PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Monessen. ~—Caught under a of molten metal in the Pittsburgh Steel company plant here, two crane- men were burned to death and an- other man was injured seriously. To Culerra, both of Charleroi gerald was operating the crane and Gulerra and Samypel Underwood were his helpers. They were placing a ladle when a furnace broke through hefore It was In pos'tion. In an ef. fort to save his fellow-workmen, Fitz the way, but It struck a “table” and the men were caught under the show- er of hot metal. ground, Altoona —Chemists who examined found only two which were listed as unlawful this year, Director of the bureau of foods, told delegates attending the annual convention of the Association of Ice Cream facturers of Pennsylvania and Jersey. The director reported in the bureau's drive “purity of lce cream.” Laws passed by legislature governing the sale of milk, cream and ice cream are more comprehensive than the old laws, he sald. Harrisburg.—Members of the highway patrol were sent to the state New “great progress” for the state burg and Harrisburg, after having been In camp at Mount Gretna three mouths. They will training at the barracks uniforms are received. Harrisburg.—The net grin in re- celpts for general fund purposes for the fiscal year 1, 1922, from the 1922 fiscal year, was $6.840.823 on November 9, General Lewis announced. receipts were $53.635414, a gain $5.887.915. In the year $2281 688 was collected from the Pennsylvania rall- road for delinquent taxes, which made a gain from ordinary and normal sources of $7.619603. From the gross gain the auditor general deducted $760,780, the amount the 1923 fiscal year In crease in the gasoline to two cents a gallon, New Castle.—Mrs, aged 60, a Syrian work, found continue until The received in of the tax from fccount one Mary Farax, vendor of needle in the pantry of a negro boarding house, apparently strangled to death. There Bo marks on the body excepting a slight discoloration purse, secreted Wis were about the throat. within her had been ripped open and two small change empty mu were ng beside her known t her purses iy She was o have had with A railroad brakeman injured seriously and 400 passen- gers were shaken Braeburn railroad money *ittsburgh. was when the wien tie local Peni the on the deralled at Aspinwall bridge over the river here. Brakeman George Patter. son, of Blawknox, suffered a fractur- ed skull. New Brighton Wounded sama bullet, Joseph Patuhi ford Wallace are in a hospital lace, in a isylvania was south end by the Wal- owner of a pool room, was shot leg In a fight in his establish. ment. The bullet, after passing through his leg, through a door and struck Patuhi, pedestrian, a thigh, Wilkes-Barre, - ver and cartridges, John in Nanticoke to shoot © known under $1000 bail, sent to Jail Pittsburgh went a in wearing a belt Keto, 33, and vainly girl the ran amuck endeavored dentity is un. He was held and in default was whose to nolice i Louis Ber an official tion that his safe not he deposited $1700 in a bank. That night burglars entered the building and knocked off the safe combination knob with a sledge hammer, but strong-hox was empty. Jurnham.—The combination and grade school was partly destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at £50000, The grade section of the bullding was destroyed and the high gchool section flooded by water, Five Lewistown fire companies responded to a call for help. Mercer.—James M. Hofer, Demo cratle candidate for sheriff of Mercer county in the recent election, will con- test the election of W. A. Bone, Pro- hibition eandidate, who won with a majority of twenty-five votes, Homer announced that he will base his con- test on the returns from the second ward of Grove City, home of Bone. He charges that the election board In that ward falled to nake returns to the county seat within the time set by the election laws. In event the vote of the ward is thrown out, Ho. mer would be the winner by 380 votes, Middiebnrg Harry Perdix, Jr, aged 9 years, lost two fingers and the thumb of his left hand while playing with a dynamite cap. Dupont.—Falling beneath a moving freight train, George Strelish, aged 16, lost his right hand. Williamsbarg.— Alfonso Veglia and Joseph Dellich, employed in limestone quarries here, were critically burned from head to fi by a premature powder explosion, Marietta. —Thomas T. Bangert sus tained a broken right arm and other injuries when a stone fell and jit him aF 0 gnarry was gaffe, so the Sunbury.—The new $150,000 ninth ward publie school was dedicated. York.