KEYSTONE STATE. IN SHORT ORDER nS —— LatestNews Happenings Gather- ed From Here and There. Fire destroyed the plant of the Slatington Umbrella Company, entail ing a loss of nearly six thousand dol lars. Owing to the searcity of coal cars on the Reading Railway in the Scran ton region, many collieries were com peiled (o suspend operation for a day. Joseph Stancavick was swept fifty feet down a chute at the Susquehanna | Ceal Company's Cameron Colliery by a run of coal and probably will die. PROTECT HEALTH Dixon Calls On Sportsmen To Look After Waste In Forest Camps. Calls Attention To Law. Harrisburg. —Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commissioner of Health, called upon the hunters of Pennsylvania to take steps to protect the public health while they are in the woods after deer next month. It 1s estimated that about 7,000 persons will go deer hunting on State lands alone, and the commission. er has sent this letter to every one re- asking them 40 celving State permit, to take at camps, that streams may not be polluted. The commissioner's letter is as fol lows: a care of waste “1 note that you have been granted a permit by the State Forestry partment to erect a within State camp in youl forest reservation. I wish to call Rule 3, the to on back of your permit, from & twelve | en pushed 18 ed when backward poreh, it alleged. He fell feet, breaking his neck. Two m have been arrested Joseph A. Berrier, chief clerk of the | Board of Censors, caused the arrest of | eight picture ton on the charge of not bearing the motion men of Seran showing pictures stamp of the board Mrs, William Gordon was burned to | death and four jured, two probably which other persons were in fatally, by a nve | sa tened i for a time nore Bsirov t We he Borough of of 3 east Erie 1 B. Palmer, a re on Height Association, } while running to a The whecls passed over Palmer’ begs cCARuUsIng lacerations. Willi brok Fire over by r, member of the Clift Protective was run a hose cart fire severe and contusions stipulates that ‘springs and must not be contaminated.’ “This rule is inserted to emphasize approved April 22, This the dis waters, because into Slate was made Sewage necessary and publicly and conditions was responsible for forms of pollution but largely spread of various by the disense waler porne of streams used SOUrce of public or private Among the forms of disease Ci of thousands our be me be dysentery death inually may ntioned and epidemic tO comply with aw, it the pro i necessary that ur camp be de find that the 3 will : thod of disposal will be by bur sewage sl feet and al gently ations 3 for garbage and at least two hundred any wall or stream spring be on level or only ground. The accumul covered ea das thick sprinkling of chlorinated lime « of lime earth not thickness the pit have hypochlorite {bleach), and a of in tad > than threes aver fis aan Drees i Wh in acc At a meeting of agement of the Y fing, Miss Mabel Fowler, of Wilming Del, was elected to the position i of general secretary, which had been | the Beard of Man W. CC. A. of Read ton, vacant about six months. Miss Fowler | fermerly was general secretary of the Wilmington Y. W. C. A J. H M. Andrews, Philadelphia, | has been elected to the Board of Trus- | tees of the Pennsylvania lege. Mr. Andrews from the college with and has been chosen filling VACANCY by the death of James E Pittsburgh. Mr of distribution Ra of State Col graduated | class of "8X, was the an alumpl repre created Quigley, is engineer | Philadelphia | gpentative, the of i Andrews the d Transit Company for Burned to a crisp, the bodies fiirls, five and seven years daughters of Mr. and Mrs Ostrom, were found in the remains of | bed the Ostrom Pitts ton, following a fire in the double | dwelling, part of which the family oc | cupied. The fire in the tion of the house occupied by the fam ily of Peter Poplar when the parents | of the Ostrom children visiting | friends : of two old (;eorge | their at home, started sec were shou the are re be sure that all pits filled with earth and any excess neatly State Will Guard Munition Plants Every plant in Pennsylvania manu explosives, shells or munitions of war, now is under special by ports on conditions in ever mn State “inspectors y plant have en made regularly for the last ye but un Ar recently steps been taken to prove the safety ar rangements and to avoid as far as pos which statistics the idents the Ace sent to Capitol have shown prob ably are due to the “speeding up” of n war orders or the handling of dangerous substances The