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.”