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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
Six residents of western Pennsyl-
vania pre-empted the name of the
American party, under which nomina-
tions for state treasurer, auditor gen-
eral, members of congress, state sen-
ator and members of the house of
of the pre-emption papers, which
were filled with the Dauphin county
prothonotary, Included George BE.
Briggs, E. V. Bowken, W. M.
Wood, Wilkinsburg.
When highwaymen appeared on the
road near Vanderbilt, five
of -a gypsy orchestra
and a taxicab driver, Bob Sickles,
were robbed of an amount sald to be
about $3500. It is understood shat the
had been deposited In their violins
by the dancers and friends, and
taxi driver was relleved of about $70,
collected during the day. When
the
were
many
ensued, In which
instruments
As a result
battle
musical
weapons,
eral
stringed
used as
ed, some beyond repair.
The Carbon County Motor Club and
the Carbon County Good Roads Asso-
ciation are advocating the use of the
ahandoned Lehigh Canal from Mauch
Chunk to Seigfried as the site of a
state highway. Very little engineer-
ing work would be required and the
New Jersey Zinc company has offer-
ed all the cinders needed to fill up the
channel of the canal, which has been
abandoned.
pecially between
Bowmanstown and
ous curves and dangerous precipices,
Tourists traverse It with
fear and many go miles out
way to avoid it,
Cosmo Hinch is lodged in the coun-
ty Jall, at New Castle, facing
charge of attempting to bribe an of-
ficer, as the result of his offer to give
County Detective Dunlap $700
water whisky seized in a raid
home, and the
content. Hinch was arrested by other
officers planted by Dunlap, as. he was
In the act of delivering the money.
With Mayor Yeakel, of Bethlehem,
and Mayor Hesberger, of Easton,
lending grand march, the ann
policemen’s ball was held, more
1200 attending. As a result the police
pension fund will
£2000.
The of 1364 children attend
ing eight schools in New Castle coun-
ty endangered by hazards,
according report Issued
committee of firemen representing
the volunteer fire association.
committee has only partially finished
its survey of the rural schadls in the
county. In all probability the schools
will ordered closed until
correct the present situation
been made. .
Dorsey
county.
the
to
on his
thus reduce alcoholic
the
be enriched by
Hives
are fire
0 a
by a
The
be
have
Eichelberger, aged 71,
-Altoona, retired by the Pennsylvania
raliroad after forty-six years’ continu-
service as a painter, was
dead sitting on a chalr at his home
Robert Talte, president of
of
ous
fled of his dismissal by counell on the
claim that he had gone ahead in en-
forcing clean-ups without consulting
other members. The Issue has raised
a big controversy.
While Samuel D, Mickel, 50
old, a Frankstown farmer, of near
Sitoona, was operating a corn-shred-
unknown cause and he suffered leg
lacerations. It Is believed a stick of
dynamite was placed among the fod-
tact with the knives.
Pennsylvania will have 251
vention of the Prohibition" party in
Columbus, Ohlo, June 5, it was
termined at a meeting of the
prohibition committee meeting In
Pittsburgh. More than fifty county
chalrmen and representatives of the
W. C. T. U. took part in the session,
at which a tentative state party piat-
forin also was dscussed.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
company was Instructed by Secretary
of Mines Walsh to remedy
dangerous” conditions in its Carbon
ly 4500 men. The action was taken
as the result of an inspection by three
department Inspectors, Secretary
Walsh's announcement sald. The
Nesquehoning, Greenwood and Lans-
ford mines were named in the report
of the Inspectors,
Elijah Manwliller, passenger con-
ductor on the Lebanon and Tremont
division of the Reading, has lost a
toe as the result of cutting a corn,
Samuel Sonnon, a section hand, suf-
fered Internal injuries, a fractured
leg and a crushed foot when run
down by a Reading yard engine at
Sheridan,
Jacob 1. Tracey, formerly a shoe
merchant at Dallastown, dropped
dead ar his York home from an attack
of heart disease,
William Ww, HuFey, of New Hope,
wins re-elected president of the Bucks
county firm bureau,
The appointment of Jacob Schwarts,
Philadelphia, as director of public In-
formation, was announced at the Gov.
ernor's office at Harrisburg,
Richard Jenkins, 68 years old, slip.
ped on the Ice at the Weston Mine,
Bhenandonh, and was instantly killed
when a trip of mine cars passed over
Sis hody
Robert TLelght, aged 19, pleaded
gullty In Judge Balley's court, Hunt-
lngdon, to killing his brother, Frank,
aged 31, near Alexandria, on Decem-
ber 80. The brothers, indulging in
moonshine whisky, quarreled, and
Frank knocked his brother down,
Robert procured a gun, went to
Frank's home and shot him through
the window, He died In a few hours,
The court sentenced him to serve
from seven to fourteen years in the
Western penitentiary,
The heaviest sentence yet pronounc-
ed by the Huntingdon county court
on any person charged with operating
has ap-
he was fined $300 and
given eighteen months in jail.
