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CIIWEII NEWS.
in Danville it w ; <1 ram a nil s» n-l
ble cel. t>rat ion
The w!* ju'liticiaii ne\er gets too
MUKrv to watch the movements and
-tudv the argument- of bis antagonist,
iioiug to Pott-t. w n after away
fioui there -< veral years \\ illt tin Dw>
tr arrived an tiour alter hi-, father -
funeral
Tne re turn?- of the Schuvlkill coun
ty ati?-et*>r!» slmw that there are 'JM.t.II
IU tlie c. uuiv eligible for military
datv
The rejK.rts »»f the registry assessors
ia \ ..rk c ounty «IHIW that for the past
mx Montiis tli«*re have lieen !,<*•.s hirtln>
aud , r .70 <i«-aths.
It w entirely t«o early in the cam
]i«tiru to make any safe predict ion-
P»»tt,-y tile's pn-totfice has U'eii rai
ed t*i tli*- first cla-- and the {Mistmast
tr's salary ill uow 1«* $3,0u0 a year.
Win It at feud i u>( H"' commencement
exercit* - of the Che--tcr high school
AilLani Pa I lea, an employe ot the
Delaware . .luuty bank drop|*-il dead
of b»-ai-t li-ejt-.- lb- wa- *• ' year- of
and I «.i l»een an euiplove ot the
bail I for 35 years
Authotiv Papine wa- drowned in a
>iaai u>*i Shenaifloah, l»-ing seized
«ttb cramp while bathing Passengers
on a i«a--iu*r tndley cat witm—ol the
draw uiug
Kr>-i* 11■ k Hav-.s'. v. ar- old, l- dead
at Carls l« ll< was the last grand-oil
t M Ilie Mi < 'bulley, better known as
*llollie Pitcl«-r. tamed for the jiart
she took in Die battle of Monmouth,
dnriuti (lie icvolut lonarv war
Abram H. Kktnole, 21 year- old. a
farm*-r of near Marietta. Lancaster
osntv. wa- -•> badly 111 1 ru "-
away that h*dMi< w <M*i an hour from
interual ti«-i>«orrtiage
It. I'." » of the Alb-lltowll
-ilk mill »»Im» nsi-Bllv struck
a M j»r cent t> du. ti.»n and who later
r« tu-«.t a cut of J [HT'IVBI have J»>en
dierl.arge<f
T« liiperan- ' i- thehnhltof tl.e Wl-e
C' Uun--- did many commendable
thinfr* t«efor» adjonrning
«».H*l ti.|«er pioh<llg- life ami sweet
it. t«*»»
Ur \ tJiilfi A L Winner,two
»etl kn<>wu batchers, wetv arraigned
Uf.,i. Ju li e Hla. k of iViitrnlia last
evening and each «er»" tim-<l #.'•"> and
tt.»- ot ti>luug on Sunday.
A t« ietfraai api*-ared in the pap-r- a
tew davs aieo, that it Mi-souri court
i.ad res < a de«-ifUou that a man
*!•«• t. *•! Uturfht t;o«»l- of a *1 ru-t, and
bad to >II tn.-te.l tor the <ame, and ■
-ii-■! t..r payment, did not have to pay I
'be toll
JU.JRFR Hivwer HI I inching the Taft
IMMHII -L»«»we«L the country t
bow broad a nun the war secretary i
vk ben he aniiouii. ->< l that hi- candidate
guvf up his -e «t in a car to three
l«iim
Kan«a« tannein need harvest hands
ba llv tl.at they are -baling them
fr> IU t-j hiit he i M- ill while the |M)t
iiou**' anarchists in the Ka-t cur-e so
rieti for depriving them of opiiortiin
iti»s t«i earn an honest living.
John Flanagan, of the In-h \ineri
can Athletic . lub. threw the fifty -ix
poiiml weight feet 7 mi-lies in an
txhihitioii at the I Manna <!ael 'nines
at ' rltn park. New York, Sunday
His throw wa- one toot Utter than
the old record
1 tie railway trackage laid in the
I uite.| State- between January I and
June 510 of thi- year is "•J.'.tC miles,
ravs the H.tilway Age. This is greater
than iu any -miliar jieriod HI lifteen
yeair-, except I VH i_*. when i.ISI t mile
were laid.
Ttiat the Americau eagle is a y»-rv
treftv tnnl iu the Mitht of the nat loii-
A new trust has just been created
iu New Jersey, with a capital of s.'o,-
OlMt.Oiio. of which it 1. 1.1 mo, (Ma i i- com
mon stock, to control the sales of but
ter, egg- and piultrv J P. Morgan,
h lazier aud other millionaire* are at
tli* bead of the concern
How rapidly the -easons come and
go If seems like a few da\>otils since
we were rejoicing over the melting of
tie siiow and the Coming of the blue
birds and the heatica. and now pre
(Miratiou-are IMOIII; made for Labor
>ay
1 lie political campaign will
0 warm up now
Figurer ha»e l*-en compiled which
ow that the wage loss to mini rs in
«e anthracite field during the -n.|» n
nof work from April 1 to May !">,
mounted to #Ii.IMMI IMMI
IjOsT OK MISLAID Policy No jnoo;
sued by The Peiui Mutual Life Insur
ice <%>uipany <<n the life of Samuel
ill- The tinder will please return it to
ie undersigned. Application has been
ade for ttie i—mm; of a dnplic ib-
K\MCEL MILLS,
Danville. Pa.
dev. aud .Mrs Harry Miusker have
urued from a visit with frieuds in
v -'r« and Wellsville.
illoutour mßi American.
