THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Lancester. — Thieves smashed a large plate glass window in the jew- eiry store of John <, Bai® on North Prince street, and stole articles worth geverul hundred dollars. an train for Philadelphia, James Hy- man, 65 years old, fell dead im the I'ennsylvania railroad station. Elysburg. — Daniel Kershner, 058 years old, a prominent farmer, wus found dead sitting in a chair ag his home. Pittsburgh. -— Six Pittsburgh nen were acquitted in federal court upon charges of conspiracy in connection with the alleged fraudulent with- drawal of 1444 cases of whisky from the Glenmore distillery of Owens- burg, Ky. in 1921. The verdict was directed by Judge Robert M. Gibson when government witnesses failed to identify any of the defendants as hav- ing been present when the whisky was removed from a freight car here. The defendants acquitted were Morrison, David Labowitz. Harry J. Alpern, Ruben Kanarek, A. B. Sam- uels and Sol Ostrow. York.—Two hundred and fifty trees to replace those which have died on the Memorial Way from Wrightsville to Abbottstown, extending along the Lincoln Highway throughout York county, have been planted this spring by the World War and Memorial Tri- buie Assochation of York county. Norristown.—After confessing that he had five times set fire to the Nor- ristown High School. George Sam- uels, a 15-year-old negro student in the school, was committed to the house trial in juvenile court on charges of arson. When the hoy was asked why he persisted in setting fire to the gchool he only shrugged his shoulders amd ;rinned Towanda.-—~Newton H. Drake, . of Lake Wesauking, near here, received fatal injuries when he was gored by a 4-year-cid ball in the barn yard of the farm where he was born and spent Lig entire life. Ile wag 06 years old. Drake went to water the bull and was preparing to take it from the stable when It rammed its horns through him, plercing his heart: A few moments inter he was found dead by a farm hand. Allentown.— Frederick Becker, 30, of Palmerton, reached Allentown af- ter traveling 600 miles with a broken back, and is now under treatment at the Sacred Heart Hospital. Becker, an employe of the New Jersey, Zine Company, was in an automobile ac- cident at Canton. O., and it was found that hig back was broken. Becker ex- pressed a wish to come nearer home, ro a special litter was fitted up for him on a train. Erie.—~Two men were instantly kill. rd and scores were injured, nine of them seriously, when a speeding sec- tion train on the Erie rallroad leap- ¢J the tracks near J. O. tower, be- tween Concord and Union City. Two speeding section trains following the first one crashed into the derailed car, hurling occupants of the three trains over a space of 200 feet. Arthur Bur- ton, 17, of Unlon City, was one of the dead. Pottsvile.-—As the result of a cru. sade by state agents 3000 additional dog licenses have been issued at the court house here, mhaking a total for the county of 15,000}in a week. Dog owners who falied to get licenses paid £2000 in fines, West Chester — William Magaw, =a farmer in East Nottingham township, was seriously injured when caught in the path of a dynamite explosion while blowing a stump in his meadow. He had lighted a fuse. but the dyna- mite failed to explode for a time and he anproached the stamp to investi- gate. Both eyes were badly Injured and Le was taken to a hospital! at Port Deposit, where one eye was removed, The other may be saved, although phy. siclans say the sight will be impaired. Tamaqua. — Edward Marphy. 53 years old, an engineer on the Pennsyl- vania railroad, died In the Coaldale Hospital after losing both legs when he fell under a freight car near here, Wilkes Barre.—Fofir-year-old Helen Chalupa was burned to death, her mother was badly burned, and two brothers were saved when fire destroy- ed their home, with a logs estimated at $1000. Two adjoining struetures were damaged. The mother, accord ing to reports, had gcne to a neigh borhood store and had locked the youngsters in the home shortly before fire was discovered. Neighbors broke down a door and carried one of the youngsters from the burning strue- ture just as Mrs. Chalopa returned, Rushing into the bullding she darted to the street with her youngest child, a boy 9 months old. Although her face and body were burned ghe start. ed again into the building, but was re- strained by firemen. Stroudsburg.—The body of Ernest Transue, 28, was found in Brodhead's Creek. Pittsburgh.—The name of Honry Clay Frick will be given to the teach- ers’ training institution to be erect. ed here. Northumberland.