Home Paper - —For tie Home The circulation of this paper is in creasing rapidly. It wil pay you to advertise in the AMERICAN. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR DR. IRVING H. JENNINGS, DENTIST. Office Hours 9 A. if. to 12 M 104 if ill St., 1 P. if. to 4 P. if. Danville. Pa. ««ll I'l.T/, M. D. 425 MILL ST., DANVILLE, PA. ijjeeases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty W. P. ANGLE, DENTIST OFFICK: 218 MILL STREET. eeth Extracted without I'aln. frown and Bridge Work a Specialty. Equipped with the latest and most improved InntrumentK and prepared to execute the mOHt difficult work. DR. C. H. REYNOLDB, (FORMERLY OP CATAWISSA). DENIIBI Office, Opposite Boston Store, Danville, Fa Dentistry In all Its branches. Charge Moderate and ali work Guaranteed Established 1899.5 CONDENSED NEWS. April showers are due. Spring fever is contagions. Almost time for straw hats. The country roads are dusty. Tailors are working overtime. Danville is booming industrially. The buds on the trees are swelling. And now it is more likely that April will make up in smiles what she lacked in good cheer so far. The evidence of yesterday would seem to put the pro phecy on solid grounds. The advent of spring turns loose a great horde of agents of every descrip tion both in town and rural districts. In towns these peregrinators offer books, pictures, maps and household devices innumerable. In the country they sell lightening rods, agricultural mplements, dairy fixtures and the like. It would be too sweeping an assertion x> say that all these agents are swind ers, but it is not unfair to warn people x> be very cautious with whom they leal. Prof. Richard Metherell will play with he Reitmeyer orchestra at Eagles Mere luring the summer months. Edward Czechowicz sold his sorrel lorse to J. E. Moore yesterday. The bicycle is becomine numerous .gain. This is an infallible harbinger >f spring. If that good roads bill passes the legislature and becomes a law, it ueans a million dollars for the placing •112 the roads of the State in decent con lition. It is to be hoped that in the dis ribution the county of Montour will xime in for a fair share, and that it vill be applied where it will do the nost good. An improvement iu the condition of >ur curbstone market is noticed every narket day. Several residents have begun making garden. Trailing arbutus parties will soon be n order. Ex-Sheriff George Maiers will open a sarber shop at his old stand 216 Mill treet May Ist. His brother William vill work tor him. The United Telegraph and Telephone Jo., the corporation which has absorbed he Montour and Columbia Telephone k>., now controls 25,000 phones and vill soon hold the key to communication ill over middle eastern Pennsylvania. The office of the company will be in the r'idelity Building, Philadelphia. June 18th has been fixed as the date or the State encampment of the Sons of v'eterans at Lebanon. The meeting ■vill last three days. New awnings have been placed in ront of the stores of IJ K. Shoemaker East Mahoning street, and Owen's groe ?ry, Mill street. All bad sidewalks should be repaired it once. In the opinion of the oldest inhabitant tis now safe to put away the snow ihovel. Charles Woods, nn employe of this office, is seriously ill at his home on Mill Btreet. Danville ought to do a little celebrat ing this year when the national anni versary arrives. All things come to those who wait. The man who bought lettuce seed three weeks ago, and has ever since been waiting for a thaw, will now be able to stroll proudly forth with his spade and agitate the bosom of mother earth. Candidates are already putting on their pleasant smiles and practicing th*> hand shake. It will take a week of warm weather to put the streams in good condition for trout fishing. The school term of Valley township closed yesterday Major Edith Marshall will lecture at the Salvation Army hall May 3rd and 4. Passenger agents are preparing for a big summer excursion season. Pleasant spring weather will boost the ice cream and soda interests. The peach blossoms are getting in trim now for an experience with late frosts, and the Jersey growers are get ting ready to announce the annnal fail nre. CV b n Hvirtifori g V M JVIil- \ll i V-JIK- IvHl U "THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER RE ENTIRELY FREE UNTIL IT SUPPLIES ALL OF ITS OWN DEMANDS WITH ITS OWN PRODUCTIONS." VOL. 46--MO I<>. OUR TOWN'S NEW INDUSTRY Thomas West Will Erect a Large Dyeing Plant. Danville is to have a new and import ant industry in the form of a dyeing plant to be built by Thomas West in connection with his Knitting Mills in this city. The project has been under consideration, for some time, but it was not until Thursday that Mr. West and the Water Commissioners of this city were able to come to terms as to rates for water. The plant will consist of a