items of Interest.
— ——————
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi-
ness nd Pleasure that Interest.
Students of Catawissa High School
will give “As You Like It.”
was severely hurt.
lets to get rid of a sick headac he, R.
W. Stine, of Berwick, almost
Anewalt with arson.
Dogs broke into the hennery ou
40 of his prize-winning bantams.
hip.
on full time.
R. E. Neumevyer, of Bethlehem,
been elected borough engineer
Freemansburg,
Albert Weiss has been
Bethlehem police force
Josiah Welss. resigned.
elected to the
to
Martin Barsch, aged 62, was found
dead in his room at the Butztown
Hotel, near Easton.
of
its
The Fame Fire Company, No. 3,
West Chester, cleared $2,500
recent fair supper.
at
and
and
Blooms-
Mrs. M. B Dunkleberger
Year-old Sarah Garrison,
burg, await trial at Court,
selling cigarettes and cigarette paper
10 boys.
¢
of
50
her
vil
To celebrate
dence in the Htt)
saLuie
Years of resi-
lage of Stockton,
many friends on her eighty-ninth
birthday annive rsary.
Miss
mokin, has received word of her ap-
pointment by the Reformed Church
Foreign Missionary Society to go
China.
A probation officer for the Juvenile
Court at Bloomsburg will be favored
eventually by the rec ently-organized
Children's Aid Society of Columbia
county.
State Highway Department, has re.
turned from a vacation spent in Eur.
ope, He incidentally looked over
many of the fine roads abroad.
The Rev. Father Keegan, of Crown,
h been appointed rector
Las of
ceed Rev. Father Downey, who has
been transferred to Franklin.
The effort to keep secret the
for St. Paul's Reformed Church, at
Northampton, has failed. He
S. Miller, and the bell costs $600,
The Chamber of Commerce of Al
housing survey of the city.
be done to interest people
Lew building and to
that are on the
fo erect
verge of decay,
John B. Hanlon, of Freeland,
been appointed by County
has
Coroner
land and vicinity
J. Devers, who resigned
ing in Philadelphia.
Irvin Chapin, of Huntington Vallay,
who owns a peach farm which
Year yielded 10.000 bushels, asserts
that he does not
bushel this year because of
which killed the buds.
the frost,
Extra sessions of farmers’ inst}.
tutes have been ordered for Bucks,
Bradford, Montour and other counties
where the recent heavy storms pre.
vented the holding of the usual ges
sions,
Because they snowballed him, Jo
eeph Bartelle attacked & group of
American boys at Berwick; the ¥nife
in his hands was turned from the
body of Frank Bergolt by a collap-
sible tineup in his pocket,
There are 30 fourth-class post offices
in Clearfield county to be filled this
Year,
Falllng from a freight car in the
Reading yards at Tamaqua, Brakeman
Rosco Harvey, of Schuykin Haven, cut
off a foot.
Crows ars not only kilMng part.
ridges and rabbits, but OpoOssUmMS fre
flso their Pray, as a half-dozen or
more bounced down on one in a fleld
in Reod township near Duncannon,
8nd picked it to death,
Bi
0 UNITE SECTS
IN TRUGE OF Gop
Thirty-Seven Branches of Chris-
tianity in Move,
se ———
FOR A GREAT CONFERENCE.
European Natlone Are Asked To Join
In the First General Council
Of Church Since the
Reformation.
New York.—The greatest effort In
the history of Christianity to unite all
the sects of the world which held the
Christian faith was proclaimed by =
committee representing 37 branches of
in the United States.
This committee has no authority to
resents the attempt of the majority of
combine in a “Truce of God.”
In 1910 the House of Bisbops of the
Church, convened in Cin.
gin the movement for universal reli
peace This commission re
late J, P. Morgan, and at once ap
with an invitation to Join In prepara-
of Christian churches
During the last four Years repre
they
God
con
com
of
have
the one people
the world, and
in
Apart Since Reformation.
