VOL. 55—NO 39 DK. IRVING 11. JENNINGS, Ojfice Hour» -1. U. to 12 M. 10J, Mill St.. I'. ,\l. to i P. M. Danville, Pa. siiri.T/., M. 425 MILL ST., DANVILLE, PA. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines ,1 Specialty lIEMS CONDENSED. WANTED—LocaI agent to advertise ' and introduce the new educational j work. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY I and ATLAS of the WORLD. Must be I educated and able to furnish good re- j fereuces as to ability and character. | THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO. John Hogan, of Norrisfown, broke ! both arms in a fall of fifty feet from a chestnut tree. Edgar Oliver,a member of a promin ent Tamaqua family,was killed by be ing struck by a train in Cleveland, O. Because he was refused lodging at the hotel of A. F. Miller, of Dorneys ville, a tramp fired the hostelry barn. Another hobo is thought to have per ished in the flames. Michael Binoch, of Pottsville, died iu agony from tetanus caused by a simple injury on the hand from a rough piece of steel in the Eastern Steel company's works. In memory of John Dyer, the first j millionaire of Norristown, his widow I will erect a dispensary wing oil the j Charity hospital. There will be two j departments in the new addition. President Baer of the Philadelphia j and Reading road, was delayed two j hours behind the wreckage of a pass- j enger train that crashed into the rear of a freight a short distance out of j Phoenixville. Two people were injur- | ed in the crash. Using a heavy frying pan as a weap on, Martin Shulick, of Clairton. is al leged to have beaten his wife to death. J Tim tragedy was witnessed by a 7- yiiar-old daughter. The man escaped j and is now being hunted for in the | swamps near his home. Reports from South Mountain, uear j Gettysburg, iuilicate that there are I deer in that region ill unusual num bers this season. Samuel Blizzard, a j farmer of that section, lost 400 head of | cabbage in one night when a herd of | deer visited his fields. Joseph Robinson, managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and for ; more than a generation prominent in : journalism in Philadelphia,died at his ; home in Norwood after several months' j illness. Mr. Robinson was in his 04th year at the time of his death and had ! been in the employ of the Inquirer for ! fifty-one years. He is survived by his ! widow and one child. He was office j boy. reporter, staff correspondent and managing editor ou the paper. Mary Yoblonski was convicted by a Norristown jury of murder in the sec ond degree for the killing of two il legitimate children one of whom she got rid of by drowning. The woman was sentenced to serve twenty years. The jury was out thirty hours and took thiity-two ballots. There was some doubt as to whether the woman hail planned the crimes or whether she acted on impulse aud she was given the benefit of the doubt. She confessed the murder. Frederick Hess"", who served in the Revolution as a drummer boy un- j der Washington, was honored in mem- j ory by the Daughters of the Revolu- ! tion, of Orwigsburg, who placed a j Pennsylvania State marker on his I grave. Mahanoy City was the scene of a SIO,OOO fire on Centre street. The con flagration i> believed to have been started by a cigar stub thrown away by some careless person. The firemen were hampered by the scarcity of wat er which was turned off for three quarters of an hour during the time the flames were raging. Deputy Factory Inspector William .1. Learv lost both legs and a number of others were injured as the result of a trolley car's jumping the track at Chester. 11. K. Enfrekiii, the motor man, and the conductor are out under SSOO bail. The wreck is blamed on slippery tracks and the fact that tin car did not carry sand. It is claimed by some that the car was not in the best of condition. Throwing herself in front of a street car a young woman in Pittsburg sus tained a broken neck and fractured skull and died on the way to the hos pital. The wheels did not pass over her. On a laundry mark on her clothes was the name V. Hindman. She had the address of certain persons with her,but these ]>eople denied knowledge of the woman. She is thought to have been on the way to a maternity hospit al.the location of which she had writ ten. COUNGILMEN IN i SPECIAL SESSION The borough council held a special meeti UK Friday eve for the purpose of taking action ou the proposition to pave to the present trolley rail on East Market street anil the matter of a fran | ehise permitting the Columbia