Rev. W.B. WERNER, of Schwenksville, assisted by Rev. LEESER, of Reading, held services in the New Goshenhoppen church on Sunday. Rev. MOORE, of Catasauqua, a cousin of Mrs. Emma SCHWARTZ of the American House, will hold services on Sunday, and Rev. H.J. HILLEGASS, of York, Pa., brother of our townsman Herman HILLEGASS, will have services on Sunday, August 24th.
J.F. TALLY, the storekeeper at New Berlinville, bought the store stand at Bernville, Berks county. He will take possession on the first of April next.
August KRETCHMER, a respectable and hard-working German carpet weaver at East Macungie, who was victimized by Oliver LEIBENGUTH three months ago, is a very unfortunate man. Upon his return from a trip to the Allentown post office on Tuesday afternoon he found that his journeyman weaver, Joseph SUTZBERGER was no longer about. An investigation revealed that he had ransacked the house and left not only with his own belongings but $315 that KRETCHMER had in a bureau drawer up stairs. KRETCHMER had been storing the money away to pay for fall stock he intended to lay in. He trusted SUTZBERGER implicitly,and while the money drawer was locked, the key was in the key-hole. SUTZBERGER is 40 years old and had been working for KRETCHMER a year and a half. KRETCHMER believes the rascal struck out toward Reading to join some Germans who came on the same boat with him, and who are now located in Dauphin county. He complained to the Allentown police and offered a reward of $25 for the arrest of the thief and the recovery of the money.
Charles Edward INGERSOLL (picture)
The Democratic nominee for Congress from this district, is a descendant of a Philadelphia family distinguished as well for the ability and usefulness of its members as for their uncompromising adherence to the principles of the Democracy. Mr. INGERSOLL was born in the Fifth Ward of the city of Philadelphia June 17th, 1860. He is a son of the late Edward INGERSOLL, long an honored member of the Philadelphia bar, and is a grandson of Charles J. INGERSOLL, whose career in the legal profession, in Congress, and as a councillor of the Democratic party is a matter of State and National history. During Mr. INGERSOLL's childhood, his family removed to Germantown where he was placed at the Quaker School, on School House Lane, and afterwards at St. Paul's School at Concord, New Hampshire. In 1878 he entered the University of Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1882. After graduation he entered upon the study of law in the office of Mr. Francis RAWLE of Philadelphia and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1884. Here he soon displayed an energy and aptitude for the profession, which, with his unassuming and cordial manner, won him the admiration and esteem of his fellow-lawyers. In 1885, at the invitation of the late Franklin B. GOWEN, who was then retiring from the Reading Railroad and returning to the practice of law, Mr. INGERSOLL entered his office where he remained until Mr. GOWEN's death in 1889. Since 1893 he has been a member of the law firm of GOWEN, HOOD & INGERSOLL. Mr. INGERSOLL has been engaged in numerous and important cases, and has received frequent appointments from the Courts in professional matters and from private parties in the management of trusts. In politics he has been an active and ardent Democrat and has easily kept at all times the respect and confidence of the party workers, and appearing frequently upon the stump in the National and State campaigns. In the Philadelphia municipal election of February, 1893, Mr. INGERSOLL was the candidate of the Democratic party for the office of City Solicitor and while defeated by Mr. WARWICK, the Republican nominee, he polled a vote of over 62,000, which if compared with the Philadelphia Democratic vote in later years, is somewhat notable. He was subsequently appointed by Mr. CLEVELAND, Appraiser of the Port of Philadelphia, an office which he filled with great diligence for about three years, and which he left with the regret of all the members of the administration with whom his office brought him into contact. The office is one of great importance to the Commercial public involving the interpretation of our complicated tariff laws, and the decisions of the Appraiser when not intelligently and justly made are the source of almost endless disputes between the Treasury and the Importers. The office was a congenial one to Mr. INGERSOLL who made a careful study of the subject, and it is well recognized by the Mercantile classes of Philadelphia that during his administration the office was conducted with great fairness and consideration to them, and at the same time the rigid fidelity to the interests represented by him. Though he resigned this office for the purpose of giving greater attention to his law practice, he has continued to be more or less actively associated with the Democratic workers, both of Philadelphia and Montgomery county of which latter county he became a resident in 1895. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in Chicago 1896, and to a number of Pennsylvania State Conventions, and in both State and County politics he has for many years been regarded as a trusted and loyal adviser. For the past few years Mr. INGERSOLL has been actively interested and engaged in the railroad development of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, and as a Director and Officer has been prominent among those who so successfully built up what has become known as the "Choctaw System," which has recently been acquired by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. Mr. INGERSOLL has for some time used his influence and his personal efforts in the matter of improving the roads of the township in which he resides with very gratifying results, and since 1898 has been President of the Springhouse and Penllyn Turnpike Company. He is a vestryman of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah at Gwynedd, and resides with his wife and six children at Penllyn.
To settle an estate George SCHAEFFER, the executor, will make a trip around the world. John TEUFEL, one of the heirs was last heard of in the Philippines, but was to have left a month ago for Egypt. It is for the purpose of locating him that Mr. SCHAEFFER will make the long journey, on which he started yesterday.
John ZEPP, of Green Lane, was hit in the face by a pitched base ball one day this week while out practicing. The doctor fears Mr. ZEPP may loose the sight of his one eye as a result.
