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SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
items of Interest.
Churches Raleing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi-
ness nd Pleasure that Interest.
Neil B. Since air ha s resigned as sec-
retary of the Chester Board of Trade,
Frank McCafferty has resigned as
& member of the Chester police.
James Willlamson fell downstairs
in Chester, receiving severe injuries.
Arthur D. Plerce has
constable of the rourth
ter, after 10 years.
Thieves entered the store of 8. Ba-
nano, of Bristol, and got away with
$30 worth of loot.
Bayne McCray, 6 years old, was res-
cued from drowning in Chester River
by two Upland youths.
To replace their fire-ruined edifice,
Mt. Carmel Methodists will build a
beautiful $50,000 church.
The Evangelical Church of Upper
Mauch Chunk will shortly organize a
troop of Boy Scouts.
resigned as
Ward, Ches
Falling downstairs at Catasauqua,
Thomas Bonner nearly gouged out his
left eye.
The Northampton School Board has
decided to erect a new $40,000 school
building.
The Mauch Chunk Si
ating night and day to
increasing orders.
The trouble among the miners at
Nesquehoning has been adjusted and
everybody is at work again.
1k Mill
turn out
is oper
rapidly
The dress of Mrs. Maria Bortz, of
West Catasauqua, caught in a gaso
line engine and she was terribly lac
erated.
Several hundred pounds of copper
wire were stolen from poles of the
Postal Telegraph Company, near Val
ley Swre, Chester County.
A thieving bobcat got a spanking
with a slab and dropped Edward Zieg-
ler's blue-ribbon rooster in a coop near
Jack's Mountain,
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Breaking through ice on the Juniata
while skating at Lewiston, young Pe
ter Colyer was rescued from under
an airhole farther down stream
James Magee, of New Bloom-
field, was confirmed as United States
marshal for the Middle Judicial dis
trict.
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Military
dislocated a
performing an eques
college grounds,
Captain Frank
Pennsylvania
Chester,
of the
College, at
kneecap while
trian feat on the
Hyatt,
While Reuben B commission
merchant and pork dealer, of Revers,
was on his way to Easton, one of hia
horses was stricken with paralysis, at
Raubsville, and died.
Discovering a smokehouse on fire,
the crew of a Northampton traction
car, bound for Baston, stopped the
car and, aided by the male passen-
gers, saved the building.
Judge Sadler has appointed Edward
A. Lau, Republican, of Carlisle. te
sticceed the late W. N. Hall, Democrat,
as borough treasurer, at $3,500 annnu-
ally.
fckel,
A pleading letter that he wrote to a
probation officer admitting bad con-
duct and promising to reform. led
Court at Easton to order the release
of Peter Lockey from the Philadel
phia Protectory.
fee at the Harrisburg public library
expected that the
yond expectation.
publie, has placed a new American
flag over the modest shaft whieh
marks the grave of John Morton, a
signer of the Declaration of ToT
ence, in old St. Panl's burial ground in
Chester.
Poisoned by a mule kick that he re
colved while at work in the Raymond
Colllery, several months ago, Thomas
Kelly, of Archband, underwent an op-
eration for blood-polsoning at the Mid.
Valley Hospital,
John Cavanaugh, itinerant preacher,
while preaching on Public sqaure at
. Wilkes-Barre agalnst stealing, lost a
megaphone which he uses to ald his
weakening volce, stolen from the top
of his suitcase. He is satisfied that
the man who took it 1s the meanest
thief Hving. J
WHEN SHIP CRASH
Old Dominion Liner is Struck in
Fog By Nantucket.
SINKS IN TWENTY MINUTES.
The Lifeboats Of the Nantucket
Rescued the 82 Persons From
Off the Monroe and Out
Of the Water.
Norfolk, Va.--Stabbed in the
one of her sisters of the ocean,
Old Dominion liner Monroe sank
Hog Island, and 41 persons went
their death with her.
Made blind by the
chants and Miners’
rammed the Monroe
quarter, and 20 minutes later
Dominion liner went down
In those 20 minutes 87 of those who
had been on the Monroe escaped death
by the lifeboats and rafts, life-
belts of the sinking steamer and the
lifeboats of the Nantucket.
20 Minutes Too Short To Save All
But the time was too short for all
to get off, and some had been either
killed or maimed as they lay in their
berths on the side of the ship that had
been rammed.
