News: Items from the Lebanon Daily Times, February 1, 1900, Lebanon, Lebanon County, PA Contributed and transcribed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Abby Bowman Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lebanon/ _______________________________________________ Items from the Lebanon Daily Times, February 1, 1900 Taken to the Asylum. Mrs. Elmina Furman, wife of Ellsworth Furman, living in North Cornwall township, was yesterday taken by County Detective Sattazahn to the Harrisburg hospital for the insane. Mrs. Furman was adjudged a lunatic by Dr. W. H. Holsberg, J. G. Adams, esq., and Jonathan R. Seidel, a commission appointed by Judge Ehrgood. Failure at Ephrata. The Ephrata National Bank has issued an execution against S. Milton Sheaffer, of Ephrata, for $5,000, and against S. M. Sheaffer and H. B. Bitzer, for $3,000. The parties against whom these executions are issued are members of the firm of Sheaffer and Bitzer, cigar manufacturers and merchants of Ephrata. Child Burned to Death. A five-year-old daughter of a colored man named Jackson, residing at Bismarck, died Tuesday morning, from the effects of injuries received by being burned while playing at a stove on Monday evening with other children, the clothes of the dead child caught fire and before assistance could be rendered was terribly burned, having inhaled the flames. Miss Fanny Weiss, of Avon, yesterday morning accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Samuel Weiss, of this city, left for Chambersburg to enroll as a student in Wilson college. Ed. Seidel, of Harrisburg, who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Scarlet, 933 Chestnut street, left for his home. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Brooks, and son, Martin, of Altoona, who were visiting here, left yesterday afternoon over the C. & L. road on their return home. Morris C. Swanger, of this city, left over the C. & L. railroad for Muncy, Pa., yesterday. E. S. Kase, North Ninth street, was a passenger to Reading yesterday. 'Squire Jacob Haldeman, of Union township, transacted business in this city yesterday. Jason Geizer, a student of the Lebanon Business College, left for his home at Smithburg, Md., yesterday.