NEW LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA A Brief Outline of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1913, As Approved by the Governor No. 1. Appropriates $70,000 to cover de ficiency in equipping and maintaining Homeopathic State Hospital tor Insane. No. 2. Appropriates $4,000 for maintenance last quarter current fiscal year of the Btate Quarantine Board. No. 3. Appropriates $9,327.53 to pay in- debtedness incurred in furnishing and altering State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Trevorton, Shamokin and Mt. Carmel coal fields. No. 4. Provides for the resentencing of con- victs who have beea sentenced under A law declared unconstitutional. No. 5. Appropriates $20,000 to ficiency incurred in carrying out the law to provide for registration of births and deaths. No. 6. $1,800,000 for State Highways. Authorizes the accumulated fees of $1,500,000 from autos to be expended in maintenance and licensed aid highways, to be rateably appor- the Commonwealth. No. 7. Repeals the act to lay out a st road from Ayr Township in county to Warren Township, in lin ‘rank county, No. 9. x 1 time November 1, be flied by the Extends the to 1914, for the report to commission nted and report buildings in the app fo investigate upon safe construction of state No. 10. section of to certain witnesses of B No. 11. To Protect Blackbirds, doves and leer game birds, and a penalty lars for each bird kil captured prescribed, No. 12. t the title to rea! the t officers, au jar Repeals a a thorizing pay ors and UCKs count Birds. turtle or er mourning ars of ten dol K ied, To quis estate: and to enable citizens of the and corporations authorized to real estate within this Cammonwealith to hold and conve estat which been form for corporations not to hold the same No. the elect United States, hold to TER: has eriy held by or thorized by law 13. Provides for years in habitants &n auditor, In 1913 Jia. counties CART of a controll first election Fixes the counties of $2,500 , Wh not been ere previous made ! 15. To Honor and Protect Our Flag. Provides that no other fla Btars and Stripes shall be wave from any public building occupied by foreign minister consul. red flag, “intended anarchy,” from being carried or played, in any public processio No. 16. Authorizes the leasing of for ests for church, sch health and recreation purposes, 80 pér cent of the revenue to go to the state ol fund No. 17. Amends the law requiring publica tion of auditor's reports. so that the feports may be published in other than weekly newspapers. No. 18. Provides that hushand and wife may sue each other and each other in certain cases, No. 19. Provides that toll bridges may be closed to public travel, where free bridges have been erected to accom: modate the public. No. 20. Establishes a county court for Alle gheny county to which all appeals from justices and aldermen shall be taken in civil suits, other than suits for penalties, on actions started after Jaly 1, 1913. Appeals from county court to be taken to the Court of Com- mon Pleas, allowed a or to n i. state ol, ach Ho testify No. 21. Validating bonds or other obliga. tions of counties, cities, boroughs, townships. school districts and other municipalities not in excess of two per cent of the assessed valuation. where there has been fallure to file the proper statement. No. 22. Mrects the publication of a pamph. let containing the game, fish and for estry laws, No. 23. Provides for another judge in each of the Courts of Common Pleas in Philadelphia county. No. 24, Increases the jurisdiction of the County Courts of Allegheny county to $1,500, and providing otber regula tions for said court. No. 25. Allows wholesale and retail liquor nalers to keep licensed place of busi Te ness open pending action by the court on permission to transfer lcense. No. 26. Provides for the protection elk as a game animal No. 27. Relates to fees of prothonotaries counties of 200,000 er over. No. 28. Appropriates $720,000 ficit in caring for the sane during the past five No. 29. Authorizing the State Treasurer (0 endorse to the Ladies Memorial Ass { clation of Petersburg, Virginia, all in of the in for the de indigent n- YeRDs, Che city of Petersburg, Battlefield the i the Virginia Commission of the Potomac, sald interest to said Ladies Memorial As No. 30. Provides for an additional law judga of the several of Forty- seventh Judicial district i No. 31. Appropriates $7.500 of the State Board moving pictures No. 32. enfor rooms foundries. No. 33. Allows the Cottage State Hosp Connellsville to 0 p | highway use a small plot ¢f ground. No. 34. the provisions of this being lation, SO the conrts for the of Cens expen sey Provides quiring at ing the and wa for toilet ets dedicate ¢ Bj ty Commigsioners may se!l at Sheriffs’ sales r tax act land chased under claims. No. 35. thousand cog Increasing the Win be printed