' m mm n • emsß» 111 > s . » J ' •*< * I JHcmfrmt' jiJ||i American. VOL. 56—NO 36 ITEMS CONDENSED. RECOGNIZES SON.-When David McLane, of York, lathered the face of a customer, preparatory to shaving him, he noticed a peculiar dimple on his patron's cheek and upon close ex amination, found that the stranger was his own sou who had been absent in the Philippines for a period of ten yeais. The meeting was a most affec- j tionate one. WANTS BABY BACK.—Mrs. Irene Speelhoffer, of Norristowu, has in stituted proceedings in the Moutgoin ery county court against Mrs, Grant j Wilson to recover her baby. Mrs. Speelhoffer alleges that she gave the child to Mrs. Wilson to keep for her about four years ago and now she does not want to give the baby up. BULL GORES FARMER. The j prompt arrival of neighbors was all j that saved the life of Simon Pomeroy, | of White Valley, Wayne county, from | a horrible death by goring. A mam- j moth bull attacked him savagely but help arrived in time. Pomeroy sus tained a fractured shoulder and severe cuts and bruises. HEALTH OFFICER SUES-Health ! Officer Thomas Herbert, of Altoona, j has instituted suits against several j wholesale produce dealers, alleging | that the men have been throwing ; vegetables on the highways and leav- j ing the matter to decompose. The J health authorities aie determined to break up the practice. REWARD AQUATIC HEROS-The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission of i Pittsburg has decided to award medals to Joseph H. Bowen, George W. Bow- j ei and John Joyce, of Pottsville, for j heroic rescues from drownings this j summer. The cases have been favor- j ably reported, it is said, by tlie com- | mission. CIDER EXPLODES.—AIbert My- j ers, of Menges Mills, had four teeth j knocked out when gas, which formed J in a whisky barrel filled with cider ! exploded, sending a stave crashing ' against Myers' jaw. The cider had been hauled a mile and was being re moved from the wagon when it ex- ! ploded. REPORT ON ROADS—District At- ; torney Harry D. Schaeffer, of Berks j county, has notified all rural const- i ables that, in the future.they must re- j port on the conditions of all roads, it 1 is believed this will help prevent the j roads from being allowed to become I badly cut up and dangerous before be- ! ing attended to. DIMELING RETIRES. Senator I George M. Dimeling, of Clearfield, has withdrawn from the senatorial fight in his district for harmony's sake. He 'ias issued a long letter in which he asks for support for his successor. FROST DAMAGES CROP—Farm ers who live in exposed parts of Sohuylkill county, say their crops were visited by a blighting frost 5 which will cause a loss of several j thousand dollars. Late fruit suffered I particularly from the frost. AUTO DOWNS SOLDIER—George mith, a veteran of the Civil war, I tvho resides in Bellefonte, was struck ; and severely linjured by a speeding lutomobile and sustained injuries j rhat will probably cause his death, lis skull was fractured while a thigh pas also broken. MUST USE BELL—An Italian re iding in Ambie has been arrested tnd fined $8 and costs for failure to •arry a bell on his bicycle so he can ive warning to the pedestrains of his ■pproach. The prisoner was warned several times to take this precaution ut refused to display the warning j igual. SUE FOR BLAZE—Attorneys rep- j jsenting the Prize-Painter Stove and leater company, of Reading, have j rought suit against the Philadelphia nd Reading Railway company for 57.000 because it is alleged, the stove I ilant was destroyed by fire said to j lave been caused by sparks from a icomotive on the Reading road. BODY FOUND—After being miss ug since August 1(1, the mutilated aty of Frank Ringle, aged 54 years, jf Pittsburg, was found under the oor of a garage in Pittsburg. Rin le, it is said carried over $7,000 on lis person and this was missing from is clothes when the body was found, oul play is indicated. WEDDED SEVENTY YEARS—Mr. .nil Mrs. James P. Elliott, of Slippery lock will have been wedded seventy /ears on September 25, and relatives of the aged couple have decided to •jelebrate the unique event. Mr. Elliot s 89 years old, while his bride of sev uty years is a year his senior. HYDROPHOBIA EPIDEMIC— So nany oases of hydrophobia have ap •ared in Milroy and Bellewood that le authorities have decided to send he heads of several dogs to the State 'eterinarian and have them examin 1. In this way they will get proof 112 the epidemic and