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PENNSYLVANIA
| STATE ITES
Martinsburg.—While Harold Bossier
and family were attending a plenie a
thief entered thelr home and stole $5
from a child's bank, the family Bible,
clothing, food and dishes.
Pottsville —Children of Simon Gas-
per, a tallor, of this eity, who were
held up at Cherbourg, France, on ac-
count of the new immigration law,
have been released and are on their
way to America.
Lancaster.—When he fell from the
top of a flight of stairs In his home,
Isaac Brown sustained a fractured
skull and died instantly. Members
of the family he rd a crash and found
Brown lying at the bottom of the
stairs,
Sunbury.—Never having needed a
doctor in his life, James Kohl, aged 04,
8 veteran of the Civil War, was found
dead In bed In his home at Northum-
berland. He had no organic allment
and died of old age. He was a suc-
cessful farmer.
Pottstown. — Seized with cramps
while he was bathing, George, 17-year-
old son of Wilson Welser, of this
place, drowned in the Schuylkill canal,
near Frick's Locks. The body was re-
covered an hour later by friends who
dived and used grappling hooks. Weis-
er went down In six feet of water.
Meadville—Four men giving thelr
addresses as Cleveland each paid a
fine of #25 and costs for fishing with
resident Instead of non-resident 1i-
censes at Sugar Lake,
Hazleton.—Because of many auto-
mobile accidents recently the Lehigh
and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company has
put a large force of men at work on
the expensive task of fepeing all
their big mine caves and strippings
in this district.
Harrisburg. —The Danville-Northum-
berland state highway was opened by
direction of George C. Crawford, Sun-
bury, division engineer. This com-
pletes direct road from Harrisburg to
Wilkes-Barre and does away with
long and dangerous detouring.
Philadelphia.—Her son's embrace at
her departure was so foudly filal that
it fractured her ninth rib, Mrs, 8B. E.
Billman told physicians in the Hahne-
mann Hospital. She went to the hos
pital directly from Broad street sta-
tion upon her return from Detroit,
where the affectionate son resides. She
said she didn't know her rib was frac-
tured until she was within five min-
utes of the station. Then she felt a
twinge and decided to get some ad-
vice and treatment.
Altoona. —BEmma Watson, 15, of
Galt, Canada, visiting her sister, Mrs.
Sarah R. Pooler, of Greenwood, a su-
burb, was drowned while bathing in
the Raystown branch, near Cyphers,
Bedford county, where she had gone
on an automoblle outing.
Altoona.—An unique reunion was
held at the home of Mr. and Mra. D.
F. Smith, near Curryville, the guests
consisting of the hired girls and hired
men employed hy the Smiths at one
time or another during their 88 years
on the farm. Sixteen girls and 17
men have worked for the Smiths. Two
are dead. Only six of the others were
absent. Virtually all the married men
are living on farms in Morrisons Cove.
They loaded up thelr automobiles with
their families and baskets of food and
spent the day on the old place. Rev.
J. M. Miller, of Curryville, and L. B.
Stoudnour, of Roaring Springs, made
addresses, ty which Mr. and Mrs
Smith responded.
Danville—~Three boys named Fox,
Remig and Temple saved Frank Barn-
hart, aged 24, from drowning in an
fce pond here in a suicide attempt.
The boys saw the man wade Into the
pond and dmgged him out after he
had gone down the last time, apply-
ing artificial respiration until an am-
bulance arrived. Barnhart will re-
cover.
Pittsburgh. —City, county and feder-
al officers are searching for a young
man who, using a fictitious name,
spirited a girl amnesia victim from
a hospital. The man, giving the name
of Jacob Strauss, sald he was the
girl's brother-in-law. The girl, who
was found wandering In Highland
Park, was released on an order signed
by him and he took her away In an
automobile. Later it was learned
that the name and the address given
by the man were fictitious,
Harrisburg. —Members of the State
Geographic Board expressed thelr
preference for “Pa” or “Penna” as
the proper abbreviations for Pennsyl-
vania, frowning upon the use of
“Penn.” This decision was reached
after a lengthy discussion occasioned
by a letter from a Michigan resident
who wanted the board to designate a
fegal abbreviation, a matter beyond
its power. Whether a rift In the
mountains near Newville should be
“Doubling Gap” or “Dublin Gap” was
feft for the residents in that vicinity
to decide,
Hazleton.—While walking over the
mountain from Jeddo to Hazleton,
Anthony Balleteri was beaten anl
robbed of $30.
