VOL. 55—NO 20 DK. IRVING 11. JENNINGS, OJtice Jlourn A. J/, to 12 .!/• 10 -i Mill P. Jl. to i P. M. Danville , Pa. 425 MILL ST., DANVILLE, PA. t iiseasea of the Stomach anil Intestines a Specialty ITEMS CONDENSED. North York is scattering oil on its streets because it allays the dust bet- , ter than water ami does not cost any more. Banning in front of a trolley car in front of his home in Philadelphia, 2- year-old Samuel Ackeruaan waK de capitated in the presence of his moth er. The fifth annual reunion of the Im proved Order of Red Meu of the couu ties of Armstrong, Cameron, Clear field, Elk, Forest, Jefferson and Mc- Keau will be held at Kittanuing ou Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. t Carl Burkholder, a 12-year-old office toy employed by Dr. Alfred Weiss of Lebanon,while playing with the slack rope of a porch awning at the Weiss home, placed the rope about Ills neck and was fouud dead two hours later, haviug been strangled. Gyrus W. Klopp, living on a large farm near Scull Hill, Berks county, lias entertained more visitors iu a year than any other farmer in Perks. From May 1, 1908 to May 1, 1909, he has fed 1,293 people who visited him besides furnishing meals to 500 tramps. Tnnkhannock will annex a portion of the township of the same came,add several hundred to its population and gain abundant room for future growth An equity suit to prevent the propos er! annexation has been dismissed. Farmers in West Franklin and Wash ington townships, Adams county, have lost many valuable horso recently by a disease that resembtes the old fash ioned distemper or epizotic. The dis ease is contagious to a nigh degree aud affects all domestic animals. Captain E. V. Breck, of Pittsburg, one of the best known attorneys iu the State, has interested himself iu the case of Mrs. Ellen Boyle, sentenced to serve twenty-five years in the western penitentiary in connection with the Whitla kidnapping, and will try to bave the case reopened. The mystery of the wild man in the regions of North Strabaue township, Washington county, has been cleared, j The man with the long and woolly ! whiskers aud hair, who terrorized tho good people of that township with his supernatural strength, continuous run ning and jumping has been caught. He is Joe Palanta, a demented Ans- I trian. Mrs. William B. Scott, a bride of two days,has been arrested at Erie aud lodged in jail on the charge of bigamy. It is alleged that when 17 years old j she married Jerome Custard, in Mead- | ville. The woman says she was ouly 1 13 when she married Custard and that the marriage was not legal. Arrested for displaying and wearing a button of the United Mine Workers of America, John Fry, a non-union man of Mahanoy City, was held in bail for court on the charge of false pretense. Two robbers gave battle with pistols to a posse of New Castle residents,one of whom they seriously wounded. They were surrounded and after hold ing the posse at bay for an hour gave themselves up. Falling sixty feet into the Hazel Miner's stripping, Morris Kerst, 12 years old, of Hazleton, escaped with a broken arm and a contused leg. A cow which fell at the same spot reoently was instantly killed. The Bending Coal and Iron company has struck Bevon valuable veins at their Otto colliery No. 2 at Branchdale which expose coal for the miners' picks worth $10,000,000, the mining of which will take fifty yearc. While bathing with companions in Ten-Mile Creek at Marianna, Wash ington county, John Barney, 11 year old son of Frank Barney,a miner, was drowned. He was taken from the wat er a few he sank, but a half-hour's work failed to revive him. Tlie brass end of a shoe lace tucked In his shoe, worked its way into the flesh of Joseph Lake, of Pottsville and gave him blood poisoning. Tho foot has been amputated iu an effort to sive his life. Robert MoFarland, who disappeared from his home near Allentowu fifteen years ago and had been legally declar ed dead, walked into his mother's honse to lind his wife wed. While going to see his parentß,David Powell, 45 years old,of Lancaster, was struck by a train near Perinea and in • tantly killed. T* bvotv irun what he deserver »1 the jails WonK', he overcrowded. Mmdmt j|||% TWO BIS M LEfll IIM Results in Susquehanna League. Danville, 8; Nauticoke. 1. Bloomßburg, 3; Nescopeck, 8. Berwick, 4 ; Benton, 10. Alden, 1; Shickshinnv, 11. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P. C. Danville 2 0 1.000 Shickshiuny -Jo l.oOOj Bloomsburg .. 11 ..