a rigid quaran ne will be enforced. BOARD OF HEALTH TAKES ACTION The local board of health has adopt ed radical measures in its efforts to cope with the unfortunate conditions relative to the prevalence of whooping cough in Danville.aiming to bring all the infected families under quarantine between the present and the opening of the schools next week. During Friday Dr. Bouse visited different sections of the borough and satisfied himself that the reports rela tive to whooping cough were not ex aggerated. What he actually saw was well described in his report to the board of health Friday evening. He saw children, he declared, that had whooping cough playing on the street, and when seized with an attack of coughing would cease playing and cling to a post or other support until the paroxysm was over. Under such conditions, he said, the disease would continue to spread until the epidemic is spent. He strongly emphasized the gravity of the situation. Statistics show, he said, that more children each year die of measles and whooping cough than of the supposedly more dangerous dis easees,diphtheria and scarlet fever. The State board of health, ho said, does not assume control in an epidemic such as this. It devolves upon the local board of health to act in the premises, the State department of health sustaining merely the iclation of an advisor. Dr. Newbaker,president of the local board of health, explained how it has occurred that whooping cough has gained such a foothold in Danville Most people, lie said, believe that the disease is comparatively harmless and rather than suffer the inconveniences that might arise from having their houses placared, they declined to em ploy a physician and undertook to treat the cases themselves. Thus it happened that only a small proportion of cases were reported. In this connection Health Officer B. B. Brown explained that only seven houses,embracing some eighteen cases, are placarded in Danville. Dr. Bouse then explained that the law requires every householder to re poit to the health authorities whoop ing cough or any other communicable disease and for failure to do so house holders are liable to the same penalty that is provided for the physician that neglects to report communicable dis eases. In Danville at present where whooping cough exists and physicians are not employed, the householders who have failed to report the disease stand in very great danger of being convicted in a summary proceeding be fore any justice of the peace. On motion a resolution was passed by the board of health deciding to ad opt the act of May 14, liiO!), as its code. It was also decided to proceed to enforce its provisions relating to whooping cough immediately. That no one might plead ignorance of the law nor of action taken by the local board of health in the premises it was ordered that two thousand copies of the act together with the above resolution of the board of health be printed in circular form and that a copy be delivered personally into the hands of every house holder in town. NEW SIDEWALKS The first on East Market street to take up the work of laying new side walks to conform with the reconstruc tion of the street are Thomas J. Price and F. W. Howe. Ground was brok en in front of Mr. Price's residence yesterday morning, the old tar pave ment being removed to make room for a modern cement walk resembling the one along Mr. Price's property on Cedar street. Between the walk prop er and the curb on one side and the building line on the other will be a strip of so:!. Other property owners, it is said, are making arrangements to begin work on new sidewalks. The old tar pavement on the north side of the street, taking in the prop erties of the P. and R. Railway and the Structural Tubing Companies, which has so long been a feature, in a short time will give place to a mod ern sidewalk that will conform with the paving. E. S. Fornwald 111. E. S. Fornwald, agent of the Unit ed States Express Company, is con- I fined to his homo on Pine street. Last week he was seized with an attack supposed to have been superinduced by an accident, which has left him in a partially disabled condition. His recovery is expected. Service at Temple B'nai Zion Divine service will be held at the temple B'nai Zion next Friday even ing at 7.80 o'clock. Rabbi Felix W. Jesselson, D. D., will officiate and de liver a sermon on the suhjeot, "Be Guarded in your Religious Teach ing." The public is