VOL. 55—NO. 4 DK. IRVING H. JENNINGS, Office Hours A. it.to 12 .»/. 101, Mill St., IP. iV. to iP. M. Danville, Pa, HIIUTTZ, M. 425 Mn.i. ST., DANVILLE, PA, Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty ITEMS CONDENSED. A fire at Wilkes-Barre on Saturday badly damaged the old First National bauk building causing a loss of $40,- 000. J. S Bnah, of near Pottstowu, feil in his barn on Saturday and broke his leg—the fifth time that he I.as had limbs fractured. Benjamin Ward,of Chester, has cross ed the Atlantic ocean 136 times, cov- j eriug nearly a half million miles ou ! the billowy deep. John Claypole, aged 38 years, was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff James Matter, of Butler county, dur- j ing the raid of a large cocking main at Prayville, near Butler, ou Friday i night. Isaac Reynolds, of Lancaster, has been sued twenty-oue times within a few years for neglecting his wife and j three children. He had been directed I to pay $3 per week for their support. Chester Chandler, of West Chester, { bought a turkey from a West Marlbor ough farmer at twenty-eight ceuts a poirud, but as there were two pounds of corn in its crop.he claims tho price 1 was too high. William Hixson, aged 14 years, while j skating ou the Lehigh river at Kaston, ou Saturday, broke through the ice and was drowned. After a chase of three weeks Const able Terrell, of Plttsbrug, arrested on j Saturday D. C. McAfee, a former real estate man of that city.ou a charge of passing a worthless check on a city barber. McAfee was found by the con stable under a bed at his home, al though told that ha was not at home. The 960 women graduates of Bryu Uawr college have undertaken to raise an additional endowment fund off 1,- 1 000,000, and SIOO,OOO is already in sight. The epidemic of typhoid fever in J Beading has abated aud Miss Alice M. O'Hallorau, chief of the staff of train ed nurses, has retuured to Philadel- j phia with all the other nurses from that city. During the epidemic since October there were 670 cases in the city. The municipal water plaut of Frank lin shows an annnal profit of about $15,000. M. H. Toole, of Scrauton, a reserve ofliaer of the city police force, has been arrested ou a charge of robbing K. K. Keenau, a traveling man,of SSO. Johu Likowitz, aged it„years, who broke through the ice in a deep mine hole, near limaus, Lehigh county, was , rescued fromsdowuing°by the bravery and skilPof HenryJSohanzanbaoh.ased 13 years While Peter HuLinger, of Heading, aged 80 years, was ou his way early ou Sunday morning to fish for suck ers, he was struck bv an engine ou tho Pennsylvania rmlroad hridgfi and seveily iujured that ho uiav die. Mrs. Agnes S uitli. n„'ed 6'.i years, an itimatf of the'Okl People's home, in Darby, Delaware^ctuuty, was so bad !v burned on Saturday by her clothing taking fire from a red-hot stive tlm* she die ! of her injuries ou Sunday moruiug. Daniel L. Gerhart, of Palm, Mont gomery county, while trying to -drive a spike on Saturday, missed It aud hit his thumb striking off the nail und inflicting a painful woon 1. lll< m-xt door neighbor, Rdwiu Kiaus*, wlu'le laughing over the aooidsnt, <-ippti and fell on a boardwalk, fracturing several ribs. While Mr. aud Mrs Willlan Kow hart.of Jamison City, Oolu .ibia oui - ty. were ou their wnv lr :ne front Ricketts inn sleigh, Ssiturdm night, their h irse slipped and f«;l down an embankment fifty feet higl . lurrying sleigh and acnipauts along, but they escaped serious injury. By an operation upon John Glawln ski, of Reading, suffering from cancer of the stomach,surgeons formed a new channel around the involved portions of his stomach, which when healed will give the patient means of taking nourishment and prevent him from starving to death. Two bronz« tablets commemorating the settlement made ou the Delaware by the Dutch aud Swedes, in 1628 and 1638, respectively, will be preßeuted to the city of Philadelphia on Satur day, February H, by the Pennsylvania sooiety of Colonial Wars. The pre sentation ceremonies will take place on the south plaza at oity hall, where the me norialn are to be erected. two ins HELD KB License court was held Friday. All the applications were granted with the exception of the ones relat ! ing to the Mooresburg hotel aud Farm -1 ers' hotel, this city. His Honor