PENNSYLVANI? |
STATE ITEMS
Greensburg.—Seneca G. Lewis, vice
president and general manager of the
Pennsylvania Rubber company, shot
and killed. himself at his home on
Jack's Hill, near here. The case was
reported to the coroner as a suicide.
Lewis, it was sald, left three letters,
addressed to relatives, but gave no
reason for taking his life. The fam-
fly physician said that Lewis, who
was well known in the rubber indus-
try throughout the country, had been
{it for time. He was 17 years
old.
Hazleton.
some
Women employes in the
ley railroad are to be dropped from
the service, an order issued by J. A.
Middleton, vice president of the road,
stated. Many of the women will be
transferred to other departments.
Men are better qualified for the traf-
fic department work. Mr, Middle-
ton's order sald.
Pittsburgh.—Four buildings the
Pittsburgh Fleld Club in O'Hara
township were destroyed by fire with
of $250,000. Three club em-
narrowly when
were trapped in building.
They jumped from on the
second floor.
State College.
lic school
have received the
nouncement of the
session to be held at
ginning July 5.
Pottsville.—Mrs.
Minersville, tripped
ed carpe
fell to the bottom.
to such an extent that she died in au
few hours.
Harrisburg.
highway patrol In
608 arrests. Fines
fenders totaled $6227, all of
was returnable to the state treasury.
Of the arrests, 220 were for operating
of
1088
fl
ploves escaped
the main
windows
Fifty thousand pub-
in
preliminary
annual
the
teachers
college
Davis, of
an
William
over
She was
Activity of the
March
assessed
state
resulted in
the
which
of-
without a drivers’ li-
84 f
ior
motor
motor vehicles
cense, while were improper
vehicles, There
driving
illuminate
on
for
to
Farmers
lighting
~-
were 11
for
Hershey.
Be
reckless and 25
failure rear
in this
who are specializing in potatoes
starting a series of experiments to
determine whether cocoa hulls can Le
used
thousands of
carded
profitably fertilizer. lecause
of hulls dis
of Her
officers
ultural
as
tons are
at the big plant the
of
Ex
r¢ seeking to util
shey Chocolate company,
the Dauphin County Agric
tension Association
lize
tural
servation have been treated
them in
oh
2000
section Plots now under
with
to 3000 pounds of the cocoa hulls and
half of each plot also has been
a (reatment
phate
the
Scranton
given
of 16 per cent acld phos
t
at the rate of 750 pounds to
acre.
Another
was committed
dynamite
at Pittsburgh
when an explosive was set off under
the home of Anthony Gilanti, The
fron: veranda was blown to
and the
ed,
out-
rage
pieces
entire badly damag
bu
i
her build
windows in
ings were
hurt
Harrisburg A
by the ( Presbytery,
Rev. Dr. Ethelbert
dent of Wilson moderat
or of the Preshyterian general assem
bly, which will at Grand Rap-
ids, Mich., was made public by George
Fulton, stated clerk Presby-
tery.
Drifton
smashed,
resolution adopted
arlisle indorsing
B. Warfield, presi.
f
11
College, for
meet
of the
Mrs. Eckley B. Cox,
cite Fields,” owing
charities, who was
months,
doors for the
Danville. —All have been
awarded for the installation of boule
vard lights on Mill street.
Wilkes-Barre.—To act in an ad.
visory capacity to members, the Cen-
to extensive
ill
be out-
gince fall,
her
seriously
was able
first time
contracts
some to
sociation has
methods,
mittee,
Exchange. Mildred,
daughter of louis Neiskl,
burns sustained when she
tub of scalding water,
Harrisburg. Heavy rain extinglizgh-
ed whatever remained of forest fires
in the northeastern part of the state.
Wilkes-Barre, — buried under a
rush of coal at the Jeanesville col
llery of the Iehigh Valley Coal com-
pany, Peter Gush, a 1:borer, was: res-
cued.
Shenandoah.—Just as they entered
a chamber in the West Shenandoah
mine, Adam Whitcavage and Paul
Shemansky, miners, were caught in
an explosion of gas and was badly
burned,
Pottsville ~The Pottsville Steam
Heat company contracted for the
erection of a concrete stack, 150 feet
high.
