Corpesation Taxes, Sreparaton to starting the chinery for collection of the Federa! tax on corporations the United States iniernal revenue serve ice is compiling from the records of the Auditor General's Department a list of the incorporated business in- stitutions of Pennsylvania, The work being done under direction of Internal Revenue Collector Her- shey, of the Ninth District, and the compilers are A, A, Moore, Pitt burg: Robert G. White, of Philadel pula; John M, Wilson, of Lancaster and George W. Reese, of Sc By opening the ords to the eral authorities, Auditor Young has saved the Government vast amount of work in getting the identity of the corporations his State, ma new the i8 Of ite ranton Fed rec at Oo! Counterfeiter Confesses, York.—Daniel and Levi both farmers, in the east section County arrested by able York, and a ervice from Washington, on a ¢ conterfeiting silver coin, fon in which the been flooded with els, dimes quarters and When a search a fendants' from which was found, al dies. Levi ing, but says is innocent Reibold, out were stoner, Of residing of York Const detect ive harge The reside rie: cret geC- men ha counte halt home the counteri Daniel ther Speaker Cox Injured, Altoona "hil : Cox, Home Republican was front of Long Terms, Carlisle . Jame: Alexands of horse st the penitentiar already having over a year in sentence bein legislative act Harrison and two tenced to twe arisonment mum, Harry ing the large facture axles and with a fire was fentlencs mum, and {« larceny Martin 4 frogs and nearly Oo ten years joss of «3 ’ , » maximu tv irty Acquittesd Of Murder Charge, Carlisle The C jury, empaneled the trial Angelo was charged with the on April . hi John P. tioner guilty.” Mrs, for band furnishe thorities gulakos, sided aed umbe for a of the in Sentenced For Pottsvill you, Judge,” fone VOIic Arthur L. hay Gowan, of Pola Alto, indetermined period brother was a litig and Roger the verdict tive Aft Gowan t Court refu Saying Thank Yon, of jail for ar McGowan’ int Killed By Falling Under Cart, Reading Ge C Birdsboro, tripped fell cart drawn by horas, ceived injuries caused hi: death His horse was hitched ac used for hauling stone to the quarries The horse irted when whistle blew to stop work for and Grubb was in a hurry the horse to the feeding The wheels crushed his Grubb, of under the and re- and his own that to art the dinner, {10 got barn cheat. Accidental Wound, Lebaton.—J, Shindel prominent merchant and and national president otic Song of America, Is dving at his home here, as the result of a bullet wound in his breast accident ally received in handling a revolver thought not to be loaded Krause, a past State of the Patri Cows, three Three T he Train Kills Hamburg most were struck and the noon sgouth-bound & Reading express, at er's Crossing, three-fourths mile north of this mals were about in charge of the owner's son, driven to a watering place, of a station. The ani- Increase For 2000 Workers, Easton.—The Thomas Iron Com- pany announced a 10 per cent, in- crease In the wages of ita 2000 em- ployees in the Lehigh Valley, Irom Works Resume, Lancagter. — The announcement was made here that the Penn Iron Works, which have been idle since bast November, would resume opera- ‘tiong this week and on double turnag, (The mills, which employ hundreds of men, have only been in operation ten weeks in the past two years. Raise For York Caramel Makers, York, Employees of the York plant of the American Caramel Com- y were notified of a ten per cent. crease in wages. | eR ———— Boy Nearly Eitetrocy uted, Williamsport, — Richard Haynes, a farmer's boy,of Lyon's Mills, narrow- ly escaped electrocution. The lad, when searching for missing cows, climbed a tall pole, on which ran a wire of the Eaglesmere Light & Power Company. The wire frequent- ly carries 11,000 volts. Going clear to the top of the pole, the boy swung a leg over the wire and was almost instantly hurled to the round, where he later found inconscious by his father. His leg badly burned and he has a frac- tured His condition is cal where the current burned black. was skull The ey ed, i8 leg, Falls 70 Feet, Bangor with a Arge concrete W. R. R. at wd, fell fully g¢ al noon, bone, hip, died on An gang of Italian men at euiployed work on the bridge for the D. L the cut-off near Port- seventy from the suffering a broken broken arms and frac. besides internal injuries the way to the ital. feet ilar tured He hosp Boys Injured. Pottstown Thre } had away thot aesr Rea ling home when youths came they run from lives from ali) ” . + al alight a moving coal t "ne ; ¢ ¥ ering tistown Against One Session. wding Plot To Wreck Trains, Pottsville Follo ing of th I Philadelphis railroad ered 85.000 To caster XY. Police Sergeant's Last Lancast $9, a sergeant years, baraly, amp Ride, tt 11a vo ti the h iying Were in O8nl Hunt For Bandit Dropped, Lewistown. —T The for lone highwayman uae i who held in the morning the ses the ip th jLewiglown August abandoned the express the practically Narrows, of £1. has been H.W. Bearce, Superintendent of Pinkerton Agency and detec tives have left the