Others became confused
not reach the deck, where boats were
being cast off, and still more are sup
posed to have perished in water
before they could be picked up.
The Monroe carried 52
and a crew of 84. The Nantucket is
said to have had but two passengers
aboard. No one on the Nantucket was
hurt, so far as can be learned.
Record Of Saved and Lost,
So far as facts avallable can deter
mine the record of the disaster shows
Passengers saved, 39.
Passengers lost, 19.
Crew saved, 60
lost, 22.
Crash Before Warning Could
The ships came ther a
ery from the lookout on ei the
Monroe or Nantucket could warn the
men at the wheels of the
gide by
the
off
to
fog, the Mer
ship Nantucket
her forward
the Old
on
doors,
and could
the
passengers
Crew
Be Given.
toge before
ther
two ships
MEXICANS KILLED AMERICANS.
Two Men May Have Been Executed
Under Notorious Fugitive Law.
Diego, Cal.--Two Ame:
W. Harwood and Mortimer
have been slain in oun
south of Tia Juana, Mexico, by
can Federal soldiers under the
ous “fugitive law.” The men
taken from Tia Juana on Wednesday
by a squad of Federals and have not
been Mexican officials as.
sert they to Enser
trial on a charge smuggl
the fact that their guards ea
supplies for a long march raised grave
doubts in the minds of officials bh
San icans
Miller
tains
Mexi-
notori-
P
the m
seen since,
are en route
of but
OE,
ore,
FEAR CAUSED HYDROPHOBIA,
ed By Dog.
Philadelphia - Although she de
clares that she was never bitten or
even scratched by a dog or any other
animal, Ellen Brown, 20 years old,
in a critical condition from what
physicians have diagnosed as a case
of hydrophobia. From early child:
hood the young woman has had a
great fear of dogs. Recently her
throat became terribly parched, but
the sight of water threw her into con-
vulsions. Her condition rapidly be-
came worse and today she was sald
to be dying.
MINISTER GUILTY OF LIBEL.
is
Temperance Worker Had Criticised
Decisions Of Maine Jurist,
Portland, Me.—Rev. Dr. Wilbur F.
Berry, a well-known temperance work-
er, was convicted of criminally libel
ing George F. Haley, associate justice
of the supreme court. The jury was
out more than four hours. The al
leged libel was contained in an article
published in the Civie League record,
the organ of the Christian Civie
League of Maine, of which Dr. Berry
is superintendent. It criticised Justice
of persons convicted of violating the
cuLLOm’ 8 LONG CAREER ENDED.
Had Been Conspicuous in Public Life
For Many Years,
Washington. ~~ Former Senator
Shelby M. Cullom, of Hlinois, died here
after an illness of more than a week,
during which he hovered between life
and death. His last words were a
wish that he might have lived to see
the completion of the national me
morial to Abraham Lincoln, who was
his personal friend.
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BANK PRESIDENT ARRESTED,
Orson Adams Charged With Misappro.
priating Funds.
Grand Junction, Col.~Orson Adams,
former president of the failed Mesa
County National Bank, was arrested
on a warrant charging misappropria
tion of funds and sworn to by L. M.
Reeves, Federal bank examiner, Bond
was furnished by several citizens of
Grand Junction. The warrant names
only $4,000, but officials state the al
leged irregularities may reach $100.
000.
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NGLE SAM WILL
nor of Canal Zone.
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Retire So Long As His Serv.
ices May Be Needed By
the Government.
Washington ‘resident Wi
the nomination of Colonel George
Goethals to be governor of the Pan
ama Canal Zone after April 1 to the
Senate Secretary ison
public of cablegrams
To Col. George ulebra,
Canal Zone,
In connection
intention to
may I assure
retire from service
your services are
Lr
WW.
Garr
this exchange
Ww. thals, C
January 27
with the
appoint you
him you do not desire
80 long as he feels
needed?
GARRISON.
January 28.
Gos
President's
ROvYernor,
to
Culebra,
To Becretary of War
Referring to your cable
inst. relative to governorship,
retire long as my
of the 2741
will not
80 services are
needed.
GOETHALS
8 chairman of the Isthmian Canal
Goethals now
The
of th
én
nia
Colonel
Year.
the salary
Repre
gion
ould $15.000 a
Canal act fixes
ernor at $10,000,
ten, of Ilin int
amend the law to make th
the governor $15.000 so long
onel Goethals holds the office
The formidable task
iB
& Rov
ive Brit
roduced a bill
¢ salary of
OL8, to
oy F
Ol 0
the canal and to discharge
manifold
fail directly upon Colonel Goethals.
