Riegelsville. -8even hundred pounds PENNSYLVANIA | STATE ITEMS | Brownsville—~Found several days ago on an ash dump near Republic, the body of an unknown man was buried here, after all attempts at identifica- tion had failed. Harrisburg. —Governor Sproul has issued respites staying until the week of November 28 the electrocution of Frank Palma, Lackawanna; Anton Weber, Allegheny, and Sydney A. Rhyne, Delaware, ILebanon.—A military funeral was given the body of Private John W. Sholly, Battery D, 10th Field Artillery, the first Lebanon soldier to fall in ac tion in the world war. Lancaster.—As the result of being trampled by a horse Elam H. Zimmer- man, of Blue Ball, this county, may die. Wilkes-Barre —In from Luzernc county John M. Garman Luzerne swarming with and that prohibition laws are being openly vio- lated. Monessen. Keesport, wis receiving reports cor.stables Judge declared is hootleggers Harry kill kill Kandler, of Me- »d and another man River road k by an au- to the The tro automobile, Wis t the here when they were str njuared on near tomobile, 1 according police, fail are STO, Sear ment struction ship, Fayette Ur chef been Hollida gteck of year nomina +3 case of =roldi vho died of disease or who have ndered cally or menta f ™ phyel. application, adjutant ation f » nearest The wag approved some time accent an & rom itive 1 surviving parent or rela whi me x ai, by the governor, shows William Penn in armor egorical sign. Tyrone. —8 recruiting ch /ngon in all and has an de tee on ] i the Preshy- { John E. Tut- | it take the Pennsyivanis terian church, tle, of Swarth six average each to pro duce the The report of the home mi 40 mi 70 laymen were employed sg foreign vania last year at Uniontown —Convicted of ing a former service man and thereby nearly a race on the streets o Is city, William Clark was two and a 1} Western pet n= Jamison from two to Balley will in the county jail that 8 1 and one bes with of 30 members one candidate for ministry, slong com- | mittee showed that the Pennsyl- MINONg of speaking peoples a cost of 237.000 assault. causing riot f th sentenced to from four tiary. three 1 spend vears In the and Clyde Wears, nine months All are Uniontown. while Busey Negroes, Admitting the theft of from the cloth players in the High School gymnasium, five boys, about 12 ered t each evening at 7 o'clock for a vear and to report each Saturday afternoon a letter of good conduct for the week. Pittsbu ~Two men were killed when the automobile In which they were riding ph over a 50-foot embankment and landed on top of a moving freight train. The accident occurred on Typewriter Hill, near here, when the driver of the car turn- ed sharply in an effort to avert t col- lision with another machine, The vie- tims were Jolm Gondeleon and John Morrison, both of Kittanning. Harrisburg. —Banking Commission er Fisher called attention to the fact that Armistice Day Is a legal holiday. It was made a holiday by an act ap- proved March 31, and financial institu. tions of the state will observe it as such, Harrishurg. — Importance of the county tuberculosis hospital in caring for the advanced patient was empha- sized by Colonel John D. McLean, dep- uty state commissioner of health, in addressing representatives of hoards of health from 15 central Pennsylva. nia counties at the capitol. Colonel McLean outlined growth of the state tuberculosis work from the time the Inte Commissioner Samuel G, Dixon established the sanitorin and dispen. garies, Erie Twelve townships In Erle county have been put under quarantine because of the corn horer extending to corn, broom corn, sorghum and su- dan grass, Lewistown Eleven hundred and seventy-five members have been obtain. ed in the drive for 2500 for the Lewls- town Y. M. C. A, Marietta ~The five young men of this place who were arrested for the theft of an automobile, owned by W, W. Frymyer, settled the case for $200 Mount Carmel—After being entomb. ed five hours, five men were rescued at the Sioux Neo. 8 colliery here, Lock Haven~—~Hundreds of school children formed a court of honor at the funeral of John A. Robb, who for thirty years was superintendent of pub. lie schools here watches and of money 5 $ all ing feothall years, were ord 0 retire with rod rgn.