—More than $0 per cent of | the depositors of the Clty Bank have | ganized Institution, according to a statement given out by George L. | Stallman, chairman of the depositors’ | committee. Members of the commit. | tee are making a canvass of those who have not subscribed and the sue- cess of the reorganization is sald to be assured, Pittsburgh.—Fourteen-year-old Wil lam Underwood, an inmate of St Paul's Orphan Asylum, died of in- juries sustained when he fell from the top of a cabinet. The lad, it is i salw, was re-eracting a scene he wit- | nessed In a motion picture when the accldent occurred. Bethlehem.—The building of the | First Reformed church, on Fourth | street, and that of the Grace Reform- ed mission, on Broadway, will be put | on the market for shle in order to ar- | range for a merger of the two congre- { gations. This decision was reached at a meeting of the consistories, Tamaqua.~The explosion of a con- i of windows, Tamaqua.—S8truck by an automobile while crossing a street near his home | Paal Christ, aged 5, sustained a frac tured skull. West Reading. —Irving Hoyer robbed of $24 and so badly beaten he had to result | by three men near his home Brownsville. be taken to a hospital as the of showing fight when held up Local, county ana gtate officers have joined In a operating in this district and twenty-five homes. Thousands of dol | lars’ worth of jewelry, clothing, pro visions and cash have been taken gained by prying open windows, Pittsburgh. of Robert Snyder, | was fined $50, with of the Phoenixville, option trate Richards, when Miss Kramer, a maid in the Hotel | accused him of attacking her. Altoona.—Most of the bituminous | coal mines in central to the Operators of | days a week, in the there | coal owing coal market. is a large amount in the east, a result of the after coal! is shipped and can be purchased at demurrage charges, So far in | ber the daily joadings in Pennsylvania field have averaged as against 2875 cars in Septem Prices from $1.75 to 83 a say distress of cancelling orders 3 Lae Novem the centra yr CArs, | her ton. Cochranton 18, off | wrist while hunting Harrisburg. The Legislative Hand | lost the by the Pubileations Diethich said { the reorganization code provided {in the event of of the : copyright, the name was to be « ed to the Pennsylvania Manual, +h | Governor Pinchot approved the range Charles Teber, left hand aged his near home shot his identity of Smull's will Hear not of Dire Book the of Although thy through purchase copyright state, tor the purchase State tion of the former name {| York~The liabilities of the Willlam IE. Duff machinery, adjudi- | cated bankrupt by the United | court at Scranton, are very { up, as there is only $2.01 | hand, according to the schedule | turned to William H. Kurtz, | The assets are £408 010.068, while | liabilities are $1,012,53820 Altoona —Dispute over a in & negro restaurant resulted in J.-B. Horning, Altoona, and J. H Smith, Tyrone, both white, being shot in the legs by Thomas Overal, Wash | ington, D. C, whe under arrest Leroy T. Banton, road construction, rant find the alleged was conned company, cash re referee, the Crap game here Ww is colored laborer went to the restan- to man whom it was ted with the affray, | and in a quarrel, was shot in the back ("hy an unknown negro, who escaped | The wounded will Harrisburg Hunting a« | careless shootings | larger numbers { warranted, Seth | of the board of said He declared recover, cidents and in are occurring than are this year E. Gordon, gnme commissioners, there was no oc- | son for a squirrel or rabbit, and said that “persons who have injured others in this way will be prosecuted te the limit under the drastic law of 1921 imposing heavy penalties and impris- onment upon hunters who shoot oth- ers In mistake for kame. ” Gordon sald the property damage law, passed in 1023. is “already bearing fruit.” He cited one case in Bucks county, where a game protector arrested two men with eleven dead guineas in their possession, Chester.—An abandoned baby girl was found on the steps of St. Mich. ael's parish house, Edgmont avenue near Seventh street. She was well dressed, with two heavy Dblanke's wrapped firound her to prevent death from exposure. The walf was discov. ered by William Reynolds, who was the ChefSter Hospital, Uniontown, Buddenly the office of the St. Charles here, where his son 18 proprietor, Wil Ham C. Gregg, aged 78, fell dead. Pittsburgh Willie Smith, held here for Investigation In connection with the slaying of Thomas Rowland, an aged man, was released. Sunbury.