Lloyd RUDOLPH, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. George RUDOLPH, of Lansdale, formerly of Pennsburg, died on Saturday of croup. The child was twenty months old. The funeral was held on Wednesday at the St. Marks Lutheran Church at Pennsburg. Interment was made on the new church cemetery. Rev. J.L. BECKER of Lansdale, officiated.
Carrie MOYER, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. MOYER, of Harleysville, died on Sunday afternoon of membraneous croup. The child was four years of age. Her sickness was of short duration, for she was only taken sick the day previous to her death. The funeral was held on Thursday at the Salford Mennonite Church. Interment on the Church cemetery.
Hannah NACE, wife of Jarias NACE, of Pleasant Run was found dead in bed on Saturday morning. Her death was due to heart failure. She was seventy years of age. The following children survive: Achilles and Henry, of Pleasant Run, John, of Limeport, and Hettie GAUGLER, of Frederick. The funeral was held on Thursday at Hubers Church. Rev. J.J. KLINE officiated. Interment on the church cemetery.
Charles F. SCHANTZ, died on Tuesday from consumption at his home in Vera Cruz. He lived to the ripe old age of 78 years. Mr. SCHANTZ was long county and state tax collector of Upper Milford township, during which service he was always the first of the collectors to settle his duplicate at the court house. Deceased leaves a widow. The funeral will be held on Tuesday at the Zionsville Church. Revs. O.F. FRANTZ and Eli KELLER will officiate.
John SCOTT, 63 years old, was found dead in the barn of Hugh L. FRANKENFIELD, at Horsham Monday. He and his wife had formerly lived at the place but removed early last week. Friday SCOTT returned to procure some clothing when he was seen for the last time alive. It was thought that he had gone to join his wife. Beside the body was a box of cartridges. Diligent inquiry failed to find the pistol. The next morning a pistol with an empty cartridge was found hidden in the straw near the body.
In a fit of anger Thursday morning, Peter MATZI, Sr., of Johnstown, Pa., aged 82, struck his son, Peter, Jr., aged 40, over the head with a cane, causing an injury that resulted fatally. The younger MATZI had been drinking heavily of late. The father insists that he did not intend to injure his son.
Leo ZUCKER, of Alburtis, went to Reading, suffering from a wound in the hand caused by a bullet. Dr. J.M. BERTOLETTE located the missile in the small bone of the wrist with the Xray and removed it at the Reading Hospital. Mr. ZUCKER is fifty years of age.
Fred, the year-and-a-half-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark BEIDLER, of New Zionsville, fell and hurt himself several weeks ago. On Sunday Drs. ALBRIGHT and YOST operated on him at the home of the little boy's uncle, Henry J. REICHENBACH, No. 431 Linden street, Allentown. The child was greatly relieved and is doing nicely.
John H. SPANGLER, of Norristown, had a narrow escape from death on Wednesday night. He was seated in the library of his house, at George and Elm streets, when a bullet crashed through a closed window and struck the wall, a short distance from his head. The person who fired the shot is unknown.
Five masked men blew open the safe in the post office at Port Kennedy early Sunday morning, bound and gagged two citizens who had been aroused by the noise of the explosion, and shot six times at a young woman who sought to arouse the village by ringing a bell from a window. The post office safe was cracked about 2 o'clock in the morning. It proved to be empty, and the robbers hurried away in disgust. Albert ILLERMAN, hearing the report of the explosion, stepped outdoors and ran into the arms of five masked men. He was seized, bound and gagged hand and foot and carried to the rear of the yard. His pockets were rifled, $2 being obtained. When ILLDERMAN did not return to the house, Isaac BOSSLER went in search of him. He came upon the men in the yard just as they had finished going through the pockets of the prostrate man. Held up by five revolvers, BOSSLER received the same treatment as did ILLERMAN. His clothes yielded $17 in coin. Completing this job, the robbers heard a dinner bell ringing an alarm. Behind the bell was the determined face of Miss Lillian BAILEY, who leaned from a second floor window of the village hotel, and swung the bell for dear life. Six bullets were sent in her direction. One of them knocked the bell out of the young woman's hand. She "ducked" and was not injured. The robbers crossed the river to Betzwood and escaped. Half a mile up the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks was found the postmaster's strong box which had been dropped after being rifled. Its contents were not of value to the thieves. Just twenty-four hours prior to the robbery at Port Kennedy the post office safe at Spring City was "cracked" and robbed of stamps and money amounting to $175. The same gang doubtless did both jobs, as the towns are not far apart.
