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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
lerferfortete : !
Carl F. Doehmert, aged 80,
ted suicide by hanging in his home at
Pittsburgh.
The state bureau of animal industry
has just
ed to prevent contagion.
Pennsylvania last year had 752 of
the 4951 men in the United States em-
ployed in trap-rock quarries of
country, ranking third in the
in this industry. New Jersey
largest total with 1090 and Massachu-
setts was second with 8835,
The | buckwheat crop is rapofted big:
ger and better than ever,
Harold Benner, a taxi driver,
waa
The footpads handed him twenty
a package of
wy would not
sible for the death of Forrest, G-year-
old son of David Wasson, of Trafford,
near Greenshurg The little fellow
with two brothers was playing in
yard of his home when
Howard Hart,
Chester,
near
14, of Bondsville,
shing in the
when his
was Sdrandywine
hook caught
a twig as attempted cast, re-
bounded and penetrated an eyelid, but
the eyeball was not injured. A physi-
cian cut the barb the hook
removed the shank.
Preparations are made in
Pottsville to install in Schuylkill coun-
ty the telephones,
whereby automobilists can call up their
own homes on all state roads and
also call for help if a break down
occurs. The system also provides way.
side tools in boxes for emergency pur-
poses,
William Carroll, for
years in the employ of
nia railroad, was arrested
stance of George V.
office inspector, in
with the theft of
the registered mail
ing to the inspector, found a number
of letters in a mail car and onened
them, abstracting their contents, which
included negotiable securities,
Charged with offering protection to
a saloonkeeper, Paul E. Fritzche, a
prohibition enforcement officer, was ar-
rested in
$1000 bail for a hearing before United
States Commissioner Hall. John Rel-
scheld, a hotelman, Fritzche of-
fered to protect his place for £25
monthly. Fritzehe, whose
to be in Philadelphia,
sation.
A pew national guard dalrectory
being prepared, giving the officers
tke organizations which
prior to going to camp.
will give the new
officers.
Joseph
American
his home,
he to
from
being
wayside system of
twenty-one
‘he Pennsylva-
at the
Craighead,
Pittsburgh, charged
$3000 in bonds from
Carroll, accord.
post-
SHys
denies the
is
of
The new
units as well as the
Neenam, president
Window Glass workers, an-
nounced here that a wage agreement
had been reached with the Window
Glass Manufacturers’ Association of
America, affecting the “hand plants.”
It ealls for a reduction cf
from the wage scale,
ago, and becomes operative September
8 to ther 19, when it is expected
the hand plants will be placed in oper-
ation. affects
skilled other
enough total
persons,
James 8,
torney, dled in a
while under an anaesthetic
operation for the
Figures
of
Nptem
The new agreement
workmen and
bring the
10 to
Campbell, a Pittsburgh at-
durirg an
removal of a bunion.
showing that
of the farms ‘n Pennsylvania are work-
¢d by their owners have been complet-
el at the
state department of agrie
farm property in the
buildings, machinery
over S1.725.000.000,
farms is given at
The huckleberry
rR total forty-five
to market from the Hazleton district.
as compared with 140 in 1920 and 125
in 1919. Droughts, frosts and forest
fires damaged the crop seriously. The
local association announced the
nue in 1921 was only $146,000, as com
pared with about 2400000 last year.
Compensation for a death
suicide asked by Mra
Peight, of Altoona,
the of
Jacob Snyder
th
th
statistical bureau of
ulture. The
state,
and
The
202 ha
es Vi,
livestock, Is
number of
season ended
of
dne
Kate
ix M.
office
there, The woman's
26 last, from a self-inflicted gunshot
wound in the head.
recites that Peight was formerly em-
ployed in the frame shop of the Zenn-
sylvania railroad’'s Altoona shops and |
was injured about the head In a fall |
from a locomitive during his work.
His Injury incapacitated him and his
mind later became deranged as a result
of the accident. The mental
led to his taking his life.