Judge Evans aud Associ ates Blee and Welliver were on the beuoh. After looking over the papers the court announced that all the ap plications would be granted with the exception of the two above alluded to, which seemed to involve some irregul arity. It was necessary, however, that the cuurt hear some testimony as to character in those cases where new applicants applied for old stands. In the latter category there were two namely. Mrs. Luoretia Beaver, who applied for license at the Strawberry ridge hotel, formerly kept by her hus band, the late Charles Beaver, aud Harry Cox, formerly landlord of the hotel at Pino Snmmit,Columbia coun ty, an "rplicant for license at the ho tel »t Exchange. Among those who testified to the "gcod moral character and temperate habits" of Mrs. Beaver were Hon. Alexander Billiueyer. John Smith. Jonathan Mourar and Charles Vartz. Those who testified in favor of Mr. Oox were John Lora of this city, and William Ball and James Smith of Piue Summit township. William Eckert, and Charles Bur nell, applicants for license respective ly at tho Farmers' hotel and the hotel at Mooresbnrg, were called before court It appears that the license at Mooresburg is in the name of William Eckert, who last December assumed charge of the Farmers' hotel,this city, the license of which house is in the name of Charles Rausch. In ex plaining the terms under which he operated the hotel at Moore''org Charles Burnell stated that after de ducting all expenses from the gross receipts he was to tnrn the balance over to William Eckert, the proprie tor. This arrangement was to be tem porary, however, only until license court. William Eckert explained that he had purchased the fixtures at the Farmers' hotel, hut said that the bill of sale had been made out in his wife's name. He admitted that the pr<.t ti of the bnsinesa nccured to himself. Judge Evans explained that it is a violation of the law for a man to hold two licenses. In the present case, while the license had not been transferred, the evidence, lie said, showed that the applicant, William Eckert, was re ceiving the profits of two licensed houses, which was just what the law was aiming to prevent Speaking for hi'iisMf Judge Evans sai I in view of the infraction ha could not grant the license the present year. Both licenses involved were held over until Saturday, .lannar« : Oth. The court explained that the order previously made requiring all licens ed houses to close their bars a' 12 o'clock midnight and to keep vheni closed until 5 a. m. still remains in fores. The court also stated that there is much complaint in Mout 'iir county ou the score of Sunday sailing Judge Evans said ha was inclined to believe that the liquor law is being violated here in this manner. He took occas ion ta warn all licensees that any mnu found guilty of Sunday soiling or of violating the liquor law in nnv other \\ '.v will be obliged to ray the full penally. In conclusion he significant ly remarked: "In Montour touury, hereafter there will be no miniu tm penalties imposed for violation of the liquor law " ALh X FUSI I: R WITHDRAWS \I zander Foster, who received the n.i'iublieau nomination fo> chief bur g s' of Danville ban will. r, Knnl i r.«. Mo t . :il \V« son. 112 Phi!a ilo'phia and Mr-. ( hirles 'iVtiEwl.. 112 New York, arrived >e»t"i lav 112 r a visit ;i* the hon oof Dr. and Mis. I. H. Jointings Wist Mrirket street. ZVlrs. J Moulfjom ry R tidy,of Phil adelphia, i« a iruest at the homo of Mr. and Mrs, P. E. Mnus, M »i:s lale. Mrs. W. O. Friik, of Deal Beach. New Jersey, arrived yesterday for a visit at the home if Mrs. K. M. Friik, West Market street. Jacob (i >ss spoilt yesterday with I frini'lß in S luburv. Mrs Charles Wat-on, Jr., and son, of Ph ltdelphi-t, arrived in this city yesterday for a visit with friends. Mrs. 11. S. Beicli and Mrs. R. Mo C rmii'.k Ic't yesterday for a visit with ] Mr. and Mr-. Frank Keeferal Milton. Mr. and Mrs. I"). L Rider and Mr. and Mrs. I.evi Ki rtuer, of near Straw - berry 11l lne, w re among the visitor? j in this city yesterday. Mis. O. I*. Hancock. Miss Hancock I Mr< Arthur 11. Wool ley, Mrs. Edward Hanghtou and Mis. Elward Nnruinn Sco t sp a visit witii relatives in Delaware Oity, Delaware. THIS RIM IS A THRILLER 1 Pedestrians on Mill street about the ! close of market Saturday