PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Danville—Dr. W. R. Paules, aged
60, n physician, dropped dead of heart
disease while preparing to retire.
Phoenixville~—~Herne, 4-year-old son
of Herne G. Vanderslice, of Church
street, died in the hospital twenty-four
head and shoulders and inhaled flames
his grandmother, Mrs. Ida Vanderslice,
at Port Providence, William Frick
also was badly burned on the hands
and arnis when he tried to save
boy.
few minute: before it
is in the hospital
Altoona.—A romance which began in
Germany ended with the death
of Miss Minnie Hell, aged 20, follow-
ing an operation at a hospital.
Heil accompanied Henry Scheifer
from Germany. They were to
married shortly after their
in Altoona October 7, but
woman fell ill Scheifer
ulready obtained a
g0 they could be wedded
she recovered.
York.—4George Smith, aged 50 years,
of Philadelphia, was shot and Frank
Wilson, of near Marburg, was pain
fully bruised and cut by Vaughen
Toubin, aged 23 years, of Occuyum,
Va., who ran smuck while intoxicated
on the farm of S.
near Marburg,
Smith's wounds,
head, are not
hin has been arrested and
the York county jall
Windber.—Frank Sterner
Horner, superintendent
exploded and
have
been ar
rival the
had
Heense,
young
marriage
ns
S000 as
Garman,
township.
George
Manheim
which are on his
considered serious, Tou-
is now In
BR. C
assistant
and
and
Windber Silicia
superintendent of the
and serious
attacked by
dits while on their
Sind company, were shot
wounded when Wo
way from
her to the company's operations at
Cairnbrook
to 82400
er
with a payroll amount
Before he was
the
shot,
threw money
frightened away
approaching automobile and the mon.
ey
over a
bandits were
was recovered, The two men were
brought to a hospital
Pottsville The lands
Girard" Estate in tl county,
his
Stephen Girard purchased for
here
coal of the
which
£30.00
according
he
ap
We
Under
board of city
the
are worth
official
submitted
proval, the final
HOW
+
to
£30.000,.000
an estimate which will
to week for
¥ iv
ng
nas
court next
fle
ng
ITPR i
county offic
of the
Philadelphia,
estate
examined
the management
trusts,
by inls
of resources
to
the royalties exacted of
the re
of the are developed the
fullest extent,
temants being
gion.
Hazleton
community
year, erected in
Allentown as
the result of fire in the repair shop of
the Auto Storage and Repair company,
“Lal” Young was rescued by firemen
Pittsburgh United States District
Attorney Lyon, after conference with
B. H. Littleton, special
the attorney
highest in the
This eity
Christmas
front
Overcome by
have a
again
of eity hall
will
tree
SIMMoxKe
assistant
that
to
general, announced
spiracy against Pittsburgh politicians,
alleged bootlieggers and former gov-
ernment employes would be disposed
of at the present term of court.
Lewjktown.—Nicola Guigliani, 31
old, had his nerve with him
when he was run down by a shifter
Jocomotive in the local freight yards
of the Pennsylvania raliroad. His lef:
years’
and he sustained other Injuries, but
after the locomotive and eight cars
had passed over him he arose to his
feet, picked up his“severed hand and
ollean and ran after the train, calling
down imprecations on the crew and
insisting that reture and see
what they had done to him
Pittshurgh.-——A valuable collection of
drawings by old masters was present
ed the Carnegie Art Galleries of
Carnegie Institute, by Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Dupuy, wealthy residents of
Pittsburgh. The collection, the first
of its kind in the galleries, Is made
up of fifty works, including drawings
by Van Dyke, Da Vinel, Rembrandt,
Murillo, Andrea Del Sarto, Corregio.