John D. Flanagan was instantly kill-
ed and James Castner and
Brady were seriously injured
The workmen's compensation board
will resume hearing of arguments on
in Harrisburg September 6
Philadelphia September &
po
fy 8
and in
and 9,
Kermit Bower, aged son of Ar-
thur Bower, of Berwick, was injured
in a pecullar manner at his home. His
father had killed a chicken and was
cleaning the blade of the hatchet by
striking it Into a free, when the hat-
chet slipped and struck the boy on
head, inflicting a gash several
inches long.
5,
Attempting to cross the street in
Berwick on his bieyele in front of the
automobile of Fred Vanderslice, Thom-
as J. Garr was struck by the au-
tomobile and sustained a fractured
collarbone and possible fracture of the
ribs,
ison
The lives of 15
gered in the
Key stone
W) miners were endan
Hampfield Slope of the
and Coke nmny,
when fire hroke out
It spread
work
wont
near Greenshurg,
in the
but hy
Crews
Conn
workings,
prompt
miners
fire, it
fan house,
of
guided
the
the were
was
Informed
erine long
seriously
Mrs, Mary
street, Chester,
attack and
removed to her home
ing picture theatre, The child
the Chester Hospital. Allel
to, 3 driver of the
Was far and Police
Elliott held him in £1000
pear at the inquest,
Many
have
kept
alleged
that
I,
had
her grandceh Cath
aged € yvears,
injured by an
Oesterly, of 200 West Fifth
was seized with a
heart died soon
ing
died
atio
yeurs,
rrested
bail to
fate
robbed
homes in
of stores of
prix
heen
for meq al
an organized gang
unable to secure supplies else.
have taken
they suspect a
purposes,
of bootleg
gers,
houses
can
to looting
where,
where
he
few quarts
taken
Edmond ©
of re
the
Forsyth, aged 368, head
education work
medical department field
‘
Carlisle,
creational yal at
army
committed
club by shoot
Brooklyn
school at
the
had
de at
ing. He
sulel officers
relations in
Massachusetts,
of Lattimer,
record for shoe repairing bills
broke
pany mule
strippings, it
harness to
rainged before
he pald $4
holds
H+
Valley Coal com
the Lattimer
out Op some
When ar
Fallor
of
ran the
a sole
in a
a spark
James Esposita,
the
into the le «high
stables at
is alleged, t
sole his shoes
Alderman E. J
repairs to the
well as costs that
bill ap te about £10, or 85
Four perrons were injured
mine near New Galilee,
from a miner's lamp fell into a ean of
They were Mr
Owens, Now
Strob, aged 15,
aged 17, of
girls were
and had
workings of a mine
them, ut half
underground, when the explo
All will recover.
and former
parish, the
fields, will gather
reunion.
hundred
were
for Ee
as
cond
when
Mrs. Harry of Gall
and Mabel
Hannibal,
The two
Owens Ju
New
Castle
HOE, expressed
to gee the i
was escorting aba
occurred
Residents residents of
the
the
urvtown oldest in
coal for
(ne ases of bonded whis
3 seized by
n the of
whe, with six other
The war depart
from the slackers’
Pittsburgh police
Santino Pasquisalll
8, were jailed,
ment has removed
the names of
Chambers, Board No. 1, Lack
county: Michael Kacana
loard No, 8, Luzerne: Eildon 1. Stern
Board No. 1. Lehigh, and William
Lyons, Board No. :, Lehigh, all of
in some capacity.
over the death of his
wife, Willlam Weiland, of Chambers
shot and killed himself,
Ntanley Horan, 40, was
about the head and
City colliery in
home
13s
PIN
P
Despondent
explosion.
It cost twelve boys of McAdoo $12.5¢C
high Valley railroad passenger
After having been closed down for
tween 300 and 400 men reporting.
Fishing in Middle Creek, George E
| Rohrback, Sunbury, former prothono
| tary of Northumberland county, land
| ed a black bass that weighed four and
When his arm was caught
rolls of an electric wringer,
in the
Harry
tons of dirt on state highway con-
struction operations between Danville
and Bloomsburg, The injured were
rushed to the Bloomsburg Hospital,
The men were digging out dirt for a
fill when the cave-in occurred.
