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Danville Montour American (Newspaper) - February 13, 1902, Danville, PennsylvaniaA Home paper a for the hone the circulation of this paper is increasing rapidly. It will pay you to advertise in the american. Subscriptions per year do. Irving 11. Jennings -dknti8t.-office hours 9 a. M. To i m 10.�?T, Mill St i 1. M to i v m Danville. Do. This country will never be entirely free until it supplies All of its own demands with its own Danville in a. Thursday february 13, 1902. Established in 1855, vol. 47-no 7. Q Shultz m. I it. 425 . St., Danville a. Diseases of the St much an i intestines a specially i r. I. A Tilki dentist Offick 218 Mil l. St Kkt. Teeth extract without in Aln. Crown and Bridge work a i specially. Equipped with the Lute and most improved instruments and prepared to execute the most difficult Homei Ped of l destruction wrought by fire in East end last night. Or. C. H. Reynolds office opposite Boston store Danville a. Dentistry in All its branches. Charges moderate and All work guaranteed. Established 18�i2condensed news. Milder weather will let a Welcome. The father of but country comes next. Mrs. Erwin Hunter in on the sick list. Ash wednesday services were Well attended. There will be a graph phone entertainment at the United evangelical Church on saturday night. Admission 10 cents. The voter knows he has the Power to choose. Charles Beyers is very ill of inflammatory rheumatism at his Home on Mill Street. It is to he hoped that the Valentines will he decent this year though nobody would venture the Hope that they might be handsome or artistic. Miss Sadie Laidacker of South Danville. Is visiting relatives in Washingtonville. Fourth entertainment of the y. M. C. A. Course will be held in the opera House tomorrow evening. Cold weather has spoiled what fun there was in truancy. William Sweitzer is critically ill at his Home on grand Street. De Horning of cattle scientifically and successfully done by Thomas Gething. Successor to Geo b. Kase. Charles Hershey Fern Street is confined to his bed by an attack of rheumatism. The Man who is too indifferent to vote needs looking after. See that he gets to the polls. George freeze and David Unger of South Danville have opened up a tin shop at the latter a place. St. Valentines Day. February 14, will lie observed this year with greater pomp than Ever before. This years crop of Valentines is now ready and the designs Are even More elaborate and it Beautiful than in former years. Miss Elizabeth Fisher of Catawissa spent yesterday with relatives in South Danville and Riverside. February weather has so far been rigidly Winterich. Making Happy the prophets goos Ebone and otherwise who declared that we would have an old fashioned Winter. Danville is one of the most eligible located cities in the Stateff or manufacturing purposes. Investors should note this fact. Boon the High school senior will be the object of attention. Enjoy the sgt Orts of Winter All you can while they last. It is at last dawning upon the minds of the renters of this City that the increase of industries will encourage the building of More houses which will certainly result in the reduction of rents. Mrs. Henry Lyon entertained a number of friends at progressive euchre last evening at her Home on lower Mulberry Street. Hereafter the fellow who wails for an old fashioned Winter will it himself very much disliked. Jesse Carey Foreman at the shovel works is lying ill with pneumonia at his Home on Bloom Street. St Valentines Day to Morrow. The Post office employees Are looking for the usual volume of mail. The anniversary of Lincoln a birth is being More generally and More widely observed each year. In nearly every state of the Union february 12 has been made a Legal Holiday and it is not very far off when the Day will be considered equally As important and of As much interest As february 22, the birthday of Washington the Carpenter work at the Reading Iron works is now practically completed and according to appearance the 10-Inch and the 20-Inch Mill will a ready to Start up by the Middle of the present month at the bringing the whole Plant into operation. The carpenters have a couple of cranes to build which will be the work of Only a Day or so. At several parts of the Mill the roof remains to be finished but this is a work that can proceed after the works Are started. The Only task which May cause delay is the adjusting of the blast pipes which Are some distance from completion. About 0 1"� of clock last night the entire heavens East of town were illuminated with a Ruddy glow which left no doubt that a fierce fire was raging in that locality. Hundreds of people breathless with excitement poured along East Market Street and other thoroughfares