Light, Power and Railways Co. to erect poles in the borough of Danville and also I for the transaction of such other busi j ness as might come before council. ; There was a bare quorum of council ! present, as follows : Scliatz, lies, Fin nigan, Curry, Von Blohn, Marshall and Connolley. President Scliatz called the meeting i to order and explained the object of , meeting. On motion it was resolved that coun cil on behalf of the borough of Dan ; ville petition for State aid under the ' act of May 1, 1!)03, for the reconstruc tion of the extension of East Market street. On motion it was also resolved that the commissioners of Montour Co. be petitioned to join in requesting the State highway department to extend State aid for the said improvement under above act. SOLICITOR'S OPINION. C. P. Hancock, president; A. H. Woolley, general manager, and C. F. Ulil, Esq., solicitor, of the Danville and Suubnry Transit Co. .were present before council. Relative to the question of paving : and the use of trolley rail ou East Market street an opinion was received from E. S. Gearhart, Esq., calling the attention of council to the fact that no official action can be legally taken in this matter until the court approve the ! ordinance and for which a petition has already been prepared and will be pre sented to court during the coming term, provided that no exceptions are filed in the meantime. Until after the time expires for taking an appeal and the court has approved the ordinance there is nothing upon which to base a contract either with the Transit Co. or with any contractor for paving and curbing. The time for taking appeal will not expire until October IK, P.tO'.t. On motion Mr. Gearhart's com munication was accepted ami ordered ; filed. B. O. Ellis, general manager, and | A. W. Duy, solicitor, of the Coluni- ! bia Power, Light and Railways com- ; pany, were present at the meeting in the interest of the proposition to bring the highly efficient electric current ! from Harwood into the borough of Danville. SOLICITOR'S OPINION. A lengthy communication relative to the application of the above company for a franchise to erect and maintain ! poles on the streets of Danville was i read from Borough Solicitor Gearhart. The solicitor declared that the loca- j tion of poles has already become a ser- ; ious problem in Danville aud that it is 1 high time that some plan or policy be j adopted by which the borough may j derive some legitimate revenues from these valuable and perpetual franch ises. MR. DUY'S ADDRESS. A. W. Duy took the floor to explain that Mr. Gearhart misunderstood his application, which was not for a fran chise. His company merely asked that the street commissioner locate the poles under the general ordinance. He declared that the application comes from the Standard Electric Light Co., which has contract or agreement with the borough. The Columbia Light, Power and Railways Co.. he declared, merely owns the stock and bonds of : the Standard Electric Light Co. Thirty | five poles will be required. For these j the Columbia Light. Power aud Rail ! ways Co. stands ready to pay one dol ! lar per pole yearly. On motion of Mr. Connolley it was ' ordered that the street commissioner i be instructed to locate the poles as re quested by Mr. Duy—taking care to | permit the erection of none hut those that are straight and sightly. LOCAL POULTRY WINS ( . M. I lai nit z. the south side poultry i raiser, made a scoop of the prizes in | the White Wayndotte class at the Bloomsburg fair when the awards were j announced yesterday. Mr. Barnitz's winnings comprised J first cock, first and second cockerel, i second hen and first pullet. These prizes were won in a large field, the | poultry entries at the Bloomsburg fair : being larger this year than ever be | fore. There were in all -1400 entries i and a total of between 0,500 ami 7,000 | birds on exhibition. Toting the Tables. During the absence of Alexander Best, Jacob Black has taken charge of i the tables in the curb stone market. | With an assistant he got along with the j work very nicely on Saturday and on | Tuesday morning. Today lie will be i ou the job as usual. DANVILLE- }PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1909 CHAMPIONS WIN FROM ALL STARS 111 the greatest all around game of base ball that was Qto ever put up in the town of Danville, a big crowd Sat y&s urday afternoon saw the J-l/j Susquehanna League All /JrJ Stars beaten by a score of jjj W •> to 1, after they had stav i (112 ed off defeat for fourteen innings. | For thrilling