Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - July 11, 1903 THE DEATH LIST Mabel RENNINGER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. RENNINGER, of New Hanover, died last week aged 4 years and 8 months. The funeral was held last Friday. Rev. J.J. KLINE of Pottstown, officiating. A young child, of Frank O. and Amelia HENDRICKS, of Woxall, was buried on Wednesday, at the Old Goshenhoppen church. Rev. C.R. FETTER, of Philadelphia, officiating. Daniel FITZGERALD, of Delphi, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Frederick, died last Sunday morning, from heart and kidney troubles, aged 66 years, 6 months and 11 days. He was superintendent of the Mennonite home, at Frederick, until a few years ago. He is survived by his second wife and two children by his first wife, Harvey, of Perkasie, and Mary wife of Levi BOUSALL, of Philadelphia. The funeral was held from his late residence on Thursday. Services were conducted by the Rev. W.S. GOTTSHALL. Interment was made in the Mennonite cemetery, Schwenksville. A CORPSE IN FLAMES Because the members of Town Council of Coplay, Lehigh county, refused to permit the fire company of the borough to attach its hose to a plug of the Clear Springs Water Company a house with all its contents was consumed by fire and the people of the borough are greatly excited over the affair. The sensational incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon, fire having broken out at 4.20 o'clock in the second story of a dwelling house occupied by Germans. The Coplay Fire Company responded promptly with the chemical engine, but when the Chief arrived on the scene the flames were bursting from one of the upstairs windows. He saw at once that the chemical engine could not cope with the flames and ordered that a hose be attached to a plug of the water company nearby. While the firemen were attaching the hose, members of the Town Council who heard that the water was to be used on the fire hurried to the place and ordered the hose detached and refused to permit the water to be used, on the grounds that the borough had no right to use the water. The firemen became furious but the Councilman remained headstrong. In the house was the corpse of Julia STANDLER, a fourteen-year-old German girl, who died at noon the day before of consumption. An undertaker was preparing the body for burial when the alarm of fire was given. Flames had already broken out in the room in which the corpse was lying when friends of the dead girl rushed in to rescue the body. The clothing on the corpse was burning and the body was blackened, parts of it being burned to a crisp. The body was removed to a neighboring house. The house was destroyed, together with all the furnishings. Between $1000 and $1200 in money, the savings of the boarders, was also consumed in the flames. The loss on the house is partly covered by insurance. The trouble between the borough authorities and the water company results from a decision of council in which they claim that the water furnished is unfit for use and refused to pay rental for the plugs. Suit was promptly started by the water company for the collection of the rents. This suit is still pending and the use of the water it was claimed by council would have jeopardized their case. PAID THE PENALTY OF HIS CRIME David SHAUD, of Lebanon, who shot and killed Mrs. Ida BECKER and Policeman Cyrus SHAFFER, was hanged on Tuesday. Before being executed he said he was peintent and sorry for his crime and prayed for forgiveness. He leaves a widow and two small children. SHAUD became angry at Mrs. Ida BECKER for testifying against him in court, and he shot and killed her on the street. When the officer went to arrest him at his home, SHAUD shot and killed him. REMORSE CAUSES SUICIDE City Solicitor J. Marshall FUNCK, one of the leading members of the Lebanon County Bar, committed suicide Tuesday morning by hanging himself in his law office at Lebanon. He used the leather belt which he wore about his waist and fastened it to a window lock. Death was due to strangulation and had occurred some hours before the body was found by his private secretary L. Raymond REIGERT. The act is believed to have been committed while suffering from a temporarily deranged mind. Mr. FUNK was 46 years old and is survived by a wife. FUNCK was counsel for John BROWNSWEIGER, who accused David SHAUD, hanged at Lebanon this week, of robbing him of $400. This led to the double tragedy for which SHAUD perished on the gallows. FUNCK believed that the strenuous manner in which he prosecuted the case against SHAUD led to the double tragedy. ENTIRE SKIN BURNED OFF Six-year-old Annie SMITH, of Bethlehem upset a rocker on which she was sitting and knocked over a coal oil parlor lamp which was standing near her, on Sunday evening. The child's clothing caught fire and before it could be extinguished her entire skin was burned off. ATE PILLS AND DIED Eating nearly a boxful of Balladona pills, which she got hold of while playing with another little girl, Catherine, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar YOUNG, of Weatherly, died in great agony at 7 o'clock Tuesday night. The little ones came into possession of the pills while roaming about their home. Miss Catherine throught they were candy, but soon after swallowing them she was taken very ill. A physician was summoned, but he could not save her life. DISOBEDENT BROTHERS DROWNED George and Jacob WALTERS, aged 11 and 13 years, sons of Frank WALTERS, of near Pequea Station, Lancaster, were drowned in the Susquehanna on Wednesday. The father had left the boys playing on the river bank, with the promise that they would not go bathing. Soon after he left one of the little fellows waded into the stream. He was caught in a swift current, and while his brother was going to rescue both sank. Both bodies have been recovered. EDITOR PASSES AWAY Cyrus KUNTZ, editor and proprietor of the City Item, Allentown, passed away at his home on Tuesday of apoplexy. Editor KUNTZ was a practical printer and rose from the case to the important position of editor and finally became the sole owner of the City Item with which he linked his fortunes when the paper was started. MAN FELL ON HEAD AND DIED John BURKET, of Norristown, was working in the barn, of John RICKLE, on Thursday afternoon. His duties took him to the rafters, and while working, lost his footing and fell to the floor below, fracturing his skull. The victum was placed on a cot in a wagon to remove him to Charity Hospital but expired on the way. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY STUDENT KILLED George Herbert ADAMS, a Lehigh University Freshman, was run over and killed on the Reading Railway in South Bethlehem.