leading in that direction firmly convinced that the stove works or the shovel factory was burning Down. The fire proved to be at a dwelling owned by Henry Densberger on the Hill above the stove works North of Wall Street. The nearest fire plugs were at the stove works and the shovel factory. Beyond the reach of the longest Hose. The alarm of fire had been promptly sounded and each of the fire companies started out. But arriving at the upper end of the Borough and learning of the location of the fire they saw the utter futility of attempting to get any water on the burning House and therefore they turned and retraced their Steps. In less than half an hour after the fire was discovered the House was in ashes and nothing remained to show that a dwelling once occupied the site but a clothesline bearing the weeks Wash which was stretched where the Back Yard had been. Or Densberger an inspector at Howe amp Polk a is on night turn this week. His wife and four children were to spend the night alone. Mrs. Densberger with one of her children Little Ida. Was spend ing a Little while at a neighbors House. The other three children Harry aged 1-1 Herman 8 and Charles 0, were in the House alone and asleep. Mrs. Densberger returned just in the Nick of time to save her three children from being burned alive. She was no sooner on the premises than she detected the evidences of fire and in an instant the dwelling was in flames. By the time she got her children safely on the outside it was imi>08sible to re enter the House and every article of household goods with the exception of two comforts was consumed with the House. The House hold escaped with nothing except the clothing they wore. The homeless family was the object of much sympathy last night although kindly provided for during the night by neighbors. Or. Densberger explained to a reporter of this paper that the House a a two Story Frame with an out Kitchen was one which lie had built himself about two years ago. He valued it at about $900. He carried $700 insurance $500 on the House and $200 on the in Mitre. Or. And mrs. Densberger Are utterly at a loss to account for the origin of the fire. There were two Coal fires burning in the House but each of the flues it was stated was perfectly contracts for printing the Borough statement Are awarded. Narrow escape from death. Through the breaking of a scaffold at the Reading Iron works tuesday afternoon four workmen on the new building narrowly escaped being killed. One of the last appurtenances of the Mill to receive its finishing touches is the stack belonging to Furnace no. 7 in the 16-Inch Mill. This tuesday was being topped William b. Hauser and George Byers Brick layers and c. S. Pursell and Benjamin . Being upon the scaffold. The stack of no. 7 Furnace is one of those at the outer Edge of the Mill so that while the workmen on one Side were probably less than ten feet above the roof on the other they were supported at least fifty feet above the group 1 with nothing to intercept a fall. About 1 30 of clock there was an ominous sound of creaking timbers and almost at the same moment the scaffold which was heavily loaded with Brick gave Way beneath their feet and the four men found themselves along with a mass of timbers and Brick dropping through space. Fortunately they were All on the inside of the scaffold and in their fall thus were intercepted by the roof of the Mill. They did not escape All injury however the two Brick layers especially upon whom a perfect Shower of bricks and timbers fell were quite j painfully bruised although not serious injured. Frost nearly four feet deep. As a result of the severe Winter the Frost has attained unusual depth in the ground. Water has failed at Many r-1 is Dencks and business places during the last few Days the freezing occurring in the Street under three feet of ground. On West Mahoning Street yesterday the Frost was found to extend to a still greater depth and the water pipe uncovered by the plumbers was found Frozen solid Between the pavement and the water main Ira the Middle of the Street. The depth attained by the Frost which at Many places May be four feet is not surprising considering the nature of the Winter. The several break ups on the River were not accompanied by any material thaw in the ground and the process of freezing on land since last fall has gone on uninterrupted. Thicken and Waffle supper. The ladies of St Johns reformed Church Mausdale. Will hold a Chicken and Waffle supper on tuesday. February 18. From three to nine p. In., at the new residence of j. M. Coddens Mausdale. Should the weather to unfavourable the supper will 1m held on the following Day. The Public is cordially invited. Tickets adults 25 cents children under 12 years 1 15 cents by order of committee the