Christen
period
the
A general council of all
dom has not been held since the
known as the Reformation,
Sixteenth Century, because since that
various branches of Chris
done little except
in
tianity have
cal differences by reason of which
they had become estranged
The coming general conference, or
#8 such a gath
of Christianity, will meet not to talk
of these differences, but to agree on
As a solid col
definitely establish the unity of just
U. 8. EXPRESS TO LIQUIDATE,
Driven From Business By Parcel Post
and Rate Cut.
New York.—Directors of the United
States Express Company voted un
The resolution under w hich this
“Resolved, That. pursuant to the
power and authority conferred tipon
the board of directors of the United
Express Company by ite arti
of association, the board un
y declares that it is for the
best Interests of the company that the
company be dissolved as soon fs may
be, without awaiting the expiration of
Its term of existence. and that its busi
affairs be settled
finally adjusted as promptly as may
be done. The president is directed to
inform the shareholders of the com
pany of said action of the board.”
eles
CUTS OUT THE AUTOMOBILES.
District Officials.
Washington, D. C.—In passing the
&ppropriation bill
for the District of Columbia, the Sen.
ate Incorporated an amendment to pro-
If the House concurs.
government. Senator John
Sharp Williams proposed the restric.
tion, insisting that distriet officials
their own machines.
ALASKAN RAILROAD BILL SIGNED
Wilson Expresses Gratification At
Completion Of Measure.
Washington. — President Wilson
signed the bill authorizing the ex.
penditure of $35,000,000 for the con-
struetion of a Government-owned rail.
road in Alaska. Secretary Lane. of
the Interior Department, and mem.
bers of the Senate and House and
others from the Pacific Coast region
witnessed the ceremony.
FIND A CURE FOR PARES!S.
London Surgeons Draw Patient's
Blood and Inject Serum Into Skull,
London. —8alvarsan {sa being sue.
cessfully used here in the treatment
of insane paresis sulferers, It was
stated. Two cases are under treat.
ment in a hospital. The method Ia to
Inject salvarsan in a vein An hour
later the surmeon draws six ounces of
the patient's blood and a blood serum
is Injected into the brain Cavity
through a hole in the skull,
.
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NEW DIPLOMAT
IN HOT WATER
| Ambassador Page Must Explain
His London Speech.
HIS OLD ENEMY AFTER HIM
i
Ambassador's Reported Definition
Of Monroe Doctrine and Re.
Stir
i
i
|
i
marks On Canal
Congress,
Washington.— Walter Hines Page
| American Ambassador to
lain, was meade the target of .
{in a resolution adopted by the Sen
{ate calling upon Secretary
| State to Investigate alleged public as
| sertions by the Ambassador relative
{to the Monroe Doctrine
lama Canal
| Senator Chamberlain, aroused over
{reports of a speech by
{ Page in London before the Assoc iated
| Chambers of Commerce, introduced
| the resolution of inquiry and his re
| Quest for immediate consideration re
sulted in its adoption without debate
The resolution requests the Secre
tary of State to procure & copy
Great
the f
|
| Page's address, and to call upon the
| Ambassador for evidence upon which
{ne based the alleged statement that
{ “it added greatly to the pleasure of
| the Panama Canal to know that the
the
of
i= made in
report
Particular
: resolution for
request
& verbatim
| defined the Monroe Doctrine as mean
{ing merely that “the
{ would prefer that no European Gov
{ernments would gain more land in
the New World”
Not Reported Verbatim.
After the resolution had been
adopted Senators heard of dispatches
from London saying the Ambassador's
speech was delivered extemporane
| ported verbatim, and
| Page as explaining that his reference
to British use of the Panama Canal
{Was in a lght vein. It was taken for
granted at the Capitol, however, that
in response to the State Department's
request the Ambassador would furnish
his recollection of Just what he had
said, with the desired explanation
No attempt to oppose the resolution
was made when Senator Chamberlain
offered it, the usual custom being to
pass such measures as a matter of
courtesy
Later In the day a similar resolu
tion was introduced in the House by
a Democrat, but it did not get before
the body for discussion or action,
FIRST HUSBAND IN PRISON.
Thought It Gave Wife tHe Right Te
Take Second Spouse.