welcome. DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER L 1910 SPECIAL MEETING OF SCHOOL BOARD The school board held a special meet- ' 1 ing last night for the purpose of act- j ! ing upon the proposition of employing i ! a medical inspector for the schools to | j aid in stamping out whooping cough, j J President W. A. Sechler occupied j j the chair. Among the other members j j present were: Ortli, Swarts, Burns, | | Marks, Shnltz, Pursel, Fischer, Gib- j ; son, Heiss anil Cole. | President Sechler stated the object ! Jof the meeting, which was to act on ! | the suggestion made by Dr. Bouse of j | the State department of health as to j ! the best means of stamping out whoop- ' I ing cough in Danville. SUBJECT DISCUSSED | Mr. Burns explained that, he was i ! present at a conference between Dr. | j Bouse and some members of the school | board Saturday night. Upon sober re flection, he said, he could not approve j of the proposition to employ a medical inspector. The matter of expense was an obstacle. Dr. Shnltz explained that Dr. Bouse was at the head of the boards of health ! of the State, and his visit here prinr j arily was to deal with the local board of health. He explained that there is j an epidemic of whooping cough in | Danville and that Dr. Bouse's sugges tion is a good one. A medical inspect -1 or in the schools at the present might ! aid in coping with the epidemic. The j suggestion is especially timely, as very soon in all probability school boards under the law will be required i to employ a medical inspector. A SCHOOL PHYSICIAN J. N. Pursel advanced the view that the teachers are in a better position to | detect whooping cough among the pu ; pils than a medical inspector, who would come in contact with the child only for a brief time. He advocated ; the employment of a school physician, ! J to whom the teachers should be reqnir- ! ed to send all pupils that are suspect ! Ed of being infected with disease. ' W. H. Ortli heartily endorsed Mr. Pursel's views as to the employment ot a school physician. In the case of a medical inspector, lie said, the best he could do would be to make a dia- | gnosis and the parents could do as they pleased us to placing the child under treatment. Mr. Fischer stated that he did net see how medical inspection was to re -1 suit in stamping out whooping cough, as he knows personally of one family having whooping cough that has had j I three different physicians, each of j ! whom said the disease could not be cured. It seemed to be the consensus of ' I opinion that the proper thing to Berwick....;! 0 .*« Nauticoke..s i .9551 Nescopeck .1 * .111 As merry a war as has been witness ed on a Susquehanna league diamond since the memorable fracas at Blooms burg on July 6th,li)o!>, ended the game between Berwick and Danville at the former place on Saturday. This time Danville left the field with all the honors of war. The game was forfeited to Danville by the score of S> to 0, and the face of Field Man ager Eddie Foster, of the Berwick team, bears the outward advisible signs of a severe pummeling. The events that transpired on Fow ler Field during the half hour preced ing the forfeiture of the game to Dan ville form about as thrilling a chapter as has been recorded in the history of the Susquehanna league. The trouble started iu the last half of the seventh with Berwick at bat. Iu the first half of the seventh Dan ville had tied the score by tallying twice. Unilauf made the last out by fanning. Catcher Wager, of Berwick sustained a broken finger on the last ball. When Berwick came in the excite- j meut was running high. Patterson, first up for Berwick, struck out. O'Brien then drove a three|bagger in- j to center field. Wager was next to bat, and Umpire Wilson announced that 1 Sharadin would bat in his place. Amid the din of the rooting the Danville j players did not hear the announce ment. Brennan delivered a ball and Captain Nipple and Brennan then ran up to the plate to protest Sharadin's batting out of order. Foster also came up to take part in the argument. A choice exchange of repartee fol lowed between Brennan and Foster, in which both told each other iu pretty plain terms what they thought. Fost re struck Brennan, but the blow had scarcely been delivered before "Keds" Ainsworth, who was standing at Fost er's side, sprang at the Berwick field manager, and hit him a terrific welt on the nose the crack of which was heard all over the field, and then fol lowed it with