Borough Council held a special meeting saturday night. Abare nomm was present consisting of Vastine Jones Dougherty. Mclain. M. D. L. Seeliger. Davis and Gibson. In the absence of chairman Kemmer Amos Vastine was chosen president pro Tern. A communication was received from Harry Shick of the second Ward declining the appointment As health it officer which was tendered to him at the previous meeting of Council. On motion the declination was accepted and the office left vacant until the next regular meeting when presid Cut Kemmer will make an appoint rent. A communication was received from William v. Oglesby Justice of the peace certifying that William g. Per Sel Burgess elect had appeared before him and taken the oath of office. Or. Vastine reported that the Borough accounts had been audited and that they were found to be Correct. It n motion the Bonds paid off during the year nine in number were burned in the presence of Council. The printing of the Borough statement was next disposed of. Or. Jones a moved that the contract be awarded to the Montour american and the Danville intelligencer at the same rate As last year--$25. This was seconded by m. D. L. Sembler. The motion carried by the following vote yeast a. D. L. Sechler Mclain Jones Davis and Vastine. Nays Dougherty and Gibson. M. D l. Sechler reported that new suction Hose for the Borough engine had arrived but that it did meet general approval in that it bound with wire and would probably not prove durable. It n motion the matter was Laid Over until the next meeting night when it will be More fully discussed and accepted or rejected. Among the important business on hand was the renewing of insurance on City Hall. The insurance is composed of two Jedi eyes of $3o00 each one expiring on the 13th inst and the other on the in thirst. D. R. Williams was present before Council and asked that he be per Nii Ted to write the insurance explaining that he formerly was a member of the firm of w. H Ammerman a co. Which at present holds the risk. Or. Gibson moved that the insurance be Given to or. Williams. Or. Dougherty moved that it be placed in the company represented by w. H. Amnier Inan. A vote resulted As follows Williams Gibson. Davis Sechler. Ammerman Dougherty. Vastine Jones and Mclean. The writing of the insurance was accordingly Given to w. Ii. Ammerman. Tax collector Edward w. Peters was present with a list of exoneration taking in the four wards of the Borough. An hour or More was occupied in Reading the list of delinquents and discussing their claims for exoneration. The cases All with very few exceptions were considered worthy and the exoneration allowed. An order for $420, representing state tax on Loans was drawn in favor of the treasurer. The fire not was or. Laumaster accepts. Our readers will 1m glad to learn that w. D. Laumaster has decided to accept the Call extended to it it him by the Board of directors and will return to general Secretary ship of the v. M. C. A. His decision was made known at a meeting of directors held Friday at which the following members were present h. B. Shultz Sam. A. Mccoy Beverly Musselman j. W. Swartz or. Robbins. T. C. Curry Samuel Werk Heiser w. V. Oglesby w. L. Mcclure a. H. Grone. R. J. Pegg James Foster and w. I. Laumaster. Or. Laumaster Lias engagements to 1 april the 1st. Which he must fill. He had plans for several evangelistic campaigns during the summer which he has decided to cancel. It was Only after mature deliberation that he decided to return to his old Post at tin v. M. C. A., believing that it was for the Best interest of the work and All concerned that the old relations be resumed. In the interim Between the present and april 1st, when or. Laumaster will assume charge the building will be open at the same hours As at present. W. V. Oglesby. E-q., will be in charge during each afternoon. At evening the Board of directors will be responsible for the building and one or other of these will be present in person. Old time dance. A series of old time dances will be Given in the armory during the next two months. The first of these enjoyable affairs will take place on Friday evening. A Good orchestra has been engaged to furnish the music. The following is the committee Simon Ellen la it Geu Thomas Welch Thomas Murray de. F. Williams Edward Czer Howitz and Philip Benzbach. A creditable piece of work. The members of Council Are very pronounced in their Praise of the Borough statement prepared by clerk of Council Harry b. Patton. It is certainly As neat a piece of typewritten work As we have Ever been permitted to examine. Voluminous As it is from beginning to end there is evidence of the most pains taking care accuracy of computation while the statement free from erasures is As clean As the printed Page it it a