Arthur SCHOLL, of California, Bucks County, was accidentally shot in the legs on Sunday by his brother Charles, who was preparing his shot gun for the hunting season. Both were in the same room and handling their guns while preparing them, so that they would be in good working trim by Wednesday, the opening day of the hunting season. In some unaccountable manner the gun in the hands of Charles was discharged, while the muzzle was pointed towards Arthur. The brother was only several feet away from the gun and the entire load of bunched shot struck his leg a little above the knee. The entire leg was torn off. Only small portions of flesh held the leg together. The other leg was also injured by some shot which were not bunched. A physician was summoned, who stopped the flow of blood, after which the young man was removed to St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem. The hospital surgeons amputated the one leg and dressed the other. They had hopes of saving the other limb.
William K. YEAKEL, of East Greenville, died on Tuesday night, at half past one o'clock. Mr. YEAKEL was a sufferer with consumption for a number of years but was only bed fast for the past four weeks. He brought his age to 41 years. He is survived by the widow and the following brothers and sisters: Daniel, Milton and Mrs. Frank STAUFFER, of Hosensack; Mrs. Ambrose YEAKEL, of Powder Valley; Mrs. Abraham SCHULTZ, of Fruitville, and Amelia and Ella, of Allentown. The funeral will be held on Tuesday. Services and interment at the Washington meeting house, Clayton. Rev. O.S. KRIEBEL, will officiate.
Jonas HUNSBERGER, died Monday morning at six o'clock, at Macungie, at the home of his son Eugene. He was 65 years old. Mr. HUNSBERGER was born and raised near Pennsburg, and learned the trade of cutter. He was one of the best mechanics in his time, in fact he was considered an expert on the art of cutting and fitting, and did a large and prosperous business in the furnishing and clothing business at Macungie for a number of years. In 1868 he came to Macungie and worked as a cutter for Frank S. STURMER for some time. A few years later he and the late Edward MUTH entered into partnership under the firm name of MUTH & HUNSBERGER. Later the firm dissolved. Mr. HUNSBERGER went to Allentown, where he worked with Charles L. NEWHARD for some time. In 1876 he returned to Macungie when he again went into business in which he contined until about ten years ago. Once more he moved to Allentown, where he worked at his trade for different firms. About four years ago he had a stroke which left him in a disabled condition. He then came back to Macungie and took up his home with his oldest son, Eugene. About two years later he had another stroke and again on Monday of last week, while sitting on a chair on his son's store porch. He was carried home in a semi-conscious state, from which he never recovered. He is survived by his widow (nee Louisa QUILLMAN) two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Daniel BLANK, of Allentown; Mrs. Oliver LOHRMAN, Charles and Eugene, of Macungie; and two sisters, Mrs. Edward STYER, of this borough, and Mrs. Edwin HUBER, of Allentown. The late Enos HUNSBERGER, of this borough, who died about two weeks ago was a brother. He was an active member of Grace Lutheran congregation, Macungie, from which place the funeral was held Thursday.
Needa MUMBAUER, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank MUMBAUER, of near Geryville, died of convulsions on Thursday. The child was one month and seventeen days of age. The funeral was held on Monday, at the Trinity Reformed church. Rev. T.H. LEINBACH, of Spinnerstown, officiated.
Harry SMITH, son of Mrs. Wm. SMITH, of Skippack, died Saturday morning, aged 14 years. The lad had been at home with Mr. and Mrs. Charles FULMER, of near Spring City. On October 1, he, with another boy, climbed a tree, when he fell off and broke an arm at two places and received other injuries. He was on a fair way to recovery, when lockjaw set in. Interment was made Thursday, at the Trinity Reformed church, Skippack.
Amos FRY, of Sassamansville, a well-known resident of that vicinity, died on Saturday evening. He had been ill for six weeks. Mr. FRY was a carpet weaver by occupation and had been weaving Pottstown carpet for years. He was in his 72d year. He was a member of the K. of P. Lodge, of East Greenville, and a committee attended the services. Mr. FRY leaves his wife and three children: Horace, of Sassamansville; Henry, of near Sassamansville, and Mrs. Jefferson MILLER, of Sassamansville. Jesse FRY, of East Greenville, was a brother. The funeral was held on Thursday at 2 p.m., with services and interment at the Lutheran church in that town.
Mrs. Samuel ECK, of Chapel, died on Saturday of asthma having been sick less than a day. She brought her age to 42 years and 8 months. She is survived by her husband, two sons and one daughter and her aged mother. She was a daughter of the late Charles DEISHER and the following brothers and sisters also survive: Mrs. John FRANKENFIELD, Chapel; Mrs. LEVENGOOD, Camden, N.J.; Mrs. STELTZ, Half Way House, Berks county; Jesse DEISHER, Old Zionsville; Charles DEISHER, East Greenville, and Benjamin DEISHER, Ringing Rocks. The funeral was held on Thursday and was largely attended.