Tamaqua~—Run down by a trip of
mine cars at the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company's No. 10 colliery,
Joseph Loulscau, aged 56, a contract
miner, was Instantly killed,
Yoe.-—Albert 1. Clay, a merchant,
dled of heart trouble while waiting
on a customer,
York. --Charged with operating a
gambling place, George Latterman
was arrested on information made by
Court Detective Van Daman.
Hazleton. —While George Sipple
and Benjamin Miller and their fami.
ties were at a church sociable, thieves
#obbed their homes,
appointed a
machinery and power com-
died from
fell
Hazleton. Offer of $100 reward by
| eity council for the capture of the
“Jack, the Hugger,” who has attack-
ed scores of women at night In the
northern part of Hazleton, has not
frightened off the degenerate, who
continues his operations.
Scranton.—Gangs of men exploring
the flooded mines of the Glen Alden
company recovered the body of Simon
Jones, aged 55, in a shaft a consider-
able distance from the point where
he was working when the Lackawan-
pa river broke into the mines. Search
still is being made for Arthur Mor-
gan, aged 50, another miner drowned
with Jones in the flood.
State College~—Invitations to attend
the fourth annoual Fathers’ Day cele-
bration at the college on May 8 were
mailed to more than 3000 fathers of
students by President Thomas. A
student committee is already at work
preparing an entertainment program.
Suit to £10,-
| 000 damages has been filed against the
borough of Greensburg by Brady Md
Clure Williams and wife for the death
of their son, Jehu, aged 2 years, who
fell into an open in an alley
filled with water was drowned,
April 25, 1923,
Wilkes-Barre.—Charged with strik-
ing a mateh In a gaseous mine cham-
ber while at work, John Novishinskli,
| of Hanover township, employed at the
| Truesdale Colliery of the Glen Alden
| company, was fined $50 and sentenced
month. Later the prison term
was taken off providing the defendant
within thirty brings $25 into
| court for 1
distribution
Greensburg. recover
hole
and
i to one
days,
discretionary
Harrisburg.— Appointments Dr
{| Jessie Taft, of Flourtown, mem-
i ber of the board of trustees of Penn-
{ hurst School, and Edward W.
Warren, of Scranton, as a member of
{ the
of
48 8
State
to Investigate the
disabled
commission
of
veterans,
{ condition
world war
| by Governor Pinchot.
Allentown
28 years,
Pepnsylvania
were announced
P.
of this city, was
relton Peters, aged
struck
Reading
gs us he was walking on
bs
| a Philadelphia and
| train at Emau
{ the tracks
work. His
died as
Railway
on his way home
skull
he
Was or
| he was being
Hospital
John 3ierhs
the Allentown
Bethlehem
ladder at
dead from a
was pal
home
| his
They
a room,
attacked them
room
broke
with
rkness, but
wns in da
men, umbe
finally
a bullet in
iis
one of the officers, was stabbed
neck and is | a serious
The recover
Now Quick
of two police officers armed wit)
of
others wil
Castile action on
a pulmotor saved the life Walter
Brown, “(1 when hi
#
parently lifeless
YOeurs
from a
had
ened
thelr
small pu
tumbled while
youthful
homes
from
taken
condition is
tot the
was to
said to be quit
ed
tablet
Altoona
railway
itoona A hronze
or of employes o
logan
have
will he
f the
Electric
ved twenty years or
dedicated May 1
Jacob K
| victed slayer of Benlamin
i Bix ngo,
Valley
Set more
Connellsville Folitz, con
R. Younkni
sentenced to
months was
Penitentiary.
Pittsburgh
recovered
The body of a woman
from the Allegheny river
| here was identified by relatives
i that of Mrs. Margaret Sullivan
| disappeared five weeks ago. The rel-
| atives sald they believed she ended
| her life because of despondency over
health. Marks the throat led
| police to express the opinion that she
had been murdered.