despatch of two of the experts to the Bethlehem Steel Works, the State campaign, as dustry is only part of is to be visited by experts and super- visors in addition the regular in spectors, and the preventive work or agnized as far as possible to (By FRANK G. MENKE)) New York —The country person who bought a gold brick didn’t feel half badly after he discovered his error las Jawn McGraw does these whenever he thinks about that “Pol” t Perritt deal. Jawn got a gold { which is bad enough f from the Of that Jawn as days “Pol” the Lae brick Hut worst it, McGrawian view hundreds of in try mana from © id brick t ry ? spent lara and many anxious hours keep “Heb item Oakes, the rgh Feds jawn for the gt bu yam decid of in a Giant 1914 wotiation the David if the sen and up to his nick by letting have for a considerable bit booty Well, springtime came in due course but didn’ Instead, P geously with He asked wanted to { him “I'll boost that total $1,000 per sea i son.” said Oakes Oh, v¢ well } "D0." “Pol” left his home for the purpose of reporting to the Piitsburgh Feds | In the meantime, Jawn McGraw be | gan to wonder why -"Pol” didn't pul | in an appearance at the Glants’ camp {| In the nick of time, as the dime novels | put it. Jawn learned that “Pol” had | been quite untrue to him-—that he had { been lured away by Federal coin thou and head him off,” wired { Jawn to Dick Kinsella, the Giant ivory { hunter Mississippi Pol” come to the Giants began firting outra- the Feds. Oakes wanted Pol” how much him “Pol fim 1 fawn and told pay ry -1'm yourn,” quoth “Go who was then in Player as One 1s Apt to Find in Barrel of Spareribs. How much would you figure Harry { Hooper is worth to the Red Sox? | Well, there was a time when title to Hooper's person changed hands for | the munificent sum of $25, Bill Curtin, who bossed the Sacra mento club some years back. was one A difference of opinion as to the | propriety of keeping pigs in pens near homes likely will cause a division of Port Carbon Borough. Police Chief Robert F. Jones notified residents of | Schoentown, an outlying section of Port Carbon, that raising pigs within the borough limits no longer would be tolerated. Many families in Schoen town raise their own pork and are so incensad at the order that counsel was engaged to have Schoentown taken out of Port Carbon and annexed to Nor wegian Township. Christmas clubs in the Pottsville section will distribute $600,000 to members this week. This is the amount with interest saved during the fast vear. The Schuylkill Trust Com. pany of Pottsville, has $130,000 of this money which will be distributed to 4.900 members. At Frackville, Schuyl- kill, Haven, Tamaqua, Cressona and mining towns in the northern part of Schuylkill county, proportionately large amounts have been saved. These gavings will give an impetus to busi ness during the Christmas geason. Reports from the Connelluville coke region show that, while 31,700 ovens are in operation, with a rated capacity of 460,000 tons per week, production waz only 433,000 tons. This, the operators say, was due to the in. pulliciency and inefliciency of labor Plant managers are aiming to keep their operations at six days a week but many ovens continue to be lost because. workmen fall to report regularly for duty. Two hundred strict ins with the spection, ing the cowoperdtion of making conditions safe regulations of the factory in employes in Safety Devices Lessen Liability. an employer's plant reduce compensa. tion liability a plant of an employer, the cheaper fess an employer must pay for insur. turing cost,” ia the warning given in Bulletin No. 1, of the State Workmen's Compensation Commission, just issued. The bulletin also states that the fundamental principle of compensation “ja that the cost of industrial aeci- dents should be added to the selling cost of the product and be distributed among the consumers,” and that “per sonal loss of the employe is as Jegitimately an element of the fair money cost of the production of the commodity as are expenditures for raw material for machinery or wagea.” Validity Of Public Service Act Upheld, The Dauphin County Court in a brief opinion refused to grant a preliminary fnjunction restraining the Public Serv. jee Commission from passing on tho contract for street lightning between the City of Williamsport and the Lycoming Edison Company. More im- portant than the matter involved is the intimation of the Court that if the case Is carried farther the constitu tionality of the Public Service law, which is attacked in the petition, flied this week. Mamsport, will be upheld. Harry Hooper. of the parties to the transaction, and the other was McMenomy, who was directing genius of the Oakland club. Hooper belonged to Oakland at this particular time, and MeMenomy dis. covemed about as gmuch resemblance AI oom, “] want Perritt. 