'Ob. 9/y , VOL.^Jr—NO. 4 DR. IRVING 11. JENNINGS, Office flours A. M.to 11 .'/• I®U Mill 2r. M.to i!'■ a. Danville, Pa. BIIVLTZ, M. (| 425 Mn.l. Sr., DANVILLB, PA. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty HE CONDENSED. It is a good thing for this world that : Providence is at the holm. Many a flue fellow is wholly undone 1 by the misdirected zeal of foolish j friends. Congress is goiug to try to learn j who gave Artist Reuterdalil his in- J formation about the navy, Physicians of York estimate that there* are 5,000 cases of grip and 1,500 of measles iu that city at present. Nagasaki, Japan, now has in four motor omnibuses which were made in Springfield, Mass. The manager of the theatre in Savan nah, Ga.,has adopted the rule that no late comers will be seated hereafter until the end of the first act. Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is likely to be a candidate for the seat ] in the United States senate now oc cupied by Senator Clay. There is complete sex equality in Finland, women being eligible to any office in the grand duchy except gover nor general, and that is filled by ap- j pointmeut of the czar. Louisiana has 2,000 physicians, 119 | of whom are practicing without di plomas. Naw Orleans has 705 of the ! total number. The Japaness emporer declared in his recent speech from the throne that he sincerely desires peace with all the world Kepeers of statistics announce that j the lyuchings in 1907 numbered fifty seven as compared with seventy-three | in 1906 According to the report of an expert who was employed to audit the ac count of the Alabama Agricultural as sociation, tliere" fs*an~apparent short age of about 120,000 iu the accounts of 1906. Experiments are under way in Dela ware with building roads of a mixture of clay and crude oil. The secretary of State at Washing ton has asked congress to increase the salaries of the assistant secretary and bureau chiefs. The national debt of France is al most $6,000,000,000. Russia owes be tween $4,000,000,000 and $5,000,000,- 000. The newly chosen supervisor of reg istration iu the oity of New Orleans is appropriately named Wisdom. Mayor of the town of Meigs,Georgia, for fourteen years, E. Wikes, has just been re-elected by a majority of ten votes. The report that Booker T. Washing ton is soon to make a speech or write a letter denouncing Secretary Taft may safely be sot down as a work of the imagination. This country will get about one-fifth of the nearly $200,000 which the Grand Trunk railwav, of Canada, is parting with for new locomotives this winter. A scandal is developing iu the State institution for feeble-minded children at Lincoln, Neb., growing out of the mysterious and serious burning of sev eral children. Austria is going to tax visiting au tomobiles according to the length of their stay aud to use the money iu road-mending. George McCullough, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who lauded in Australia just sixty years ago with less than sls in his pocket, died re cently worth a million. Mew York City's reservoirs hold a sufficient supply to meet the usual needs of the city for 14 weeks. They have a cow at the Wisoonsin Argicultural college which has pro duced the raw material for 1,200 pounds of butter during the past yea*'. Iu a tire at Long View hotel, near Pottstowu, about 200 badges of Civil war times besides autograph letters from President Lincoln and many promiuont union generals, belonging to the late Annie Witteumeyer, who had been a famous army nurse, wore burned. Caddo parish, Louisiana, has voted for prohibition by a majority of 41 The city of Shreveport, which is locat ed iu this parish, gave a majority of 80it against prohibition, but the ad verse vote of the parish overcame this aud a little more. In Belgium 70 per cent, of telegraph messages are delivered in from one to fifteen minutes. Cabbages iu Cuba grow to such size that a single head often weighs 2C pounds. CM. VS. HARRY RINSHELWQOD At 2:10 o'clock Thursday afternoon ,the case of Commonwealth vs. Harry Hiushelwood was given to the jury. When court adjourned at 6 o'clock i that evening the jury was still out. An arrangement was made whereby the courthouse hell should be rung 1 provided the jury came to au agree ment before