- inged Easton at a point near Kintoer- Philadelphia & Easton Electric railway line into the canal. As a result pas sengers bet veen Doylestown and East- on must be transferred for more than one half 4 mile by truck, Harrisburg. -—— Seventy sixty road machines, 140 trucks and several hundred road drags will be use for the removal offsnow from the state's highways the coming winter. The plans call for the systematic re- moval of snow from 1200 miles of gnowplows, mileage tempted. Pittsburgh-~Convicted of attempting to administer poison to Steve Koller, Steve Nuaggy, of Braddock, was sen- tenced to from six to seven years in the Western Penitentiary, Witnesses testified that Naggy placed poison in a bu-ket of soup whic! Kollar's 10- vear-old daughter was carrying to Ler father. Mrs. Koller, implicated in the case by Naggy, was acquitted, Harrisburg —Mid-week markets in a number of cities have heen visited hy agents of the bureau of foods following word of sale of cold storage eggs as fresh, Huondreds of have taken and for examination Altoona.—Mayor chairman of unemaployvmen that a roll of upon which being the greatest ever at- state samples béen Sent Charles E local conmittes, he emergency hanor will be established the names listrict, em will employs of every emp bracing nine at least one wonths, in mercantile Bell ing 1 ff Iabor including lefonte —Daor » Diado, of county, ‘was pectr ie t kview Peniten HT) er. Din th house Saturday night by of , : Piel. foreign sheriff 4 5 iy apiwmrentiy Delaware and wns He resigned to his fate, 0 the death chair with a firm he entersd t he was pronounced degd have the services twelve policemen for the sum -of £1 a year. are employed munificent These men at pres. borough firemen, and also have been sworn in as police men Justice of the Phalin hag Qecreed inte sry? i en ns Peace Thomas y custody firemen-policemen could charge arrest unless COs Were y. and $1 an Inside Suaperinten ve. 10 Slope num- 1 under but tw ) minor mishaps in the past year, and two miners hurt l« from thelr customed places of employment. The pr £74.50 from the Dodson firm and a gold foun. tain pen from company which eo compens tion iradford and winter a will be conducted churches the #t but nineteen days { e8 were the Hahility rries the Dodson risks During Camp the fall evangelis coming ign of m in the seventy-three of Erie. churches Warren, of he preshytery his preshytery ludes the of Erie, Crawford, McKean, Venango and Forest count i= under the of evangelistic in «. The work direction the general committee, we many Greenshurg. Wallace, 60 years an inmate of Jumped from a third- story window and was killed, blind, having lost his «ight twenty years ago. ‘Squire-A years old, for the county home N. Shas Monessen, committed suicide by ing with a revolver. For several months he had been In {ll-health, Pittsburgh. Whisky valued at $12. 000 was stolen from a warehouse here after the robbers had bound the night watchman and placed him in a vault from which they weie removing the liquor to a truck. The theft wax dik covered by police when a search was made for the missing watchman after he had falled to make his hourly re. port. Later in the day the police re. covered sixty-three cases of the whis. ky in a truck which had been abandon. ed in the Hill district of the city. A search is being made for the other eighty-seven cases stolen from the warehouse, Shenandoah~~John Stroney, 20 years old, a world war veteran, was Instantly killed here by a fall of coal. Hazleton —Police report that for the first time sifice the world war starteq in 1914, men are seeking lodging in the local lodk-up. Harrisburg—~Governor Sproul fixed the week of January 2 for electrocution of Chung Tao, Berks; Marshall Till man, Cambria, and Walter Lewis, Dela. ware counties, Gettysburg. This place iz to have a large and modernly appointed hotel through the nereased tourist business following the opening of all roads en- tering the town. Pittsburgh. ~-John Enecuster, a Penn. sylvania railroad brakeman, was kill ed here when a car he was riding was derailed. o Sunbury ~The Anthracite Brigquette company here, closed for three months, resumed operations in full. Sunbury. ~The employes of the Sun- bury Converting Works voted to ace cept a wage cut ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, rather than Lave some work. ere laid off, Newville/~Lieutenants of othe state police have been ordered to the New. ville training school to observe meth. ode of training, TO MAKE USE The Photograph