Montmt jsJ|| SMnmftut VOL. 56—NO 34 ITEMS CONDENSED. VETERAN COMMITS SUICIDE Former Lieutenant Ralph Downs, ag ed 84, of Uniontown, a veteran of tlie Spanish-American war, who wont through the campaigu with the '' Fight ing Tentli," fired a bullet through his head and died instantly in his photo graph studio in Main street. No cause is known. Several days before Com pany C left for camp at Gettysburg Downs resigned as first lieutenant, owing, he said, to increased business. A brother, Harry Downs, is seriously ill with typhoid fever in a Fairmont (W. Va.) hospital. BIG PIECE OF COAL.—A chuuk of coal weighing five tons was recent ly mined at the Empire colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal com pany. It is of such unusual size that it will be shipped to New York city to be displayed as a natural curiosity. To New Yorkers who are frequently accustomed to buying their coal by the bucketful.it will prove of unusual interest. BIDS WERE LEGAL.-Asserting his bids for paving work to be done in Scranton were legal and that he was the lowest bidder,and, as such, should have received the contract for the work, the Thomas A. Dunu company of Wilkes-Barre, has decided to carry the case into court and give the mat ter a thorough airing. BULLET GRAZED HEADS—WhiIe Mrs. R. H. Binder and John Binder were seated at the supper table, a bul let intended for a sparrow grazed their heads and passed through a tea cup. The Boyertown authorities will strict ly forbid the use of rifles in the bor ough. There have been several narrow escapes during the past month. MAKES THRILLING RESCUE.-j Luther Nauman.of Scranton, fell into the Susquehanna river and was about togo down for the last time when a pal, Charles Pickett jumped into the , stream and effected the rescue of his j companion. The lads are camping near their native city. SUCCESSFUL FASTING. State I Senator Harry I. Riley, of Millville, j listed 33 days in order to reduce his weight. The result was that lie lost (i:i i pounds. Duriug the fast all Riley took was water. Mrs. Riley and the Senat or's family demurred against his ouise but he persisted in it for over J iiree weeks. HORSE BITES MAN—Stuug to ile- , spertion by hornets, and maddened by ' he pain which their bites inflicted, a iorse belonging to Charles Wright of W'rightsville, attempted to run away j nd Wright in catching the bridle was jitten on the head by the animal. A ong gash was inflicted. FARMER HANGS HIMSELF.—j Iscar Adams, 40 years old. of Bauuis owu, was found hanging by the neck . rom a hay mow over his barn floor •arly this morning by his son Llewel yn. No reason for the suicide has 'ieen learned. He was a prosperous ; armer. THIEVES STEAL DIAMOND.— .Vhile Guy Brown, a railroad mail | lerk dozed on the front porch of his i ome at Allentown, thieves stealthily ; ■ep up on the porch and removed | om his finger a $l5O ring. His clothes mtained |9O but that was left intact. TYPHOID EPIDEMIC SPREADS, j -With five new cases just reported, j he Health Board of Wilkes-Barre ices the most serious epidemic of typ oid fever in many years. At the pre mt time there are exactly 118 cases j ' the dreaded disease in that city. WOMEN FORGERS.—Mrs. Carrie: ttes and her granddaughter, Hazel j hitfield, of Bethlehem, have been | nt to jail to await the action of the I ortliampton county grand jutv on 1 'larges of forging the name of Dr. ! iseph Erwin. The elder woman is al *ged to have taken blank checks from j he physician's check book and writ in a number of them in her favor, le had been employed as a domestic i i Dr. Erwin's home. i LIVING TORCH—With her cloth- | •rg aflame ten-year-old Elizabeth irmingham, of Giraniville. ran Teaming through the street to get to | < er home. Several men caught her and 1 Stingnished the flames, but not until he was horribly burned. LEFT WITH COWS.—A stranger ! vho was employed as a hired man by | >lrs. James Davidson, of Towerville, j ecently left the farm and drove out j .n the road a pair of valuable cows j vhich he sold to a butcher. The cows | vere recovered, but the man escapod , rest, although a diligent search is 'ing made for him. ROB CAR FOR PICTURES.—The of saving pictures placed in acks of cigarettes has grown so stead y upon Pottsvillo youths that recent • a number of lads broke into a freight »rand stole a large number of cigar tes. They were caught and said they uply wanted the pictures. Not a rarette was smoked,according to the ys' stories. THREE PROPERTY OWNERS OBJECT Friday'night, which was a regular meeting night of the borough council, was the date fixed for hearing objec tions to the paving of East Market , street between Mill and Pino streets, j It transpired, however, that the hear ' iug of "objections" did not occupy j very much of the councilmen's time. I No one appeared in person to offer ' any objection to paving. The secre- I tary read two communications from property owners, who do not favor