interest Saturday's game had all previous diamond rec ords in Danville faded—old gray beard fans who have been going to base ball games here since ISfiO said so. Even the SIO,OOO beauties who were battling for the world's championship out in Pittsburg didn't serve up the yell in ducing kind of ball that was played by the All Stars and the Danville Stars on Saturday. It was a game of remarkable features all the way through, chief among which was the pitching of Coveleksie, who for fourteen innings held at his mercy the heaviest hitters of the Sus quehanna league and then with two out in the final session made the drive : which, when erroed by Ash, brought | in the winning run. Tin; extraordinary prowess of the big Pole was never | more fully and satisfactorily exemplili- i ed than in Saturday's game. When it is told that he had 19 Tike outs, gave no bases on balls and allowed but two | hits, the story of his work is but part- | ly told. In addition to his strike outs he figured in six additional put outs, several at critical moments. Of all the ! star hitters who faced him there was j but one, Nanticoke's third sacker, Shemauski, who was able to locate "Pinkie's" delivery and he made the Ail Stars only two hits, a single and a home run. In a game such as Saturday's when every player on the team accepted his j chances in brilliant fashion, it is diffi cult to place laurels on any particular head. But after Coveleskie probably came Umlauf aud Thomas as candid ates for second and third honors. The little strident voiced short stop, whose encouraging remarks to the pitcher can always lie heard above the loudest diu of rooting, just literally ate 'em alive. For the first five innings "Buck" j and "Pinkie," with the assistance of j Thomas at first, retired all of the 15 All Star batters. "Buck's" nine t chances during tin- game were accept- 1 ed without an error. And his fielders' j choice, two stolen bases aud score in the fourteenth gave Danville the de- | cision. Thomas, in addition to his steady playing all during the game, made the most sensational individual play of flic day when one handed and on the jump he pulled down Hine's I drive over first base, saving by his re- ; markable catch what would have sure ly been a two bagger. But there is one man. whose work is oftentimes forgotten- the man who stands behind the bat and for fourteen innings becomes the target for Covele- j skie's fusillade. finitely but with never flagging vigilance he's there 1 with the goods on every play, dust covered and sore with continued pound- j ing, and every fan at the game, feels that the team is being backed up by a ] J tower of strength when Doolev's be- j ; hind the bat. 44 ALL STARS BATTED One of the most noteworthy features jof the game was the fact that during the fourteen innings but two extra All Star batters came to the plate, making j a total of 44 men upon whom Covele | skie smiled, when the minimum was 12. In hut three innings did All Star ' footwear soil the cushions. Once in the fourth when Shemanski drove his ' home run over the center field fence ; 1 again in the tenth when Livengood's j error and Shemanski's hit gave the proceedings a dubious aspect for a while and for the last time in the ! thirteenth when Gerringer crossed j first and lived but a few seconds to be I caught our at second. FROM THE DANVILLE BENCH After two uneventful chapters, Dan ville took her first tally in the third. Hiue presented Dooley with a pass to I first and the catcher purploined second | while Metzler was at bat, the latter j flying out. Hess drove one to short, I which was fielded to catch Dooley at third and failed. With Dooley on third Livengood bunted and was thrown out jat first While Dooley scored on flic | squeeze. Umlauf struck out. In the fourth, fifth, sixth,seventh and eighth Danville went down one, two. three. I In the ninth the crowd came down to the ropes anil yelled for that win- I ning run, but the noise seemed to put | the Shipe boy ou his mettle for Hess \ and Livengood, first two up, both fail ed. Things began to look up. how ever, when I'mlaiif popjied a nice hit into center and went to third on Beard's drive over the right field fence, but Coveleskie's roller to Shipe put off scoring aspirations for that innings. : After that Danville began putting I men on base at frequent intervals, anil Continued on 4th page. "THE PROBLEM OF EXISTENCE" The members of Montour Castle No. 180, K G. E., Sunday morning at tended divine service at the First Bap tist church, where a sermon was