the 1 whole it is a credit to the Young clerk. Peik Impi Brief mention of the doings of your friends and acquaintances. Mrs. P. C. Tilt her. Of East Danville left yesterday for a visit with friends in Milton. Mrs. 4. C. Riemer. Of Lewisburg spent yesterday at the Home of mrs. R. K. Polk on Bloom Street. Miss Flora sheets of Montandon who has been visiting mrs. Sadie Kennedy at Riverside left yesterday for Espy to visit friends. Mrs. Henry to Rufft of this City left yesterday morning for Millersburg to attend the funeral of her brother the late John Wert. Miss Dora Arehart of South Dent Indiana returned Home yesterday after a visit with friends in this City. Rev. J. A. Huber of this City spent several hours in Northumberland yesterday afternoon. Lbs Edna Newberry of Milton re turned Home yesterday after a via with friends in this City. Or. And mrs. Peter Fenstermacher of Riverside returned Home yesterday after a visit with friends in Ashland. A. F. Jones daughter. Miss Nellie and Niece Bessie Shively of Tyrone left yesterday for Harrisburg after a visit at the Home of Washington Mcbride. Cooper Street. Mrs. Sallie frock of Philadelphia returned Home yesterday after a visit with her Mother mrs. Katharine Hahn Walnut Street. Mrs. Israel Maier and daughter. Miss Helen of Sunbury attended the funeral of the late Jacob Maier in this City yesterday. Mrs. J. A. Campbell of South Danville. Left yesterday for Catawissa to visit friends. Masters George and Charles Baird of Harrisburg arrived yesterday to make their Home with their grandparents. Or. And mrs. George Riley front Street. Miss Laura Miller left yesterday for Hazleton to it it spend several Days with friends. Miss Hettie roaring Creek spent several hours with friends in this City yesterday. Mrs. Dora Marks. Mrs. Lena Litch Ards and miss Ada Marks of new York arrived in this City yesterday for a visit at the Home of Abram Rosen Stine. North Mill Street. Joseph 11. Johnson ferry Street spent a few hours with friends in Sun Bury yesterday. Mrs Fred Hoffman and daughter miss Olive of Shamokin. Returned Home yesterday after a visit with or. And mrs. Evan Bevan Mill Street. Or. A t Dewitt and w. W. Dewitt. Of Riverside will leave today for Sunbury to attend the funeral of mrs. Paul Dewitt of lower Augusta township. The interment will 1m made in Sunbury. Miss Carrie Miller of Williamsport arrived in this City yesterday for a visit with friends. Charles Lyon was in Sunbury yesterday. Miss Trace yesterday at the Home of or. And mrs. J. Hudson Kase South Danville. Miss Jennie Davis of Shamokin returned Home yesterday after a visit with mrs. Johnny Moyer Mill Street. Elmer Boyer of Berwick spent yesterday with his father. Levi Boyer. Riverside. Or and mrs. Glenn a. Tubbs and daughter. Marie of Benton returned Home yesterday after a visit with Andress Heller Faust Street. Mrs. Kate Polk of Adrian Michigan left yesterday for Bloomsburg after a visit with miss sue Miller. East Market Street. Mrs. Lewis Byerly. Walnut Street spent yesterday with friends in blooms Burg. Miss Elizabeth Marks. West Mahoning Street left yesterday for a visit with friends in Philadelphia. Miss Mary Jacobs West Market Street left on the 9 14 Pennsylvania train yesterday morning for a visit with friends in Philadelphia. S. E. Prout and daughter Martha. Railroad Street left yesterday for a visit with relatives in Sunbury. J. L. Taylor of Sunbury spent yesterday with friends in this City. C. E. Pursley and g. F. Simmers special officials on the Reading Railroad. Were in this City yesterday. Miss Margaret Weigold first Street left yesterday for a visit with friends in Milton. Mrs. William Brent. East front Street spent yesterday with friends in Sunbury. James Henderson spent yesterday in it. Carmel and Shamokin. Frank Herrington made a business trip to Sunbury yesterday. George b. Kase of Kaseville was in Sunbury yesterday. Mrs. S. Books. West Mahoning Street is visiting relatives in Northumberland. Mrs. C. It Baldy and daughter. Mrs. 11 f. Kyllar of Bramwell West Virginia who Are guests at the Home of mrs. Mary j. Deen on East Market Street spent last evening with friends in Bloomsburg. Miss Bertha Wei liver attended the Rogers Little nuptials at Munch yesterday. John Geise of this City was in Jwj Insburg session Wes Besiei a discussion relative to gaps and gowns for commencement. The school Board met in session on monday night at 7 3b of clock. There were few matters however pertaining to the school that seemed to require attention and at 8 of clock the Board adjourned. Truant officer Young presented his report for the month ending Jan. 31. During that time he visited 114 houses. He found that s2 pupils reported As absentees were detained at Home by illness. Seventeen had no shoes one belonged to a