Franklin—Peter Herring, 91 years
old, a resident here, shattered records
| for fishing license applications In
Venango county when he got one at
| the court house,
{ Pittsburgh. Alice Caims and Eva-
line Morgan witnessed a holdup near
their home In Cecil En route to
| work they saw a man who resembled
the robber and they followed him
more than a mile until they met a
policeman. The suspect, Fred Anta.
vitag, of Cecll, was arrested,
Scotch Valley.—~The Beaver Val.
ley Coal company hag finished a $12.-
000 boarding house, to shelter thirty
five men, in order that labor shortage
may be met. The colliery is about
eighteen miles from Hazleton, and it
is hard to keep skilled hands on the
job hecause of the lack of facilities
for housing miners,
Tremont.—Unable to work, Francis
Schrope, a miner, committed suicide
by shooting.
Harrisburg. Approval of the tak
ing over of the Locust Mountain Hos-
pital at Shenandoah as a state owned
institution was announced by Secre-
tary of Welfare Potter.
Easton. Sleepwalking proved fa.
tal for Joseph Pewark, aged 45, of
West Easton, He fell ont of a second
story window, was found on the
ground, and died at his home from a
fractured skull and internal Injuries,
Hazleton —8hareholders of the
Consolidated Telephone company of
Pennsylvania, with headquarters here,
approved its sale to the new Lehigh
| Telephone company.
as
She
on
Boston
The photograph shows the regular
they are expected
Bancroft, shortstop and manager.
th,
infield squad of the Boston Braves as
Left to right:
first base; Kelleher, third base; Dave
Policemen Control
Play on Golf Links
An innovation in golf will
introduced on the Cleveland
municipal links this season {if
plans of John J. Tyla, recreation
commissioner, materialize. Mr.
Tyla proposes to station traffic
policemen at points of conges-
tion,
Acting as judges, the
officers will whistles to
signal players to shoot after the
courses have been cleared, This,
it Is hoped, will remedy the
practice of playing through
without regard to the customary
signal to pass from players In
front.
be
patrol
blow
PIPPI r Pedro
Expect Fur to Fly When
Red Sox Tackle Browns
There will
mer when the Boston
the St. Louis Brow
Lee Fohl, former
Browns, will lead
No doubt
¢ lost this sum-
Red Sox meet
be no oy
ns,
manager
Red So
Fohl will
beating his
the
Leason
’
pleasure
club tha
out o
in any other aggregation in
efague,
The Red
the angle their
urally will go the limit
ever the Browns
Sox
of
players will soon get
manager and nat-
to triumph
Last whan Dave Dn
was put out of a game at Philadel
because Umpire Moriarity was
filed that he doctored the ball,
ger Fohl refused to
cause of Danforth
of
gCason
sutls-
Mana-
champion the
This
number to turn
in
Fohl,
With his reputation for ho
stake, Fohl, having
convictions,
with
course,
fault,
players
nesty at
refused to take sides
The
Fohl
up
Danforth inference,
is that believed him
Sox clash with the Browns.
Dawson at Princeton
Fred Dawson, for two years the
football coach at Nebraska university,
who, It is rumored, will go to Prince.
ton as successor to Bill Roper. Daw-
son has had great success since being
with Nebraska, his team beating the
crack Notre Dame eleven for two sue
cessive seasons, a record no other
team can boast of. Dawson Is a
Princeton grad and at present a mem-
ber of the advisory athletic committee.
Joe MeGinnity Retires
Although it was generally under-
stood that John McGraw had arranged
with Joe MeGinnity, who managed
and helped pitch the Dubuque team
of the Missiasippt Valley league to a
championship last year, to ald him In
developing the Giants’ pitching staff
for this year, the Iron Man decided
not to accept the offer made him by
the filants’ manager, MeGinnity, who
ts now a millwreight at Decatur, IL,
pays he l= through with the game,
after 31 years in professional base
fall,
Baseball
Notes
Tris Speaker has been in the major
leugues and ten first-class dia-
President Leopold of the Galveston
° » *
Bert H. Ellison has signed as man-
ager of the Enid (Okla.) club of the
- * ®
Roxey Middleton, an outfielder, has
league.
