PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Reading.—Ice cream manufacturers
here decided to increase the price of
fce cream from $1.30 a gallon to $1.40.
Seranton. Stricken with heart fall-
ure as he entered the auditorium of
and died before medical ald could be
summoned,
state, was 45 years old, and a brother
W. Ellis, of this city.
Pittsburgh.—An estate valued at
bate here, Legacies total £161,000,
are given a one-quarter
residuary estate,
Bellefonte,
of Philadelphia,
at the Rockview Penitentiary
murder of Hattie Bailey, his
law wife, in September, 1921,
usual features attended the
cution. Newson, accompanied by
G. C. Courtney and Rev. M.
Maynard, was taken to the
chair and following three contacts
was pronounced dead by Dr. Robert
Campbell. The body was unclaimed
and will be buried in the penitentiary
cemetery.
Neranton.——Asked by the court If he
had anything to say before the death
&entence was pronounced on him, John
Myma, aged 29, killing
Wolf Glou, a merchant, made a
dramatic *h In court Myma
quoted from the Bible, likened himself
Azarus and pointed to his
ers as rich men. “I'll die like a
and, like Lazarus, go to Heaven,
cause I'm not gt of murder,”
Myma.
«<eath sentence, the
be fixed by the
Uniontown.—Mike
Manifold, is in the
charged with killing
Fayette City,
himself up
tes
Years, The prisoner said
tant period he
miles of Fayette (‘jt
the he deci;
Hazleton.—Frank
is at the Hazlet
fractures of
share in the
Clarence Newson, color
ed, was
for
common
No un-
electro
the
lev,
Depul
death
convicted of
local
Spee
to ACCus-
man,
here
ilty sald
!
Court then pronounced
date of which will
governor
Peconish,
county jall here,
John Dobish in
ten vears age. He
According to the authorl-
Peconish has been sought for
that
resided wi twenty
He never
county, 1
Jwhlle playing
boys.
*hiladeiphia
two old
South Darien
human
of the ht
Workmen
houses at 2038
demolish
ng 1nd
Street unearthed parts
of Aa sKelefor The first
part
rey . >
rame was discovered
under the ar of 200 by a workman
as he turned to throw a spadeful of
iis
clay into a Furt
parts, until
wagon
rr digging
the
The
and
of
revealed other
jot of dug up
were picked up in a basket
to city
bones was bones
taken
Dette
arted delving
into unsolved murder mysteries in that
vicinity far sixty years back
During the civil war it was a notori-
run by
the
For the
hall by Lieutenant
tives Belshaw, whe st
as
as
Ous resort “Dad” Cunningham
’
and was rendezvous Of
Jumpers.
has been gecuplied as dwellin
and previous to that
Harrisburg. —County
not entitled
cents
bounty
years [it
house =,
past forty
was a
treasurers are
to charge ten
for issuing a
transferred from
ather,
fits informed In
Deputy Attorney
Pittsburgh
Heense for a
county
of Agriculture
dog
an
Wit
opinion by
one in
Secretary
was an
(reneral drown
-Motormen and conduct
org of the Pittshurgh Rallways com-
pany have to an 11
per cent wage increase, amounting to
seven cents an hour. The new maxi-
mum pay will be 67 cents an hour for
an 8% -hour day
voted accept 3
Negotiations opened
Six weeks ago. the men demanding an
increase of twenty cents an hour and
the recelvers offering six cents
teading.—John H. Marquet won a
verdict of 32051 and Ralph D. Bitler
one of $1068 in their suits against the
Consumers’ Gas company for losses
sustained when their homes at Birds.
boro were destroyed by fire alleged
fo have resulted from explosion due
to a broken gas main
Wilkes-Barre, urglars entered the
clothing store of Harry Rosenthal and
carried away goods to the value of
several hundred dollars
Greensburg. Thirty-six automobile
drivers of this city and vicinity pald
fines for violating parking ordinances.
Scotch Valley. —A shovel operated
by gasoline, the first in the anthracite
flelds, has been obtained for an ex-
tensive stripping contract here.