Shows F. M, Green, Last Year and Is Pilot of Eastern football men for vears have | been confronted by the problem overcoming tight lines of opponents, | Even Harvard, supposed to be one of {| the teams in the country, | Princeton's line too much for year and t clever forward cause the ing “up strong best it Inst resorted It 0 tie the game, passing. East has the agonism he- tak Was heen RiOow i i iii pass—as shown by ant agains the play every rule meeting ceeded That strongly tra i and other a stronger West has | after season. Football Intricate in West, ing t the EE to well as It did, East could ined lines hy trick thrusts indicates, attack the developed, Hf 0 the overcome play possibly, Middie season than anken The ward | ance, | farther, it developed | the throwing of the | In this way, the development of regular | plercing or rounding plays and the so- | ealled curtain plays to cover a forward pass, meant that the { | tricks taught a team from to 30, writes Fred A. Hayner In the Chicago Dally News The East yal rule and pushing masses, to the line plercing earnest, ur has evolved a system highly to a Midwest team frequently held to touchdown. Khonld conference, tak the | this hi sev HE for- of least resist. It to disguise pass as ine developed hiy. went ays 1 LAN usual number of ranged the of study handicapped by ten removal the the bent of it dangerous in yw itil where scores are nothing a western there and run up a quick big forward pa or freak score by swing running, It Thorne Murphy Stole Fourteen Bags in Sixteen Games for Yale Other Star Features, Base stealing is regarded as an art temporarily lost in the major leagues, The season's batting averages for col Llege players would indicate that among fhe collegians base stealing is still in- i dulged in. Thome “Mike” Murphy, playing 16 games for | Yale, stole 14 bases He was thrown out in any attempt to and he was the ranking base of the college field. In all the leading eastern there were 33 men that batted i or better, and few gumes were by long scores, There plenty of good pitching. One hundred and nine regulars of { leading college teams were able to steal, runner colleges S00 de cided was season and ARE S OF FORWARD PASS Who Played Center on the Army Tiem the Squad This Year, like catch up trying to western ness expecting 8 attack going be like a rabbit, But invading the game out to snall far have would | i | ‘ ” | Kast ared go well the Harvard | and Dartmouth. The necessity of nals | in Far West, as did ng ' ry § or Yiei 1 earning man and the intricate moves severe in midwestern plays is a y | football men In the conference. Fewer Plays in East. is bot I At | erence the thinking power under stress the same time it game, Tha af course pring foot} { enstern man with fewer plays is most ! in a is one of the values of all he mance in concerned the machine, He viewing the lim with his own perforn passes much ong of tithe re- itatl | being very i tain boundaries which with dinal next im, {is by alllwick the man principle is { job, defend his little { let the of the world itself, Backfield men, They 3 3 y 3 3 © ive better than The « the t} th ¥ ig and care of rest ike * nore latitude to biril- Hant self initiat sometimes doing a i 3 COG OLR th a little the expected OW ¢ with brill cerned illin © nits one to The Mid-West aginative stimulant than in the he East apparently | ica jee it plays closer ive, i . tres se ord tuey {18 not imaginal — rr fii ih id AA BA AA EL ELBA BAA A AAA SPAS '# Speaker Can Pick § Best Pinch Hitters Fr A statistician who keeps count everything figured the averages pinch hitters, His figures show that Tris Speraker best picker of substitute batsmen among Amer fean league managers, men sent to bat in a pinch by Tris hav an average of 8333. In the National, Phillies’ pinch hitters netted an average of 348. The begt individual average made in a pinch has been that of Ed 4 Gharrity, of Washington, four hits In six times up, for a mark of 067. [8 or has of out is the frig is Bt IBAA AANA BATAAN AAA IAA AANA APB a rr rrr rr Sporting Squibs CAPTAIN OF CHICAGO SQUAD The photograph shows “Chuck” Me. Quire, captain and tackle of this year's Chicago University team, Hit With Bases Full, Five American league batters hit homers with the bases full this year, Slabe Ruth ig not one of them, The five men to make the big cleanup are George Sisler, George