• "V-
4 I 11 ('< )\ N TRY WILL NHVHK ML LNTIRKLY FRHH UNTIL IT SITPPLIhS ALL OF 1I S (>\VN DLMANDSWII H lIS OWN PRODUC'i lONS."
OL. r»:!--N<> 27,
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DANCED ITSELF
\ \t >r old child meeting its death
liv hanging is something Strang and
nn(i -it illy pathetic, I>n t this is the
manner ill which little Helen Strohni,
daughter of Bi4ne; Sfcrohn#, Wilkes-
I ure. and a gr niddaugliter id .lames
Si i •Inn, Itni li formerly of Danville,met
her death Wednesday afternoon at
about half past four o'clock.
Die little tot had heen rocked to
iti I the mother Ind taken it U]>
stair- oid placeil it in its crib, which
u i- along side of the hed.with a space
of onlv six inches between the two,
and when she left it was sleeping
- mildly.
About twenty minutes later, Mrs. |
Strohm went back up stairs to see it
the child w a -till asleep anil ongoing
into the room was horrified t«» see the
babe ham;in;; by its neck, between the
1M I and < rib She instantly released
the child anil called to the neighbors
to yet a phv.-ociaii, meanwhile doing
,• vt iv thing -hi* knew id to resuscitate
Ine child. In a few minutes the doctor
arrived but found the babe had been
dead for several minutes, the child s
neck being broken.
It is thought the child while tossing
alio lit in its sleep, fell through the
-pace between the two beds, as no
- mud was heard of its awakening.
The hodv w ill be brought to Kloonis
burg Saturday on the 1 ■ 'i'l D. L.
W train and taken to the home of the
grandparent- where funeral services
will l»e conducted by Rev. Shatiibaeh
ot the Kvaugelical church. liiterinent
will l>e made in tin* Odd Fellows
cemetery, this city
Philip S. Moser Passes Away.
Philip S. Moscr, proprietor of Mos
. r*s hotel, Valley tiwnship, and for
merly landlord <>t the Heddens House,
thi- citv, departed this life Saturday
afternoon Although in |»oor health
tor some time his sudden taking otl
was utterl> unlooked tor and his death
caused quite a shock.
The deceased was a native of Mon
tour county and was one of the best
known citizens of this section. For
,-cveral years lie conducted the Hed
dens House in this city. Five vears
ago last spring lie removed from Dan
ville and took charge of a hotel at
New t'oliimhia. Last spring a year
:tgo he pun based the farm and hotel
land of his uncle, Frederick Moser.
and removed back to Montour county
lie was a very generous man, honor
able in all his relations with his fellow
men and naturally had many friends,
who will be sorrv to learn of his de
mise.
The immediate cause ol his death
was acute meningitis. He was in Dan
ville some ten days ago and it was
evident then that he was declining,
ito Wednesday ot last week lie was
-till able to be about and with some
% i-itors from Danville took a stroll
over hi-farm. < >ll Friday, however,
lie v\ a very low due to the excessive
heat For two hour-, it was thought
that every moment would be his last.
J Saturdav afternoon the sinking spell
I recurred and l>etvveeii ■> anil I! o'clock
lie pa-scii away.
The decea-ed was 10 years of age
and is by hi- wife, his lather
and in ither.Mi and Mi- G<Otgt Mos
er, l-iliertv township, and live broth
er-. Peter, John, Henry, George and
Jacob Moser; also two sisters, Mrs.
Jacob Keeb rand Mrs. Dallas Ci Vog
netz. all of this county.
Death of (Elijah Wertman.
Flijah Wertman, an old and esteem
ed resident departed this life on Sat
urday morning after a general decline
of nine months The immediate cause
of death vva- a stroke of paralysis sus
taiued on Thursday.
The derensed wns born in Mahoning
township, but lived in Danville prac
tically all his life lie served ill the
civil war a- a member of Company
lsith regiment lie was 7)5 years
of ige and is survived by his wife and
the following sons and daughters:
William, of Orchard Park, N Y. ; Ar
thur, of Rutfaln; Mrs. Harry N. hllis,
of Herwick; Mrs. Abrani Keefcr and
Mrs. J II Yandine, Kdward and
F-tella ol Danville.
Deaths Fewer flian in IVOS.
CHICAGO, July i>. The "Tribune"
todav publishes it- ninth annual sum
mary of the deaths and injuries caus
ed throughout the I'uited States by
yesterday - celebration of the Declara
tion of IlulejM'Udeiice The figures up
to an early hour today were as fol
lows :
Dead 38 -Hy fireworks, 9; by can
non, I ; by firearms, II . by explosives,
7 ; bv toy pistols, 1; by runaways, 5.