—The 1Mrat Pres. byterian church was bequeathed 86000 by the will of L. D, Apsley, of Hud pon, N. Y. Bloomsburg. -- Charles Tanner, n ronductor of the North Branch I'rans. it Company, has been missing a week, when he withdrew $1680 savings from « bank. w Juniata, — Professor Charles 8. Kniss, supervising principal of the Summerhill township High School, has been elected superintendent of Washington, With 100 stitches ne- cessary to close cute inflicted by her husband, Mrs, Arthur Williams ig ex- Mor- silos Norristown. Gouldsborough Laurel, Del, a traveling man, wus cut by glass trying to walk through a show window at the store Girard while Eves, disease Harry heart Shenandoah, died from Erie. boys Dispelling any hope that three from the Elmwood Home still might be adrift on Lake Erie on a raft, the body of Russell Haughton, 10. of Meadville, was washed ashore at the mouth of Walnut Creek, eigh- teen miles from where the storm swept the boys out into the lake, Pittsburgh.— That there will a downward revision In federal taxes as one of the fruits of the next session of congress is the opinion of Senator Reed. He stated that there probably would be a surplus of about $100.000,- 000 in the federal treasury for the current fiscal year, and that next year's surplus may cxceed $300,000,000, Harrisburg.—Dr. Francis I. Haas was named superintendent of public instruction by Governor Pinchot succeed the late Dr. George J. he intendent in the State Educational De partment. In announcing the appoint. ment, Governor Pinchot said he nam ed Dr. Haas to the position because he believed him capable of doing more for the school children of this state than an other man in educational work Chester.—An ordinance providing for a £300 fine and imprisonment of 90 days for violation of the prohibl tion laws hag beer adopted by city counell., The pew ordinance is intend ed to be an effective measure toward wiping out the bootlegger, Media. — Thomas W. Allison sheriff of Delaware county, died In the Tay- plication of diseases, He was one of the best known citizens of the coun ty and is survived by his wife, a daugh- ter, Muriel, and a brother, T. Allison, of Moylan. Harrisburg The came into possession of report made by William of Philadelphia, the 1812. of Washington. a descendant, now in the State Museum. made in 1814 to General who was in charge of the Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. Mrs, Ada Fores, of Lan. caster, was elected president of Pennsiyvania Federation of Business and Professional Women's (dubs at thelr convention here. Other and It def fine ery, Chester, vice president: secrfary ; delphia. corresponding secretary ; Jean Peoples. Chester, treasurer Dr. Bertha Maxwell, Huntingdon, na- tional vice president. Easton. —When Jeremiah Barley, Tatamy to investigate a strange light he knocked him down, rendering him un. from his pocket and escaped darkness, A few moments in later house was on fire. The burgiars evi of the house and dropped a match in n pile of old clothing, which caused the fire. They obtained valuables and the fire was extinguish. had been done. German war materials alloted to Penn. sylvania was announced by Adjutant ienera! Beary, chairman of the cowm- mittee to make the allotments. Gov- ernor Pinchot asked that priority be given claims fromm municipalities and townships. The commitiee, which will bold a meeting for fina! distribu tion June 10, said applications must be certified as official action of city or borough councils or county commis. sioners and must agree to pay all ex. penses of packing and shipmnent. Pottstown.-—A search of two years for George Coxe, of this place, ended when Magistrate March Jearned that he had died In Norristown ang that his body had been turned over to the State Anatomical Board for dissect- ing. He was thought to bave heen penniless, but instead he had an ac count of $1400 in a local bank when he left here two years ago io visit his sister in Jersey City. In Phliadelphia he became IH and wag sent to a hos pital. Unable to reveal his identity he was removed to the State Hospital at Norristown, where he died on May 6. His identity was learned at the hospital at Norristown, but no rela- tives could be found. Lancaster. Sixteen nurses received their diplomas at St. Joseph's Hos- pital. MifMlinville Mrs. Daniel CC. Bond, aged 80, died of a broken hip at the home of her daughter. York -—Paunl Sease, negro. 34, iz held here for having shot to death his friend, David Hunter. Altoona. Falling 20 feet from a scaffold in the Pennsylvania rallrend shops, Joseph A. Smeizer, a laborer, suffered a broken neck, Potteville.