~-Stricken with paralysis while seated in a chalr at his home, T. Danlel 8hipman, aged 06, died. Bethlehem, —8t. Peter's Lutheran church observed its sixtieth anniver. sary and the twenty-second anniver sary of its pastor, Rw. J. O. Lieben: stricken In woerger. of play university team flo Illinois Wesleyan Andersons upon the of Robinson, Ill, Is guard; Is manager | @ 2 Heart Was of Concrete An old-time ball player now has a job as ground keeper for a minor league team. He says the owner of this club has = heart of reinforced concrete The kids had been busy all win ter enlarging knotholex in the fence. Noting this recently, the owner called the attention of the superintendent to it. “Bhall I plug 'em up? asked the ground keeper. “Not now!” di rected the owner. “Let the kids be happy until the season opens Then we'll plug ‘em np” | SOOO 000000 GCO0000C Joy in Coat of Arms hing a hat in Italy. Luis Angel Flrpo now of arms and a family pack to the Twelfth century As long as Luis washer in the worried about ancestors that he is a it different fome time ago the wild bull put a firm $ tree t dates Argentine he his was celebrity in SAME NAME w — i " FT a LL i {il., has nearly alone without i oS » enough calling upon Zev is no respecter of distinguished foreigners, The record for the 50-yarc legged race iz six seconds - * three- . St. Louis embraces Municipal 30 organizations, » - » Soccer league Tufts college is to have golf course on its campus, * - * a six-hole to t Holland is rapidly coming front as & nation of pugllists, * » he - Minneapolis has teas playing in * 100 rugby football 22 parks this fall, * * The world series befween the Yan kees and Glants in 1021 required eight games and set at $000,238. a record for receipts of train the Interna- The Toronto club tional league will in Macon, Ga. | 2PU00CLO0DGRINNOO0 f GLO ONO0 Umpires Fail to Ngtice 8 When a batter hits the ball with one foot out of the batter's box, the penalty prescribed by the rule hook Is out. In recent years batters seem to be getting away with it and have been stepping up to hit the pall before It breaks. COLLOUOOOLROODLONOOOR0 OTOL GEORGE SISLER ONE OF YOUNGEST PILOTS One of Greatest Players Game Has Ever Produced. George Harold Sisler, star first base- 1 | men of the St. Louis Browns, who has major league ball clubs. He was bora at Manchester, Ohio, March 24, 1808, Sisler is one of the greatest players | baseball has ever produced, writes | He was adjudged the most | season of 1022. leading the batters VERY SENSITIVE A famous author nimbitlous young beginner arrives together “ seaside hotel. On the second day of thelr stay the author took the jnndlord aside nnd sald: “I talk 10 sou { about this young friend of He in now in the writing game and earns very little money. As a favor to me | wish you'd make his bill as small as poss | ble” The landlord, highly gratified at the | great man's friendly attitude, promised He and an ' at want to mine ahout to “By { to do as requested. go the way, don’t let than his. It Was author the my woul when $118 Fail d hw | age ever attained in the league; base hitg singles and stolen bases, Sisler graduated from Iniver- | sity of Michigan In June, 1915, and Branch Rickey, under whose coaching | Sisler ball player in i college, persuaded the coliegian to sign the became & star — =e wt? . The rin for Murmi, world record held the one-mile ie by Pauvo Finnish athlete 10 3-0 secopds * - . The frst baseball unnesisted triple play in Harry O'Hagan against wns made by f the Rochester team Jersey Angust 158, 1902, » * » The Southern branch of the A. A, iT as gone on record for condemning hi hs ong-distance swimming for girls under on his case tecently he rex elved this firm's sort, along with the family ! gens to work handsome copy of of drms According coat slayed a prominent part in events ftaly in the Twelfth century, many of | iy members shedding their blood free ly on the field of battle appeared highly pleased with the an estral records es | Slow Timing Method in Olympic Games in Paris the Olmpic in ¥ At games in Paris | vogue in the United States, Slow motion pictures of the various svents will be taken, and in addition te helping decide winners in close fin. | ishes, they will be distributed through- | put Burope. They will thus be val | gable from an instructive standpoint. Capablanca Challénged for Chess Championship ! On the strength of his defeating | Lasker and sharing first prize with | Kupelilek in the tournament at Lake | Hopatcong, Frank J. Marshall, the | United States chess champlon, has de. | pided to approach Jose R. Capablanca + Havana for the purpose of arrang- {tng another match for the world's | shamplonship. Paris Is Ready for 600 : Reporters at Olympics Newspapers all over the world will he represented at the Olymple games of 1024, now litle more than six months away, The committee In charge 18 arranging to care for 600 reporters, Two hundred applications for telephones at the Colombes Sta. dlum have been made already and 100 more are * * - A referee who gave three decigions £ on almost little was by fans