family that had moved away. Fourteen were guilty of trn Ancy. Treasurer m. Ii. Schram presented his report which showed a balance on hand of $9220.15. Principal t. C. Carey being present was asked if there was anything requiring attention among matters pertaining a it the High school. Prof. Carey stated hat there was a division in the graduating class on the subject of Caps and a owns seven favouring their adoption and seven opposing it. In View of the tie he thought it would be expedient for the let Oard or the High school committee of the same to take hold of the matter and decide which it is to be Caps and gowns or otherwise. A discussion followed in which it was made pretty Clear that the Board nearly As a unit is opposed to Caps and gowns. They All agreed that the graduating class never presented a More pleasing appearance than last year when the girls were dressed in White and there would seem to be no prospects of returning to the former order of things. It a motion the matter was referred to the High school committee who will report to the Board. The following members of the school Board were present at the meeting Fischer it it rth. Burger. Barber. Green Fenstermacher. Keefer and Black. The following Bills were approved for payment teachers and janitors.$1525.20 Jno. Hixon. 5.05 t. K Hale. 1.00 William Miller. 3.25 Standard Gas co. 3.00 express age. .35 f. P. Startzell. .91 w e. Young. 10.00 Frank sperring. .00 Relief fund for employees. The Reading Iron company has taken ail important step looking to the welfare of its employees which will meet with Wido a read approval. At a meeting of the directors. Tuesday the following Resolution was adopted a resolved. That the officers of the company be authorized to set apart $25.000 in such securities As they deem prudent to constitute a Relief fund the interest to be appropriated to the Relief of the employees of the Reading Iron company under such terms and limitations As the chairman and president May from time to time determine the office of the chairman of the Board was created. George f. Baer retired from the presidency of the company and was elected chairman of the Board f. C. Smink. Until recently vice president was elected president and All other officers were re elected. The action of the Reading Iron company in establishing a Relief fund will nowhere be hailed with greater satisfaction than in Danville where some seven Hundred of our citizens Are enrolled among the company s employees. Graduating Glass selects parts. The senior class of the Danville High school held a meeting on Friday night last for the purpose of selecting parts for the next commencement. The Choice this year Falls As follows Rution. Miss Jean cd nary class history. Miss Catherine Rogers class prophecy. Miss Alice Small presentation Joy Brader censorship John Gorman. The class this year numbers fourteen the officers being As follows president Joy Brader Secretary. Miss Jean Curry assistant Secretary. Miss Luella Werkheiser treasurer. Miss Elsie Sainsbury reporter. John Mccaffrey. Drove to Washingtonville. A Hack 1< it ail of Young ladies and gentlemen drove out to Washingtonville last evening and were entertained at Fanny Hod dense hotel. Dancing was tin feature of the evening. A Bountiful repast was served those in the party were misses Grao k Al Lar Man Sidler Cornelia Prout. Jennie Waite Daisy Robin Ault. Clara Rieck and Gertrude Robinson messes. Amon Keiser. Albert Diehl Thomas Toney Louis Rieck William Lovett Edward treas and c. S. Pursell. Brief sketch of Jacob Maier who passed away monday. The funeral of Jacob Maier took place wednesday afternoon at 2 of clock from the residence of his daughter mrs. Lewis Bloch on West Mahoning Street. Tin event Marks the passing away of one of the most respected sires of the local hebrew Church. Jacob Maier was born in Millheim province of Baden Germany in 1818. In August 1849, he emigrated to this country. In 1852 he came to Danville and on april 1st of that year which was his birthday he was married. In common with the other sturdy Young hebrews who about that time cast their lot in the new world and settled at Danville Jacob Maier shouldered his pack and As a peddle Laid the foundation of whatever Fortune lie afterwards acquired. Some forty five years ago he embarked in the restaurant business at the stand on Mill Street at present occupied by his son Elias. It was As a restaurateur that he is known by most people living at present. During his Long career he made Many friends who irrespective of race or religious affiliation Grieve to hear of his passing away. He was a Man of kind and generous impulses and Many a Noble deed is on record a ostentatiously performed in which the beneficiary was quite As often a Gentile As a jew. Jacob Maier was