Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - December 5, 1903 WELL KNOWN PROFESSOR DEAD Professor David B. BRUNNER, instructor in penmanship in the Boys' High School, of Reading, died on Sunday, aged 68 years. In addition to being a prominent educator, he was an author, historian and mineralogist. From 1888 to 1892 he represented his district in Congress. In early life he was County Superintendent of Public Schools. KILLED AT ALLENTOWN Menno RAUCH, who lives near Clayton, Berks county, received injuries, which proved fatal, on the trolley line at the eastern end of the Hamilton street bridge at Allentown on Saturday afternoon. RAUCH went to Allentown that morning to attend to some business, but instead of doing so got under the influence of liquor. He was at the Terminal station walking about the platform, but did not attract much attention. At about ten minutes to 1 o'clock he went to the end of the bridge opposite the Trexler House, and leaned on the iron railing when a large double truck car bound for the car barn at Rittersville came along. The motorman hailed to the man to get across the track and rang the car bell vigorously. RAUCH was caught between the railing and the car. He was badly squeezed and rolled along to an opening in the railing where a number of iron pailings have been taken away. He fell through the opening and landed on the opposite side. When picked up he was unconscious. He was taken to the Trexler House, the ambulance sent for and conveyed to the hospital. The physicians at the institution found but one wound about one-half an inch long upon his nose. The man, however, was badly squeezed and was hurt internally. He died at six o'clock the same evening. RAUCH is about fifty years of age and was well dressed. He is survived by a wife and child. A Bechtelsville undertaker removed his remains to his home the next day. An inquest was held on Monday afternoon. FRACTURED NOSE CAUSED DEATH Wallace FREED, son of Henry FREED, of Lansdale, died Saturday from the effects of an operation performed on his nose in a Philadelphia hospital. His nose was fractured several years ago. Blood poisoning set in from which he failed to recover. LARGELY ATTENDED FUNERAL The funeral on Sunday of Squire Isaac JOHNSON at Skippack was one of the largest held in that township for many years. It is estimated that over seven hundred persons viewed the remains and the funeral cortege extended from the house to the place of interment, about a mile distant. Services were conducted at the house by Rev. H.K. WISIMER and Jacob B. MENSCH and at the Lower Skippack Mennonite meeting house by Revs. Amos K. BEAN and Warren BEAN. Interment was made in the meeting house burial ground. DEATH OF A PERKASIE PHYSICIAN Dr. J. Franklin MERKLE, one of Perkasie's leading physicians, died on Thursday night, death being caused by an attack of Bright's disease from which the doctor had been confined to his bed for the last two months. Dr. MERKLE has been a resident of Perkasie for about two years, coming from Boyertown. RAILROAD MEN KILLED AT NORRISTOWN Timothy ROSSTRAN, 35 years old, a flagman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Louis C. QUAGESER, 30 years old, a brakeman on the Reading, were killed at Norristown on Saturday morning. QUAGESER fell from his train at Franklin Avenue Station, while ROSSTRAN was run over by a shifting engine in the freight yard at Mill Street Station. Both men leave families. WOMAN'S DRESS ON FIRE WHILE BUTCHERING Mrs. James LAUBACH, of Egypt, Lehigh county, was terribly burned while assisting her son in butchering. Her dress became ignited from a fire beneath a large kettle and she was soon enveloped in flames. She died the following day. EAST GREENVILLE COUPLE WEDDED AT READING Charles DRUMHELLER, of East Greenville, was on Saturday married to Miss Irene HEINLY, of East Greenville, at the parsonage of Rev. WARMKESSEL, at Reading. The groom is in the employ of butcher W.O. BIELER, of East Greenville, and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. HEINLY, of the same borough.