Pittsburgh Twenty-three persons
met death by drowning in Allegheny
county in July, while 21 were the vie
tims of automobile accidents.
Kulpmont, — Four-yearold Mary
Lancoske, who was burned when
playing with matches, died.
_Greensburg.—Burgess Yont has or-
derel the police to arrest all men lol-
tering on the streets after midnight
unable to tive a good account of them-
selves. i
Chester. — Residents of Falrview
road are considering a petition to the
Baltimore & Ohlo railroad for some
protection at the Woodlyn crog:ing
after another fatality there when An-
thony Zulitto, aged 26, races his tour
ing car a dead heat with r Washing-
ton express. He was hurled from his
automobile underneath the wheels of
the train and killed.
Hazleton. —Caught under a fall of
coal at the Shaft Colliery of the Le-
high Valley Joal Company, Adam
Manita was killed.
Altoona~—~Frank Moser, 04 years old,
well known East Altoona farmer, died
of a fractured skull sustained when he
fell from a hayrack.
Harrisburg.—Appolintment of Ideu
tenant Colonel Stephen Ellott, of
Wilkes-Barre, 88 a member of the
State Armory “oard was announced
at the governor's offize,
Altoona.~Mrs. Mary Walter, aged
28, of Ore Hill, was killed while draw-
ing water from a spigot In her home.
Lightning struck a tree rearby and
followed the water pipe into the
house,
Potts-llle—Mayor Bearstler remit-
ted the fine imposed on Rev. Willlam
E. Phelps, of Chester, for violating
traffic regulations when the minister
enclosed his fine with the statement
that he was $800 behind In providin-
for the Christian Home For Friend.
less Men, of which he is the founder.
“We must have a sot! In those nat
ters,” the mayor sald and the am unt
of the fine, £11.50, was returned.
Mt. Carmel.—Caught under a fall of
rock at the Mid-Valley Colliery, George
Menko, aged 56 years, was Instantly
killed. ;
Gettysburg. —Harvey Davenport, 18
years old, was killed when he was
dragged 200 yards under the feet of a
runaway mule,
Pottsville—Just as a son was bor
to Mr. and Mrs. William Parton, at
the Pottsvile Hospital, another son,
Samuel, aged 5 years, was buried
Altoona. —QGeorge W. Kochenour, a
brakeman of the Pennsylvania rall-
road, was Instantly killed when he fell
from the fender of a train under the
wreels of u locomotive,
*hiladeiphia.—Dominlek Stanzion!
lost the sight of his right eye when a
compailon accidentally jabbed a knife
Into it during a game of “mumbly
peg.” His companion, Joseph Wier
rlelk, 11, was placed In the House of
Detention.
Bradford.—George Kelly, a laborer
of this city, s»as shot and killed while
sitting with two companions in an an-
tomoblle which was parked in Davis
street. Anthony Gero, an alleged
bootlegger, also of this city, Is “w
held for the crime.
Greensburg. —Thrown out of the old
wagonshed In the rear of a Third
street “property In Jeannette, which
had been their home since thelr run
away marriage a year ago, Jacol
Craven, 75 years old, and his bride.
Betty, 84 years old, were taken to the
county home. The first night after
thelr eviction they spent In a private
garage. The couple eloped from the
sey or
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5 of last year, Craven installed his
bride In the shack, and the community
supported them. A job wir found for
Jacob. Finally, a constable set them
and their scanty furniture out In the
alley for non-payment of rent. It
was determined to return them to
the almshouse.
Lancaster—~Run over by ber own
automobile was the unuswal accident
to Mrs. Lydia Viebahn, of this city.
She is recovering from the effects of
the mishap In a local hospital. The
machine hit a number of obstructions
in a wild trip down a hill and them
bumped agalast a fence. Mrs. Vie.
bahn was tossed out and the machine
passed over her legs.