morning were thrilled by a runaway, in which | the horse after threading his way I among conutless vehicles on the busy ' | thoroughfare wound up his spectacu lar performance by leaping into anoth lar sled, where for a brief interval he lay snugly filling the box. I The runaway horse belonged to ' Cromwell's grocery and was attached !to a light sled. He escaped from the ' driver somewhere out East Mahoning ! street. He made the very best of time as lie dnshed iu by the opera house block and swung around the corner | down toward Cromwell's store. On ; East Mahoning street near the post j oflice the delivery sled struck one of I the rutiuera of a sleigh,in which were ' seated a man aud a woman. A bad ( j accident seemed unavoidable. The j sleigh was jerked around into the mid : die of the street, but fortunately did 1 not upset. | After turning the coruer the excited I animal seemed to make a bee line for the trolley car and another collision | seemed imuiiueut, but he escaped by merely a handbreiidth. There were many vehicles iu the street directly i in the path of the runaway, but they all escaped, although by the very nar- J rowest margin. George Ferry, the expressman, witli two horses attached to a heavy sled, ws> in front of Lyons' meat market,' as the runaway approached. He did I not see the horse,however, and was in the act of turning nrouud, his sled standing crossways in the street when the delivery borne at a mad gallop I reached the spot. The runaway animal was iu uo mood to stop even for the sled, but showed his contempt for the obstacle by at tempting to leap over it at a single bound. Handicapped by the load he was dragging lie was unable to clear the expressman's sled aud he fell into the capacious box. There was a terrible ti ixup. Wo men screamed tnd n en ran from every \ direction to render assistance. The horse struck the Bled first with his front feet. Iu his struggles be got in to the box with all fours and the next momeut fell over, aud for a brief in ' terval lay helpless in the sled. By dint of hard struggling, however, lie regained his feet aud escaped from the sled box. By this time, however, the horse had bee 1 seized I y a couplo of men. Mr Perry was slightly injured on the hack, where ho was struck by the licrso's hoofs. The delivery sled was slightly broken but beyond this the damage was slight. SUCCESSFUL YOUNG TRAPPERS Isaiah Gresii aud Fred Seidei, of Washingtonville, hold the record as trappers in Montour county. The picturesque Chllisqnnque with its entire system of tributaries by o'iimon consent seems to be given ov er to these two hardy aud nature-lev in.; young fellows. Mr. Crush takes the sectii n below Washingtonville and Mr. Seidei the territory above Not only al.iug the crock but far up the small tributaries they have set 11:. •# 112 r -!\>ne and io lording after tie-.e 1 . v ire obliged to wnl'» fifteen to eighteen miles dail". Tim trapping season begins Oel >irr 16th tnd h-s s until > arch 15th. Mi. liresh brought .t In: of 11 its in to ti li 3 city yesterday. While collet-t --ing his bounty at the county commis sioners' office he took occasion to de scribe what success lie had met with this season Already 1.0 has to his oredit 230 most rn's, 7 miuks,ls opos sums, II Hkuuks, 25 weasles aud oue j coon. Of the above animals of course there ; is 110 bounty ou any but minks and j weasles. The pelts, however, all are ; valuable from a furrier's point of view. Muskrar pelts command 30 cents a piece. A mink's pelt is worth ! from $.'.50 to $7.00 according to its o udition. An opossum skin is worth only 25 cents; a coon skin will bring a dollar The pelt of a skunk is worth | 11.00 to $1.75. Mr. Seidei, Mr. Gresii stated, has also beeu very successful this winter 1 and has probably a Correspond lug number of p»lts to his credit Charles Ketidig, a prominent and i wealthy farmer of East Fallowfield township, Chester county, committed suicide 011 Tuesday, by hauging him self, having become despondent ba | oause of domestic troubles. Near Bethlehem, iu the icy waters of Mouocaoy creek Kev. J. C. Rote, of E'lenezer Menuonite Brethren church, ou Monday baptized eleven converts, while the batiks of the creek were crowded with on-lookers. Mrs. Jesse Shannon, of South Dan ville, was a Snnhury visitor yesterday. SCHOOL