SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
items of Interest.
————
Farmers Busy In
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi
ness “nd Pleasure that Interest.
Warrants are out at Hazleton charg.
ing Harry Thompson, of Augusta, Ga.,
with bigamy.
In an effort to close all Mt. Carmel
business places on Sunday a petition
was signed by 17 of the most
inent merchants.
prom-
House,
a licensed
seeking a
The owners of the Luzer
Hazleton, which has been
saloon for 60 years, are not
license this time.
ne
new car
Raflway
be
In a few days the
shop of the Reading
pany at St. Clair will
occupancy.
repair
Com-
for
ready
A freight car on the Reading Rall
way jumped the track near McAuley,
ran along the 200 yards, then
jumped back on the track.
ties
Pleading guilty to forgeries on which
he got $900, C. D. Meckley, of Milton,
was sent from Lewisburg to the Es
ern Penitentiary for three years
t has 2 ranted an appli
merge the Reading
— the Ch er of
Of
Judge En
cation for a
Board of Trads
Commerce.
dliel
ami
The Ninth
the Reading
has res
ireet
finishing r if
Company ,Reading,
and 59 men
Iron
ope
umed rations,
are benefited.
Stricken with heart
working in his barn, Wil
farmer
minutes
Linfield,
near
LOAT
The ted
of paper towels in Norristown
In place of those used befors
hibitory law is $300
stima cost for substitution
schools
the pro
Aon
ircum-
Sicher's tree
E. Matz, of
tree bearing fruit
H a
14 Inches in «
H.
§ aroun
Topton, ha
ference,
has lemons
A pipe ania
Railroad
Thomas
£0 badly
bursting in {} ‘enns viv
shops, scalded
Sylvester, a night watchman
afterward
The annnu
Bucks Coun
of Public Cl}
daily cost for
28 cents,
Director
nia Odd Fel
bury have
mestic science and industrial
th «}
Lie Sq
s» Central
Orphanage
decided 14 int
Pennsyl
near Sune
va-
14 W's
roduace do-
work in
Q00:
Reading during
to 857.1 ar
caused careless
and
fire io
year
hem
The
amounted
were
match
ue
last 327.
of tl by
160 hy
with
flues.
Frank Schultz, 17 f Read
ing, who money from a dealer's
cash box at the Reading market house,
was fined $10 and sent to the Hunting
don Reformatory.
years old, ¢
took
Barber, colored,
ed by Judge Endlich the peniten.
tiary for from five years for
being discovered under a woman's bed
in a Reading hotel
Leroy was sentend
to
two to
During a heavy wind storm in Down.
ingtown the cupola on the Central
Presbyterian Church was blown from
its position and, turning upside down,
of the edifice, doing much damage.
C. Y. Donnell, of Ofl City,
apples of the Ben Davis
a perfect state of preservation,
were grown by F. W.
his farm in Oakland township, Venan-
go County, in 1912. The
which these specimens were
variety, In
Stevenson.
several farms in Londonderry,
and Conewago townships to M.
shey was a paper so yellow with age
a8 to be almost illegible! The
was dated 1787 and was for a certain
‘tract that was then known as “Lon.
don Derry” township. Elght pounds
11 shillings was the consideration in
the transaction.
Derry
John T. Flick and Car! Squire have
the job of cutting logs at the Berry
ompany camp, on Little Tionesta
Creek, and have upward of 125,000 feet
cut, but are just now considerably
handicapped by the deep snow.
Malin Brown, of Pocopaon township,
Delaware County, has a pack of bea
ble hounds almost as large as a pack
for fox hunting, although they do not
chase the latter animal. A couple of
days ago he took an account of stock
and discovered that he is due to pay
tax for 11 of the animals.
[BILL T0 AMEND
THE SHERMAN LAW
ye
Restraint “In Any Degree” llle-
gal Under Stanley Measure.
ABOLISHES “RULEOF REASON”
Kentucky Congressman introduces
Anti-Trust Amendment After a
Conference With Presi.
dent,
Washington.—Representative Stan
ley, of Kentucky, after a conference
with President Wilson, introduced an
amendment to the
would make illegal the monopoliza-
tion or restraint of trade “in any de
gree.” It is designed to eliminate the
Su-
preme Court in the Standard Oil case.