Hollldaysburg.—Jesse L. Peck, of
Wertz, has brought sult In the Blair
county courts against Joseph Shellen-
berger, of th: same place, for £10,000
damages, charging him with alienating
the affections of his wife. The Pecks
have been married 17 years and have
three children, The love triangle,
Peck alleges, began last December.
Altoona. Thirteen persons, three
of them women, all from Altoona In
three automobiles were arrested by a
squad of state police on tLe Buckhorn
road charged with transporting liquor.
The police shot holes in the tires of
the first car when it sped away after
being ordered to stop. Three gallons
of whisky and one of wine were con.
fiscated,
Harrisbur, — Licenses Issued for
Pennsylvania dogs .n the first six
months of this year totalel 422.040,
compared with 405,804 for the entire
year of 1028, officials In the depart.
ment of agriculture announced, Money
received from the licenses Is used for
payment of claims to persons whose
cattle are killed as the result of tuber.
culin tests.
Allentown.—Mrs. Kate Eline, of
Bally, a nonagenarian, who spent sev.
eral days vieiting the family of John
McCafferty, left for home happy In
the satisfaction of having seen for the
first time In her life a circus parade
and performance. She came here ex
pressly for ‘he purpose anl marveled
at the wonders of the pageant and
acts, j
Conyngham. After finishing load-
ing his hay crop, Glidbert Peter fell
off the top of the last load and broke
a shoulder blade.
Shenandoah. —~Golng to the porch of
her home, Mrs. Margaret Brennan
fell dead from heart disease,
Hanover, ~ Wilson Miller, 30 years
old, a former servica man, ended his
life with poison at the home of Jacob
H. Wentz, with whom he roomed.
Hollidaysburg.—Falling down the
cellar stals at her husband's farm in
neck
Robert Le Gendre, former George.
town university star and now wearing
the colors of the Newark (N. J.) A.
C., sets a new world's ‘record of 25
feet 6 inches [un the broad-jump event
of the pentathlon at the Olympic
games In Colombes stadium. Bob
spent most of his energy in the broad
jump and fell behind In the other four
events, scoring third for the whole
pentathlon. The photograph shows
Le Gendre throwing the javelin
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Miss Ruppert Is Fast
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Diamond Notes
The St. Louls Nationals top
league in double plays,
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thelr
In the early
team which
the game.
days of baseball the
first scored 21 runs won
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Earl Smith, catcher for the Boston
Nationals, has been purchased by the
Pittsburgh club,
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we: hn league because at-
tendance at its games,
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of poor
Hal Chase, onee a star of the Chi
cago White Box, Is playing first base
for a ball team In Jerome, Ariz.
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leaguer, Is now managing the
team in the East Texas league.
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Bobby La Motte, former Griffman,
is starring at shortstop for Memphis
He Is being called the “best shorts.op
in the circuit”
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drawing well
4 in the morning only 3.500
the gnme with Reading and
the afternoon,
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Herbert Thomas, center fielder
the Daytona Baseball club of the Flor.
ida State league
Baltimore is not
On July
80
of
Frances Ruppert, Philadelphia miss |
and captain of the Meadowbrook re-|
lay team, holds the National
plonship In the 30, 40 and 100-yard |
cham- |
one second behind the championship |
time established by Lorem Murchison
of the Newark, A. C
[port Notes
Man-o'-War Is seven years old.
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England has 380 tennis courts In
public parks.
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President Calvin Coolidge Ig a mem
ber of the Corinthian Yacht club of
New England,
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Sixteen per cent of the proceeds of
bookmakers of horse races in Germany
goes to the government,
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It's funny how Suzanne Lenglen
gets sick every time she approaches
a strenuous tennis match.
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Miss Mary K. Browne, former na-
tional singles champion, will be seen
in eastern tennis tournament and titu-
lar play again this season.
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Boxing is prohibited in Vienna. Po
lice In the Austrian capital declare
that fighting Is an immoral show and
corrupts the choracter of youth.
