in a short time the ac
cumulated filth scales off and the note,
after being dried, becomes crisp and
clear as if just issued from the print
ing press.
In New Quarters.
Adams & Company's express with
William M. Secliler as agent has taken
possession of its new quarters in the
building adjoining the Baldy House,
Mill street.
Electric light was putin the build
ing Monday but all the furniture is
not yet installed that is required to
accommodate the business. It will he
several days before the office will be
fully equipped. Only one wagou is in
: use tip to the present. Whether or not
another wagon will be added will de
-1 velop later.
1 The new quarters are probably not
as convenient as Groue's book store,
1 which lias a rear door on the alley,
through which the goods could be
loaded aud unloaded directly on and
off the wagon. In the new quarters
the goods handled will have to be car
ried across the pavement and the front
door will liavo to be used exclusively.
Miss Elizabeth Fischer, daughter of
School Director Jacob Fischer,lias ac
cepted a position witli Adams and
Company as clerk. She entered upon
' her duties Monday.
ON THE RAILROADS.
The congestion of freight trains on
. the Pennsy, which held up things about
Soutii Danville only a week or so ago,
seems to bo no longer in evidence. In
, fact quite a falling off of freight is re
ported.
Ou the P. &R. apparently there is
uo diminution of traffic, although it
is noticed that ou all trains there are
more empty cars than loaded ones.
This is bocanse in view of a probabil
ity of a coal strike on all the lines the
foreign cars are being sent back to the
. roads to which they belong. The P.
& R. company is shipping its own
empty cars to Newberry Junction and
to the coal region, where they will be
kept until needed.
Flyer Wrecked In Landslide.
Plunging at high speed into a land
slide at Port Clinton, Monday even
ing, the Wilkes-Barre "flyer" ou the
Pennsylvania railroad was badly wreck
ed.
The locomotive, containing engineer
Harry Hoffmeister aud fireman Wil
liam Weismiller, went down the 16-
foot bank to the Reading railway, and
both men were badly hurt aud were
taken to the Pottsville hospital.
The passengers were transferred to
the Reading, as the Pennsylvania was
blocked all night.
The passenger coaches kept the track
aud beyond being violently shaken,
none of the passengers were injured.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Mill street was thronged Saturday
night as it had not .been for months
previously. It was the first Saturday
night on which the weather was any
thing like agreeable and the weather
conditions as well as the approach of
Easter had the effect of bringing out a
crowd. The spectacle, indeed, was a
most enlivening one after the dull
season, in which few persons appear
ed upon the Btreets that were not bent
upon business. The stores wore their i
gayest Easter attire aud presented a i
beautiful appearance. That the merch
ants did a good business goes without 1
saying. ,
ONE TOWNSHIP'S PLAN.
The supervisors of West Chillisquu
que towusliip,Northumberland county,
at a meeting held recently, laid a
tlirje mill cash road tax. This tax is
to Jao pnid in cash. It was decided,
however, tliat taxpayers conld have
the privilege of working to the amount
of their tax if they elect to do so and
comply with the stipulations agreod
11 pon by the board. They must bo read
to come when the supervisors call up
ou them. All work must be done by
the hour. Toams will be paid thirty
oents au iiour and shovelers and labor-
Ms twalv« and a half cants.
MBO>§\
in line M
make moire|w
THE SATURDAY Iff
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the country free to boys who sell a certain number of copies.
<(wr $250 in Extra Cash Prizes
Each Month to Boys Who Do Good Wor|^
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1728 Arch St., Philadelphia
WILL HAVE COUNT
ER PROPOSITION
Miners Were Busy Yesterday Preparing
It lor Today's Conference—
Contentions.
NEW YORK, April 11.—The couut
er-propostiou of the operators that the
authracite strike commission consider
only two of the miners' demands, |
namely, rates of wages and an adjust- 1
ineut of complaints by the board of
conciliation will be rejected by the
mine workers in its present form. The
counter-proposition of the operators
includes many restrictions aud lim
itations that are altogether objection
able to the miners. The miners' scale
committee met today at the Ashland
house to consider this latest reply of
the operators to the demand for arbi
-1 tration and it was indicated that a
1 counter-proposition will be drafted
which will be presented to the oper
ators at the joint meeting tomorrow.