The amendment also would invest
the circuit courts of the United States
with jurisdiction to restrain and pre
vent violations of the act, irrespective
of the Attorney-General
to meet the wish of the Pres
pressed in his last message Con-
gress, to reduce the debatable area sur.
rounding the Sherman act. Represen.
tative Stanley discussed the measure
ident,
to
corresponded with him at on
the subject
The Kentucky Congressman
was chairman of the special committee
which investigated the United States |
length
measure as an Administration amend
ment, but believes it will be of
the committees of Congress
draft the legisiation
fo
will anti-trust
The
second
man law
supreme
would amend
bill
and fourth sections of the Sher
Stanley
In Section 2, Into which the
Court injected
“in any
that the
reason.” the words
nse
read
“Every
ried, so
who shall monopolize
combine
person
or attem to monopolize or
with any
persons monopolize in
any part of the trade
among the
foreign nations
of a misdemeanor, and on
thereof shall be punished
exceeding $5,000, by ir
not Year,
said punishments, in the
the court
Discussing
White
unreasonable
Stanley
or conspire other person or
to any degree
Or commerce
with
deemed guilty
tion
not
ent
both
of
several States, or
ghall be
conyl
by
risonr
by
discretion
fine
or
excesding one
that portion
's decis whi
restraint
Ju
to
Representative
had always
to the d
law
“Many
tinued,
ig to ren
tions in restraint
iable The
“in any degree”
will save the
any such interpret
all restraints
gtice ion
regarded it
and
ecin
ion
however, believe”
hat the effect of
der
this decizgion
illegal only such bina
of tradd as un
insertion of the
with the other
am
ation
y
of trade il
com
are
reason
words
provisions
ed from
will render
legal
law as end
and
WILSON CABLES SYMPATHY.
Secretary Bryan Also Sends Message
Lamenting Disaster.
Washington. —An exchange of cable
grams between President Wilson and
the Emperor of Japan over the Sakura
Jima disaster was made public
dent Wilson's message was as follows
To His Majesty the Emperor of
Japan
Having learned of
dented disaster that
your country through
and tidal wave, | beg to assure
your Majesty and the Japanese
people of my deep sympathy and
that of the American people,
WOODROW WILSON.
Wilson received the fol
today from Emperor
Presi
the unprece.
"has visited
earthquake
President
lowing reply
Yoshihito:
Pray accept my sincerest thanks
for the sympathetic message sent
by yourself and American people
for the terrible disaster.
RETAIL GROCERS ORGANIZE.
in Pittsburgh To |
Pittsburgh, Pa-—Retail grocers
the Pittsburgh district met here and
through
Besides
Allegheny county, grocers from 19
ginia joined the body. The association
is capitalized at $1.000,000.
DIES SUDDENLY IN CHURCH.
Henry W,. Griffith, Secretary Of the
Norfolk and Western,
New York.--A man believed to be
Henry Walten Griffith, of Philadelphia,
secretary of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, died suddenly in All-Angels’
Protestant Episcopal Church, on West
End avenue, Cards bearing Mr. Grif
fith’s name and an Income tax receipt:
made out to him furnished the means
of identification. The body was re-
move nonlice station.
? eppses SIA
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WALL OF WATER
JWEEPS TOWNS
pending Danger.
Of Water Fiftesn Feet
Sweeps Down Stony and Potomac
Be
Rivers, Carrying All
fore It.
Md
wild
‘umberland Had
man
fore
made a
daybreak tl
W. Va
the great storage
" »
Schell, warning the
dam of
Kinia
Dobbin
its crur
t
Johnsatowr
near
that !
dave
repeated on a
The t«
id Hephor
was out of con
of warning the
iy took to the hills an amped aroun
A few persons had
of
bonfires previou
ly known danger
md
ana
op
had soug!
nd
imtain &
#1 rue
mon
tions
Four Feet Of Flood At Schell.
The first part of the. flood
Western Maryland Railway
W. Va, below, where
Stony river into the
3 o'clock. and
flood
gher than ever
The
reached
the
Schell
the
Potomac
that point
15 feet
before in
near
20 miles
empties
about
had a
feet hb
river;
BOON
geveral i
the history of Schell
tide not only went over railroad
tracks but it swept away several
stretches of track and the bed of the
Western Maryland Railway Com pus ¥
In its course down stream the wall
water washed away the Grant coun
br idge and at Schell a large foot
bridge across the Potomac river melted
flood like
t upon the
the
of
ty
BNOWwW Cas
tide
On its down Potomac
river the flood struck the mining towns
of Gleason, Blaine,
Va.,, and Kitzmiller, the largest
Maryland,
lower
course the
out
of Oakland. The sections
while as far as ie known no houses
No loss of life has been reported.