—~Troop CC, state police, which bad its home here for 16 years, moved to Rending. without le=ving even a substation, Lugerne.Imiprisone’ in a cof of the ‘horongh police station op ed™ plaint of his wife, Charlee S'nkiow) made a nonse of Lis belt and hanged Biman f * Ro Sel Dy « Ving ; UE i 4 ada 3 LS an p 1 * oe Vi Hing s Ad 37 PT Parl 1 World's rum-runner largest locomotive, captured after chase off NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS ference by the Various Federal Commissions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD USINESS is growing very tired B what it considers unnecessary terference hy and in Chamber of States, in Washington, it gave to that feeling. “Government vate citizen and his business af his inx of governmental of United convention the annual Commerce of the voice Inquisition of the pri from the income to merable Investigations hy constituted unpopular,” declared the Richard F Rhee commissions is hecomi: president the organization, (irant, Cleveland, In the opinion of Robert W ham of Louisville, leader In the coop the dems is dang y the any further leg isiation for the relief of agricuiturists ding erative log isiation gogue politics marketing movement, proposed by "cl ns" and he said would be superfluous, A. C. Dodson of Bethlehem, conl operator, i that In with federal and conl production sten which has to the consumer He expressed snide nine years sinte of hie no value supervision could “recall ultimately of employee or operator.” the fear that unless natural conditions bring about some cure for the present plizht of “artificial by heen coal ind he applied and then no one and wil serious the usr stimulants will legislative action, nnd thrown to the That the administration sympa & of the business escape ane all be tama : Ons, the view to nn considerable extent was In. of when Republican member commission Humphrey, a the federal trade riles made with the approval of Pres ident Coolidge. He sald these changes make the less obnoxious and that the opposition came only from those sought to use the commission for po purposes He the would no longer be activities to fo who of the commission declared body used ganda, In line with this attitude of the gov. ernment was the decision lngt week of the special federal court of equity in Harves fer company This court, sitting in 8t. Panl, Minn.. decided that decision divesting the company three of its manufacturing lines proved effective in removing any trace of monopoly. Therefore, the court de. nied the petition for supplemental pro. visiong to the original decree, petition eontended the International Harvester company Is still a combina- nf the Sherman anti-trust act. Bat the special court held that dence not only failed to support charge that since the reorganization decree the company has heen “unduly or unreasonably monopolizing Inter. state commerce, but conclusively proves It has not done and ig not do- ing 80." Senators Borah of Idaho and Norris of Nebrarka gave out statements fa voring the abolition of the federal trade commission on the ground that It hag eome under the influence of fac. tional polities and ontside political pressure and no longer serves the pur: pose for which 't was created, Senator Fees of Ohln, addressing the Internfitional Association of Gar ment Manufactorers in Chicago. sald what the country needed was fewer new laws and na cloger study of eco nomics and economic laws, “We are now nearly a government hy commis. gions” sald Mr. Fess, “nnd this bureaucratic movement of the Inst 25 venrs [s the product of the demand for increased legislation” J NATHAN M. DAVIR, former gov ernor of Kansans, [8 not guilty of conapirpey to sollelt bribes In payment for pardons, according to the verdiet of the Jury that heard the ense nanins! Wim in Topeka, The Judge's charge ® for the 8.~ mnde the Atlantic const L | to the jury was considered favorable the defendant and Davis nc quitted on the fourth ballot Another against Davis and his on, Russell, Is still pending. charge against Car! J. Peterson, examiner under Davis and | Jomtly with him In the ended, will be dismissed ft LO Was i criminal action case Just ot some time a senatorial commit. kK Couzens of Michigan { chairman has been investigating con | ditions in the internal reference to enforce prohibition laws, and it that several members of the tee with with especial ment of the | appears work has been them went so far as to prohibition enforcement that it effective in correspond the on, declare way this Raine of that farce when and wns comparatively { wns un ' made one region the conditions grew ingls Senntor Watson of { committee that the President Cool to worse In other regions, Indiana told the administration idge enforce prohibition the limit He continned: “For first time since the dry law was | acted the people are going to find out it to have the law en fo limit and the Then, If {| from down, was { determined en i what i fore € ad | actunily means the they dary are {the law modified “Tremendous efforts are going to be