NEW LAWS OF
A Brief Outline of Acts of the
General Assembly of 1913 As
Approved by the Governor
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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,
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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
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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
=
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ably ov h natter t re |
grievance |
bile
a
pu fea
i
connection conti ii
inflammatory
t i
sx pulsion
from; Korea
are |
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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.