eleven o'clock, in which 1 event court would assemble and take the verdict. If the jury could not j agree until after 11 o'clock, then the ' 1 verdict was to be sealed and returned j : this niorajSfc. At 11 o'clock last night > the jury was still deliberating. Immediately after convening Thure- I 1 day morning A. W. Duy for the de- j 1 feuse went to the jury. He spoke for 1 ] about an hour reviewing the testimony j in detail and dwelling with speoia j 1 emphasis upon the alleged dying state- j 1 meut, which, he insisted, lacked the j 1 necessary corroboration to make it 1 binding under the law of Pennsyl vania. But for Dr. Hinshelwood's 1 evidence, he declared, corroboration 1 would have been lacking altogether. 1 Mr. Duy did not come into the case i until Wednesday noon, when the testi- 1 mony of the Commonwealth's side 1 was practically all in. Notwithstand ing this handicap he conducted the defense very skillfully, his address to the jury especially calling forth much j praise. Hon. H. M. Hinckley went to the jury for the Commonwealth at 10.45 j o'clock. He read the act of assembly 1 relating to the offense charged and j 1 dwelt upon the difficulty of obtaining j 1 evidence in such cases. Ho explain- j ' ed the circumstances under which pro- ' secution may be brought. At consid- i ' erable length and with his accustomed' force and eloquence Mr. Hinckley re viewed the wide range of testimony to show that the alleged dying state ment was amply corroborated. Ho spoke until 12 o'clock, the crowded I courthouse meanwhile sitting in breathless silence. Immediately after reconvening Judge Evans proceeded with the charge to the jury. He went very carefully ov er all the testimony reproducing in detail the alleged dying statement as written out by the court stenograph er. The court very carefully explain ed what points should be present in i the testimony to the end that the dy- j ing statement might be corroborated as required by law. The charge was , considered very fair in all its rela tions. At 2:10 p. m.the jury retired. At 2 :30 the case of Patrick F. Bren ueno, Guardian of Elizabeth Markley, vs. Catherine Fiegles, the first civil case, was attached. W. liase West, and C. C. Lark, the latter of Shamokin. represented the , plaintiff. Hon. H. M. Hinckley api peared for the defendant. W Kase West in outlining the case i to the jury explained that Elizabeth Markley is about eighty years of age aud in consequence of her advanced years is very feeble, aud mentally j weak. For many years of her life she lived j at Thompsontown, this State, where J she amassed considerable property. It was explained that she was employed in the capacity of a servant aud that her savings,through the kindly advice ! of her employer, were very judiciously | and profitably invested. ! Within a few years past Mrs. Fieg ! les, the defendant, went down to j Thompsontown to see her sister, Miss ; Elizabeth Markley,bringing the latter along home with her, thenceforth to ' reside at the home of the defendant at Mausdale. Miss Markley it was alleg j ed is very illiterate and has no idea of the value of money, which together [ i with her feeble mindedness renders | her iucapable of taking care of her | I property. While living with her sister, Mrs. ! Kiegles, it wns alleged that Elizabeth j Markley was unduly under the influ- j ence of the former, who induced Miss i Markley to withdraw money from the bank and to apply it to remodeling I the Fiegles home. The present action is brought to recover S9OO, of Miss Markley's money,which the defendant is alleged to have obtained through undue influence. Mrs. Fiegles, and M, G. Youngman were among the witnesses called dur ing the afternoon. While Mrs. Joseph Kouza, of Shen audoah, was preparing a tub of hot water for her hnsband's bath on Mon day evening her 6-months-old child, that she had placed in a box on a table fell into the tub and was scalded so severely that it died an hour later. A platform collapsed at the top of Burnside colliery breaker, near Sha mokin,on Monday, on which were two carpenters, Albert Morgan and Charles Hillman. They fell one hundred feet, 1 landing on a railroad, aud sustained injuries that may pruve fatal. ) The force of dynamite is about eight times that of