Chief Kepping, of the Hazleton fire
department, charged that a £1000 blaze
at the home of James Deano was due
to the operation of a whisky still,
From all indications there will be
at least five candidates for every office
in Fayette county at the primary,
Falling from the top of a street ear,
William Duncheskle, 22 years old, a
Hineman, of Shamokin, saffered a frac
tured skull and died after being ad-
mitted to a hospital,
Plans to add portable fire appara-
tus to the forest fire equipment of the
forestry department are being worked
out,
ed a badly crushed right arm.
Hasson Brothers, owners of r car
nival, were arrested ut Mcunt Pleas
ant and held jor a hearing on a charge
|
Frapk, 4year-cld 8 of Angels De
Falko, of Huzleton Heighis, nas seri
ously injured when run down by »
runaway team.
Rev, and Mrs, Merrel Marker left
Reedsville for the Persian missionary
fields to remain from five to sever
years,
Following the discovery of twenty
two cases of typhoid fever In one sec
tion of Greensburg, the board of healtt
closed an old spring from which the
families had been getting water.
The Southwestern Mennonite confer
ence went on record as opposing tobae
oo in any form.
Work was begun by Theodore R
Helb upon the erection of an lee manu
facturing plant adjoining the Keystone
Hrawery, gt You,
the baseball
association,
Glaneing over
the National
One
D teams somewhere In this big
ern league ; Tommy
while Joe Tinker
same sun-stricken circuit;
tral circuit;
and Larry Cheney is
league. So the story
boss of players
EOes
INTE RESTING
SPORT NOTES
West Point Military
add rowing ta BpoOris
academy * will
its
¥ - ®
Iw
is going on
. Ad * -
Gene imont,
Memphis
weight, the stag
“
for a football
Boston
heen
Negot
next fall
Centre
jation= rame
hetween collegs
ge have started
e »
h p
fighting is
never pl
colle
who sayd
of
ine
rofessor
the
That
prize
all sports
of freezeout
Spanis
most cerael
syed a losing gi
South African inwn
he
Norton, the
tennis star, is
understood te com
ing to this country in the near future
accept a position,
® - *
John F. Martin
college footh
to
an old Oberlin
il track man, has
ge lected the
Wesleyan this fall
all a
heen to coach
team at
of New Jer
Rickard fn
of
Frensurer Read
from Tex
144. 866.70 In pa
on Dempsey Car
State
sey received
check for 8
the
pentier
yment
state fax the
fight
. =»
halfback
Oberlin college
to
univer
J. E
1 t
foothall
Martin, whe played
nrkie thie
tear for
RIM Of
three
Wesl
YOAr«, is
coach the feam nt evan
sity this fall
. * .
M
ball conch at
Brice, for ten years foot
Manchester (N. H.) high
Fred
to serve
at
has been engaged
yeare in that capacity
of Maine,
* - -
Paddock,
in
nny
gehool,
three the
University
world's
hed for
effort that
Charlie
sprinter, sts two solid
days preceding
is to make either in a race against
humans or a dash against time
- * -
Charley White, the (Chicago
weight, may now box in IS
from which he was barred,
tional Boxing association
the han on him, which
following his contest
Freedman in Milwaukee,
TAKE TIME TO CONSIDER
nys
Tight
has lifted
with Sailor
Coach Bezdek of Penn State thinks
no football rule should be changed
without having a year's consideration,
Most football conches are not so het
up over the kick for goal after touch.
down as some critics of the country
appear to be. As Bezdek says: “We
can wiways develop somebody to kick
the goals.”
i
|
H
tines
John
of old
Farrell, of
whose
and
sponsored by
the number
clips OC
the Western
Southwest-
CRETE,
the
Cen-
florida
Petersburg in
Grand Rag
the
the
Tampa club in the §
Barger St.