the proposed improvement. One was sign ed by F. C. Derr, Martha B. Derr and Annie E. Bowyer, Exr,. who stated that they object to the paving of East Market street adjacent to their prop erties at their expense. The other com munication was from Miss Hattie E. Simington, who formally objected to the paving of East Maiket street in front of her property. On motion it was ordered that the two above communications be laid on the table. TO PREPARE ORDINANCE On motion of Mr. Curry a resolu tion was adopted ordering that the committee on law in conjunction with the borough solicitor be authorized to formally prepare, and present to the town council the necessary ordinance authorizing and directing the propos ed improvement. BRICK CROSSINGS On motion it was ordered that a brick crossing be laid on Front street between the properties of Edward Cor man and Julius Heirn. Ou motion it was ordered that all stone crossings that need repairs as fast as practicable be replaced with brick crossings. Mr. Everhart reported that many of the pavements in the second ward are in a very bad condition, some of them being impassable when it rains. The matter was referred to the committee on streets and bridges. EMPLOYES RE-EL ECTED On motion P. J. Keefer was re-elect ed as superintendent of the water works for the ensuing year. Ou motion the engineers and firemen employed at the water works were re elected for the ensuing year at the same salaries. On motion of Mr. lies it was order ed that fifty feet of hose be procured for the Friendship Fire company. On motion of Mr. lies it was order e 1 that notices be posteil at the foot of Mowrey street forbidding persons to remove earth from the extension of the street at that point. WHOOPING COUGH Mr. Everhart called attention of council to the fact that whooping cough is alarmingly prevalent in Dan ville; also that the board of health up to the present has taken no cognizance of the outbreak. He deplored that no action in the premises has been taken and thought it was high time that the board of health took a hand. He re ferred to the Act of May 14, 1909, which supersedes the borough ordin ance and is most drastic and sweep ing in its provisions relating to whoop ing cough. The following members were pres ent: Cleaver, Price, Finnigan, Ever hart, Jones, Marshall, Curry, Heini and lies. The following bills were approved for payment: BOROUGH DEPARTMENT Labor on Sewers $441.32 Welliver Co 109.18 Clark Heimbach. 198.50 Welliver Hdw. Co 2.88 T. L. Evans Sons 11.20 John Doster .... fi7.82 A. F. Hartman 2.50 Regular employes 117.50 Clias. E. Voris .. .... 14.09 i Joseph Lechner ... 20.54 Labor in light Dept 18.00 J Washington Fire Co 3.45 J. H. Cole 4.00 WATER DEPARTMENT. Regular employes ?1C>1.40 Montour Coal Ss Iron Co 202.38 F. G. Sclioch 0.00 Danville Fd'y & Machino Co.. . 7.88 J. H. Cole 3.12 Darling Pump & Mfg Co 17.50 Washington Fire Co 1.25 Joseph Lechner 18.94 Knocks Out Suicide Idea. Friends of Albert Miricle, of Ber wick, thinks he is entitled to a Car negie medal. Yesterday a stranger ap proached him and asked liim the near est way to the river, declaring he was tired of life and intended committing suicide. "You're on the nearest way, and if you're that foolish you're better off dead," was Miricle's reply. The stranger took offence, made a remark that Miricle resented, and the latter thrashed all idea of suicide out of the stranger's head. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Laumaster, Front street, spent yesterday with friends in Sunbury. DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2-5, 1910 HORSE THIEVES TO THE FORE I A valuable horse belonging to 11. N. | Beyer,the well-known dairyman, a long ; with a buggy, was stolen while tied jon the street, Saturday night. The j horse and vehicle were later recover | ed. On Saturday evening Mr. Beyer drove into Danville and about 8:80 o'clock tied his horse at Cole's Hard ware establishment on Lower Mul berry street. When he returned to the spot, about 10 o'clock, the horse and buggy were not to le found. His first impression was that some one friendly to him, who had an errand to per form, had taken the liberty of using his horse and carriage and in a few minutes would return. He waited half an hour, but there was no sign of horse or buggy. Still it hardly dawn ed upon the man that he was the vic tim of horse thieves. He rather inclin ed to the view that the horse had got ten loose and run home. THIEF GAINS TIME He hired a horse and carriage at a livery stable and, with a couple of other members of his family who had accompanied him. drove to his home in Valley township. The horse was not there; neither did he discover any evidence of a runaway on the road. By this time he became fully con vinced that some one had removed his horse and buggy with evil designs. Early yesterday morning he drove in to town with the hired horse and vehicle and entered upon a deligent