Benjamin SELL, of New Hanover, died in the almshouse Wednesday, from general debility, aged 80 years. Jacob S. HARPEL, of Anise, has taken charge of the body to give it a christian burial.
Miss Matilda HERSH, of Spinnerstown, late of Philadelphia, died of consumption at the home of Henry G. WALT, of Spinnerstown, on Sunday morning. Miss HERSH had been a sufferer for some time. She was about 45 years of age and is well known in this vicinity. Interment was made privately on Thursday at the New Goshenhoppen church. Funeral services were held at the house of Mr. WALT.
Charles SCHLICHER, of Palm, this week, rented the 118 acre farm known as the HILLEGASS Homestead, situate in Upper Hanover township, from Dr. C.Q. HILLEGASS, of Pennsburg. Mr. SCHLICHER will take possession on April first. He at present tenants the farm near Palm owned by Wm. CONNER, of Ardmore.
John SHELMIRE (picture), one of the candidates for County Commissioner, was born in Moreland township, and is now 38 years of age, having lived here all the time since he was born. He is the oldest son of William C. SHELMIRE, and attended the public schools of Moreland until he was 17 years of age, when he took a seven month's course at Peirce Business College. At the age of 18 he took charge of his father's farm and managed it until he was 23 years of age when he married Elizabeth BAVINGTON, daughter of Watson BAVINGTON, who was School Director of Moreland for twenty-one years. After their marriage he went to farming, and he is proud of his profession. He was elected registry assessor four succeeding years, and for two years past was elected real estate assessor. He is one of the seven directors of the Huntingdon Valley Building Association, also one of the promoters of the Lower Moreland Improvement Association which is for the betterment of the public needs. Mr. SHELMIRE, if elected by the voters of Montgomery County to the office of County Commissioner, will without a doubt fulfill to the best of his judgment and ability, the office, for the interest of the taxpayers and voters of this county.
Horace WEIL, of East Greenville, will be married this evening to Miss Mamie Mae CROLL, of Pennsburg. The marriage ceremonies will be performed at the home of the pastor Rev. W.B. FOX, at Sumneytown. The groom is a son of John WEIL, of East Greenville, and the bride a daughter of Abraham B. CROLL, of Pennsburg. - Clayton FRETZ, of Philadelphia, formerly of Perkasie, and Miss Annie ERB, of Pennsburg, will be married this evening in Pennsburg. A reception will be given the couple at the home of John KEELER, Pennsburg, tomorrow.
The home of Henry MEITZLER, of Reading, was the scene of a peculiar fire on Tuesday. Mrs. MEITZLER had just started a fire in the kitchen range, and above the stove hung a line full of clothes, just washed. This wet mass, falling on the stove, caused a sound like a pistol shot and set the house on fire, so that Mrs. MEITZLER barely escaped a live. Her alarm brought assistance, and in a short time the fire was extinguished.
Rev. O.F. WAAGE, of Pennsburg, pastor of the St. John's church of near Spinnerstown, and the St. Paul's Lutheran church, of near Pennsburg, met with a serious mishap on Thursday morning. He was going up the steps to the hay loft in the barn when he slipped and fell down striking his side on a box near by. He hurried to the house and a brother Dr. WAAGE was summoned and upon examination found one rib fractured and several slightly cracked. The clergyman will be unable to attend to his duties for some time.
Alverda, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vallandingham ZIEGLER, of Pennsburg, fell from a hammock on Sunday and broke her collar-bone. The parents were on a visit to Hoppenville, and while the children were playing in the hammock, she fell and was injured. The parents nor the child knew that the bone was fractured until the next day when the child complained of pain in the region of the collar-bone. Dr. WAAGE was called and he noticed the fracture.
Harry R. DANNEHOWER, foreman at Shively, Miller & Co's. cigar factory, at Pottstown, had his right foot painfully bruised by having a bar of iron fall upon it at the factory last Friday. He was taken to his home, where he was almost this whole week.
Patrick CULLIGAN, of Norristown, was arrested Saturday by three members of the police force whose united efforts combined with an express wagon were necessary to place their prisoner in jail. Early in the evening CULLIGAN had trouble with a neighbor, Mrs. George HEFT. He went to her home and with an axe demolished a stove in addition to doing other damage about the house. Mrs. HAFT rushed out and went immediately to the office of Magistrate E.M. HARRY where she secured a warrant, and CULLIGAN was placed into the express wagon and hauled to the jail.