Guido, Reni, Carlo Maratta, Beneditto
Lutl, and many others. The Rembrandt
is “Cilmmon Nourished by His Daugh
ter,” and is a pen and sepia drawing,
seven by eight inches. It shows the
interior of a prison with male and fe-
male figures,
Harrisburg Official returns recelv-
ed by the state highway department
chow that the £50.000000 bond issue
was given a majority of 38687564, or
121.233 more than the majority receiv.
ed by the first bond issue in 1918,
Three counties voted against it, Alle.
gheny, Blair and Cumberiand. In 1918
four counties voted against the bond
Issue, Cumberland, Juniata, Perry and
Union. Of these Cumberland was the
only one to repeat, and fra vote against
the measure was greater in 1923 than
in 1918.
Greenfield. Mrs, Elizabeth Horn.
yak, a patient in Mercy Hospital,
Pitisburgh, leaped to her death from
fn ninth floor window,
Harrisburg. Th. appointment
Charles A. Keyworth, a Yerk archi.
tect, as specicl auditor and investi
gntor, was announced by Auditor Gen.
eral Lewis,
Elizabethtown.—A victim of amne-
gia, John G. Kratz, 78 years old, of
Lancaster, was found here.
Altoona. ~~Moving picture men pur
chased the two Pennsylvania railroad
office bulldings In the heart of this
eity.
they
to
of
Pottsville. — While Joseph Schreiner
walking along a street a horse
tied to a hitching post bit a plece out
of hig left cheek,
Pottsville.~~While tralling his gun
through brush Aloysius Wollyung, 1€
years old, blew off three fingers of his
left hand.
Pittsburgh.
sald to be a
Edensburg, Pa., appeared In
court here against Mrs. J. H. Leon
ard, who, it was testified, snatched a
wallet from Smith, who was dining
friends in a hotel. .She was fin
wis
William H. Smith,
wealthy resident of
police
thirty days In the workhouse. Smith
sald the wallet contained notes valu.
at 20000 and stock certificates
worth $1000, Mrs. Leonard said
snatched the wallet because
thought It contained her photograph
and some letters which believed
Smith was showing to his guests,
Berwick.-——The chamber of com
merce set December 10 to 17 the
week for a drive for 2200000 to 0
pance a new community hotel
Bradford.—-The eivll service com
mission certified Robert PP. Hab
W. Barton as eligible
ns
Washington Nick Rost, na
ran amuck in his boarding house here
Using a he killed Amos
and Mrs. Katie Bale,
of the house, and escaped
Uniontown
she
she
she
us
has
good and Leroy
for appointment
postmaster here
pistol, Kos
wounded owner
Apparently
when with a high
tension wire carrying 25,000 volts, W
E. Schell, for Ww
J. Rainey
hrought
he came in contact
y
master mechanie the
company at Allison,
back life by
Barring weakness,
off for his
to the fa
pulmotor
little worse experience
the Nn
eohit
wil
York,
New
saving
New
Eng
be
to
Jersey,
carried
Pennsylvanis
iand through an o
masters perfected here len B
I
Cook, of Niantic, Conn, fs chosen
1 he
the leader
novemen 5 0
directed existing
ight saving and
Grange,
for
the
time,”
whiel
inot interfere
Asn Burton, an ei
and another serious
injured wh the corning m
Powder
Was
the Grasseill
Quaker Falls
plosior The cause of
not een determined, and
ties are investigating
azleton ‘ty eo cll allowed
ippeal of the Lehigh Coal com
for an 1.7.00)
any on
Pr
¥
the valuation of I=
} hn Iving ¥
lands underiyving the
strength of a statement
an engineer that coal
has been removed
two years
Harwood It
took an detail of the
Moll
Michael
John
arrested
jamin Geller and ick, of
THE
wy
| MEUSELS FACE
ITH 10 0 LA
LOSER LE Ce
Vata inal Ae
Emil Meusel, Glant, and
fielders opposed each other for the thi
18 Bob's
‘Irish’
ly it might be stated that it
that
honors by au
chinmpionsiip fol
points
wos thie the
few
Game Hasn't Improved
“Baseball hnsn't fimproved
much to speak cof
an
flies
eighties,” opines
player “Sacrifice
plays and the like mt
preferred
he danced
by a Hazleton girl,
at a wedding
attacked
charge
when here
two
of 1
the
state police, headed a rescue party
up
}
Ot operators of the Clin
Franklin
authorities
vandals,
Franklin
came to
county for
against
io
the spigots on eighteen one hun
Nine tanks
the person who opened the
spigots ix being songht
Hollidaysburg. — Charles Bedkbeim
was awarded S$17.000 damages
the Pennsylvania railroad
Youngwtown, Ohlo,
er
a suit tried at for
the Altoona yard,
Lewistown. —A huck deer was
and killed a short distancee west
the Vineyard station near here
Altoona. Crushed under a concrete
bucket, which fell from a derrick, BEd
ward Tyler, aged 25, a laborer, work
Fa
the Pennsylvania rallroad
an hour later.