search. He visited nearly every i>art of the borough and was at all the liv ery stables, where he thought the horse might have been placed after being driven about town by drunken or ir responsible persons. AN EYE WITNESS. The only semblance of a clue that he obtained was from Bernard Shev lin. who had business with Mr. Beyer and was looking for him during Sat urday evening. About 9 o'clock he saw the buggy being driven away from Cole's hardware store and think ing it was Mr. Beyer he followed as fast as lie could run calling to tin driver to stop. Instead, however, the man in the buggy applied the whip and at J. P. Bare's swung around the corner at a fast clip and disappeared ui) Ferry street. About the same time some ladies at Memorial park observ ed a horse being driven up Bloom street at a rapid rate of speed. HORSE RECOVERED Sunday afternoon Mr. Beyer learned that a driverless horse and buggy had appeared at the farm years have been in separable for the past several years, i Recently the McNellis family deter- i mined to leave Centralia and Friday 1 evening Britt and Joyce went to the j home to assist in packing the house- I hold ffects. While they were engaged j in the work Joyce picked up a single ! barrel shot gun, and accidentally pull- 1 ed the trigger, the charge striking I Britt in the ncek,completely deoapitat- i ing the lad Joyce went 112 into hysterics ■ and is lying in a critical [condition at | the home of his parents. The coroner of Columbia county in vestigated the affair and decided that the shooting was purely accidental. Mrs. E. M. Frick returned last even ing from an extended sojourn at Deal Beach, N. J. REAL BASE BALL ON SATURDAY Saturday's Score*. Danville i!, Nanticoke, 1. I Nescopeek ti, Berwick 5. j Berwick 7, Nescopeek 4. j Bloomsburg 3, Shickehinny 1. Shickshinny 7, Bloomsburg (!. STANDING OF THE CLUBS w. 1,. I'.C. I w. 1.. P.C. Nanticoke.. s 1 .kci | Berwick ....;i 4 .12s I Bloom "i 1 .saa I Sbick'ny. .2 s .2*.l Danville... 3 2 .two I Nescopeek 1 <> .14!) In perhaps the best game of tiie sea sou on the home grounds Danville on Saturday compelled Nanticoke to strike her colors for the first time in I the second series. Score li to 1. The game and surroundings hail all the old time incidentals included. The big crowd was there to yell itself into whispers over every play, and showed a spirit that has not been equaled this year. And the players furnished an abundance of material to do all kinds of rootij"', about. Ie .e galaxy of stars that appeared in 'Saturday's horoscope, two stand i out with scintilating brightness—one James Mclunis, who.rescued from the wilds of Reedsville, made his initial how Saturday in Danville ball togs; and the other, Mr. Big Bill Mack (uo reiSv.Cn to Connie) who is one of the outcomes of the memorable and now historic trip of the Danville soouts to Philadelphia. While none of the Danville tossers missed any chance to worry the Nanti coke pirates, these two afore mention ed sunk their talons deeper into the twitching victims than any of the rest. Mclnnes established himself in the | hearts of Danville base ball lovers by his masterly performance in the box. His heady conduct of his end of the game inspired confidence from the tirst fling. He is the kind of a twirler who is never in a hole. He can serve up the best that is in him 110 matter what circumstances conspire to bewilder. His six strike outs were distributed impartially among Nanticoke's best bets, while their three scattered hits spell for Danville pitching ability with a head on its shoulders. Mack's ineiit extraordinary is found accredited 011 the batting end of the score sheet. His beauteous soak it was that hurtled Smith's perspiring head, going like a latest Wiight model out for a new airway speed record and landing in the muck outside the con fiues of the paid admission area, scor ed the two runs of Danville's lead. His hit it was. also, that sent Bren nau over the plate in the fifth for Danville's soora. The nonchalant south paw, Jenkins, was Nanticoke's choice to put the kibosh on Danville, mid Danville's sparse four hits attest to the efficacy of his curves, albeit lie gave the first shove to the dumping of his own ap ple cart in both of Danville scoring iunings, as likewise dill Mclnnes. FIRST BLOOD IS NANNY'S The game progressed through the first two innings rnnless, but when Nanticoke came into open the third, Davis got nipped on tfie head by one of Mclunis' benders for a starter. He went to second on Jenkins' sacrifice, and to third on Morris' out. Skelton then selected this time for one of the three swats,a Texas Leaguer over sec ond base, and Davis deposited Nanti coke's tainted tally at the pan. Danville went through her half of the third and the fourth with nothing to show for the trouble, and then just as the fans were beginning to show the first signs of anxiety, Brenuan cel ebrated the opening of the fifth by trotting to first