MINERS WANT SPALDING.
The operators say today that the
situation is with Mitchell and his men,
and upon them depends whether or not
there shall be peace in the hard coal
industry. The miners point out that
i the operators, by astute wording that
l the anthracite commission bo required
i to arbitrate the situation, have lost to
the miners one member of the commis
sion, who was a great friend of the
mine workers, Bishop Spalding, of
? Peoria. The bishop has recently suf
fered severe attacks of paralysis, and
is consequently unable to serve. The
i operators in the counter-proposition
state:
"The members of the anthracite
strike commission, or such of them as
may be able aud willing to act, shall
be requested to decide, etc."
This clause prevents anyone from
serving in Bishop Spalding's place and
as the bishop was appointed on the
commission by President Roosevelt at
Mitchell's request, they think it only
fair that the president be asked to ap
point someone in his place. This re
quest will doubtless be incorporated in
the miners' counter-proposition.
THINGS MINERS WILL REJECT.
The elimination of tlie miners' de
mands to only the question of wages
aud the adjustment of complaints by
the board of conciliation will be flat
ly rejected by the miners. The mine
workers contend that the question of
the eight-hour day is one of great im
portance to the worker, and the scale
committee will insist that this ques- i
tion be submitted to the commission j
for arbitration. The mine workers are j
of the opinion that there must be some '
modification on the proposition of the l
operators that the question of rednc- 1
tion of wages should be arbitrated as
well as the question of an increase, i
How far the miners will carry their 1
objection to this position of the oper
ators that questions of reductions, as 1
well as increases be arbitrated, is not!
known.
David Wilcox, of the Delawaro and
Hudson company, lias stated that he is
prepared to show that the coal in
dustry is in such shape 'that the price
of fuel should bo reduced, and that
there should be a decrease in wages.
Arrests for Sunday Selling.
Seventy saloon keepers of Schuyl
kill county were arrested Sunday by
the Law and Order society for Sunday
selling. Yesterday attorneys for the
society, asked the court to revoke the
licenses of all of the defendants.
The large number of violations of j
the law is considered extraordinary,in .
view of the fact that the society only ' j
a few months ago secured the convic-' i
tion of upward of 100 dealers for sim- ,
ilar offenses, and six weeks ago the,,
license court distinctly warned every 11
dealer of the necessity of keeping clos- | \
ed on Sunday. j
Ileavy Weight Champion.
Donald Herring,son of formor Judge
Orant Herring,of Bloomsburg,lias been
decided champion heavy-weight wrest
ler of the inter-collegiate contests.
Wrestlers from Princeton. Yale, Col
umbia and Pennsylvania contested in
the match and although Yale captured
t lie contest by the greatest number of
points, the individual heavy-weight
championship was captured by Her
ring.
He was easily champion as none of
the bouts in which he took part was
of more than two miuntes' duration.
ELKS WILL TAKE
SNOW BATHS
[I In tbe Mid-Winter, That's What the
Western Fairy Tale Says
And 'Tis True.
Members of Danville lodge No. 764
* B. P. O. E. are preparing for the Elks
' reunion to be held in Denver, Colo
rado, this sutnmor. A good sized del
• egation of the local lodge will see the
? wonders of the west.
) Snow balls in the summer time will
5 be one of the features of the reunion
i to be held in Denver, next Jul v. Sixty
miles from Denvor, on the new Moffat
■ road, there are banks of perpetual snow
> lying beside the tracks, aud quantities
I'of this will be brought down whffci
F | the great parade is passing through
■ the streets of Denver, and the Elks
11 will learn how it feels to plunge their
11 hands in cooling snow while the sum
- j mer sun is blazing down upon their
! line of march.
| The snow that remains in the moun
tains during the summer does not
3 easily melt when taken to a lowor al
' titude. It exists two miles above the
j sea level all summer long, and as Den
ver is one mile above the tide, there
is plenty of snow to turn the great re
union of the Elks into a unique festiv
al. The Moffat Road is being built
} from Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah,
and is now in process of construction,
j; and this is the first time it has been
possible to bring snow down to Denver
j for the purpose of astonishing crowds
ot visitors who come from where the
snow vauishes'as soon as the breath of
I April|touche* it.