Ira KOONS, son of Frank KOONS of Lehighton, met with a painful accident at his home. He was engaged in placing a blank cartridge into a revolver. The cartridge would not fit, and he used a silver table knife for the purpose of forcing it into the barrel when it exploded, inflicting a severe wound in the palm of his hand. Dr. J.K. HENRY found that a piece of rag which had been in the barrel of the revolver for some time entered his patients right hand. It was at first thought that the cartridge caused the wound but it was later found on the floor of the kitchen.
The frame stable of Granville W. GERHART, of Pennsburg, was saved from destruction by fire on Tuesday forenoon by Edward LIVEZEY and James PFLEIGER. They were engaged in hauling cornfodder in a field near Mr. GERHART's stable when they saw smoke issuing from the windows in the hay mow. They at once ran to the stable and found the manure ablaze under the horse's feet and the stable filled with smoke. They hurriedly set to work to extinguish the flames and save the horse from being roasted alive. After heroic work they got the flames under control and thereby saved the building. The cause of the fire is a mystery.
Four creditors of the D. LADRETH and Sons, seed merchants, of Philadelphia, on Friday filed a petition in the United States District Court, asking that the firm be adjudged involuntary bankrupts. A receiver being asked for judge McPHERSON, of Philadelphia, appointed Bayard HENRY to act in that capacity, and he entered security in $25,000. The house of D. LADRETH and Sons is one of the oldest in the country, having been founded in 1784.
Detective Henry MANGER, of Milwaukee, who is at Reading, with requisition papers issued by Governor LaFOLETTE, of Wisconsin, for George F. LAUER, on the charge of obtaining $115 in cash on false pretenses from a Milwaukee firm, has met with an obstacle to the former wealthy brewer's removal. LAUER is under $800 bonds for an alleged offense committed in Philadelphia, and he cannot be taken to Milwaukee until the matter is settled.
Because she refused to give him anything to eat a tramp broke nearly all of the window panes on the first floor at the home of Mrs. William KUHLMAN, at Reading.
Elias H. GILBERT (picture), a former resident of East Greenville, is one of the proprietors of the Merchants Hotel (picture), at Pottstown, one of the most complete and well appointed hotels in Montgomery county. This famous hostlery has just been entirely, remodeled and refurnished throughout, and it was formally thrown open for the inspection of the public on Thursday. The alterations and rebuilding have consumed nearly a year. The hotel has been rebuilt from top to bottom, and thoroughly refurnished until now it is the handsomest and largest hotel in the Schuylkill Valley. The offices have been removed to a central location and within easy reach of the clerk is a system of call and return-bells that reach every room in the building. The dining room has been enlarged, and is now capable of accomodating 150 guests and similar improvements and conveniences have been placed in every department. A new passenger elevator was also placed in the hallway. The entire house is lighted by electricity and heated by steam. There are seventy-five sleeping rooms, two parlors, six bath rooms and in fact every comfort known to hotel life has been secured. The Merchants hotel has been conducted by E.H. GILBERT & Co., for the past ten years, and before that it was run by Elias Y. GILBERT, father of the present proprietors. It was erected in 1846, and in all these years it has been recognized as one of the leading hotels in the Schuylkill Valley. It is owned by the FEGELY estate.
Alderman Henry L. WICKEL, Constable John BORRELL and his son John, of Reading, spent two days last week in Hereford and returned with 53 rabbits. Fred DEEMER and John BAKER, also of Reading, had 16 to their credit.
