NEW LAWS OF A Brief Outline of Acts of the General Assembly of 1913 As Approved by the Governor ” 22 Mo. State banks are authorized to pa) futerest on time or demand deposits, No. 226. Cities of the first class may create suburban metropolitan districts of the areas within 25 miles of their limits, and create a department of Suburban Metropolitan Planning, with special reference to highways, sewerage and water supply. ol Lc No. "ixes salary of senger at $1,200, No. act of Lehigh. No. 229. Changes and fixes the terms of agers of the poor auditors gorporated poor State Librar 228. Repeals an relating the « io ounty man in in « i ana Fixes the ers $2.50 per of the Concerns Cisls, No. 232 Authorizes the empower guardians dors to ing ARmIicat im common, Orphans i of estates of JU No. The act fixing tion cents a d counties having not more No. 234. Flood Warnings. re f for Keep ol ay is extended Guaging stations a lished on the st forecast the probabl €uring flood period propriated. reams No the act Pike, Sch Repeuls fights in Erie and Montgome No. Empowers com township of the fir pave, curb, improve streets and No. 237. Empowers comm township of the first to ere under count state h No. 238. In l i a id I KE ir 1st along ith regu deposits ence shall be given to certified posits and drafts company, Vv Cf > <b. mi » i 2 < macadam alles s8ioners CiasSs ia and iEhways. companies, ar prefer ime deposits, checks, certificates of de Fixes ent of tounties Relates to the pavmen { the incorporation dation of bonus on or consoli banks companies Requires b to be sworn to that averments of Answer must Lesses iS and answers in equit and abolishes the rule the a responsive be overcome by two wit. No. 242. When commissioners in lunacy sh declare a person to have been a luna tic from a date prior, then in tlon affecting land titles, must show ten days’ notic claiming title to the land. No. 243. Extends for four years the act viding a board of commissioners for | the promotion of uniformity lation. all | anv record ne pro of legis- | No. 244, Grants consent dam the sanitary conditions No. 245, In Berks county the praiser’'s report may one German paper. No. 246. Appropriated $75,000 for bration of the Battle of Lake Erie and the erection of a memorial at Erje. No. 247. Regulates discharge of paroled pris oners from penal institutions, No. 248. Grants to trustees of Warren Acad emy power sell granted by the state, No. 249. Removes the prohibition coal dealers the right to welghmasters in of class, 0 Harrisburg Susquehanna and to | improve mercantile published ap be in the cele to land originally denying be official cities the first No. 250. Extends the time for two vears in | which taxes may be collected by col | lectors where they are now personally liable, No. 251. Makes $2.000 the maximum salary paid to depatment heads in cities of the second class. No. 252. Grantg right to change elevations on bridges to be reconstructed, No. 253. Allows right of damage to land own- ers and tenants Injured by street and other public improvements, No, 254, Fixes seven years’ absence as pre- sumptive proof of death and provides method for settlement of estates, No. 2585, Empowers township supervisors in townships of the second class to con: tract for lighting streets and publie places, No. 256. Refunds $500 for auctioneers cense paid by Joseph Kalter, No. 257. Provides for anciliary letters of ad- ministration on of decedents, andymethods of settlement, No. 258. $20,000 is fixed as the limit for the of Carbon i presumed estates value dale, the poor house in No. time at which a second on the proposition to in municipal indebtedness, No. 260. Permits corporations ferred in Does not apply 259, Fixes the one day one in be lesg than year taken crease vote may fo issue pre- stock one or more classes, to banks or building and loan associations. No. 261. the and Ame harves nds slightly , docks mile mii Valida men tes appointments and firen Department of Labor and Industry. Establish } artme EF ] r y { $8.00 appoint and Cers “i { and reales DuUreaus Arbi others as are found Statistic formation and tration, ane necessar i are to be maintain ed in Phils hia and Pittsburgh, and in [ other citie if found advisabl ttorney to bs an a attorne; Bi pointed by for fifty-eight be tors at general, inspectors women at $1.0 $2500 to Lis two Iwo ph Bi five shall nave offices n cities ’ or ian inspe t $2.500 s Chis be a woman at $2 1c , engineering a (Hl act a butter. No. 274. tossnships, Counties ncorporated towns are authorized make i Sty $ Lion nt applications for the re of state highways No. 275. ides that prothonotaries index judgments and om United States courts, No. 276. that the flag of Pennsylva displayed public Pros LO shall ket and f rees vides n may Le on ans No. 277. Eiven a lien on automo them No. 278. Repeals the act ner in iaizerne counts (arages are un biles left with providin may ¥ whicl be built h bridges No. 279. 