building 40 xtiO feet, three stories high,in the rear of the present mill 20 feet distant and con nected with it by a bridge under which will be a drive way. To this building will be erected an L one story high and 100 feet in length extending toward the P. A R. switch. The plant is designed to dye the pro duct not only of Mr. West's mills at this city, Plymouth and Nanticoke but to dye the product of other Knitting mills in this section of the state. It will em ploy 75 to 80 men and cost independent of the machinery $9,000, the machinery itself representing an additional ex penditure of SIO,OOO. The money re quired has all been raised and work on the plant will be commenced as soon as the plans, now in the hands of Architect Brugler, are completed. The plant when enlarged will com prise a big group of buildings lending quite a business-like aspect to things in that spction of the borough. The Knit ting MUI under Mr. West's management has been a prosperous and reliable in dustry, a circumstance which promises well for the successful operation of the new dyeing plant. Wintersteen-Divel Nuptials. The marriage of I)r. T. B. Wintersteen and Miss Minnie L. Divel, which will i take place this evening in this city will! be one of the most attractive home wed dings that has occurred here for some The ceremony will take place at ; the residence of the bride's father, Ex- ! Judge Henry Divel, No. 404 Church 1 street, at (i o'clock, Kev. Dr. M. L. Shin lel officiating. Miss Anna Divel, sister of the bride, will render Lohengrin's wedding march. Miss Mildred Sidlerand Master Frank Sidler, little niece and nephew, will offi :iate as maid of honor and best man. rhe diminutive attendants in the per ormance of their parts will constitute a lovel and interesting feature of the :eremony. A wedding dinner will be served after vhich the newly wedded couple will eave on one vi mc -- r rhe guests are to be limited totheim nediate relatives ot the contracting ■ )arties, among whom will be Mrs. Jere- j niah Wintersteen, mother, and Mrs. | vnorr and Mrs. Shultz, sisters, of the jroom, of Bloomsburg; Mrs. John Ileim, )f Williamsport, and Miss Klla Divel, of Philadelphia. Dr. Wintersteen is one of our rising poung physicians, his integrity of cliar icter, intellectual attainments and gen eral proficiency insuring for him a suc ;essful career in his choseu profession. I'he bride is a charming yonng lady, the :enter of a wide circle of devoted friends, «'ho has grown to womanhood in this :ity. Returning from their wedding trip Dr. ind Mrs. Wintersteen will take up their residence at No. 730 East Market, street. P. & R. Railway Selected. The committee representing the four Odd Fellow lodges of this city met last and decided to accept the rates of- j fered by the P. AK. railway for trans portation to the Odd Fellows' anniver- j Bary at Williamsport on April 2»jth. The train will leave Danvlle at 8:30 a. in., ar riving in Williamsport at 10 o'clock. lie- j turning it will leave Williamsport at 11 p. m. Fare for round trip will be $1.34. New Suits. New uniforms ordered for Stoes' band arrived Monday. Accompanying them were some twenty suits for the Fire com pany ordered at the same time for new members. The suits are all ot the same color and material, dark blue cloth. The uniform of the band is distinguished by short or sack coats, trimmed with dark braid. They are neat looking and band some and will no doubt give the band a very fine appearance. Succeeds Lewis Bloch. Philip Ben/.bach has purchased the in terest of the late Lewis Bloch in the firm of Bloch Bros., manufacturers of boys' knee pants. Mr. Benzbach has been with this house for the past fourteen years. The firm will hereafter be known as Bloch A Benzbach. The same line of goods will be manufactured as hereto fore. Death of Miss Ostrauder. Bailie B. Ostrander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. 11. Ostrander, Riverside died Friday morning after a linger ing illness covering a period of about one year. The deceased was 22 years of age, a young lady universally esteemed, whose character was loveliness and pur ity combined. School Closed. Owing to slim attendance due to sick ness in the district the primary depart ment of the Riverside school was closed : Monday. The term will not expire for several weeks. Death of Mrs. Foust. Harriet Agnes, the wife of George W. Foust, died Monday afternoon after several months' illness, aged 32 years CANAL WILL lIE ABANDONED Action Taken by The Stockholders Thurs day. The fate of the Pennsylvania canal is at last sealed. All conjecture as to whether or not we will have water in the canal this summer is at an end. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Penn sylvania canal company held at Phila delphia Thursday the resolution adopt ed by the directors at their meeting on March 25 relative to the abandonment of the canal was unanimously passed. It was further agreed to sell the prop erty as speedily as practicable. Last, year the company's earnings amounted to $38,218 and expenses to #49,860, a def icit of $11,848. The excess of expendi tures over gross earnings during the past five years has amounted to $74,- 472. The canal between Nanticoke and Col umbia,and up the main stream to Loyal sock, the divisions just abandoned, are the last links in a grand old system of waterways, with one exception built the State at a cost of not less than $50,- 000,0U0, which ha ve been crowded out of service by the railroads, whose better facilites and speedier methods are more in keeping with this fa*t and progres sive age. The canal west from Harris burg to Huntingdon was abandoned piece by piece some years ago. There was a full representation at the meeting on Thursday when it was voted to abandon the canal. More than 70,- 000 shares out of a possible 90,000 being in evidence. Removing the Shultz Dead. Our townsman, James Shultz, yester day removed the bodies of his father and mother and three children from the old cemetery on Bloom street to the Pres byterian cemetery. The Shultz lot, en closed by an iron fence, was one of the best kept in the cemetery and one of the redeeming features of the old burial ground. Upon realizing that the ceme tery is doomed to abandonment the re moval of the entire family was decided upon. Among the remains exhumed were those of JacobShultz.a representa tive of one of the pioneer families of the region, who died in August, 1863; those of Elizabeth Shultz,his wife,who died in August, 1853,tw0 grand daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, and a grand son, William, none of the burials occurring later than 18i4. The lot still contains the remains of Mrw. Philip Shultz and of one or two athers, which will also be removed as <oon as practicable. Ihe spot in"the Presbyterian ceme tery where the bodies removed have iiandgome monument which James shultz intends to erect in the near fu ture. It is gratifying to note that there ure several others who have loved ones sleeping in the old burial ground who have decided to follow Mr. Shultz's ex ample and remove them to other ceme teries where the appearance of things is more in keeping with a proper respect For the dead. Modem flouring Mills. The Mausdale mills, formerly operat ed by Messrs. Fry, Dietz and Lawrence, have been sold to Messrs. Campbell & Bovie of Williamsport. These gentle men intend putting in modern machin ery and improving the mill in many ways. Messrs. Fry, Dietz <k Lawrence will operate the North Mill street grist mill which they recently purchased from the Heading Iron Co. The firm will be known as the Danville Milling Co. Near ly |2500 have been spent for new ma chinery and other improvements and it is expected that part of the plant will be in readiness for operation early next week. Double Anniversary. The 15th marriage anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. William Lormer and the second l wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Seth Lormer was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lormer at Sun bury on Sunday. Those present from this city were; Mr. and Mrs. Seth Lor mer and son, Gordon, and Edward V. Stroh, Mr. and Mrs, Wesley Holabaugh and daughter, Irene, and Miss Cora Lormer, and those present from Sun bury were: Mr. and Mrs. William Lor mer and daughters, Mary and Helen,and Mr. and Mrs. William Kulp, Mrs. Moses Kulp and daughter, Anna, Mrs. Cyrus Shipe and son, Hurst, and Mr. Koss Sbuler. For a Year's Trip. Mrs. Leonard Bausch and daughter, Miss Katherine, will leave on the 23i\l inst for San Francisco,Cal. They will re main in the West for one y<*ar. Prof. Houser will occupy Mrs. Bausch's res idence on East Front street. Opened a Broker's Office. M. J. Kelly of New York, has opened a Broker's office in the Lyon building, 309 Mill street. Stocks, grain and cot ton bought and sold for cash or carried on a margin. Private wires to New York and Chicago. Montour & Colum bia Telephone number 199. Lodge Visitation. John F. Foust, District Deputy Grand Master, with Jno. Sweisfort, D. C. Will iams, J. 11. Montague, Grand lodge offic ers, I. O. O. F., made an official visit to tfie lodges at Washingtonville and Ex change Saturday night. New Casket Wagon. Undertaker George W. Koat has a new casket wagon. It is quite a handsome vehicle. DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, API{I L IS, 1 <H)\. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Brief Mention of the Doings of Your Friends and Acquaintances. .Miss Frederica Bogart, of Huntingdon Mills, one of the school teachers em ployed in Valley township during the I past term, left for her home yesterday. I C. I'. Hancock, Will Q. Pursell, I). .1. Rogers and W. .1. Rogers left yesterday j afternoon for Wilkesbarre to attend a j meeting of the Shrine, one of the higher J degrees of Freemasonry. Morris Rhodes, of Kansas City, .Mo., ; arrived at this city yesterday for a visit j with his mother, Mrs. Maria Rhodes, i West Market street. Mr. Rhodes is ! looking exceedingly well. It is his tirst i visit east in four years. Judge Buffiington,of the United States Circuit Court, was in this city as a guest of I. X. Grier, Esq., Saturday last. W. H. Ammerman and daughter. Miss Margaret, visited friends in Pottsgrove yesterday. W. H. Loose, of Selinsgrove, was a visitor in this city yesterday. Harry Rhodes transacted business in Hloomsburg yesterday. R. YV. Shelly made a trip to Benton yesterday. William Magill, Esq., of Hloomsburg, transacted business in Danville yester day. Mrs. A. K. Yoder returned to Torres dale yesterday after a visit with Mrs. Richard Morrall, Church street. Charles Chalfant, Esq., was in Harris burg yesterday. Charles Ilershev left for Wilkesbarre yesterday. W. L. Sechler was a Hloomsburg visit or yesterday. Ensign Cunningham left yesterday for Athens. Mrs. Isaac Pursel, of Brooklyn, N. V., is visiting at the home of her father, j Hon. James Foster, Walnut street. Frank Newbaker, of Mainvillc, spent Sunday with his parents on West Mah oning street. Curry Fisher returned to Lehigh I'n iversity on Saturday. Norman lless, wife and daughter, Bessie, of Hloomsburg, spent Sunday with relatives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curry, Jr , of Sunbury, spent Sunday at the Curry homestead in this city. J. C. Bird spent Sunday with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Bird, 302 East Market street. Mrs. Eugene Moyer and little daught •"ntrmoKiii ■ ■ ~ Charles Williams and wife, of Her wick, spent Sunday at the home of Thomas Williams, Wall street. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Ashton, of Ber wick,spent Sunday with relatives in this : city. Miss Jessie Clark, of Bloomsburg, is the guest of Miss Annie Pritchard,Church ■treet. Professor S. P. Dietrich, assistant ; principal of the high school at Sunbury. circulated among friends in this city on Saturday. William Vastine, P. B. Ervin, A. L. Rinard and Jerry Berninger, of Cata wissa, attended the minstrel perform ance in this city on Saturday evening. Miss Cora Moyer spent Sunday with her parents in Berwick. Mrs. R. Highberger, of Norristown, is visiting her brother, Justice-of-the- Peace J. P. Bare. Miss Mae Bird, of Sunbury,spent Sun day with Miss Jessie Kramer, East Front street. Miss Nell Edgar of South Bethlehem, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Butler Edgar, Mill street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson arrived in town Monday. Mrs. Butler Edgar is visiting friends in Sunbury. Hon. 11. M. Hinckley, of this city, is attending the Supreme Court at Phila delphia in the Krickbaum case this week. Miss Anna Wells, of Seranton, is a guest at the home of Rev. Dr. W. I.| Steans, Fast Mahoning street. General Secretary Laumaster left for j Hloomsburg yesterday where he will con duct Evangelistic meetings. Mrs. J. H. Johnson arrived from Phila delphia last evening. Miss Bessie Moodie left last evening • for a visit with friends in Catawissa. Miss Rose Gallagher left for Seranton ; last evening. L. L. Fenstermacher, who has been employed at Curry & Vannan's machine shops, left for Berwick yesterday. Mrs. E. C. Mart/, of Washingtonville, was aShickshinny visitor yesterday. Miss Ella Divel, a trained nurse at Dr. Price's Hospital, Philadelphia, arrived home last nipht. Mrs F. W. Howe left last evening for Three Rivers, Michigan. Miss Myrtle Garrison, of Catawissa, is visiting Mrs. Frank Boyer, Honeymoon street. Mrs. William E. Young and son, Lewis left yesterday for a few days' visit in Northumberland. Mrs. F. H. Vannan left yesterday af ternoon for a visit to Wilkesbarre. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Rogers returned from Williamsport yesterday. The lilac bushes ure bursting into leaves. NEW I'ASKIItS Welcomed by Large Congregations Morning and Evening. The congregation of Trinity M. E. church, this "city, and of St. Peter's M. K. church, Riverside, turned out in large numbers Sunday morning to welcome their new pastors. Both speakers made a very fine impression. Trinity and St. i'eter's both feel that they have been very kindly dealt with by conference anil look forward to an agreeable and fruitful pastorate. At Trinity M. K. church Rev. N. E. C. Cleaver preached an introductory ser mon, founding his remarks upon the passage: "Is your heart right? If so, aive me your hand." Kev. Cleaver is recognized as one of the most promising young men in the Central Pennsylvania conference. His zeal, his devotion to to the church, bis love of God, and his love of humanity were never more man ifest than in bis first sermon