————————————— a mis SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locallty— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—Iitems of Busi ness and Pleasure that interoat. Commission government petitions | are being signed in Sunbury Getting beyond his depth, William Griffith, a married mon of two weeks, drowned Hapey's Lake, Wilkes | Barre. in all A cavein at Green Ridge has aroused fear among the wealthy resi dents ia that fashionable Scranton suburb. A revolver diccharging ae hie clean- ed it, Leroy Renn, 21 years old, of Shamokin, was shot in the head, caus ng instant death. The $40,000 school donated to Pack- | erton by the late Mary S. Cummings, | will be built on a site donated by Johu C. Dolan, Mauch Chunk Allentown's seventh dedi ated at which Lancaster, was spea playground was elaborate ceremonies, K. Buehrle, of with Professor R Pounding a railroad torpedo with a hammer 13-vear-old Dean Bouth Bethle] in the face, chest ; Bernard was peppered The Glen deat £:) hael Luscheck, from stab a Coroner's jury as Notch Carbon wounds, has been cer the deed The Commissione: ave a new ridge over East Bradford The big of George L. J¢ in Birminghs ship, which was destroved by lightning a few Was equ ed with tw lights nes, days ago ing rods Dr. Che pelts b ent of the county Embreeville, Kell. Massachn- uperintend insane hospital, at Suc Dr. Ralph selected eeq nen two 188 scared and ran away, Alfred M postr 8 near K broken rib ma Herr el, ery al » trout hatch tained sever Frank Chunk Schenectady Hartzel, Mauch in former itted a resident, comm suicide the being held on a a fellow-workman Hearing a robber stairs of his of Pottstown, shot his a second story window and the intruder made a hasty coming up the home, Charles Weller revolver out of departure A "bus service is Inaugurated between Mauch Chunk and Hazleton which will reduce travel! between the two i time to less than an {0 De © paces by 12 mi hour les cut t ¥ i ii and A dozen loaded cars Mauch Chunk yard main Jersey Central was held up TUDAWAYS Wert in the drifted track veral hours being caught ae whi Caught between a ferice when the horses was at the brake, Howard Mull, 12 Years old, hlemsaville, sustained scalp wounds that required 18 stitehes wagon and a plunged as he of Se Motz, a Valley Dazed by the heat, David section foreman on the Oley trolley road, wandered around without food or drink for 24 hours before he recovered his seven miles out of Reading, Ben Ses, Leaving a note that, because he was a cripple, he knew he wae a burden to his parents, Walter Cool, 18 years old, ghot himself in the left breast and died at the Mid-Valley Hospital, Peck- ville. When a stranger pulled a gun on Barber Willdlam Johnson, of Catasau- qua, demanding his momey, Jobmson crouched behind a chair and yelled As neghbors hurried to gee what was wrong the rebber fled. His mother having dled and left him part of her estate, George Wills, of Marcus Heok, has asked the New York city anthorities to aseist him in his efforts wo locate his son, Willlam, who left »ome two years ago, Dr. Charles B. Reitz, a graduate of Hahnemann, hag been elected pathol ogist at the Rittersville Asylum. Bumped by an engine as she wae crossing the tracks at Tower Cy, 7 year-old Allce Maley was hurled clear, but escaped with brudses, Stepping owt of the way of a train and getting In the way of another, John Drosneck, a Lehigh Valley grav. el4rain hand, of Mauch Chunk, had to have a crushed foot amputated at Bouth Bethlehem Hospital, BANK DEPOSITS if Necessary, Government is to Put Out $150,000,000, BANKERS ARE OPTIMISTIC. Consensus Of Opinion $50,000,000 At First Proposed Will Be Ample To Meet the Situation, Washington. The $50,000,000 Federal fund about to be deposited in the national banks of West and South to assist in moving the crops will be increased to $150,000.000, if The desire of the mobil the the DEeCenRsary to govern needed cas! agricul to tie characteristic of fze all tural belts of the country money the crop-moving period was communi cated to of the West at a conference Secretary Mc Adoo and Assistant Skelton Williams ury Department to make arrangements for the of While representative clers, gh from centers of the ed the posits, avert stringency bankers Central with Secretary John called by the Trea distributior the SUIT f . finan big these fresh the eting crop-mark iA) +4. Middle States welcom prospect 3 the consensus was stated, seemed 000,004 would situation. bankers the Treasury that bueis a Lia # hu that relieve the usual strai Air Currency Views. The 31 bankers gathered meeting seized th their views tion to "wa sent the g¢ teria s-Owen as would a proportion perm! of re agents as at pres these ent Ings Inte cing reser ves 8 or keep and the deral reserve bi The suntry banks he 12 would be per reserve serve from » per cent, to per cent. held ron which per cent vaulte: 3 de bank corre banks’ federal placed its own fedaral ieageral with a and 4 8p or depos per cent with kept In ied i ondents, or ited wu d the reserve recommended that cent, re 20 per erves for banks be reduced to 18 per cent, 6 in bank the federal [e vaults, 6 : f own per cent in reserve hank and 6 per with correspondent banks WEDDING DISFRANCHISED HER. Woman Became Subject On Marrying Scot San Francisco A test involy ing the right of a large number of California women fo vote, was decided the State Supreme Court here Mrs of a Scotch singer, the decision Francisco Election Commissioners that Mrs. McKensie, who is a native of California, became a British subject when she married McKensie, who has not foresworn his allegiance to King George case, The Court of San wife sustained the ens TO FIGHT HARD.COAL TRUST. For Government. Washington.