H Ull The sohool board held a regular i meeting Monday night. Dr. Barber of the high school com- j mittee called attention to the fact that 1 Mr. Bickel, principal of the high soliool. is off dnty owing to illness; j also that Mrs. Coulter was absent j days last week owing to the death of a relative. Mies Jamison, he said is acting as a substitute teacher in the high school during the principal's ill ness, while Miss Blue was employed during Mrs. Coulter's absence. Both substitute teachers, he said, rendered , very good service. The question of sal- | ary for the extra teachers, he said, would now have to be settled. The matter was discussed at length, when, 011 motion of Dr. Barber, it was ord- j ered that Miss Jamison and Miss Blue each be paid $3 per day for ttie time j employed. Borough Superintendent Dieffen bacher reported to the board that Mr. Bickel would be able to resume his position as principal 011 Wednesday. On motion regular order of business was suspended and board heard tiie faculty's report on text books. Mrs. Con Iter for the faculty recommended two additional books for use in the high school as follows: Elements of Knglish aud Composition by Gardner, Kitridgeand Arnold, and Xewcomer's English Literature. On motion of Mr. Fischer the books were adopted as rc commended. Mr. Fischer of the building and re pair committee reoo-iimended the u-e of a chain arrangement on the furnace in the third ward to inform the jani tor of the temperature of the different rooms. On motiou this was ordered. The following members were pres ent: Heiss, Oole, Burns. Redding, Fischer, Lloyd, Fish. Barber, Ortb, Parse!, Swarts. The following bills were approved for payment: Wm. Miller t 1.50 j Colombia School Supply Co.. . . 505.15 Roberts & Meek 10 87 Water Tax 56.00 United Telephone Co.. rent . (>.OO O. B. Savidge 17.26 DEATH RATE IS DECREASING The report of the tuberculosis dis pensary for the month just closed >hows that one new patient was ad mitted aud that there is a total of twenty-six under 'reatment. During the nio-.h patients made forty-three visits to the dispensary. Thirteen showed uu iucrease in weight; nine revealed neither gain nor loss. Four pUieuts showed loss. Five were taking mediciue. The nurse made fifteen visits. Three hundred and seveuty-eight quarts of milk and one linmlred aud twenty-nine and a half dozen of ejfgs were snpi li ed. lu Danville list year thero were in all eight cases of tabcrcul is ; s. Of these two were from tho Holy family convent and one win reported from New York City. Excluding the three above cases, which may be regarded as imported rases, we find that the deaths duo to tuberculosis form only four per cent, of the town's mortality. Nevertheless, flip whole number r.f ca*-n ar* to ti* ousi'erol when it conies to combat: the disease as each case while it 1 :;ists U a centre ot e intuzion. During 1!)'7 cut of 113 detths 11 ware due ro tuber tilosis or consump tion. We have for that voir, wi h the convent olimiuated. a death r.»t«s due to tuberculosis of 7 ti per cent Iu 19C6 1 \clusive of the convent the death late due t r i tuberculosis was 11 7 per cent. It is quite apparent from the above that owing to the crusade agaii'st tub erculosis the death rate duo to tuber culosis is gradually decreasing If we include the H.ily Family con vent iu our statistics we discover the same gradual reduction in mortality due to tuberculosis. In li) 06 the death rate would thou have been, I-l per j cent. ; iu 1907, !> per cent, aud iu IHOB, 6.3 per cent. Visiting Relatives. Mrs. Fred Kirbeudaii and daughters Eleanor and Cordelia.of Wilkes-Barre, and Mrs. Charles Gearhart and daugh ters Louise aud Georgiann, of Kings ton, arrived yesterday for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Gearhart, East Market street. 