A young lady clerk of the Keystone Oil Cloth company of Norristown drew a thousand dollars from bank last Friday with which to pay employes. In passing from the bank to the office, she accidentally dropped the bag containing the money and did not miss it until she reached the company's office. Meanwhile a boy by the name of Alfred WESSEL picked it up. Immediately upon discovering her loss, the young lady returned in search of the money and found young WESSEL on the street showing it to a crowd of boys. The woman recovered the money and rewarded the boy handsomely.
George GLEDHILL, of near Quakertown, the octogenarian who was married only a short time ago to a woman only a few years his junior, is having graves dug for himself and wife in a cemetery within a stone's throw of his home. He has also had the tombstones erected at the graves. The graves are side by side, with a double brick wall partition between.
Daniel ROHRBACH died on Sunday morning at 8 o'clock at his home at Geryville, Bucks county, from the ills incident to old age. He was 72 years of age and is survived by his wife, Caroline, and the following children: William, Henry and Edwin, of Allentown; Mrs. Tillie REESE, of Alburtis; Mrs. Ida HEYD, of Bechtelsville, and Mrs. Sallie HALLMAN, of Geryville. He is also survived by a number of brothers and sisters, many of whom reside in Reading. The funeral will be held at his late home on Saturday at 9.30 o'clock. Rev. O.F. WAAGE officiating. Interment at Old Zionsville Lutheran Church. Rev. RITTER officiating at the church.
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John HERSH, of Zionsville, died last Saturday night of Summer complaint, aged four months. The funeral was held on Monday at St. Peter's Church, Zionsville.
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry DIEHL, of Zionsville, died aged two weeks, on Sunday evening. It was buried at the Mennonite Church near Zionsville.
Rev. Jesse LAROS, an old retired Evangelical minister, of Quakertown, died on Saturday morning of old age and will be buried this afternoon at Allentown, where he used to preach. Funeral services will be held in the Quakertown Bethel Evangelical Church this morning at 10 o'clock.
John R. BROWN, of near Steinsburg, died last week and was buried on Tuesday at the Chestnut Hill Church. Rev. LEINBACH officiated. His death was due to dropsy. He brought his age to 76 years. His widow and three children survive. Mr. BROWN served three years in the civil war. The pallbearers were four old veterance: Ambrose WEISS, Henry MERKEL and John MUSSELMAN, of Steinsburg, and Wm. DONEY, of Limeport.
Caleb A. SINGMASTER, aged 40 years, a well known resident of Macungie, died Sunday noon after an illness of only four days. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander SINGMASTER and is survived by his widow and three children, John, Jacob and an infant son, as well as his aged parents, and two sisters, Mrs. C.O. SHIMER, of Macungie, and Mrs. John ERDMAN, of Allentown. The funeral took place on Thursday afternoon.
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel MUMBAUER died on Monday morning, aged five days. Interment was made at the Trinity Reformed Church cemetery, near Spinnerstown. No funeral services were held.
Jonas SEIBERT, an aged retired farmer, residing in Upper Hanover township, near East Greenville, died on Wednesday forenoon of a complication of diseases. The dead man was exceptionally hearty up to within the last year when his age brought on infirmities that hastened his death. He lived to the ripe age of 75 years, and is survived by the following children: Henry, residing on the old homestead; Sarah, wife of Oswin BAUS, of near East Greenville; Lydia, wife of Charles KRIEBEL, of near Bally, and Susannah, wife of Addison SCHULTZ, of Towamencin. The funeral will be held on Tuesday forenoon. Interment will be made at the Schwenkfelder Meeting House cemetery, Hosensack.
Oliver FREED, died of small pox at the Allentown pest house on Monday at 10 o'clock, after an attack of about two weeks. Aged 21 years. The death was a great shock to his parents, who reside at Dillingerville, as interment had to be made without viewing the remains. He is survived by his parents and the following brothers and sisters: Wilson, Lewis, Calvin and Annie, all married, of Allentown; Harry, of Sellersville; Milton, Albert Jr. and Wellington, at home. Interment was made without any funeral ceremonies at the Reformed church cemetery, Old Zionsville, on Monday night.
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Edward RODENBERGER, of Cressman, died on Monday noon and was buried at the Union cemetery on Thursday. Rev. A.H.I. BENNER, officiated.
The first drowning accident of the season at Atlantic City occurred last Friday a few minutes before noon, when J. Oscar BAKER, aged 28, of Temple, Berks county, threw up his hands, sank out of sight. The young man was a telegraph operator in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, and was enjoying a vacation at Atlantic City with several friends. The entire party went in bathing, and BAKER's friends and the life guards saw him when he disappeared. It is believed that an attack of heart failure or some similar stroke rendered him helpless as the water where he sank was not deep enough to drown a bather in full possession of his faculties. J.T. MARTZ, of Skillington, a friend of the illfated young man, notified his father by wire, and also gave the police all the information he possessed about the accident. BAKER was unmarried.
Allen SWARTLEY, aged about 12 years, son of A.D. SWARTLEY, of Lansdale, was kicked in the head by a horse on Tuesday and so seriously hurt that he did not regain consciousness. The boy had been engaged in doing chores about the barn and was in the act of cleaning the horse when he met with his frightful death. An older brother was working nearby and soon after the boy had entered the stable the former heard a cry as of one in intense pain. Repairing immediately to the seene, he found his brother lying on the ground with frightful wounds about the head that were bleeding profusely. The unconscious boy was carried to the house and a physician summoned, but the injury was so severe that medical assistance was of no avail but to alleviate the suffering during the last lingering hours. The animal which caused the boy's death is of gentle disposition and has been frequently cared for by the boy.
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