* - *
Niles
of
heen
South
has
the
Pitcher
by
|ylvester
Spartanburg
* » *
Jack :
Cincinna
Hendricks,
ti
ii
manager
has
Lou
leds, released
the semi-pro
Ray
University
Fischer, has 511 od
of Michigan,
poorest or
Fears,
wach at the
is confronted
with the yp of baseball
yaterial in
———————
has signed a contract
for Bloomington of the
year, to
short
play
Missis
* * *
left-handed
1918
the
Phillies.
Ear! Ha
Pittshurgh
member
wil "
milton,
for
and
St
with since
of
the
merly a
Browns,
{ree agent.
. ®
has joined
was a
»
he will
Witte,
race. The men
Ruth, Meuse],
Haines and Combs
* * >
Wakefield, a
who was a star athlete
university year,
St Louls Cardinals when he fractured
his left leg in practice
. - *
nant retain
are
Jack young
at
inst
was lost to
university football star and catcher
for the Houston club last season, has
been traded to the St
nals for Shortstop Johany Kane.
* » -
While the words “athlete” and
“football” have been accepted by the
French academy, the highest diction-
ary authority in the world, it has re
fused to admit the word “baseball”
* . -
Neal Brady has obtained hig release
the Birmingham club of the
Southern league and has signed to
pitch for the Ludlow team of the
Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio league.
* * -
A. H. "Red" Wingo, can hit them as
far as anybody in the business with
the exception of Babe Ruth, accord
ing to Dan Howley, manager of the
Toronto club, who sent the outfielder
to Detroit.
- * -
Edward “Tubby” Spencer, veteran
ecateher, has been signed by President
Jack Holland of the Oklahoma City
Indiane. Holland believes the rotund
one still has some good baseball In
his system.
Manager Shollenberger has finally
gigned a firet sacker for his Moline
Mississippl Valley league team. The
newcomer is George M. Henshaw, He
has played for the last three years
with industrial teams.
. » » ®
Wally Dash, who was to play with
Joplin in the Western association this
year, has been sent to the Orlando
club of the Florida State league In
part payment for Al Greene who Is
returning to the Joplin fold.
- - .
Another college man will jump right
out of school into professional base
pall. He Is William Houle, a three
jetter man from St. Thomas’ college,
St. Paul, who has signed with Terre
Huute of the Three.l league,
- . @
President Bob Allen of the Little
flock club, announces the purchase of
Third Baseman Bill McCarron from
the Brooklyn elub. McCarron has
been playing In the International
league and Brooklyn since 1017.
Pirates Hope to See
Cooper Back in Form
Wilbur Cooper, Pittsburgh,
was one of the biggest pitching
disappointments in the National
league last season. Counted
upon to keep the Pirates in the
running, Cooper falled come
pletely, He lost more games
than any other hurler in the
league, This year Pittshurgh
expects much better assistance
from its star of two campaigns
ago. Should he return to win-
ning form the Pirates’ fight for
top honors will be greatly en-
hanced.
NEW FIRST SACKERS
ALSO CAN HIT PILL
Majority of Stars Last Year
Well Over .300 Mark
In the olden days a first baseman
couldn't hold a place on a big league
team unless he knocked the ball over
the fence every so often, and, surely,
he must be a bona fide 300 hitter,
Cap Anson, Roger Connor, Dan
Brouthers, Al! McKinnon, Otto Shom-
berg, Dave Orr, Ted Larkin, Perry
Werden and Jack Doyle were the pop- |
ular type of first during the
were power i
on
suckers
All
ful batsmen, but rather slow the |
the base lines,
In 1887 every first baseman
league batted
is the only Instance in major |
league baseball all the guar |
dians of the initial sack registered the |
mark of 300 in batting.