yesterday. I lev. Cleaver preached again last even ing, admirably sustaining his morning ?ffort. None of the congregation have impressed themselves but have had something to say in praise of the new pastor. Rev. Cleaver's last charge was at New ion Hamilton. He has not as yet re-j moved to this city owing to the illness )f his only child, a little son, four years )f age. He hopes to be able to move by lie latter part of next week or the week 'ollowing. He arrived in this city Sat-1 inlay night and is a guest at the home jf S. F. Rickctts, Pine street. Rev. Robert J. Allen preached two ;ermons at St. Peter's Sunday. He is dso a young man with a promising fut ire. He has a fine voice and delivery nd as one of his parishioners Sunday nit it he lias the faculty of boiling down lis discourse so that his hearers are giv n nothing l»ut the pith of the matter. Narrow Escape From Death. Charles Thomas, fifteen years of age, on of Lewis Thomas of Grovanii', met nth a hair's breadth escape along the ailroad Tuesday night which it is hoped 'ill stand in the community a tirst class ibject lesson as to the perils of car umping. He attempted to board a lorthbound freight train about the hour 112 dusk; this was the last lie knew for bout two hours when be found himself ruised and bleeding lying along the rack. It was some time before he fully re lized what had happened. It was plain e had not succeeded in mounting the r ain—that he had mia<ed his footing ud had fallen or what ismorelikely was arent until he removed his hat, when e found that the rim on one side was ut oil by the car wheels. P.ruised and sore and weak from the jss of blood he had difficulty in reach tig his home. l>r. I. W. W illetts of lloomsburg, was called, who found the ioy in a bad condition, the worst in ury being a deep cut in thescalpcaused iy striking the edge of a railroad tie, • rhich necessitated the insertion of a j umber of stitches. It was this wound bat caused the loss of consciousness and rhich yet may result very seriously. At II events the boy will be laid up for ome time. Improvements Progressing. The improvements at the convent at his place, which comprise a new chapel md large annex to the Mother House,are progressing nicely. The brick work is low basement high. The new structure vill be quite ornamental, tilling up all he intervening space between the man lion and the two other large buildings n use. When completed the group of mildings will present quite an imposing ippearance anil be a prominent feature n the suburbs of our town. John Keim s furnishing the brick tor the improve iients. The number required will not je less than three hundred and fifty housand. Greatest in America. Tht; Lyniau H. Howe Moving picture Company that will exhibit in the opera house on Tuesday evening, April 28, is the only modern perfect, np-to date and strictly first class attraction of this kind giving exhibitions in America today. This company carries the only machine that can illustrate a picture in all its realism. Its superiority over all other competitors is so marked that it really has no peer or equal for the simple rea son that it is so modern and improved. It is the only real article in moving pic ture machines, as it presents each and every view without a quiver or flicker, and with such a forcible naturalness as to lead the audience to believe that it is looking at the actual scene instead of merely a picture reflected on canvas. Keforaied Church Reunion. The Susquehanna Ministerial Associa tion of the Reformed church met in the Reformed church, Sunbury, on Monday afternoon. The following were elected as officers for the ensuing year: Presi dent, Rev. George E. Limbert, of this city; Secretary, Rev. Robert O'Boyle, of Sunbury; Treasurer, Rev. \\. A. Haas,of Selinsgrove. It was unanimously de cided to bold the fifth annual reunion on Island park on the 25th of July. Prominent speakers will be engaged to deliver the addresses. Will Carry Mail. A. Judson Still has been awarded the I contract for carrying the mail from ' l'axinos to this city. He is looking for a residence at the other end of the line and will move in a week or so. EVIDENCES OF PItOSI'EWTVj Onr Wage Earners With Steady Work Who Buy for Cash. Mill street or at least the business por tion of it was thronged with people Sat urday night from dusk until the hour of closing the stores. Nearly every one seemed to have shopping to do and the merchants had few idle moments. The animated and business like appearance of things, in this, one of the dullest months of the year,was much comment ed upon and taken to indicate a degree of prosperity that is quite encouraging to every person who has the best in terest of the town at heart. Since the collapse of the boom last summer our town seems to have adjust ed itself on a new basis. There are prob ably few persons in Danville who are not employed with steady work at one or other of onr busy industries. The company store evil in any of its evas ions has no footing here. Every dollar paid out for labor falls directly into the hands of the wage-earner and thence in to the channels of trade. The merch ants are enabled to do a cash business competition is encouraged along all lines, while the working man with the dollar in his pocket buys where he can purchase thecheapest—a state of ailairs which we fancy is looked upon with envy by some neighboring towns. 