Reading—Ear! Paulsgrove, aged 23,
of Stony Creek, is suffering from a
fractured skull at a Reading hospital,
A blast of dynamite discharged In a
field scattered stones through the win-
dows of a dwelling on the farm of
former Judge Robert Bushong, at
Wernersville,
Mi. Carmel Dr. Carl Broghamer,
has been held in 8500 ball for court
trial on a charge of practicing opto-
metry without a leense,
Huzleton —Overexertion while dig-
gling a garden here caused the death
of Nicholas Baka, aged 64. :
Newport,—The sixtieth anniversary
of the founding of the Newport Pres
byterian church was celebrated with
special services,
Schaeflerstown. Five hundred mem.
bers of the Patriotie Order, Sons of
America, participated in the annual
convention of Lebanon county camps
bare, :
Pittsburgh.—The will of the late
William Penn Snyder, disposing of
estate worth $40,000,000, was up-
held In court when all exceptions to
Snyder, who was a leader in
the iron industry, owning furnaces In
the Shenango Valley, ore boats on the
lakes and extensive fron deposits in
the Lake Superior region, left his es
tate In a trust for the continuation of
the business. The wili was attacked
by his daughter, Mrs, Mary Snyder
virtually disin-
dependent upon
left in control
had been
made
were
and
who
of the estate,
Wilkes-Barre.
Watson,
Attorney Ww. Ww.
of Seranton, aged counsel
against the Sterling Hotel company,
of this city, collapsed while pleading
He is 79
years old, and the services of a phy-
were necessary to restore him.
plaintiff is suing the hotel com-
pany for the loss of a diamond ring,
valued at $3450 while she was a guest
f
Drifton.—The department of
State
station here on land furnished by the
Lehigh Valley Coal company
Altoona
automobiles at a street In
Forney, real
and Miss Anna E. Dingeldeln wei
Ellsworth 8S estate deal
The
will meet
York
sion
public service
June 8
COMMS
here to hear the
filed
tariffs
against the proposed
the Yor}
olf
Pittsburgh
were
Bectiuge two of the
killed
state
and
indict
carried con
in jail the nolle prossed
The
that two
arresting officer
of
and Charles Florig,
told
the men,
Riley
death during a
recently met
hold up in
Raymond Thi %
jail. Their
$
Pottsville
schools were ordered ba
was
NeCeRKary
sdopt the same sof
house clock on
rein
Pottsville
bachelor
increase
no
he
house thought
“€et 3
Married,
ed, “as IA
June,
ome 1s
the banner
of the
HIArriages,
are guessing
be a suspension of wi
Bethlehem Albert
Rittersville, was four
cellar of his
old.
the home
whet she
from
became worried
the
absence
house while
ready to
TE .
uppers
were busy getting
thes
to Butztown
into the cells Mrs, Freed
her lying on the
from a stroke of apoplexs
Harrisburg —The followis
for highway construct
ed by the hi
Warren Spring Gar
den fownship, York county, 845,777.10
to Garvey-Weyvenberg Construction
Company, Appleton, Wis, Slippery
Rock borough and
tock township, Butler,
Sutler Summit
The
£263
paid i he
Harrisburg —Publie
who are contributors
Retirement Fund, and who
age of 70 in July and August, months
in which school Is rot in session, must
he retired, Deputy Attorney
Wallace held In an
tary Baisch, of the
Washington First honors
members of graduating
Washington Jefferson
were divided by Boyd C. Patterson, of
Crafton, Pa., and John
Paulding, ©. honors
vided among Alfred Leckler,
na, O.; C. M. Muir, Washington. D. C.:
move (yoing
dine OVere
husband floor dead
Feoniracts
on were award
ghwhs
rothers,
department: To
Joston,
North Si
ppery
S105.762.08
and and
uiler, J064.62
projects will be
townships,
cost of these
counties
1
‘ool teachers
reach the
General
opinion to Seere
retirement board
the
at
to
the
and
class
Second was di
Russell H. McCain, Frederick,
and Frederick Hess, Washington, Pa.
Harrisburg.—The department
following health officers: Mrs. Ethel
townships, Wayne county
Beegle, Roaring Spring, to serve
Taylor, Freedom and Greenfield town
ships, Blair county, and Augustus
Greenville, Fairhope and
ton townships, Somerset county,
Marysville~<Rye township, which
adjoins this place, is planning the con-
solidation and grading of all its
schools,
Uniontown. Arrested hers, John
Gaswald, who was so drunk that he
could not tell his address, was found
to have $014.28 on his person,
Mr. Carmel. While making repairs
to the roof of his home, Eugene Zida-
nowitz fell twenty-five feet to an fron
fence, where he was impaled,
Wilkes-Barre. —A jury here awarded
$882.22 to William Coban, of Pittston
township, for damage to his property
by a cavedn of the Pennsylvania Coal
company.