ids
is managing in the
league,
Atlantic
Eastern
at Charleston In Nouth
Manager of Yankees Couldn't
“Lefty” O'Doul, Man of the Hour
on Pacific Coast,
“lefiy™
hour in the
(VDoul
Pac
the
ine Caw
in man of
ist leag
summer
The
the
sidewheeling fling
bench for a
“Lefty” O'Doul,
New York Yankees during 1920 with
member of the San Francisco
He bad the same staff when
a Yankee But Miller Huggins
manager of a team of sturdy
who lets them boss him, pulled g hone
He couldn't tad
mite
see the
Naturally Huggins sent him to
Frisco with a string attached,
O'Doul with his southpaw stuff has
heen one of the big factors in making
oddson favorite to cop
the coast gonlglon..
a
WISCONSIN T0 PLAY OREGON
Alumni of Two Universities Trying te
Arrange Christmas Football
Game for 1921,
of Wisconsin
frying
and Oregon
{0 Arrange »
Alumni
universities are
Badger-Oregon foothall game for
Christmas day, 1921. The game is be.
ing boosted by O. Laurgard, city en-
gineer of Portland, and his former
classmate at Wisconsin, George R.
Keachie. Both Sraduated in 1903.
BALL YOURS IN PITTSBURGH
Fans in Smoky City Have No Fear of
Police When Fouls Are Hit
Inte Grand Stand.
Fans who attend games at the Na-
tional ball park in Pittsburgh may
keep balls knocked into the stand
without fear of being molested by po
lice, according to an order issued by
Robert J. Alderdice, director of pub-
lie safety. Director Alderdice made
thizg ruling following threatened dam.
three fans under arrest for refusing
to throw balls back on the diamond.
UMPIRE MUST STICK
TO DECISIONS MADE
————— 55
Not Permissible for Him to Re-
verse Rulings.
—————— i
Fans Are Wrong in Thinking That
Arbiter Is Bullheaded—Few Games
Would Be Finished if Arguments
Were Allowed,
their bad de
bullheadedness,
fans are almost invariably
Every umpire time and again
understands
that
cisions
Those
stick
sheer
nmplres
out of
10
in the season
nfter he
should
in
hag decided one way
decided another, but
himself,
protests and
short
have
reversed
he
Writes an
delays,
his job order
Enstern
Very few fans stop to consider why
rule agua reversing
on is al.
jaws of the
Oke in
seribe
nst umpires
decisions of fact
rabde
Persians
ary if
most as the
but
a8 unaile
the rule is
ball game
than is
three-day
nna
absolutely necess HDY
nished in less thme
of those
nothing
games wold
as enoup?
decisions ordinarily
sh
he first
engaged all
ump
long and painful ex has
taught the be In
that it
perience
haseball
down 88 &
pire shall
hw
Was
the
pow ers
ven when
realizes on second thought that he
i
than It Is to
“rcourage
the bellef that if
Wrong.
talk
per
i}
Les
in
loudly enough they can
10 reverse
Baseball
N otes
cKenly,
and
hiraself
Wonder
crabs” got the
backwards
» ® w
to RO
Kemp.
Laser
ike farmer
first
ith the (
an, is to
develand tean
» .
Another ient n:
X08 me
who
Deuver team of
- » *
er
former Giant
tT to
Jolt Tesresu
signed a
haseball
mich
coach the
«conira
¢ four ¥ a 1
team Jor Lhe next
hree seasons,
- 9
McGuire for
Tom center fielder
Bi
the
league,
Inter
ve Ridge
How
the
has heen sold to ext of
tional ‘
eagu
Moines second
ng to
has 8 new
the
like a
ws
: Answer name of
vhich
drink th
more
ime of 8 ball I
* a
catcher,
{ ‘het
eased
Thomas
the f
has signed to manage the
m.
recently re
bis Jeveland American
eam
} Eastern league ten
» - *
first
who
Ted
baseman,
Sait lake City
Const
Tourdas,
Pacific league
of oh is
again,
ariey horse, in shape
- - Ad
Chicago-Boston double header in
the National jeague on July 13 gets
special mention from the fact that ato
games without a boot or hobble.