1 need him bid the Feds.' Kinsella jumped the first rattler after he had learned the Perritt route and headed off “Pol in Georgia. “Greetings, fair one, greetings.” wired Dick Out- somewhere mur “C'mon in and have some It was a warm day “Pol” con “Where ya goin’? al-like after the refre been served “Oh, me? I'm goin’ Feds’ camp. I'm gonna play Boa RON * sei end you ain't asserted na play with the ¢ remarked wit doin’ that ¢ mind. | gotts mind when the or offer me more money.” “How much did they ofle queried Dick “Pol” told him “Well, I'll beat right then t that.” said Dick and there Dick is r a salary of 5) iM per year under a three-year contract salary of $9000 a year, and this what he did in 1915 to earn it worked 35 games and won but 12 was knocked out of the box so often that every time he entered it the bet. ting was 2 to 1 that he wouldnt last through the game He pitched a brand of baseball so weird that it became a joke around the circuit That's enough to make rowful, but the sadness when he recalls that he must keep “Pol” for two years longer—and pay him $0,000 for each of these years And, in the meantime-— “Reb” Oakes is patting himself on his left shoulder blade 18 Jawn sor increases to a ball player in him as one is apt to find in a barrel of sparerihs He was on the point of releasing the future world’s series star when Curtin heard about it. “No, don't it.” said Bill ‘Bell him to me. give you $25 for him.” The deal was made, and Hooper started on the road to fame The world's series stuf must have been nice reading to McMenomy. 3 a, TTT TTT TTT TTY TY YY Ty yyy TY COBB RAPS FOOTBALL “1f football was a daily attrac tion it would last about a week.” said Ty Cobb, the American league star, after witnessing a game between Georgia Tech and North Carolina. “Ite brutality, if nothing else, would kill it. Baturday afternoon there were several boys hurt and put out of the game. This might attract for a day, but it would not appeal to America long. And the spectators had only a vague idea of what was happening. It was not the easy game to follow like baseball.” Tr TTT 7TrrYyYYYYyTyYyYyyyyyyyywy voy om, Bert Niehoff's Good Luck. Best Niehoff of the Phillies, although only able to get one hit in the big peries, is glad he didn't listen to Fielder Jones last spring, and at the same time he is glad the Terrier lead- or talked to him. When Jones inter viewed Bert, the Cincinnati club im- mediately got into action and traded him to Pat Moran. A share in the world's series followed. Plank Wants Two More Scasons. Eddie Plank, who gained the name of “Evergreen Eddie,” because of his good work during the last summer, wants to last two more seasons in baseball. He intends to show Connie Mack that he fan't through, as the Athletics’ leader stated when handing the southpaw his release. New Athletic Field. The University uf North Carolina's pew athletic fleld cost $30,000, and is rapidly nearing completion, i i aay © Se Hannes Kolehmainen Is Showing Signs of Going Back. Hero of Stockholm Olympiad Falling to Display Old-Time Form Because He Is Too Much Engaged in Business to Train. Is Hannes Kolehmainen slipping? That is the question that is agitating amateur, track circles at present and there are as many opinions as train ers, runners and experts who can crowd into the discussions. It is a fact that the great Finn distance run- ner has been showing very poorly in his recent races, and in his last two endeavors he has stopped and left the track before the finish, a most unusual proceeding for the hero of the Stock: holm Olympiad. There is a day career when he is absolutely at best, and in the Kolehmainen this day was the one in July, 1812, on which Hannes and the lamented Jean in every runner's his holm stadium. The wonderful Finn may train forever, but he'll never be the runner he was on that day, or, bet- ter yet, those ten days of Sweden's great Olympic festival. In that derful duel of speed and grit with Koly passed the three miles in Hannes will never equal these figures again; therefore, it may be truthfully stated that he's not as good on the track as he Some eastern experts that Kolehmalnen a Once Was, holding failing to show are is Hannes Kolehmainen, his oldtime form because he has BY WARNING SHOT Submarine