KEYSTONE STATE N SHORT ORDER Latest Doings in Various Parts of the State. PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING Capital Stops Disinfection. City tempor any Harrisburg.—The [arrisb Qouncil re ary sewage di longer. “used plant Miner Killed Under Cars. ht under a t the #al Lie Tamaqua.-—Cau runaway John Darko, badly squeezed terwards CATS aged that he ays $368,000 United U.G. L Harrisburg. —'1 prov Y } the © State Tax. ‘he im. Milkmen Pl: Carlisle A fzation of milk who raised cent a quart plating a 1 product 2 an Boy Dies Of Lockjaw. the glare of the big eles Rockel Hoffman was struck by a trol ad lacerated and revere! the body tric lamp, of near Al ley car, his he bruised about Joseph lentown, Carl Allgrum, of Bethlehem, who ha Just resigned as head foreman of" Ne 2 machine shop of the Dethlel Company, after seventeen vears of con tinuous serviee, was presented with a gold wateh by his fellow-employes The canvass of the vote for Repre sentative in the Bucks-Montgomenr District, completed by E. C. A. Moyer of Montgomery, and W. 8. Schlicter of Bucks, showed the following offi elal figures: Watson, R., 28.952: Hea oock, D., 20.232: Whiteside, Soc., 954 mbo, Pro., 467; Dix, Single Tax, 12¢ L. While he was dressing a Thanksgls ng pig out in the back yard thieves ntered the home of Emery Chuek, of oth Bethlehem, and stole forty-five dollars, The two-year-old danghter of Mr Mrs. Cyrus J. Campbell, of Harrisbhurs was burned to death when a from the furnace fell on the erih, The Harrisburg Hoepital will ehace a new ambulance with $2.000 pre vided by State appropriation and similar sum donated by the Harriebur Pipe and Pipe Bending Company. ant spar! baby’ mn . HORSESHIP MARINA Questions Ships Status. Took For Transport—Offers Says Submarine Commander Vessel Reparation In Case Of Mistake, Vashington.—Subsequent to the re ceipt of a comununication from German Government admitting that ubmarine torpedoed the piri “a German ish horseship Marina, with the six Americans, Secretary Lan with President Wilso that ferred Was decided nO /etld Americar definite] the Marina wa ine until it wi 19 MURDERED, THEY SAY Tell Of Torpedoing Of the Marina voeiel } by a German submaring off the coast of Ireland on October 28 The arning ent here from Glas ican Embassy on the steamship Tuscania Haneock, a printer, of Riot Va.,, who had acted as a fore horsemen on the Marina, 19 men who ell wer row by the Amer Anchor Line Josge T oy mond, said man of that the including the were drowned even Americans, slightest chance for their lives, sinee rubmarine, after firing the fire! torpedo without! any warning, rose to the surface when the 19 were still etruggling to lower the vessels fifth boat in the davits and deliberately fired a second torpedo, With this second abot the Marina blew up and sank like a rock, taking the 19 men with her had not 1 the AUSTRIA HALTS WAR RELIEF, Wants American Red Cross To Stop in Northern Serbia. Washington. — Austria-Hungary has asked the American Red Cross to dis continue work in Belgrade and in other parts of Northern Serbia con quered by the Teutonic forees, when supplies now on hand have been, die tributed. Thy suggestion reached here through Ambassador Penfield at Vienna, The Austrian Covernment expressed its dsopent gratitude to the Red Cross for what has been done, but gave no rea | san for ashing discontinuance. 3 ¢ relief 29 SUBMARINES Navy Daniels Contracts. of Awards Big TOTAL COST OVER $65,000,000 ted for the STARTS MAIL EARLY CAMPAIGN " - i Postmaster - General +» Exnects Heavy Christmas Business. t cting heavier ever before be po country 1’ Wivnotan "x0 Christmas malls than catire of "th reneral alent Ipearity prev. Post on announced he postmasters a “mail early campaign” ling ia esp necessary, n says, be before Christmas falls all parcels should be thro yosiit hie hegun throneh ma cially Dastmarter{iens Bure cause on Sunday the dav and day, December 23, $1.00 LAND WORTH £1,000. Ganiater Discovery Sends Values Soar. ing Near Huntingdon, Huntingdon, Pa.