Mrs. Sarah SIESHOLTZ, wife of David G. SEASHOLTZ, the well-known farmer residing near Siesholtzville, died on Monday, from a complication of ills, in her sixty-fourth year. She was a born YEAKEL. Seventeen children were born to them, of whom eleven survive, nearly all residing at home. She was an industrious woman, a good mother and friend. The funeral will take place today, with services at the house and afterwards in Huffs church. Interment will be made in the cemetery adjoining. Rev. Dr. J.A. SINGMASTER, of Gettysburg, and Rev. O.R. FRANTZ will officiate.
Jonas YERK, well advanced in years and suffering from another stroke of apoplexy, died last Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. KRIEBEL, near Spinnerstown, Bucks county. He was in his 86th year and for several years was speechless and partly helpless otherwise from the effects of a previous stroke. Deceased was born near Schultzville, Berks county. He operated the farm where he died. His wife, nee Hannah DIEFENDERFER, preceded him in death some eighteen months. Three children survive: Mrs. Addison SEIBERT, of Macungie; Miss Annie YERK, at home with her sister at Spinnerstown, and Mrs. KRIEBEL. The funeral was held on Tuesday, interment was made at the Baptist church, Macungie. Revs. Wm. GEHMAN and Wm. MOHR officiated.
Henry SHATZ, of Souderton, was struck by a Reading passenger train last Saturday morning at 8 o'clock at Nineteenth at West Morland streets, Philadelphia, of which he subsequently died while being removed to the Samaritan Hospital. His body was removed to his late home at Souderton. He had attained the age of 32 years, 1 month and 23 days. He is survived by a wife and four children, his mother, two sister and one brother. The funeral was held on Tuesday. Inter at Franconia Mennonite Meeting House.
Miss Emma WEISS, after a lingering illness from consumption, Miss Emma WEISS died on Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan SNYDER, at Emaus. She was born near Old Zionsville and brought her age to about 23 years. Both her parents are dead.
Elijah HEYDT, residing with his daughter, Mrs. George Y. MOSER, of Bechtelsville, died on Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock of apoplexy and old age, deceased is 87 years old. Mr. HEYDT resided with his daughter since the death of his wife, which occured about 10 years ago. The following children survive: Mrs. Geo. MOSER, of Bechtelsville and Henry HEYDT, of Barto, besides some brothers and many friends. The funeral was held on Thursday at 9 o'clock at the house where short services were held. The funeral cortege proceeded to Hill Church where further services were held and interment made. Rev. H.W. WARMKESSEL, of Reading, officiated.
John OCHS, a retired citizen of Salfordville, died Sunday morning, aged 93 years. Deceased was mostly bedfast for the past few months on account of infirmities. He was a blacksmith and carried on the business at Woxall for many years. A widow, his second wife, survives. Also the following children: Jesse, residing in Iowa; Mrs. Jesse RELLER, Salfordville; Mrs. Jacob GERHART, Woxall. The funeral was held on Thursday. Interment was made at the Old Goshenhoppen cemetery. Revs. J.L. ROUSH and J.B. BOOZ officiated.
David WEIKERT, of Quakertown, died last Wednesday, aged 82. He is survived by two brothers and four sisters whose ages range from sixty-six to eighty four. The funeral was held on Monday.
John KRAUSS, the oldest resident of Kraussdale, died on Sunday morning of general debility, aged 90 years. He is survived by his wife and one son, Adam, the proprietor of the East Greenville and Hosensack creameries. The funeral was held on Thursday at the Kraussdale Schwenkfelder church. Rev. O.S. KRIEBEL officiated.
Harry SPENCER, of Collegeville, and Samuel YOST, of Germantown, while fishing on the Perkiomen creek, in Collegeville, on Wednesday, met with a mishap which cost SPENCER's life. YOST was on a visit to his brother Frederick YOST and while there he and SPENCER, who was an employe of Frederick YOST took a boat and went fishing. They rowed down to within one hundred yards of the dam when SPENCER tilted the boat and fell overboard. He was an expert swimmer and told YOST he could stay in the water for some time. All of a sudden SPENCER uttered a cry to YOST, although he could not swim went to the rescue and called loudly for help. Two brothers, Frank C. and John WRIGHT, were fishing near by in a boat and heard the cry, Frank jumped into the water and started for YOST who grabbed him at the neck and was pulling him down when WRIGHT called on his brother to hit YOST with an oar. John WRIGHT succeeded in doing this just as YOST was ????ing his teeth into the hand of Fred WRIGHT. The stroke rendered him unconscious and in this condition he was removed from the water and taken to shore. A Norristown physician who was in the crowd which had assembled on the shore by this time took over in charge and after working over for a half an hour succeeded in restoring him to consciousness. Fred WRIGHT later recovered the body of SPENCER, who it was found was held in a bed of quick sand. The water was only three feet deep where the accident occurred.