Last year forty two persons were
kll led outright,but w hen lockjaw and
other diseases induced by injuries had
completed their work over toil lives
had been sacrificed.
Injured Ml Bv lireworks, l.h'.i'.t;
by cannon, ,'iil ;hy firearms, U'.lli; by
explosives, >iH7; by tov pistols, 5504; by
runaways, :s•">.
The number of injured, 2,781*. i- m
excess of la-t year's figures by »SK.
THE WEATHER.
One topic which has suddenly loom
ed into prominence in the columns of
tht- State papers is the hot weather.
Few are able to resist the temptation
to discuss the thermometer's rage or
1 the inert condition to which the rag
ing tenqierature has reduced erstwhile
energetic men and women. Our dim
ate ha- one hie- ed peculiarity, liovv
• ever; we seldom have the same sort of
i weather more than a few hours con
tinuously.
DEATH OF Hits. 1
t T. DBWItTi
Mrs. Sara Reun DeWitt, wife of Dr.
A. T. DeWitt, died at her home in
Riverside Monday, after an illness of
eighteen months' duration.
Mrs. DeWitt succumbed to a com- 112
plication of diseases only after a j
courageous struggle. It was in Decem
ber, 1904, while visiting in Brooklyn
that she was taken ill with inflamma- !
tory rheuinatisiii. She was ill there lot
six weeks before her condition would |
per in it her to undure the journey home j
After her return to Riverside organic j
I In-art trouble and dropsy developed.
I Since that time she has been an in
valid. For several days past her con
dition has been most critical, until last
night Death came to lift the heavy
burden of pain and suffering.
Mrs. DeWitt was a woman widely
known and beloved by the people in
the community in which she lived.
She had resided in Riverside since
I IB7S, having move I there in that year
with her hushauil front Snydertovvii.
She was born in Augusta township,
Northumberland county, and had she
survived until the titli. of August next
she would have been (17 years of age.
She was a devout Methodist and a
member of the Snvdertown church
The deceased is survived by her
husband, and three children, W.
O. DeWitt, of Rloomshurg; Heher L.
DeWitt, of Riverside; and Mrs. W. S.
Mettler, of Brooklyn, N. Y. She is
also survived by eight sisters and one
brother, Mrs. Barbara Baldy, of Sha
liiokin; Mrs. Samuel Reck, of Wil
liamsport; Mrs. Kite Hillibish, ol
Canton, Ohio; Mrs. Henry Eiseiihuth,
of (Jolburn, Centre county ; Mrs. J. O.
Gifford, of Augustaville; Mrs. Hal t s
Ohnstead and Mrs. Peter Cressinger,
of Augusta township; Mrs. (J. D. De-
Witt, of Lynn Centre, Illinois and N
D. Renn, of Augusta township.
Mrs. A. T. DeWitt, w hose death oc_
curred Monday night, was consigned
to the grave in Mt. Yernoii cemetery
Thursday afternoon. The funeral took
place from the family residence, at
2:30 o'clock and was very largely at
tended.
The services were conducted by Rev.
T. Swartz, of St. Peter's M. K.
dfriri'li. The pall U-arers were: D. R
Kcktiian, W R (Mark, Peter Burger
W. T. Sheppersou, Oliver Hoover and
Jesse Shannon. There were many
beautiful floral tributes.
Beautiful selections of music were
rendered by the choir of St. Peter's
M. K. church. One of the selections
WRS. "Nearer My God to Thee" and
the other, "When the Roll is Culled
Up Yonder," which was sung by re
quest. In addition Mrs. Gephart ren
dered a solo, "The Half Has Never
Been Told," with a chorus by ♦lie
choir.
The following persons from out of
town attended the funeral: W. O. De-
Witt and family, of Harvey's Lake;
Mr and Mrs. William Mettler, Brook
lyu ; Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Rcuu, Fish
er's Ferry; Mr. and Mrs. Osborn Gil
ford, Augustaville; Mrs. 11. F.isenhuth,
of Coburu ; and Mrs. Barbara Baldy,
of Shamokin.
Firemen's Picnic Tine Success.
The firemen's picnic held in De-
Witt's park Wednesday under the au
spices of the Continental lire company
proved a fine success. There was a
very large crowd present and the day
passed tiff without any disorder or
serious accident to mar the pleasure.
The hacks were kept busy during the
day and until late at night carrying
the picnickers backward and forward
between the picnic grounds and town.
Dancing was the principal diversion
for the grown-up people, while the
merry-go-round afforded amusement
for the little folks.
The Continental boys are well pleas
ed with the patronage accorded them
and the degree of success achieved. It
was stated by some of the members
yesterday that the company had realiz
ed four hundred dollars by the picnic.
Distressing Accident.
A distressing accident befell Robert
Darrali, aged thirty years, a resident
of Nescopeck, on Wednesday morning
about a mile and a half below his
home when he was struck by a Penn
sylvania freight train.