York.—Fines of £10 each imposed
upon five magazine solicitors by May
or Hughentugler on October 5
the basis of a civil
against the city by the International
Magazine company, of New York. It
is alleged by the company that the
fines were imposed and coliected IL
legally, although there is an érdinance
which requires solicitors to have II
censes to operate in this city.
Pittshurgh.— Robert jariand, n
member of the Pittsburgh city coun
ell, introduced an ordinance under
which permits to play golf on city
park courses would be issued only to
residents who within one year from
the date of the application pald taxes
to the state, county o: the city. Per
mits also would be granted children
of such taxpayers. Under existing
rules, non-residents can use the pub.
fie links,
Coburl.—Frank Wingert, a sawyer
in na mill near here, was instantly
killed when he tripped and fell in
front of a circular saw,
McAdoo Thirty acres of land
southwest of here, held by the Coxe
family since 1973, were sold to John
A. Bayless, of Hazleton, who will de.
velop a residential district,
Lowistown.~The first honor roll to
be posted this year gt the high school
contained 208 names,
Wilkes-Barre. An automohile stol
en from 1. H. Rankin, o* Hazleton, a
week ngo here, was found wrecked!
near Muncy, .
here,
When Vernon Schwab lost
leg in a hunting accident
ago. he didn’t let
him much. Young
athletic and played bas
ketball, being captain row of the grid
Iron team of Rtivers high at
Ohio. He's regularly
1921, and despite his artificial Jeg is
one of
the scholastic
his right
Oe
Fears
the accident bother
Schwab was
football
ilwass
and
Dayton,
played since
i considered the best backfield
i men among players.
Cashion Finished Poor
Second to Larry Lajoie
Many stories have heen told of Lar
| ry Lajoie’s batting
Here are that
Drow ess,
two gre worth re
American
of
for Washington in the
i league, related an interesting Story
a battle of wits between
| Lajole In which Cash finished a
second
“1 was pitching against Cleveland
in a tight game one day,” says Cashion,
“Washington was leading. 3 to 2, in
the ninth inning. Two Cleveland run-
ners were on the paths, two out, and
Lajole was up. 1 was determined to
walk him if I had to make four wild
pitches. Well, I shot one high and out-
side that I thought the catcher would
be lucky to spear, Know what that
Frenchman did? He just reached out
with that young tree he batted with
and knocked the ball out of the lot
and beat me out of the game”
White Sox Have Picked
Fast Man in Archdeacon
It takes more than a few weeks to
tell whether a new man in the big
leagues has the stuff, Dased on the
final averages, it seems that the White
Sox have picked up a good man In
Archdeacon, an outflelder,. hrought
irom the International, In twenty-two
games he hit 402, tying the average
of Harry Hellman. Ofthand one would
sny that Archdeacon, who Is said to
be the fastest man in baseball, can
hit, Bot let the pitchers look him
over for a while and discover what
weakness he may have. The chunces
are that he won't hit so well. He
won't have to bat up to that figure
to be worth while as a bull player,
¥
Bob Meusel, Yankee, two left
world's series, Incidental
i Inning of the final
won the fun
d consecutis
hit in the «
Emil
Sporting Sauibs
’
ol
Sixth Cavalry troops, Chattan
play Sunday polo,
» = @
Tennis port that has
{ become professionalized
is the only
He
SXIwris predic 1
he
But
paid
% against paid
yallers
not
ooth apparently
| does ohiect to cogiches,
Frisch is the
Natiog
the
Frankie fusiest
ner in the
Archdeacon
run
il league, Maurice