10 as ations Fixes December agricultural rom count date claim the ARE to No. 280. Exceptions to the ruling of a court noted the official steno grapher at the time exception is made, No. 281. f shall be by costs pay the court. incurred in the No. 282, given to purchase or propriate pr property for Power is ivate No. 283. Township commissioners’ term January, No. 284, as auxiliary forest reserves upon ap plication of owner, No. 285. Money Lenders Licensed. Money lenders who wish, to charge more for loans than the regular rate of interest may secure a yearly leense at a cost of $100, and charge broker #ge on each loan, but not exceeding one-tenth of the principal, in addition to six per cent interest, but this brok. erage charge cannot be repeated on renewals more often than each four months, An examination fee of one dollar may also be collected on each loan of $50 or less, Act of May 11, 1609, regulating small loans repealed | | | | { AN INDEMNITY 10° JAPANESE Tokio Story Concerning the California Dispute. UNCLE SAM 3AID TO FAVOR Japan Desires Permanent Friendly Relations With This Country and Seeks a Fundamental Solution Of the Difficulty. Tokio, here that inated the ese subjects by the ship Japan tl It e United Was ann Slates readiness t favor in O t payment of an indemnity who been affectle nave Callforula allen land owner legislation Th has also recognized the right of tO i aq Siales fap ih opt a4 measure ® bill intimations miuar to the California From fMicia circles it appears unlikel adopt iat Japan will either Japan idea desires {s permanent frien United aiy relations | ith 2 i ine States and, therefore i lie seeks a fundamental he difficulty = ] y ably ov h natter t re | grievance | bile a pu fea i connection conti ii inflammatory t i sx pulsion from; Korea are | | i { here tiy dher to thel ! fusal to any ibll slaten { nt | concerning t Japan and the ing the Calif rr understood, that fairly the State with the Japanese government Debartment ated a purpose to facilitate pro ceedings any that legirnlation may be the The proposal, far as th Uni charged * action board States United antee States probably would Japanese landowners against logs only in the event that they not erty were fe Tr prop pose of § properly compensated they vere obliged to dis the “Vebb-Bloodgood act inder tl WOMAN'S QUEER MALADY. Keep Awake Unless She Stands Up. N. J Miss Alice | Weehawken, Is the victim of physicians | parallel in medical keep awake un If she sits or ies | Cannot Weehawken, Geiser, of a peculiar BAY annals lees she stands up malady which is without She cannot down. she goon becomes unconscious The afiction differs from the sleep ing of Africa in that Miss Geiser has been troubled with her un usual somnolence for two vears, while! the of the African ase run in about two weeks Although she has been under stant medical treatment for two, years, no headway has been made toward a Miss Geiser In all other respects | fs a normal, healthy young woman sickness course disc is con cure FIVE IN AUTOMOBILE KILLED. One Perhaps Fatally Hurt When Train Hit Car. Mo were Carroliton, Five an automobile killed driver was perhaps fatally when an Atchison, Topeka and Santa! Fe passe.ager train struck the machine at a crossing a mile east of here Vandeventer was the owner and driver of the car. The party was on a pleas ure tour from here to Brunswick, Mo passengers in| and the | j injured | CLERK NEARLY FROZEN. John Long Locked In Cold Storage Room In Washington. Washington John Long, an {ce company clerk, nearly froze to death before being rescued from the storage room in which a thief had locked him WILL NOT RECEIVE DIAZ. Mexico's Special Envoy To Japan May Meet With Reverses, London. ~-It was announced that the Japanese Government will not receive Gen. Felix Diaz, leader of the Mexican revolution that overthrew Madero General Diaz now Is on his way to Japan from San Francisco, The rea son officially stated for not recelving him is that “the Mikado is absent from Tokyo, being at a summer resort with his family.” r | | | i TEDITATION MNTATION — ” [9 IMPEAGHED re and = fr lh gorpu apo Sr, A (Copyright) REPRIMANDED BY THE PRESIDENT Ambassador Wilson for Attack on the British. REGRET CABLED TO ENGLAND Ambassador Page Instructed To Ex the Brit the press To sh Foreign Minister American cvernment’'s Regret Bryan's Cablegram Br President cablegram i Secretary an, after a the fol rEador en lowing Page “The interview given to the press by Mr Wilson, whose lane resignation ambas has been accepted to take Henry ador to Mexico effect 14 President's fo ask ¥ British foreign office and say to t AR at the having vacation, October brought to the directs me ou to call the he disclaims al Wilson's action language em interview