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Subject: [PAMONTGO-L] News from Pennsburg - January 16, 1904
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:25:38 EST


Ref: Town and Country Newspaper
Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA
Saturday - January 16, 1904

INFLUENTIAL BUSINESS MAN OF UPPER BUCKS COUNTY

One of the most influential business men of upper Bucks county is Oliver H.
ERDMAN (picture), of Steinsburg. He is a descendant from ancestors who came
from Germany to this country early in its history. The ERDMAN's were among the
pioneer settlers in the upper district of Bucks and the lower districts of
Lehigh and Northampton counties. Mr. ERDMAN was born in 1850 and in his youth he
attended the public schools of his native township. He later became a pupil in
Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College Collegeville. In 1870 the mercantile
business attracted his attention and he engaged in the store business, which he
followed for twenty-five years, with a brief intermission when he tilled the
soil as a farmer. During this time in connection with the mercantile pursuits he
was engaged in the milling and creamery business. Mr. ERDMAN is still engaged
in the store business and farming, at Steinsburg, Milford township. Always
prominent in the business affairs of his community, Mr. ERDMAN was called to
several positions of trust. For a number of years he has been a director in the
Perkiomen National Bank, of East Greenville, and also a director in the
Chalfont Wind and Storm Company. In politics Mr. ERDMAN is a Democrat and his party
last fall honored him with the nomination for Prothonotary of Bucks county.

PECULIAR ACCIDENT

While Mr. and Mrs. Oliver WALTER, of Fogelsville, Lehigh county, were driving
home from Allentown, their sleigh was upset near Kuhnsville. Mr. WALTER fell
heavily on the hard ground, but was not hurt on the right side, on which he
landed. Hurt he was though, in a most peculiar way. His wife fell on him,
striking him so hard that his left shoulder was dislocated. Mrs. WALTER's right arm,
with which she struck her husband's shoulder was badly bruised. It was late,
and the people along the road were asleep, so Mr. and Mrs. WALTER drove home
unaided, each one holding a line in the good arm. The horse being very
spirited, the drive was a thrilling one. When they got home their injuries were
attended to by Dr. Calvin HOFFMAN.

HORSE STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY ON THE ROAD

Oswin WEIKEL, of Argus, the mail carrier between that place and Sellersville,
lost a valuable horse through apoplexy last week. He was on his way home from
Sellersville when the horse suddenly became paralyzed. He was placed in the
stables at the Almont Hotel and a veterinary surgeon was called. After a few
days treatment he pronounced the horse incurable and advised his destruction to
relieve him of his sufferings. The animal was killed on Saturday.

CLERK IS KICKED BY A HORSE

Horace MILLER, clerk in Rothenberger Bro's. store, at Harlem, was painfully
kicked by a horse on Tuesday. The horse struck Mr. MILLER on the knee and as a
result Mr. MILLER is unable to walk. Dr. J.A. ROTH, of Red Hill was summoned
who attended to the injury. The horse was the property of a Mr. NUSS.

THIEVES ENTER HARLEM SCHOOL HOUSE

Thieves on Thursday night of last week entered the Harlem school house and
stole several small articles belonging to the teacher, Miss Sallie E. MOLL, of
Siesholtzville. They gained entrance by prying open a shutter.

SENT TO JAIL

Frank THOMPSON, an attendant at the Insane Asylum at Norristown, was on
Sunday charged with assaulting Joseph DAVIS, a patient at that institution. He was
given a further hearing on Monday. In justification of his assaulting DAVIS he
produced a tooth which he said DAVIS knocked out of his mouth on Saturday,
the day of the assault. It was shown that DAVIS was very unruly that day. His
brother was present and requested that the prosecution be dropped. Dr.
RICHARDSON testified that the attendants duties, no matter how much violence they are
subjected to under no circumstances are they justified in striking a patient.
THOMPSON was committed to jail for 30 days for disorderly conduct.

JEWELER INJURED BY A FALL

John T. XANDER, the jeweler of Pennsburg, was injured by a fall at the home
of his father near Finland, on Tuesday. He slipped on some ice and fell,
striking the back of his head on the latch of a stable door. He was picked up and
assisted in the house, where it was found a deep gash had been cut in his head.
The wound bled profusely for some time. The injury was dressed before he
returned to his home. He is compelled to wear a bandage over the injured scalp.

BLOCH A MURDERER

After being out five hours on Tuesday, from 3 to 8, the jury in the case of
Eugene BLOCH, of Allentown, charged with the murder of Mrs. Kate FATZINGER, of
the same town, on August 5, brought in a verdict of murder in the first
degree. The Court room was packed. BLOCH received the verdict in a cool, smiling and
unconcerned manner. The jury believed in the truth of the prosecution's
contention that BLOCH had cut the woman's throat with a razor and then had made a
desperate attempt at suicide by cutting his throat and wrist. The defense was
that there was a mutual agreement, and that Mrs. FATZINGER cut her throat
herself. A motion for a new trial will be made later. The prisoner will be
sentenced today.

HORSE KICKED ANOTHER ON THE HEAD

One of Frank LEIDY's horses of Unionville, was kicked on the head by another
and seriously injured. Dr. Allen Z. KEELOR, of Telford, was summoned who found
the horse's upper jawbone fractured and the eyelids severely lacerated. The
doctor placed a number of stitches in the wound and reduced the fracture. He
thinks the animal will have a speedy recovery.

ASSAULTED TAX COLLECTOR

Max GRUBER, a tax collector of Reading, was murderously assaulted on
Wednesday. He visited the home of a man named SKUMSKI, for a city tax due, when the
latter beat him in a terrible manner. SKUMSKI was arrested on the charge of
assault and battery with intent to kill, and was held for court.

BOY TOSSES HIS EAR INTO FIRE

An 8-year-old boy, living at the home of Philip COURTRIGHT, near Stroudsburg,
Monroe county, climbed into the manger of a stall in which a horse was tied.
The animal bit off the youngster's ear. Suffering with pain, he walked coolly
into the house, opened the stove and threw the flesh into the flames.

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