Secretary Garrison is inclined to be.
jfeve that under the terms of the
Adamson act himself technically
must make the appointments, thoug
he may delegate the duty to the Goy-
ernor of the Panama Canal
Colonel Goethals Is said to have de-
gired the appointment as first gover
canal in order that he might
himself organize the permanent
operating force, with the
helped him construct the canal and of
whose abilities he had personal knowl
edge. He will have to select some
thing like 2.500 permanent employes
to be selected from about three times
that number.
he
ONE MEMBER WHOLE SENATE.
Introduces Bills and Makes
Speech At Albany.
Albany, N. Y.—Only one member
Senator Thomas H. Bussey, of Perry,
N. Y.-~was present in the State Sen
ate Friday. He called himself to or
der, introduced several bills, made a
gpeech and then offered a motion for
adjournment, which was unanimously
carried. Among the bills introduced
were several prepared by Mayor
Mitchel, of New York city, to effect
changes in police regulations demand-
ed by Colonel Goethals,
SIX IN FLYING BOAT.
Wilmer Breaks American Record In a
Curtiss Machine.
Miami. Fla—American records were
broken when a Curtiss flying boat car
ried six men for one flight and five
men for one flight. Nine hundred
pounds of weight, besides gasoline and
oil, was carried. C. W. Wilmer was
the aviator.
KILLED BY A LION,
Presides,
The Tragic Fate Of a “Movie” Photo.
grapher In Africa.
Nairobi, British East African Pro
tectornte. ~~An encounter with a lion
caused the death here of Fritz Schind-
ler, a member of an American moving
pleture expedition engaged in taking
pletures of wild animals in their
natural surroundings In Africa.
Schindler, with others belonging to the
expedition, was attempting to photo:
graph wu lion in the jungles when the
Lanimal sprang on him.
10 THE FARMER
Rural Credits Bill Introduced in |
Boih Houses.
SHORT TERM LOANS LATER.
The Measure Provides For the Estab. |
lishing Of Farm Lands Banks
to Make Long-Time
Loans.
~Administration
intr
and House
Florida, Repre
Moss, of Indiana, members of |
Lt Wils sent
study foreign |
were for long |
:
iis for short-term
Washington
credit bills were
in the
Fle
sentative
the
oduced simultane
ously Senate by Sen
ator icher, of and
commission Presiden on
last summer
The bills
1 Hi
abroad to
farm loan:
will be non
measy
1oed later
Hd establish in the
Departmen & bureau of
loans
The ITER wot
Treasury
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and make ion |
formation of such ba
the Federal charter an
Federal inspection
Any group of farmers within a
provis
nks in any |
under d |
State
ize farm-land |
io
mar
Opera
be |
wough
to |
co-operative
power to issue bonds
unds from di stant
kets for
Bones
deve lopm el
banks ‘would
confined within State line i}
supervizgion will be Federal,
the variety of State
owing
iaws bearing upon |
titles, taxation, foreclosure
They would be
doing
and |
sub je cls iv |
busi
Hike gtrict
prohibited
ness
from ‘a city
Loans to farmers it exceed
50 per cent
land
might ne
of the value of
nor extend more than
institution begin
without a foundation capital
ble liability provided for
banks. The amount of long teria busi |
ness, which might be undertaken by |
of the proposed banks, could not |
exceed 15 times the amount of paid
up share capital and surplus. They
might accept and pay interest on de |
posits not exceeding 50 per cent. of
capital and surplus, and receive de.
posits of postal savings funds to the
same extent
The report submitted with
was drafted by Senator Fletcher,
chairman; Senator Gore, Representa.
tive Moss, of Indiana; Dr. John lee
Coulter, of Minnesota, representing the
Census Bureau and other members of
the rural credit commission.
The bills were referred to the Bank.
ing and Currency Committees of the
Senate and House, which have sub
commitees assigned to the subject.
improved |
35 years
could business |
and dou- |
national |
the bill
ALTOONA CAR SHOPS BUSY.
Signs That Hard Times Are Ending In
Pennsylvania Railroad Plants.
Altoona, Pa. Hard times in most of
the Pennaylvania Railroad shops here
ended, when work began on 1,000 new
box cars, 50 passenger coaches and 34 |
big locomotives. This will keep the |
shops busy for nearly a year, and other i
orders for New York are to come
shortly.