Clarksburg, W, Va. Resulting from
her conviction that her first husband's
sentence to the penitentiary auto
matically divorced her, Mrs. Theo-
doria Fisher, of Center Point, Dodd-
ridge county, Is on trial in the Crim.
inal Court here under a bigamy
charge. Several months ago she was
married in this county to Stewart W.
Cobb, while her first husband. Harry
H. Fisher, of Salem, wes gorving a
sentence in the State prisgn at
Moundsville for the murder of her
brother, Frank Asher, a few years ago
at Salem.
Jersey Man Asks Divorce After Fif.
teen Years.
Jersey City John E. Orchard, of
Plainfield, testified in his action. for
divorce that his wife never kissed him
in the fifteen years they lived together,
He said he had given his wife his
salary every month and she doled out
$2 or 33 for his carfare and newaspa:
pers. He declared he found a revol
ver with which she had threatened to
El him, They separated in 1903.
ANOTHER WHITE
HOUSE ROMANCE
Secretary McAdoo to Marry
Miss Eleanor Wilson,
The Financier Of the Administration
is Fifty, While the Youngest
Daughter Of the President
is Half His Age.
D. C It
Miss Eleanor
| son, youngest daughter o
i
i Washington e
engagement of
1
i "
ident Vilson, and
and Mrs
| liam Gibbs McAdoo, which
nied ®t the White House
] Creder
of both that
j announcement is looked for any day
| as set all social Washington ¢
i Mr. McAdoo
|ury, when upon
#aid be
{him to make any comment
| McAdoo has been a frequent
| the White House this past
jhe knew the family of the President
{ well before coming to the capital
{take up his duties as head of
i
Secretary of the T:
approached the :
for
Secretary
ject, it would not proper
visitor at
Year
io
the
{ Treasury Department
| They have been seen together mune b
ithe last few months and they are fre
quent partners at dances
{who wish to please them usually seat
{them next each other at dinner parties
calling that it was Miss Eleanor Wil
| son who caught the bridal bouquet of
jer sister, Miss Jessie Wilson. now
Mra. Frances B when the lat
{ter tossed it into the crowd of friends
| and relatives who stood about to wish
Sayre,
| House for her honeymoon.
| Miss Eleanor Wilson iz the youngest
{daughter of the President and frankly
admits being fond of society, so. of
| Course, society is fond of her. and she
{has had what 2 girl calle “a good
time” since she came to live at the
| White House just a year ago. She
dances gracefully. rides well, loves to
i motor, to play tennis and golf and. in
ifact, is a perfectly healthy. normal
and a wholesome enjoyment of all the
social amusements
She i= just twenty-four. while Secre
tary MeAdoo is fifty. She was edy
cated in private schools at Princeton
and bas studied art in Philadelphia
The Becretary is the econceiver of
the Hudson River tunnel system. He
organized the company which built it
and was its president till 1812 He is
a lawyer of New York and a widower
with six children—three sons and
{three daughters, two of whom are
married. He is a grandfather. a son
having been born recently to his
eldest daughter, Mr Frances Mec.
Adoo married Miss McCormick, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Isasc Emerson, last sum-
mer, the President and his family
motoring over for the occasion. See
retary McAdoo is a native of Georgia
and son of Judge William G. MeAdoo.
He was a student of the University of
Tennessee ’
While the rumor of the engagement
would not be confirmed or denied by
the White House, some persons £0 as
far as to say that the White House is
putting up a joke on the public and
Ithat the real fiance of the President's
daughter is not the Secretary, but his
son, Willlam, Jr, who is a student at
Princeton.
THE BETROTHAL ANNOUNCED.
A —————
President Confirms Report Of Sec.
ond White Mouse Romance.
Washington, D. C.— “The President
and Mrs. Wilson announce the en.
Eagement of their youngest daughter.
Eleanor Randolph, to Hon. William
Gibbs McAdoo.” This announcement
was issued at the White Houke by
Secretary Tumulty after a day of
speculation in capital ofMecial and so
ciety circles over the prospects of an.
other White House wedding In June
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SIEGEL INDICTED
FOR BANK GAASH
His Partner, Vogel, Also Accus- |
ed of Grand Larceny,
BOTH ARE RELEASED ON BAIL
i {
Biegel, On Stand When Bad News |
Comes, Pales and Stammers Re.
plies To Questions In Presence
of Near-Rioting Depositors.