->OO Nanticoke j ] .500 | Nescopeck 11 [gpo I teuton 11 .goo Berwick 0 -J .000 I Alden 0 2 .000 j Dmville's joy-inducing performance ol' Saturday at Nauticoke and the j downfall of Bloomsburg at Nescopeck, leave but two teams—the local Browns and Shickshiuny—in the Susquehanna loague with clean slates—the two lat ter now beiujj tied for first place in the league If the opening games of the season j can taken as a criterion of the kind of ball the teams of the league will ! play throughout the summer,the local tossers eeein to have as good prospects of wrapping themselves in the rag next fall as anybody. The names scheduled for next Sat urday are: Nescopeck at Danville, Shickshmny at Alden, Benton at Ber wick, Nanticoke at Bloomsburg. Dan ville is not scheduled to play Shiok- j shinny this.month, and the schedule ' for May is all that had been arranged thus far. Once again our own Honey has prov- Bd himself a pitching marvel, and this time to the dismay of Mauager Hess' redoubtable Nauticoke aggregation, which went- down to an easy defeat be fore Danville before a big crowd at the new Nantioke grounds on Satur day afternoon by the score of 8 to 1. McOloud's fine work of Saturday did not consist this time in fanning a long list of the opposition nor in putting up a no hit game, but in his fine all around generalship of doing the right tiling just at the right time. For in itanoe iu the fifth after he had filled :he bases by hitting one man and pass ing another, and the horde of Nauti- ! :okerß were on their feet, yelling and loing everything that would be cal julated to disconcert a pitcher, Honey ?oolly retired the side with two strike j Juts. At several other times during t''6 game he did the same trick iu neat form. McOloud's support was of a high ; jrder. The fielding honors go to Cov »leski and Mackert both of whom ac cepted a number of hard chances. Brown's pretty assist to second of a iard grounder, catching his man, was >ue cf the prettiest bits of work in the ,'anie. All throughout the gama the slaying of the Browns was replete ivith such applause getters. The battiug honors of the game are )retty evenly divided, all of the Dan j rille boys consistently clouting Wynne, 1 tfauticoke's star Wilkes-Barre twirler. i \nd what is better yet the leather re- ! jeived its worst pounding just when the hits would bring in the tallies. In the third inning Tom Hirleman 1 bad the misfortune to smash a finger while attempting to sacrifice and was ' compelled to retire from the game. ! A rii menu an caught the remainder of the game in good style, as his record I in the box score will show Danville encountered Its worst luck j )f the game during the first two in aings. Both innings ended in double ! ?Uys leaving men 011 bases, when it ooked like sure scores. Iu the third Danville bunched anas- j sortment of hits and combined with a Tew errors trotted three men over the j plate. Sachler, first np, selected a pretty single; Ammeriuan was pre sented with a base on errors; Me- Cloud s pretty single soored Sechier and Logan's nit drive between left and center l,;r tvvo bags scored Am merman and McOloud. Brown and Olayberger were retired Iu the fourth Nanticoke got its lone some run. MoEhleaney got to first on a hit, Brauuon and Lerh were easy outs before Shetnanski and Kutz both surprised themselves with singles,scor ing MoEhleauey. Metcalf struck out. Danville tallied again iu the seventh. With one down, Sechier made a long drive into deep center for 2 bases- Air.merman's sacrifice advanced Sech ier to third and he scored on Mc- Oloud's single before Logan went out. Danville made the victory doubly sure iu the eighth Olayberger, Oni lauf anil Mackert each touched Wynne for a single, filling the bases. Oov aleski then skied to Brannon, but the sacrifice was loug enough to allow Olayberger to score. Seohlor's hot drive to third was fumbled by Sha manskl and he reached first and Om lauf scored. Ammerman was an out, but advanced the runners eaoh a base, and both scored on McOloud's single, before Logan wag retired. DANVILLE. R H. O. A. E. HOSPITAL'S fPIPIII Governor Stuart on Saturday added his signature to the bill appropriating 8158,783.00 to the Danville hospital for the insane, the full amount contained in the measure as adopted by both senate and house at the recent session of tiie legislature. The fact that the governor signed the Danville appro priation bill without auy reductions is particularly notable in view of the wholesale pruning to which the whole batch of appropriation bills v.ere sub mitted. The bill for the Danville Institution as originally introduced in the house by Representative li. Scott Amnier nian provided for an amount of $l2B, - 78.'