DIES ON EVE OF WEDDINC.
iR. D.
Southern, Asphyxiated,
New York-—Richard D
and secretary
Lankford, a
of the |
and the coroner decided
mitted suicide, but later developments |
cast doubt on the suicide theory. Fall |
assertion of his friends and Miss Nellie
Patterson, a Brooklyn society girl,
whom he was to have married Satur
day, that his death was accidental
Mr. Lankford was 46 years old.
FIRST WOMAN DIPLOMAT NAMED.
Will Become Secretary Of Norwegian
Legation In Mexico.
London. The first woman to take
up the diplomatic service as a profes.
gion has just been appointed in Chris.
tim, according to a dispatch publish.
jed fn the Daily Mirror. She is Miss
| Hy nrietta Hoegh, 27 years old, and is
| to he first secretary of the Norwegian
legation in Mexico. She parsed exami
nations in international law and
political economy two years ago.
ON A ROCK IN
Refugees Are Found.
[RESCUED BY NAVAL CREW.
They Hid In Cave
Eruption and Afterwards Climbed
On the Rock and Sought To
Attract Attention.
a During
here « E Were
sian Sakura
ean is
bay
situated
The
has been enti
3
three miles
Lhe contour th
rely
week
did not
the
. but
o
ales
8iI0LE
sailors
account of
noxious gases
scrutiny
terriffic
made a
heat
ghore The
and covered with
and hb
Was FOX INg
10t lava
WAS
bei
when
All
hums
day,
tos
IRuUr
and no
ngs was seen until |
an of in
moe r
noticed
desolation
An ate
ofie
nething
short
hes 801
al Aa
detact
protect
be ing
in the alr {
the shore. A
heavily bundled to
the heat, was landed
struggle they succeeded In making
their through soft warm sashes
; breast high until they reached a great
rock. Sheltered behind this rock they
| found 33 people, still living, but coated
with thick dust and weakened by star
vation and thirst. Among the
Iwas a master who
{with him from his school house the
portrait of the Emperor: the village po
liceman, who had saved the records of
| the station house and the postal clerk,
| with a small bag of mail
waved dis
from
an
iment of men,
them from
After a hard
way
Ie
school
i
!
|
J ALL WERE SAVEDAS
SHIP WAS BREAKING
Vessels Called by Wireless
Locate Stranded Packet.
VICTORY FOR THE WIRELESS,
Mail Liner Breaking Up When Help
Arrived-—Struck Granite Pinnacle
While Bliz.
Raging.
Before Dawn
zard Was
Yarmouth, N, 8 from
death, the
Roval Mail
Ig in Yar
Snatched
what seemed almost certain
of the
re snl
passengers
Packet
mouth
The
which
hours
and crew
Cobequid a
harbor
wireless appeals for assistance
the Cobequid had first made 36
before were answered as the
racked to
on Trinity Rock, six miles off
Port Maitland
The rescue will go down in shipping
annals as one of the
accomplished on the Atlantic
The Cobequid had begun to break
up the cannonading the ter
rific seas that had been merciless from
time the vessel struck. Quan-
of cargo covered waters as
ranged alongside.
coastal steamers Westport and
L thelr
boats and these
of
isdowne
most notable ever
Coast
under of
titles the
the lifeboats
The
Cann were fi to
into the
SOON
ment
rst get
small water
11 3 3 ats
foliowed by the boats
Gover steamer Lan
glegmer Rapg
of
subsided cons
ahannock.
red
and n
the work rescue progres
iderably
riumph
0
over the
BOY BURNED TO DEATH.
House Destroyed By Fire While Child's
Parents Were Away
Md
dence of Chas
Hagerstowr
resi
v re wh 1¢
were away from
vearold
He
TO STANDARDIZE RADIUM
Federal Bureau Gets Tiny Particle For
Experiments
Slates, was re
weighs 20 milli
Only 30 grar
own be in
of the Bureau
experiment on
ki!
io
ay that they have
ght srr rie
WE BDC Measures
four metals
FOLLOWS MORGAN'S LEAD.
John Claflin Decides To Retire From
All Directorates
New
the dry
and pr
York
goods firma of H ).
esident of the C
has des
n every finan
head of
“laflin &
hamber of
withdraw
ial institu
{£0
Lommerce, ided to
as a direc
tion on whose board
Mr. Claflin, in explaining
sald he was oo busy to attend to the
duties involved and has notified the
financial institutions of which he was
a director that ild decline a re
tor
he is member
a
his decizion
he wot
$1,000,000 TO 400 EMPLOYEES.
