SNAPSHOTS AT | STATE NEWS i i All Pennsylvania Gleaned for | Items of Interest. he. Air REPORTS ABOUT CROPS 600D | Farmers Busy in Every Locality— | Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—Items of Busi- ness ~nd Pleasure that Interest. retail milk cent a quart, Altoona’s have ! gone up a prices dentists dental hedith with the aid of moving pictures of folks with toothaches. Altoona conserve Hans Schmidt, New erate slaver, said to counterfeits at Wilkes-Barre, York's have degen- passed is Burglars blew open a safe in the post office at Kulpmont with nitro glycerine, procured $300 and escaped, Elliot was serious at Burnham by a plunge « from the deck of a steel car which he was George injured ly if 30 feet unloading. Ninety per cent. of t blonde hunters around Pittsburgh gun for rabbits and nine out of 10 dark-hairs men prefer pheasants or squirrels ne d The Pennsy is equipping all itisburgh division signai towers wi whistles to supplement sema- phores., In convention at the National to revise est of Pittsburgh, League of Barbers arranged its constitution in the inter- sanitation. While driving a wedding coach Wilkes-Barre Frank down John on his school in Kaweaski ran killed Letac, aged 8, to and way Noll, of yomissing of potatoes from the EOeSs X . w at Vy found 30 of Reading, of stealing field t 320 JHB John guilty bushels Jagies days. Schmeck, to jail and his It wife $78 Stewart nul- -~ t {tie the common ases which had been filed sance { against them n Criminal Norristown { ourt Shockley, ining a woman purse containing over Joseph while sh pair him by a hotel turned it to the owner For the Pittstown ted town be a nodist pretending t African Met Robert Criminal 0 Johnson in Court and vic sent to jail for or Samuel J. made Com perous Chester Entriken, who ones the North wi Peary, is now Pughtown, a fo th mander farmer near county voyage a pro & who and of Langsdorf, have ff ial Employes Boig cigar manufacturers, Quakertown notified of an increase of per thousand. The increase about 500 cigarmakers, tories Perkasie, have Ln at been cents af ect % Volo Weitz, aged 18, fell off a tree while picking chestnuts at Mt, Carmel and broke his A year ago he met with a similar acciden and had a crooked nose The re.-® cent fall will member being straightened out once more, nossa since then result in the of R. D received jarbees reach is of an inch, tract ‘honey almost Mr. Horton his friends one dollar for each bee, Bloomsburg, has a of Ital their tongue- one-hundredths | enables them any Horton, from Kentucky it asserted twenty-three which from tells lot i= to ex- | flower he paid - that the should keep a pair of bloodhounds to be used in cases where crimes are committed,” was the comment of Joseph Hanon, former County Commissioner of Law- rence comnty, when discussing the fact that murders have been committed in the county recently and | none of the murderers have been cap tured. believe county several October 7, 1787, the Rev. Dr. Henry | Melchoir Muhlenberg, Lutheran | ploneer, died at his home in Trappe, | Montgomery county He came to | Pennsylvania from Germany in 1742 | to organize congregations among the | German settlers and was active in | this work until the time of his death. | The church built under his directions at Trapple still stands, being pre | served as it was when he preached | there, the The champion red beet in the Cum- berland Valley was raised in the gar den of Ell D. Shearer, at Churchtown. It measured 10 Inches in length, 18% inches in welircumference and weighed 6% pounds. George J. Stewart, of Shippensburg, one of the members of the board of managers of the Reformatory, has purchased another Cumberland Yalley farm, paying $56,300 for it. Mr. Stew. art is sald to own more farms than any other man in Pennsylvania. He has over a hundred. > BY SON'S WIFE Former Ambassadorto Germany is Accused of Alienation. SHE DEMANDS RECOGNITION. Young Tower Married Her 1911 And She Seeks To Force Recogni- tion. Declares in Philadelphia.—Charlemagne Tower, former Ambassador Germany, made defendant in a suit filed “ere by Mrs. Georgeanna Tower, asking dam ages for alleged alienation of af fections of Charlemagne Tower, Jr, the 26-year-old son of the former diplo- mat, whom Mrs. Tower her on June 7, 1911, The suit comes as a climax peated reports that young Tower had been married while a student and repeated denials himself his parents of the marriage The younger Mrs. quietly with her mother, Mrs A. Burdick, at the Netherlands ment House, Mr with his parents The formal, two young persons that, through Tower wife and such Mrs dick, more friends by cause of her cent. TI] Tower, was performed at the her mother, Whalley av ue, N Haven, Conn At that tim Was student at BAYS to is the Lis says 10 re at Yale and by Tower is Apart Tower's H 13123 of claim the home at Locust street is purely of the statement alleging marriage and setting forth suasion and threats, Mr been induced t to refuse to recognize her has 0 leave hi Tower