preached by the pastor, the Rev. A. J. I rev. The members of the order march ed from the lodge room on Mill street to the church in a body, there being forty-one in line. Mr. Irey's discourse was an ap propriate one,conceived of with refer ence to the circumstances anil the needs of ill.' average man, such as is apt to hold a membership in secret organizations. The text was taken from John 1-1 :0. It had as its theme: "Existence a Problem: The Only Solu tion." The sermon follows in part. Beginning the speaker said: Iu making the declaration of our text, "I am the way, the Truth and the Life" Jesus Christ is thinking of His relation to humanity and of Him self in the relation to the outworking of the problem of human existence. "To be or uot to be" is not after all the supreme question with men and women, but rather this: Given this personal endless existence of mine,how may I make the most of it: how work it out to utmost advantage to myself aud others? That there is such a pro- Idem is abundantly witnessed iu the inner experience of each individual,as well as in the visible and pitiable wreckage of human character, hopes, ambitious, purposes aud usefulness ou every side of us. To be is a supreme privilege,aud yet some of us so woefuly fail of the true course and end of ex istence that it would have been better had we never been born. Other prob- I lenis we may shirk or leave to others; here we till must acknowledge a re sponsibility which we cannot avoid. You, our guests, we all, are blessed ly committed to working out this pio blem; for your organization goes hand in hand with religion in leading your fellow beings to a better land. What is this problem of human ex istence' A four-fold answer is suggest ed to us: First, the problem includes in part a conscious release from the condemnation of sin. Very early in our conscious existence the facts of personal responsibility for Tightness and of our failure to meet this re sponsibility are thrust upon us. We stand condemned at the bar of con science and before (rod. We must experience relief from this condemnation. No one can be or do his best while thus burdened. The wrong must he righted through the paying the penalty or through confes sion and forgiveness and most of all with our God. The soul must have the consciousness of a present Tight ness and a jieaee with God. 'Tis more this now than a quest ion of Heaven or Hell in the end. How shall a man be just before God? "I am the Way," says the Christ and as we study the question that Divine Human Being, that sinless life, that death upon Cal vary. that resurrection from the dead —all of it comes to bear very vital rel ations to our release from sin's con demnation. We may not comprehend the whole of the philosophy of it, but we accept the gracious invitation of Infinite Love to run to shelter there and come to know ourselves justified and in a state of peace with offended Deity. This problem of existence includes also a right-hamleil attitude on our part toward God, the good, the evil toward all men, all life's duties and responsibilities. Nothing can be more true than that as we are at the heart of us, in the realm of our wills and of our affections, so are we; that the is sues of life, those passing and present and those future and eternal,are prim arily out of the heart rather than orig inating in our ancestors or ill the con ditions in which we ate placed. Oh, if the heart he wrong, nothing can be right— not even God for us. Nor is right-heartedness a nature endowment nor a disciplinary acquisi tion. "The natural heart is enmity | against God and is not subject to the | law of God; neither, indeed, can be." Anil how, indeed, can anyone work out the problem of existence from a wrong heart? And how may a heart which is wrong be transformed into a right one? Again the heavens above us which might have been as brass become vocal with the message of love ami redemp tion. "Son, daughter, give me thy heart." But 110 existence is being truly solv ed in which the constant conflict with evil iu every life does not as a rule is sue in victory for righteousness. There is the wolf in each one of us. Every one with whom we have to do is more or less selfish. There is the personal Devil, the source aud perfection of evil. How may we win out in this life and death struggle, preserve our integrity, not give the lie to our pro fessions : be, indeed, as lights in a sin darkened world? How? "My grace is sufficient for you." '' My strength is made perfect in weak - Continued on 2nd Page. SCHOOL