1 he outlook for the future in this city has not been more encouraging in many years. Wages, reasonably fair to begin with, have been advanced at our three iron works, while several new industries are contemplated, two of which are as sured. Beyond a doubt next April will tind several hundred men more employ ed in Danviile and business along all lines correspondingly prosperous. Disobedience to God And its Result. R. 11. Wilson, formerly principal of the high school at this place, at present a student in the Seminary at Princeton, N. J., occupied the pulpit at Mahoning Presbyterian church Sunday The sermon was one of.Mr. Wilson's early efforts, if not his first, in the vicinity of his home and the church was crowded, lie took as his subject, "Disobedieuce to God and its Result," the text being found in Exodus, Chapter VII, 21 verse. Mr. Wilson made a splendid impres sion. the sermon was a well prepared, logical discourse, and delivered with a coolness and elfect that would have done credit to a pulpit orator of many years' experience. We predict for Mr. \\ ilson a useful and distinguished career in the ministry. cb.'Ur rendered special music on David Thomas Superintendent. David Thomas has been appointed to be Superintendent of the Montour Poll ing Mills department, of the Reading Iron Works, this city, vice Theodore F. Patterson resigned to take idfect the : HOth in<-t. iii.' Ihomns is at present j Assistant Superintendent and has been i connected with the plant here for some j j ears. I Other appointments are announced as | follows in a circular letter signed by F. I C. Smink, Vice President and General j Manager of the Reading Iron Company: ; George Schumann. General Superin- J tendent, who will have General Super- j violin of Physical Operations of all the plants of the Company, and whose in structions will be respected accordingly; ; Jesse I. Boyer, Superintendent of Scott j Foundry Department; John M. Calleu, , Purchasing Agent; George F. D. Hall man, Assistant Purchasing Agent. The Last of The Free Course. The twentieth and the last of the j course of free entertainments was given ; in Y. M. C. A. hall Tuesday, the speak er beingS. M. Bard, State Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Before introducing the speaker Mr. Laumaster made some re-' marks on the general success of the free : course and promising a repetition next ! season. The tot il expenses of the j course, he said, have been less than S7O, all of which has been met by the voluntary contributions. Mr. Bard gave a most excellent talk, 1 dwelling upon the object of the Young j Men's Christian Association, the results : accomplished and some of the methods j inaugurated to bring in young men. Mr. ] Bard is an entertaining speaker and im- | presses one with his earnestness and de- | votion to the cause of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Emma Gearhart rendered a piano , solo very nicely. Free Concert. The Penn Social club orchestra will j give a free entertainment on Mon- i day night, April '2!>, under the auspices j of the Y. M. C. A. in Association hall. This organization, which is practically a new one, plays high class music, and is rapidly coming into favor. Miss Mar garet Ammerman, soprano, and Miss Lizzie Russell, elocutionist, will assist at the concert. The program will be an nounced later. Enlisted in the Navy. William G.iskins, recently a resid ent of this city, and son of Walter (xas kins, West Mahoning street, enlisted in the United States Navy as machinist at P.ullalo on Saturday. He has not as yet been assigned. Wilson Hall Killed by Cars. Wilson Hall, of Columbia, son of Mrs. Susan Hall, Sycamore street, this city, was killed by the cars on the Pennsyl vania railroad at South Amboy, N. «T., Saturday last. EST A R LISHEI) IX 1855. MISSIONARY CONVENTION Important Event Taking Place Here Next Week. The convention of the Woman's For eign Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church, Danville District, which will meet in this city next week, will be one of the most important events in church circles that has taken place here for sometime. The Danville district takes in the surrounding towns of Sun bury, Shamokin. Hazleton, Bloomsburg, Berwick, Shickshinny and Milton and represents forty auxiliaries. The dele gates—forty or more—will be entertain ed