Mrs. Margaret, wife of Ferdinand Bender, died Wednesday at 12 o'clock, aged 50 years. She died of erysipelas, which came from a slight cut in a finger, which she received by some means, while working in the garden about two weeks previous to her death, became poisoned. Mrs. Bender came to America from Germany, the place of her birth, in company with her parents, when a child of 4 years old, and she has been a resident of Hollidaysburg ever since. She was a daughter of Mr. Simon Diehl, now deceased. She was 50 years and 13 days old, and besides a sister, who is the wife of Mr. Gabriel Bender, leaves a husband and five sons and two daughters to mourn their loss, which will be severely felt. She was a good and faithful wife, a kind and affectionate mother. Peace to her ashes. --------------- Mr. Henry Ditzler, while engaged in shooting pigeons near his premises on Juniata street, on Saturday evening, filled the faces of four of his children full of shot. The shot used in the gun were No. 6. The little ones, ranging in age from 2 years to 12, were playing in the garden, and the father, in quest of game, was outside the lot. High weeds and other vegetation were between them, and the children were unobserved. When the pigeons flew by Mr. Ditzler banged away, and the innocent youngsters received the full benefit of the charge. We are pleased to learn that no serious damage was done, unless the eye of one of the children should be injured, which could not be determined on Saturday night. Drs. H. H. Brotherlin and Robert Irwin extracted the shot from the faces and heads of the children, some of which were flattened from having struck the skull. A shot struck on the ridge of a little nose, glanced upward and backward and graced the eye ball, slightly pricking it, and skimming along the lower portion of the lid, found a resting place in the right hand corner of the eye. ---------------------------- George Bryan, a young son of William Bryan, shoemaker, in trying to hive a nest of bumble bees on Sunday last, found that they didn't mean to be disturbed on a day of rest and thrust their weapons of defense into him seven different times. He beat a hasty retreat. So would any wise man. ------------------------ Mr. Thompson, who is about eighty-one years of age, has this summer made about 2,000 nails with his own hands and cleared out considerable land on his new farm on the Dry Gap road, and he says he is wealthier and feels better this season than he has for some time. He rises about 4 o'clock in the morning, rests in the heat of the day and works again in the cool of the day. ---------------------------------- Miss Belle Cryder, of Clearfield, who was murdered some time since by her maddened lover, was a cousin of Misses Sadie and Nannie Crissman. --------------------------------- The Pleasant Hill Sunday school still continues to increase. Mr. John Widely, a collegiate of Selinsgrove, addressed the school last Sunday. He is pretty widely known in this way and is liked in proportion. Come again. ----------------------------- About 3 o'clock Monday morning William Metcalfe, who resides on the flat east of the Bald Eagle creek, was awakened by a dull noise that indicated that something heavy had fallen near his room. He called to the other members of his family and receiving no reply made search and presently found his wife laying unconscious at the foot of the attic stairs with her head wedged in between the door and the lower step. She was carried into another room and restoratives applied, and when the swoon passed off it was found that she was pretty badly hurt. She had taken sick during the night and had gone in the attic in search of something to give her relief, and in returning tripped at the top and fell headlong down the flight of ten or twelve steps. She received an ugly cut over the right eye and was badly bruised on different parts of the body. Dr. Ewing was called and rendered necessary assistance, but her injuries and the shock kept her confined to bed throughout the day. -------------------- The death of Frank Taylor's child on last Sunday, the death of D. T. Kennedy's child on the same day, the serious illness of Taylor's remaining twin and the, in all probability, fatal illness of R. S. Seeds' child suggest the query whether the conditions of the river and the creek where the sewers empty would not bear looking after. the people referred to all live along Juniata street and in full range of any deadly disease germs that may be picked up from the river and blown about the air. There can be no question about it, the river is too sluggish to permit the filth from sewers to be emptied in the stream inside of the borough limits. ------------------------ While on his way home from work, about 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, Adam Goss, who is employed at Ray's tannery, stopped on the bridge, watching the progress of the work in the river. He had been there but a few minutes when he suddenly tumbled backward on the footway in some sort of a fit-possibly the result of prostration, as he has been ailing for some time. Dr. Ewing was called and, after some little time, he returned to consciousness and later on went home unattended. In falling he cut the back of his head quite severely. -------------------------------------------- Jessie Templeton, a little 7 year old daughter of Samuel Templeton, while playing in the wash house attached to the Arlington hotel, accidentally poked the third finger of her right hand into the cogs of the clothes wringer. The cogs were not hurt a particle, but the flesh at the end of the finger was cut off and left hanging by a little piece of the skin. Doctor Burket was called in and dressed the wound and then the crying ceased. -------------------------------------------------- Constable Wood had placed in his hands warrants for the arrest of Benjamin Sweeny, William Kochendarfer and Charles Kochendarfer and Frank Meintel, charged with assault and battery on the person of Michael Weisman and riotous conduct. This is the result of last Sunday's desecration of which mention was made in Monday morning's TRIBUNE. Sweeny thus far has escaped the vigilance of the officer, but the other three were arrested and taken before 'Squire Lowery, by whom they were held in the sum of $200 each for their appearances at his office on Thursday evening. It is the determination of our authorities to break up Sunday carousing and Sunday beer drinking. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair