SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
Farmers Busy in Every Locality—
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Bush
mess “nd Pleasure that Interest.
a ben owned by Robert Dry, of Read-
ing.
William Nies, of Hamburg, caught
an arm between a wagon wheel and 4
bullding and fractured it.
Anna Wassal, picking coal at Sieg.
fried, was beheaded by a traip, iu
view of her husband.
In the very heart of Allentown, Mo-
torcycle Officer David found an opoe-
sum which has been installed as a pet
at patrol headquarters.
Allentown athletes gave a smoker
for the benefit of Richard Brader,
helpless with rheumatism, who was a
companion of Buffalo Bill as scout and
pleinsman,
Weatherly Council has received the
deed from Mrs, Charles M Schwab,
the steel magnate's wife, for the park
which she purchased and donated to
the town.
It took three Allentown policemen
to land James Sharon, allas Brooklyn
Jimmy, who has but one leg, when he
ran amuck and trled to break heads
with his crutches.
Postmaster H. W. Thatcher, of
South Bethlehem, reports receipts for
the past fiscal year as $54,772.99, an
increase of $8,669.73 over those of the
previous year,
A Youngdale writer for The Lock
Haven Express has this midwinter
note: “Last week there were quite
a number of sleighing parties, some
coming to this place and some from
this place going to some other place.
Bat 1 guess our fun is ended now, as
the snow is getting scarce.”
Burgess George W. Fink, of Punx-
sutawney, vetoed an ordinance fixing
the salary of the Borough Treasurer
at $300 a year, stating that the com-
pensation was too low. The salary
paid the Treasurer the past four years
on the commission plan totaled $3,600.
Colonel Turbot Francis and his fel-
low officers of the and Second
Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regi-
ment French and Indian War
took title to 2,400 acres of land on the
West Branch of the Susquehanna, Feb
rasry 3, 1769, land included the
present site of the borough of Milton.
It was then known as the “Soldiers’
Retreat.”
First
in the
which
Carbondale has a of
tromble. It is a fire alarm bell in the
city building that is behaving
itself to badly that it has added great.
ly to the worries of Mayor Murrin. It
is given to fits of intermittent tolling,
somatimes beginning at 4 o'clock In
the morning and waking people from
their beauty stlumbers. Mayor Marrin
recalls that two years ago the same
bell had a similar fit, and it was ser.
eral days before an
ceeded in locating the trouble
Miss Mame Owens hag severed her
connection with the Clearfield post of.
fice, after almost 2 years’ service.
She will become the wife of George
C. Shirk, of Towa, a former Clearfield
boy. row a divisional electrical super
intendent for the Chicago
western Rallroad. Miss Owens enter.
ed the service of Uncle 8m when A.
M Row succeeded A. B. Weaver as
postmaster in 1889. She has contin.
ued a8 chief mail clerk ever since, un-
new source
tower
electrician suc
and over: J. M. Brown, four vears and
nine months
in Lehieh County.
Ruch,
General
after whom the village was
tary varades were held at Ruchsville
It wae also the scene of many a fair
and borse race. (Oeneral Ruch was
succeeded as landlord by his son,
“Thomas Ruch, and the latter by Major
EN Bteckel, both of them militia of.
cers of no small renown. Reuben Bah!
later hecame tavern keeper, but he re.
tired In 1858, and the glory of Ruchs-
ville began to fade.
The will of Asa P. Blaksles, of
Manch Chunk was admitted to pro
bate at Manch Chunk, and he be.
queaths everything to his wife.
Mrs, George Fissel, of Hampton,
Adams County, Is quilting a quilt for
Mrs. Emanuel Bollinger that had been
pleced about fifty years ago and con.
taining 5,088 patches. The patches
are about an ineh square and put to
gether by overwhipping the seams,
and each patch had a piece of paper
sewed in with the patch, supposed
to be a pattern.
WORLD TOL
10 KEEP OUT
Mexico Must Settle Her Own
Difficulties, Says Bryan.
REICHSTAG INFORMED.
IS
Peclines To Enter Into Ques.
tion Of Liability For
Losses.
