SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy In Churches Raieing Funds for Many Worthy Objects—Items of Busl ness “nd Pleasure that Interest. Little Alden Akins was crushed under a collapsing pile of lumber ian Conshohocken, the chicken of Consho- Thieves “cleaned out” house of John Douglass, hocken, of 50 chickens. Inability to procure sufficient good help is retarding the construction of Pottstown's new sewer system. Matthew Robinson, an aged resident of Conshohocken, died gangrene, developed from a slight scratch. Charles Carsaguo and J. Narduccl were arrested in Norristown, charged with illegal liquor selling at their homes, of the auto Norris- The loss On a ’'coon-hunting trip mobile of Samuel Roberts, town, was destroyed by fire. is $1,000, of Walter Washington was arrested in Norristown for having robbed Frank Burns, an Upper Merion farm hand, of $12, Stricken with paralysis as about to take a walk, Mrs. Krause, a wellknowr woman, died in a few hours. Emily Pottstown At a dinner given in Pottstown to ~5 of his friends by Recorder T. Darlington Buckwater, the ish was West Virginia raccoon. of Deeds chief d William was were a bull Buckingham, three ribs While Henry knocked fractured. stabling Carver, down of and and James Greese mountains Rocco Tassone have been arrested in n of West Virginia for the murder of Tony Collato, near Lancaster. 8S. G. Eby, of Weatherly, school d tor, the the Although has been he cannot serve, as he was one Judges of election in ile re elected on? When a train struck their rig, Rob ert Whitmire, aged 65, was instantly killed and Mr. and Mrs. Fred and their 10-months-old child p fatally hurt, 4t Oneida. body of 15 Year Horne, of Neelyton, County, was found in home, accidentally shot his own rifle, Shoup ernaps old James Huntingdgn - Near by The the woods to d eath setting its head into & bin where chicken feed was kept, a valuable pony belonging to William L. Randall, of Doylestown, much that it died. ate so k Panther Coal two larg. bris in the Creek Valley, and Lehigh and Navigation Company's weeks’ pay to employes was t est ever for two weeks. Business {is the last he of an ntlv nuy At Myerstown in a colli automobile and a team Mrs. N. Gross, of mexchant, was seriously glass from a shattered plercing her left eye. A Reading hospital is giving Pas. teur treatment to Elmer McCoy, Wil lam Ebling, Emerson Musser and Le. roy H. Price, all of whom were bit. ten by mad dogs. Moreland township residents filed at Norristown that two county bridges, costing about were necessary Creek, near Heaton station here rece a Harrisburg injured, d-shield wife Win testi. new £4,000, Parryville Health Board has been ment because it held no meeting last ken out. . as smallpox cases at the outset, W. C. Sittler, Mahoning, has appealed Acting as a peacemaker In a quar rel between countrymen, Cimio stab near the heart, and Nuncenzio Dimoteo, his alleged assallant, was locked up. Five cents each was offered Sun bury dealers for eggs by New York merchants, Accidentally shot by a hunter at Tuckahoe, Russell Broscious, 14, was rushed to a Harrisburg hospital in an effort to save his sight. When her clothing caught fire after she had lighted a match to hunt her engagement ring, Miss Della Sea sholtz, 18, was probably fatally and her mother seriously, burned at Sun. bury. i . OF ALL DINNERS | Thanksgiving Day Has Become a High Priced Holiday. MEALS NEVER SO COSTLY. i Not In 25 Years Has the Average American Been Obliged To Ex. pend So Much For His Stomach, Washington, Thanksgiving dinner Was the most expensive meal the Average American has eaten during the last 25 years. It cost from 35 to 100 per cent. more than it did 10 years ago, and from 15 to 60 per cent more than many Thanksgiving Days during the last six years, according to recently gathered government sta- tistics, Thousands of turkeys having been shipped to market dur ing the unseasonably warm wave which overspread the country a week ago; the drouth of last summer which shortened crop yields, particularly white potatoes; an alleged cold-stor- age combination, which Attorney Gen- eral McReynolds now is investigating to find if millions of dozens of CER! and millions of pounds of dairy prod ucts have been withheld from the mar ket by middlemen to force high prices and the steady soaring of prices erally during the last ded ade among the contributing which economists point The great Ameri hen, somewhat responsible spoiled by gen are auses LE however, for the of eggs, ac- re Agricultu is extraordinarily high price cording to Department of officials, the and say, sooner who are reluctar blame upon cold storage. drouth of the last summ the hens Heat they caused than usual. As to turkey, the rise in rice all have extended the cons geems to route beginning the barnyard, farmer ed an average cents a pound for his birds, a more than he got last But turkey not a Thanksgi bird at all, according to the “The Lord never intended t be the Thanksgiving food of the coun- try generally,” says Dr. Mary E. Pen- nington, the expert in food research in the Federal Bureau “Christmas the time Green goose is the Thanksgi and is generally where Martig’s Day is about this time of the year. In colonial days in New England. where the win- ter in was dif- favorable to turkeys prevail a8 a whole, aiong to umer the 15 at recely where of cent 8 ving