scene and the drag net, into which the robber was gupposed to drop, has been material «ov widened on other Said Bride Tried To Elope, York Weary of her husband af ter thirteen days of married life, Mrs. George Sweitzer was accused of attempting to el with Charles a married man, and was placed under arrest as she was about to board a train for Baltimore. Sny- der will, If caught, be held for lar ceny, for the baggage of the couple contained much of Mr. Switzer's per sonal preperty. el Convicted By Letters, Altoona. — When Harry A. Me Knight, of Roaring Spring, deserted hig wife and family, he forgot about the letters he had received from otier women, which he had secreted under the carpet His wife them and used them In court, as » result of which he was ordered tc pay her $10 a month, A—; Falls 150 Feet, borer at Primrose Colliery, had » making repairs on a clinte, liis balance and tumbled 150 feet bruised, but otherwise unhurt, walked home, Wine growers around Lyons as. gert that no vines are immune against the phylloxera unless the; are grafted upon American. vines, 8,000,000 PEOPLE DURING HUDSON-FULTON FETE men, its i Li Ance itals nurses row hoa iidance of ie First ommiss Frederick Bugh who evolved the elad plan under which the millions thronged the city's stre were sured the maximum of protection Plans were outlined to care crowds of from 7.1 irom iq, 600 on the f | LT rades, ambul squads of fle ets of practically man as Police ( her, hes 18, Was under th Deputy H who ela As for 80 .« davs of skilful nis made ri duel: & and so ne ant was done with on Sti and Bre snted by adway fifteen pits v equipped beds urses, as well as t ing hospit Another chain of wagons, each in charge of a surgeon, was run from Ton ville fo Dvekman street, while a of fourteen launches and patrolied the water front continuous- ly from the Kill von Kull to Spuyten Duyvil Cresk Supplementing the latter there was a fleet covering the water front A three-ply thickness of police an- thority was planned for the length of Riverside Drive fringe of park. Inspectors, each with six to seven captains under them. and the latter in command of squads of from forty to sixty, had charge of the strip of land between the river float wo iE twenty flant and its and Thirteen Ame. of the Force on and Sleep. with green : ew balloons with attached Ww gw were used boats and gree: the same in between day. served i 1 police and shore stations by and white light purpose at night As planned, wore shifted thelr | when the army massed as density F aval par a and too, of police crowds instance ade passed the the crowds ip began dispersing, this unicated at once {tc ymmissioner Bugher » he directed the 300 | en on service there elevated train whicl the subway IWAN men the or that urry to CATS y this way by the times to ey artment, ence and crowd of the hots of nations be ficating the presence of some del to the celebration m foreign shores. Over the Hotel Astor the Governor's flag announced hat Governor Hughes and his family had their quarters there Speedy punishment befell petty of. fenders who tried to have " fun” with i { the populace during the Hudson-Ful ton celebration. Not only were the regular police details, in sections | where the crowds gathered, prac { tically doubled, but the Interborough put in commission a large corps of special officers. The surface lines | with the aid of the police, were in ¢ | position to take care of the rowdies who tried to make every day seem like the Sunday of their owa partic uiar devising. is flags foreign were to of the fr i egaten The cloty Lancester, Pa, — Lancaster County Historical 8¢ memorial to Robert Fulton in the lit. | tie hamlet of Fulton House, the birth- place of the inventor, twenty miles south of this city Among those in attendance were Governor Stuart and ex-Governor Pennypacker, both of whom made addresses The exercides were continued in the afternoon, and daring the luncheon hour there was an exhibit of Fulton | relics SORSisting of manuscripts, | drafts, mgmentos, ete, The stand from which the speakers delivered their addresses was mod- eled to represent Fulton's first steam- hoat, the Clermont, It was profusely decorated with the national colors The tablet, which was designed by { Missa Mary Magee, of this city, Is ol j bronze, about a foot high, and is is {the shape of a shield At the top | there is a bas relief of ‘the steamboat Clermont. Directly underneath is a | scroll containing the words, “Cler ‘mont, Fulton, 1807.” Upon the tab let is inscribed the following: { "Here, on November 14. 