Lebanon.—Former State Senator
Cyrus R. Lantz suffered a fractured
bip In a fall here
Northamp-
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Pitching Mainstays
Still Going Nicely
Those pltching mainstays,
Walter Johnson of Washington
and G,. C, Alexander of the Chi-
cago Nationals, show no sign of
letting up in their effectiveness.
or rather, they are off to a much
better start than has been the
case In some recent years.
Though both are well entitled
to be considered veterans, John-
son's tenure of service exceeds
that of the Cub boxman by sev-
eral vears,
PBB BRR Bf
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LOAD OF BIRD SHOT
Injury to Brooklyn Outfielder’s
Forehead Greatly Improves
Batting Eye.
Although it sounds paradoxical, a
the
outfielder
wad of bird shot pumped into
body of Turner Barber, the
obtained by Brooklyn from Chicago in
made the former a much bet
batsman,
From the
Sastained one
character of the injury
iid think that Bar
ber's playing would be impaired, but
he insists that it worked just the
and the records
the He batted
1921 and 300 last season.
Th
wot
op
fo
S14
points to
isseriion
accidental,
e shooting, purely oe
Milan
wus
Tenn,
picking
of the player's home at
YOUrs sgo Barber
get within
pheasant
un
huntsman,
Io
of a
Just as he popped his head
giming distance
fellow
fired
to discharge his musket, a
taking him
Barber fell
for a deer
shotgun, and
bleeding profusely
wonnds
One piece of shot
Lead, between the eve
ing the of
total blin
in the
nerve wi
caused
three i
nose, the left hand near
and in
Barber dug
lodged lef
the calf of
the
is leg wit}
phiveician
hang it wi
Ta
unnecessars
the meta the forehes
id nose and Barber
£ round
feared at fi
bother
it seemed
them with hin
rt tha
fii
would
evesigh
that !
and has
of All Kinds
Bwitzeriand has 13
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golf
San Francisco Athletic league
rowing the high
schools,
*
fans
as » major sport in
University of Pennsylvania
in the Quaker City October § next.
. 2
ning, free style and breast stroke swim-
ming champions of Australia, are tour
ing New Zealand,
oo
Robert 1. Benbow, "24. Aberdeen, 8
D.. has been elected captain of the
University of Wisconsin wrestling team
for next year.
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Romeo Maciel, an Argentine long
distance swimmer and holder of the
world's endurance record, having cov-
ered 27 miles in 24% hours, will
tempt next August to the Eng
lish channel,
oy
at
swim
The
meet
Ontario championship athletic
may be awarded London, Ont,
The nearness of the Olyin-
ple games promises unusnal interest in
the tests,
Rookin Ma ing Good
Rbskiy LvEeUR, erat SOUL paw
pitcher of (he Chicago White Sox,
wis with Little Rock last year, but was
given un trial by the New York
tants this spring only to be
shipped back to Arkansas. The Sox
took Tony on trial. aud he is waking
good.
a a a ca a a a a a |
m WE UR UM UN RE WR OTRONN OI UDO UN UNE ONO NRE RN ON NEN RS
ation Jack Bentiey
graph
the
quence of action is begun by the thre
oh
the three at
|
Miss Bauer Boosts
Swimming for Giri
Miss Sybill Bauer of Chicage
:
fi
famous, sw
af a camp
Hea ged
CHAAR ERE EERE EEE EE ee ee
i i
ER
-
Hail Southpaw as Find
Nick Dunnovich,
the nineteen-vear
Pacific Coast
who was
from
Wrigles
An-
his Chi
outfit,
hailed
finds
Al
did
the
sums
Bill
to
‘ub
geles,
one of the
Nick
bring
enormous
ed to shine just as brightly,
Springfield to Give
A $1200 purse for a free-for-all
trot, sald to be the largest amount of
money ever raced for over a half-mile
track, is announced hy Charles A.
Nash, general manager of the Eastern
States exposition. The race will be
over the exposition tracks at Spring
field, Mass, the week of September
16. Three $10,000 events, at Read
ville, Hartford and Syracuse, are the
biggest purses to be raced for on the
Grand circuit this season. The exposi-
tion track is considered one of the
widest in the country, with exception.
ally wide turns, allowing big fields to
race comfortably,
C—O AAA AN
Right-Handers Shift
Around to Southpaws
Three members of the Cleveland
team who throw lefthanded were in
their boyhood natural righthanders,
They are Tris Speaker, Sherrod Smith
and George Winn, Some accident or
other led each to shift to the left, just
showing what one can do If he will
Speaker broke his right arm as a boy,
Smith broke his left collarbone and
Winn says he just made himself a left.
hander because he wanted to be a
southpaw,
Elli E SE EEREN AENEAN EN EEEAN EEE RAEREENNESTESS
bought
The
itching
hampion Glants
left and {8 completed by
dh
Baseball
Notes
{ g hit
vital suffer.
