Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 15, 1903 THE DEATH LIST Mrs. Clara GEHMAN, wife of John GEHMAN, of East Greenville, died on Friday morning at 5 o'clock, aged about 30 years. Deceased contracted typhoid fever about four weeks ago and on Thursday hemmorrhages set in, which finally caused her death. She is survived by her husband, her father, William THOMAS, of Boyertown, and one brother, Harry THOMAS, of Pennsburg. The funeral will be held on Tuesday forenoon from her late residence. Interment at the New Goshenhoppen church cemetery. Rev. Calvin M. DELONG will officiate. Isaac R. MOYER, a well-known resident of Washington township, died on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Emma HERBST, where he resided for some years, of pulmonary affection, aged 65 years. Deceased was born and lived all his life in this vicinity. He was a veteran of the Civil War. His wife preceeded him in death one and one half years ago. An infant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oswin KOBER, of Tylersport, died on Tuesday from inflamation of the bowels. The funeral will be held today. Mrs. Amanda HARING, widow of Enos HARING, of Argus, was found dead in the yard of her home last Friday evening. The cause assigned is apoplexy. The funeral was held on Thursday. Rev. J.H. WAIDELICH, of Sellersville officiated. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN AGED WOMAN The community of Ridge Valley was shocked on Friday night to find the lifeless corpse of aged Mrs. Enos HARING, lying on the walk leading from her son-in-law Benjamin HIMMELWRIGHT's house to the barn. Mrs. HARING having no water on the premises where she lived, had occasion to fetch her water from Mr. HIMMELWRIGHT's house. On Friday evening while Mr. HIMMELWRIGHT's family were away she took a pitcher and started to go for water, and when found a few hours later, was lying dead on the walk, the pitcher standing aside of her uninjured. The coroner of Bucks county was summoned, but upon a physician's examination no jury was held over the remains. The doctor pronounced it paralysis of the heart. She was about 73 years old, and was buried within a stone's throw of the house where she spent about fifty years of her life. AN ALLENTOWN TRAGEDY AT LANCASTER Edgar H. FRANTZ, aged 21 years, a cigarette fiend, brooding over his troubles which began four months ago, when married to Miss May LEIBOLD, who he supposed was untrue to him, deliberately shot his wife twice while asleep aside of him in bed at the home of his parents at Lancaster, on Saturday night and then took a dose of poison that caused his death. FRANTZ, who was a drug clerk, was married on April 6 last to Miss May LEIBOLD, a strikingly beautiful girl, 18 years old. Because he had not been granted leave of absence for the honeymoon, which he took, the firm employing him refused to allow him to return to his position. This caused him to become despondent and in connection with his jealousy led him to commit the rash crime. CACTUS CAUSES LOCKJAW Sahler Hall SELTZER, aged 6 years, son of Wm. SELTZER, of Caln, Chester county, is dead as the result of falling against a cactus while playing at his home some days ago. One of the spikes of the plant penetrated the side of his nose, and lockjaw developed, causing his death in great agony within a few hours. DEATH FROM MOSQUITO BITES John J. COLUMBUS, of Camden, N.J., aged 32, died at Cooper's Hospital, that city, as a result of Mosquito bites. About 10 days ago he scratched a sore caused by a mosquito bite on his leg until it bled. Swelling set in and in a few hours blood poisoning of which he died. COURT DECLARES MISSING MAN LEGALLY DEAD The Berks county court has granted the petition of Edward TAENZER, to be allowed to adopt Caroline Mary EDDINGER, a child of James EDDINGER. EDDINGER left home mysteriously ten years ago. Mrs. EDDINGER, after awaiting to hear news of her husband, obtained a decree of the court adjudging him legally dead. She then married Edward TAENZER, who petitioned the court to allow him to adopt her child. The young woman is now 19 years old. ACCUSED OF MURDER The jury which held the inquest into the death of Kate FATZINGER, of Allentown, returned a verdict in which they accuse Eugene BLOCH, her paramour, of murder, the only decision that could be reached by the evidence given. Pursuant of the verdict a warrant has been sworn out before one of the city Aldermen and BLOCH was removed to jail to await trial. At the inquest it was testified that both BLOCH and Mrs. FATZINGER were in despondent wood for some time prior to the crime and BLOCH stated that the woman twice tried to suffocate both by turning on the gas in her sleeping apartments and that she tried to prevail upon him to accompany her to Niagara Falls where both were to commit suicide by jumping over the Falls. He also claimed that the woman assaulted him and inflicted the wounds on his body after which she committed suicide by cutting her throat. The manner in which the woman was murdered is a positive proof that the wounds were not self inflicted this incriminates BLOCH and discount the other claims made by him. The instrnment used to commit the crime was a razor belonging to the accused man, and which he cunningly stuck in a rat hole where it was discovered by the Chief of Police. When confronted with the bloody razor BLOCH admitted that it belonged to him. The man has told a number of conflicting stories, all in keeping with his former mode of life, and when brought to trial to answer the charges perferred against him it will be a severe trail for him to present evidence that will be sufficiently strong to set him free. SERVED MILK IN THESE BOROUGHS FOR NEARLY A QUARTER CENTURY John H. REITER (picture). The Veteran milk peddler of these boroughs has his home at Red Hill from which place he commenced to haul milk to the creamery at East Greenville in 1880. For twenty years he faithfully gathered the milk of twenty farmers of his neighborhood and delivered it. In 1882 he started to retail in connection with his other work, his first customers being Mrs. J.M. PFLIEGER and Mrs. Reedon GERY, of Red Hill; and Mrs. F.K. WALT, Mrs. Caroline FREDRICK, Mrs. Enos HUNSBERGER and Mrs. George HART, of Pennsburg. Prior to this time, no milk was peddled through the streets of these towns. In 1894 Mr. REITER bought the milk route of Charles CONRAD, of Upper Hanover, and from that time devoted most of his time to the peddling of milk. He now serves 390 customers daily, making two trips on Saturdays, and he still continues to serve the first six customers he had when he commenced business. On the 11th of April it was twenty-three years since Mr. REITER commenced his work and in all this time he missed but two weeks. Such faithful service is of exceeding rare occurrence.