-—The A. J. Haws Canister Company, of Johnstown, ia ng to erect a modern firebrick of large enpacity on Black Log Bitlion# of tons of ganister reach of the aro, with the ronat Mountain, rock will be within easy new plant. Ten years have been bousht for $1.00 an acre, but gince the discovery of ganister and building of a new 8iate highway it canot be bought for $1,000 an acre. a NO POTATO SHORTAGE I PENNA, SAY OFFICIALS Highest Tribunal. OVER FOR ENVOY o Refusal of Safe Conduct for Tar- nowski Peeves Wa: BAD MANNERS VIEW TAKEN sg Coun Bing cack or wo 1d sell for 12% cent *Popu and ten cent stores, would ar shops such as the five undoubted! for § gays selling two now COMPULSORY PRIMARIES. West Virginia Legisiature Adjourns After Passing Bill, Charleston, W. Va.-The special ses gion of the legislature closed, after re ports had been made by conference committees appointed to bring the House and Senate together on the registration and primary bills, The bills were finally passed by both houses, and they become effective in 90 days. The primary bill, as it came from the conference committee, re stores compulsory primaries to the election system. NEARLY ALL BAKERS ARRESTED. Charged With Selling Light-Weight Loaves In Wilmington, N. C. Wilmington, N. C.-<Proprietors of practically ail bakeries in the city were arrested on charges that they were selling loaves of bread under the stand. ard weight set by an old. city ordi nance. The ordinance specifies that each loaf must weight 16 ounces, and it is alleged most of the bakeries have been selling loaves that weight only 10 ounces, and Brother: With Railroads hoods To Co-Operate the To Ope Commission Obeerve the Law's ration FARM BANKS Make Its Announ Twenty Da VOTE IN MINNESOTA. Canvassing Board Determines Plurality Of Hughes At 392, Minn.—Charles E Minnesota at the was 382 wotes, St. Paul, Hughes’ recent presidential election the State Canvassing Board deter Discovery of slight errors in original tabulation resulted in a Joss of four votes by Mr. Hughes, final official count being: Hughes Wilson, 179,152. the 179.544; TWINS, 14, IN U, 8. ARMY, Judge Landis is Trying To Learn How They Worked It. Chicago. ~~ Federal Judge K M Landis today took stops to learn how Hyman and Abe Jackson. twine, 14 years old, got into the United States Army. A few weeks ago the twins were inmates of an orphan asylum here. The superintendent says that for five years they brought abowt a reign of terror. U. 8. ATTACHE RECALLED. Lieutenant-Colonel Kuhn lg Ordered Back From Berlin, Washington. The War Department officially confirmed reports of the ‘re call of Lieut.-Col, Joseph E. Kulin military attache of the American Bm bassy in Berlin i { i y Farmers—£.000,000 Dozen Eggs Stored. Harrisburg and Food any haw Spent Nothing and Was Not Elected. of Milton, cand » lentd elec ent filed at t he received “nor { nothing ng, adding { was | electe Merger Approved By Governor. Governor Brumbaugh approved the merger of the Rockhill Coal & Irom (o.. and the Broad Top Improvement Co.. the combined company to have the Rockhill capital of $1.- 200,000 name and a Brown To Aid New Legisiators. Attorney Geheral! Brown has sent a letter to each man elected to the next Legislature extending an invitation to him to avail himee!f of the legal advice and services of the department in legislative matters. PENNSYLVANIA CHARTERS. flarrisburg. — State charters were issued as follows lay & Mitchell Manufacturing Co. paper cups, ete, Philadelphia; capital, $5.000; treasurer, M. lL. Maher, H. J. Heing Corporation, food prod. nets, Pittsburgh: “capital, $250.000; treasurer, W. H. Robinson. Lebanon Gear & Machine Worka, Lebanon: capital, $25.000: treasurer, H. T. Gerdes. New York. Wallace Manufacturing Co, Philadelphia: capital, $20.064; urer, A. GG. Sehuehior. The John Fib Company, coal lands, Carbondale: capital, $40,000: trea urer, \ Thomas A. John, Wilkes-Barre dien, treas-
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