LEAPS OFF ROOF WITH BABY.
Father's Desperate Attempt To Save
Child From Fire.
Chelsea, Mase, — Nicholas Kissel's
baby girl received fatal injuries when
the father jumped with the child in
his arms from the roof of his burning
house. Miss Mary Kudry and Miss
Katherine Kudry, who also jumped,
were seriously hurt.
EVA BOOTH WORSE.
tion Grave.
New York. Eva Booth, head of the
Salvation Army in this country, who
for more than a week past has been
ill in the Salvation Army Barracks
here, after a nervous breakdown In
Eimira, was reported to be in a grave
condition. She suffered an attack of
afluenza which developed into
plouriey and tonsilitis, Intestinal
troubles have complicated her case,
giving grounds for anxiety.
NEXT STEP IN
Rebels to Be Allowed to Buy |
Arms in United States.
MAY END THE WAR QUICKLY
the
in
Secretary Flatly Denies Story
That Our Government Con
cerned About the Aid Japan
Is Giving Huerta,
Washington. — The ever
thre Mexican constitutional
ists that they be permitted to
g in the United States
with the Huerta government
soon be granted. Though Presi
Wilson and SBecretary Bryan have
reached no final determinat
point, the Washington govern
inclined to such
next step In its Mexican policy
Informal
recurrent
of
rchase
arm On an even
footing
nay
ion on that
nent is
A COUrse as
the
inquiry
administration offic
fart that practically the
inet, many members of
Foreign Rel Conmmitts
many of the
RINODE promin
ed
alg disclos
entire
the Nena
ations
leaders
ready to sup
dent should he raise t!
arms by proclamation
The recent defaleation
Huerta government of tt
its bonds, the growing anxi
ropean nations about the fi
faire of Mexico and the dec
in Congress
¥
pors
lared int
constitutionalists to carry
fighting into the thickly
tities of Cer
popula
to be
ted
ntral Mexico are said
reasons for some further
of the American po
i when
Hicy,
i hat the President
ion tot
arent not al
the Senate
but
¢h daily bas b
iations C ommities
whi
Washington governm
ch
dence
disadvantage to whi
arms has put the constitutionalist
The chief argument being placed be
nt Wils
rOovernment
fore Preside
Huerta
difficulty in buy
war in countries other than
the econ ‘
off from thei:
the
States while
have been cut
ternal source
border, and
of supply
that in this respe
nstead of neutrs ality
the President's refusal of army
in hi
Angas
factions, as stated
Congr last
to t}
CBE
There is a {
ponent of the pl
a
inouncement of th
tention
have th
erta governm
sroment’s in
ning the Hu
out Mexico
Official Washington g 1
about published stories
Hue government was
arms from Japan and that this pha
situation was
on
ria
discussed at
Monday between
President and the Sen
White Hos
Secretary
of the
was the
expressed through
issued
denial, saying he was au
thorized by all the members of his
committee to pronounce information
purporting to be authorized by them
on the subject of the conference to be
“pure fabrications"
BRYAN’ s ELEVENTH TREATY.
Upon,
Washington — Secretary Bryan and
Joaquin B. Calvo, Costa Rican minis.
ter, agreed upon the terms of 2 new
treaty by which the United States and
Costa Rica agree lo investigate for at
least one year all questions arising be.
tween the two countries which cannot
be adjusted through diplomacy. This
is the eleventh of the peace treaties
agreed to by Mr. Bryan and the diplo-
ers, and seven already
signed.
FIVE To 10 YEARS FOR AUTOIST.
Son Of New Jersey Judge Killed Boy
With His Car.
Trenton, }
now serve a sentence of from § to 10
years in the State prison. Dugan is a
of Orange, who was appointed when
Woodrow Wilson was Governor of
New Jersey,
A — ASI
ONE KILLED, SCORES HURT.
Suburban Cars Crash Head.On At
Lackawanna,
Buffalo, N. YTwo crowded sub-
arban cars on the Buffalo, Lake Erie
and Western Railroad collided head.
on at high speed in Lackawanna, a
suburb. John Doyle, one of the motor
men, was killed. Nearly all of the
76 passengers on the two were
hurt, but none of the injured will die
The accident was caused, according
to railroad officials, by Doyle's neglect
to see a block signal.