The premises on which BRENDLINGER's store and New Hanover postoffice is located, in the village of New Hanover, New Hanover township, this county, was sold last Saturday at public sale by James F. BRENDLINGER, surviving administrator of Frederick BRENDLINGER, deceased, with W.S. RHOADS as auctioneer, to Lewis BRENDLINGER for $3700. The property is located in the center of the village, fronting on the Swamp pike and on the road leading from Pottstown to Pennsburg. The place has been known as BRENDLINGER's store for more than forty years, first kept by the late Frederick BRENDLINGER and for some years by James F. BRENDLINGER. The purchaser, Lewis BRENDLINGER, has been a salesman in the establishment for many years and from present outlook it will continue in the BRENDLINGER name for years to come. A farm of 33 acres with buildings in the same village, the improvements of which are a double brick dwelling and other necessary buildings was purchased by John RENNINGER, for $3800. Another tract of land containing 8 1/2 acres, more or less, fronting on the road leading from New Hanover Square to Swamp churches and Pottstown, adjoining premises of W.F. LEIDY, W.H. SCHNEIDER and Lutheran church, was sold to William ACKERMAN for $41 per acre.
D. MILLER, of Philadelphia, and a man riding with him had a narrow escape from being killed in a runaway automobile accident at Wayne late Monday night. The two had been out for a spin over the country roads, and were returning to Philadelphia about 11 o'clock. The road were wet and between Wayne and Strafford, on the Lancaster pike, Mr. MILLER lost control of the machine and it thundered through the centre of Wayne at a speed of nearly 40 miles an hour, with the occupants endeavoring to check its speed. When the brakes were applied very hard a wheel was broken, and then the "auto" began a side movement up an incline the road zig-zagging around telegraph poles and fire-plugs, without collision, and finally coming to a complete stop in a ditch where two wheels were wrecked. Mr. MILLER's friend was thrown out and Mr. MILLER badly shaken up.
Henry BERGMAN, of Philadelphia, had the remains of 13 persons, consisting of his wife's parents and his brother-in-law, Mr. SCHWEITZER and wife and others of his family exhumed at Philadelphia. They were conveyed to the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament, at Bally, by Mathias ANTHONY, who is in the employ of liveryman F.G. LEIDY, of Boyertown, where they were interred in the cemetery adjoining the church.
Mrs. Joseph HORROCKS, of Bridgeport, attempted to descend a flight of stairs at her home on Saturday evening, with a lamp in one hand and carrying a one-year-old child on her arm. When half a dozen steps from the bottom she tripped and fell. The child escaped unhurt, but Mrs. HORROCKS sustained painful injuries to one leg. The lamp exploded, and before the flames, which had quickly spread were extinguished, damage to the extent of about $75 had been done to carpets, hall furniture and clothing. Her husband, who had just retired, heard the fall and his wife's scream, and hurried to her assistance. A cursory examination was sufficient to tell him that the child had escaped uninjured and that his wife was not seriously hurt, so he turned his attention to the rapidly spreading flames. They were smothered with rugs and carpets.
A couple of rascals visited the home of Henry DENGLER, near Colebrookdale station, one day last week, while Mrs. DENGLER and a 15-year-old daughter were home alone. They professed to be spectacle agents and expert aculists, travelling for Dr. KING, of Pottstown. The men were smooth-tongued and argued Mrs. DENGLER into the belief that her eyes were in a bad condition and that she would be blind within a month, unless she immediately had them treated. They then persuaded her into buying two pairs of spectacles and demanded $37 for the same, promising for this sum to send her a bottle of eye medicine in addition. One of the men took his pocket knife from his pocket and fumbled it in his hands. This frightened the woman and fearing they would perhaps kill her, she produced the $37, taking nearly every cent she had in the house. After the rascals had the money they beat a hasty retreat and nothing had been seen of them since. It is to be hoped that they will be speedily apprehended and brought to justice.
Lloyd SCHIFFERT, aged 10 years, smashed a window in the rear of WEIDMAN's grocery store, 518 Hamilton street, at 1 p.m. Sunday and but for the prompt action of Officer GINKINGER, would have walked away with a lot of plunder. Neighbors heard the crash of the glass and on investigation found the hole in the window. Officer GINKINGER was summoned and on making a search of the store found the lad in a corner under a counter. When brought out he confessed and said that he had expected another boy to come to the store and carry off what they wanted of the goods. The youthful law-breaker's father put up $100 cash bail for the boy's appearance before the mayor.
"Now you hold up and give me a ride, or I'll kill you!" roared a big, ugly tramp, who had caught hold of the tailboard of a wagon that 13-year-old Chas. MELCHER, of Bally, was driving past GEHMAN's sawmill near that town. That spot had been so infested with audacious tramps recently that the lad, who had to drive past there several times a week on business for his father, regularly carried a gun in the bottom of his wagon. When the tramp in question uttered his murderous threat the lad fastened his horse-reins, coolly reached down for his rifle, leveled it at Mr. Tramp and exclaimed: "Now, you git." The tramp "got."
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