after four wide ones had been deposited by Jenkins. To sec ond he went 011 McCarty's sacrifice, and flitted around the rest of the si juare when Mack straightened out a beautiful drive four feet over Skel tou's head. It appeared as if the fifth was to be repeated in the sixth when Jenkins again opened the session by present ing Mclunis with a standing on first. Mackert ran and went to secocd on Umlanf's sacrifice, but stayed there while LivengQod anil Nipple both Hied out. In the momentous seventh, Captain Nipple, whose wheels are ncvor idle, dispatched the fleet Mackert to usurp Wagner's bat, with instructions to bunt and 11111 like blazes. But Mackert fell a prey to Jenkins wiles and fur nished only another mark in the strike out column. Brennan rolled one to Shenianski and went out. Hopes went up slightly when McCarty got to first on four balls aud then Mack's home run brought the deluge. Davis ended the fun by a dandy catch in the crowd of Veith's foul fly. Danville had a near score in the eighth when Mclnnis opened with a two bagger in the vicinity of the flag pole and went to third on Umlauf's sacrifice. The runner remained on the third sack while Livengood and Nip ple pop flied out. Continued on Page 4. PASSEO ON FIRST READING | The borough council held an ail j journed meeting Saturday night, at ' which the ordinance providing for the ! paving of the two additional squares I of East Market street without petition | was passed on first reading and other formality was complied with that ob viates the least loss of time in the pro cedure necessary. Nine members, the number necessary to act upon the ordinance, were pres ent as follows: Finuigan, Everhart, i Marshall, Curry,Connolley, lies,Heim, j Von Blohn and Price, in the absence of Chairman Cleaver, Mr. Everhart | was made president pro. tem. I The object of the meeting being an j nounced the secretary read the pro j posed oidinance embraced under the following title: "An ordinance auth | orizing, directing, requiring and pro viding for the proper grading and pav ! ing with vitrified brick and curbing with stone of that part of East Mark et street in the borough of Danville, Montour county, Pennsylvania, from j the eastern building line of Mill street Ito the eastern building line of Pine street in the first ward of said bor ough, and further providing for the ascertainment of damages and the as j sessment of benefits incidental thereto upon the abutting properties accord ing to the law aud for the securing J and collection of the same by legal process; also still further requiring j the Danville & Sunbury Transit oom> i pany to thus grade and pave its cer tain designated portion of said part of i said street in accordance with the provision of a certain other ordinance of said borough in such behalf in part enacted and prescribing the penalties for the failure to thus grade aud pave the same aud for other purposes." APPROVED. ; Mr. Finnigan moved that the ordin ance be approved 011 tirst reading. The 1 motion carried on a yea and nay vote, all present voting affirmatively. On motion of Mr. Finnigan it was j ordered that the committee 011 print > ing in conjunction with the secretary 1 cause the ordinance to be published in one newspaper in Danville at least : once a week for two weeks and by at ' least five handbills posted along East Market street between Mill ami Pine streets as soon as the ordinance is | signed by the chief burgess and attest- I ed by the secretary as required by law. OTHER FORMALITIES. On motion of Mr. Curry it was ord ! ered that the borough surveyor ] re- I pare blank proposal", plans and speci fications for the paving of the above i described sectiou of East Market i street. I On motion of Mr. Curry the sec retary was directed to publish at once | in two newspapers a notice that the 1 botough will receive sealed proposals 1 up to Friday, September 2, lillO, at 1 I o'clock noon, for the grading, paving | and curbing of the two squares of East Market street as above described. ! At a meeting thirty days hence the : ordinance will again come up for read j ing and, under a suspension of rules, ' will 110 doubt pass on both subsequent | readings. A BOARD BROKE John L. Krum, the well-known car penter of East Danville, met with a bad fall while working at B. L. Diehl's on Saturday. A board breaking he was precipitated from a scaffold at the dwelling, which is being remodeled. 1 Although no bones were broken he sustained painful injuries about the side. He was obliged to take his bed. BIG EVENTS SAME DAY What promises to detract from two big conventions is the fact that both meet on the same day aud continue throughout the week. The State con vention of the Ked Men will be held ; in Shamokin at the same as the Six-County Firemen are scheduled to meet at Sunbury and unless something is done in the meantime both towns and their celebrations will detract from the other. Itjis likely that an ef- j fort will be made to have the Six- i County Firemen arrange to hold their j convention a week later than the lied Men's gathering or vice versa. DEATH OF A CHILD Theodore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos eph P. Mayan, C street, departed this life Tuesday night after a protracted illness, death being due to a complica tion of diseases. He was aged six years. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from St. Hubert's Cath olic church. Interment will be made in St. Hubert's cemetery. SENT TO JAlL.—Frank Simon witli, of Wilkes-Barre, was held under SSOO bail for court by the acting may or, being accused by Coro Stockuick with having picked up a pocketbook belonging to him and which contain ed sllß. MARKET STREET EXTENSION j Tlie grade and other data ralating to the macadam on the extension of Kast ! Market street furnished by the bor | ougli surveyor yesterday was deliver !ed into the hands of A. S. Clay, eng | ineer of the State highway depart- I ment, by whom they were at once for warded to llarrisburg. | The borough, which seveiai months | ago decided to macadamize the Kast | Market, street extension with State aid, lias complied with all the official •formality required and the reconstruc tion of the street is now squarely up to the State highway department. Ev ery effort is being made to induce the State to act promptly so that the im provement may be completed this fall. The macadam will embrace the sec tion between Foust street at the east ern end of the borough and the piece ot macadam at the hospital completed | a coujde of years ago. It is now gen i crally accepted as a fact that the sec- I tion, embracing some four squares, | between Cook's court and Foust street, l will not be reconstructed this year. ! Neither is it probable that extensive j repairs will be put upon it,as it seems | to be the intention to make applica- I tion for paving next year. J The completion of the paving on the i two Equates between Pine and Cedat J streets, now thrown open to travel, is I a splendid object lesson, revealing not ! only what a transformation has been wrought, but also with what facility , obstacles are overcome and the im provement brought about. The spirit iof enterprise is contagious, and it is j not likely that the residents of the upper end of East Market street in such an essential improvement as pav ing are going to be more than a year \ behind those at the lower end. It now seems to be tacitly umler | stood that in addition to paviug the two squares between Mill anil Pine streets a short section on West Market street will be paved. While the paving ■ on the two above-mentioned squares, I east of Mill street, will be done with '' out application, the section west will be paved with the property owners' consent. The latter seotion will extend only as far as the rear of the property of the Danville National bank. On the south side the courthouse ground abuts on the street. All formality will be complied with as speedily : s possi ble so that the paving on the west side of Mill street can be done coincid ent with the reconstruction of the two squares east. OLD "TEDDY" HOOKED Hardware Merchant .1. H. Cole,who along with his family is summering at his cottage about half a mile below ' Chulasky.on Friday ..aright one of the biggest bass that was ever hooked iii the North Drench. The big bass, a lit companion t,i the ; one hooked hy Gearhurt Oberdorf :ir ■ the river bridge recently, •■limited the deep water down tie river ; - its hab itat. It has been seen near the same spot for several years past and \vn« knownjas "Teddy." It was a wily old fish and the most adroit angler was unable to hook him. On Friday, how ever, he fell a victim to the allur ments of a particularly plump and frisky minnow, with which Mr. Cole had baited his hook. The bass, which weighed about four pounds, was eighteen inches long and twelve inches in circumference at the thickest part. CUT WITH AN AXE A small c.iild belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Albeek, East Market street, [ met with a bad accident Saturday j evening. Mr. Albeek was cutting wood. He : was not aware that t lie child was near. As he swung his axe backward to de liver a heavy blow the child ran in the way of the tool and a corner of the sharp blade struck it just below the lower lip, causing a short though deep gash. Dr. Hinshillwood was ' called, who ; was obliged to stitch the wound. Caught a Snake. A cat belonging to Rev. C. W. Rav- j er, Ash street, which is accounted one [ of the best monsers in that part of j town, a day or so ago,further disting uished herself by bringing to the house a copperhead snake nearly two feet in length. Champion Eater Has a Rival. Hungry Sam Miller, of Strawberry Ridge, who holds the eating record in this section has a strong rival in the person of Roeko Levitch, of Hazleton. Lev itch Monday evening made a wag er of |2