by the members of the congregation. The local auxiliary, of St. Paul's M. E. church, where the convention will be belli, finds plenty to do in arranging for the event. The convention will meet ou Tuesday the 23rd inst. at 2 p. m.and continue in session during Wednesday. Mrs. Mariah Purdy of Suubury, District President, will preside. Miss McCord of Lewis burg, Conference Secretary, will have charge of the minutes. Several noted speakers will address the convention, among them Mrs. Spencer, a returned missionary from Japan. Letters will be read from other missionaries stationed in China and oth er dark and out-of-the-way corners of the world. Mrs. Strawinski, President of the Williamsport District,will be pres ent. There will be an evening session each day, which will be of special interest. On Tuesday evening a program, under the direction of Mrs. George E.Wilbur, of Bloomsburg, will be rendered by young people and children connected with mis sionary work. On the evening of the 24th Mrs. Spencer will speak. The choir of the church will render special music during the convention. Selling Off The Mules. As a result of the abandonment of the sanal some 500 mules which formerly trod the tow path will have to find a new vocation. The handsome team of long eared animals familiar about town is the property of George Sechler will ?o to farming. They were purchased Tuesd ay by Jeremiah Kostenbauder of Uatawissa. It is hardly probable that the boatmen will have much difficulty u disposing of their mules. Mr. Sech ler thinks they are not likely to prove nuch of a drug on the market, as they are preferable to horses for many pur poses. He, himself, had hardly dispos al of his team, Tuesday, when he was ipproachet? by another purchaser who rould have paid fifteen dollars more for t une lias been linked so long. it u*p >ens to be one of those owned by the Janal Company and the matter does not ■oncern him so much. In the case of mother boat lying at this city, however he matter is different. This—a boat as ;ood as new—is owned by Dole Kerstet er of McKee's Half Falls, and (he fut ure concerning it is a matter of very ;rave concern to him. The boatmen can lardly believe that the company intends o let the boats rot down where they ie. Such a course, they claim, would je unjust in the extreme to those boat nen who possess their own craft and ivould hardly be submitted to. Some in ;line to the view that the company will indemnify the individual owners; others think that water will be let into the :anal for a short time so that all the boats may be moved. Could the canal boats be gotten to tide water.it is claim ed, they could be readily sold for light srs. Music, Mirth and Melody. Mrs. Elizabeth de Barrie Gill of Phila delphia, sister of our townsman, Joseph Barry, and who has a large circle of ac quaintances in this city, will give an en tertainment in the opera house Friday evening, May 3, at 8 o'clock", under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of our local Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Gill will be as sisted by Miss Dorothy Johnston,a harp ist of much merit. The following is a clipping from the Philadelphia Public Ledger which speaks for itself : Elizabeth de Barrie Gill has a well trained, flexible voice, of good compass and agreeable tone, and her singing of Marston's "Fairy Wedding,"jThe Mign on Gavotte," and Bartlett's "A Dream was marked by delicacy of expression and facility of execution. Her readings and recitations showed fine elocutionary ability and an uncommon degree of ver satility. A dramatic recitation from the second act of "Ingomaf' displayed her powers to excellent eflect. Prices 25 and :i0 cents. Gallery 15 cents. Base Ball in Danville. The High School Athletic Association held a meeting last evening for the pur pose of electing a captain for its base ball club which is bfcing organized as fast as the most suitable players can be sel ected. There are many lovers of the great American game in Danville and though this will be the first season for this nine yet they will make it exciting and interesting for their opponents. Howard C. Lunger was elected captain and the following schedule auuounced: Lewisbarg at Danville, April 27; Blooms burg at Danville, May IS; Danville at Bloomsburg. May 25. The games will bt played at DeWitt's park. Pastor 111. Kev. Dr. McAtee was unable to till ; his pulpit at the Grove Presbyterian church Sunday owing to illness. JOB PRINTING The office of the AMERICAN being furnished with a large assortmen of job letter and fancy type and job material generally, the Publisher announces to the public that he is prepared at all times to execute in the neatest manner JOB PRINTING Ofall Kinds and Descrption. Get our prices before place your orders. JOSEPH euro s ANTECEDENTS Tried to Kill the Man Who Had Befriended Him A gentleman in this