URGES ENFORCING Sevea———— Conditions in Cities. PUBLIC APPROPRIATIONS, Bureau Would Have Been Organized Long Ago Had An Adequate Sum Been Available In the Appropriation. (Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg Ilvania’s first housing conference action to further cate the public yailing in many of the pre the hope that laws governing ced. Itisp of Pennsy ended after taking a propaganda to edu- to the conditions pre and ex and housing cities ssing State robable ul the conferend Bureau of Hot of Health will be for a limited period in order t strate what funds were This Bureau ed long age in the put using Department Into oper: Board Approves Tuberculosis tion R8 insane and tre and ts Hospital The for were pr by Acting Health and Charities Wilson joct of the sented ward will be to thorough and careful examinat ing thir ays of all people 1 MAY Al tion wil rove a din fter th red 6 reg tow: Commission Approves Charters. Tamaqua, Har wood \uto Trans ton Water p Water State Economy Work Begun. The Effie Commission to the State Economy and sent a letter fency ernment, asking for a detailed salary paid, regarding expenses of operation. the inquiry of the Commission. Hospital Trustee Named. T. D. Shay, Nanticoke, was appoint ed a trstee of the Btate Hospital at Nanticoke. The one hundred and twentieth an. niversary of Lodge, 62, F. and A. M., was celebrated by a meeting and ban- quet in Masonic Temple, Reading. Ad- dresses were made by J. Henry Wil Hams, of Philadelphia, right worship ful grand master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, and George B. Wells, of Philadelphia, grand senior deacon, of the Grand Lodge. THE 1. 5. NAVY Gunboat Dolphin’s Men Arrested at Tampico. RELEASEDONMAYOQ'S DEMAND Apology Acknowledged By Mexico City Is Apprehernsive About Ad miral’s Insistence Upon Salu tation Of the Flag. Mexico City The pay detachm States gunbos oiphin Mexi marched thr being held on the demand A launch from ing the pavms naster and » from by =a bride were afte Asked Disavowal and RECEIVER FOR J. G. A. LEISMMAN Judgment Against Amounts To $75,000 Former Ambassador tions ing ab burgh ASPHYXIATED IN MOVING VAN. Boys Stop Up Craéks and Kindle Fire in Bucket, New York-Three small boys ¢ ed into a deserted moving van in lem, stopped up the cracks to rawl Har in a bucket. Pat of one of the for him, chanced to look in the van. He found his son Franck unconscious. John Scanlan. a S-yearwold companion, was dead, and the third boy was apparently dying. a fire they kindled rick Kenny, father fellows, searching SALVATION ARMY LEADER DEAD. Wife Of Organization’ 8 Secretary Dies In New York. New York. Mrs. William Peart, wife of the secretary of the Salvation Army in the United States and second to Miss Booth in command of the army in this country, died at her home In Mount Vernon, N. ¥Y. Mrs. Peart was | franchise in Australia. tn the movement for woman suffrage. HALL, PA. i 7! ik a a Min tthe AUTOPLUNGES INTO ELIZABETH RIVER and Five Are Rescued. AGED COUPLE USE NOOSE, Poverty-Stricken, They Hang Them selves From Mook in Apartment 5 v LE TION ¥ $3 ev) “¥ : % JH if taroueh and wi re from the hook | 190 First avenue climbed on a the sed themsels apartment ; air evidently heads gh kicked topgethet their throu chair away land the went to another 16 WIVES; GETS HAD 10 YEARS, White Slave Law. Tex “udie Ark. accused of 16 wives, was sentenced in the Federal | Court here to 10 years’ imprisonment on a technical charge of violating the Mann White Slave act Seven of Arnold's alleged wives testified against him. Fort Worth, as Arnold, | KILLS HIS FATHER’ s ASSAILANT. Virginia Youth Strikes Man, Dies From Wound. Who Luray, Va. Arthur Turner, of Rock- ingham county, was fatally wounded Saturday by George Orve, of Shenan. dosh, and died Monday. The difficulty started between George Orve, Sr, and young Turner at Orve's livery stable The elder Orve called Young Orve, it is said, struck T0 PAY COLOMBIA | FOR CANAL ZONE -: Treaty Signed at Bogota Agree- ing on $25,000,000, CLAIM IS OF LONG STANDING Another arti the home that friendls I'nited tinue from No rights tion between Colombia forward new interoceanic bia the Atl: and no coaling privileges Andreas and Providencia 1s off the Colombian const. it was were contained in the treaty, While the Colombian minister, Betancourt, received. a from his foreign office, informing him of the signing of the agreement, the | and this time for a {olo: Stunts Hay con canal bs ato River San ACTOAR route word from Mr. Thompson The Colombian Congress will called in special session to pass on the treaty before it is submitted to the Senate here. BURNED To DEATH. Brinton Prominent In Music Life Of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa Mre. 1da F. Brin ton, for many years prominent in the social and musical life of this city, was burncd to death when her clothing WOMAN Mrs. [| PROTEST MADE jl [0 GEN. CARRANZA | Washington Views With Grave Concern New Crisis. | EXPULSION ORDER THE CAUSE wetermined tations Represer Made terests Spanish |r Torreon Districts PENSION FOR FANNY CROSBY Hymn Writer and Missions In Will Of Mrs. E. A. Henry DOWAGER EMPRESS IS DEAD Of Royal Family Of Japan scumbs After Long Hiness, fember Suc ‘okio uted of at Haruka mperiag Yokohoma., Shs 64 t The Dowager Empres had wen 1 for veral ror Mutsuhito., husband Empress, died on July itia w as ge weeks Emp of the [30, 1912 Dowager FORD GIVES LIFE IN VAIN, Frantic Man Butne With Mis Wife and Babes. Paducah, Ky After saving four of his children, Malcolm Ford dashed into {his blazing home at Rossington, near | here, to save his wife and two babies, but perished with them in the flames. HAWAIIAN FRUIT 8 BARRED. Feared That Melon Fly Will Be Brought To This Country, Washington, D, C--The importer of Hawaiian fruits and nuts into the United States after May 1 will face a $500 fine, or a year's imprisonment, by her apartment. She was 67 years old, and was the widow of Dr. William Bowen Brinton, of West Chester, who died 256 years ago. Agriculture under the plant quarantine met of 1912. The object of the ban is to prevent the introduction into this country of the melon fly and the Mediterranean fruit fly. JUDGE CLIVER B. DICKINSON has Chester, President Wilson Oliver B, Dickinson, of jucge neyivania, [HE NEWS TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. appointed be to United States for the Eastern district of Per LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS, of and year-old ell into the YW drowned before h I'he reservoir recover the body { n reservoir elp could reach her had to be dragced to » One of the {wo breakers Coal Company Pri gtroved by fire supposed ndiary origin. but its jfcap the operation of the Lytle wae ave been lose will at mroge de- to b ince not handi f John Rudner. of Milleraville, serving six years in the county prison, for robbery, will save his “buddy.” John Sincos, from a simi. iar sentence. The latter had been con. vieted with Rudner The confession © A pulmotor was presented to the Homeopathic Hospital, Reading, by R. Milton Breneiser. The gift was in. apired by the use of & pulmotor in sav. ing the life of one of Mr. Breneiser's employes, Because City Oouncil refused to allow them to operate wheels of chance at their proposed carnival in June, the officials of the Good Will Fire Com- pany have cancelled their contract with a carnival company. While presiding over Columbia Bor. ough Council, Col. John IL. Wright, president, was stricken by paralysis, which affected his entire left side and his speech. It is belleved he will re. cover.
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