mann Kills Timekeeper. Reading. — William H. Brooks, a colored man, who was employed by the Toledo Construction Company, company on the fifth floor of Georg: ¥. Raer's office bullding and be a disimn fer, the timekoepe of money due him. In his anger he pulled out a revolver and sent several bullets into Neudoerfler's body. Neudoerffer died at one of the local hospitals fifteen minutes after being shot He never regained con sciousness. He had been shot the head and near the heart The Jerer ran down the stairway of the building, and as soon as he reac the street he was pursued by crowd Four squares away the foremost man about reach the nogro pulled out his revolver a shot himself through the head. dropped dead to the » pavement doerffer was a well-known locks which calling he followed for so Years. [Later he worked in engineer's office, and then assu position with the Toledo Cons Company He was 50 years a pominent Democrat and was the nominee of his for Select Coun- cil in the Fourteenth Ward, He w one of the most popular citizens Reading Brooks came here weoks from Jacksonville, It was le: later the in pursuit Brooks Iynching him, and that he killel himse in Naot mith, m ruc “of [ALE party Ago rne-d of was knowing Physician's Narrow Escape. Lewis pr. B. P MceVoytown, had a narrow While answering a professi in the country his horse be ing into the side of a po train at the public road Mattawanna The horse instantly and the igh splinters, but occu town. Girl's Strange Disappeara Fogelsville Peter Slay quarry worker, is aid of the authorities in whereabouts of his 1¢ daughter, who has been mis early in December, TI home on the day of Ler ance and was last home, leaving the turn home, een at 84 0« To Pave Strolton Streets, Stoelton—The Murn.« of ton will shor ina eampaizg for the furtd ment of streels, iL is 1 Front Street for the af the plant of the Pen Company Blew Charter For New IU A charter was ies to the Tuscarora Rai! ta build a forty-fis ina Huntingdon and The company is.conir tirely by New York and people and has a capital of ilroad. i line Charged Wis: Safe Blowing. York.— William Sherman and An- drew Philips, arrested at Harrisbu.g are said to be the men who blew open the safe in the postoffice at Newberry. town December 9 laet Coins found in the possession of the men fdentified by Postmaster Eppley als son Some $400 in money $180 in postage stamps were secu wore and and red Village Wiped Out. South Fork. <The village. of Gil town, across the Conemaugh frem here, has practicall: been out by flood and fire. No of any kind occurred, but of 360,000 damage was done &wrid *ox, connecting Gil South Fork, were carric the fee and high water of and Barly today fire bro! siroying a church hoo! stores and a num 8 River wiped rgualties upw Ar Two nel . Big wes Nurses’! Home For Norristow Nomwistown.—The ( tm] Association, at {ts a decided to erect a home for nurses adjoining the institution at Basin and Powel Bireets, at a cost of $20,000 Ono-tenth the amount was raised by the woman's suxiliary at a recent supper. The association re-slected Br. RB. Y. Eisenberg president. The ais owment fund of the institution smotnts to $21,900 Mardered Wom: Buried At York. York.-—The body of Miss Arabella Wanhor, formerly of York, and who was murddred at her home, 129 West Oamden Street, Baltimore, by Wil- Mam Ashby Carter, a gshipbu! ; was infatuated with the wo! Prought here and taken to the home of her brother, Bamuel D. Bupp, of $27 Fouthwoest Street, where the fun. eral services were held, Puts Oil On Fire, May Die, Norristown. Placing oil on the fire to hurry breakfins, Mra. Jol Sylvester, of Plymouth township, was burned ro severdly that her condition ta regarded as critical by the hospital physicians, When her clothing eaught fire Mre. Sylvester rushed into the yard and rolled in the snow, hari anu I ———————— Molten Iron Sots Man Afire, gotith * Dethlehem, —8tephcen Sle. wiez, an oiler, whose clothing was | soaked with the fluid, became sloeny during thé meal hour at tho Oeib- some rolls to rest, id w hen | wan 2ainst started up the machinery, ai the fifst shaft of molten uw gent through the rolls ft ra ung Slewlez. His clo hy was leatted and his body was incinerated in a moment, » Lake Hesort Conneant Again Buarvs, Lake.