a charter member of b be Zion synagogue. He belonged also to the b be brith a beneficial organization connected with the Church. The pall bearers will be h. L. Gross Simon Dreifuss. B. Benzbach and Augustus Weil representing the Lodge and l. Cohen r. L. Marks. Samuel Bloch and Henry Dreifuss representing the Church. The services were conducted by rabbi Adolph Maier. Interment took place in the jewish cemetery. The deceased is survived by his wife and the following children Sarah mrs j. Heim Israel. Alice mrs. Eli Rosenthall mrs. Louisa e. Bloc i and Elias of this City Clara mrs j. Ackerman of Boston. Mass. Eleaser Joseph and Gertrude mrs. E. Wolf of Philadelphia. The deceased is survived by a brother Solomon Maier in Missouri. He has also a brother and two Sisters residing in Germany. As a Soldier sees it. William j. Longenberger a member of company a., 15th it. S. Infantry writes his Mother in this City. Ii is with a detachment that is stationed in Bulan so Sogon and is having some pretty Tough experiences. He is very tired he says of seeing nothing but half huh mired people if not wholly Savages who with the exception of a Small piece of cloth Wear nothing in the font of clothing. At the time of writing december 22, they had been a a hiking for 23 Days and were still on the go. They shot a number of the insure cos including a Leader of the Bolo men who was badly wanted owing to the influence he exerted Over his band by whom he was regarded with All veneration of a god. It was not until after tin Leader was shot that his identity was discovered. His brother was also captured and paraded through the streets in order to show the natives to what extent they were in our Jagt wer. The native soldiers had been made to believe that by wearing paper sanctified in some Way by their superstitious Leader they could resist the american bullets. Hence the poor Savages exited themselves to peril in All forms and fell Lik flies before the american bullets. The dead bodies the letter says Lay around on All sides unburied in various stages of decay while the stench which had to be borne by the american soldiers was something intolerable. The letter presents a horrible picture of the butchery of War. When a filipino dropped it says a your boys always shot him seven or eight times so that he was covered with by xxx from head to g. A. R. Visitation. Department commander of g. A r. Levi Mccauley. Ltd West Chester will lie in Bloomsburg on Friday evening. Posts from Berwick. Danville Catawissa. Orangeville and Millville will be the guests of ent Post on the occasion. Hacks will leave Hunts drug store at 6 i i. Sharp on Friday evening All members of Goodrich Post who wish to attend Are requested to be on hand at tie above time. Being filled up the abandoned Coal Yard it a Northumberland Street which occupies a natural hollow and consequently is flooded with every Rise of the Mahoning Creek is being filled up level with the i. L. A w. Track by the Reading Iron company which owns the tract birthday Surprise party. Or. And mrs. Albert Kemmer. East Market Street. Tuesday eve. Tendered a Surprise party to their son Frank in Honor of his 14th birthday. The invited guests were members of the d class of the High school of which Frank is a member. They presented him with a very Beautiful neck tie and a handsome ring with his initials and the words a first division Quot engraved on the inside. Those present were. Misses Gertrude Bare Mamie Keim. Lizzie Daniels Bertha Kase Bertha Cromwell Marie Fetter Man Josephine Beaver Bessie Hooley and Jessie Kimerer messes. Harry Bedea Alfred esterbrook. Miles Barber Lawrence Connolly John Kase Frank Edmondson John Jones William Bell and Robert Jacobs. La addition to the above the following ladies were pres ent mrs Andrew it roat. Mrs. Charles Bansch mrs. Lewis Chesnut mrs. Willard Fetterman of this City and mrs. H. P. Shaw of Kingston. Tin favors awarded in the game of a dressing the new woman 1 were won by miss Gertrude Bare and Robert Jacobs. In the musical contest favors were awarded to miss Marie Fetterman and John Karethe series the game of Basket Balliu the armory last night. Job printing the office of the american being furnished with a Large assortment of Job letter and fancy Type and Job material generally the publisher announces to the Public that he is prepared at All times to execute in the neatest manner Job printing of All kinds and prices before place your orders.1 Midler s i. Eyeball lacerated by a blow from an Iron bar. The game of Basket Ball in the armory last night Between the local team and Susquehanna University resulted in a Victory for Danville the score being 42 to 31. Last nights game being the deciding one Danville wins the series. Klase for Danville played a Strong game making several Long throws. Gaskins and Sechler were also in excellent form. Barry and Dougherty filled the positions of Bedea and Oberdorf and showed themselves capable of playing a Good game. Tin visiting team carried two professional players batters a and Roberts. Both played Good games their goal throwing being Especial a features. During the last ten minutes the game was the fastest Ever seen on the armory floor. Following is the line up. Danville. Susque a n n a. Ward Benfer Barry # to i Bedea s Squire Dougherty i i i oberdorf.