New York While Henry Siegel
{the head of large department
in New York, Chicago and Boston. |
Was testifying in a riotous bank |
ruptey hearing in the Federal Build
jing the grand Jury that has been in-
5
i
Bloreg |
| vestigating the fallure of the Siegel |
jBlores In New York and the savings |
| bank condueted in connection with |
{them returned three Joint indictments
against him and his partner io the
{banking enterprise, Frank F. Vogel
| Slegel and Vogel were
{the indictments while
{in the Federal Bullding. Both were
taken to the Criminal Courts Build
{ Ing, where they were arraigned on the
charges and later rele red $25,000
‘ball each
Three hundred Angry
had been forcibly
[the bankrupts ¥ hearing, hunted
ithe Federal Building for Siegel
{AL the they
him to ask him some que
bis banking partnes
Judge
Seas #
GIy
notified of
they were still
on
depositors,
Iw ho from
around
in vain
looking for
sions he and
elected
time were
were standing be-
if ' > 3 4 i - i "”
| fore Rosalsky pleading not
One of indictments charges
the
Siegel and Vogel with grand larceny
n that they made false & ate to
of Com
ments
the Bank
tallege that
deposits
merce in
The other
the
waer 1o bor
{
j row y B06 it lictmenis
when they knew the
Henry Riegel £& Co 10 be Insoly
PLNNSY TO BURY WIRES
Railroad To Have Conduits From
Gotham To Philadelphia,
hia Steps toward plac
’ or vu :
ele: Pires
in
tween
telephone =
this city and New York
conduit
{ derground were taken
i by Pennsylvania
i pany The board of dir
{printed $300,000 to
| brick conduits 2f
by the
begin immediately
{way and Trenton More
j of wiring was torn down between here
New York the
of thousands of
the Railroad ©
eclors appro
replace in vitrified
miles of
recent
Wires torn
{down
| will
slorm, and work
Rab
10 miles
between
than
and and it
{work
f Uraffic
required
0 men to restore
[THE NEW TEXAS IN COMMISSION.
{Largest Warship Afloat Turned Over
To U. 8. Goverhment
With
on the
dreadnought
warship in the
turned over to
Government at
1
‘8B
held
the
Norfolk cinborate cere
snow .covered
Texas the
world, was
the United
the Norfolk
With her sailors and offi
lined up on the deck,
W. Grant, hes commander,
one of the shortest ad.
record. He sald “1 de-
| Eire to say that every man is expected |
110 give to the Texas that spirit of de.
{ Votion to duty which is necessary to |
make this ship a success”
| Ion jes
{decks
{ largest
formally
| States
i Navy Yard
i cers
Capt. A
{ dolly ered
| dresses
Guarter
on
OBJECTS TO EIGHT-HOUR Law,
To Supreme Court Te
it Aside.
Woman Appeals
Set
Washington --A lone Woman appeal |
ed {0 the Supreme Court to set aside |
the California Eight-Hour Woman La. |
bor Law as unconstitutional. She is
Miss Ethel E. Nelson. graduate phar |
macist in the Samuel Merritt, Hospital |
in Alamead county, Cal, and contends
that if the law is enforced a man will |
take her place. The hospital also has
attacked the law, because it applies
to student nurses, but not to graduate
nurses or women working in the fruit
industries,
MEMORIAL FROM ROCKEFELLER. |
Oil King To Leave $50,000,000 For
Cleveland Foundation.
Cleveland. O. — That John D,
Rockefeller is the guiding genius be-
bind the Cleveland Foundation, recent.
ly launched by F. R. Goff, president
of the Cleveland Trust Company, and
that the oil king plang to leave not
less than $50,000,000 to the trust fund.
the income of which would be used
for bettering Cleveland, was the sub.
stance of a report in circulation among
bankers here. Mr. Goff was out of the
city and could not be seen on the
question.
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE DEAD,
——————
Stood In World's Forefront in En
gineering and Invention.
