Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - June 11, 1904 RICH MAN OBJECTS TO ASSESSMENT William HARRISON, the sugar refiner, filed in the Prothonetary's office an appeal from the assessment made upon his property in Cheltenham township. He claims that all of the assessments are higher than the market value of the properties and that he could not by any means realize the amount for any of them for which they are assessed. He therefore prays the court to consider the matter and reduce the assessment. The aggregate of his assessments is $328,540 on which the commissioners allowed a reduction of $5,310. He is dissatisfied with the action of the Commissioners. The Court has fixed Tuesday, June 21, at 10 o'clock a.m., as the time for hearing testimony in the matter of Mr. HARRISON's appeal. BROODING OVER ACT OF CRUELTY CAUSES INSANITY Mr. Charles EVELAND, of Doylestown, who was recently arrested on the charge of cruelty to her child which she had chained to a piece of railroad iron, but who was later acquitted as it was proven that the child is incorrigible, has brooded over her act until she has become insane. She was removed to the Hospital at Norristown and it is hoped that by proper treatment she may recover, as she has not reached a state of violence. NORTH PENN TOWN SUFFERING FROM FEVER Perkasie is suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever. Last week five or six houses were quarantined on account of this disease. THIRD CONVICTION FOR HORSE STEALING Sixty-four-year-old Augustus STETLER for the third time received a sentence in the Montgomery county courts for horse-stealing. Gray haired, his scarred face showing the stress of years, yet straight and strong, he admitted the theft of a horse and team from in front of the Walker stables, Norristown, some time ago, in Judge WEAND's court on Monday afternoon. As punishment for his crime, STETLER will serve four years in the Eastern Penitentiary. The convicted horse thief claims Montgomery county as his birthplace, and, during his entire lifetime, had a passion for horses that soon made him one of the best judges of horseflesh in the country. A DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTOR IN TROUBLE The collector of school tax for 1900, Charles G. HAWKINS, of Pottstown, is in arrears to the amount of $1457.43. At a recent meeting of the board of education he submitted several propositions for settlement of the claim. They were all rejected, as neither of them provided for the payment of the entire claim, and the board passed a resolution to institute proceedings against his bondsmen. MINISTER TAKEN SICK Rev. George W. LUTZ, pastor of the Pennsburg Reformed charge came from Allentown on the early train on Sunday morning to assume the duties to which he has been but recently elected, but was taken sick and could not officiate at the morning service. John FRANTZ, one of the teachers at the Perkiomen Seminary, was secured as a substitute and he preached a very acceptable and instructive sermon to the large congregation which had assembled to greet Rev. LUTZ. FORMER EDITOR ILL Col. Conrad GEHRING, formerly editor of the Kutztown Patriot, and little grandson, Willie, of New York, arrived at the home of the former's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. DIETRICH, Kutztown. Mr. GEHRING is employed as proof reader by the Mills Printing Company, in the metropolis. He went to Kutztown to recuperate from a critical siege of illness, having suffered with kidney trouble. THREE YEAR OLD GIRL ARRESTED Shamokin has the distinction of having had the youngest prisoner in the State brought to the bar of justice in a three year old girl who while playing with a boy of the same age, threw a piece of glass at her companion. The glass struck the face and lacerated the cheek whereupon the enraged mother of the injured child swore out a warrant and had the tot arrested. TEACHER WILL GO TO NEW POSITION Warren RENNINGER, for the past few years Professor of History and Pedogogy in the Perkiomen Seminary, has been elected principal of the Narberth public schools to succeed G.F. KETTELL, who will enter the ministry. Prof. RENNINGER has accepted and will enter on his duties at the opening of next term. COLLEGE PRESIDENT RESIGNS Rev. Wm. KNAPPENBERGER President of the College for women, of Allentown, tendered his resignation to go into effect at the close of the current year. The resignation results from a lack of support on the part of the Trustees of the Institution. The retiring president served the College for twelve years and in this period made many notable changes for the betterment of the institution. A HEFTY BULL William HIESTAND, of Upper Milford, Lehigh County, takes without a doubt, the lead in fattening a large stock bull. This year the bull weighs about 2000. Butcher STEPHENS of Macungie, will make use of the monster in the near future. COW KILLED BY LIGHTNING One of the cows of Henry DIEHL, of near Zionsville, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE ENDOWMENT E.M. HARTMAN, who had been appointed to canvass the Reformed Churches, reported at the annual board meeting of the Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, on Tuesday, that he had secured $73,000 in cash and pledges for the permanent endowment fund which is to be increased to half a million dollars.