— PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Sunbury.~—When John Snyder, aged 12, wag accidentally shot in the head but a scalp wound. Delaney. —Fuiling to potice the ap- of Coupon, gtepped on the tracks and was instantly killed. Shamokin.—The result of imjuries Daniel 8. Knarr, of Kulpmont, died at the State Hospital here, Pittsburgh. —Charged with smuogl- to a client in the county jail, Albert bond by a United States commissioner. Lewistown.—Helen Weber, of the Lewistown High School, won first hon. ors in an Interscholastic oratorical contest, Hazleton.—The 155,000 the elght-hour day, by 8 general sus- pension of work. William H. QGarrache, aged 35, Pent sylvania railroad brakeman, dropped dead of cerebral hemorrhage. Lewistown. —In the drive for $75,000 to finance and pay of Lewistown Hospital, employes of the Standard Steel ap- proximately Sceranton.—Stricken in an a from a doctor's office Pittstor the debts the Works subscribed 220.000, 1 with heart dl- . . o 1 , 3 x Wie sease while wibile on his wiy home here, Max Markus, aged 70, a or, * 1 tail died. Harrisburg.—Representativ Pennsylvania depart labor and ment of ial ndustry ve been invited to speak at the convention of the Assoclati Governmental Labor Officials United States and Cs mond, Va., May 1 to « tion was here Mo tadiis rors Pittsburgh. - oh the i Rich “ ran he conven- last year, ~Not guilty | the verdliot Lae verdict re held pay the Costs turned in the case of Lesw Johnston, of Export, who tried 1 Indictment he mar supported WBS a by the May Hell wife, testified that the de her brother, Smithfledd.- -When an plane crashed to eartl destroyed by fire Cap and Harold ton leaped from the ms not injured. The pl flight 3 n when the accident ing to 3 LE in down by | rior gasoline Harrisburg. —A months in by Judge Wickersham in the county court upon Mrs, ) charged with son's hand into scalding ht Woman was arrested several days after complaints had been she ie pleaded guilty. was was that an his niece. Johnston, relatives, =ald that he x ey $y wi | a foundling and md been ralsed v , nston | met John 188, Lieutenant OCCUrTe. Accord. the count forcing h made r stepson. The judge, In wag abusing | She impos- fense “wanton cruelty.” Greensburg —Caught with a trunk full of high explosives, enough to have blown up the whole town, which he wes transporting on a train on the Pennsylvania railroad, Walter Buck pell, giving his address as Latrobe, is in the local jail under a serious iharge, He first was detained on a suspicion that he wag transporting fliquor, and a search revealed the deadly cargo of dynamite, Pittsburgh.—The third operating brewery in this district to be seized by federal officers within the month Passed Into their hands when they ook charge in the Victor plant at Jeannette. Five thousand barrels of what Ohlef Simonde described as “real beer” were found in the vats. The other breweries taken over were the Westmoreland at Suterville and the Windber at Windber. Taken wit them were. 0200 barrels of heer. It also was announced at the prohibition offices that a car containing 119 quarts of highpriced whisky had been con- fiscated In the ety. It had been ship- ped to a fietitious talloring company, Somerset. —State police, assisted by federal prohibition agents, seized 550 barrels of beer, which they allege ghowed an alcoholic content of 4.40 Per cent, at the plant of the Jenner Brewing company at Boswell, near here, i Pittsburgh.—Land and building val- uation here for taxation purposes is approximately $024,000000, an in. crease of $56,000,000 from 1022. McAdoo. St, Peter and St Paul's National Polish congregation here has purchased land for the site of a £60,- 000 stone church to be bullt this sume mer, Northumberland. —Falling from the roof of a house, Ramuel Neidig, aged 00, suffered a broken shoulder and in. ternal injuries. Sheppson.-—Peter Leskoskey, walk- ing home from the funeral of a friend, wag held up and robbed of his watch jd $12 by two men In ag automo. hile, Manheim. — Willis M. Rettew, a well. known merchant here, was seized with wn attack of acute indigestion and fled within a few minutes, Harrisburg ~Fifty forest fireq have been reported In the anthracite fields {#0 fur this season, b Hazleton.—Stools and sun-shades are to be provided for the traffic offi- cers of the police department this spring and summer, Reading. —~Jacob B. Potts, aged 45, was struck and killed by a freight train on the Lebanon Valley railroad near the Reading Steel Casting com. pany's plant. Erie.