BOARD JLSESSION The public schools of Danville this j year will not he closed on a certain | day to permit the pupils to attend the 1 Bloomsburg fair as has been customary 1 during a few years past. The usual | petition from the students turned up at the school board meeting Monday eve but it was turned down by the board. The petition, which was turned into the school board last night, asked that the schools he closed 011 Thursday, October 14th, ill order to enable the students to attend the fair. The jiaper bore tiie signatures of one hundred and ten students. The board seemed to he a unit in op posing the closing of the schools for such a purpose. The experience of past ' years was adverted to to show that even though tin* schools be closed yet only 1 a small proportion of the students | avail themselves of the privilege of going to the fair. On motion of Dr. Shultz it was ord ered "that tile request of the students ' be refused." Dr. Shultz presented a report of the | water from Crystal Springs, analyzed in the State laboratories, which report was not considered favorable. He ex plained, in justice to Crystal Springs, that he does not consider one analysis I sufficient and suggested that a series of tests be made before the water should be condemned. Mr. Savage, proprietor of Crystal Springs, who was present at the meet- j iug, explained that he intended to en- ' ter upon a series of tests, sending to , the laboratories successively samples of water from Crystal Springs until 1 the purity or the impurity of the wat er be conclusively established. On motion of Mr. Fischer it was ' ordered that the use of Crystal Springs water in the schools be discontinued until a more favorable report be re ceived. On motion of Mr. Burns it was ord- 1 ereil that the school district return to the former practice of boiling the wat er that is used iii the schools. Mr. Heiss of the committee ou griev ance reported a violation of rules 011 the part of a high school boy. Mr. Bickel, principal of the high school, was present and explained the nature ' of the offence. The offender was the I boy detected smoking 011 the high school ground by a member of the , school board just before the previous ! meeting and who was afterward taken to task and obliged to undergo the usual form of punishment, that of be ing obliged to remain 011 the school i ground for a period of two weeks. He obeyed for about a week and then hit the school grounds at his pleasure. The boy was present before the hoard and acknowledged his offense. The , matter was discussed pro and con, when 011 motion of Mr. Gibson it was ; ordered that as a punishment for his insubordination the hoy Vie "campus- : ed" for two weeks additional. t The following members were pres cut: Sechler, Swarts, Shultz, Burns. Gibson, Sidler, Fischer, Cole and Heiss. Mr. Ortli being absent Borongh Sup erintendent Dieffenbacher acted as sec- ' retary pro. teni. The following bills were approved | for payment: Remington Type Writer Co. . $ '.'.00 Adams Express Co 2.50 Welliver Hdw. Co 5.50 j U. S. Express Co 1.00 J Underwood Type Writer Co .. 50.00 C. H. Schmid 237.08 A. M. Phillips 1.00 j Globe Warehouse 4.26 ' BIG DAY AT FAIR. The ears of the Danville & Blooms- ; burg line will 110 doubt be badly crowd- j ed today because of the Columbia ! county fair, if the rush this year is to j be anything like a parallel of last year ' and previously. Yesterday the cars were only com- j fortably filled,but as Thursday is gen- j erally recognized as the big day of the | fair, the line will no doubt be taxed j to its fullest capacity today. The rain i came in very nicely to remove the 1 j dust, but it is unfortunate that the j drop in temperature has been so mark ed. Whether the cold weather will af fect the attendance at the fair or not remains to be seen. A county fair is an institution that appeals to most persons. Danville hav ing no fair of its own, it is not snr prising that the rank and file of its ]»pulation should seek the peculiar: entertainment afforded at a fair iu the neighboring counties. Rosalind Williams, a young white girl,made affidavit that Thomas Willis, a negro who was to die at Wilkes- Barre today for the murder of Cameron Cool, is innocent. She says she was present when the murder occurred and ! according to her testimony Robert Vallee.ber lover, is the man who com mitted the crime. As soon as he heard the news Willis' attorney went to Har risburg to get a respite. TRUSTEES AND ! SUPERINTENDENTS j The Association of Trustees and Sup- | | erintendents