fleetest man in the
{ American
* » -
Babe
{ deville,
tuth, who has gone into vau
may he expected to do as well
‘ stage as tors would at
{ homerun swatting
» - »
fn the some ad
A new
ing imported from Cuba,
baseball bats is be
: but it is ex
will fing the supply
ivory unimpaired
* - -
wood for
pected the
of
winter
damestic
Miller
for the world,
the New
started to
Joe used to all
But
furnish
fork pe
York
make
wns before
commission cham
plans
- * -
Edward “Pop” Geers has just con-
cluded his fifty-fifth year as a horse.
| man in active competition
have Peter Manning, 56%,
{ ble in 1924,
* - *
i National league umpires say that if
! Tony Xaufmann didn't get peeved ev.
ery time he thought the umpire missed
{a strike he would be a 25 per cent
better pitcher
Danish Flyweight Boxer
Jogeph “Jimmy” Zebitz, fyweight
boxer of Denmark, is to make a trip
to America in 1924 to box the best
men in that class, The Danish boy,
snecording to Spike Webb, boxing conch
at the United States Naval academy,
is one of the best little boxers In Eu-
rope,
: > y ue - »
I Yankees Sign Mexican
. first Mexican
ever to play in the major leagues
will be Adolfo Arguijo—if the
genor lasts long encugh to play
in the mnjor He
been drafted Yankees
from the of the
Texas association and will report
lie fauil-blooded
lengues hins
by
Corsicana
the
club
nt the training camp next spring
for inspection by Miller Huggins,
According to Beout Bob Connery,
who discovered him, Adolfo Is a
right-handed pitcher of
six feet with burning speed and
a sharp-hreaking curve, He was
born in Mexico pure stock
and drifted into Texas to play
ball. The Yanks paid the regu-
lar draft price of $1,000 for the
pitcher
some
of
SOME TRADES LIKELY
BY MANAGER HUGGINS
Future Is Task
Imposed on All Pilots.
The
req ently
not
lineup,
statement that
Miller
that
in the Yankees
taken
he would
make any changes
should not he tO0
While ne
seri
main-
canger
talent, it
ously ne of the
stays of the team are in of
being replaced
ikely that
orthcoming
DY Dew SECTS
several changes
when
will be
next year the hell
rings
Building for the future is
~
tasks lmposed
ane o
on every baseball mans
in
ball clubs
#ny guaranty
Age annually
mialor
ger, and Huggins is too learned
wuys of championship to
regard past SUCCPSEs as
ex
anda
their impres
world's
immune
Hug
ind
* toll sone 3 rey
ROLE IAN 100 AlOng ira guers,
’
¢ Yankees, in spite «
CH *
anno
the call
series be regarded
from
of
ing greatness,
to strengther
the moment
produce 8
Huggins
for
expected to he as
alert winter
this
strength
ax he was during the off reason a
go. when his teamn seemed so bhadls
in need of shaking after
the sad
He traded
buat
he offered some
f
safe to
“uv
talk
id's «
trade now or any
! 19238 wor impions
the way of baseball, a game In
standing pat is akin to slipping
John MeGraw traded
brightest stars, George
1821 series and
Burns
after the
in that tri
Johnny Raw
1822 team
80 do not
swings a deal in
more of his 182% regu
its dangers
INIBIADAry
over the Yankees
Yet McGraw's
world's titie
if Huggins
voiving one or
Standing
won
pat has
Coach Charlie Moran
a
Coach Charlie Moran is given credit
for contributing largely to the popu
larity of Centre college. Back in 1915,
when the "Praying Colonels” started
the football climb that was eventually
te land them in the position of victors
over Harvard and make Bo McMillan
one of the army of Kentucky colonels,
the enrollment of the entire college
was 72
Then came the period of football
ascendency and the spreading of the
realization “Centre” meant something
besides a position on a football team.