Uhle, Bib Falk, Bob Meusel and Clarence Walker, Browns Buy Hurler, Pitcher Wayne Wright of the Louls- ville club has been gold te the 8t. Louls Americans, Pitcher Roy Sanders has been recalled by the Browns, Eayres Goes to Brookiyn, Bdwin Eayres, pitcher and outfielder, has been sent by the Boston Nationals to the Brooklyn team by the waiver route. * Walter Cox has won around $45,000 with his trotters this season. i * a. » i Doubleheader football games are said to be not popular at West Point, . * - Cagnon, Simmondinger and Riopel | make up the backfield for Holy Cross, * A - Judge Landis is the only man in baseball who is content to be on the bench. Amateur Athletic Union will hold its annual convention in Chicago, Novem- ber 10 to 21. * * Pat Mg¢Donald, the Olympic weight thrower, is sergeant of the New York | traffic squad. Helsman of Pennsylvania Vogelin . = Conch likes Vogelin as a fullback. is a Philadelphia boy. - . * Jack Weinheimer, star end and cap tain of last year's New York U. team, has returned to school. . . . Charley Buell, who won the Holy Cross game for Harvard with a drop kick, Is Harvard's substitute quarter. back. . 8 0» Captain Aldrich of Yale, is kicking about forty-five yards at present, Qualle kicks goals made In scrim. mage. . & @» Conch Fisher of Harvard made an unusually early start in scrimmage play and the result showed in hig first games. The men worked like a veteran team and took the hardships of the double-hendor Mghtly. BUSH MAY CAREER WITH GRIFFS Passing of Spectacular Figure in Tiger History. AAS SAIS Developed in Major Leagues— Throwing Was Always Big Outstanding Feature, —— Donle Bush, for 18 yeurs a member | of the Detroit team, probably will end | his major league career as a member | of the Washington outfit, The ‘passing of Bush removes one | of the spectacular figures of Detroit's history. Never the top player at his | position, he always was more sensa- { tional than the superior, or the gallery, in a sensational made the hard look harder the easy chances look hard. That was the style of Bush and it gained him great popularity i Few lead-off developed the | although | still was manner, Ones better in he Hn been and have leagues men major Wis not valuable man at bat, be | in fact, probably a pitcher to tion venrs hardest man for with the excep- Hartsel, Bush the American securing | on be | what to do after he the work on of Topsy several league in He knew -and that fer i 1 Ago led IHSOR On fally on a Detroit re than of no two men nentals base run- In jush 3 i= Wing else, Stood ajar ity to } way hurry a ! an uncanny abl r fa ige the speed of runner on first. He pever seemed to and seemed never to throw speed, Most of the time he apparently the ball, but he always got his man, sometimes by a fraction of a -but he got him. This ability of Bush's was al. ways & matter of amazement to spec tators and they could never solve the riddle of it his to throw, he with johbed + ot step at Latonia Romped Home, Paying Holders of $2 Mu. tuels $1,885.50 Each. | | | Wishing Ring answer to numerous which was the longest- | priced winner In turf history: Wishing Ring running at Latonia, | Ky., on June 17, 1012, galloped home |in front of a big field. Each holder lof & $2 mutvel ticket was paid | $1.885.50. which made the odds about {041 to 1 against Wishing Ring. Those | figures are greater than the ones in- { Here's the { queries as to volving any other long shot In his | tory. Two horses staggered across the i | was Peytonla, which won at Chicago, June 28. 1804. The other was Bright Skies, a victor in Oakland, Cal, Feb- ruoary 16, 1900, BILL BINGHA Signs Up Again to Lead Harvard Track Team-—Also Will Act as Assistant Manager. Ss “Bil” Bingham, who <coached a point of winning the intercollegiate year, He also will act as assistant man- ager of the Harvard Athletic associa- tion. Edward Farrell, Bingham's as sistant last year, will continue in the game position. They will start work at the opening of the college season, their first eall being for candidates for the cross-country team, A TH The colleges of the Routh have always had good athletics, Center college has long been noted for its strong teams. But nobody got wise to It un- til Moran, of baseball fame, put on the cleats and started telling the world about them. 1S HISTORIC SPOT House in Downing Street Real Center of British Empire. Official