of the State and Incorp• j 1 orated Hospitals for the Insane anil ! I Feeble-minded of Pennsylvania held i I its semi-annual meeting at the liospit- ' ill at Danville Tuesday. The meeting was called to order at 1 II o'clock by H. L. Ortli, superintend ent of the hospital for the insane at \ Harrisburg, first vice president, Col. Thomas C. Zimmerman of Reading, ! the president of the association, being absent. The address of welcome was ' made by William Field Sliav. Esq.. president of the board of trustees of Danville hospital for the insane. At II:30 o'clock an inspection of the hospital was made including the new buildings now in course of erection as j well as the sewage disposal system. The latter feature was given a thorough | examination earlier in the day by 1 those members of the association that arrived on the early morning trains. It was the first system of the kind that most of the visitors had ever seen and ■ as they have sewage problems of their ! own to solve they were glad to have j an opportunity to observe the working of the plant. It seemed to be the con- J sensus of opinion that the system is • doing all in the way of sewage purifi cation that is claimed for it. At 1:15 p. m. a luncheon was serv- I ed. At 2:80 the afternoon session began. | After the reading of the minutes of ! the last meeting a discussion was open- i ed on "Classification of Mental Dis- ! eases" by H. B. Meredith, M. I)..sup erintendent of the hospital for the in- j sane at Danville. The discussion of this subject will be resumed at the ! ' next meeting. A most excellent paper entitled I "Ourselves," was read by Edward! Bettle, trustee of the Friends' Asylum for the insane at Frankford, Philadel- 1 phia. Officers for the ensuing term were elected as follows: President, H. L. Ortli, M. D., sup- 1 erintendent of the hospital for the in sane at Harrisburg; lirst vice prcsi- I dent, Henry M. Comfort, trustee of ' the Friends' asylum of Frankford ; sec | onil vice president, S. S. Hill, super intendent of the hospital for the in sane at Warnersville: Dr. Morris S. Guth, of Warren, was re-elected sec retary. In addition to Dr. Ortli, of Harris burg; Henry M. Comfort, of Frank ford: and S. S. Hill, of Warnersville. president and vice presidents-elect,the following members of the association j were present : H. A. Hutchinson, sup erintendent of Dixmour hospital for the insane; William Uo'llv, trustee of | the hospital for the insane at Harris burg; W. W. Richardson, chief male , physician.and Elizabeth Sp<iis>'r.ehief female physician, at the hospital for the insane at Norristown: Robert ll.' Chase, superintendent, and Kdwar ! Bettle, trustee, of the Friends Asylum for the insane at Frankford: Philadel phia; A. S. Bell, trustee, of the hos pital for the insane al Warren; Thom- ; as C. Fitzsinmions. superintendent of i j construction of the new asylum for the j I criminal insane at Farview, Pike county; W. F. Shay, Esq., B. H. Det- I wiler, M. D., G. R. VanAlen, Hon. I James Foster and R. .T. Pegg, trustees I I of the hospital for the insane at Dan- ' | ville. Hon. R. S. Ammerman, atfor- ! j nev for the local board of trustees was also present at the meeting. On the invitation of Dr. Hutchinson 1 t was decided to hold the next meet | ing at the hospital for the insane at Dixmont convening at the call of the executive committee. ICE FORMED. | There was a touch of winterjin the | atmosphere yesterday. Ar 5:lf» mercury registered thirty-four degrees.the low ! est of the season thus far. At noon the I thermometers stood at forty degrees. Ice the thickness of window glass j was formed at many places. The drop i in temperature following so closely on j the period of unseasonably warm weather was most keenly felt by peo t pie. A bleak northwest wind that pre | vailed all day seemed to accentuate the effect. Pedestrians sought the sun -Inv side of the street, the shady side being deserted except by those who 1 were well protected by overcoats. APPEARANCE IMPROVED. The paint being applied at the Thom . as Beaver Free Library has improved the appearance of the building won- I derfully. ! The work is progressing nicely, the | window frames, cornice and other i woodwork being painted in a sober | color that harmonizes with the stone J work. Ladders are mostly used, as the ' building does not lend itself to the use of scaffold in any form. Rev, Father John Patrick O'Malley. pastor of St. John's Roman Catholic church of Pittston, has had the purple robe bestowed on him and is now a : monsignor. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 FOUND DEAD INJER BED Miss Mary Eliza Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bryan, died at the home of hrr parents, Cross Keys Place, on Tuesday night. She retired Tuesday evening seemingly in her us ual health and spirits, and yesterday morning was found dead in her bed. Miss Bryan was forty-two years of age. She was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan and her death falls up on her aged parents as a great shock. Besides her father and mother she is survived by two brothers, John G. and Charles D. Bryan, the well-known plumbers of this city. She was a mem ber of Christ Episcopal church and was well-known and highly esteemed. During Tuesday house cleaning was in progress at the Bryan home and the deceased was quite busy overseeing work. On Tuesday evening she stepped out for awhile. Returning about St o'clock she busied herself with a few chores and then prepared to retire. She was in her usual mood,quite cheerful, and there was no premonition that death was hovering over the house hold. Miss Bryan was in the habit of aris ing regularly every morning to pro pare the family breakfast. Yesterday morning she failed to appear. Fearing that she might be ill one of the family went to her bedroom when it was found that she was not ill but dead. A physician was called, who upon ex amination concluded that life had been extinct for at least six hours. * It later developed that Miss Bryan during her absence from home Tues day evening had called upon the fam ily physician asking for some medicine to relieve neuralgia, which medicine the doctor supplied. The funeral will take place Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be made in the Fairview cemetery. ELECTION OF MAJOR. The line officers of the Twelfth regi ment at Sunburx Monday night elect ed Captain William 11. Straub, of Mil ton, major of the Twelfth regiment, to till the vacancy caused hv the expira tion of the commission of Major ('has. P. Gearhart, of this city. The election was held in the armory of Companies E and K by Lieutneant Colonel Barber. Major Gearhart was a candidate to succeed himself. The vote stood If, to II in favor of Captain Straub. Both officers served in the Spanish -t. •viean war. At that time Captain Straub was a major in the twelfth, serving as such until the regiment was mustered out of service of the United States. Major Straub one of the old-tim ers in the regiment and lias seen many years of service. He came up from the ranks and in is'.ts at the outbreak of the war with Spain he was Captain of Co. C. At Mt. Gretna he was pro moted to major of the Twelfth regi ment. Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan try. and served as such until the regi ment was mustered out, in October of the same year. Upon the reorganiza tion he returned to his company and commanded it until his removal to Berwick caused him to resign. Re turning to Milton lie was induced to again assume the captaincy of the com pany which lie has held until this pro motion takes him back to the field again. Major Gearhart, who retires, served the regiment faithfully for many years 1 and lias just completed ten years of ; service as major, following a long : term of seivice in Company F, term ' inating in the captaincy of the com pany. ABOUT COMPLETED. i The work of cutting down the bed of Mahoning creek, which has been under way for some ten days, is just about completed. A branch of the work not figured 011 ! at the beginning was the tilling up of 1 the large washout below the dam.eov [ ering the spot with stone and grout ' ing the same. The washout was some eight feet deep and was found to be undennin -1 ing not only the dam but also the high retaining wall in front of the mill. In I the course of another year no doubt much damage would have been done. Ten men were employed yesterday. ! The Reading Iron company is bearing : one-half of the cost. Hypnotists, if you gi vy free exliibi i tions, stay away from Wilkinsburg. 1 One of these performers is at one of the town's theatres this week and had j a boy asleep in a store window. The ! Wilkinsburg Medical society met and j passed a resolution that things nncau -1 ny and which shock the decency of the ! public should not be allowed in the i town. The burgess roused the hypnotist I out of bed and made him wake up the ■ boy. Hundreds of women are in Pittsburg I to attend the annual convention of the ' Christian Women's Board of Missions.
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