Washington. -— While admitting its
accuracy Secretary Bryan declined to
discuss further the statement by the
Under Secretary of State to
the Imperial Parliament that Germany
had been notified by the United States
that nobody outside of Mexico could
enforce a settlement of that country’s
present difficulties.
The view that the Mexican
should be allowed to adjust their dif.
free {rom outside interfer
ence was expressed when the Amerl
can Government gave notice the
world powers that its embargo against
the exportation of arms to Mexico had
been raised.
Officials pointed out that similar ex
pressions had been communicated re
peatedly to other powers when their
diplomatic representatives asked what
the United States intended to
regard to Mexico.
The question of Mexican
bility for losses sustained by foreign-
ers resident in Mexico as a result of
the revolutionary disturbances is
which at present the Depart
ment declines to enter It
suggested that the German Under Se
retary expressed only the German view
when he said assurances had been
glven that all would be in
demnified. The history of past
hutionary movement the Western
factions
ferences
to
do in
responsi
one
State
UNION Er
upon. wa
3
iosses
revo
in
tions of doctrine in th
dispo of the offi
such matters to
present revolution is ended
to leave
the
fon
be adjusted after
Comes Up On Interpellation
Berlin
of Mexico up in the
on an interpellation by two
tional Liberal leaders to * Y
Provisional resident Huerta had
made representations }
regard the
on arms by the United States”
came
of the N
whe
to Germany in
fo raising of the embargo
The interpellation wa
Dr. Alfred
tary of State
the
Zimmermann, Under Secre
for Foreign Affairs,
United Stintes
inforn
ing of the embargo,
said
when it of the
had « pres
nobody out
a settlement
culties
oration oi
country’s diff
The rest
Dr. Zimmermann sal
for if the Mexican par
allowed to fight out th
onl
iy
without interference, and
of the ¢
citizens Lhe
mbargo merdy gave Am
game right of selling
As was enjoyed by other
The 11
that n
nations
nder Secretary informed
House ensures had been taken
to protect Germans in Mexico and de
responsible for all their
losses
QUAKE IN NORTHEAST STATES.
Far West As St. Louis.
New York —An
from 1
earthquake lasting
what are geologically
known as the Devonian and Silurian
sections of the northeastern parts of
the United States occurred shortly
after 1.30 P. M. Tuesday, being especi
ally severe in the central and north
ern parts of New York State. Vir
tually all of New York State, including
this city, felt the shock, and New Eng
and parts of Now Jersey and Eastern
Pennsylvania were shaken. Tremors
were recorded as far south as Wash
ington and as far West as St. Louis.
AN EX.-BANDIT PLATFORM.
Oklahoma,
Oklahoma City, Okla.-—Al J. Jen
nings, a former bandit, but now a can-
out his platform. It contains only
about 60 words. “My platform,” said
Jennings, “is fidelity to the people,
the
law shall be no respecter of persons.
When these principles are truly and
honestly carried into effect, all inter.
ests will be subserved and taxes will
be reduced. In all my life I never
have betrayed a confidence. If the
people confide in me, God being my
judge, I'll not betray them.”
$1,000,000 IN BONDS SOLD QUICK,
Chicago Saves $63,000 By Using Over.
Counter Method,
Chicago~~The sale of city bonds
over the counter, an experiment in
municipal financing, reached the $1,
000,000 mark and City Hall officiale
smiled as they recorded the figures
According to the City Comptroller,
this method of disposing of the bondg
has effected a saving of more (ian
$63,000, or enough to pay the expenses
of his office for half a year.
(Copyright)
ROUND BROKE
ON LINGOLN DAY
$2,000,000 Memorial
Emancipator is Begun.
STARTED BY A SOUTHERNER.
Men th
South Join in Exercise—HMon.
Senate and
Prominent From ~ and
in
House,
ored
Washington. While freezing winds
the Potomac from
| sloping Virginia hills where stands the
Lee Mansion at Arlington, a barehead
ed Southern of the Civil
iple exercises that mark
swept across
officer
opened the s
ed the breaking of the ground for the
- of the white mar
the about to
This ds
construction great
nation
Lincoln
orial
to Abraham
ble mem
rect iY.
© one
Ancoin’s birth
breaking of the ground for the $2,000
rapid
WW structure, which will rise as
y @& the contractors
work.