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The redbirds and bluebirds of Ber
muda are so thick that it is necessary
for those playing golf to shoo the
birds off the green before putting.
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There must be some compensations
for living in Russia. They say one
hardly ever sees $100 golf outfits with
balloon breeches and tassels on the
socks,
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Helen Newington Wills, the Amer.
jean tennis champion, will be nineteen
years old October 6. She weighs 136
pounds and measures § feet 74 inches.
Miss Wills uses a 18%-ounce racquet.
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The Canadian amateur golf cham
plonship has never been captured by
an outsider, although several players
from the United States have been en-
trunts yearly for many years past,
This is the jubliee year of polo In
England, for the first match at Hurl
ingham was played In” 1874. The
game, at first quaintly described as
“hockey on horseback,” was intro
duced in the British isles by a retired
Anglo-Indian officer. .
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The Drake university football squad
of Des Moines will travel 6,000 miles
and touch 14 states next season In
its schedule. They will: open
with University of Utah at Salt Lake
City October 4 and close with Florida
i ky
at Gaipesville, Fla., November 27.
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Gene Hobertson, the young Brownle
third sacker, has modeled his batting
style on that of Sisler
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of the baseball championship In 1864
went through the two sea-
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Joe Oeschger, recently released by
the Glants to the Louisville American
association club, which he refused to
Join, has signed a Philly contract.
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The uniform Babe Ruth has heen
wearing in a National Guard member.
ship drive would have made a more
profound impression seven years ago.
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Pitcher Edward B. Ryan has been
obtained by Vernon from Texarkana
of the East Texas league in exchange
for Plichers Keck and R. Brumfield
and a cash consideration.
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Ted Blankenship, Chicago White Sox
pitcher, has been Indefinitely sus
pended hecause of alleged differences
with Manager Evers. The hurler has
gofie to his home In Oklahoma.
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In 1023 no fewer than 68,000.000 per-
sons attended football games, 20,000,
000, baseball games; over 5,000,000,
boxing matches, and 18,000,000, track
and field meets, In the United States.
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Owner Borchert of Milwaukee, de
ples that Ted Jourdan, first baseman,
loaned the Brewers early in the sea-
son by Minneapolis, is to be recalled
Borchert ‘says Kelley told him he
could keep the player throughout the
season.
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Wade Killefer, manager of the Se.
attle team, Is after the services of
George Oeschger, former St. Mary's
hurler, and a brother of Joe Oeschger.
George at pregent Is chucking for the
Anaconda team of the Copper league,
He had a trial with the Pirates a year
ago.
Little Mike McNally
Once Batted for Ruth
Ball players often cling to a
simple Incident as the high
Mike Me
A RAR A a a a A AR A A a A ee i a A i
Old Cy Young Holds
Major League Record
Denton T (Cy) Young holds
the major league record for con.
secutive shutout Innings. He
pitched 45 Innings In a row In
which opposing teams did not
make a run,
There is another record that
should be bracketed with this
one, It concerns a left-handed
pitcher named Walter Leverenz,
who worked for the Bt. Louis
Americans several years ago,
Leverenz pltclied 55 consecu-
tive innings In which his team
did not score a run for him. In
other words, Leverenz was shut
out six games In a row, And
the peculiar part of it was that
Leverenz pitched good ball in
these games: his team simply
could not hit opposing pitching
well enough to score one run,
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HURLING IN BUSHES
Veteran Has Turned ir
This seems to
the ordinary
pitchers,
Grover Cleveland Alexander, who Is
getting along In yeas, pitching
about the best ball of his career for
the Chicago Cubs, while Walter Jolin
son is winning frequently for Wash
ington. Recently at College Point, L
L, little Jack Warhop, who pass:
out of the big league nine years ago
shut out the South Philadelphia Ie
brew team with three scattered hits.