gunpowder. ' DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 23, 1908 TRIPS Ml fllj 10RI Danville has fallen in line with neighboring towns and has decided to put all tramps to work that happen to stroll this way. Chief-of-Polioe Miueemoyer called the attention of council to the matter, explaining that he already had four in the lock-up aud was likely to have at least half a dozen more vagrants in his care before the hour of midnight. Iu addition it was reported that tramps or men of the same class, a dozen or more iu number, are in the habit of lodging in the Continental hose iiouse. The chief of-police explained that he nightly makes an examination of Jthe engine house, but it appears that the fellows wait until the officer makes his round when they crawl into the building. Begging has become a great nuisance about town, many families receiving several visits from the tramps daily. On motion of Mr. Angle, seconded by Mr. Everhart, it was ordered that the ordinance be enforced aud that tramps be put to work.eithei by work ing on the street or breaking stone on a stone pile to be installed at the rear of the city hall. INSPECT AMUSEMENT PLACES. A communication was received from ) a citizen inquiring of council wheth er, in view of the terrible catastrophe at Boyertown it would not be a wise move to appoint a committee to ex amine the various places of amuse ment to see that none of thorn are un safe. On motion of Mr. Angle it was j ordered that the communication be ac- j cepted and the building committee, i consisting of Messrs. Hughes, Fin nigan and Moyer, be instructed to ex amine the various places of amuse ment in Danville, especially with ref erence to ingress and egress of the establishments. INSUFFICIENT WATER SUPPLY. A eommuuicntion was received from the Heading Iron company calling at tention to the inadequacy of the bor- ! ougli water supply during the fire la?t j Sunday morning when a dwelling j house on Welsh Hill, belonging to the j Reading Iron company, was entirely j destroyed The insufficient pressure, [ the communication stated, was due j principally to the fact that the pump- | ing station was not notified of the fire j and therefore the crew did not in crease the pressure in the mains. The communication suggested and petition ed counoil to the same effect that a suitable automatic alarm bo installed to conneot the oity pumping station , with the fire alarm and fire engine houses so that a bell or alarm will j notify employes at the pumping sta- j tion immediately when a general fire j alarm is sounde 1. It was also petitioned that the four j Inch main in the section of the bor ough adjoining Welsh hill be replaced j with new ((-inch wrought iron pipe to | increase the volume and efficiency of the water supply in that section. On motion the communication was accepted and referred to the commit tees on fire and water. THIEVES'IN HOSE HOUSE. Mr. Angle reported that some oue has broken into the Good Will hose house and stolen the nozzle of the j largo hose, an axe and fifty feet of small hose. On motion of Mr. Dietz i it was ordered that a nozzle be pur- ! chased to replace the one stolen. NO MOON LIGHT SCHEDULE. Mr. Dietz moved that the borough | light plant go back upon the moon light schedule, now that the trees are divested of their leaves. The idea did popular and was lost by the I following vote: Yeas —Dietz, Moyer, Hughes. j Nays—Sweisfort, Russell, Deutsch, Everhart. Fiuiligau, Angle, Scliatz. HEATER & SEPARATOR. ; On motion of Mr. Russell it was | ordered that a Cochran open heater and separator be purchased of the I Harrison Safety Boiler works for use | in the borough light plant. I The following bills were approved | for payment: BOROUGH DEP'T. Regular employes $127.60 | J. P. Bare 75.00 j A. C. Ainesbury 12 V) 1 j Peoples' Coal Yard 4.90 Dr. O. Shultz 13.72 WATER DEP'T. Labor at Light Plant $159.34 D. L. & W. R. R. Co 41.14 Friendship Fire Co 20.21 i Welliver Hdw. Co ICO 00 : Silver Spring Quarry Co 30 81 Trumbower & Werkheiser . 