experts, of iB used ot celebrated season sets early. it ferent and more but over $ such conditions do the not United States ASKS $306,000,000 FOR MAILS. Largest In History. Washington Estimates $306,000,000 for the postal the next mitted by gon to Congress totaling for been sub Postmaster-General Burle. This total, if em- bodied as framed in accordance with the growth of tha Postoffice Depart- ment, would make the greatest appro priation ever made in a single appro priation measure. Hearings on administrative provisions of the together with bills recently gervice fiscal have year the bill mittee on Postoffice, post, regarding parcel Indemnification, extension * of money order paying business in every postoffice and will be held by the committee this week, The er contemplate substantial extension of the parcel post service, which branch is eredited with a large part of the surplus of $4,500,000 earn- ed by the postal service for the fiscal year just closed. One-dent postage promises to be one of the live issues to be fought out in the regular ses- sion of Congreas. other matters timates a BLOW UP TROOP TRAIN. Mexican Rebels Kill Three Federal Soldiers. Mexico City. —A troop train carry- ing 300 Federals was blown up by dynamite near Laventura, on the Na- The rebels are said to have shot and killed children. TRANSPORT PRAIRIE SAILS. Changed By Wireless. Philadelphia, — With 800 marines and a full crew on board, the trans port Prairie left the Philadelphia Navy Yard at 1 o'clock Thursday for South- ern waters. The months’ cruise. The marines are com- manded by Col. J. A. Lejeune. A Ae BBO UPSIDE DOWN WITH PASSENGER. Garros Accomplishes This Feat First Time In Movnoplane. Villacoublay, France —Roland G. Garros accomplished for the first time In a monoplane a flight head down- ward carrying a passenger. During the maneuver the machine made sev- eral loops. # NOW, WHO'S THE JOKE ON? (Copyright) CROSS ATLANTIC IN AEROPLANE (Arrangements Being Made in London and New York. i | PLANNED BY { [To Be An GLEN CURTIS. Anglo-American Venture Financed By a Prominent New York Sportsman—To Start In August. i Pari in London { plane fi | Lo take pia ject is {the next Augus d by a The proj Glenn Curtiss John $ ns being planne American a 8 chief assista Dale and whose identity has not but be a 1 AK ritish viato: A viator; | Cooper one of hi an Englishman, been made known. ald to promin nd sports iancial man . backing The plans tage call for Newfoundland flight to n Coast chine de« y has a but ted his piane, whic} not as yet Or smbody machine American and Eng the flight in wt rie both fdeas and teé will be an Anglo- Americ said at when Americans every an ven at British the and route to | Right Fuel be carrie to The is ¢ X ped ted to average belween is planned n this time chine 65 and 70 miles an hour The chief plans for the u have fallen upon Mr. Ci ndertaking irtiss, who has examination of the conditions and he is confident that the trans-Atlantic flight will be made with- in the next 12 months. He has looked up the weather the past 20 years and found August to be the most favorable month from a meteoro- logical standpoint made a thorough records for WILSON FINISHES MESSAGE. Just When Me Will Read It Depends On Circumstances. Washington President Wilson's annual message, which he will read to Congress is finished, but just when it will be delivered will depend upon the convenience of both houses in arrang- ing a joint session. Hitherto, the President's message has been read the day after the convening of Congress It Is expected that the President will | dwell considerably on the need for early action on the Currency bill and { that he will develop, in a general Way, | the attitude of the Administration to- | Congressional committees the task of | writing specific remedies. He also { will refer to the Mexican situation. iM i UST SHOW PROPAGANDA COSTS. Massachusetts Public Service Corpora. | tions So Ordered. Boston, Quarterly i neys, legislative agents, newspaper Commission by all corporations under {its jurisdiction. An order to this ef- | feet was adopted at an executive ses. sion of the commission. More than {160 corporations are effected, Ineclud- ting all steam and electric railways i jand telephone and telegraph com- | panies, | MRS. GAY'S SLAYER TO HANG. Lawyers Will Appeal On Temporary Insanity Plea. Los Angeles, Cal—Burr Harris, the young negro convicted 10 days ago of murdering Mrs. Rebecea PP. Gay, the Christian Science practitioner, who was beaten to death September 286, was sentenced to be hanged on a date yet to be set. Harris’ attorney filed | notice of appeal. Harris admitted the | erime when captured and pleaded tem- | porary insanity at his trial. { SOUTHERN ROAD'S PRESIDENT DEAD ‘William W. Finley Succumbs After Appopectic Stroke. { | | | THE END COMES SUDDENLY Complained When He Rose Of Slight Pain In Head and Immediately After Lost Conscious- ness, It of a stroke ustained a few Fegan ct sen energetic health felled by yenin When he arose £3 He Mrs. F for a n and § room on id remedy when she was leaning his head buried in his hands he over dresse a tempted hastily to assis * - him in summoned hit her anus was irriedly and the physician was called. It that Mr. Finley was suffering a stroke of apoplexy and all ef to were made At 1.50 he passed away, with Mrs Finley, three of his daughters and his son