Edward Grey at for Mr in the matter and for the ployed by him in that 1® regrets official nment responsibility exceedingly in the employ should diplomatic i this gove guilty of impropriety Secretary Bryan only gay above to the press, but lssued the fol have been such not e the lowing statement A copy of the American bassador that the at this granted that action obliged to take this him (Ambassador ficient reminder of his OG the Am added cablegram ¢ Was Mr does not sent to Bryan EO far takes it f which he will Embassy Wilson President time because ther he the is in matier Wilson) a suf official duties” to FOUR MEN KILLED. Structure On Which They Were Work. ing Gives Way. Four men plunged death here when a porary structure on which they working in repairing river bridge gave way and they fell 100 feet, of Springfield, Mo, and W. M Ingles, of Great Falls, Mont Memphis, Tenn to tem MRS. SULZER PROSTRATED. Declines To Make Any Statement Con cerning Her Confession. Albany, N. Y.—Mra. Sulzer, wife of the Governor, was prostrated and con. fined to her bed as a result of the trying situation which confronts her husband. Correspondents were un. able to see her at the Executive Man. sion. Mrs. Sulzer's condition became #0 serious that Governor Bulzer wired to New York for a specialist on nervy. ous diseases, LIQUIDATION Night Session. Tremendous Stir Caused By the Reports That Mrs. Sulzer Would Take the Entire Blame. SENT T0 ASYLUM Undertakes to Perform Vivisec- | tion of Living Patient. impeachment Articles Rarely a Day Passed That Dr R. Dabney Did Not Per T Three Dif ficult Operations wil liar form Two Or here was began became | the Dr. Dabney ANErS them operating and ordered from room When the two doctors ha left. ac cording to the story of the urse, who had remained bending beside patient, Dr the face and Schaad were the un began throat of the Both open and throat Surgeon was with which he avoid fat wound cor Dabnes {io dissect unconscious sides of deep In the laid in mad dexterity cisions made the of the shown in the ed inflicting a al his liv DE subject How far crazed surgeon proceeded with the be told for shrieking that the would have dissection | cannot the Dr horrified nurse | Dabney Her ¢ brought d Penrose with 1¢ hospital attendants and Dr. Dabaey, by this time a raging maniac, brandishing his | scalpel ue living subject, subdued | i i was ries Ballard a: of t} rescue several to | the the over unconsci disarmed and after a desperate struggle was i i Of International! Organization, Prof. Friedrich Von Mul | ler, of Munich, was elected president | permanent committee of the | International Medical Congress and] of the eighteenth congress te held in 19217. In bidding delegates a formal farewell in| Albert Hall, President Bariow earnest. iy appealed to the medical profession to make its great influence felt in alll an effort to President Medical L.ondor © which will War. MISS HOPKINS TO PRESS SUIT. Declines To Comment On Sulzer Im. peachment Proceedings. Philadelphia.—~Miss Mignon Hop kins, familiarly known as “Polly” Hopkins, 902 Spruce street, who sued the Governor of New York for breach of promise a few weeks ago, was asked to express her opinion on the charges lodged against Mr. Sulzer, She declined and sald she was more concerned in her case against him than in the impeachment proceedings, dizer K fe a OYVerng IK po wWers Cor rred them upon the lie EOYernor at he will ise the of governor exerc pow on this orders as Brouna gover state depart Issue to the heads of backed by the le jature and the constitutio position. That the acting contr > nooner ons if er will } PURO oll orders for MOneYs and there! i gineus re, ul depart by his f the siate » 3 4 ments can proceed oniy sanction. SLATED FOR DIPLOMATIC POSTS Wilson's Aide As Governor and Brand Whitelock Selected. Washington. — Col. Thomas H. Birch. of Burlington, N. J. personal aide i« President Wilson when of New Jersey, has been selected {or Minister to Portugal. His nomination will go Senate soon Brand Toledo, Ohio, is slated for post, probably Be ium Governor (0 1he a diplomati COWS EAT DYNAMITE. Nine Of Them Die After Being Pol soned By Explolive, Reedsburg, Wis Nine cow- were killed on & farm near here by eating dynamite. A road crew had stored some of the explosive on the farm and the cows found it and ate it. The nitroglyveerin poisoned them CURRENCY FIGHT BITTER. Democratic Caucus May Run Through This Week. Washington. —— After three hours of lively discussion between the Adminis tration forces and the currency “in surgents” the House Democratic cau cus adjourned until Monday. The fight for amendments to the bill has been bitter and the prospects were that the caucus might run through al) of this week, with a final contest on the floor of the House inevitable.
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