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
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three-
.
St. Louis
embraces
Municipal
30 organizations,
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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
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of the Shade
-
Two hrothers were
the same night You might
say--if you cared to say anything
that it was curtains for them,
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Europe may produce su sing.
ers, but no other country than our own
ever gave birth to like the
great American football
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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
. *
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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,
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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
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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. .