Only a
nnah
Can
small group gathered
Joseph C. 8
Ken
nificant event
former from
the first to
ckbum,
Wa
regarded
ricans,’
Now
hat
» country know
& has been begun and
steadily until its completic
F. Comer, of Toledo, O
Harts, Lieutenant J
8S A: H A. Valle, Jom F
Henry Bacon sought t
ade for the honor of aiding
of the
Colon
Be
tthure and irns
{ with the sg
in 8 ting the building
morial
in the Ser it was
who made the motion to adourn out of
i respect to the memory of Lincoln. The
| motion was made without prearrange
by Senator Overman,
{ Caroling, following the reading
{ former President's Gettysburg address
ate a Southerner
ment of
i by Senator
suggested that the Senate might well
oO
ils
iday anniversary. The House,
paused in ita deliberations to pay
respect to the memory of
emancipator.
THE MINERS TURNED DOWN.
Operators Refuse Increase In Pay and
Better Working Conditions.
Philadelphia. The deadlock expect.
operators
Ohio, Hlinois and Indiana and the
United Mine Workers over the latter's
other benefits materialized when the
operators refused to grant the men's
demands. They sald the increased
pay would be ruinous to the trade and
offered the present agreement as the
best they could mak”
NEVER QUARRELED IN 65 YEARS.
Husband Of B87 and Wife Of 84 Cele.
brate Anniversary.
New York. After 656 years of mar.
ried life Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tuttle,
of Speonk, long Isiand, said at their
anniversary celebration that in all
those years they had never quarrcled.
AL:
SiX YEARS TO MAKE VALUATION,
Commissioner Prouty Bays It Will Cost
$12,000,000-Tells Of Purpose.
Washington.—C. A. Prouty, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
told the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States that the so-called physi:
cal valuation of the comunon carriers
of the United States, ordered March 1.
1913, will not be completed, so far as
the railroads are concerned, until 1018
or 1920. He estimated the cost of
valuation at $12,000,000.
HANG SCHMIDT 10
DIE NEXT MONTH
Will Be Electrocuted During the
Week of March 23.
“LAST WORDS"
Takes Sentence Without Of
Emotion—Holds Out Hands For
Steel Cufle—-Wore Fur
Overcoat.
Sign
»
New
victed of
York
murdgerin
Hans
a domestic at St
, Was
tric cl
{age sentenced
halr at Sing Sing
the week begi
Justice Vernon
| criminal branch of the
ntence
ing
| pronounced se
through his cous
nounced he had nothir
Just before
i court the newspapermen
Schmidt wi
| message asking him if he
make a4 statement, He »
carefully penned
! Beyond thi
life
note
of teary
vale
above
i by the flight
Unmeasured
Jove
No Sign Of Emation.
Schmidt took his % with
how of
swt be fustice
ght at him,
fore
taki
nyo f orev : 5 ¥ ¥
Yer of anyone ise aroun
Justice Davis put the
Quesiior
before
be merely
lightly forward. There was
and Attorney McManus
new trial and a stay of sentence
ng to say
passed upon you?
moved
motions were denied
iediately after sentence wa
10ed Bowers
to the
uffs
Deputy Sheriff
ma side of
Schmidt turmed
with a pair
hand to Bowers
a fur oat
muffler
grown since he
The
With &
neck
{ arrested,
prisoner wore Over
white
iis beard, was
was tucked into the collar of
His whole appearance
{ was vastly improved sincs
1
clean about
ithe overcoat
he was last
in court
Schmid! was {aken to Sing Sing im
COLLECTION AT THE SOURCE,
Bill In House To Repeal This Feature
Of
Washington. —-A modified bill to re.
{| peal the collection at the source fea
| ture of the income {ax law was intro
duced by Representative Cantor, of
New York, who has been conferring
with city authorities and
New York city. The modified measure,
after abolishing collection at the
source, would have the person who,
{ under the existing law, would deduct
{ the income furnish to the government
{information in detail ag to amounts
and persons, so the Treasury Depart.
ment might collect.
Income Tax Law.
others
i
PATIENTS SAVED FROM FIRE.
Forty. Five Taken From Milwaukee
Sanatorium.