Darrali was asleep on the tracks and
was thrown to one side by the cow
catcher but not a sufficient distance
' for him to escape entirely. His left
leg was cut off above the ankle and
his head and body were badly bruised.
He was taken to the office of Dr .1
J. Meyers and then immediately re
moved to the Berwick hospital where
the limb was amputated.
Darrali is a resident of Nescopeck
! and is employed in the works at Rer
wick. He is a single man and it is
thought that lie had been drinking and
fell asleep upon the tracks.
Business Men Defeated-
The base hall game between Wash
i iugtonville aud the Business Men of
Danville played at DeWitt's park on
'Vedueslay for the amateur eh oupion
- ship of Montour county, wa- a most
112 interesting, and with -everal excep
lions, well played game,
l The scoring happened onlv in three
r spots Washiugtonville got 'J in the fir-,t
and 2 in the fifth, while the Busines
b Men got 2 men home in the fourth
Heddens' twirling for the visitors
- was the gilt edged article and kept
112 the Danville tossers on the anxious
bench. Only 8 hits were made off his
delivery. Washiugtonville had 8 hits.
DANVILLK. l'A.. Til l l?Sl)AY. .JULY 5,
HOW DfIiLLH 1
CELEBRATED
Although Danville indulged in no
special demonstration on Wednesday
it would hardly he proper to say that
our town had a quiet Fourth of July.
There was the u-ual noise and lots of
if produced by the explosion of all
kinds of lire works. Indeed it is doubt
ful whether the town was ever noisier
considering the number of people on
the streets.
Danville had not what is distiuc
tively known as a "bigtime," hut the
question might be asked whether there
was ever a time when our citizens got
more real pleasure out of Fourth of j
July. Those who had no love for the I
diu and racket of exploding fire works
spent the day resting in the seclusion
of their homes and were delighted to
find how much real pleasure even the
Fourth of July may bring in this way.
Large numbers attended the big picnic
at DcWitt's park while others went to
Willianisport to participate in the big
celebration there. Two hundred and
ten joined the big special I'. it R.
train that passed through Danville in
the morning of the Fourth. One hun
dred and forty tickets were sold here
for Willianisport during a day or so
previously on the P. & R. railway, to
say nothing of the Danville people
carried to Willianisport by the Pennsy
on the Fourth of .Tilly.
Fortunately very few accidents oc
curred from the use of fireworks and
none of these were at all serious. The
usual aftermath of disfigured faces and
mangled lingers is only slightly in
evidence this year and afford very lit
tle work for the doctors.
It is remarkable that no arrests were
necessary. While it is probable that a
few things were tolerated that on any
other day than the Fourth of July
would not have been permitted, yet. it
is doubtful whether at any time any
thing was witnessed on the streets that
hordeted on actual disorder.
Bank Directors' First fleeting-
The board of directors of the new
bank at Exchange hold its first meet
ing Monday for the purpose of elect
ing oflicers.
The directors ace as follows: P. J.
Brannen John A. KM is, William Bran
nen.R S. Ammeruian,Jauies L. Bran
lien, .lames V. Kllis, Stitzel L. Gard
ner, Alfred II Litchard, J. N. Herr,
Dorance R. Rishel and F. Augustus
Kleeinan.
The officers are as follows: Presi
dent, James L. Braunati; vice presi
dent, Alfred H Litchard; cashier,
James F. Ellis.
The hank, which is known as the
Farmers' National Bank.ol Exchange,
is capitalized at $35,000. Every sub
scription carries an assessment of
twenty jier cent, for surplus. The
stock holders are seventy four in num
ber and are scattered over one of the
thriftiest and most prosperous farming
sections of the State.
A fine modern hank building will he
erected. Oil Saturday a meeting will
he held for the purpose of selecting a
site adopting plans and specifications.
Pending the completion of a building
business will be conducted in tempor
ary quarters. In sixty dnys the hank
will he doing business.
lion. R. S. Ammeruian and A. H.
(Jroue of this city were present at the
stockholders meeting Monday, the
former as attorney aud the latter as
notary public.
Five Killed in Celebration.
WILKES BARRE, July .i.— Five
boys were killed and two others fatal
ly injured at a Fourth of July celebra
tion at Watiamic.a small mining town
ten miles south of this city last night.
The boys intended to give the resi
dents a celebration which they would
never forget, hj- causing an explosion
which would startle the the whole
neighborhood. They procured a sec
tion of iron pipe live feet long and
four inches iu diameter. They filled
the pipe to the mouth with dynamite,
giant powder and stones. While one
of the bovs was ramming the pipe the
powder ignited and an explosion that
shock the whole town followed. The
boys were hurled in all directions and
tiie dead were found lying on the
ground some distance away, all the
bodies being badly mangled. Alexand
er Supka, one of the injured, had a
leg blown off and will die, his broth
er, Frank, is in a critical condition
am I can hardly live. All the victims
were Lithuanians and were employed
in the mines as breaker or driver boys
BIG WHEAT CROP.