— For the third many ye this Summi swept hy serious fire. majority the prominent bulld were destroyed, entailing a loss $50,000, The origin i: as wis a ATE, OF ings not known Schuylkill Haven *chuylkill Haven 18 oOrgar and John's teformoed twenty-nve p tance Honor Organist, rving Of ai choir for Berger, 10010 fter s¢ conductor Chureh ronist, Benson volen Reading nj benc neral debility, vears ago she Widows ge She stit wa ution for On Trial When Pott f1l¢ 1. who Killed. of Wife Is Lose Rey- nolds was in co g trial on or itl he when tating Increases Half Million. ‘apital KH 1 rri s Oliver 8S. Honninger Dies. Judge Mq En ly Drons Dead, Josoph old B. Me- attorneys graduate pped dead Drops Dead First Day At Work. Lil Startin wished to dle Plusshes Starts Fire, ethiehem A ¢ started by a : amber #ho was thawing out frozen destroyed the handsome house A. Foering., head master Bethlehém Prep School Hear- of the fire, the students of school rushed from their the fire, and saved of furniture. fi ¢ of the class rooms to piece every Capt. L. Beck Found Dead, Henry the H. heart In father the the of Com- Pp ent, N Aged Brothers Barn In Cabin, John and 85 and 80 ¥., were burned a fire which destroyed one-room log cabin, ana County, near here. enee thers, Dar year iel {Ttale resp ir tle Indi to death their lit. located in Bumed Trying To Save Child. Hamburg Ruth, the 3J-year-old of Irwin Fox, was fatally burn- ed when her clothing caught fire from a sfove Mrs James Fox, the child's grandmother, and Mrs. Wil lata Gessley, an aunt, burned their hands sertously in attempting to ex- iguigh the flames The child's mother died veeks ago from and operation for appendicitis three Vertigo Victim Rocks Over Stove, Pottstown. Stricken with vertigo, former Burgess Washington 8. Hoy- had a narrow escape from being burned to death in falling and knocking over the stove in his of. fice. The hot coals set fire to his clothes and the floor became ignited, but he was discovered In time and carried to a place of safety. Mr. Royer was badly cut by "riking | his FP Horse Huns Down Woman, Norristown While walk se gtreet because of the glisnary con. EE ion of the sidewall Mr Jncob of 146 West Marshall Street, knocked down by a rubaway horse Owned by R. P. March and soe vorely indared. The horse ran away when gtrack by ioe’! fall ng from trees, ing ind Allred Nels Dies. Reading. —« Alired Meis, tendent of the Columbia Works, died suddenly of trouble while at the supper table superin. Shear Nothing For the Future, a Readjustment ¥ ein n atl, Oh ations or mi s they do McDona id, who is gov health, nevertheless k “It is becon meet, I do not recall when the kept pace with pric “It Is not good hand-to-mouth ex ing for the future, “{ cannot seo ! support a family tion cannot things, and “The financial show as fo “This Is an az titles. 1 say is most depl *1 have r the hand o id order hb o8 au gid arable fo wou ’ . FOR COST of Ohio, Statesman-Farm ntive in Work That Produces Must Be amily and S ave. estigation---Mr. Douglas, , Gives His Ideas on the Sit- of salar y recely C.—Memb that the they as their Washington, D Congress who insist of $7500 a year, now, does not go as far which are much agitated over the increasing prices of the necessi life. This subject promises to be talked about a greatdeal in the House and Senate this year. It fs regarded as practically certain that a joint commission will be appointed to in vestigate, A resolution by Mr. Hull, erat, of Tennessee, provides A committee of seven Rep ntatives and five Senators to invest high prices are due to 1. Trusts and combinations, 2. The increased volume of money. 8. Increase in city population, 4. Increase in demand and crease in supply. 5B. Increase of bonded debt. or 6. The tariff, This resolution os prices of the gsities of increased from eleven cent. in the last twelve asserted that the high have enabled the Ar Company to make a net profi than thirty-five per cent, on talization. Mr. Hull charges that the rapidly Demos 4 i ar de. the Governmesn that life declares the have thirty per months. It is prices of beef mour Packing fit of more fee to higher foreign countries and that this com modity is controlled by the Sugar Trust, The most interesting development in the high price problem at the Capi- tol was a carefully prepared speech by Mr. Douglas, of Ohio, who succeed- | ed that eminent statistician and prog- nosticator, Charles Henry Grosvenor. Ever since Mr. Douglas was attending ! a performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and a pair | of opera glasses fell from the third balcony and bounced off his head he has bean deeply interested In weighty problems. He has given a great deal of thought to this gubject, and turned loose the result in a 7000-word speech, i Mr. Douglas has a theory that he thinks would settle this high price | proposition. He believes that if coun. | try life could be made sufficiently at- iL tractive to intelligent men and wom- i en, farm houses fitted with open plumbing, planolas and mission wood | furniture and the land toned up and | mn, Pr Whithey Buys Father's Man. ! sion, Paying Nearly 83,000,000, New York City.