Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - September 2, 1905 JAPAN AND RUSSIA WAS IS ENDED The long and bloody war between Japan and Russia is ended, the two governments reached an agreement on Tuesday through their plenipotentiaries at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The war lasted eighteen months and was a disastrous and bloody one, costing $1,600,000,000 in money and 342,000 casualties. The terms of peace were settled by M. WITTE and Baron KOMURA as the morning session of conference and the actual work of framing the "Treaty of Portsmouth" was by mutual agreement turned over to M. DeMARTENS, Russia's great international lawyer, and Mr. DENNISON, who for 25 years has acted as legal advisor of the Japanese Foreign office. Japan gets no indemnity and none of Russia's interned ships. The world, amazed at the agreement, gives all credit for peace to President ROOSEVELT, who, without the assistance of any man, kept the negotiations from failure. The envoys of the Czar and the envoys of the Mikado, had been at Portsmouth for three weeks engaged in an attempt to reach this ! agreement. EAST GREENVILLE GIRL WAS RUN INTO BY TEAM Katie, the seventeen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George CHRISTMAN was injured on Saturday evening by being run over by a team. She was about to cross the street when a team in charge of Harry STEYER, of East Greenville and Wm. GRIESAMER, of Pennsburg, came upon her. She was knocked down by the horse and trampled upon. The girl escaped with a few lacerations on her head and body. SKIPPACK GIRL INJURED IN RUNAWAY Miss May WRIGHT, of Skippack, may be a cripple for life, because of an injury sustained to her spine in a runaway accident near Evansburg. She, accompanied by four others were driving near Norristown when the horse became frightened at a cow in the road and kicked himself loose from the carriage, before being liberated however, the horse upset the carriage and all the occupants were tumbled into the roadway. All were more or less injured, but Miss WRIGHT fared the worst. THIEVES STOP CHURCH SERVICE When the Rev. D.P. LONGSDORF, pastor of St. John's United Evangelical Church at Catasauqua, was preaching on Sunday evening a man ran breathlessly into the church and said the parsonage was being robbed. The services were stopped, and a march made on the parsonage. When the parsonage was neared two men ran out, one firing a shot into the air. The thieves were chased, but they escaped. Some silverware and family jewelry were stolen. PURCHASED A HOME IN EAST GREENVILLE E. Wayne WEIL, of East Greenville, foreman in the Town and Country printing office at Pennsburg, on Saturday purchased the brick dwelling house situate on Jefferson Street, East Greenville from Mrs. G.W. KOHLER. The price paid was $3200. Mrs. KOHLER will move to Philadelphia on or about October 1, when Mr. WEIL will take possession. LIMERICK MAN LEFT FOR PACIFIC COAST Louis McINTIRE, of Limerick, near Royersford, and Charles GIBBS, of Spring City, two well known young glass blowers of Spring City, left Saturday evening via the Reading Railway for San Francisco, Cal., where they will work this season. They will stop off and visit Niagara Falls, Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City on their way to the coast. GRIEF KILLS AGED WIDOWER John BROWNICK, of Eagle Point, Berks county, died on Monday of a broken heart. He had sent money to Europe for his wife to come to this country but last week he received news of her death. BROWNICK scarcely spoke a word after receiving the message. While physicians were preparing to send him to the Allentown Hospital, he died. ASSESSOR WILL BE AT TOWN HALL Assessor Frank W. HILLEGASS will sit at the Town Hall, Pennsburg, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 5 and 6, in order to take the names of those who wish to be assessed. WAS APPOINTED SPEED JUDGE AT ALLENTOWN Dr. Jesse Z. HILLEGASS, of Allentown, formerly of Red Hill, was last week appointed one of the speed judges at the Lehigh County Agricultural Society's ?ir. KILLED BY TRAIN