I PASSENGER TRAIN
:| STRUCKFREIGHT
t Traltlc on S. H. Si W. Division ol Penn
sy Tied up by a Rear End Col
l llsion Above Nescopect
II
, The uoou Pennsylvania passenger
train from Wilkes-Barre arrived an
hour lato owing to a wreck at Retreat
j siding, just above Nescopeck, which
5 1 occurred at 8:30 o'clock yesterday
' I morning.
The passenger train leaving South
'! Danville for Wilkes-Barre at 7:11 rail
into the rear end of a freight train at
the Nescojieck Biding through some
' misunderstanding of signals. The
\ engine of the passenger and the ca
-1 j boose of the freight train were both
1 j badly smashed up, both crews as well
> as the passongers on the train all es
-1; caped uninjured. Some of the freight
crew were in the caboose as the pass
enger approached, aud seeing that a
J collision was imminent they jumped
ito safety, just in time to be saved
from being crushed with the car.
[ The wrecking car was soon on the
j scene, and after two hours' labor the
track was cleared, but it was several
hours more before tratfio could be re
stored.
The Trout Season.
With the opening of the trout season
next Monday the fishermen of this sec
tion are getting their paraphernalia
ready bout on enticing the wily trout,
The dealers in fishermen's supplies
have been busy supplying tackle aud
the other nooessaries and the next few
days will find the wide-awake angler
ready for his first "cast."
FINE HORSES.
! The Hanover Brewing Company has I
| purchased two fine teams of iron I
'greys, which arc much admired by our
townspeople. The animals were pur
chased at Georgu W. Weaver's horse
sale at Milton on Saturday and were
brought to this city ou Sunday. One
team weighs 2800 pounds and the other
3,300 pounds.
Will Qo South.
Five hundred men will leave Sha- I
niokin and Mt, Cprniel this week for j
North Carolina where they will be'
. employed in the construction of 800 !
miles of railroad. The wages paid will!
range between $1.50 and 18.00 per day
and transportation will bo furnished
to the point of operation.
Dance on Easter Honday.
The annual Easter Monday dance
will take plnoo this year as usual at
the armory. Music by a seven-piece
orchestra.
MINOR MATTERS
OF INTEREST
Pacts and Episodes Caught in Passing
and Briefly Related lor Beoelil
ol News Readers.
BULBS MURDOCK.
Kor Hcveral month* nu article has
been going the ronndfi of the press to
the effect that a fortune of 1300,000
awaits a former Danville man uameil
Murilock, who cannot be found. The
article states that there is uncertainty
about tlie man's first name which is
either Amiel, Einille or Albert—that
lie was born in Massachusetts in 1823,
a son of Bartlett and Hannah Mo'-
dock—that those interested in locating
him have traced him to Danville, Pa.,
where in JB*sl he was married to Miss
Henrie. It was known that he enlist
ed in Brooklyn in 1865 and records
have been found of his discharge in
1871. After enlistment however all
trace of him has beou lost.
Joseph R. Patton and others well re
member Murdock when lie lived in
Danville These men are able to set
tle the question as to his first name,
which was "Miles." Murdock was a
very gentlemanly and clever man and
held a position in the office of the
Montour iron works. While in Dan
ville, about 1856, Ito married Miss
Lucretia Henrie, who sometime after
ward secured a divorce.
•i n m
GOOD OUTLOOK KOR WHEAT.