39 17 I L. E. Frorup & Co 51 80 Atlantic Refining Co 1.20 ' Labor and hauling 74.07 David J. Rogers 31.17 Intense excitement was created on I Fifth avenue, Pittsburg, ou Monday ; afternoon when Max Rosenhaum,aged 08 years, the millionaire head of the t Rosnnhanm department store,fell dead : on the sidewalk in front of the store. U.i m DEPARTS THIS LIFE Henry M. Schoch.a leading resident of Danville aud one of the trustees of the hospital for the iusane, departed this life at 12 :30 o'clock Monday af ternoon. The deceased was aged seventy-seven years, five mouths aud seventeen days. During four years past he has uot been iu good health. Since the holidays, his decline has been quite rapid. He was able to appear ou the street for a short time ou January Ist. Since that time ho has been confined to his house. On Tuesday of last week he took his bed, from which he never rose. He was afflicted with heart trouble aud, although at times he soemed to rally, yet his suffering frequently was most intense. Sunday evening he enjoyed a good spell, but during the night he became quite serious. His death was not unexpected. The deceased was a widower, his wife departing this life ou January 23, 1890. He is survived by a son, Frank G. Sclioch, aud a daughter, Miss Mary E. Schoch, both of Dau ville. Three brothers and two sisters of the deceased survive: George W., Gilbert and Milton Schoch,of Miffliu burg; A iss Emma Schoch and Mrs. Harriet Neihart of Lewisburg. The funeral will tako place from the late residence, East Market street, at 1 p. ni., Thursday, interment being private. The funeral of the deceased will bo held on the 18th anniversary of his wife's death. Heniy M. Schoch was born at Mifflinburg August 3, 1880. When seventeen years of age be came to Danville and accepted a position as clerk in tho general store of Henry Baldy, where he remained for fifteen years. He next accepted a position iu tho store of Waterman & Beaver, where he remained for fifteen >ears In 1877 he went into business for hitneslf, opening a large general store ou Mill street at the stand at present occupied by Mayan Bros. He remain ed at this stand for eight years, when he removed his store to the large build ing on Mill street now occupied by S. Loweustein. Fifteen years later he removed from the latter building to the stand that he occupied at the time of his death. Iu the ceutenuial year he was chief burgess of Danville, lie also served as ! a member of the borough council for j several years. In 1901, ' the deceased was appointed j by Governor Stone as a trustee of the j hospital for the insane. He was re- j appointed by Governor Pennypacber. j He was a member of the Pine Street | Lutheran ohur h. H>; was a good citiz- j eu.a man whose support and influence were always arrayed on the side of civic j righteousness. Throughout his long j business career as well as during his I trusteeship he held the respect and { confidence of our townsmen and his j fellow members on the board of trus- j tees. He was a man of generous ini- j pulses, with a kind word for every j one. Notwithstanding his years he j was an active man and up to his last ! serious illuesr demonstrated his rare capacity for work. He will be great ly missed. PRISON TIMBERS FROM WYOMING Timbers from which tho famous, in- j famous Libby prison was erected, were floated down the Susquehanna past this town over fifty years ago. Tho trees were felled iu Wyoming j ; county and rafted down the Susque- i hanna to the Chesapeake Bay and | thenco taken to Richmond, Va., where Libby erected a large tobacco ware- : house, and when the Civil war broke out, that warehouse became Libby ! prison. This faci, is uot generally known, but it is vouched for by Dr. | John Denison. of Tunkhaunock, who ; was told the full facts by an old SUB- | quehanna river raftsman. FOUR PRISONERS ARE DOING TIME The removal of Sliephard.Roden and .Tones to the Eastern penitentiary leaves four prisoners doing time in the Montour county jail. Independent of the above nnniber James Dailey is in the custody of the sheriff pending the procuring of a bondsman. The court I demanded three hundred dollars bail j of Dailey to keep the peace toward all good people and more especially his wife. JOSEPH RITTER FOR OVERSEER OF POOR The Democrats of Mahoning town ship held their primaries on Friday night. Following are the nominees: Supervisor. Joseph Mottern; school directors, Benjamin L. Diehl and George Meyers; constable, Clark Heim baoh; judge of election, Thomas Mad