�?T. F Seeliger summary a goals from Field Gaskins 4 Bedea 1 Barry. 2 Klase. 8 Sechler i 5 Battersby 10 Roberts 5. Goals from fouls Klase 2 Battersby 1. Referee Newbaker. Umpires Czechowicz and Wagenseller. Victim of a Clever thief. A very Clever thief succeeded in pilfering $25 Worth of goods from the counter of a. H. Grones stationery store on Friday last. During the Forenoon a stranger entered the store. He bought a couple of common pens and then asked to see some Fountain pens. He was shown an assortment of Paul e. Wirt pens including some that were quite costly displayed in a handsome Cabinet with a Glass face on which were the words a Paul e. Wirt Fountain pens. A the stranger looked these Over but did not Purchase any. He took occasion to remark. However that he was very familiar with the use of Fountain pens touching briefly upon his experience at College when lie had used them in preparing essays and papers of various sorts. He was a Short Man inclined toward Stout Ness he wore a dark moustache and was of refined and clerical appearance. The stranger left after which William Sechler. The clerk in attendance replaced the drawer containing the pens in the Cabinet taking car that it was locked and placed the whole on the counter where it was always kept. About noon the Cabinet with its valuable contents was missed from the counter. A Little investigation revealed that it had been stolen. How the Light fingered Thi of succeeded in removing it is a mystery As there is always some one or More of the clerks about the store and the Cabinet was much too Large to easily conceal. The pens were of 18 Carat Gold while the holders were of Especial value. The pens remaining in the Cabinet with the prices were As follows one All Gold Holder. $0.0 1 one Pearl Holder $5.50 one Hexagon Holder with two Gold bands $4.50 four plainer pens two at $2.50 a piece Ami two at $2.00 each. Benjamin summons a paddler employed at the puddle Mill of Howe amp Samuels met with an Accident tuesday which it is very much feared will result in the loss of an Eye. The Accident was one of a kind not known to have occurred b lore and Well illustrates the Many ways in which a Mill worker is exposed to danger and the constant care and precaution that Are required. Or. Summons was preparing to draw a heat. The Large Hall of Iron occupied a position in the Furnace not quite to his fancy. Through the door be inserted his a a rabble or Long Iron bar used by puddles and with his face Bent Down was in the act of turning the Iron when the heavy Ball unexpectedly rolled Over upon one end of the bar which jerked the other end out of the puddle s hands and caused it to strike him in the left Eye. The blow a violent one falling right on the eyeball which is considered among physicians the most sensitive spot on the body. The Man experienced an agony of pain which almost drove him mad. Or. Wintersteen was called. Under treatment the pain was somewhat subdued when it was found that the external coat of the eyeball is lacerated Alt Hough so far As can be determined the Pupil is not to any extent injured. Or. Summons was removed to his Home. No. 1. Rough and ready Street. His suffering last evening was still intense and his condition was such As to require close medical attention. It will lie some time before it will be possible to determine whether or not the sight of the Eye can be saved. A barn burned Down. A barn on the farm of George Smith on the Road leading from Washingtonville to Turbotville was burned to the ground yesterday morning. The tenant j. S. Claywell with a lighted lantern entered the barn before Daylight for the purpose of feeding the cattle. Placing his lantern on the barn floor the Farmer climbed into the mow to throw Down Haj. While thus engaged the lantern exploded the Hay and Straw instantly igniting. Or. Claywell fought desperately to save the barn using his coat and some phosphate bags to smother the flames. It was All in vain however and in a few minutes the entire building was in flames. Nearly the entire contents of the barn including two cows and two pigs were burned. The building was partially covered with insurance. Landlord Dietrick surprised. Landlord Harvey Dietrick of the Susquehanna hotel. South Danville