«-The magnificent ! ney on FITh avenne was purchased { by bis gon, Harry Payne Whitney, at a price salll to be a rife Under 33, 000,006, He obtainag the mansion with all of its costly fittings nracti- { enlly intact as left by his father on { Ale death seven years ago, Whitney estate to the late James ! Henry Smith, nade to yield 300 bushels of potatoes twenty now gr a great many worthy people whic eke out a precarious existence brick and driving hacks ang { trolley cars would be and proceed to get wealthy, This, in its turn, would result i greatly increasing the production of all the necessities of life, which in i volume have fallen behind the stead. {ly increasing percentage of popula- { tion He had an imposing array of | figures to present the House to prove that while the population of the United States had been jumping ahead | by leaps and bounds for the last twenty years the production of eattle, hb oRs, . to the gere where WW, }) Bow laying d running for the country s in fo sheep, 8 1. bota g and other meat and ve 2 staples had fall en behind Out on his n Ohio Mr, Doug. One of : farm i the 1 “1 get much fot {th tears in hi stock.” he sald, = “that I am ash ained to take ft.° Mr. Douglas added that ant ma {who had been running a dec farm | for the last five years and hadn't got go wealthy that he had Brussels car. { pet on the woodshed floor and a ped greed Great Dane sitting on the {front porch had only himself to blame Secretary of Agriculture Wilson told Mr. Douglas just the other day, he said, of an Instance in New York not six miles from Ithaca where land had been sold recently for $2 an acre, Representatives John Dwight and Dryden and Representative Bennet, of the Bronx, later confirmed these figures, The Secretary also told Mr. Dong. las of the case of a New York farmer who had a poor, worn-out hill farm on which he had raised the year be. fore only twenty bushels of potatoes to the acre. At that none of them were large enough for market. The farmer was Indnced by an agent of the Department to try an esperiment with his land. He was supplied with Government seed potatoes, told how eo nt of fertilizer he came across with 200 bushels to the acre, and since then bas raleed nothing but potatoes, gument foy a greatly increased appro. priation for agricultural purposes. Americans Restore Chapel Pailt in England by Prisoners of 1818, London. ~The little stone chapel of Prince Town, Devonshire, bullt under {orced labor by the American sailors confingd in the adjoining Yr prison drifts the War of 1812, been restored, apd a window has placed in it to the memory of those engaged in the original work, The cost of this renovation and the window has heen bopne by Americans. The vicar of the chureh recently ap- pealed to the American public for funds to restore the bullding, yl ey Tater vA ousehold Notes 2 PyevTasTasTarT sys avs i” #4 plasTavlerTar’e va preva a at i! DLAOLAPLAD00; SOLO ANLEn EN aN tne bes CO A A , LAL XE RT RE SL LR TR ozavaoEN CHRESE For fruit healthful of dren, use ging, Ccurri Antsy ed, alm CON one FECTION. the most the chil of ral blanch cheese, of for each and confections a dates nd hall pound inds Eng- all fine, dish ture stand it five cream ” ninutes and five 801 tureen Uy Globe ENTRER ttle whole tomatoes the Iinlian sort, heat them and turs over them cocoanut sauce and vou have an entree that to say the least is unusual and is also tasty To make the sauce, blend a tablespoonful of flour with two table is of cream and then is $ wh add a coceanut milk bring ng all th Di Season AN the | can of Take from a coanul erfectly spoonfu cor i a of when EIN OH and e time longs with over the hot tomatoes oxy vs Poy 1 cup wa tc & not and turn : the cotDs k Rik 5 3 boil, stirr salt ar cook ro three yey il wa th a wooden thoroughly through . a cloth per water in a the co cupful of boiling and then stral away to cool but other. When gkim off the