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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
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'# 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
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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,