at the bedside Until the end not even Mr. Finley's personal and business that he had been found Aid family was evident from him to consciousness restore forts most intimate associates knew stricken. ! Mr. Finley was born on September 1853, in Pass Christian, on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. He was educat ed in the private Pass Christian, and grew to early manhood in the atmosphere of this picturesque section of the South. At the age of 20 he entered the railroad service as a stenographer, and by 1889 he had filled every minor position in the clerical department of various rail roads. During the succeeding six years Mr. Finley served several rail- road systems in important executive " &, schools of almost | 1885, third vice-president of the South. ern Railway. Later he was second as second vice-president. later, in December, he was chosen | president of the Southern in succes. | sion to Samuel Spencer, who was kill- | ed in a rear-end collision on the morn- ‘ing of Thanksgiving Day, six years | ago. i MRS. PANKHURST GOES HOME. | Says She Collected $20,000 On Her Lecturing Tour. New York—Mrs. Emmeline Pank- hurst, England’s militant suffragette, sailed for home, taking with her, she said, $20,000 collected during her re- (cent lecture tour in this country. She woman suffrage in England. Mrs. Pankhurst said that on her arrival in Plymouth she expacted to be arrested and sent to jail to serve the remainder of a sentence uncompleted because of her hunger strike. . GAINED $76,406,657 IN A YEAR, Personal Property Assessment Pennsylvania $1,402,511,272, Harrisburg, Pa.—Personal property assessed for State taxes in Pennsyl vania in 1913 aggregated $1.402,511. 272, according to figures made public at the Auditor-General’s Department. Tn is an increase of §76,406,6567 over 1 (is [0 INVESTIGATE GOST OF MEATS Living Problems Receives Atten- tion of Congress, BEING SOLVED BY THE NAVY. To Limit Holding Of Food In Cold Storage To Ninety Days—Inde- By De. partment Of Justice. pendent Action Federal of Another the high criminal Washington vestigation in ing, to Cost promising prosecutions | i ¥ i i i 1 : General McReynolds can cold way Attorney find an BPIracy, is alleged slorags con under and a congres- sional investigation of a different phase of the cost of living Was threatened of the sifting ct dairy products old stor and even {epresentati preparing invest agents Depart of that eggs Justice are Iarges poultry and to piled up in age maintain iorce them higher t Iritten sritien for the ye of Illinois, is to ask a congressional igation 1010 prices of mes The proposal for a was prompted by Ia 5 Navy that the Navy it ry nds of 8 b 0 1 4 § it fe i 3 cold been BLEASE PARDONS 100. Wants Convicts To Eat Thanksgiving Dinners At Home Columbis pardoned ty-eight Thanksgi said brings Blease Blease's sumed the to 8x2 3 ord si governorship, in CABES make total s 1,000 in Christmas gifts of pardons up Governor Blease will hi FINALLY CATCH ZELAYA. Detectives Arrest Former President Of Nicaragua. New York Ex-President Zelava deposed dictator of Nica wanted by the Department tice for the murder and Leroy Cannon, A Nicaragua during his rested shortly before midnight He was taken into custody in the Hals. worthy apartment at Ninety-second street and West End avenue.” Zelaya was locked up in the Greenwicu Street Station. ragua who was of Jus of Leonard Groce TiCAnDS in Te Wag ar HEAD OF POLICE RESIGNS. Follows Exoneration Policemen From Charges. Action Of 30 Indianapolis, Ind Superintendent of Police Martin J. Hyland resigned when the Board of Public Works exonerated the 30 patroimen whom Hyland had charged with insubordina- tion for failure to ride on street cars during the recent street car strike. Capt. George V. Coflin was named act ing superintendent of police by Mayor Shank. SHE PREFERS JAIL TO FINE. Forbes Robertson's Sister, Smashed Window. Birmingham, England Miss Forbes Robertson, sister of Si» Johnston ing a window on the occasion of Premier Asquith’s visit to Birming- ham in July. The judge offered the but she declined to pay. " T. M. EMERSON DEAD, AAA Atlantic Coast Line Head Passes Away At Wilmington, N. C, Wilmington, N. CPresident Thos. M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line Rallway, died at his home at Carolina Heights, a suburb, following an attack of acute indigestion which he suffered at Dupont, Ga, while on a tour of Inspection of the system with other officials of the road. ‘RAILROAD MEN DISCUSS MERGER | Labor Leaders Address Meet- ings Held Throughout State SIX TO COMBINE IN ONE Workers Seeking Combination Into Single include Shop ’ Organization men, Clerks and Attaches of Rail way Bervice. (Special Harris Harrisburg Nass the Btute bination into shopmen fe Be More Effectiv Locomotive Plerce being road police egy told ws ail costs the company year to “1 am going t« put a stop to expense.” There are more than 10.0¢ n employed here, all of whom are eager to join the new organization. mainiain polices Suggest 10 such Use a Wy Parcel Post Boosts Salaries. Ever-increasing business of parcel post will, within year, add a number postoffices of the first-class division. the coming second- Pennsylvania to All postoffices the of the or Harris and posimaster $23.000 a first-class offices firstclase postoffice : their year is a Among the nearby places which may become first