Ninety divorces were granted
Northumberland county last year.
A profit of $7391 was turned into
hh
fice last year,
Oema Anspach, 9-year-old daughter
from terrible burns which she suffer
flames of a bonfire. In her play she
Kenneth Pringle, aged 30, is in the
Lawrence county jall charged
New Castle, according to the police,
woman, whose name Is
Pringle, according to
the home while the
husband was at work. She left
front room to secure a plece of paper
on which to write her name for him
and he followed her to the back of the
house, where the crime was
ted.
ed a T-year-old daughter Into a
ner from where she withessed the at-
tack upon her mother,
the police, en-
the dynamiting of the hall of the Sons
Italy have recelved threatening
letters, ordering them to
from the case. The missives are
have black hands drawn on them
Struck by an automoblle driven by
Harry Mervin, of Mortonville, Harry
Smale, aged 9, died in the Coatesville
Hospital from a fractured skull. The
accident happened within one squan
f the boy's home in Westwood. Coro
Bunting is conducting an investi
gation.
“Pistol Pete”
fessed that he killed Patrolman D. J.
Conley, In Pittsburgh a year ago. ac
city detective bureau offi
clals. Taylor, arrested In Steuben-
ville, Ohle, was taken ty the a
way in whieh the officer's body
found and he
of the officer. Taylor, y
told them he shot the policeman
cause he thought Conley was
to arrest him. He was turned
to the coroner.
Dr. John J. Light, of Lebanon,
on Janvary 7 qualified
lebanon county, had Judge Henry is
sue a writ of mandamifs to
the county commissioners to
cording to
AY.
Wi
they
compel
fix
ditors for thelr approval, Dr.
claims the commisioners sitting
under the new
fix his compensation
declined to
pite the fact that he made repeated
80. The
do
that the new law does not provide for
the payment by the county of
deputies and clerks of such
whose salaries are” not fixed by the
ont being fixed by It,
The body of Harry L.
years old, who lately inherited
000, was found banging to a beam In
of health fumigated for hoof
and mouth disease a shipment of toys
department store,
When the Lehigh-Pennsylvania ex-
press, Pittsburgh bound, struck an an-
tp
head sticking through the
The dirctors of the Altoona cham-
ber of commerce elected Harry L.
Johinston president.
Joseph Wpychaunas, aged 13, of
West Hazletod, found on the Penne
sylvania rallroad with both legs off,
died at the State Hospital,
Eighteen automobiles, housed in the
postoffice garage In Warren, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss was esti-
mated at $30,000,
Charged with robbing the Sewlck-
ley postoffice, near Plitsburgh, three
negro, girls were arrested. A negro
boy Is being sought. The prisoners,
Alllen Ingram, 14; Dalsy Ingram, 18,
and Estella Tralnman, 12, the police
charge, secreted themselves in the
postoffice before It was closed for the
night. After rifling "s number of let-
ters and parcel post packages they
escaped through a window, the police
sald,
The Lewistown Automobile Trades
Association formed a permanent or-
ganization with wing T. Bowen
president,
Caught under a stream of boiling
water in a Johnstown slaughtel
house, Webster Clark, a watchman,
was scalded to death,
The owners of five Etna hotels and
snloons were ordered to remove bars
and other fixtures from thelr estab
lishments, otherwise they will be held
In contempt of court in Pittsburgh,
Lewistown council fixed the tax
rate at twelve mills, an f(ncrease of
ong mill
arf GTOGRAAIAS
3
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club, at Pinehurst, N. C,,
National League Ump
Is Good Golf Player
Ernest Claiborne Quigley Na-
tional league umpire, and diree-
tor of Mary's
college, Kansas, Is ardent
golfer. He is pretty
good player, as shown by his vie
tory in the tournament which
the Kansas conference coaches
and officials held at the Topeka
Country club recently. Quigley
won the event with a 70. He Is
well known as a football official,
having been one of the arbiters
in. the Harvard-Yale nt
Cambridge this year
at St
an
Hkewise a
¢ lilot lors
athletics
game
Murchison Is Winner
Loren Murchison, wearing the colors
won all three of
by the
the One
New
sprint races held
at the armory
Second engineers,
York city. He ran to his best
and beat a quintet of the best sprinters
of
MLLER
country is the Yale bowl, seating 82.