was Georgean: widely known the name O pronounced So ¥ i 1¢ marriage, according t e of 28 New lower Tower mar a Yale she consented riage secret until girict who marry uated, as there is that students university a must leave Refused Recognition, She Says. then, she { husband and his parents to Ze her as the young er s Since charges recogni man According (« Mrs nonetary law ver Tower does sire compel and his The suit upon as the | a legal ruling fied wife in the THE WAY BOSTON DOES Will Build to Catch the Transatiantic Trade. a Drydock Hamburg, Germany steams! ip companies the Cunard Ave entered Boston harbor a cording to build bigges the to the will the which thr anteed ber of ee companies arrange for minim dockings LETTER WORTH $10,000 TO GIRL. Sustained As Will Of Fiance Who Died Under Knife Seattle, Wash under: went an operation from which he nev- er Charlies E. Eastman wrote a to his flancee, Miss Susan Fauley, and told her he wanted her to have a fourth fortune He forgot to mail the letter, but some body mailed it after death, nd it became the basis of a suit in the Superior Court ifch was decided favor of Miss Fauley. Before he recovered, letter of IR else his here w in LOAN SHARK GETS 6 MONTHS, York. New York David H. Tolman, no torious as a loan shark, was convicted of violating the state law against us ury and sentenced to serve six months in the penitentiary. The complain. ant, a clerk, testified that he had paid interest at the rate of 200 per cent. the use of $10 for The defendant said he 50 loan fices throughout the United States, three months. of TO FURTHER CONSERVATION, Congress Will Establish Organization in Every State. Washington. — The National vation Congress has arranged Conser to es of the Union ft closer home to the people. plans for Maryland will be in clarge kins University, the State secretary, THE CHAMPION HEN, C542 Mas Laid 283 Eggs Within a Year, Corvallis, Ore.-—Upon hen *“C.543" the Oregon Agricultural College here has conferred the title of “the great. est hen in the world” She has just laid her two hunfired and eighty-third egg within a year, making what Is sald to be a world's record. “C.543" was hatched April 20, 1012, and began laying at the age of 51% months, { | i | (Copyright) GEN. VILLA KILLS | | i Are Executed. CITY OF TORREON IS TAKEN tutionalists Have Also Federal Artillery. Reported to All the and Captured Arms 1 do. ’ Feds and Were #xa« orders foreigner the street fig ress lowed the or during the rebel tutionalist comn tection for them GOT $500 TO MURDER MRS. GAY. Negro Implicates Another a Third Person. Burr NEEro who conie to death And Also Lafond beat Sep- WAR He having Los Angeles Cal Harris, the ing Mrs. Rebecca P tember 26, told $500 to 16) geod (iay the police iat he the negro as third name the other negro at Diego the noney and buried Tia paid implicated acted did not Harris said he m A point of San murder, received the i near Juana. murder another agent for disclose woman, as a par of the ot south after he The custome station negro’'s at of the police that Mrs. Gay had been killed by a paid assassin at the insti gation of her enemies. ONION INDUSTRY! IN DANGER. Devastating Eelworm Makes Appear. ance in This Country. Washington. Lovers of | and onions were startled when the De {partment of Agriculture announced i that the tylenchus devastatrix had in vaded the United States and the ture of the onion industry was in jeop tardy. The invaders, with the imposing is known al#d as the onion eel Hitherto it has confined its operations to Europe, Africa and Aus tralian, where it has wrought havoc, | worm Hurt. MACHINE CRASHES INTO ROOF = Daugh- Whirling Blades of the opeller Sweep Hildreth Sisters, ters of WW, E. Hildreth, York, of New From Their Seats. emuiate iy performs goud. grew to the field piane and Machine Wrecked. hine careened, wild few feet 30 feet to tl Beaches kage practica of directed to the Hild Hoon ttantiar aiieniion jookers was sisters, both of whom lay had elder, where they fallen Ruth struck her an au temple A had failing ¢ ner of he cori in head against ne . ing wound in gaping physician among the her de and ina to, leax a her speciators rushed turned him as human aid Dorothy Hildreth h broken leg, a broken ble internal injuries had struck her breast tent stake hospital reported to sad to pronounced ¢ face those her Ar beyond ¢ " he ad suffered a arm and possi in falling she against an iron She was removed to the t Bath Her condition is extremely critical. a as Their Escorts Bruised Lieutenants Bellinger and Richard son, escorts of the two girls, who were from 1 roof, escaped severe bruises Beachey greatly depreszeed by the accident which marred his first ap pearance at a public meet following also thrown he with a few Was in this country. SQUANDERED SON'S MONEY. Mathias Stesle Convicted of Embezzle- ment of $15,000, Hollidaysburg, Pa. Mathias Stesle, & prominent bullding association of: | ficlal of Altoona, Pa. and president of a German singing society, was con. victed