The Hanover Record declares that
the "wheat crop which is being harv
ested will be one of the largest ever
grown per acre by the farmers of the
<'umherlniid valley. The heads are
large, full to the tip and well formed,
'f lie st raw stands thick on t lie fields aud
is straight.. The wheat has ripened so
j fast that nothing but a severe storm of
' hail and rain will destroy it."
CAMPAIGN HUMOR
One of the candidates for represenfa
' five at the Lu/.i rne county Republi-
I c in convent ion the other day has filed
!hi . lull of expense ■ Among other
items be records the following: "June
10, to horse and buggy in driving to
the houses ol one honest man anil
three liars, $11." That is the first bit
of campaign humor we have yet ob
served iu but there cer
tainly ought to be uiore of it.
PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS
Mrs. Judd K. Ruley, and daughters, i
Reatrice, Dorothy and Madeline, ot
Syracuse, arrived Saturday for a visit
with Mrs. Haley's mother, Mrs. Hen
rietta J. Angle, Mill street.
Dr J. Beeber Vastine, of Lewis
burg, spent Sunday with relatives in
Danville.
Mrs. R. R. Roberts and daughter
Marion, of Philadelphia, are visiting
relatives in this city.
Miss Clara Smith has returned to
Danville after a mouth's visit with
friends iu Johnstown, Pittsburg and
Young-town, Ohio.
Miss Ethel Worge, of Milton, i the
guest of Miss Lois Sliultz, Church
street.
Claude Guest, of Mahanoy City, is
visiting at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Guest, Front
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Guest, ol
Hcllefontaine, Ohio, are visiting the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L.
Guest, Front street.
Frank Trunibower.of Wilkes-Barre,
returned home yesterday after a visit
with his mother, Mrs. S. M. Truni
hower. Hast Market street.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Kvans and
daughter Anna,of Kingston,are guests
at the home of Mrs. L. J. Davis Mul
berry street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mottern spent
Wednesday at Berwick.
Mr. and Mrs. Willliam Krebs of
Frackville are visiting Mrs. S. G.
Mottern, Market street.
Dr. L. A. Yeiser, of Philadelphia,
is visiting relatives in this city.
Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Steck, of Ber
wick, were visitors iuthiscity yester
day.
C. C. Yetter, Esq., of Bloomsburg,
is spending several days in Danville.
William T. Markee.of Philadelphia,
arrived last evening for a business trip
to this city.
A. O. Feiuour,of Bloomsburg, spent
the Fourth with friends in Danville.
Mrs. S. M. Truuibower will leave
for Johnstown today, where she will
visit her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Foulk.
James C. Heddens returned lasteven
ti; fto;. a visit with frieuds in V.'il
liamsport.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Yorks, of Cen
tral,visited friends iutliis city yester
day.
John G. Waite and Harry Johns re
turned last evening from Willianisport.
George Clark will leave this morn
ing for Maucli Chunk after a several
days' visit with relatives in Danville.
Jay Sechler has returned from a vis
it with friends at Pottsville
Changes in n. E. Pastors.
Bishop Berry,of the Methodist church
presiding bishop of the Central Penn
sylvania conference, was in Willianis
port Wednesday relative to the ap
pointment of a successor to the late
GCOrgc W. Stevens, presiding elder of
the Harrisburg district. Conferences
on the matter were held with the Rev
Emory M. Stevens, pastor of the Pine
Street church, Willianisport, and y\ ith
prominent members of that congrega
tion, the evident purpose being to ar
range for the appointment of the Rev.
Mr. Stevens to the vacant presiding
eldership. It is rejiorted, however,
that nothing definite has come of the
conferences.
The death of the Rev. Mr. Rue, at
Waynesboro, recently, made necessary
by Bishop Berry several changes in
pastorates to adjust the situation, and
in these changes the Rev. W. A. Lep
h-y, pastor of Market street Methodist
church, Willianisport, has been chang
ed to Coalport, Clearfield county. The
Market street appointment has not as
yet been filled. The Rev. Vaughn T.
Rue, of MilTlinburg, brother of the
late John Rue, has been assigned to
Waynesboro to take his brother's pas
torate ; the Rev. Charles Karnes, of
Coalport, goes to Mitt'linburg.
THE TRAMP.
While tne farmers of the whole
country are lamenting the scarcity of
harvest hands the perennial tramp
continues to imitate the lily in that he
toils not, neither does he spin. The
Counellsville News, for instance, in
dulges i n the following remarks:
"Tramps are flocking to the coal re
gions in large numbers. They would
be welcome there if they would work,
as there is plenty of it for them, but
instead of working all of them event
! ually find their way to the city bas
! tile. A celebration of the Fourth that
1 would blow all of the worthless and
I indolent known as the genus hobo to
| some other land would be opportune. "
But then it would he tough on the
"other laud."
CAPTAIN FORRESTER.
Captain C. W. Forrester of Chicago
arrived at the Montour House Thurs
day to spend a vacation with old
friends in Danville and vicinity. Cap
tain Forrester was born in the vicin
ity of Klinesgrove and his early life
was spent in this section. He turns
up in Danville every summer about
this time and always meets with a
roval reception from his old friends,
lie left Chicago at ll a in on Wednes
day and at the same hour Thursday
was snugly domiciled at the Montour
House
The independent citizen is the salt
of the State.