- » -
Packard, former
league pitcher, who has been
independent ball in Ohio,
Nutional
pitching
will
Gene
for out-of-town
hunsase,
» - -
speak of “a pitcher who can hit,” but
kindly note the following: Shaw, 417;
Wood, 366: Ruth, 355; Hodge, 346;
Uhle, 308: Mays, 303; Martin, 341;
Alexander, 321; Sallee, 312 and
Ruether, 304,
1
FRENCH LEARN BASEBALL
A French baseball nine
trimmed a United States navy
teams at the Bois de Boulogne
recently by a score of 12 to 11.
It is sald that they displayed
plenty of “pep,” dash and daring
on the bases. They hit well,
but use a chop stroke, without
swinging through. This Is said
to have been the first game ever
played in France between
French and American teams,
PERCH BAIT FOR
BIG RATTLESNAKE
Texas Fishermen Bring in Queer
Stories of Encounters With
Reptiles,
NBtories of hatties with
and stump-tall moces
Austin by nearly
been ob
many fishing streams
in the mountains west of Austin. But
most unusual tale by an
Austin, Tex,
rattiesnakes
to
tiie
is told
from a Peder
nales river,
In this party
have been up =
camp on the
45 miles west of this city
were several men whe
gninst many rattle
8 «
A Huge Rattiesnake Was Found en the
Book.
is the first time thst
that
snakes. but this
any of them made
RB rattlesnake
the discon ers
fed on fish
Accordis the story a throw line
baited
into fi» rr
with smail perch had heen put
i ) 1
the party,
had
get it
One of
and
ilne partly in to
and in ing
baited with
out
frrer sie}
fishing with
pulied the thi
of the
still
ng
g & huge
exposed hook
TER 8s
the average
ver.
rod reel, later
Ow
this one
ont was
hook was left
hang!
more
perch
above the water ihe next
rattlesnake was found
It
inrge
is stunted thet
as the
The snake
h, which had
found
on he
the snake around
arm of
was killed
attracted it
man
and the
10
per
the hook, was
n the reptile’s
The crop
ratiiesn
thar
the
swarm
month
snakes. ially the
is larger this vear
This attributed to
winter Moccasins
there
Streams.
a good sized
many of snakes
Siresms are harmless
akes hundance
rusty and of
of CRP
nEe sped os,
in vears
1 id
smaller ot
the larger
river has
While
the
is
past
the oeks and
Are mod
The Co
quota
seen In
axing in
orado
the
the
water sn there is a1
of the Heonogs
species
the moccasin
“NO PLACE FOR HOMELY GIRL"
Wail of Girl Who Tries Suicide After
Fiance Rejects Her for Pret.
tier One,
‘Men
beauty; they don’t
home any
ty, & patient
hospital,
by
only look for
care about the real
Virginis
at the Mary
who tried te
swallowing poison,
maker longer.”
fwer
General
Quil ide
that there was ne place in
the world for the homely girl
“1 don't want
os
well” she con
tinued, pushing back her: short red
hair. “Men don't care what youn de
for they sre for the girl whe
spends everything on clothes and
makes a big show. They don't care
if a girl is good, self-respecting and &
real homemaker: all they want is a
big display of their money.”
Refusing to give her lover's name,
she admitted that they had both been
very happy and expected to get married
shortly, until one evening at dance
he met a prettier girl, and after that
didn’t have a chance.
“Classical features and a conspicn
to get
them
tures for happiness”
clared, weeping.
Virginia de
Girl Holds Prisoner by Coat Tail,
Chicago. Miss Gall McDermut
iz hatled
fx a heroine by her co-workers, As
Frank Legregnl. under death sentence
for murdering his wife, attempted to
Jump from a window sili to liberty,
Miss MeDermut grabbed his coat tall
and held on until police had beates
the prisoner into submission.
Calf-Hare-Pig-Fox-
Cried Just Like Baby
Paris An animal born on a
farm at Grandchamps, near
Paris, two weeks ago, died yes.
terday while being transported
to Paris for exhibition at the
Academy of Science. The crea
ture had the body of a calf, the
head of a rabbit, eyes like a pig,
ears like a fox and hair like a
St. Bernard dog. It weighed
twelve pounds at birth and
cried like a baby.