Perhaps Johnson, Alexander and
Warhop have discovered the fountain
of youth, Warhop Is nearing his fort
eth milestone, but the followers
the College Point team are firm
be an
for
genson out of
veteran baseball
is
ir
ir
winning ball in either the Na
“There are worse ths
sald
iz pitch
pitchers In
Warhop,”
“Jack
than
fan.
to him
bats of the
the ball
Philadelphia
watch
the
{oss
“Perhaps he has lost
he's a smart
some of his
little
and
“Hell not throw
Yaunce,
the ball
there's
as fast as
plenty
and the opposing
thelr own troubles try
his baffling underbanc
of
players have
ing to solve
Warhop has been pitching for a
while. He first went up to the
leagues with the Detroit lub in
10437.
Hollis Thurston Stars
Wonders will never cease in base
ball! This time last year Pitcher Hol
iis Thurston of the Chicago White
Sox was regarded as just “so-so.” To
day he is one of the most effective
hurlers in the American league, rank
ing right up with the great Walter
Johnson, Thurston came to the White
Sox via the waiver route from the St
Louis Browns,
Begley Is Initiated
to Red's Joke Club
The Cincinnati Reds are still chuck.
ling over an incident Sammy Bohne
was responsible for during the recent
series in Philadelphia. “Imp” Begley,
the little fellow who held down short
for the team while most of the reg
ularg were on the hospital list, came
near geting on by a No. 18 boot as
the result of It.
Bohne left a card In Begley's box
bearing the name of Mr. B. Normus,
supposedly a California friend. “Imp”
fikes to meet anybody who comes
from that picvince and Immediately
showed the ecard to Bohne. Sammy,
finding the joke was going over big,
pointed out a huge, dignified, but sour.
faced man who was sitting in the far
corner of the corridor.
“That's the man that asked for you
over there,” chirped Bohne.
Begley hastened over to the portly
individual and with his face abeam
: YAre you Mr. E. Normus?"
The big fellow, thoroughly angered,
raised himself laboriously from his
comfortable’ chair and with a growl,
swung a right which just missed
“Imp. It was some time before Bep-
ley could see the joke.
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HOW CHOPIN SOUNDED
A countryman and his wife, in Lon
don for the day, went to a music hall
The first item on the program was an
orchestral selection, on this occasion
8 classical one. The man suffered
gamely for a time, and then turned to
his wife, who held the program,
“Maggie,” he whispered, “what ba
this ‘ere thing them feliers are play-
in'?"
“It's Chopin,” she whispered back,
reproachfully.
“Ah, well,” he muttered, resignedly,
“it sounds more like sawin’ to me.”
“Reminiscences”
Two old soldiers were sitting In
front of the soldiers’ home, Suddenly
one of them asked: “Say, Bill, can
first girl you ever
kissed ¥”
The second one scratched his head
and then returned :
“Shucks, no. I can't even remember
the last one”
Cuss-tomer Ownership
The Colmel's Lady—Good heavens,
realize that you have
left the gas burning In the kitchen
every night this week?
Miss O'Grady know it, ma'am. J
pay some more dividends.
NO CAUSE AT ALL
Friend—A man has just gotten
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for a year.
Meekton—Great Heavens, that's no
for divorce!
A General Attitude
My patriot geal is not relaxed,
But you can plainly see
There are so many to be taxed,
Why should you pick on me?
Ingredients
A playwright accomplished In his
line was asked the recipe for writing
& melodrama.
After thinking it over he sald: "It
isn’t so complicated. You get a hero,
g shero and a Nero. Then go ahead™
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Cars for Everybody
Mrs. Crawford—We're getting up
a club to study auto-suggestion. You
must join,
Mrs. Crabshaw — Auto-suggestion?
If it's a new scheme to get your hus-
band to buy a car, you car count me
in. .
The Right Church, Wrong Pew
Customer-—See here, those eggs you
sold me aren't fit to eat.
Market Man-—Of course not. Why
didn’t you tell me you wanted eating
eges? 1 thought you wanted eggs to
lend to the neighbors.
ONLY FOR CERTAIN BREE
Friend (at dinner)—How can you
tell old chickens {rom young ones?
Up-to-date Youth--8Say, can't you
see through a little powder and paint?
If Married
A lengthy lecture,
His Reason for Sadness
Downtown—Why so glum, old man?
The doctor's ordered my
wife South for her health,
“You have my sympathy. Costs a