10 EMI DUST
FROM ATMOSPHERE
The stove works will be shut down
for a yveek to euable the company to
install a new system of cleaning room
machinery. From the establishment of
the plant to the present, tiie old fash
ioned type of machinery was in use,
which, while very efficacious in clean
ing the castings, permitted the dust to
mix with the atmosphere making it
almost impossible to see from one end
ot the room to the other aud rendering
it very disagreeable and uuhealthful
for the employes in that department.
It is claimed for the new system that
it will not only clean the castiugs
more expeditiously and with less men,
but that it will also arrest the dust,
preventing it from mixing with the
atmosphere of the room; more that
this, that it will return the air from
which the dust is extracted clean and
pure into the room to be used over
again. In the summer season the lat
ter may not be much of a considera
tion, but during winter when heating
is an item it is a feature to take iuto
account.
Yesterday the old cleaning room ma
chinery consisting of fourteen cast
iron tumbling mills was torn out and
removed from the works. The uew ma
chinery known as the exhaust tumbl
ing system and consisting of ten steel
mills,five round and five square, were
unloaded from the cars along with one
of Glassford's dust arresters.
The new system will be installed iu
the cleaning room today, when Mr.
Glassford, the inventor of the dust ar
rester,*will be preseut and superin
tendent! its installation. The Glass
ford dust arrester consists of a case
and a battery of one screens, at
tached to a hollow square shaft mount
ed on truuious, each end trunion clos
ed the other open. The air laden with
dust can enter the case at auy giveu
point. The fan exhausts the case
through the rotary screens, through
which the dust can not follow but is
forced to remain in the case aud cau
be emptied at couveuient intervals.
The dust arrester traps the dust with
out passing through the fan, leaviug
the air purified, which adds to the life
of the fan, as if has oulv pure air to
handle.
A brick cement fioor is also being
installed in a large part of tli3 foun
dry daring the shut down. The annex
to the moulding room was provided
with a brick cement floor when built
a year or so ago
THI LUNACY OF LOVE.
iltihifr 1... ;I «U;N I • Ifcru to 111 M OWN
• \tl .i« I | a o»4llc»."
T.i >!; L. ai •.* Devey, the former
'rien.. mid tli •• ecutrlx of Lady I.yt
t >l, !. . I 1..-.- i i .tali.led a packet of 298
letter;, r. .*.<• .eiitlng the correspond
iin - of li.:!..er Lytton with Miss
Uh. !cr in the days of their early
i uiriship. Miss Devey published these
with n preface, stating that she took
•hi- action in outer to vindicate the
memory of her dead friend. Iu whut
manner the letters could be regarded
as a vindication it Is difficult to see,
tli nigh they serve as a remarkable eon
tribii.ion to the literature of epistolary
lovei..aking. I he extravagant absurdi
ty of oine of tlietii is almost beyond
belief, ami two passages may be quot
ed as illustrative of mauy others. In
the letters Bulvver Lytton uddresses
Miss Wheeler as "Poodle" and signs
himself "Puppy" or "Puppo."
"My Adored Poodle: Many, many
thanks for oo darling letter. Me Is so
happy, me is wagging my tail and put
ting my ears down. Me Is to meet oo
tomorrow. O day of days! 1 cannot
tell you how very, very Jiappy you
have made me! No, my love, don't
coiue before 12; but really I shall meet
you! Oh, darling of darlings • • • O
zoo love of loves, me is ready to leap
out of ni.v skin for joy! Adieu. Twen
ty million kisses.
"Anil so they dressed my poodle in
white ami black V O zoo darling! How
like a noodle! And had oo oo's bootlful
ears curled nicely, and did oo not look
too pretty, and did not all the puppy
dogs run after oo and tell oo what a
darling oo was? Ah! Me sends oo
O.TM it I.IM MI kisses to be distributed as
follows: 500.0* H1 for oo bootlful mouth,
'jr.ii.noo to no right eye, 250,000 to oo
1.-t't eye, 1.000.0u0 to oo dear neck and
the rest to be equally divided between
...i arms and hands.
"Ten million more kisses, my own
etarling. for your letter which Is Just
arrived. It is read, and now before It
',s answered take the following (marks
of kissesi. Pray, darling, shall we
not kiss prettily tomorrow, darling
(d) (a) in (1) (it (to <gi?
",\.!i -it, my own Rose, my life of life,
very poodle of very poodles, adieu!
"Adieu, oo own klolutrous puppy,
"liver my dearest, dearest, dearest,
fondest, kindest, bootlfulest. darllng
est, angelest poodle. Oo own puppy."—
Lyndon Orr in Bookman.
ill: i.f* ill I'our Own Town.