Basketball is getting so popular In
their boys James will be changing it
to Gym.
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A tennis player who recently ap
peared In a north of England tourna
ment played with racquet
hand.
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The first royal jockey to ride In
was the Comte d'Arteis, between 1770
and 1780,
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There is no standard seize for a
basketball court, but it must be be-
tween 60 and 94 feet long and 35 to
50 feet wide.
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Football, formerly eonsidered by
Germans as being too rough, has be
come one of the mest popular games
in that country.
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A scientist has gone to Haltl to
study ants, which closely resemble
fight promoters In that their strength
lies In their jaws.
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Joe Devine, scouting in California
for the Pittsburgh elub, hag signed a
young catcher named Dan Alley, who
halls from around Oakland.
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Nearly the entire population of the
state of Nevada could find seating ace
commodations in the new stadium of
the University of Califggnia.
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Boston probably has the strongest
newspaper mea's golf association in
the country. Its membership numbers
more than a hundred players, many
of whom a¢e capable of qualifying in
the majov ehamplonships,
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
and Can Go Another Year.
There was grace in his wal
his baseball life.
Even the fluppers adorning Peacock
alley gave him an extra glance. He
different from the other athletes
Twenty years of baseball, 20 years
in the the
Seuth.
As Ty draws closer his
what his well-knit frame
is perceptibly getting old
frame of this star from
face tells
hides
Lines are
‘ihe 20 years are
plainly mirrored
The Georgia Peach an
swers a question about the recent re
port that he would retire from active
competition next spring and manage
Detroit from the bench.
No! He play Just one mere
year. He finished strong In the race
last fall and feels timt he can go one
more year at top speed.
He has determined upon one thing
he wHl not drag out his career until
he Is but a shadow of his former great
ness and the fans jeer him for being
unable to run, to slide and to hit as
of old. He never wants to hear the
word “has-been” ringing in his ears
‘Without a kit of bhraggadocia, be «ays
he will quit wnile he 1s still gooq.
stops and
will
Giants’ First Baseman
Commenting on the umpires
their mistakes, which as usual
and
fea-
Boxer Must Not Kiss
His Opponent in Ring
The boxer's kiss has been
placed under the ban. "For gome
time it hag been the fashion fer
two fighters to exchange kigseg—
one on each cheek—at the con-
clusion of a ring battle, but the
French Boxing federation has
decided that for hygienic reasons
the practice must go and has is-
sued an official decree ordering
its abolition,
Originating In southern France,
the custom gradually spread to
all French rings until it threat
ened to become a mania even
among the professional fighters.
PETER MANNING NOW
TRAINED BY GEERS
“Grand Old Man” Will Try
for 1:56 1-2 or Better.
From Memphis eome the glad tidings
thut Peter Manning, 1:50%, the fast-
est trotting horse ever foaled, is win-
tering in fine fettle in the hands of his
prise the knowing ones next summer
by setting a new record for harness
sulky,
Geers is seventy-three years old, yet
the last ounce of effort that is in them
seems to be us effec
wher first
more than forty
writer In the New
Menroe
he came inte
years
York
himself a horse
peers and per
haps no superior, once said to the writ
er that In a lifetime of experience with
stage horses on the
horses on the Grand Clrcuit, he had
never seen more than half a
dozen men that he
drivers, and he mentioned Geers as one
of ¥Nem-——all the
prominence
4g0, #ays a
Herald.
Sallshury
plains and race
ahout
could call
rest were gtage driv
because of this singular
influence over horsts as
pid,
without whip or volce, make a trotter
do more for him than he would
Or
could do for any other driver when the
set that
finis}
silent from Tennessee
man
Peter Manning, now eight years old,
W. Murphy, “the wizard of the sulky,”
con
four
skill years
“Umpire Beb Hart
Kelly In a mixup on an attempted dou-
“With one out and Witt on first Du
ball and threw quickly to Frisch with
the idea of getting two men. Hart was
wo anxiens to get close to the play that
he collided with Kelly. The ball fell
out of Kelly's hands.