effective. The rum runners along the Atlantic seaboard is just the be ning and before the administration through every agency at the command of the will be enlisted In the drive” Administration leaders thoug! President enforced to the limit, nll the bureaus cohcerned within appropriations CONETess Secretary Mellon of the { made to make the law drive against is government ®ay that the drs inaists the wishes nw he must keep by no his the voted BAYS will enahle const guard to Atiantie roast running husiness of the “rum there have taken thelr liquor cargoes to Halifax There iat week. nine years, gale of ale expenditure to huge money needed put the ring out vessels from rum Manj row" of were fwo developments Ontario province, dry for returnees] to the restricted wet EE » to boarding at Ma- oust war gunrd patrol dead unvelled Nat fonal- on | cles Schiele and the other | ists want i constitutional permanent commitiee revision, The former nlso repeal the aw “for the republic” under against Welmar | arrested and tried Forelgn Minister Siresemann told the { relehstag Pres! | dent faithful. out the Dawes plan; that not join the League of the more serious difficul nnd the ists object geek offenders are which the constitution and the world Hiadenburg fo carry von intend iy | Germany will Nations until th tiles with the allies nre settled or gn tii the Cologne heen evacuated that Germany France has designs on the and that the security pact proposed by Berlin | western hridgehend has wus primarily to secure the German frontiers; that Ger. of eternally many cans and will not ns { frontier of | considers hinding the ps ontiined the Versailles: that cannot and the nr he af the univers { problem fair and believes of the question is disaring in aitack In its nelgh teeth ment in much | danger of an state than are to the Germany greater its helpless ors, who yarmed IS finally T ton gdmitted by W; informal suggestion to our debtor nations OY tint 18 have that we definite steps tow nding of the debts. Their atten i the fact is In | heen made they take i the fu tion question alren i= ecniled to ds ties 10 an andegirable degree the situation will be thing not done | meets In December that American worse if in hefore congress directorate, his colleagues must feel satisfied t i military the danger of labor revolts has passed and restored, for King Alfonso has signed fi decree abolishing out the that normal! conditions law 1 tr ik military 1t ! dictatorship throug? country re sumed that the end of the is not far distant. It has served the countrs leaders about all the who were ghle to escape im prisonment, the city of Windsor, just across from Detroit, sccommodated hordes of thirsty visitors from the United | States. The Wisconsin assembly ap proved a state-wide referendum In | 1926 on the issue of asking congress { to modify the Volstead act to permit | 270 per cent heer, with the old-time saloon barred The mame assembly adopted a resolution calling upon con Egress to convene o vention to rescind amendment. G the prohibition OVERNORR, ex-governors, con gresemen and other notables rep gathered in Michigan City meeting of the Great Lakes St, | Lawrence Tidewater association and digeussed plans for furthering the project of deepening and canalizing { the St, Lawrence river for ocean-going traffic. An Interesting colncidence was the arrival, the same day, at the Michigan Clty docks of a steamer | from Cornwall, England, with a cargo lof clay for Kalamazoo, this vessel he. (Ing the first of a fleet of three ships | chartered hy the Michigan City and i Michigan state chambérs of commerce ! — RESIDENT VON HINDENBURG'S government is standing up well ada, the In the first round a vote of no confi dence in the Luther eabinet was de. fented, 125 to 214 Now the labor unions have joined the Socialistz In fighting the new tariff policy which proposes to tax grains and meats, in- creasing the cost of living. The new tariff schedules provide also for large increnses all through the import list, Higher duties on automobiles and ar tificial silk are frankly attributed to American competition. The German monarchists are growing bold with success, and Herr Schiele, who repre gents them on the cabinet, already has announced two proposals for chang ing the Weimar constitution, One would substitute the old fing for the republican emblem. and the other would define and extend baragraph 48 of the constitution, giving the president dictatorial powers In certain emergen- ’ NNOUNCEMENT is made hy the French foreign that Fez has been saved from the Rifaans hy aliant bayonet attacks by the Frenfh troops, aided by the good work of the alr service and the artillery. The bat. tle war fought northwest of the hig Moroccan city at shich Abd-el-Krim has been aiming his