A right t!i it be! .ugs to every citizen
Is the priv e oi' spending his earn
ings In whatever manlier and where
he wish**- as l"iig as he keeps within
the law. No .tin will dispute the farm
er's claim that he can send Ills money
to iinj place that he wishes and buy
gn.ds he needs whenever he wants to.
lint there is an economic side of the
question that should not be overlooked,
says i» M. Carr in Home Trade Advo
cate The resident of a community
should be active ill furthering the iu
terests i.f the place he calls home. He
Is working contrarily to his own good
when he sends his money to the dis
tant city for supplies lie knows can be
secured in his home town Ihe dollar
sent awav goes out of circulation and
ceases to be a fa< tor in the building up
of the community from which It is sent.
KSTAHLISHET) IN 1855
DEATH OF
GEORGE». WEST
George W. West, couuty surveyor
aud widely kuow citizen,departed this
life Saturday evening The deceased
had been iu poor health for some
months, due to an affection of the
heart. His case was rendered much
worse by the debilitating effects of the
hot weather prevailing, and on Satur
day his condition became very critic
al. During the afternoon lie seemed
to rally, however, and it was thought
all immediate danger was over when
about 5 o'clock he passed away while
reclining on a couch. Only a short
time before his death lie was convers
ing with his sons concerning some
business affairs. Ten minutes before
he expired, oblivious that the end was
near, he was engaged in pleasant con
versation with the family.
The deceased was 8? years aud 5)
months of age. He was a remarkably
preserved man and although, as above
stated, ailing physically during the
few months previous to death, yet his
intellect, notwithstanding his age was
unclouded. His memory was keen, his
hearing aud eyesight were good and he
was keen and vigorous iu thought.
During his long and active life he had
gained a vast amount of expeiieuce
and stored his mind with many useful
facts. His pleasant manners and his
companionable nature made him just
such a person as one delighted to meet
and converse with.
Mr. West was born at Mt. Ararat,
Susquehanna county. He graduated at
the Wyoming seminary and spent sev
eral following years teaching school.
He came to Danville iu 1848. He was
the first couuty commissioners' clerk
in Montour. In 1850 he was elected
county surveyor and also surveyor for
the borough of Danville. The latter
ottice he held up to two years ago; he
was county surveyor up to the time of
his death.
He is survived by four sons anil two
daughters: Charles M. West, W. Kase
West, Esq., George M. West aud I. D.
West, Mrs. O. J. Diehl and Miss Lou
West. He is also survived by two half
brothers, Milo H. West,of Oxford, N.
Y. ; and Philo West, of Susquehanna
county, this State.
Mr. West wa s actively engaged iu
the pursuit of surveying for a period
of sixty year* During his long career
he trod backwards and forwards over
the mountains aud valleys of Central
Pennsylvania uutil he l>ecame person
ally familiar with the most importaut.
landmarks and bouudariesof laud that
relate to the vast possessions of tim
ber and minerals which make the State
famous. The surveys be has made em
brace the vast section lying- between
Bellefoute aud Reading and farther
west between Potter county and Get
tysburg. While making some of these
surveys Mr. West and party for weeks
at a tiuie were away from civilization
aud like true explorers, wrapped iu
their blankets, they slept in a tent or
even iu the open air with only a bed
of spruce boughs between them aud
the hard ground. In making surveys
Mr. West was as frequently under
ground as on the surface aud in as
certaining the limits of coal aud iron
deposits he explored the full extent of
many of the deepest and most famous
mines in the State.
All that was mortal of George W.
West was consigned to the grave in
Fairview cemetery Tuesday fore
noon. The funeral took place from
the residence of I. D. West, Bloom
street l ,at 11 o'clock ami was very large
ly attended.
The services were conducted by Rev.
.1. E. Hutchison, pastor of Mahoning
Presbyterian church. The pall bearers
were four sons of the deceased : diaries
W. West. iW. Kase West, Esq., and
George M. West,"and Isaac D. West.
The following persons from out of
town attended the obsequies: Mrs. O.
J. Diehl and son Kinter Diehl, of
Pittsburg; Milo West, of Oxford, N.
Y. ; Miss Nora McWilliaius, Mr. and
Mrs Clarke Kase, Mr. and Mrs. John
Kase, Harry Kase, and Miss Jennie
Miller, of Elysburg; K. A. Quinu,
Esq., manager of coal companies of
Wilkes Barre; E. A. Rhodes, Superin
tendent of the mineral aud mining
railroad company, and wife, of Sha
mokin; Mrs. Edward Hergstresser and
Miss Clara Hergstresser, of Mt. Car
mel ;G. Hull Kuauer .'ml Mr. and Mrs.
David Lantz of Milton; James P.
Ellis, John A. Ellis, of Exchange; S.
P. W'olvertou.Jr., and Ira Shipiuan of
Suubury; Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus De-
Witt, of Blooinsburg.
THE WHEAT.
Wheat harvest is now in its midst.
The grain looks well but our tarmers
insist that on the average it is less
than a tull_crop. There'are few fields
that do not spots, while
at otber places tbejwbeat has "lodg
ed" pretty badly. The Hessian tlv has
also attacked the wheat at some places.
tiouger-Blddle.
Mrs. Annie Biddle and William L.
Gouger were united iu matrimony at
2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. C
D. Lerch at the residence of the bride 112
Mill street, in the presence of a few
near friends.
