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.
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OF ALL DINNERS
| Thanksgiving Day Has Become
a High Priced Holiday.
MEALS NEVER SO COSTLY.
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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.
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NOW, WHO'S
THE JOKE ON?
(Copyright)
CROSS ATLANTIC
IN AEROPLANE
(Arrangements Being Made in
London and New York.
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| PLANNED BY
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[To Be An
GLEN CURTIS.
Anglo-American Venture
Financed By a Prominent
New York Sportsman—To
Start In August.
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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.
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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.
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SOUTHERN ROAD'S
PRESIDENT DEAD
‘William W. Finley Succumbs
After Appopectic Stroke.
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|
|
| 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.
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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
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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<class postoffices dur
Mil
Shamokin, Chambersburg and
are thirteen boroughs or cities in the
| State whose postmasters receive sim
flar sums and which therefore have
a chance of being boosted into the
first-class division.
Farmers’ Institutes.
Farmers’ institutes, held In at
least two communities In every
county, under the supervision of the
State Department of Agriculture,
will be started this week. Dauphin
and Cumberland counties will have
six days of the institutes. There will
also be thirty-three days of the far
mers’ movable schools. The first in
stitute in Dauphin County will open
at Middletown. The meetings will be
held until next March 17. It ia
hoped that the meetings will be of