another. By this time Brennan was back into the fray and got in a couple licks on the belliger ent Berwick player. Ainsworth's blow on Foster was the signal for tlie bleachers and part of the grand stand to get 011 the field. The lighting players were dragged apart. Things were pretty lively for a while but nobody was seriously hurt. 111 the excitement John Trowbridge,of Danville, was arrested for fighting, but was later released upon payment of a nominal line. Umpire Wilson at once declared Players Foster aud Brennan out of the game for fighting. The retirement of Foster, with Wager injured, left Ber wick with but eight men and unable, 011 account of their depleted line-up, to continue the game. After half an hour's wait for Ber wick to prepare to continue the game, Umpire Wilson forfeited the contest to Danville. BLAME LIES WITH FOSTER in investigating the affair to place the blame the nusal obstacles are met with in as many conflicting views as there are narrators. It seems pretty clear, however, that Foster is getting ! nearly all the censure, not only in Dan ville but among the better class of j base ball lovers in Berwick as well, where he is not popular by any means, j The domineering attitude of this ' man has been a source of strifo in the league since he has been playing on ! this circuit. He is extremely unpopu lar among the players of his own team j and from expressions of opinion after tho game among those directly back of base ball in Berwick, his actions are not upheld by the people who should be his radical supporters if he had any shadow of right on his side. The dispatches to the Philadelphia papers yesterday, eminating from Ber wick, stated that Brennan started the trouble Viy calling Foster a "vile name." But the Danville players tell that the ill feeling was engendered I much earlier in the game at the iust j ance of Foster, who made ugly re j marks to Brennan all during the con | test, aud even suggested names to the i bleachers to call Brennan. The players' account of the tight, indicate that it was not Brennan who first used a "vile name" but Foster himself who offered an insult to Bren nan. After the fight for a while a small mob of Berwick hot heads threatened violence to the Danville players, but they were escorted by Berwick police- Continued on Page 4. ANSWERS THE FINAL SUMMONS Harry H. Redding, for many years storekeeper at the hospital for the in sane and a useful and representative citizen,died at his home.Foust street, at 4:15 o'clock Monday fol lowing a long illness. Death was due to a complication of diseases. The health of the deceased failed gome three years ago. He con tinued in his position at the hospital however, until June Ist last, when owing to liig rapid decline he resign ed. His condition became steadily worse until death brought relief. BORN IN MAINE Mr. Redding was born at Calais.Me. He came to Danville about twenty eight years ago, accepting a position as attendant and assistant supervisor at the hospital for the insane. After five years he was promoted to the posi tion of storekeejier, at the hospital, which he held for a period of twenty three years. Mr. Redding was a man of unim peachable integrity, who found real j pleasure in doing good. There are few persons at the hospital, who came in contact with him there during his long term of service but have occasion to j remember him for some generous act | that for the time made life's burden j easier and the ruggetl path way! smoother. He was a man of splendid j principles and in the community stood for those things that make for civic I righteousness and the purity of the I home. HE WAS HONORED As a resident of Danville he was '■ honored by being elected a school dir- j ector to represent the second ward anil j at the end of the first term was re- j elected. He was also chosen as a mem- : her of the board of trustees of the j Mahoning Presbyterian church,a posi- ! tion he held until his death. He was I a past grand of Montour Lodge No. j 1(H), I. O. O. F. He was also a mem- j bre of Beaver Lodge No. l&S, K. of i P., this city. Mr. Redding was aged ~>l years and j II mouths. He is survived by his wid- ; o\v and one sou. Harry; also by a brother, N. B. Redding of Calais, Me. and one sister. Mrs. Annie Andrews, Miltowu, N. B. "BEWARE OF DOG DAYS" Samuel G. Dixon, State commission er of health, sends out the warning, "Beware of dog days." There is an interesting story as to the whyfore of the so-called dog