!. This was amended iu the senate and raised to $158,783, the additional $30,000 being for the "Purchasing of additional real estate consisting of about one hundred and seventy-five acres of land contiguous to that now owned bv the Commonwealth." ITEMS PROVIDED FOR IN THE BILL. The items that are provided for in the bill are: An additional etory to the male infirmary, $20,000; renovat ing the heating in the old building, SSO 000; erecting and completing a buildiug for the male enipolves, $lO,- 000; for erecting and completing a cow shed, $3,000; for a coal sidiug.s2,soo; for providing additional means for the disposal of sewage,s2s,ooo; for fire in surance, $10,000; for extending and changing course of natural stream up ou the gronuds, $7,000. $1,000,000 3PENT IN SIX YEARS. The present appropriation will make the hospital grounds a centre of con structive energy for several years, as it has been for a number of years past. The tnonev secured to the institution in this bill will now eualde the di rectors to put the finishing touches or. a nambfr of improvements aud in a way to oomplete the work already be gun. There are few people who have an idea of the vast amounts that are be ing expended at the local institution. Iu the past six years and including the present, the grand total of the legisla ture's appropriations to the hospital foot up to nearly a million of dollars, a very large proportion of which has been directed into sources that would benefit tiie people of Danville and vic inity. Since and including the session of 1903 the amounts appropriated to the hoppitai have been : 1903, $131,31X1; 1905, $204,200; 1907, $429,300; 1909, $158,783 aud a deefiiency item of $lO,- 000, making a total of $923,383. In this connection is it but just to say that a large share of the credit for this great servico to the institution and the town is due to Montour's rep resetative in the legislature, R. Scott Amuierman, whose work as solicitor for the board of directors of the hos pital and untiring labor on the floor of the house in fighting the bills through the legislature have been re sponsible or the State's tardy recongi tion of the needs of the local institu tion. TOOK BRIDE AT SHARON A wedding occurred at Sharon last week in which a large number of Dan ville people will he interested, when Harry Still well, eon of Mrs Edward Still well, outil a few years ago resi dents of this city, was wedded to M-ss Oarrio Taylor, The wedding was a prettv home af fair, the ceremony being performed at the residence of the biide's mother at 8 o'clock Saturday evening by Rev. L. K. Peacock, pastor of the United Pres byterian church, of Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. Still well will reside with the groom's mother at 112l 2 ' West State street, Sharon. Logan, ss 0 2 11 0 Rrown, rf .0 0 2 1 0 Olayberger, If 1 li o 0 Oinlauf, 3b 1 2 3 11 Mackert, 2b 0 1 3 3 0 Covaleeki, cf.. 11 3 o o Sechler, lb.. .3 2 7 0 0 Hirleman, c 0 0 1 0 0 Arnmerman, c 1 0 7 1 0 McCloud, p 1 2 0 2 0 Totals 8 11 27 9 I NANTICOKE. R. 11. O. A. E. Healey, PS O O 1 4 1 McEhleaney, If 11 a 1 0 Hrannon, o 0 1 3 1 0 Leiir, rt 0 0 1 o 1 Shstnauski, 3b 0 2 1 o 1 Kutz, cf 0 a a 0 0 Metcalf, lb .. .0 0 12 0 0 Sheep, 2b .0 0 1 5 1 Wynne, p... 0 0 1 4 0 Totals 1 7 24 15 4 Danville 00300014 x Nautlcoke 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 O Earned runs Danville 3. Two base hits Logan, Sechler. Stolen bases Mackert. Double plays, Wyune nnd Metcalf, Sheep aud Metcalf. Struck out, by McOloud 5, by Wynne 3. First base on called balls,off McCloud 3, off Wynne 1. Time 1 hour, 20 minutes. DANVILLE PA., THURSDAY. MAY 20, 1909 mm MICE Herewith is presented a foil descrip tion of the sewaga disposal plant be ing constructed at the hospital for the insane at this place. The description | will he perused with DO little interest, as there is a great deal abont a sew age disposal plant that is not uuder i stood by the general public. Our read | era will he glad to learn by what me ! thod sewage purification is accom | plished. , The object iu treating the sewage as | described is of course to take out of j the waste water the imparities which I have been putin it. The removal of I these impurities is accomplished in : several ways, either by keeping the : sewage iu a quiesceut Btate, in large | tanks or vats, which allows much of I the matter in suspension to settle iu | the bottom,or collect on the top of tiie water after which the clearei wuter I may be drawn oft; or again the sew age may be passed through a filter soraething'like a water filter which holds back the impnrites. Experience, however, has shown that the most practicable method is a combination of settling and filtration and this is the soheme adopted at the Danville hospital. Sewer systems in towns generally provide for taking both storm water and house drainage. This was the scheme at the hospital and besides, the sewers were so constructed that all the sewage could not be taken to oue point, which is necessary for a sewage disposal purification plant. It became necessary to coustruct a new system of sanitary sewers which will dis charge in a well near the barn. In this well are set automatically con rolled electrically operated sewage pumps which will force the sewage for