This year there were 82 candidates on
hand for the football team, more than
the entire number in the college eight
years ago, Moran is a National league
umpire during the baseball season,
Spitball Hurling Fast
Fading in Big Leagues
The day of the spithall pitcher is fast
passing. In the American league Red
Faber and Stanley Coveleskle, two of
the stars, are beginning to show the
wenr and tear of the spithall, A sore
arm kept Coveleskie out of the game
for the last six weeks of the season
and ‘cost Cleveland second place
Faber war also ailing during the clos.
ing month, yet he came tarough with
a wellpitched game in ‘ne Chicago
series, beating the Cubs.
ONLY A MOVIE MAN
Two men fishing in the
For some they sant In
smoking their pipes and watching thelr
lines, Suddenly one of them
excited exclametion and
his rod into the river.
“Heavens!” he ejaculatéd
you see that fellow fall off that «
over there Into the river?”
“Don’t excited, Tom,” answered
his companion soothingly. “It may be
a movie actor doing one of his stup 8,
were river
tine slience
uttered
dropped
“Did
in
get
IF A GOOD PEN ARTIST
Farmer—There's my prize
you think he ought
ture at the
tO muKe 2
show?
Visitor-—-Well, if
Friend,
backed m3 ju nent” to the end
lLasck bid
A horse is
He's
repine
an's truest friend.”
never one of mine
Washington Means Lot.
i means 8
Wife J 0 5,
whole
Hush
Wife
WAYS
gvilable
Washington
ot in our
laundry
man culs
short on ti
Husband
“8” on the
married
And There You Are.
“Money isn't everything.” sighed
rich man,
“And 1 find you
noney,” growled ti
the
are nothing without
man.
Taking
Policeman-—- What
store?
Burglar—Can’t
you see
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
“Maria, there's »
in this
John,
arcely a single per
eft
. al
“Oh,
place.”
what can have hap
‘Nothin+, nothing, my dear:
rried about
only |
of 1]
hs all 140
Home-Biding.
does not
not Intended
take us far
we should roam
each night the evening star,
garden plots of home!
Selection,
Do you like music when you dine?”
No,” replied Miss Cayenne “If 1
something on the menu 1
have it: but san orchestra com
to take whatever it
Washington Star.
Twas
view
Fron
enjoy
me has op
Striker Out,
“Our second baseman would make
an excellent swimmer.
“Why so?”
“He strikes out so badly.”
Discussing a Friend.
Flora—Did you know Miss Oldsmith
wears false teeth?
Fruna--Well, they may be false te
others, but they're true to her.
Knocking Our Hooch,
Punch—We have just heard of an
American who drank a quantity of
prussic acid in mistake for bootleg
whisky. It was a merciful escape.
Cause for Doubt.
Clara-You may not believe it, but
I sald “No” to seven different men
daring the past summer,
Maude—What were they selling?
Same Old Thing.
Prominent Society Woman (to pop
lar lecturer)—Don't you get: tired
saying the same thing over and ov
again?
Lecturer—Yes; don't yout—Phils-
delphia Pablic Ledger,
A 0 AIA AOR AS AIS.
Time and Change.
“Why, what In the world has be.
come of your watch? The one yon
ged to have had a handsome gold
case.”
“I know It did, but circumstances
alter cases.”-Pbhiladeiphia Telagram.