city lias received a letter from F. L. Tuttle, a prominent business man of Hawley, relative to the antecedents of Caprio, the Italian,whose treacherous murder at the Hospital for the Insane, here, is still fresh in the miuds of our readers. The letter, fiom one who befriended and assisted the Italian time and again, does not in ef fect reflect much credit on the general character of tlie man. Ife proved his treachery by attempting to kill the per son who had J>een Jiis benefactor. It was this oflense which led to procedure which resulted in Jiis incarceration in the Hospital here. "Pasquale Caprio commonly called 'Joe'," Mr. Tuttle writes, "came to Hawley at the time of the building of the E. C. YV. V. R. R. I being in the mercantile business soon came to know him. He was unable to read and write and frequently called on me for small favors of that kind. 1 often loaned him small sums of money allowing him to pay it back at his convenience, never crowding him. I found him to be hon est, industrious, and sober, anxious to provide a comfortable living for his family. H e got into trouble with an other Italian who had him arrested,when [ went his bail to keep the peace. Shortly after he became desirous -O move into town and buy a propertv ivhich was much run down. He wished Tie to buy it lor him on contract and al ow him to remodel it to his own taste, ivhich I did, paying the bills as they ac :umulated for supplies and work. He vas a shoemaker and I gave him work vhen I had anything to do in his line. Ie often professed gratitude for what had done for him until I refused him a oan of one hundred dollars. Previous 0 this he lost ground by going bail for 1 nephew and his property fell into the lands of the Sherifl; at his solicitation I vent to Honesdale and settled the mat er giving him time to repay me. Short y after this his wife was sick for several reeks and lie became discouraged and ault finding. "Two or three days after refusing him he hundred dollar loan, i took some rork to his shop. 1 found him pacing ip and down the sliop complaining that verybody was against him and that he rus going away to lind work. At my equest he permitted me to see our con raot, as I wished to set the dates of everal payments of which I had neg ?cted to make any record for myself. I lid it across my knee to get pencil and bove my right temple, which cutting hrough a derby hat and sweat-band, icerated the flesh so badly that the ilood streamed down over my face and lothing. I grappled with the Italian fhile he still swung his hammer and ucceeded in inflicting two additional (lows before I escaped. "I had a warrant issued for Joe's ar est but he tied, later returning and giv ng himself up. He was released on bail ind in twenty-four hours had assaulted lis wife in a brutal manner, which re sulted in his going to jail. He seemed ully to realize what he had done and expressed no regret, but declared his ntention of making 'Sausage meat of Puttie' and 'doing' two others as soon is he got out of jail. Tliat he would ;arry his threats into execution, if given nis liberty no one doubted, as was well verified by the sad developments at Danville. F. L. TUTTLE." Surprise Party. Miss May Sidler was tendered a sur prise party on Saturday afternoon at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Pusey, on Vine street, in honor of her seventh birtli ilav. The following little folks were present: Charlotte Welliver, Mildred Foust, Helen Mowrey, Florence Henrie, Mary Henrie, Olive Miller, Edna Farley, Dora Schatz, May Evelamj,Ethel Crom ley, lizzie Jenkins, May Fox, Bennie Haney, Jessie Hamtnerly, iGeorge Sidler and James Wilson. A Murder Mystery. Sunbury has a big sensation on its hands. The body of a dead babe res cued from a lot of burning debris along the river at first thought to be a negro babe proves to be a white child, the skin only being blackened by the smoke. The child, which had been dead some four days, was evidently murdered, a piece of coarse twine Jieing found around its neck. Entered Bail to Keep Peace. George E. Crosslev, who was arrested Tuesday night by Officer Voris, charged with drunkenness and abuse to his mother, was given la hearing before Jus tice-of-the-Peaee Hare yesterday noon. He entered bail in *IOO to keep the peace. Purchased Hotel Ent. J. M. Kline, landlord of Susquehanna Hotel, South Danville, has purchased the Central Hotel, Bloomsburg, of Charles Ent. The purchase, which was consum mated yesterday, includes real estate and personal property. Mr- Kline has filed application for transfer of license. Postal Olerks Promoted. An order eomg into effect July 1, ad vances 47150 postal clerks, in each inst ance theie beirc an advance of salary. At the Danville post office there are two I promotions, one from $~»00 to and one from f<>oo to
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