Executors Of Altman Make Distribu.
tion Of Legacies.
New York About 400 employes of
Altman & ( who were entitled to
under the of Renjamin
just received checks ag
have ju
more than $1.000,000. In
B 0
will
Altman,
warship and provided with food and
| drink. They explained that they had
{ hidden in & great cave near the shore
{until the rain of ashes was over and
{had then tried hour after hour to at
tract attention.
ARTIFICIAL DIGESTION.
| Prof. Bertholet Claims To Mave Re.
produced the Process.
Paris. Prof. Daniel Bertholet claims
i to have reproduced artificially the pro-
cons of digestion by the action of the
ultra-violet rays from a mercury Vapor
lamp on food substances contained in
a quartz vessel,
SLAIN MAN'S BODY FROZEN.
Search Reveals Battered Remains At
Green Ridge.
Seranton, Pa-The frozen body of
Robert Fidiam, prominent in coal min:
ing circles, was found in the Green
Ridge section. The head was battered
in and the circumstances pointed to a
most brutal murder. Searching parties
were sent after Mr. Fidiam when he
falled to return home alter having
been absent since Monday morning.
He was 068 years old,
i
man foundation expect to announce
the details of a profit-snaring plan for
employes and gifts to charitable and
educational , institutions as suggested
in the will.
NINE BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Flames In Troy.
Troy. N. Y.-
ice and coal plant of Haughnesy &
Co., and eight other buildings, most of
them residences. The inmates, scant
belongings. The loss is estimated at
$150,000,
A
GERMAN WOMEN WANT VOTE.
Petition Asking For Suffrage Intro.
duced Into Parliament.
Berlin. —A petition asking that the
franchise be given to women and that
they be allowed to vole at the elections
for the Imperial Parliament and also
to sit as Deputies was introduced into
the Imperial Parliament by the Cen
man Woman's Suffrage Union. It was
not directly rejected, but was referred
to the consideration of the government
without any recommendation,
| COURT ORDERS
GABRIEL CALL
Wants Mortgage Holder of 107
Years Ago to Appear
INSTRUMENT DATED 1807
Unless Jonathan Bonsall or His Heir
Appears Lien on $27,000 Worth of
Land Will Be Declared Forfeited
ls the Decree of the Court,
who 1}
gal
prove
mortg
over onsall
declared paid sfied
Although all trace of Bonsall has
and the morigage
agains propemy
Chester str
mill
mill,
Heved
satisfy
books a
iff Heyburn
Pappas, the new owner of t
Cal Jag U De
heir
tr bi ¢
3 the ¢
age
tO
spy ol
and
lost
a plece of
pls
race a
Main
the
sold fo:
have been
red
decree
nd
recenty
to in order
the ord moriga
ha issued
Sher on
ae
appear
‘3 clare the
origina
ef
an
to default
OOur
Origage
h Out
“Back to Farm” Problem.
Pottstown
girls
and
the advice
Yania,
culturiets
“Keep your
and
far rs’ wives out
given by }
¢ big assemblag:
the Institute of
' Union in session
were most
the pazzli:
Ww 10 kee
make
of the
red Card
Pe yy
arm
to tl
at
Coventry Farmers
Cedarville. They
ing to do this, but
tion with them
there
£ ques
was ho them
Shot Ag He Fires on Cops.
Pittsburgh — William Smutzer, said
to be an escaped convict from Indian
apolia, was shot and fatally wounded
in a house on the South Side, here
City Detectives Charles Freebon and
Albert Bebee, acting under orders from
Superintendent of Police Matthews,
went to the house to arrest Smulser,
and when he saw them coming he
opened fire, which wag returned by
ths officers.
Buried in Wood He Grew.
Harrisburg.~~Jjohn Snyder, a farmer
fn the eastern end of Dauphin County.
was buried in a coffin made of wood
of a walnut tree which he had planted
He was
85 years of age, and when his health
began to fall directed that his coffin
be made of the wood of his favorite
tree.
Sunday Sellers Defiant.
Norristown~—The assertion that the
Rev. J. Eimer Saul, the new Burgess,
would not hold hearings on Sunday,
was made good his first Sunday in
office. But the cigar stores and can-
dy shops were defiantly open. Bur
gess Saul was out of town, so that
it could not be learned what steps he
intends to take. He is sald to have
declared that he will not stand for
such form of gambling as “ouch” pool,
and cigar stores have taken the hint
and dene away with slot machines and
other gambling devices,