1765, {born Robert Fulton, inventor, was who, 11, 1867, first successfully steam to the purpose of navigation At this place he spent the first years of his life. Without a monument fu. ture generations would know him, Erected by the Lancaster County His torical Society at the centenary cele ber, 1809.” Siandard Pays 85,000,000 For 10,000 Acres of Oil Land. Pittsburg—-Jennings Brothers, oil producers, officially announced the completion of a deal with the Stand- ard O11 Company whereby the Pitts. burg eompany retires completely from Sevalopment in the Eastern Illinois field. For a sum close to $5,000,000 the Ohio Ol Company, a Standard cone cern. has taken over 10,000 acres of territory owned by Jennings Brothers in that part of Illinois. he land is now wild and unimproved. Judge Declares Abrogated Mobile, Ala--Jules E. Alford, when he declared that the portion of | the celebrated Fuller prohibition bill denying a defendant the right of a. trinl by jury was unconstitutional, He sald that Section 11 of the Ala. | bama constitution stated that right of trial by jury must remain inviolate and that the Fuller bill was in direct conflict with this. All cases on the yy, HARDWOOD ASHES. Ashes from hard wood, charcoal Have it where hogs can eat it whenever they want it, and don’t be afraid that they will eat too much if they have it reg. ularly. —Farm Journal, SMALL CHICK FOOD. For small chicks at first it to feed stale boiled oatmeal ny<cake,” make chicks, added is well read crumbs and hard Afte SIYW ATL ds or ‘john- called, ergs crumbled fine cornmeal it generally rations for the or ora they people and as rood with A8 sOo0n grains. Many wheat, as a be forming food, the wheat ~+~'s Home cake, is growing wheat ked as can eat these Oats to and Ix at an Journal, BLACKHEAD an REMEDY. article on blackheac keys and white di an exchange no effective after birds are once ommends arrhoea in concludes that remedy for these infected and rec prompt Among comme methods, highly of most a Use enson mash or A dose is a teaspoonful fowls either in a or twenty tered about once Fr AiTHA s» evening Ney CAN eat ops should riety of every *%, and gi cons ve imed ’ i Guide Union i IF YOU question eggs, If kind of hens and kind of treatment reason why yon at all seasons Union Guide give of the POULTR be n unless it is mixed with land slaste dry, pulverized muck boxes or barrels it breeding place for m! a correspondent in side. glorey in Me . " ¥ » glored h on hose Tor it a EO00 tes and lice, Farm ang SAYS Fire its value as a Sertilizer is and mites and lice will not live in it It is good for forcing most all veget- ables. It is not so good for peas and beans, but is excellent for vines, corn and potatoes. It will near! ¥ double the yield of pumpking and squashes if a handful is worked Into the soil around each vine. A handful put on each hill will grow more corn and ripen it two weeks earlier than ans corn phosphate. When used ; dressing it should be well with soil. for top covered WATER AND GUINEA POWLS Geese and ducks are more salable each season. The price of geese was almost treble that of chickens in the market during Novem. ber and December of last year. Ducks did not bring a price equal to that received for geese, but even they sold remarkably well. Geese hatch They seem to care for them betisr than do mother hens or brooders. When once the goslings are a week or i i i i | i { require little attention. Old, marshy lands, or have a fairly good crop of grass, af ford good ranging land for gosse. Geese do best if they have a dry spot on elevated land to go to when It raine. After the goslings are three weeks old they graze their entire live ing from the grass during the sum- mer. Ducks must be continually fed or they will rot prosper. Young ducks those that must be fod geveral meal or cracked corn, do not grow as they should means of feeding cracked young ducks is to put the A shallow pan water ducks take it from the eat it. Ducks with their Guinea times a day on they The best corn to corn into let the they drink or of and water water as require food. io fowls are than more ducks or ge an be market Bize at Jouble the pri ind for other profitab sagas if I Per po fed, leather, well ar where poorly the guinea Heer Over ased a hun yund signals y by and 12 guns from rounds and reports being regulated by OK as to exact concerned t! prevent intervals between convey At ilisdons, first taken on boar a to put a fog moment a fog comes on. The consists of a large painted red, which is attached at the stern of every ship a rope of grass fibre, a material that floats on the surface. Bach ship pays out astern a length of rope equivalent to the intervals kept between the ships of the fleet—two ombles (four hundred in close onder, four cables in The cask should float at the bows of the ship next astern, nean ng ie same time » of precan ship of a rboard © very Duoy ove cask buoy by Station flewt Waves, the is kept whatever the every vessel to the the Illustrated London News. A i HAI BL SO Swans on the Thames. Over 200 evegnets have been reared the Thames between Southwark Henley, dur The largest on ing the last season, Halliford. The black swans at Gor ing, which are owned by the Vint nerg Company, have also multiplied. Altogether there are about 500 swans on the Thames between the places indicated, the King being the owner of the greatest number and the remainder being the property of Dyers and Vintners companies don don Evening Standard, The 3yearold son and heir of the Crar Nicholas is insured for $2,500, 000, and is sald to pay the highest premium in the world.
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