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-