Cleveland has 32
| fields and 17
for
{ youthful recreational sym followers
indo reads
he Nationals have
it Outfielder Fred Leach from the
Philadelphia
| boug!
ciub
Rochester of the
league
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Followers of the Cabs prophesy that
Kelleher will
{ diamond =i:
listed amon
HE
bse the great
rs before the close of the
season,
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Manager Robinson, Brooklyn Nation
: als, offered
oley of the Baltimore
league club
S100. for
international
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Newark, Intern
pitcher
tional leagle team,
named See, Ought to
make a good umpire when his piteh-
: ing days over
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ure
The purchase of “Lefty” Davenport,
| pitcher, from the Chicago Americans
ig announced hy the New Haven
| Eastern league club
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Another homerun
i have made hix debut
king
in the National,
catcher of last year,
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Cincinnati has the veteran team of
| the major leagues. It Is stated that
{| the average age of the “regular” Reds
is above thirty-one years,
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club of the Western league,
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Everett McGowan, former national
professional skating champion, is be
ing given a trial as an outfielder by
the St. Paul club of the American asso
ciation,
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The Braves look like anything but
tallenders. If thelr young pitchers
stand up, Matty's club ought to raie a
berth near the top of the second Ji
vision.
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From the way the Cardinals are
slamming the ball it looks as if the
8t. Louis team is out to make troubie
for National league pitchers again
this season.
“ro.
Rannie Young, late conch at Milliken
university, pitched a game
against Rockford, allowing no hits nor
passes and being faced by only twen-
‘ty-seven batssgen,
MUSIC AND FOOD
“They didn't pay much
my speech at the banquet given
honor.”
“No,” replied Senator Borghum,
attention
in wm
“But
fine.”
“Did they play ‘Hail to the Chief?”
“Maybe. But it sounded to me more
Hke ‘Hall to the Chef. "Washington
Star.
Da Capo.
Mother—S8ay your prayers, darling.
Little Ann—But I did so last night,
Mother—But you've got to do it all
ver again,
Little hut
(Stock.
Aann—~That's it—nothing
Kasper
Nor Sprayed, Either,
“There's one good
“What's that?”
“It doesn’t have to be trimmed every
ZO
L~
PERFECT
“What do you think of him?”
“As a chump he le one hundred per
cent. efficient”
Simp. Spelling.
and 1 and ¢
we AT
Yew
to be
mixed u
ar aye sen
spelled u
we nl
Dun invited to Come Often.
Shall 1
Bil i
row?
Young Lawyer—Da! C
ple will think you are 1
Collector
rill bring others. —Lond
On Grounds of Insanity
He What was the £ ‘
by Bagley
mit} atid
against 1h
He
Quickest Proposal on Record.
She (as he enters) It's so |
you were forgetting
He-—1 am for getting
I've ealled. Wil
He Should Know
Hotel $d Manager—The long
around is the shortest was
know
Stranger—I"il say
wag taxicab
you;
yOu marr
an’
That's
these drivers firure
Mean Insinuation.
Miss Vera Playne—1 think
dreadful,
Miss Fayre—Yonu
everything you read, cear,
shouldn
In Keeping
“The scene,” declared the voun
Ing
“Nour description was rather
ged,” suggested the veteran editor.
on
QUITE APROPOS
1st Fish—What did Mr. Bass sing
at the concert?
2nd Fish--Rocked in the cradle of
the deep!
Not in Love.
The letters of the alphabet
The tender passion are above
Full twenty-six there are and yet
But four of them are in love
Life Doesn't Change Much.
“I used to have a hard time sneaking
away fYom howe to go to the circus”
“Nest”
“And now 1 have an even harder
time sneaking away to go to a poker
game." Cincinnati Enquirer,
se E———
«Into Eternity, ‘
First Girl (very annoyed)
seem as If she'll never get through at
that telephone,
Second Girl—She's talking to ber
fiance.
First Girl—Ab, yes; she wants a life
time connection,
A,
A Natural inquiry,
Blinks—This {tem a hat in In
dia often girls are betrothed before
they are born,
Jinks—~Huh! How do they know
they are going to be girls?