Tlie Government report concerning
the growing wheat shows a slightly
lower average April condition than
that of a year ago. At that time tho
official estimate of tho condition per
centage was 91.6, and that made pub
lic yesterday was 89.1. A few states
like Kansas, and some of smaller pro
ductive capacity, show an appreciable
shrinkage, which brings the general
average 2.5 points below that of last
year, although the condition of the
crop in some states is higher than it
was then.
The slight comparative deteriora
tion, however, does not indicate an
unsatisfactory crop outlook, as tlie
present condition is unusually high
even for April, and has been exceeded
but three times in that month during
the past fifteen years. Tlie April figures
are usually higher than the condition
at harvest, but there is margin for
some decline from the present high
promise without material reduction in
the aggregate yield. Unless there shall
be serious future impairment of tlie
plant the winter wheat production this
year is likely to be as abundant as was
that of 1905.
BUSINESS AND RELIGION.
Business principles applied to relig
ion are as successful as sound religious
principles applied to honest business.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, the;pastor of
the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church, at his wits' end to chock a
falling off in the attendance at his
Bible school, roceutly inserted a pago
advertisement in a Sunday morning
paper inviting young men to come to
his meetings. Tlie eft'eot was instant
aneous. As a result of one insertion
of the advertisement the membership
of the Bible class increased one-third,
and scores who had never heard of it
became sufficiently interested to write
and inquire concerning the work. The
ohurcli officials sav that one hundred
dollars—the cost of the advertisement
—was never spent more advantageous
ly for the cause of religion.
* * •
AN ALTAR CROSS.
H. W. Lewis of Philadelphia has
presented a gilded altar cross to Trin
ity Lutheran church of this city. Mr.
Lewisjis ajwealthy man. who liasjre
membered several other churches in
this vicinity in the same generous
way, among them being the Lutheran
church at Selinsgrove.
Reading Cutting Time.
The Tamaqua Courier says:"The
Philadelphia and Reading shops at
Catawissa, Milton, Newberry and
Tamaqua have been placed on three
quarters time. This move was made
1 iii accord with the general retrench
ment policy that the Reading will
carry out during the suspension of
work at the mines. At'Shamokin and
Gordon the engine house men have
been placed on half time, while those
at Mahanoy Plane have been placed 011
quarter time."
Wholesale Revoking.
Following the seventy arrests for
Sunday liquor selling in Schuylkill
county, the sensation of the year was
sprung in court Monday when Judge
BechteljOu motion of attorneys for the
Law and Order society granted rules
upon 49 salooukeepers to show cause
why their licenses should not be revok
ed, All these saloons aro in Shenan
doah, and as 50 more similar cases are
to be brought in that town, which has
a saloon for every 30 voters, the num
ber of drinking places is apt to be cut
down by two*thirds.
Is Y
Hair S
That's too bad! We had no
ticed it was looking- pretty thin
and rough of late, but naturally
did not like to speak of it. By
the way, Ayer's Hair Vigor is
a regular hair grower, a per
fect hair tonic. The hair stops
coming out, grows faster,
keeps soft and smooth. Ayer's
Hair Vigor cures sick hair,
makes it strong and healthy.
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Eyes tesed, treated an fitted with
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IHOMAS C. WEL'wH
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unmet Attorn#/ of Montoor Ooaaiy
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Two BsftatorMl Pharmacist* In etaarga
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"TOWNEY" HOWE.
J. T. '.Towney) Howe of Scrnnton,
same down to this city Sunday to
!ec liis old friend,Cnptnin J. II Jolm
iou, who is on the nick list. Mr.
Howe, who is mi aldorman of the city
)f Scrautou, began life in Danville
»ud is personally known by every resi
lent here of middle life and upwards.
He never visits the town hut lie meets
with a royal welcome He is a news
paper man and learned his trade in
Danville under Charles Cook. Hp
ffent to Bfooinshurg ami Berwick wor|t
ng on file newspa] ers there, after
A'liich he returned to Danville where
le enlisted in the Uuited States Armv
luring the Rebellion. After tlio war
le drifted to Scranton where for over
hirty yeaia he wan on the "Fcrantou
Republican."