365 Applicants. Northumberland comity license court set on Monday with Judges Sav idge and Aut u u on the beuch. There i were no remonstrances against 365 ap plicants, and they were all granted license at ouce, among them being six j new ones. Three applicants were re fused. j The boy who does the very bast he j can will succeed as a man. 111 ANNUAL CONVENTION The fourth annual convention of the Moutonr county school directors' as sociation was held in the courthouse yesterday. Of the seventy-five direct ors of the county hut ten were absent during the opening session. The convention was called to order by Dr. I. G. Barber, president of the school directors' association, at ten o'clock. B. L. Diehl was elected sec- ' retary pro. tern. W. 11. Orth, the reg- 1 ular secretary, arrived later and took charge. Professor Lose,superintendent of the schools of Williamsport, was intro duced as the first speaker. He is a man of many years' experience in school work. lie has practical ideas relating both to methods of teaching and the conduct of schools by directors ; he is a ready and a forceful speaker and his addresses on snob occasions as vaster- ; day arc always looked forward to with real interest and pleasure by the friends of education. Professor Lose's subject yesterday moruiug was, "Business Principles in the Management of Schools." The school board, he said, most act as a "board" and not as individuals. No question, whether of teachers, hooks or apparatus, should be consid ered or discussed by the directors as individuals,but only as a school beard. It is when acting as individuals, in the selection of teachers, especially, that the school directors are apt to make a grave mistake. It is a bad practice to permit certain members of the board through courtesy to control certjiu schools of the district. These ure all matters of sufficient iiupoit ance to require the consideration and sanction of the school board as a whole. It is such boards, where the members act as individuals, that are the most easily victimized by agents that seek to introduce costly and well nigh useless school apparatus. It is the business of the school board j to know the law governing the schools. No business oonceru would think of doing business without a full knowl | edge of the law relating to it. If is unfortunate, the sp aker said, that there are some directors who nre an tagonistic to the law in some relations and tl row obstacles in the way of its ; enforcement There should be no pla'je 1 for such a man in the school board. Directors must not dictate to 6uper ! iutendents and teachers ou matters on which the latter Know the most. Teaching and consequently the teach er existed long before ? school director v :is created. There le some privileges that belong to tic tern-' er that the ilirertor can not tel;e away. The wise school hoard, II en fore, will not dicta'e to teachers us i i si hoc! bocks , meM-fids of woik ap paratus, <£c., < eclnrlog that tin \ !):' r teach this way or tint wnv, bet it will rather yit Id to the prefeu n- e of the teachers in these respects, t•; plaining, however, that it will hold then responsible for giod r suits The business of the school board must he done with prom] tnosp. Build ings should be repaired and nil books and supplies purchased if good time to the end that there may be no d" Ia \ in opening the schools. x school di-trict shcnld alwavs li>»>. advo cat -d llmt in bnild'Ug. Inn Is li' is sun! to raise the mou'v. The last princip'e laid down liy II e" speaker was that in each school dis trict there [should be a complete and .tocuratn s'stem nf bookkeeping Every district should he able to determine at a glance the exact cost of fuel, light, books and all supplies rsed at i any part'cular school building. It too frequently happens because of improp er bookkeeping fliar the reports of s ohool districts are incomplete and in accurate and, C'lisequeutlv worthless. Owing to this lack of proper book keep ! ing school boards are often defrauded by unscrupulous dealers. It Is uo un | usual thing for school boards to pay 1 bills twice. HON. HEED B. TIETRICK. i Reed B. Tietrick, deputy superin tendent of public instruction, follow ed Superintendent Lose He delivered a very fine address. He had been a j farmer boy, aud for some years, a county superintendent, he explained He told a couple of good stories aud by the time he was ready to begin rightly he was on the best of terms with the audience. Mr. Tietrick deplored that in too many cases on such occasions direct ors, while willing enongh to listen are very slow to put the new ideas into practice. They are entertained and enlightened but they go rigiit ESTABLISHED IN 1855 HS BIGGER imn The following from the special Har rishurg correspondence in last even -1 ing's WillianisportlSun : j " Kepresentative It. Scott Ammer man. of Montour couuty, is earnestly in favor of an appropriation of at least iiiOO.OOO.for the State Hospital for the , Insane at Danville but the state board of charities has recommended that ( there be appropriated a sum very much less; iu fact it recommends fifty per cent. less thau the sum asked for. lo conversation yesterday Mr. Ammer ma:i made very clear the urgent neces sity for an appropriation of at least 1200,000 for this hospital,Tnot only for maintenance aud improvemnet,but ai -o that the commonwealth may be purged of the offense of itself doing that which it prohibits others from doing and punishes others for doing. That offense is the pollution of streams A PECULIAR SITUATION. "Danville,like other towns iu Penn sylvania, is required by the state de partment of health to provide itself with a sewage plant, and to prepare plans therefor and for a proper sewer system within a specified time. No body has auy fault to find with this proposed improvement, but it creates 3 peculiar condition at Danville. The • town turns its sewaga into the Sus quehanna below its corporate limits, but sewage from the hopsital is turned into the stream above the town. The permanent population oi*the hospital, including patients aud employes, is about 1,700, and the contamination of the water supply by sewage from such a source can be readily reckoned. As Mr. Ammerman points out, the com monwealth is a" violator of its own laws of [sanitation, aud infractor of the enactments which are enforced firmly when [individuals or corpora , tions are the culprits. Danville wants relief from the condition here outlin | ed. and asks that the legislature make provision for the.iiisposal of the sew | n£e of the hospital, in addition to ap | propriation for maintenance aud ord inary improvements,iu order that fur ; ther pollution of the Susquehanna may be prevented." 4 CHILDktN DIE IN BLAZE DUNBAR, Pa., Jan. 27. j Four children were cremated 'and their parents seriously injured today in a tire which destroyed the home of A. M. Kendall. The dead : Ea: I Ki in a'l.e'f \ u years old, Peari Ktt'dull, seven \-tr-, Anna Kendall, fmir years, ula! <, two years. Mr. aud Mrs. Kendall leaped from a second-story window and wire dang erously hurt. It is believed the fire stan d from a snmll g::s -itove which was left burnii g wlu:i the family re tired last night. The parents n ade repeated efforts to reach the room occupied by their four children when the fire was discovered, hut were finally compelled to jump from the window to save themselves. The Northumberland County Bar association oil Monday voted thar at the aunual bauqunt iu Suubury, this year, each attorney purcl a*e his own ' drinks if he wauts: nv, Thiswns done to meet, the objections serving intoxicants ;.t tlie feast. home and "do the same thing over again," The law gives'the school di -1 rector almost unlimited power. It :s 1 IIP aloue that eau change conditions in a sclioi 1 district, wlien thev are uot oouduoive to good schools. He can do this, but it requires backbone. The school directors fust thought should he to do the vpry best thing possible fjr the children of the dis ' trict. The school director is a sort of home missionary; he serves without JIIV and labors for the common good. School directors have kej t pace Willi | teaching but not with other boards in ' business methods.S 'rretarirs of school ' boards should receive srfficient pay to justify them in keeping a set of books j that would matie available all the in formation desirable. ' ' AFTERNOON SESSION. Yesterday afternoon Deputy State . j Superintendent Reed li. Tietrick de- J livered an excellent addiess on "S 'uie I Observations on School Administra | t.iou." He was followed by Superin tendent Lose, who took as his subject, | "The Modern School." ' During the afternoon officers for tho > ensuing year were elected, as fol 1 lows: President, Dr. I. U. Barber; j vice presidents, William Burns and J. 'i M. Vought; secretary, B. L. Diehl, 1 ; treasurer, Jacob Shultz. 1 The following directors were chos en as delegates to the State convent ' ion of school directors: J. H. Oole. J. N Porsel, William Kry, J. Madison i Vought aud John J. Ootoer. Michael > Breckbtll, Alfred Diehl and George I VanOrdstand weie chosen as alteru t ates.