Last season the first basemen work- |
ing In the circuit ruled over by Ban
Johnson came within one, or five |
points, of producing eight of the reg
first basemen who hit 800
or Sisler,
Sheeley, Mcinnis, Burns
under the at on
of Washington, was the
who and he
205,
National
the regular first
snckers
Daubert
the only regulars
ns. Rookle
Cardinals, was
but he
in the |
S00 or better
where
indi |
Pipp. |
and
300
collectively
ue
clip.
came wire
Judge,
one
of
the
of
as first
lace
lagged, Hac
In
three
ing . "
inst season
basemen
are supnoOse
and Grimes
Ke are
to live up to tra
diti« jottomiey, f the
well within
played
games,
Archdeacon Is Fast
I
qt Ei
Dn.
“Archy” Archdeacon of the White |
Sox. who came to the Chicago White |
Sox from the Rochester Internation- |
als and is to be used as a regular
with the Sox this season. Archdeacon
is regarded as the fastest man in base
ball and holds the record for circling
the bases. He had one of the highest
batting averages in the International
league last season. Several years ago
he was up before the Boston Braves
but was sent back for more training.
Sporting Sauibs
Lacrosse is supposed to have origi
nated from an old Indian game,
- * -
Tom Gibbons has engaged in 86 bat-
tles in his ten years of service in the
ring.
* * -
R. D. Sears won the United States
tennis title from 1881 to 1884, lo-
clusive.
* »
Ted Gross, Duluth, Minn, has been
elected captain of the 1925 Wisconsin
hockey team,
»
University of Illinois has made
physical education a major study.
Three women are taking the course.
. Ad -
Among the large field of horses be
ing groomed for the Kentucky derby,
May 17, no fewer than six are property
of women,
George Tumbull, formerly profes,
gional at the Midlothian Country club,
has accepted a contract with the Fir
crest club of Tacoma, Wash,
“ 4 0
Cross-country running bad its be
ginning in England and was intro
duced into the United States about
1805 by Alfred Bhrubb of the Dritish
Isles.
SHE'D TOLD HIM 50
The professor and his wife were
talking over the remarkable discoveries
in King Tutankhamen's tomb,
“Isn't it wongerful, my dear,” sald
the professor. “They've actually
found in the tomb couches and chairs
thirty centuries old and in good condi
tion.”
“Well,”
Ways
buy
al
to
“I've
run
wife,
long
his
in
replied
sald It pays
the best.”
he
CAUSZ FOR JOY
clon.
FAP BI
makes you look so pleased 7"
wns sold to a vegetarian!’
A Farmer's Experience
failed and times are hard,
it beat the dickens
helps a fellow
fiock of chickens?
If crops have
Now, don't
it
ec a
out
The way
i0 hav
No Particular Character
ancy-dress ball, who nas
by the
rs they represent—What char
announce people
annout people
yo particular character.
of his fe)
o character in | o-
top vie
arti
Hard Luck
La iy
wcrhi
Were you plensed
ol, little
Boy Naw!
and when |]
.
New boy?
They made me
went home
Know
‘cause he didn’t
Newest in Furniture
my
(oondness sot of
old
any more
In that ca
ake 3 a new set of
se,
Im
dining-
madam,
have to n
furniture.
ou
room
EVIDENTLY WORTH A LOT
“Always thought Jones didn’t think
uch: but 1 hear he's
fine piece of gre
he
fot ™
101.
worth n
syed
Maa
“In that case evidently ihinks
Any Times
times are good
they old or new;
time when Love says
oo
Howlly do?
Any
He
Any
“Good mornin
Not Improbable
Judge—This man says that after he
fired a shot, he saw you run from his
chicken coop.
Rastus Joknsing—He could easy be
mistaken, Jedge. Fast ez Ah was run-
nin’, it mought have been someone
else what faintly resembles me,
Does He “Short-Circuit”?
He—Here comes a friend
He's a human dynamo.
She-~Really?
He-—Yes, everything he
charged.
of mine
has on is
If You Please—
“1 gee by your catalogue that von
have just received two thousand pairs
of Indies’ court shoes from Vienna”
“Yer, madam.” i
* “1 wish to try them on!”
Getting Better
“How Is your wife getting on?
“She's Improving slowly. She isn't
well enough to attend to her house
hold duties yet, but yesterday she was
out shopping.”
HARD TIMES
Mouse~QGood gracious, cheese gets |
higher in price, and the bolos get
larger. ' 4
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