MOVIE OWNERS
DISLIKE CENSORS
| Protest Agains Review of Films
and Get Little Encouragement
FIRE TESTS
WILL MAKE
Committee Representing 88 Managers
of Picture Bhows From Western
Part of State Call on Governor
Tener for Sympathy.
(Bpecial Harrisburg Correspondence.)
Harrisburg. A
ing B® owner;
committee represen
of mov
and operators of mov
state called upon Gover
Tener {or protection against the
censorship of “movies.” The
wag told by Governor
for the censorship
of censors was in
Steps will be
who may
OW
test
act. The
ana operators
ing 88 owner
part
nor
81
of the
ate
commit
that a law provide:
and that his naming
accordance with t
taken by the we
get other moving pictu
ers
the constitutionality of
commitiee also ited John P. Jack-
son, Commissioner of labor and In-
dustry, and arranged with him a ser
ies of practical tests of the time need-
ed to empty theatres in which mor-
ing pletures shown. These tests
will include experiments in extinguish-
ing fires caused by ignited films and
the operation for devices installed by
the theatre men for the safety of the
public. State Senator Thompson, of
Beaver, the moving pic
planned for theatre
cities of the Com-
representa
Department of
State As
make the
Loa the
at law
tern men,
re theatre
interested in thelr cause, to
the
Vis
are
counsel for
men, has
owners from
monwenlt!
tives from
Labor and Industry
sociation of Archi
tects
ture
various
meet
to with
the Biate
and the
tects to
State Buys Deer.
The v
purcha
preserve of
Ye gt
the
Cambria
counties
has
private
er, of
stock
land,
These
Stats mission
the
Muza
to
stmore
from
H
“irr $y
county
sed
*Y coon 3-43 cul
esarae
of Fay f
and Sor
over,
12
64
es Yi
forests
nerset
bes closed
ra ¢
Of deer.
untios
counties,
have 1 n
unters’ licens
in Penn-
returns
if a small coun-
estimated that the
So far the
received $261,000,
) being entitled
10 cents dollar license fee
Allegheny leads with 13.072
icenses and Luzerne is md with
10,890. Next in er are Westmore-
ith 9998: Lar 9.747;
Philade 2.107.
ned
lete
E Were
year, coor
dozen
S20 000
Treasury has
treags
of
Irers
14 each
paid,
] Boe
orde
1castier,
iphia,
ang Ww
Schuylkill 188;
Appainied by the Governor.
the {ol
unced
reappoint-
on, Media,
State Board of
Russel C. Stewart,
ard Peckitt, Catasauqua,
J. Blough, All be
of the State Hospital at Rit
0 C Aller, Warren: Ned
Flood, Titusville, and Bryan
shorne, Franklin to be trustees
the State Hospital at Warren.
Thomas B. Pittsburgh, to be
inspector the Western Peniten-
tiary; John Thomson, Philadephia,
trustees State hospital at Spring City;
John R. Heindel, Justice of the Peace
for Corodus township, York county.
1 ana
gaac Johns
member of the
Charities;
Loot
entown, Ww
Foley,
of
Help for State College.
Four donations for
announced at the annual
the trustees of State College and bids
opened for the $90,000 liberal arts
building. The trustees were addressed
by Governor Tener and the work of
the college commended. The dona.
tions for scholarships were: Mrs. T.
R. Hays, Beliefonte, $8000; C. F. Bar.
clay, Sinnemahoning{ $8000; Federa-
tion of Women’s Clubs, Pennsylvania,
$6000; Pennsylvania Society, Daugh-
ters of American Revolution, $1000.
Plan were adopted for the mining
| building to cost $50,000, and chemistry
| buliding to cost 70,000. Nineteen
bids were received on the liberal arts
| building.
scholarships
meeting of
| Railroads Killed 91.
During the month of December, ac:
| cording to data collected by the Pub
lic Service Commisison, $1 persons
| were killed and 758 injured om the
| steam railroads of Pennsylvania. Of
these, 25 were employes, 53 trespas.
pers and two passengers. Of the em-
ployes killed, ten were sectionmen,
gix trackmen, two conductors, one
yardman, one engineer, one car clegn-
| er, one signalman and one crossing
| watchman. On the street car lines
23 persons were killed and the injured
numbered 230. The fatal accidents
included two employes, three passens
gers and six trespassers,
State Bureau to Move.
The bureau of Distribution of Pub