movement, and It {is believed General Colombat's victors will force the Rifflans to retire from French Morocco entirely. Soeh an | outcome will give great satisfaction In | Paris, where the severe campaign was causing considerable anxiety. office HANG TRO-LIN, who must al ways be identified as “the Man. | churian war lord” has occupied Pe | king with his troops and Feng Yu | Helang, “the Christian general” has {tier. Chang's soldiers are policing the | Chinese Eastern railway across Man { churia and are sald to have mulcted | the railway of $6000,000 by the sale | of military passes. The soviet Rus. {slan ambassador at Peking has pro | tested vigorously against this, and ob. { servers belleve Moscow is preparing [to back Feng If he breaks definitely with Chang. So snother civil war In China is In prospect, with Russia pos sibiy taking an active part. IEUT. GEN. NELSON A. MILER, who fell dead while attending a circus in Washington, was lald to rest in Arlington after simple services which were attended by President Coolidge, General Pershing and many other notable persons. Three thou sand troops, of all services, made up the escort of the gun carriage that bore the casket to the cemetery, and French 70's fired a salute of 15 guns At the tomb the regular troops fired three volleys. a bugler played taps and the remains of one of America's most distinguished military command. ers wore consigned to the grave Among the mourners were men who fought under General Milos in the Civil war, the Indian wars and the Spanish-American war. and delegn: tions from the many societies to whieh he belonged. | COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Tradz an Market Reports. BALTIMORE ~—~Wheat No. 2 red winter, $1845: No. 2 red winter, domestic (garlicky), $1.54% Shelled yellow 490. domestic, Corn—No, 2 mestic, $1.28 nominal Oats—No. 2 é white, white, 66c; No No. 2 spot, $1.23%. y~=No. 2 timothy, per ton, $18 No 155017; Nt light clover, mixed 17.0018; No clover mixed, $17; ¢ clover mixec, $15@16 Btraw--No. 1 £18 506019: No No. 1 oat, $15.50¢ Millfeed ring ern, in 1006.1b., sacks, Western middlings Eggs— Nearby, fres two sales, LO cases, 3 Butter—Crea: 3 timothy, wheat CO, Choice Go, print ladles, 2 Emoothn G2 smaller or rough and ib.. 24825; old roosters, per It leghorns, per 37: 3% ib chickens and under 25; spring and over 2% lbs slags 1% Ibs m Ducks, young Pekings per 1b., 24G@ 25¢; pudd 23. muscovy smaller Pigeons ner pet xed colors 4 lbs and and poor YOURE, per 6@ilc; old, per { old, as to size cach. €5875 Fish— Nati urge, per 1b pe r tard §9@ 10 Jy a0. mm Crabs oe NEW YORK -—Wheat 1 dark Northern spring lake and rail 1 Manitoba, do Corn Spot track New York mixed, de Butter 14% @ 460: de re extras (92 sce firsts LA2@ 43% firsts % @ 34; do, {E% to #1 score Fresh-gathered, extra slorage packed, 33% 31@g32 freshgathered, . GO gathered, firsts, 98 & 1% @ 54. Be @30% ; nearby he selected extras, 28 @ nnery , Clonely 24 nearby and nearby Western whites, firsts to average extras, 33G37 Cheese whole milk, flats, fresh, fancy, 20%¢c; average run, i8%. State, whole milk, flats, held, fancy to fancy specials, 26@26%; do, ar @ average run, 2° hennery States, do r 25 PHILADELPHIA. — Wheat ~— No. 2 red winter, $1 83@ 1 84% Corn—No. 2 yellow, $1.34G 1.35 Butter--Solid packed. higher extras, 46@45%. the latter for lots; extras, 92 score, 45; 80 score, 43; 89 score. 42: £7 score, 40: 88 score. 28 Eggs Extra firsts, 33¢: seconds, 26% 6 27%. Cheese—New York, whole flats, fresh, 21@22¢; held, 216 28 Live Poultry-—~Fowls, fancy. fat Ply mouth Rocks, 30c: medinm. 27629: mixed breeds, fancy. 28629 medium, 26027. ordinary fowls, 284029: les horns, 27G28; spring cc ickens. Ply. mouth Rocks, broilers, 55@58: mixed breeds, 50@ 55; leghorns broilers. 1 to 1% pounds, 35G 42: capons, 40@ 45; roosters, 15@ 18; turkeys, 20025. LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE —Cattle—Steers, good to choice, $9.78@10.50: medium to good, $8.50G 9.25; common to medium, $7.26@8; common, $6@6.75. Heifers, good to choice, $8.25@8.75; fair to good, §7.25@8; common to medium, $5.25@7. Bulls, good to choice, $8.250 6.75; fair to good, $5.26@6; common to medium, $4.25@5. Cows. good to choice, $66 7; fair to good, $4.75@ 5.75. Sheep and Lambs-Sheep, $362.50; lambe, $10@ 16.50; spring lambs, $15@ 18.25. Hogs Lights, $14.10; heavy, $14.10; medium, $14.25; pigs, $14; light pigs $12.25; roughs, $8256 12.25. Calves—Calves, $5610.50. than small 81 score, 44; £8 score, 41; firsts, 30%; milk, PITTSBURGH. ~~ Hogs ~ Heavies, F13.40@ 13.50; heavy Yorkers, $1335@ 14; light lights and pigs, $13.500 13.60. Sheop and Lambs-—<Clipped sheep, $0.50; clipped lambs, $14; spring lambe, $19. Calves—Top, $11.50.
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