-~Frederic R. Coudert, a New York attorney, has been retain. ed as a special assistant attorney gen. eral to take charge of the Department of Justice investigation of the Hard Coal Trust, the first development of which is to be a sult against the Reld ing Company. Attorney General Mo Reynolds made the formal announce ment. mn BOSS i (Copyright) — FIRE DESTROYES MOUNTAIN HOUSE Sleep and Assist Them. { the Weak Of e ET not aused tl termined what « the em ployes say a curtail ted gas jet Others say a cigar aganist mflagra in me ing lig! started a Lgl tion gaed the debris of the basemes all sides the heroism bell and negro participated in and carried numerous persons On porters was lauded many hovs They daring rescies to safety down ladders | A BANNER YEAR. the Country. Washington the The rade of . 3 Niates i United in the past fisca was greater than | Figures just completed £4.275.000,000, than last year's ports and imports. The favor of the country this $653.000,000, The exports those of 1912 by $261,500,000, while the importa increased by only $158. 700,000, The greatest gain In exports was in manufactures ready for con: sumption, In which clase there was an increase of $105,000,000 over 1012. In manufactures for further use in manufacturing there was an increase of more than $60,000,000, show that was greater by 000,000 balance ANOTHER CURRENCY BILL. Lindbergh, Progressive, Introduces One In the House. Washington Another currency bill was introduced in the House by Rep resentative Lindbergh, of Minnezota, Progressive member of the Banking and Currency Committee. The bill contemplates the use of bank reserves ito meet extraordinary demands in : time of financial stresd and the sub | stitution of emergency currency for | the reserves, ow L. & N. MAIL GAR ROBBED Handcuff Clerks and Take Reg- istered Matter, VALUE OF LOOT NOT KNOWN. Occurs On Holdup ile Read-—Rob At Calera and it At Birm Nashv Car Leave chanced men hi & ATO investigat! ieuffed clerks CASTRO REVOLT NOT GENERAL. In Separated Dis Outbreak Widely tricts, Is Report. Willemstad, Curacao. +The revol in Venezuela under the leadership in Cour but is noticeable only wide® irtions of the try, according to from Maracaibo from the separated pe reports received here Cabled dispatches abroad are not admitted there Government authorities WOMAN JURY PASSES ON INSANE. Judge's Satisfaction. Chicago Chicago's first woman jury sat in judgment in the cases of 25 women and children in the for the insane at the Detantion Hos pital. It wag composed of slx women, all of whom are cational and charitable organiations In every case brought to their atten. tion their decision met with the satis. faction of County Judge Owen, VIOLATES THE TREATY. Japan Sticks To Her Position In Mer Latest Note. Tokio. The Japanese government has prepared a new note for presen tation to the United Btates govern. ment in answer to Secretary of State Bryan's last communication to Japan concerning the California allen land ownership legislation. The new note defends the position Japan previously assumed that the land ownership biii violates the Japanese American treaty. AMERICAN ENVOY The Mexican Situation Gravest in Years, PRESIDENT HUERTA DEFIANT Will Wait Until Emissary Has Had a Chance To Explain His Mis sion—President Realizes Gravity. insists On Recognition, iuerta G entertal flicials tha ich intimati SIX DIE IN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Freight Train Falls Through a Bridge Near Marietta, Ga. inmen and $e £1808 * Rilleq a : at north of LIGHTNING A MILE IN TUNNEL. Nearly Tears Leg Off Miner and Shocks Score Of Others, Ariz A i Globe, wif of traveled a mile of tun. 1 in the Copper mine, jumped 300 feet down a nearly tore a leg off of one miner and shocked more than a score The bolt conducted through tunnel by steel rails of a skip hoist ariy reef winze, througn nes ne was fhe of others the BABY DROWNS iN VINEGAR. Jar Mead First. Paris, 1ll.—Falling into an eight-gal {lon jar of vinegar, Lester, 2.vearold son of George David, a farmer, was | drowned before the mother could rescue him, The child fell in head foremost, only the feet being in view when discovered, 1 BULL DERAILS TRAIN, mal Asieep On Track. Des Moines, Ia. men were killed and two injured when a®*bull on | the track caused the derailment of a {| Wabagh freight train near Runnels, ‘lowa. Henry Lang, Des Moines, a | fireman, and Arthur Cobb, Moulton, a brakeman, were those who met | death. Engineer Frank Lewman and | Brakeman Elmer Childs, of Moulton, were seriously Injured. FAMOUS FARM |S ABANDONED Once Worth $35,000, Great House and Barns Now Empty MANSION HAD 500 ACRES of Chester Bhows Increasing Unpopularity Agricultural vocation in wr County—Had VYielded Plentecus aA via Crops for ny Years. Probe Records the Mayor prevent acc loaded with dirt and stopped ar over ines od Wi BiKer an the lively rowing off thes applied the that the the wagon. newspaper men who were making the cheered Mayor's otorman and he can have a gets hard up power, brakes so stopped a Rd Te . officials and hand Oar City vigorously foot! from the Cieverness job trip as a m if he ever Side Wipe Delays Train. Passengers on the Capital sleeping ania Railroad from the had a narrow escape from injury. when all the sleepers were sidewiped by a locomotive near The cars were badly soraped and some were otherwise damaged, but no passengers were hurt. The train was returned to Altoona, where repairs were made and Altoona Express, a CATs On through train of the Pennsyly West here At Harrisburg to another train and sent south to Shamokin.-~At the height of a ter rific rain and electrical storm Hght ning struck ¢ Reading Railroad loco motive and ran to the throttle, grasped by Engineer Jacob Spatzer, who was hurled to the floor by the shock and rendered renseless, his arm being paralyzed. A bolt struck Mrs. Noble Clement's home, seriously shocking her. while one side of Theodore Husta, Excelsior, was paralyzed by a bolt entering his home and striking him as he sat on
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