~Harry W. Van Tassell, busl- ness man, was Instantly killed when his automobile was struck by the west. bound Twentieth Centruy Limited on the New York Central lines west of this city. New Castle~Thomas G., Bright, an A. G. Hammer of Cleveland, driving a of wine consigned to Com- truck- load various Pittsburgh was killed Instantly when brakes, which long hill, of here, to caused the accident. Wilkes-Barre. —After pleading guilty west Faulty respond on a he. fore Judge Fuller, in local court, Loulg J., who was in this some time City ago, county jail Pollee heed ne SNowing for a period records Angelo three produced were is years, that an dling dope. Hazleton. —1Unlon carpenterg of the coal fleld are assured a rate for the Mane, casuing year. Jacob walking + others will do so during the latter part The have getting ents hour the two years, Erie. been y inst the men 8/1 Announcement Fred B. 1 of the Erie Lighting oon nerger of that company v y in Public Service was offt, vice presi corporation huge steam and hydroelect sh service elgl ies throughout Pennsylvania, Erie om the line. TY embrace Erie northwest, Warren county i Bout! fTerson, Centre, Cambria an embracing Indiana, gteps 1 the angoumols } control of whet narket- : of our represertatives pod wmartment of cred msl eg WHE asked fields, thresh thel in from the inte their heat grain Is not hauled directly bins where from ither thas It develd ed was poMmted out that control Is begun of local wheat must ampaign will wr counties, charged with hav. a in a dozen hold-ups. William Brannigan, aged 17, and Ches- ter Kruszkowski, aged 14, the prison. ore, i them, police officials said, that they had robbed twelve men dur. ing the past month. Doylestown. Howard Blissey, 45 years old, this piace, wag killed when a stone wall caved in, Blissey was at work with a construction gang, excavating a basement when a wall collapsed. He was taken from the wreckage ten minutes later, but was dead, Wyoming —Approximately 400 min- ers returned to work at the Mt. Look. out colliery, after being oh strike for a week, Shenandoah.~—Having been Injured while fighting In France, Michael Sin- cavage, 32 yearg old, suddenly became violently Insane on the street here. ittsburgh.—H. F. Sile, paymaster for the Harrison Oreek Coal company, was sentenced to serve not less than two or more than four years in the Western penitentiary after he pleaded gulliy to embezzlement. The company charged that Sile embezzled $12,500 by “padding” payrolls. Sie told the court he lost the money gambling. Pittsburgh.—Plans of two hold-up men to rob Willlam Pansky, a mer chant of 87500 were frustrated when a bank president arrived at his office a few minutes late. When the Franklin gavings and Trust company opened at 9 AM, Pansky appeared with a check for 87500. The cashier refused to honor the check In the absence of the president. Pansky left the bank and was followed by the robbers, who dragged him Into an alleyway and searched him, Pansky explained that he wanted the $7500 in order to cash checks presented at his store by rail. road workers, Juniata Triplets, all boys, born to Mr, and Mrs, Joseph H. Crawford, died ahd will be buried In one casket, Minersville.—Peter Malo, was blown Glmost to pleces at the Pine Hill col liery when he tried to drill ont a quan. tity of dynamite from a hole, where It had failed to explode, Brownsville ~Through a direct pe. Ntion to Governor Pinchot the state Soustabulary has been returned to this is we Duncansville.—~Beeoming 1 while teaching school here, Frank A. Nofs ker was quarantined as a swallpox victhn, N frig r {rvimye ing participated to of from baseball, accordin Terry CONLON IS CERTAIN TO STAR! College Player Has Shown More Abil. | ity Than Sisler or Frisch, Says Slattery. “The greatest Mgue prospect $3 ace Yaa vr Coliege player | Frankie That Is the wtity salu Conlon 1 “1 saw Figen 8 rie Jif gn a4 . “1 mi ple of yeurs™ ard coach, Coach of Champions ERA MA AM MB AM lA A AE When They Die Hard, — A golfer playing a mateh for a vit club championship walked into . ee ph? a the club house so “hopping” mad that he could hardly see "1 oo BR BR A A ll A pl BRE A AA AA A FAA AA A AA AA AM MM MA ‘uth, says a dispatch, of All Kinds Bal rn FS Ww Liv 1 ig down But what is par London is to race April 2 to Jim Je Next championshiy “Fifteen per cent of the If * Spalding breaking in bert as a pitcher Cleveland Indians, » » * baseball is he Decatur Robert J. Kiphuth, coach of the champion Yale swimming team, has been a leader in his particular sport for many years. Coach Kiphuth has developed winning swimmers at Yale for the last six years, and turned ont another champion team this season. MYERS POISON TO PHILLIES | Manager Fletcher Says Outfielder Must Have Made Study of Quaker City Hitters, ——— * . * John Heldt, 1822 Jowa center, will coach the Ohio university football squad this year. » * » Pittsburgh university has purchased ing a stadium for sports, - * » The Phillies of the Nationml League announce the signing of a college star, Harrison Mulford, from Amberst, . ® » Arnold Stone, southpaw recruit hurl- er, has been added to the Pittsburgh National's staff, -* » - Lots of other men fully as bright as Discussing the trade put through whereby Hi Myers goes to the St | Louis Cards in swap for Jacques Four | nier. Art Fletcher stated: "Well, now, | maybe we can get a hit In center field | over in Brooklyn, That bird must | have made a life study of our hitters, Time after time drives go out there that look good for two or three bases and this Myers gets hold of them. 1 know he isn’t always that way against | the other clubs, but he sure Is polson to us, Now maybe we can beat Brooklyn.” DERRILL PRATT IS PLEASED Vetaran Second Baseman Delighted at Transfer From Boston Red Sox to Tigers. —— One player whi won't appeal to the “union” because he was “sold like a slave” is Derrill Pratt, who enthuses over the prospects of himself and his tears now that he's a Detroit Tiger. “The Tigers will win the pennant in 1925 sure,” says the veteran second baseman. “If the Tigers had had one mora capable pitcher,” continu Pratt, “they would have won the 1022 pennant, Pillette couldn't do it all by himself. Rip Collins, as good a piteh- er as there Is in the country, will be with him next year and we'll const in" Pratt is delighted with the shift from Boston, a to Detroit seribes. He was not contented in Bos ton, i : # s =» * tobert Harmon, veteran biz league pitcher, hag been released uncondition- ally by the Pittsburgh Nationals, -. - * i i R. J. Dunne, "22, former football eap- tain at University of Michigan, has been signed as assistant football coach » * - Art Reynolds, who was the star pitcher for Georgetown university last year, hae Leen signed to a contract by the Toronto Internationals, » * » Of the thirtydwo players on the Phillies’ roster, fourteen are pitchers ~gight right-handers and six south- paws, » * * Penn State will soon boast an 18- bole golf course. It bas a B-hole course now, Tt 8» George Sisler, champion batsman of the American League, names Ed Rom mel of the Athletics as the greatest pitcher In baseball, . » » Leo Dickerman, one of the best pitchers in the Southern Association last year, has signed a contract with the Brooklyn Nationals, . sn ‘ George Loomis, of Minneapolis, will have a large and select stable of trot ters and pacers to race down the big line this year, headed by Sir Roch, 1:00%. i i AA RA A le el A A DRA BM BAB ll lo Watch the Scoreboard. a = When tip Hag pitching for the Ci little jump when de ball that used to ecuu worry to opposition afternoon playing calling the umpire's the move, gal. Especially insistent wus Out- fielder Casey Stengel, later a Giant star. As he stood near the plate, walting his turn to bat, he wold yell: “Watch his foot ; watch his foot.” A fan In stands shouted back : “Watch the scoreboard in- ran the the Ywuizers Chicago’ and they attention to wus claiming ile. the stead, Casey.” ing, 6 to 4 a he th and the Felnars tion, sensa- Hh JH A A Bn pt WR lhe SUNNY CLIMES MUCH HELP TO BALL STARS Come From South or Coast, More 2 Youth Plays the Better He Progresses—Small Town ffords More Room. Shortstop Is One of Brainiest Players in Game, of York shortstops the New brainest oe 2 ” & Bancroft one of the i No New York. In his day Jennings had no superior knows whereof he speaks, “Most of the modern shortstops play a stationary position,” continued Jennings. “That is a fatal mistake, for often a step In either direction prior to the pitch makes possible a play on the ball that would otherwise go as a base hit, “No club gets very far without a great shortstop. While the New York team has a brilliant infield, that com- bination would be greatly slowed down by an Inferior player at shortstop.” ER i SEEKS BRITISH TITLE Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, national woman's golf champion, will compete for the British championship In May. She won the American title last year for the first time. It is prob her invasion of Europe by other high. class women golfers, * A AAA BRAN AAA AAA AN AAR ANE) HE BAW HIM Mrs, Pott—Did you Inst night, dear? £3 Pott pe doctor {anhaentmin (absentmin r 8 moment : and prescribe f I'll telephone for him as se to the office, On Their Way. ¥ 2: INAV a8 Veil PiveE Ul ret § t get over 1t irned AGCONIZING THOUGHT iN Miss Gabb-l thought | never should live to tell the tale Miss Keen—For you that have been suffering indeed. must No Such Luck! Making Game of Her. “What wa a8t tiresome plorer langui “Progres . A hose A And how dq Girls! don’t ca Girls! Clara—1 re she has 8 good disposition. always willing to kiss and make up. Madge—She generally “making up” first, —— what you sav She does her Fair Average. “What do you think of this free-verse effusion? “1 understand twenty-four of {ts thin ty-eight lines™ ————————— The Alsle Review. “Chorus girle in the aisles, her? “Don’t be foolish. Many of our so ciety people come late to the theater.” intest DIDN'T DO 80 BADLY He-—Have you ever loved and lost? She—Oh, no; the Jury awarded me $7,000 damages. ——————— ! Dairy Note. ‘Ve never seen a cow condensed, Nor any of that ik: But every milkmaid knows Ix pressed to give hes milk, A ————— — Availability, you get started In poll the cow “How did ties?" “The party needed a candidate” re plied Senator Sorghum, “just at a time when about everybody except me had a job he couldn't afford to leave.” ~Washington Star, of gee, the fire Be Second Dent nothing | lost 12 patients that way, - ! “I've a bi ic as ald the ae -_ old poker player 0 Whe ad dn, and with a deck lke that ~~ ©
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