Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - March 18, 1905 FELL DEAD WHILE EATING SUPPER Michael YOUNG, an aged and respected resident of Lower Salford, near Harleysville, died suddenly on Sunday evening while eating his supper. He was in his usual health when he sat down to the table. His family was amazed to see him drop forward with his face on the table. They hurriedly went to his side but were shocked to find that life was extinct. He was eighty-five years old and his death was due to apoplexy. FIRE AT SUMNEYTOWN Shortly after nine o'clock on Monday evening the family of William BREUNINGER, who resides at Sumneytown in a stone house, between the store of Barndt & Cressman and the stables of the Red Lion Hotel, detected smoke in the second and third floors of their house. The entire family but two children had already retired but when they detected the smoke the family was aroused and an investigation was made. They soon found that the fire had started at a defective flue and had made its way to the frame annex, where the weather-boarding were already in flames. An alarm was spread and with the timely arrival of help and the formation of a bucket brigade the fire was extinguished before it got beyond control, but not until after an hours hard work. Luckily there was not much air stirring to fan the flames into a blaze for if there had the hotel sheds which is frame and stands within two feet of the annex would without a doubt have been ignited and had it once been on fire Sumneytown would in all probability have been doomed as it is an old town and the houses are built very close together. The Goshenhoppen Insurance Company appraised Mr. BREUNINGER's loss at thirty dollars. SERIOUS FIRE AVERTED AT SELLERSVILLE After starting a fire in a stove in the wash house adjoining the Central House, Sellersville, Monday morning, the party left it to burn up. In a short time afterward flames and smoke were seen emerging from the shingle roof near the chimney. The fire alarm was immediately sounded and after some heroic work by the landlord Henry SHISLER and the neighbors it was placed under control ere the fire company had turned the hose on the building. It was a fortunate thing that the fire was discovered before it had gained much headway, as there are a number of frame buildings surrounding the wash house. A very large frame shed and stable belonging to the hotel is very close by and would have been hard to save if the fire had got beyond control. PIANO RECITAL AT SCHWENKSVILLE The pupils at Schwenksville under the instruction of Prof. Claude HARLEY of Pennsburg will give a piano recital in the Heidelberg Reformed Church of Schwenksville this evening. The recital will be given for the benefit of the Sunday School of the church. A lengthy and very entertaining program has been prepared. The last number on the program will be a march entitled "College Carnival" composed by Prof. HARLEY and this will be the first time that it will be played in public by the composer. He will be assisted by Miss Susie KREMER in the rendition of this new march. BOY'S LEG BROKEN BY THE KICK OF A BULL Eddie, son of James B. DRY, tenant on Winfield DELONG's farm, north of Bower's, Berks County, was driving the cows into the stable when he had to pass one of the fat bulls, which kicked him on the leg, fracturing it. LUCKY HUNTER FINDS RELICS BY HUNDREDS Possessed of unusual faculties in locating Indian relics, Daniel N. KERN, an archaeologist of Allentown, who is the owner of one of the largest collections of curios in this State, last year added more than five hundred specimens to his already extensive display. Mr. KERN, apparently, can scent an Indian relic, no matter how small, from afar, and he has found scores of them in frequented places that have been covered by other collectors with but meagre results. In 1904 Mr. KERN walked 125 miles in his quest for specimens of the red men's handiwork, and he visited forty different farms in the counties of Montgomery, Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Monroe and Northampton. He discovered many hitherto unknown Indian villages, and upon the sites formerly occupied by them he secured a total of 556 specimens. They include 295 arrows, 39 spears, 21 war points, 107 knives, 5 axes, 2 hoes, 29 hammer stones, 33 turtleback knives, 8 celts, an anvil, weighing 18 pounds; 27-pound sledge hammer, 4 ceremonial stones, 2 drills, 3 scrapers, 2 long pestles, 4 bell-shaped pestles and 1 war club. Mr. KERN's collection numbers 4000 specimens, and he intends some time in the future to present it to a worthy college. WIDOW WAS AWARDED $2500 DAMAGES Mrs. Barbara KREAMER, of Creamery, was on Tuesday awarded $2500 damages by the court at Norristown, for the loss of her husband who was run over at a grade crossing on the Perkiomen Railroad, above Collegeville, in May 1902. The suit was brought against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. This was a retrial of the case. At the former trial of the case Mrs. KREAMER got a verdict of $700. Upon motion of Mr. EVANS, attorney for the Railroad Company, a new trial was awarded at the last session of argument court.