New York. George Westinghouse,
& foremost figure in the world of on.
gineering and inventor of the airbrake
that bears his name, died at his resi.
dence in this gity. Heart disease
manifested iteell abou! iF months ago
and the end came a few hours after
it became publicly known hat Mr,
Westinghouse was seriously ill. He
was in his 68th year.
A AAS sii
FROM MINE TOMB
Escapes Death Miracie
ALIVE AFTER 100-FOOT FALL
Others Miss Doyle Sank From
Cave In—Miners Pulled Her
to the Surface.
Bhamokin.—After Mary Dovle, a 17-
Yearold schoolgirl, had fallen 100 feet
down i Lear the Rich.
» Bhe found herself in total
and almost frightened to
She was also with
She had walking
mountain path, talking
ee€veral girl friends. when the path
caved in. She was in the lead, and
48 she sank from sight her companions
barely escaped. Close behind the girls
was John Back a miner, on his way
home from work Hearing Miss
Doyle's friends call for help, he ran
to the scene, called to the missing girl
and was overjoyed to hear her faintly
answer, told him she had fallen
ance, but did not think any
had been broken. Bach
remain as quiet as pos.
he ran to a house
clothesline, Again
he lowered one
to Miss Doyle, who
was weak
miners
t Bach
{ent until
CONG
ga hon
20001
brea h
ards
darkness
death,
bruises,
along a
colliery
covered
been
10
She
a long dist
of Hm bs
her i
told her
10
sible
and
reaching
end of
faintly
whereupon
procured a
the cave in,
she too
to- tie it about hes Several
appeared,
and
he
Hncons« iOUs,
her and ha
rope abou
’ .
wowered m fully 10
’ sev A «5 3 §
ound th who had be
A tha rhe
, ie Fp
i her up, after
AWD to the sur
resuscitated
found
of $700.7
exe
86, or per
ess of 10 per cent.
red stock outstanding,
of an tax,
sett marine
1912 of $287.000. These profits came
from tolal tonnage produced and
handled, including coke, of 24 704,204
net tons, an Ind
an icreage
per
injury
over
iicCregse in
ements and
personal
losses
a
over of
cent. The re
Neervalive expecial
uits for 1914 is Warranted, although
there has come a more general feeling
1912
644.822. or 268 port
Ha¥s A C1 won of re
of encouragement w ith some
ment in demand
improve
Kills Three on Tracks
Pottstown alien emploves
the Reading Railway were killed
when a light locomotive Btruck them.
They lived in bunk cars near the oold
storage plant, and returning
from Royersford were struck The
engineer three men walking
not until it
late engine. Al @
mien were married and have families
n italy. Their names are Glovann}
Desimone, Vincenzo d’Alfonso and
Mariano Dipardo, and the latter had
service of the any
the day His two fri had
gone with him to Royersford to pur
chase a cot and bedding and were
turning home when they were kil
of
while
saw the
tracks, but
to stop his
% 3
On the
was
3 :
, #4
Oo 4
ihe comp
before nds
Sw"
Memorial Tablet Unveiled.
con A §
the bor
cham
Presi
Marletta gession of
ber was used for the first time
tan
The
done by George
and the artistic painting
lettering by J. RB Henry, of
Columbia. It is inscribed at the top,
and
tablet erected during
past few months was unveiled.
town clerk, councilmen and
present officials. The first chief bar
ess was David Cook, and the bur
Bess In 1912 was John Kugle.
For Simpler Student Garb.
West Chester.—At a meeting of the
School Directors of this town a resolu
tion was adopted requesting boys not
to wear dress suits, and girls to ob
serve ‘simplicity in thelr dress at the
class day and commencement exer
clges in June next, as wel, as at other
social events in the High School,
Silver-Gray Fox Shot.
Sunbury Northumberland county
commissioners were surprised when
they were called upon to pay $4 bounty
for a scalp of a sllvergray fox, a
species that is rare in this vicinity.
It was shot In Lower Mabanoy
township by William Lehr. He said’
he refused $50 for the skin, Lebr
also lad two weasel scalps, which
are worth $4 each in bounties,
making his day's work, $12 for the
bounties and the $50 offered for
the hide of the fox, make a total of
.
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