“From the press box it appeared ag
if & double play would have resulted
His
action was hardly excusable. Anvhow,
four umpires on one playing field does
not add to the game by any means. If
they must have four they should chase
two of them down the foul lines to
Judge balls driven to the pastures.”
Letters Are Given Girls
Ruth Smith, shown in the photo.
graph, with her sister, received letter
awards from the Women's Athletic As
sociation of Ohio, for their swimming
prowess, and at once raised a storm of
protest among the mule athletes of
Ohio State university, who claim that
girls should ‘not receive “letters”
formed the same as football insignias,
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Ed. Geers,
”
man,
horse under such conditions from such
after he had falled last season to equal
Great which would cap the climax of
the careers of both man and horse,
There was a time in October of 1022
when Peter Manning gave evidence of
being able to beat 1:56%, perhaps by
a second or more. But he was not so
fast a horse last year. Can a man who
is well past the hllotted age of three
score years and ten condition him and
train him and drive him so perfectly
that he will come back to his best
form of two years ago? The harness
racing world will wait eagerly to see.
Gigantic Gate Receipts
at Moscow Soccer Game
More than a trillion and a half
rubles were paid In admissions at
Moscow when the soccer team of that
city met the team from Petrograd in
the annual Intercity championship
match. The fans who paid the gigan-
tic gate receipts were well repaid, for
the mate was. sensational and
brought victory to the Moscow team
for the second time In 16 years. The
match always has been an outstanding
event In northern Russia, and this
year proved no exception. The admis.
sion was not in excess, proportionate
ly, with that of other years, but a
great gathering was on hand to wit.
ness the contest. Further light 1s
thrown on the sige of the amount
taken In at the gate when it is known
that a loaf of bread at that time cost
500,000 rubles,
es A
give
do
you
Elsle,
to
“Mamma,” sald Httle
wish I had some money
for the poor children”
Her mother, wishing to
the lesson of self-sacrifice, said:
well, dear; If you would like
without sugar for a week I'll give
the money instead, and then you
have some.”
The little one considered
for a moment and then
it be sugar, mamma?’
“Why, no, darling, not
What would you like to do without?”
“Soap, mamma,” was Elsie’s answer,
~Boston Transeript.
solemnly
sald: “Must
necessn rily.
Wasting Money.
Hl Snodgrass (wrought
Jim; here I goes an’ buys a st
i ticket for my son Tom to Sot
{| lea, he goes aboard,
under an’
Jim Peters—Aln't it terrible!
Hi Yep,
thrown right out o' the
the shi
he drowns,
Snodgrass
Ne Way Out for Him.
i Doctor—That's a bad
your head, Rastus. Wh
profit by this lesson and
bad company?
Rastus—Ah ah
ain't got no money to get er divorcee, —
Life.
razor cu
$ don't
keep
would, doctah, but
THE CRYING NEED
More be
1 top!
1
ables, ol pl
Heard on the Highway.
Almost Too Hard,
“So your daughter's married. 1 hear
vou found it very hard to
ber " .
“Hard! 1 shot
you and me, m)
it was impos
yee
I expect
part with
ian,
it's Come to This,
“What a perfectls
Mm, gear?’
it sweet” {on
for a birthday present,
habby for her to wear’
Big Time,
Mr. Jackson—What you all tote sech
i & big watch fo’?
Mr. Johnson I'se
| tant man an’ my time is vainable.
eR . fe A
Cause an impor-
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Her Only Hope.
“Miss Oldun clings to the
| marriages are made in heaven”
“Well, it must be comforting to her.
| She hasn't much chance down here™
STILL FAT
ir 2 0
NZ WA
idea that
“Has your sister's horseback riding
reduced her weight?
“Can't say it has. She's fallen off
a good deal, but is still fat”
According to Mistory.
"When Caesar crossed the Rubicon,
It looks to me.” writes Dennett,
“As though he kinda double-crossed
That bunch, the Roman senate”
Kid Working Ahead Too Fast
Visitor-~Have you started to teach
the little one to talk?
Father—Yes, we've started to teach
him to be silent.
Justice,
“ Composer--Ah, how pathetic.
those old gongs do haunt me!
Gert—Why shouldn't they? You've
dug up some old ones,
Reform,
Passenger—Your trains always used
to be late. Today I arrived ten mine
utes before departure time and find
my train gone.
Station Master-Ah! Since our new
manager took charge gve ure {rying to
make up for lost time.
How
Of Course,
Client—I want to find out if I have
grounds for. divorce,
Attorney--Are you married? |
Client—Of course I am. a
Attorney--You hav ’
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