It cost the wife of George WOODLEY, a Reading railway watchman at Hanover street, Pottstown, $17 to have a Washington Hill fortune teller inform her that her husband was unfaithful. Mrs. WOODLEY haunted the neighborhood of the crossing to discover evidences of his alleged guilt. The watchman was so indignant over her belief in the fortune teller's accusations that, it is alleged, he struck his wife. She had him arrested, but the case was settled. The WOODLEYs have been married twenty-seven years, have twelve children, and had always lived happily.
Mahlon HILLEGASS, a prominent and respected resident of East Greenville, is the possessor of a quantity of cider which is 68 years old. It was made by his father in 1835 and carefully preserved ever since. It is now very strong but of excellent flavor. There are few people who can keep such beverages any longth of time and especially for such an extended period when, as is said of wine, it improves with age.
Simon P. KLINE, of Lansdale, on Wednesday, instituted suit against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company for $10,000 damages to compensate him for personal injuries sustained by being struck by a passenger train at Clifton's crossing in North Lansdale last April. He was driving a three horse team across the railroad when the rear of his wagon was struck by a south bound train. It was broken to pieces and he was hurled out being impaled on a nearby fence. He sustained compound fractures of the leg and was so severely injured otherwise that he is crippled for life. He alleges that he stopped, looked and listened carefully. A north bound freight train had just passed between him and the southbound track. After waiting for the freight to pass he exercised due caution before attempting to cross. Although he had a clear view he did not notice the oncoming passenger train which he alleges failed to sound either bell or whistle. A.C. GODSHALL & Co., of whose wagon KLINE had charge, have brought suit against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company to recover the value of the wagon which was demolished by being struck at North Lansdale crossing. They claim $260 damages.
On motion of H.P. KEISER, the heirs of Andrew K. SCHULTZ, Hereford, deceased were called in the Reading court on Tuesday to accept or refuse the real estate of the decedent, under proceedings in partition. Andrew H. SHULTZ, a son of the decedent, appeared and desired to accept the real estate. A store stand and lot of ground on High street, in Pottstown, at its valuation, $12,000 and none of the other heirs offering to bid more, the property was allotted to him at the valuation. A recognizance in $24,000 was entered into to secure the payment of the shares of the other heirs within one year, with interest from April 1, 1904.
Jeremiah HAAS, of Hereford, an employee in the Eureka silk mills of Pennsburg, on Monday morning found a valuable lap blanket in the street in front of Joseph GRIESAMER's place, near Hereford. He made inquiry as to whose it was and it later was discovered that H.E. WERLEY, of the Keely House, owned the blanket to whom it was returned. The blanket was lost by Mr. REPPERT, clerk in L.Y. MESCHTER's store, of East Greenville, who had hired Mr. WERLEY's team.
William SHISLER, has resigned his position in the Salfordville store, and has rented the Woxall store, of which he took possession this week. Harry EMERY, of Harleysville, fills the vacancy at the Salfordville store.
Howard LINSENBIGLER, of Spinnerstown, was elected as president of the Luther League of the St. John's Lutheran church of near Spinnerstown.
William B. DIEHL, of Pennsburg, has announced his candidacy for the Mercantile Appraisership. Mr. DIEHL is a staunch republican and a party worker. He would be thoroughly competent to fulfill the duties of the office, should he secure the appointment.
Charged with forging an order by which he secured clothing from Weitzenkorn & Sons, Pottstown, Frank LOWERY, with a long string of aliases, was committed to prison.
Robert R. CLOUSER and Edward M. YOCUM, aged 17 years, were arrested for wrecking signals along the Reading and Womelsdorf trolley lines and crippling the service for a day.
James ROWAN was arrested at Norristown on Monday afternoon on the charge of the larceny of $90 from George C. HOLLENBACH, of Pottstown. ROWAN was captured only after an exciting chase. When searched ROWAN had none of the money. Later the officers found $45 hidden under a pile of straw.
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