Abode of the Premier for More Than Two Hundred Years, and Still So Occupied. In a London street, 100 yards long and 20 yards wide, sometimes narrow- ing to ten yards, there is a house that presents no attractions jo the eye; a commonplace of the brown brick construction of 300 years ago, dull and darkened by time, as all old London houses are, With its funoy-looking lion's head knocker, its old-fashioned street door and antiquated windows, sunken area and crum- railings, it is indeed a belated Transferred to London's and divested of its fame, it fetch $200 a year, not more, says the Boston Transcript, unique @nong the might Yet, is all for 200 history and many of history's important decisions have been made there, and it will con- tinue to be made there, This house | is No, 10 Downing street, It is the official residence of the pre- for being, The brass plate on announces “The First Lord of the Treasury.” It has done so since Sir Robert Walpole first 10 official—No- 745 Since Walpole's ten- Ups a No. repre- ish power. its irst floor; rooms years the time thie door No. that 10, premiers who entered an vember 5 have oOo were great Well iicle of B wi its offices pit Nn and cele cabinet root on the i the private The garde surrounds the hi are of is high parads + WiINGOwEs, tl § Oa floriated the green famous covered cloth, 3 1 ailectior always a goodly « mate There age of std Ogany dark green leather seats chair near the fireplace is The reception room is sometimes used for ¥ rial from the stationery office, is a fine assemb yut mah chairs with The central {oor 18 more convenient were devised the policies the American Revolution, 1812. But not it power at No. America. When Willian « it he bitterly denour British a the Was tile to occupls emp Indians Ameri And It period, loyment by to inassacre WO, in a Pitt in another Chatham, was also Lord from No. 10 to the in his flannels, who, going wds and piace, swathed in groaning inwardly with pain, holding stoutly to his crutch, declared, while exhibiting excitement © “You may ravage, but you cannot con- quer. It impossible. You cannot, 1 say, conquer the Americans. I might as well talk of driving them before me with this crutch.” house of le accustomed intense t is Light and Music, A machine fo music with harmonious fects has invented ern artl says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The rument is in the | form of a rheostat consisting of con- tinuous parallel loops of resistance wire of different lengths, each having a contact point over which passes a metal block, completing the circuit. | The movement of the block Is cons trolled by a cable running over pulleys As the designed accompany lighting ef- been by an east- st, in inst operated by means of pedals. | gliding block is moved back or forth over the wires the degree of light : intensity ix varied to suit the music, | accentuating the musical phrasings of | the soloist or orchestra, It may be | played either with or without a spe- | elal written score sheet A further | adaptation of the principle of artistic lighting expression through resist. | ance coils is the flluminated phono- | graph. In this case a rheostat of | modified form is used and the light intensity controlled by means of a record. A translucent globe incases the record, motor, rheostat and accom. A Rubber Bubble City. Mannos, in Brazil, S00 miles up the Amazon river, was a beautiful and prosperous city ten years ago, with a gorgeous opera house and theaters European city. Today it is in ruin. are tottering. How did this rinous decline come about? Simply through deflation in the price of rubber, In 1911 the effects of rubber planting in the Far East, Oaylon, Java, the Straits Settlements, Malacea, Borneo, began to be felt at Manaos, Wild rubber took a slump. This rubber brought in from the jungle, would not feteh enough to pay off the loans made by the mer- chants to the rubber hunters. Busi. mess houses failed by the dosens, sul eldes became common, trade fell off little by little. Now it amoufts to practically nothing. There is «till a Hittle rubber coming out, but it is harely worth {ts freight charges to this coun try or England, Speed of Glaciers. Studying Alaskan glaciers, Prof. W. 8, Cooper finds that Muir glacier has receded 60 miles In the last 127 years, -Scientific American,
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