here on a charge of embezzling $15,000 belonging to his minor son, John H. Stesle. The prosecutor was a bonding company, the surety on Stesle confessed on the witness stand that he had squandered $75.000 of oth. er people's money in real estate spec. ulations, NEW ITALIAN AMBASSADOR. Count Vincenzo Macchi Di Cellere Ap. pointed. Rome —Count Vincenzo Macchi di Cellere was appointed Italian Ambas- the Marquis Cusani Confaloniere, who has been recalled at his own request, Macchi di Cellere was Minister to Argentina from 1807 until 1812 and before that was private secretary suc to Tommaso Tittonl, Mar. San Guiliano and Count Guieclardini when they held the post of Minister for Foreign Affaire in the {tallan Cabinet. a REPEAL 18 CONSIDERED. UnderWood and Simmons in Confer ence at State Department, Washington. After conferring with President Wilson, Solicitor Folk, of the State Department, went into con. ference with Representative Under. wood and Senator Simmons to recom mend modification or repeal of the five per cent. differéntial in the new tariff law against which foreign nations gen. erally are protesting. BUILT ON A SANDY BEACH. | Men And Women Work All Night In Icy Water To Save Household | Effects Population 4,000 | In Summer, “eit Alans ke Nor wlne, LIAB KA SOLE destroved hy wtrives i rr: a Front street has disappeared territory n but no Phere GIVES $435000 TO CHARITY. Mrs. Mary Davis McKnight's Will Filed At Galesburg, ill Galesburg. 11 With the 8: of Mrs. Mary Dav McKr t $435,000 o vad been given to ¢h gifts are Mood fcago, $25,000 ty. $25.000, $25 ongregational Foreign America Congregation the will it became known tha the G00 ard of ( ons, $75,000 Associat irch, $100,600 and Mission ion of {he TO PAY LARGEST INCOME TAX, Wife Of Ambassador To Austria Must Give Up $245,000. Philadelphia Probably the largest income tax in America will paid by Mrs, Anne Weightman Walker Pen field, wife of Frederick Courtland Pen id, Ambasador to Austria will be required to turn over a fortune to Uncle Sam every vear under the new Income Tax law Mrs. Penfield’'s in come from the estate of her father is $3.500000 a year and the tax will amount to $245.000. The vaiue of the | property i= estimated at $70,000,000 i he fie She | RED SPHYNX IN PHILADELPHIA, Second Largest Egyptian Monument Ever Brought To America *hiladelphia A sphynx carved from a solid block of red granite and weigh. {ing two tons arrived here oh the tramp steamer Schildirum from Suez { for the collection of the University of | Pennsylvania. The figure bears a like | ness of the head of Rameses 11 and is | the largest ancient Egyptian monu | ment ever brought to this country ex | cept the obelisk, “Cleopatra’s Needle.’ tune of $450,000. Sioux City, Jowa. From coal heaver to a4 German count with a fortune of nearly $500,000 is the experience of Henry von Hagedorn, of Sioux City, a fireman on the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad, who received a cable gram from Germany stating that by the death of Count Heinrich von Hagedorn of Strassburg he receives a fortune of $460,000 and the title, Oo ————————————————————————— POWELL WANTS BIGELOW REPORT Monthly Record Should Show Amount of Work Executed CISCREPANCY IS STARTLING ’ Records in One Office Show 277 Miles of State, State-Aid and National Roads Were Built—Others Show 104. Btate records gloner fifty fy General n Philadelphia utenant Loses Office. commission i Lie Brigade nination, ines & pre Depart ent and will il operators the State, so that the anthra collacted effect J; of colle the Auditor for a tax prepared made International ite tax new law E Owes and the duty YO Ves The upon enoral provides of 21% } ail law cent on for per coal market The annually i fafiure © to report pent of one ¥ while an tax. to reports must be 1 Januars we part of a coal company imprisor vear or $500 fine or bot! neglect to file report will mean increase of 10 per the One-half tax is returnable counties mining the coal Mixed on Chinaman'’s Alibi. swearing that EH W in Philadelphia the of April 18, and swearing that they saw him in Colum- bus on April 18 and 19, complicated matters at the hearing on the protest against honoring a requikition from Ohio for the return Columbus of Moy Fat, under arrest in Philadelphia. A protest was lodged against the req. uisition and decision reserved. Coun gel for the Chinaman, who is accused of murder. declared that habeas cor n punishable by cent io the the they late on two Two witnesses Moy Fat evenin io Charged with carrying concealed weapons, E. A. Joyce was arrested. This is the second man within rested on a charge of carrying a re volver concealed. The other was Richard Williams, who was arrested in Sibletown by Policeman Stanley, It ie charged by the policeman that Williams was arrested after he had fired a shot at another man during an argument. Willams was held for court under bail, by Mayor Royal Joyce's hearing will be held shortly.
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