While trying to find out what was wrong with his machine, Siliciano FINA, of Allentown, an employe in a macaroni factory put his hand into the machine which had stopped and just then started and pulled him in. His arm was broken in two places, part of an ear cut off and his skull so badly injured that it is feared he will die.
Henry S. SMITH, chief of Detectives for the Lehigh Valley Railroad between Jersey City and Mauch Chunk, died on Tuesday at Allentown, aged 53 years. He was in the service of the railroad company for the past twenty years and by this time made over five thousand arrests.
In an amateur game of ball played at Jonestown on Saturday afternoon, Calvin PHILLIPPY, of Lebanon, while at the bat was hit in the jugular vein by a swiftly pitched ball and died instantly. He is survived by a wife and three children.
Ellwood STRADLING, a farm hand employed by Stacy HAINES, near Yardley, fell from a hay rake and broke his neck. As STRADLING failed to return for dinner a search was instituted, and his lifeless form was found beneath the machine he had been operating. STRADLING is survived by a son in Philadelphia and was 65 years old.
Bristol, Bucks county claims the honor of having the the heaviest man in the State. Wilson LIPPENCOTT, a retired farmer, who was weighed this week and tipped the scale at 544 pounds. He gained 50 pounds during the past year. His belt measurement is 7 feet. Mr. LIPPINCOTT is a hearty eater and he thinks there is every possibility of still further development. He is the father of three sons and four daughters all of whom are weighty.
John TAYLOR, a farmer's son of York, while riding a horse attached to a binder in the oats field, fell in front of the knives. A leg was broken, an arm nearly severed, and his head terribly gashed. He is in a precarious condition.
The nine-year-old daughter of Thomas KINCAID, of Ardmore, climbed over the wheel of a wagon in front of her home. While on top of the wheel it started and one of her legs was caught in the wheel and broken in two pieces.
While Oswin ESHBACH, of Clayton, was leading a horse to graze him, the animal became frisky and kicked Mr. ESHBACH twice in the ribs. No bones were fractured but the unfortunate man was confined to bed for several days.
The beautiful home of Dr. and Mrs. Henry BOBB, of East Greenville, will be the scene of a magnificent wedding next Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, when their only daughter and child, Mary Mabel (picture), will be united in marriage to Jacob Parsons SCHAEFFER (picture), of Shamokin Dam. A large number of relatives and friends have been invited to participate. Miss Ella HERSH, of East Greenville, and Miss MOYER, of Perkasie, will served as bridesmaids and Prof. Wm. LANDIS, of Emaus, will serve as best man. Rev. Calvin M. DELONG, of East Greenville, pastor of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed church, will perform the ceremony. The groom was principal of the East Greenville schools for the past two terms. Immediately after the wedding the happy couple will depart on an extended wedding tour and will be at home at East Greenville, after August seventeenth.
Tasmaniah ZIEGLER, of Tacoma, West Virginia, formerly of Pennsburg, this week accepted a position with the R.W. Kennedy Company, manufacturers of poplar cigar box lumber of Grafton, West Virginia, at a salary of $1500 a year. Mr. ZIEGLER is a son of Mrs. Jonathan ZIEGLER, of Pennsburg, and he spent the past ten years in the Virginia lumber fields as foreman of Sheip & Vandergrift saw mills at that place. Mr. ZIEGLER understands the lumber business thoroughly.
During the early part of this week a ten horse-power boiler and a four horse power engine were installed in the butchering establishment of Granville GERHARD, of this borough, for the purposes of running his sausage machines, lard presses and other machinery. The establishment is run to its full capacity and the demand for his products is constantly on the increase. Nothing but choice cattle are slaughtered while his sausages have created such a furor that it is at times impossible to fill all orders.
Franklin L. DREY, of Reading, aged 40, was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of attempting to blow up his house, wife and eight children with dynamite. The accused denies the story although several sticks of the explosive are said to have been found in his possession.
A party composed of Oliver SCHANTZ, Albert WELDER and Sorada MILLER, of Pennsburg, Horace ROYER, of East Greenville and Dr. SCHANTZ, of Philadelphia, were off on a fishing trip to Cranberry Lake, N.J., on Saturday. They came back without having caught a single fish.
Miss Carrie BAUSHER, of Fleetwood, Berks county, whose entire scalp was torn away in a silk mill at that place about a year ago, is able to be about with the aid of crutches. Four times skin has been grafted on her head to close the wounds, and each time the operation was only partly successful. The skin was taken from the arms of fellow-employes, relatives and friends, and they consented to part with more skin to have a fourth operation performed last week. It is now believed that Miss BAUSHER will get entirely well.
The funeral on Sunday of Abner ROSENBERGER the merchant of Skippack, who died of Brights disease, was the largest ever held at Wentz's church. Mr. ROSENBERGER had his life insured for $1500, and he was also a member of the B.U.H. of F. of Schwenksville from which lodge his widow will get six hundred dollars.