Agriculture, the proven in: ments fo Twenty-five ies } bulletin | of rr Yield $+ 4 { Eggs” to the are Secretary forme: wdequat ¢ demand No. 386. Authorizes the p sto urchase - 1 and k farm implements by Western Penitentiary in Centre } HiE and providing nt of sub ing their compensation. No. 43. sale rainate of } ~~ tie of Frohibits unfit for or uso CEES use No. 44, highway for de in law, Amends the fining the Ktata Blas methods proceeding condemnation cases No. 45, Int ywnsh 1 ludes t« ips .of the second class with other muni ipal law authorizing tl private property buildings ani the of public ties in 1¢ appropriation for necessars works. No. 46. Direct Vote to Elect Senators. Joint resolution ratifying pro- posed constitutional amendment pro for election of United the viding the States people. : No. 47. make a false statement false certificates ralating of minors for whom sought. truant officers to enforce the law con- cerning employment of minors. No. 48. Carries the same provigibns as No. 47 In relation to the employment of minors in bituminous coal mines and authracite collieries, No. 49, Authorizes the sale of the real es late upon which the fish hatchery at Spruce Creek is located. No. 50. Empowers courts to attach property belonging to husbands wno have de- serted wives or children, to provide for the support of the abandoned rela tions, the age employment to No. 51. Makes it unlawful to use the word “Consul” or “Consulate” or the coat of arms of a foreign country for adver tising purposes, No. 52. Provides for the transcribing of di lapidated records In counties with » population of over 1,800,000. No. £3, Provides for the appointment of col lectors of taxes in counties having » population of 300,000 to 1,000,000, TOWN POOL OF BLOOD But 120 of 3,500 Citizens of Doxato Remain. ATROCITIES OF THE BULGARS Terrible Story Of Committed Upon Greek and Mussuiman dents. Resi. New York. King Greece, from his headquart Belllk, account Constance of of the garians in Macedonia, He that only the precipitate flight the atrocities Bul t} ol siaughter, scourged prevented a still greater “The first city Nigriti, who had to be Was the events occurring in the Panghoon district were by re treating LF light the path of flames of the city applied the toreh “The and The the locality massacred the did not (fail their flight by which the; enemy, who the to had correspondents of Daily Le Tempe Telegraph who visited the after the mas. sacres merely confirmed In zreater de tall of ers day the of “The dispatches the our precipitate flight ants in the surrounding command troops of the peas villages the is only reason why we have not a greater number of victims to deplore wing 7 M uss Un our 00 HMman iikish, a ne {irregular 8) ur off uit had id “nches troop fle re ARE GragEe is nothing more i led and OR ruins, and isited Reres tint $ERIY extent thelr nation NEWSDEDErS Fay PE, ret hn no | Of its 3 A along t blood abitants remain great fiber of ittie villages 16 1 ¥ aed - the flesds AE BrMmy were SCenes like atrocities” PRISONER IS REWARDED. Wilson Frees Man Whe Captured Escaping Fellow-Convict. washingion prisoner acting who risked his life to capture an es caping fellow-conviet, dent to free Benjamin Bell serving a sentence of 11 months and 2% days In the District of Columbia Jail for rob While Bell was on guard The loyalty of a as a trusted caused the Pregl hore { stockade surrounding the jail armed prisoner-sentinel The un overpowered § i jail. The superintendent reported to the President that he did not.belleve there was an officer in the station that would have done as well TRAIN RUNS INTO HOUSE. Car In Her Room. Chicago.—Miss Clara Marsake was sleeping the untroubled sleep of a carefree schoolgirl, when suddenly something entered the room. It was a raliroad train. The Marsske home stands straight at a railroad embank. ment and directly In the path of a freight train which left the rails, sev. eral cars tumbling down from the tracks. One of them tore through the front of the house and stopped direct. ly In front of Miss Marsske's bed, a A MA CARTRIDGE KILLS CHILD. Exploded By Bonfire Into Which It Had Been Thrown, Camden, N. J.