was tendered a Surprise party last evening by a number of ladies and gentlemen from Bloomsburg in Honor of his 3 11 birthday a sumptuous supper was served Large casting poured. Curry a Vannan tuesday eve very successfully poured a Large casting in the form of a a foreleg or spider a of a rotary Squeezer which is being manufactured for one of the Iron works at Harrisburg. The weight is 16.non pounds and the casting although occasionally surpassed in size takes rank with the very Large pieces and that it was cast successfully indicates that the work was in the hands of careful and experienced men. Curry a Vannan Are rushed with work. Hospital trustees appointed. Governor Stone on monday made four appointments to fill the vacancies existing in the Board of trustees of the Hospital for the insane at this place caused by the resignation of or. B 11. Det Weiler. Janies Scarlet esq., w. K. Holloway and or. O. T. Harvey in october last. The vacancies Are tilled As follows j or. B. H. Detweiler of Williamsport William Field Shay of Watsontown or. A. J. Connell of Scranton and or. Levi t. Shoemaker of Wilkes Arr miss Belle Foley of Berwick returned Home last evening after a pleasant visit with mis Anna Young on Church Street sensational but not True. The Philadelphia dailies on sunday contained a blood curdling Story telegraphed from Shamokin. Describing the narrow escape of Borough superintendent Gordy of this City who it was alleged missed his hold while attempting to Board a moving train at Snydertown and a fell Forward upon his face Between the moving train and the station platform where he Lay still until the train superintendent Gordy who returned Home on sunday states that there is hardly a vestige of truth in the whole Story which it seems has grown out of the following slight circumstance the car Between Sunbury and Sha Mokin saturday morning was crowded and at Snydertown superintendent Gordy stepped off upon the station platform. As the train suddenly started in the crowd he did not succeed in boarding the car although he Lead his foot upon the step but jumped Back upon the station platform. The conductor instantly slowed up and superintendent Gordy stepped aboard. In first attempting to mount the train he struck his head against the baggage truck belonging to the station slightly cutting his forehead above the right Eye. This the Shamokin correspondent says was caused by the Oil la it a of the train a scraping his face As he Lay Between the moving train and the Pla Fonn. East end Mission Sabbath school. Next Sabbath afternoon at 2 of clock the Mahoning presbyterian Church will open a Mission Sabbath school in the Hall on the third floor of the a. J. Ammerman Brick building in Sage org. This Mission will be called the East end Mission and its object will be to give Bible instruction to those in that part of the town who do not now attend Church or Sabbath school. Interesting music will be a feature of the exercises. Let All who do not now attend divine services at that time give an Henf to the study of gods word. Hon. Ii. M. Hinckley is interested in the establishment of the Mission Sabbath school and he will no doubt be identified with the work when in Progress. Or. Hinckley s Zeal and ability As a religious worker Are Well established while his Many years experience in Sab Bath school work eminently qualify him for the work in hand. J and excellent recital. A with a Large attendance at the recital Given tuesday evening in the Church of the covenant All hearing it were Well pleased with the work of the several artists which was of the highest excellence. Miss Harriette r. Woods of Danville the once popular Williamsport Singer was greeted with enjoyment by former friends who listened with interest to her finished renderings of difficult selections Replete with the Charm of skill and culture. The numbers of or. Kohr. Or. Krape and mrs. George were also received with keen Gazette and bulletin. At the Reading Iron works. Preparations Are being made to Start up the Reading Iron works in full on monday next. The carpenters Are about winding up their work. They finished the new building on Northumberland Street to be Nisei As an office. Amp a. Yesterday afternoon. A very Little work remains to la done about the Mill. Later on two annexes will be built to the portion of the works which escaped the fire. This work however will not be commenced until the Advent of More favourable weather and the arrival of the new Lxii lers to be installed. Deer for Edgewood. Alexander Billmeyer has sold 12 Deer to Hon. M. H. Kulp. For his Park Edge Wood near Shamokin 10 acres of which have been reserved for Deer squirrels it amp a the Deer will be shipped from Washingtonville next week

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