A hay wagon, heavily loaded with wood, driven by Samuel SMALL, was struck by a south-bound Bethlehem express on the Reading Railway at the crossing at Rock Hill station near Quakertown, Monday afternoon, killing SMALL instantly, demolishing the wagon, damaging the engine and wrecking every pair of steps but one on one side of the train of three cars. Instead of being hurled ahead of the engine, as is usual in such collisions, SMALL's body landed squarely on the framework of the engine just above the cow-catcher with such terrific force as to dent a heavy iron pipe. The impact reduced his body to a mass of unrecognizable flesh and bone. Several of the bars in the cow-catcher were broken out and the car steps were carried away as cleanly as though they had been sawed off. The horses had crossed the track and escaped with slight injury. SMALL was 35 years old and resided on a farm near Almont. He apparently failed to see the approaching train, owing to another train on the adjo! ining track blocking his vision. READING MAN DRANK LAUDANUM AT HARRISBURG H.E. REIFSNYDER, aged 50 years, a city directory agent, drank laudanum at the Aldinger Hotel at Harrisburg, on Monday night, and was found dead in the bed. He left a note asking that his body be sent home. Despondency, fearing that he would lose his position, was the cause of the suicide. His only daughter was to have been married on September 7. REIFSNYDER formerly lived in Reading. GASOLINE TANK EXPLODE AT LAUNDRY The gasoline tank alongside of the Keystone Laundry at East Greenville, exploded on Thursday afternoon and wrecked the small building in which it was located. The damaged caused by the explosion amounts to about twenty dollars. About a year ago a former tank of gasoline at the same place also exploded. MANY WENT TO WOMELSDORF Four hundred and sixty people accompanied the excursion to Bethany Orphans' Home at Womelsdorf, over the Perkiomen railroad on Thursday. One hundred and five from Pennsburg, ninety from East Greenville, and fifty from Red Hill. WERE RELIEVED OF VALUABLES AT WOMELSDORF Mrs. Maria KLINE and Mrs. George E. HEVENER, both of Pennsburg, were robbed at Womelsdorf on Thursday. The former of five dollars and the latter of her hand bag containing her purse and her return ticket. INSURANCE COMPANY MET AT BEDSIDE OF SECRETARY Because the secretary, A.D. FETTEROLF, is confined to bed in his Collegeville home with a broken leg, the quarterly meeting of Perkiomen Valley Fire Insurance Company was held at his bedside, and the former clerk to State Assembly recorded the proceedings lying in bed. DRIVER WAS THROWN OUT OF WAGON Jeweler Edwin J. WIEDER, of Pennsburg was jolted out of his wagon at Green Lane on Thursday evening while driving towards his home, by another team coming in an opposite direction. The team ran into Mr. WIEDER's and caused the accident. ENGINEER MOVES TO HILLEGASS Charles R. TAGERT, of Philadelphia, today moved his family from that place to the tenant house of Charles Q. HILLEGASS near Hillegass. He has accepted the position as engineer at the Perkiomen Paper Mills and will enter upon his duties on Monday. CHILD CUTS AN UGLY GASH IN HAND William ROTENBERGER a five year old boy, of near Pleasant Run, cut himself in the palm of the hand with a pocket knife while playing with it. The boy cut a gash to a length of four inches and a depth of half an inch. LOST HER GOLD EYE GLASSES Mrs. Benjamin BROWN, of Philadelphia who is one of the members of Camp Perkiomen, who spent several weeks on the banks of the Perkiomen Creek, this week lost her gold eye glasses while driving from Pennsburg to Niantic. ACCEPTED POSITION AT PENNSBURG Norman ERNEY a printer, of Quakertown, accepted a position as compositor in the Town and Country printing office. He entered upon his duties on Monday. LETTERS WERE GRANTED Letters of administration have this week been granted in the estate of Samuel HEADMAN, of Upper Hanover township, c.t.a., to P.H. HEADMAN. LOST TWO HORSES OF CHOKING DISTEMPER Calvin GRABER, of near East Greenville, lost two horses by death from choking distemper.