is the milk. —- ars Meantime ver a half as before 1 place cosnut with water Stand do not mix the first lignid 14 cream. The remainder New York Sun gtir this water it with the is oo HINTS For a delicious fudge, add chopped raising and nuts to the syrup just be fore beginning to stir it and beat un til it stiffens. Ta arrange an attractive after dinner dish, plie large handsome bunches of ralging on a dofly in a glass dish and fill in the cavities be tween them with shelled and blanch ed nuts of all kinds. Wipe the coffee pot off with a cold wet cloth to settle coffes. Molsten the fruit stains with spirits of camphor at once. The stains will disappear when the article is washed in the unusual manner, Greage sweet potatoes before bak: Ing. It keeps the skin tender. It too much salt has been added to any dish a little sugar and a muse . { i + laying A Ghost, Sir William Henry Perkins, ene inventor of many coal-lar dyes, was talking in New York, before he sail ed for England, about the Psychical Hesearch Boclety “Crookes and other scien tists go in for psychical research,” he sald, “though I confess that to me the subject makes no great appeal. “Personally 1 have come in con- tact, during a fairly long carser, with but one ghost story. Its here was a man whom I'll call nooks “Snooks, visiting at a country house, was put in the haunted chan. sr for the night He said he feit 5 uneasiness; nevertheless be took 0 bed with him a revolver of the la gt American pattern ane s elock ROGINeG 1 ulty iwWo he thout di siriking ie feeling of of . f x ed about iminat emanded The han! Snook ang Care ply, night on toes.” own pPADer I've alone the issue shake But you fore ver to They reader Frugal Fare, "So you “Yes, my few of Ki “It's about moor and have lunch “it's very kind I should ‘Very well re on a diet, are you?™ mited me and sim- docx the f ovd | ¢ was Ul 1't you BR to invite enjo into the il re After thes COZY oorn ecured asked bill-of is any- seals in ‘Won the f ere n who waa » An oysier. an son think 1 believe bass n to that furkey, ad and--—oh, now, [I'll de Record-Herald of the roast York the an dessert -* that later The Auto You laces, “Have the doors eof he temporary hosg “Yes “Is the ambulance cor slong the course?” “Yes re the stretcher “Yep” “And the ‘first aid’ men wailing?” “Ye “And the gpecial wire to the oor sner's office working? “Yes “Then Jet Plain Dealer opened iba B+ pital ps scattered men in line®"™ the races begin?’— There is no prospect or possibility sf the institution of canals in Cuba, and natu by n of the short satersheds, ided rivers «hich can be as to ok ‘or water competition the rad cads re no ved so $a LO To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxstive Bre y 3 Tablete ung on to cure. Lm. Take rug EW The eight sea. ls tists rel Love s signa er part the Holland is level of the great feet below Mrs Winslow's Sooggl ng Syrap for Children teething, softens thegumes reduces nflammse tion, allayn pain, cures wind colic, 25a bottls ”m The long white coat of rabbit er pony is more popular than ever tise year, For cot Ds and GRIP, PAxk's Carvin fs the hest ro -— relieves the aching snd feveridiness the Cold and restores normal Comdi Lions A Bauid «effects immedi ately oc. ¥r oc. sare stores Japan has ow millionaires and practically no multimillionaires. Head, back and logm ach or Throat with chills? That is La Grinpe, Perry ad Painks Her at once. Rare old cashmere shawls again in favor for evening wraps. Rheumatism Cured in a Day, Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rhcumatisan and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days, It4 action w remarkable, Removes the ne a the mistake Instead of throwing away lemon and orange peels, have a jar and keop them in it. Place one or two of these In your pitcher of water | need for washing purposes. This will a delightful perfume. os Chile supports fifteen industrial schools, giving instruction to about 2,300 pupils. | The separate walst " 4 more is favor than for several BeASURS past Dr. Plores's Pellets, wall, sugar-conted, . regulate | and invig. mvige orate stomach, liver constipation. “Not Guilty, It was 4 A, M.. and Rilkins crept softly into the house and removed his shoes, but as he tiptoed up the Siaiiy one of the treads gave a loud orenk. that you, John?!" demanded Mra Buking Som avdve: No, my love,” replied Biikins “It's the stairs.”
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