a distance of 1800 feet to tfie now plant in the fields above the farmer's house. The pumps are set iu triplicate to make actiou certain at all times, and are so connected electrically that when the sewage rises to a fixed height in the well, an automatic switch will be thrown in by means of a float and one of the pump will start; and when the well becomes empty, it will again automatically stop. After the Bewageiieaches the plant it first passes through a screen cham ber to take out coarse material, and then it passes very slowly through three large settling tanks each 85 feet long, S feet deep and 16 feet wide. In the tanks perhaps thirty per cent, of the suspended matter settles out and the clearer water flows onto the filt er. Provision is made for cleaning the settling tauks and drawing otf the heavy matter or sludge on a sand filt er. The floor of the settling tanks is higher than the top of the filter. The area of the filter is a little less than one quarter of anjaore; its dimensions are length 115 feet, width 97 feet, depth fi feet. The filtering material is of pebbles from one to four inches in size. Terra cotta 2pipe nnderdrains are laid uuder material. These draw the water from the body of the filter to drainage channels on the side. The water from the settling tanks flows first into a tank holding 2000 gallons and as thidVank fills up,a syphon set in it discharges the sewage on the filter through 54 spraying noz zles uuder a varying head of three and oue half to five feet. With these noz zles,the water is sprayed on top of the filter bed, the operation being almost exactly the same as if it were done by and with an ordinary garden sprinkl ing pot. This type of filter is known as a "sprinkling" or "percolating" filter The water after it falls on the stones or pebbles slowly trickles down through the body of the bed leaving the impurities in the bed. Water from this filter will not be quite clear and it is passed a second time through a settling tank and filtered a second time through sand to remove all impurities, or treated with a disinfectant to make snre that every disease breeding germ is killed. This scheme of sewage treatment is known as the bacterial or biological system. It lias been developed within the last 20 years, and the greatest ad vance has been made within the past ten or twelve years. The type of plant under construction at. the hospital was first used on an extensive scale in Birmingham. Knglaud, where there are about 80 acres of sprinkling filter beds. Recently a few such plants have been constructed in this country at Columbus,Ohio,Washington and Read ing, Pa. This type ef filter is also us ed at Mount Alto Sanitarium and will be constructed at the State hospitals at Wernersville, Norri&town and Polk. It should be borne in mind that a plant of this kind meat be putin charce of a competent and reliable man whose sole duty iB to see that its work is properly done, if uniformly good results are to be expected. It has to be watched just the same as a wat er filter or as a piece of machinery. V ' SUSPENDED n I WEEK A special meeting of the school board was held Mouday for the pur pose of taking action in a case of sus pension affecting toor pupils of the first ward schools. The directors pres ent were: Pursel, Orth, Barber,Bnrns, Swarts, Kedding, Lloyd, Fischer, Sechler and Oole, Of the four boys suspended three were members of the high school. Their oifen.se consisted of surrepti tiously climbing up into the dome of the first ward building Friday night and hanging a dummy stuffed with straw outside the cupola where Satur day morning it WAS in full view from the street. Borough Superintendent Dieffen bsoher after some difficulty discovered the names of the boys who played the prank. All four were peremptorily sus pended. The boys realized that action of the board would be necessary before thev could bo reinstated and not wishing to remain out of school until the regular meeting, next Monday, by personally visiting the members Monday they prevailed upon them to hold a special meeting Monday night. Tiie four boys in a very penitent frame of mind were present at the meeting and made a clean breast of the whole affair. If clemency was what they were after they did not obtain it in a very pronounced degree, as the board on motion decided to sustain the borough superintendent and the boys will iiave to remain out of school for the entire week. AWAITIN i THE PROGRAM There is pobably no event that has ever taken place in Daiviile in which the public manifested deeper interest than in the unveiling of the soldiers' monument, which will take place in Memorial Monday. May ;i!st. all of which is very natural consider ing that the stately memorial so long a dream whose realization seemo.l un certain at last after untiring effort and great sacrifice has become au accom plished fact. As tfie time for the unveiling draws nigh—and it is less than two wetlcs distant—there is much curiosity to learn something abotit the program for the event. Inquiries are made daily. Danville is assured that the dav will be one of the biggest and most sig nificant in its history. None of the facts oonccrning the uuveiliug have as yet been officially given out, but many features of the program —which is be ing arranged with much deliberation and care—seem to be already known to the public. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew art of Norristown will deliver the principal address. The music as planned will constitute a most inspiring feature. In addition to the massed choirs, of which men tion was made in a recent issue, the Northumberland and the Oatawissa bands will be in attendance, the form er being au organization of thirty eight pieces aud the latter of thirty pieces. It is planned to retain the hands in town during the evening and concerts are planned for each at op posite ends of town. The parade will no doubt be a stu pendous affair, comprising, besides a battalion of the natioual guard, the Grand Army of the Republic,the Sons of Veterans, the pnpils of the public and parochial schools, the P. O. S. of A. aud ot'ier secret and civic organ izations. Dr. P. O. Newbakcr has been chosen as chief marshal. LOVELORN GIRLS TRY SUICIDE A dual suicide was narrowly avert ed at Magee carpet works at Blooms burg Tuesday, when Misses Eckerd and Kathryn Hopper, of Aluiedia.each drained the contents of a bottle of laudanum. Both girls had been disappointed in love affairs, and at the noon hour en tered into a suicide pact. Going to a nearby store,* they eaoh purchased a bottle of lardanum, and at short in tervals draiued the contents. They were discovered asleep soon afterward by employes* the empty laudanum bottles telling tho story. Physicians were summoned, and after a few hours' work succeeded in getting them out of danger. A Good Reason. "Pa's a great admirer of the secret bnllot system." "Why?" "Because It affords him n great chance to say afterward that he voted for all the wiuners."—Judge. One pound of learning requires t*:, pounds of common sense to apply It.— Persian Proverb. MSB MI'S sural Notwithstanding the laok of assist ance from the proper source the citi zens of Gearhart township acting on their own responsibility have succeed ed in building up a fairly good ap proach to the river bridge at South Dauville. The dußt, however, proves to be the same bad factor that it was in the past. If this nuisance could be abat ted the residents would have a pretty good return for their work on the ap- I proach, much of which was doue gratuitously. Under the heavy and constant traffic | dust accumulated rapidly and in a day or so after a raiu, no natter how heavy, it lies a couple of inches deep not only on the approacli proper but also on the roadways leading over the crossing and down to the station. There is no water available for eprinkl iug and there is simply no relief. Automobiles and other vehicles as they strike the approach are enveloped in a I cloud of dust, which is blown this way aud that by the winds, covering those traveling on foot and entering the dwellings and business houses. It is unmistakably the dustiest spot in this section. A business man of the south side Tuesday proposed a remedy which,if adopted, would bring relief at a small cost. He proposed spraying the br'dge approach and roadway adjacent with oil. In the light of experiments there is no question as to the efficacy of oil, not only in fully preventing dust, but also in reduciug the wear of the roadway to a minimum. A couple of applications during the course of the summer would suffice. All the dust accumulates ou a small section and only a little oil would bo required. The cost would be so insignificant that, should the township authorities refuse to oil the street, the residents and those who frequently use the ap proach could well afford to chip iu, purchasing the oil necessary aud sprinkling the street. The dust is so much of a nuisance and the end songht so much to be desired that there should be no difficulty in interesting a large number of persons, if they be rightly approached. AH that is needed is for some one to take hold of the matter. SHIPMENT OF SUS QUEHANNA SALMON The big consignment of fißh fry from the hatchery at Union City arrived at South Danvill6 on the 7:20 Pennsyl vania train yesterday morning. The fish were well taken car. of, theie lin ing about a dozen pe-im ar tha fti,- tion to meet them. As might be imagined the handling of forty cans of fish frv entailed con siderable work. W. U. Pim.el, with M H. Sohram and Ge-.rgn S:ick!«,w.«* at the station with his autciioliiln and hau'ed away as many