John HAGEY, of Eureka, near Lansdale, missed his footing and fell down a hay schute, landing in the stable below, and breaking his neck while unloading hay in his barn last week. A year ago one of his hired men met with a similar fatal accident at the same place.
Harry, son of George MOUNTJOY, of Boyertown, while climbing up an apple tree, lost his hold and fell to the ground, about 15 feet below, and broke one of the bones in his wrist. Dr. S.M. TODD dressed the injury.
Henry R. SEIBERT, of near East Greenville, on Wednesday met with a peculiar mishap. He was engaged by the Perkiomen Paper Company, of Hillegass, to haul sand from Bally to their mill and he had five tons on the wagon when without any warning one of his front wheels came off while turning a corner near the Catholic church. Mr. SEIBERT was seated on the wagon and when it crushed down the jar threw him on the ground but escaped without injury. He summoned assistance and in a short time the load was raised so that the wheel could be replaced. No damage resulted from the accident.
A Mr. BIGWOOD, farmer on the Dr. BLAIR farm near Schwenksville, was on Monday arrested on the charge of cruelty to animals, by a society with officers at Conshohocken. He was taken to the office of Justice of the Peace J.Y. GARGES, of Schwenksville, who after hearing a number of witnesses he was fined $15 and costs, and he was also given two weeks time to get his stock in a better condition. The officer of the society will visit his place then and if there is no improvement his stock will be taken in charge by the society, as well as Mr. BIGWOOD.
Carrie NATION addressed a large audience in Sanatoga Park, Pottstown, on Monday afternoon. She carried a Bible instead of a hatchet. No smashing was done, but she handled the subject of liquor and cigaretts with heavily charged batteries of invective.
Edwin KNERR, of this borough, an employe in the Stettler shoe factory, was overcome by the excessive heat about a half hour before his work for the day ended on Wednesday. He felt faint during the day and descended from the second story of the factory to gain some fresh air. As he was about to re-enter the cutting department from the porch, he fell headlong, striking his head violently on the floor. Dr. Morgan KRATZ, who is attending to the practice of Dr. W.H. HUNSBERGER during his absence, was called to attend to the injured man. After restoring Mr. KNERR to consciousness, he was removed to his home, at the lower end of town.
Wayne BABB, of Academy post office, son of the late John H. BABB, of West Chester, was poisoned externally in a peculiar manner a few days ago. Mr. BABB is a blacksmith by trade and while shoeing a horse, which had been running through poisonous ivy vines, got some of the poison on his bare arms off the animal's legs. He paid little attention to it at the time, but later was reminded of the fact when his arms began to swell and pain him.
Miss Annie L. BITTENBENDER, a thirteen year old daughter of David BITTENBENDER, of Siesholtzville, ventured to quilt a bed quilt containing a large number of small patches. She finally brought it to its completion this week. The quilt contains 1035 small patches. The work done is a wonder for a girl of her age.
While Florence BARTHOLOMEW, Araminta and Cora KEELOR, were on their way to the Skippack picnic on Saturday, the traces unhooked and the wagon upset, smashing the top and throwing the occupants out. Fortunately no one was seriously injured.
William F. SHANANMAN, ex-mayor of Reading, is now known in this state as the "broom corn king." He is the owner of no less than 700 tons, which is far greater than the holdings of any other individual manufacturer of brooms in the United States and larger than all the Pennsylvania manufacturers combined. The broom trade expects a famine in corn. The ex-mayor working daily in his little shop with the rest of his hands has been quietly preparing for it. He made his purchases at 2 1/4 to 4 cents a pound. His holdings would fill two trains of 50 cars each and he has enough to make nearly 1,000,000 brooms. There is a broom corn combine in the West and this has only 5000 tons. Reports say that this year's crop of broom corn will be the smallest in 25 years.
After a search ending on Saturday Robert DONAGHY, of Perkasie, the father of sixteen-year-old Susie DONAGHY, who eloped with Frank CHAPMAN, located the couple in Delaware county and had the man arrested and brought the couple to Perkasie, two constables having charge of CHAPMAN. Before Justice MOYER, DONAGHY offered to withdraw his charges if the man would marry the girl. This he promised to do and on Monday they all went to Philadelphia where the ceremony was performed.
An aged man was found wandering the streets of Norristown on Saturday, who declared he had neither home nor friends. The authorities sent him to the Almshouse. He gave his name as Charles HENNINGS and delared he was 102 years old.
William KELLAR, of Pottsville, went to the mountains to pick berries, got lost, and wandered around for three days without food or shelter. He was brought to his home on Tuesday in a famished condition, thoroughly exhausted and his mind wandering. It is feared that the privations which he suffered will unbalance his mind.
Miss Rose M. KAUTNER, of Strausstown, suffered almost unbearable pain in the head until it was discovered by a surgeon that a black bug of the length of half an inch had crawled into her ear. Ether had to be administered to remove the bug. The young lady is in a serious condition.
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