Death of an Infant.
Thoburn, the three month old infant
of Mr and Mrs. George Lunger, Vine
street, departed this life yesterday.
The funeral will take place Saturday
at 2p. m. Interment in Odd Fellows'
cemetery.
JOB PRINTING
The office of the AMERICA
being furnished with a large
assortment of job letter and
fancy type and job material
generally, the Publisher an
nounces to the public tnat he
is prepared at all times to ex
ecute in the neatest manner.
JOB PRINTING
Ofall Kinds and Description
ID BUR
IS RESIDENCE
A daring robbery was perpetrated in
Danville early Tuesday morning,
when the home of Emerson Spaide, at
the corner of Church and Front streets,
was entered, and S3O takeu from the
house.
The robbers were bold aud worked
with skill and cunning and that there
were more gangs than oue, or that the
one party operated in different parts
of the town is shown by the stories
that came from several sections of hap
penings of the early hours of Tuesday
morning.
It was about 3 o'clock when Mr 9.
Spaide was awakened by her husband,
who was walking al>out the room, in
reply to her questions, Mr. Spaide said
lie had heard a noise as if some one
had been 011 tne steps leadiug down
stairs, but that lie had investigated
and had found no further cause for
alarm. Both retired and agaiu went
to sleep.
Mrs. Spaide arose at an early hour
Tuesday morning, aud as she was go
iug down stairs she found her hus
band's trousers at the head of the
steps. She at once knew that some
thing was wrong and hastening back
into their room, she informed Mr.
Spaide of her find. Xu the trousers
pocket the robber hail fouud about S3O.
Mr. Spaide always disrobes before
retiring in a small room adjoining the
sleeping apartment. In this room also
Margaret, the little daughter, sleeps.
It was in this room that Mr. Spaide's
trousers were hanging ou a chair. To
gain access to this room it is neces
sary to pass through the room in which
Mr. and Mrs. Spaide sleep and pass
very near to the side of the bed. The
robber had evidently gone through in
to the small adjoining room, obtained
the trousers and with these in his pos
session safely made the return trip.
Before going downstairs he ransack
ed another room but got no more loot.
He also missed the little daughter's
bank in the dining room and Mrs.
Spaide's purse.
* The man made an entrance to the
house through the outside cellar door
aud thence up the cellar steps to the
first floor. His exit was made through
the out kitchen.
Neighbors of the Spaides state that
lately 011 several occasions they have
seen a stranger with a satchel lurking
uear the house,and recently oue morn
ing Mrs. Spaide was startled by seeing
foot prints of ashes in the back yard.
The man had evidently been getting
data for his coup.
SHOT AT BURGLAR.
Morris Snyder, who lives on Honey
moon street, also had an experieuce
with a burglar early Tuesday morning.
He was awakened about 1 o'clock by
the barking of dogs, and upon going
to a rear window, saw a man making
his way stealthily up through the
back yard. Mr. Snyder quickly pro
cured his revolver, and fired at the
man, but he evidently missed, for the
individual made a hasty exit over the
back fence.
JOHN DOSTER'S EXPERIENCE
The experiences of John Doster be
tween 11 ::J0 and 12 o'clock Monday
night leads to the belief that for a
while the men who committed the rob
bery at Spaide's and the attempted
burglary at Snyder's were in the cus
tody of the police, but were afterward
set free.
Mr. Doster about 11:80 o'clock Mon
thly night saw two men acting very
queerly in front of the residence of
Fred Held, 011 Bloom street. He kept
watch 011 their actions as they made
their way up by the old cemetery ou
Bloom street, He then notified the
police. The officers arriving ou the
scene took the men into custody aud
had brought them down to Mill street,
when they were allowed togo tree, as
the plausible stories they told suffici
ently accounted for their actious to
satisfy the officers.
Yesterday's Base Ball Scores.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Athletics, 15; Washington, 0.
New York, 8; Boston, 3.
Chicago, 4; Cleveland, 3.
St. Louis, 5; Detroit, 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Philadelphia, <>; Brooklyn, 5.
Boston, o;New York, 1.
Chicago, »i; Pittsburg, 3.
Cincinnati, 3; St. Louis, 4
TRI-STATE LEAGUE.
York, B;Hrrisburg, 1.
Aitooua, 2 ; Johnstown, 14, Ist game.
Altooua, 8; Johnstown,2, 2nd game.
Williamsport, 3; Lancaster, 2.
Danville Won and l.ost.
Danville won aud lost at Berwick on
the Fourth. The A. C. & F. boys took
the tir>t game by a score of 10-1, aud
the afternoon contest going to Dan
ville by a score of 12-5.
In the lirst game Yordy, of Spring
field, pitched for Danville aud iu the
second game McCloud and Hummer
were in the points.
Smallpox at Sunbury.
The residents of Sunbury were con
siderably startled yesterday morning
by the discovery of a case of smallpox
111 the town. The victim is 15-year-old
Elizabeth Kauffmau, of Newtou, New
Jersey, who is visitiug at the home of
her grandparents, Mr. aud Mrs John
R. Kauftinau, East Market street.