Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - November 26, 1904 GIRL JILTED BY LOVER TOOK HER OWN LIFE Miss Sallie HAUSER, 20 years old of Catasauqua, committed suicide late Sunday night by taking strychnine, after having been jilted by her fiance, Victor BACHMAN, two years her senior. The girl, who was exceptionally beautiful, was a waitress at a hotel where BACHMAN boarded, but left a month ago to prepare her trousseau. BACHMAN heard she had been receiving other callers, and two weeks ago broke off the engagement. Responding to her earnest appeal, he called on her Sunday night and told her it was his last visit to her. Her threat to kill herself unless he continued to see her and make good his promise to wed her he regarded as meaningless. Soon after he left Sunday night, the family heard her moan in her room. Finding her ill, a physician was called, but by the time he arrived she was dead. Miss HAUSER left a letter denying that she had given any cause for being jilted, and asking that she be buried in the gown she had prepared for her wedding. Coroner SCHEIRER can find no reason for holding BACHMAN, but is trying to find the persons who repeated the slanders that caused the estrangement, with a view of having them arrested. BACHMAN's mother about two years ago killed two of her children by cutting their throats with a razor, and then committed suicide by cutting her own throat. FELL FROM PLATFORM OF TROLLEY CAR Martha SKEEN, of Norristown, fell headforemost from a trolley car on the Collegeville branch of the Schuylkill Valley Traction Company, at Main and Markley streets, Norristown, and fractured her skull. She was on the platform of the moving car, about to alight, when the accident occurred. STRANGER PERISHES IN HOTEL SHED A nomadic German, supposed to be from Philadelphia, who gathered watercress in this section, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed the sheds of the Pikeville Hotel, near Manatawny, Friday night. Two fine driving horses were also burned. The loss to H.D. RENNINGER, the hotel proprietor, is $2000. REFUSE TO LET PASTOR GO The congregation of the Olivet Baptist church, of Norristown, decided not to accept the resignation of the Rev. J. Elmer SAUL, who was of the opinion that the support and co-operation which pastor ought to have from the members of the church were gradually leaving him. BRAKEMAN HAD BONES IN HAND BROKEN Hiram SNYDER, a Philadelphia and Reading passenger brakeman, had the bones in the back of one of his hands broken, Saturday, by the trap door of one of the vestibuled cars of a northbound express falling on it, after the train left Norristown. His injuries were dressed at Reading. PET DOG SCARES BURGLAR AWAY Continual barking of a small pet dog prevented a robbery early Monday morning at the residence of Joseph A. BAILEY, of Norristown. Mr. BAILEY was aroused by the noise made by the dog, and, investigatin, saw a man jump off the side porch and leap over a fence. The burglar had forced a shutter. GUN BURST AND GUNNER HAD NARROW ESCAPE Harvey ZINGER, night operator at the Western Union Telegraph office, at Allentown, while out gunning near Emaus on Saturday had a narrow escape from a serious accident by the bursting of a barrel of his double barrel shot gun when discharging a shell. The gun was wrecked. HEART ON WRONG SIDE Amy PINE, 12 years old, who died on Monday at Atlantic City, N.J., was the greatest puzzle physicians at that place ever saw or heard of. They assert that her heart was on the right side instead of the left, and that one lung was positively located in the stomach, while the location of the intestines, where this lung rested, was changed to another part of her body. Not only this, but the positions of other internal organs were completely changed. Amy's parents have positively refused entreaties of the doctors for an autopsy. For years the child was a sufferer, but although specialists were consulted, nothing could be done for her, because the arrangement of her internal organs was contrary to the laws of nature. Medical men are amazed that she could live twelve years. BUCKS COUNTIAN KILLED BY GUNNER Royal WEAVER, of Erwinna, Bucks County was accidentally shot by Howard BUCKMAN, of Doylestown, last Thursday, while returning from a gunning trip. He died as a result of the injuries on Monday morning. He is survived by a wife and one child. BUCKMAN is almost crazed with grief.