Showing how - - of the Shade - Two hrothers were the same night You might say--if you cared to say anything that it was curtains for them, - * - Europe may produce su sing. ers, but no other country than our own ever gave birth to like the great American football - * - Willie Ritchie, former champion, is training for The huge purses offered pg perior anything yell lightweight comeback jgiliete these the dea® a raise days are enough to . * - - University of Oregon has establishe 1 a football school to give students, not members of the team, a better knowl edge of the technique of the game 0» track coach of University of Pennsylvania, is be boosted for the job tutor of | American Olympic next | Lawson Robertson, the ing as team Year. * MH Sanford Coach G. of the Rut | covered a most promising fullback in | 8%. Bliss, a member of the sopho more class, . » * Williaa T. Tilden II, the tennis champion, has become a movie actor, according to Dr. Sumner Hardy, pres. ident of the California Lawn Tennis association, Mr. Firpo denies that he will be come an American citizen. This is a disappointment, He had been count. ed on to help out in the shipyards in time of war. - The pari-mutuel betting system now prevails In the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Oblo and West Virginia, The system Is also used In Canada and Cubs, - . - The National College of Baseball 18 a baseball educational institution lo ented menar Los Angeles, the purpose of which ls to train young ball players in the fine points of the game. . 0» The popularity of archery In Eng- land has heen evidenced this year by the holding of half a dozen public tournaments, In which hundreds of knights and ladles of the bow partici * - George Sisier, A contra to play with the St. Browns, of which team Rickey become manager Although had training except a few ball he ged Sisler mn ular after was an southpaw pit fielder, and j tions efficiently 1918. when he nently at Louis he no mont minor 8 summer indul in while still In col became 8 ret St. L players her, first baseman or out gt eaiatess tain 3 Joining is Sigler H.round aii-roung inyed any season of stationed perma Year after year until the was first base This remarkable young msn is the player that bursts forth once In a decnde, who is about mechanically perfect as hu possible. He is a shining ex of movement without effort, the smoothest, only in worker all ball players, and rons as lightly as a feather the However | doubt en siest of walted through as to his abliily to man Sisler ie what player.” He his nature being passive active, He has that rarely speaking to another ymmate He Argues the nmpire or protesis a decision. Only once during his career been banished from the for disputing a decision bj biter. The spirit characterize sent from known a “dead lacks rather than tached air player, us color even a ie with m guine the * g aEpressiveness are totally character the field of battle, It and T Sisler's on Cohb victory when he himself is so cold, so silent. A manager utterly lacking fire and dash is scarcely apt to get best work out of his players. Another Star From Iowa TR Ala ih Wayland K. Hicks, captain of last year's lowa basketball team and cap tain of the 1024 baseball team, i= a promising football player. Hicks I» developing very rapidly and lowa's comch says he will shortly be one of pated the best all-around athletes of the state. A GOLF MUTT | think that oid Bill Green's a mutt, He chuokies when | miss a putt, Dizzy Birds The woodpecker was A He got it on the head This is un age when one So openly 8 “red” fallbird can't be Might Well Have Paused, yee hy “Why didn’t you get an autor “Because | kno { not 1 could manage one.” “You didn’t stop you when you don’t Ww her coms deration wa a wife” The Right Fi ‘low are you “Fo “Why fixed. « what? from he He says wa haunted, And go it His were Was creditors hanging around day ar A True Friend, friend He is hat fact For wher tells He me $0 Make the Average Good “Dorothy dds have so YY a nickel” “Don’t ef Worry, re X ‘vou'll have just 100 of ‘e ute.” Veterans, Flapper (after was all your fault. carefully. once, Old Boy (picking himself uap)- I've always walked carefully. sixty-eight years’ experience. The Specialist “So you're a specialist.” “Yes. I've discovered that he way to get fancy prices for doing what the family doctor 1s supposed to do as a part of the day's work.” ie: been the acc In I've driving I've had two yeurs' exper Bm I've had is 1 Experienced. Madge—Is it safe tn lot manage the car with one arm’ Marjorie--1 guess so He's mi handy with the other Jude, Churlle ahty JUST 80. Adam was srented first, Well? And mon have been waiting for their wives aver since. .
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