Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - November 14, 1903 THE DEATH LIST Lloyd RUDOLPH, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. George RUDOLPH, of Lansdale, formerly of Pennsburg, died on Saturday of croup. The child was twenty months old. The funeral was held on Wednesday at the St. Marks Lutheran Church at Pennsburg. Interment was made on the new church cemetery. Rev. J.L. BECKER of Lansdale, officiated. Carrie MOYER, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. MOYER, of Harleysville, died on Sunday afternoon of membraneous croup. The child was four years of age. Her sickness was of short duration, for she was only taken sick the day previous to her death. The funeral was held on Thursday at the Salford Mennonite Church. Interment on the Church cemetery. Hannah NACE, wife of Jarias NACE, of Pleasant Run was found dead in bed on Saturday morning. Her death was due to heart failure. She was seventy years of age. The following children survive: Achilles and Henry, of Pleasant Run, John, of Limeport, and Hettie GAUGLER, of Frederick. The funeral was held on Thursday at Hubers Church. Rev. J.J. KLINE officiated. Interment on the church cemetery. Charles F. SCHANTZ, died on Tuesday from consumption at his home in Vera Cruz. He lived to the ripe old age of 78 years. Mr. SCHANTZ was long county and state tax collector of Upper Milford township, during which service he was always the first of the collectors to settle his duplicate at the court house. Deceased leaves a widow. The funeral will be held on Tuesday at the Zionsville Church. Revs. O.F. FRANTZ and Eli KELLER will officiate. FOUND DEAD IN NEIGHBORS BARN John SCOTT, 63 years old, was found dead in the barn of Hugh L. FRANKENFIELD, at Horsham Monday. He and his wife had formerly lived at the place but removed early last week. Friday SCOTT returned to procure some clothing when he was seen for the last time alive. It was thought that he had gone to join his wife. Beside the body was a box of cartridges. Diligent inquiry failed to find the pistol. The next morning a pistol with an empty cartridge was found hidden in the straw near the body. FATHER'S BLOW FATAL TO SON In a fit of anger Thursday morning, Peter MATZI, Sr., of Johnstown, Pa., aged 82, struck his son, Peter, Jr., aged 40, over the head with a cane, causing an injury that resulted fatally. The younger MATZI had been drinking heavily of late. The father insists that he did not intend to injure his son. SUFFERING FROM BULLET WOUND Leo ZUCKER, of Alburtis, went to Reading, suffering from a wound in the hand caused by a bullet. Dr. J.M. BERTOLETTE located the missile in the small bone of the wrist with the Xray and removed it at the Reading Hospital. Mr. ZUCKER is fifty years of age. ZIONSVILLE BOY OPERATED ON IN ALLENTOWN Fred, the year-and-a-half-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark BEIDLER, of New Zionsville, fell and hurt himself several weeks ago. On Sunday Drs. ALBRIGHT and YOST operated on him at the home of the little boy's uncle, Henry J. REICHENBACH, No. 431 Linden street, Allentown. The child was greatly relieved and is doing nicely. BULLET STRUCK NEAR HIS HEAD John H. SPANGLER, of Norristown, had a narrow escape from death on Wednesday night. He was seated in the library of his house, at George and Elm streets, when a bullet crashed through a closed window and struck the wall, a short distance from his head. The person who fired the shot is unknown. ROBBERS SHOT AT GIRL Five masked men blew open the safe in the post office at Port Kennedy early Sunday morning, bound and gagged two citizens who had been aroused by the noise of the explosion, and shot six times at a young woman who sought to arouse the village by ringing a bell from a window. The post office safe was cracked about 2 o'clock in the morning. It proved to be empty, and the robbers hurried away in disgust. Albert ILLERMAN, hearing the report of the explosion, stepped outdoors and ran into the arms of five masked men. He was seized, bound and gagged hand and foot and carried to the rear of the yard. His pockets were rifled, $2 being obtained. When ILLDERMAN did not return to the house, Isaac BOSSLER went in search of him. He came upon the men in the yard just as they had finished going through the pockets of the prostrate man. Held up by five revolvers, BOSSLER received the same treatment as did ILLERMAN. His clothes yielded $17 in coin. Completing this job, the robbers heard a dinner bell ringing an alarm. Behind the bell was the determined face of Miss Lillian BAILEY, who leaned from a second floor window of the village hotel, and swung the bell for dear life. Six bullets were sent in her direction. One of them knocked the bell out of the young woman's hand. She "ducked" and was not injured. The robbers crossed the river to Betzwood and escaped. Half a mile up the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks was found the postmaster's strong box which had been dropped after being rifled. Its contents were not of value to the thieves. Just twenty-four hours prior to the robbery at Port Kennedy the post office safe at Spring City was "cracked" and robbed of stamps and money amounting to $175. The same gang doubtless did both jobs, as the towns are not far apart. USED FORCE ON CARTRIDGE WHEN IT EXPLODED Ira KOONS, son of Frank KOONS of Lehighton, met with a painful accident at his home. He was engaged in placing a blank cartridge into a revolver. The cartridge would not fit, and he used a silver table knife for the purpose of forcing it into the barrel when it exploded, inflicting a severe wound in the palm of his hand. Dr. J.K. HENRY found that a piece of rag which had been in the barrel of the revolver for some time entered his patients right hand. It was at first thought that the cartridge caused the wound but it was later found on the floor of the kitchen.