den; inspector, Alonzo Krum ; overseer of the poor, Joseph Hitter. Will OPEN POST OFFICE Oil SUM Postmaster W. L. Gouger,acting un der instructions from First Assistant Post Master General F. H. Hitchcock, will shortly make some important changes in the conduct of his office, principal among them being the open ing of the office for an hour on Sun day aud an outgoing mail on that day. Commencing with Sunday, January 26,"1908, the corridor of the office will be open between the hours of 9:30 and 10:30 and patrous having boxes can get the mail therefrom, the mail which arrives in this city on the 7:05 a. in., D. L. & W. train being distributed by that time. On the same date an out going Sunday mail will bo inaugurat ed. Mail deposited in the drop at the post office until Bp. m. will be des patched via D. L. & \V. train No. 705. Ou Monday, January 27 aud after, the general delivery of the post office will close at 7 :30 p. m. instead of at 8 as at present. This will in uo way affect the outgoing mails. All matter deposited until 8 o'clock will be for warded as is now done. RUNAWAY PATIENT SOON CAPTURED The monotony of life at the hospital for the insane was relieved by the es cape of a female patient Tuesday morning, the person who ran away be ing Mrs. Henderlont.a French woman who has been at the institution for some years. "Elopements," as they are termed at the hospital, are quite common among the male patients in spite of precautious employed to prevent es capes. Amoug the female patients, however,they are less common; indeed they are rare. When a woman escapes it is regarded as really a very serious thing and all the resources cf the in stitution aro brought to bear in speedi ly effecting her capture,female attend- auts as well as the males joining in j the pursuit, which knows uo let-up un til ttie object of the search is found. ! The woman who escaped Tuesday is known as Mrs. Henderlont. About 8 o'clock she accompanied some other J patients to the laundry, where for souie time each day they are employed j at light work. When the group of : patients returned to the hospital a j short time afterward it was discover ed that Mrs. Henderlont was missing. How the woman managed to give the attendant the slip or just how long she had been gone could not be j determined. The only thing that re- j mained to do was to start in pursuit. In a few minutes attendants were scouring the hills in every direction, j The woman was captured a couple of miles east of the institution and a short time before the hour of noon 1 might have been seen coming down the D. L. & W. railroad in custody of j two female attendants. It was quite i evident that the patient was not re- j turning willingly. The attendants kept close to her side, each holding j one of her arms. ONLY ONE CASE ~ IN NEARLY 4 WEEKS The outbreak of typhoid fever,which reached high water n.?rk about the 1 beginning of January, is rapidly de clining and in all probability inside of a month the epidemic will be a j thing of the past. The secretary of the board of health is authority for the statement that but one case of typhoid has been reported since the beginning of the year,a mat ter of four week since. Naturally all the cases reported previously have by this time advauoed far on the road to ! i recovery. Conditions favorable for an epidemic 1 undoubtedly existed earlier in the sea son, even if some of the causes that produced typhoid no longer exist. For six weeks or two months past the riv- : er has been considerably above low water mark, reducing danger from sewer pollution to a minimum. Be sides, the general precaution taken by the people counts for something.it be i ing worthy of note that the abate ! ment of the epidemic soon followed after the people, stirred to action by Dr. Dixon's letter, generally adopted the precaution of boiling the water. Bishop doing lo England. Rt. Kev Kthelbert Talbot,bishop of Episcopalian diocese of Central Penn : sylvania,will leave ahout May 31st for England. The bishop will attend the I Lambeth conference in Lambeta palace ' in London, of all the bishops of the ; Episcopalian faith in the world,which j is held every ten years. Death of a Child. Francis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. .lolin William Shutt,departed this life at t> o'clock Tuesday evening aged j three years. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Friday from the family residence, No. 18 Spruce street. luter | ment in the Lutheran cemetery. M PROPERTIES CHANCE ÜBS A considerable quautity of real estate has chauged hands during the last couple of weeks. Register and Rec order W. L. Sidler states that there has been a greater flurry iu real estate during the last three days than duriug a year past. Among the titles that have passed are those representing a number of well-known properties. The Matthew Feiuour farm in Lib erty township has beeu transferred to Joliu SV. Moll. The farm contains 40 acres and 110 perches. The considera tion is §1200,00, The Isaiah Blue farm iu Valley township containing 71 acres, has been purchased by D. R. P. Cliilds. Con sideration, $4325.00. The Jackson Billmeyer farm in Lib erty township has beeu transferred to James W. Dietrick. The farm con tains 62 acres and 120 perches. Con sideration 13050.00. Bruce Kelley has purchased a house and lot of David St. Clair near Wash ingtonville. Consideration, $1250, The farm of Henry Wintersteen in Valley township, containing 65 acres and 50 perches, has beeu purchased by Frank Fenstermacher for $3100.00. Thomas B. Evans has bought the Packer property on the northeast cor ner of Pine aud East Mahoning streets, Danville. The price paid was |2600. The title of the George Elwell prop erty, fourth ward, Danville, passer! to the widow, Martha E. Elwell. The consideration was $500.00. The title of the Nicholas Hofer homestead, Nicholas avenue, has pass ed to Curry Foust. The consideration was $1650, The Harman Morrison farm in Mah oning township,the title of which has been held by F. 112» Jackson since 1902, has been transferred to the trustees of the hospital for the insane. The farm is a very fine one containing 92 acres aud 130 perches. The price paid by Mr. Jackson was $i900.00. lie receiv ed from the trustees of the hospital for the insane §6139.50 for the farm. W. E. KASE DIED AT SUNBTRY William Edward Ease,a well known resident of Sunbury,and widely known and related in Danville and viciuity, j died Monday evening. He was taken ! ill Snnday night with acute indiges tion. His condition was not alarming uu- | til toward Monday evening when lie I rapidly grew worse and in several j hours died. He had been suffering j from stomach trouble for over a year ■ and on several occasions in that time i was violently ill. The deceased was born in Rushtowu on February 20, 1860, the sou of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac G. Ease. In early youth he attended the public schools, and afterwards went to work on his ! father's farm. In 1882 he married Miss ! Maine Reed,of Schuylkill Haven. En- 1 tering the employ of S. ,T. VauLil & Co., of Baltimore,as a traveling sales man, he remained in their service for j lo years. For several years he was in- i terested in the Fenn Tobacco com pany. For the past year he has con- i ducted a wholesale liquor establish- 1 nieut on East Market street, Sunbury Iu his travels lie became widely acqua- j inted throughout Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife, and daughter Anna, by his sister, Mrs. J. K. Sharpless, of this eitv, and by two half brothers and three half sisters. .T. H. Ease, of South Danville, is an uncle of the deceased. J. S. BROWN 7)lT) NOT GET PARDON The petition for a pardon for J. S. Brown, the premium clubman, con victed of false pretense at a recent , term of court in Sunbury, was refused , Tuesday by the board of pardons act- i ing at Harrisburg. Brown started ; many premium clubs iu Danville and other towns iu this vicinity,and after ! seouriug a number of payments neg lected to deliver the premiums. He | claimed in court that sickuess pre vented him from attending to his ! work; that he intended to act square -1 ly by his customers and never had any : intention whatever of cheating them. I About forty charges were brought against Brown, and should he be sent enced to the limit of the law lie would probably pass the remainder of his \ life in jail. The application for a pardon was made* as a last resort and Brown will have to serve out his time iu jail. of the First Methodist Ep iscopal church iu Verona, Allegheny county,caught lire on Sunday evening during the service and to avert a panic the pastor, liev. Dr. Oliver P. Grah am, calmly brought his sermon to a close and started singing a hymn as he heard the crackling of the flames. Others then quietly got the crowded room eloared without commotion. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 ■IRS UN sim OUTING A meeting of citizens was held at the courthouse last night for the pur pose of organizing a mummers' as sociation for the ensuing year. The meeting was called to order by Sheriff D. O. Williams. A. C. Koat acted as secretary. The following oflicers were elected for the ensuing year: President,D. O. Williams: vice president, James freeze ; secretary, A. O. Koat; trea surer, John G. Waite. The following persons were appoint ed on the finance committee: James Freeze, J. H. Woodside, Joseph Weid man, Harry Truuibower, Jeese Wyant, William O. Williams and John L. Jones. An executive committee was ap pointed composed of the following: Burgess W. J. Rogers, chairman ; A. O. Amesbury, J. G. Waite, George Freeze, David Evans, M. H. Schram, James Murray, Setli Lormer, J. F. Tooley, Harry Rupp, A. L. Laßue.A. H. Groue, Will T. Suter and Fred Becker. Printing committee, J. G. Waite, Seth Lormer, A. O. Roat. On motion it was ordered that as a means of raising funds a picnic be held during next summer,the arrange ments for the same to be left in the hands of the exeoutive committee. WEDDING BELLS AT SHAHOKIN When wedding bells ring in the fam ous Five Spot district in Sliamokin there is always pretty sure to he some tiling doing, and a nuptial event on Tuesday evening was no exception and as a result Leo Kostakovitch (accent ed on the second syllable) is now in the Sunbury jail. The contracting parties were fore igners, friends of Kostakovitch's, and lie was among the unbidden guests standing "on the outside looking in." Xlle crowd was ijuitc frivolous and the festivities waxed almost as high with out as within. Loo drew a revolver and with uncertain aim attempted to shoot out the lamps through the wind ow. The guests fled pell mell, and the ceremonies came to a sudden end. Leo was puisued with bricks and stones. He turned and filed several shots at the men behind hint. His poor aim was the only thing that saved North umberland county from several more murders. He was captured and taken before Justice MoGormick, who sent him to jail in default of SoDO bail to await trial. HUSKING CORN IN JANUARY Farmers who were unable to com plete the work of storing awny their corn before cold weather set in last fall are taking advantage of the mild spell of weather to finish husking their crop. Here aud there throughout the country during the last ten days there have been husking frolics, which must be put down as a decided novelty in January. The corn at many places, although it seemed to yield fairly well, has turned out to be a partial failure. Owing to late planting the crop was I tte in maturing aud was overtaken by the frost. As a result the corn when husked was found to be soft. When stored away in bulk the ear- have moulded, rendering the corn unfit for use. Under the conditions the belated farmer whoso corn has remained in the shock where it was exposed to the air has had the best of it as the ears hav9 had a chance to dry out aud mouldiiig has not occurred. CONFERENCE OF S. S. WORKERS A conference of the officers of the Sunday School Association of Dan ville aud the superintendents of the schools was held Tuesday evening at the Y. M. O. A. The object of the meeting was to elect district superin tendents to confer with the State sup erintendents in the begiuners, home and teachers training departments. The following superintendents were elected: Primary work, Mrs. J. B. Gearhart: home department, Mrs Jos eph Johnson ; teachers training depart ment, O. R. Shilling. MISS MADDEN ON COMHITTEE Miss Margaret O. Madden, a teacher of this county, has been appointed by Stato Superintendent of Public In struction N. O. Scliaeffer to be amen - ber of the committee on permanent j certificates for Montour county. Tl o ; appointment is for three years d.v g i from the first Monday of Decern or, 1 190.,
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