Milwaukee Forty-five panicstrick-
en patients of the City Banatorium for
tuberculosis were rescued from a fire
which destroyed the Institution. The
loss was $50,000. The hospital was in
Wauwatosa, a suburb, The fire broke
out in the basement, and by the time
the patients had been awakened the
flames were approaching their beds.
ALPHONSE BERTILLON DEAD.
He Created System Of
Criminals,
Paris. Alphonse Bertillon, creator
of ‘the system of criminal identifica
tion which made his name known
throughout the world, died here, aged
61. Bertillon’s title was "Director of
the Anthropometric Department of th
Paris Police” He had been ill fo
some time suffering from anemia, com-
plicated with other maladies. He was
operated on In October,
identifying
GIES $2000000
NORE FOR PEACE
Carnegie Fund to Be Used
Through Churches.
PUT IN HANDS OF TRUSTEES
income Of Sum To Be Spent For Cir
Of
Clergy and To Have Annual Ob.
culaticn Literature Among
servance Of Peace Sunday.
New York.
£2.000,000 to
chusches for the promotion
national peace. The income of the
fund, about $100,000 a year, will be ex
ponded by a board of 268 trustees, rep
resenting all the leading religions de
nominations in the United States.
This gift is in addition to the
000,000 foundation establishment
Mr. Camegle December 14, 1910,
iasten the ternational
war.” The announcement was made
at the close of a Inncheon at Mr. Car
negle’s home attended by the trustees
of the new foundation. The trustees
organized “the Church Peace Union.
wiiich will be incorporated under the
laws of New York State
Andrew Carnegle
be used
gave
through the
of inter
£10
by
abolition of in
iil be used
of
ional ques
The income of the fund =»
organize the moral
churches on eritical internat
tions, pence
among the clergy to bring
{annual observance of a
day.” Conferences in America
| \
ito power Lhe
to circulate literature
about the
Bun
Eu
{ rope will be called to discuss the pro
i 4 -
| motion of peace. When the leading
abolish war and the fund has
may
“peace
and
| nations
{ fu
|
devote
filled its purposes, the trustees
the incoms to other philan.
i thronic
uses
Bishop Greer President
Bishop Greer was elected president
Pr W. MFP
New York, vice president;
ck Lynch
Plimpton, trea
The
which
of the union
Ih
secretary, and
urer
ted
trustees adog
appealed to
destruction
naval warfare
Britain
rity in
ations, Great
were «
| Stntles
ft geTee 10 In
Minister,
and
fand oth
tions
FW Ory
PRINCE OF WALES 1S COMING
{ Heir To British Throne Will Vigit This
Country.
London. 1 1
i been drafted for ie 1
t made by th
1815. The trip to
fo the 1 States
It is possible
of
: -
{ish Empire to be
lof Wales in
clude a visit
i8 in
nited on
that
King
may accompany the Prince of
As present arranged, the
will firet to Australia and
New Zealand, returning to England by
way of Canada and the United States
been reserved
|0on
]
{the return journey
George,
i
i
i
| Prince Albert, the second
!
at
£o
Wales
{ Prince
His visit to India has
for a later date
NO RELIEF FOR POTOMAC,
Naval Tug Will Be Left
in the ice,
imprisoned
Washington No vessel will be sent
to the relief of the naval tug Potomac,
| imprisoned by the ice packs in the
Bay of Islands, on the coast of New
foundland. The Navy Department an
nounced that it would wait until the
forces of nature made the release of
the tug possible. It is the opinion of
naval officers familiar with Arctic con
ditions that when the tug is freed the
thaws will have ended
a seaworthy vessel,
$1.800000 FOR C. & D. CANAL.
Curtis Bay Is Given $123,700 In House
Bin,
Washington The sum of $1,800,000
and Harbors bill for the purchase of
the Chesapeakd and Delaware Canal,
according to semiofficial information.
The Covington bill carried $2,500,000.
The $1.800,000 Is recommended to be
made available at once.
A A AAA AM A 50
CONDUCTOR KILLED IN WRECK.
Passenger Train Plows Into Freight
At Cameron, W. Va.
Fairmont, W. Va-James E. Boyd,
conductor, was killed in a rearend
collision on the Baltimore asd Ohio
Railroad of passenger train No. 4 and
freight train No. 94, near Cameron.
G. M. Smith, brakeman on the freight
train, had both legs mangled. He was
brought here to Miners’ Hospital
Bdward Van Allen, brakeman on the
passenger train, was slightly hurt,
ROAD'S ANSWER
T0 COMPLAINTS
Lancaster in Coal Charges
SUPPORT OF PENNSYLVANIA
a———
Public Service Commission Received
Petitions from Baltimore and Ohle
and Reading to Intervene as De
fendants—Expert Advice Called.
Correspondence.)
answer of the
Company Ww
The
Hallroad
the
Lancaster,
Harrisburg.
Pennsyivania
the compiaint Manufaciurers’
Association of regarding
the rate for the transportation of bi-
tuminous coal from the Clearfield dis-
trict to Lancaster has been received
by the Pennsyivania Public Bervice
Commission, The Baltimore and Ohio
and the Philadelphia and Reading
have also filed petitions for leave Ww
intervene, as party defendants. The
coal shipment rate question has been
before the commission for some time
and expert advice has been calied in
on the question rates from the
Schuylkill district to Philadelphia. In
ite answer regarding the rates charged
for moving soft coal to Lancaster the
Pennsylvania Railroad denies that the
rate ie unjustly discriminating against
lancaster, and asks that the come
plaint be dismissed.
Three Rallroads Interested.
The Baltimore aud Ohio says that
if the rates of the Pennsylvania Rall
reduced it will be necessary
Baltimore and Ohio either to
competitive rates from the
region to Lan
or, if it maintains its present
to allow its shippers to be plac.
disadvantage in competition
th jearficld re-
Pennsylvania Railroad
asserts that ¥
Railroad is compell
Reading
main-
of
of
5 vg
alt
road
the
Lhe
for
i £4
reguee its
Moeyersdale or Somersel
Caster
rates,
od at a
with shippers {rom
gion
Th
the Pennsylvania
Cuction
tho
On hi¢
Reading Likewise
the
led either to
and th
rate
group of
» nf the points
nines
Charities
The gut
Service
Malf-Rate Quiz.
! of whether the Pabli
hall rates
been
e Com-
direc
has
lace
i
r of the Kingeley Association, which
a settlement house in Pitts
; Valen
may
freight
the
of Norrk
car step:
Weatern Rail.
na M. Eakins,
brought to th
of he Commission the
& South
onerate
that the Harrisburg
Railroad
trains, was informed in a ruling by
the Commission that the matter Is
y for the Courts, as there is a ques
of contract
failed to
$key
Ain
ton
Yearling Trout Put Out,
More 600.000 trout will be
placed within the streams of the Stato
within next six weeks hy wardens
of the Btate Department of Fisheries
and people connected with fishing clubs
and sseociationz who have agreed with
State authorities to look after
distribution of the young fish.
distribution is being carried
is being done
agente,
than
the
the
the
The
independently of what
by the National Government
and will cover the whole State. Some
fish have been placed in eastern
streams. Commissioner of Fisheries
N. R. Buller says that only yearling
trout have been placed, as they can
take care of themselves, and the per.
centage surviving is far greater than
when much younger fish or fish fry are
on
State hatcheries and sent out under
agreements to properly distribute
them and to make reports an results
of the “planting.”
State Stays Epidemic.
The use of copperas in treating the
well water of Grove City, where 800
cases of winter cholera have recently
developed, will stop the spread of the
disbase, the State Department 5¢
Health engineers have found. In one
day 110 new cases were reported. but
when the water was treated with cop
peras, the number of new cases drop
ped to 57, and next day but 12 eases
were reported.
Provides Drinking Water.
The Public Service Commission ‘e
advising railroad companies that it
will not be necessary to provide drink.
ing cups in places where the “bubbler
fountaing” are installed. The com.
mission holds that fountains of this
oharacter comply with the provielons
of the general order recently igened
requiring railroad companies to pro-
vide a sufficient supply of water for
drinking purposes on the cars and In
the agenoy stations, .
This regulation has caused railroads
great annovanos, '