—While playing around 8 bonfire near his home here Preston Slaughter, 8 years old, was Instantly killed when a cartridge thrown into the flames by another boy plerced his heart. Harry S.unith, 11 years old, was taken Into custody charged with throw. ing the cartridge into the fire, but was later paroled in the care of his parents, 3 : i i i i i | i i i Ghyrighe UERTA WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED a— NFAIR WILLIAM J. BRYAN Engagements Made Subject to Cancellation. pian maw La LEAP T0 E3GAPE FLAMES Republican Secretay Of Treasury Says Double Bryan's Salary Might Be Adequate. wer In an ite CnEgagements ancel ation Sent To Mexico. Endangered in Fire. There Will Be in Pres ent Attitude Of ment, Says President Wilson No Change This Govern- a A on ding report Wilae telegraphic varied =o greatly from depicting conditions deepest gloom and then indi SANE State Department is garding condMions disposition to reports for it in Washington that the political situa is not conducive to bassador ports Ll have day, to DOW ating mout sine confidence, real censure is perfectls tion in Mexico Citys a and philosophical dally events, Communication by Mexico City and Washington is 80 slow and uncertain t} no writ ten reports which Mr. Wilson could have made would have any value by the time they reached De partments here a strong Washington to view the entire action of the foreign powers with skepticism It is believed by the State Department that much of the anti American feel ing in Mexico has been carefully fomented by selfish interests for the purpose of creating in this country popular hysteria which administration to across the border, calm review o mall between 1a the State in disposition the send ENGINE CRUSHES AVIATOR, Explodes In Air and Wreckage Kills Young Birdman, Chico, Cal. —Thaddeus Kerns, a 20. year-old aviator, was xilled when the engine of his bipiane exploded 75 feet in the air. When the wreckage hit | aviator's head, while other parts of the biplane pierced his body. A A BS Art $626,000 NECKLACE STOLEN. ——— Substituted In Package For Right String Of Pearls. London. —The theft of a pearl neck. lace valued at $625,000 was reported to the Scotland Yard authorities, The pearls are nileged to have been stolen during transit by post from Paris to a dealer in London. The robbery was discovered in London, when the regis. tered packet in whien the necklace had been dispatched was opened. The Sugar onse contained only pleces of sugar, - Three Young Women, Trapped On the Sixth Ficor Of a Burning Factory, Jump Into the Arms Of Rescuers. ENTOMBED MEN RESCUED Five Miners Buried Since Wednesday As Result Of Cloudburst jet five h, Minn entombed men whe at th Spruce Mine night, as a result of clon were rescued Thursday The Imprisoned by tapping had been drilled 44 After the first signals were heard the work of excavating was resumed with e Wednesday udt re ine; a ght located werd on a pipe which feet into the mine tha ae and brought While they had suffered greatly, believed all will recover located to curface it is MERCY FOR T. B. VICTIM, a Federal Prisoner. Washington. The plight of a fed eral prisoner dying of tuberculosis and whose life might be prolonged a few days or even months by freedom caused President Wilson to commute to expire at once the fouryear| at Cleveland February 24 last of em! letters while a postal clerk. Havens Completes Trip | From Chicago To Detroit, Detroit. —— Beckwith Havens com. | pleted a flying boat trip from Chicago He followed the route for the Chicago-to-Detroit aviation cruise and covered 900 miles. It i= sald to have been the most re markable trip ever undertaken by flying boats, HELPED MARSHALL PRESIDE. A ———— Little Boy Sits On Vice President's Knees During Senate Session, Washington. ~~ Thomas Marshall Sutherland, who sald his age was “free and a half,” sat on Vice -I'resi dent Marshall's knees and helped to preside over the Senate during a lively gession. Tommie Is the son of Rev. Alexander Sutherland, formerly of Co Jumbia City, and now of Berkeley Springs, W. Va, and is the Vice Presi NEW MINISTER TO S Wisconsin, Uni Selected By Dr. Paul Reinsch, init § vnivers: jo He has bess conferences, nternational foun and married ¥ Of i h CRBATC AE = tas in Madison @ 13 i He BANKING BY MAIL. ”~ e An Innovation In the Postal Savings System. vernment Washington ‘Banking by mail” is entered into by the government in connection i the savings system. Hereafter de. posits may made by mail and with. drawals effected through the EAMe arenes When the postal sav- ings syslem was first put in operation postmasters were forbidden to permit such persons as were not patrons of the postoffice in which they sought bank. This was found to work a real hardship on a certain class the latest innovation with postal be likewise © to General Burleson accordingly abro gated the rule. Postmasters through. out the country now are being advised of the change. COTTON E XPORTS. Bales Were Exported From United States In June. . Washington.-—A special census crop report gave the following estimates for cotton consumption during June: Consumed, 466,514 running bales. In manufacturing establishments on June 30, 1.206.657 bales, and in independent warehouses 611,519 bales. Imports, 8.023 equivalent 500.pound bales: ex. ports, 223.921 running bales. Spindles active during June, 30.057.910. as so TRAPPED BY FIRE ON 6TH FLOOR. Two Young Men and Girl Taken Down With Tlothes Aniaze. girl, trapped on the sixth floor of a burning loft bdullding In West Twentieth street, stood helpless
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