Saves Many From & Watery Grave. STEAMER ALLOWED T0 GO A Thrilling Story Told By Mrs. Egan, Who Was a Passenger On the British Steamer Barulos Whisk Was Halted By a Turkish Submarine Commanded By a German Officer In the Mediterranean-—Most of Those On Board Were Greeks—When Shot Became Orientals and Was Heard Passengers Pari.y- 250 Saved. A Turkish submarine British passenger Medi sons had been drow ted of the 25 who had gone overboard in ng to Eleanor Franklin n fved York the in after 26 per sisted in re SSENRers a panic, ns New 51 t i apped ship and ne Barulos the ranean SCUINE any 9 pa accordi An eve . who art chip New York yecording to Mra is a writer, returning from through for here on the The Barulos, Ezan, who stear a six months’ trip Southern Europe, left Piraeus Alexandria on October 2 ship flew the as Greek, the ng chiefly reeks and yr be rientails Briti PRERETE about h of Crete OalR con h steam been train properly, because he tempted to lengthen his natural stride of late. and because he is growing old er and stiffer in the joints reported that Cupid is claiming some of his*attention and interfering with his training The Finn's efforts to lengthen stride were first noticeable in fomile A. A. U. championship last fall. and the longer steps have result od in the loss of the tireless rhythm that marked his Olympic running is certain that the new idea has nol done him any good. Lawson Robert son. his trainer, admits that Koly is losing form in the two-mile distances his five-mile, New Track at Weeguahic ter-mile track will be within view of the spectators. A steel grandstand will seat 10,000. There will be a 220 yard straightaway, three jumping pits, for the running high, running broad and hop. step and jump events, and special circles for all the weight events. Pat Moran's Predecessors. The men who preceded Pat Moran as managers of the Phillies include eminent figures in the national game's development. The list is Bob Fer guson, Harry Wright, Arthur Irwin, William Shettsline, George Stallings, Hugh Jennings, Chief Zimmer, Hugh Duffy, Billy Murray and Charles Dooin. Hall Wins Titular Trophy. Walter Merrill Hall, former middle states titleholder, won the champion- ship of the Hamilton Grange Lawn Tennia club for the third successive time, and thereby became permanent owner of the titular trophy. He de feated James 8. O'Neal, a former Co- tumbia pitcher, in three straight sets, 84, 62, 88, Browns Sign Cleveland Boy. The Browne have signed Louis Crowley, the big right-handed pitcher of the champion White Auto team from Cleveland. Crowley pitched his team to victory last simmer and is «aid ta be a real wonder, wa hen «ub started back ading below, th idea of helping to marine appeared toward the stairs wi the tf wu WAR quell ti rus} © pani literally sea. I keep the being aggra- others or caught in the and over the side into the adi a hard above my poner the water than the the submarine hip of on be had A the appeared On her deck 1 under bow f our saw 8 number with an whom 1 took to Austrian colle an fer submersible 5 sub lifel CI'ew were paible at out marine of the “The hands pulli water onto her deck officer was holding up in the SAY in his shouting to the people to be © n i N: sake, go back are not murderers.” ”™ heard hin riect Englis perfor “For God's ghip to your wo “LIFE BOATS NOT STRUCK?" More Detail On Ancona Disaster From Ambassador Page. Washington. Ambaseador Page, at Rome, forwarded to the State Depart- ment further fragmentary reporia on the torpedoing of Italian liner Ancona. He transmitted the the statements of the liners captain and first officer, who deciared that while the Ancona at first made efforts to escape, she halted on being shelled. The fring did not cease alter the Ancona cama to a stop, he said, shells striking the ship while passengers were being low. ered into lifeboats. None of the shells struck the lifeboats TOBACCO BAN LIFTED. England Will Let Us Ship To Neutral Nations. Washinrton., — Great Britain bas yielded to the American representa. tions for removal of all restrictions the shipment of tobacco to nov countries. Word of this reach 1 from: the American Embassy at Lo®. don. The Netherlands Government also has removed similar restrictions. CARRANZISTAS EXECUTED. flew Rulers Of Mexico Punish Own Men For Looting. Nogales. Word was received here that seven men were executed at sun. down at Nogales, Sonora, by the Car ranza authorities for looting. They included a Carranza captain and three soldiers.
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