PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Hanover.—A uew commandery of
Knights Templar with 107 members
was instituted here,
Pittsburgh, — Three electric trolley
companies, the Pittsburgh, Harmony,
Butler and New Castle railroad, the
Pennsylvania and Ohio Light and
Power Company and the Northern
Ohio Traction Company, hlave inaugu-
rated a trolley freight line from Pitts-
burgh to Cleveland and Intermediate
points. The roads will compete with
railroad freight service.
Gettysburg. — Names of 30 additional
men and women will be set forth im
information Issued by United States
Commissioner R. C. Wible here, charg-
ing them with defacing tablets on the |
battlefield. The names were announc-
ed by James B. Aumen, assistant su-
perintendent of the Gettysburg Na-
tional Park. Of the 30 all but one are |
wmlleged to have written their names |
on the 44th New York monument on
Little Round Top, from which 23
names were taken and information
lald before Commissioner Wible. Some
of those in the latest group are said
to have written the dates and, in some
instances, thelr addresses on the New
York monument. Photographs of the
defaced tablets were made to he used
as evidence against the offenders.
Mechaniesville.—Mrs. Ella Erott, 50 |
years old, committed suicide In the gar-
ret of her home.
Harrisburg.—The first rattlesnake
Governor Pinchot ever has encounter
ed on Saw Kill Falls, at his home In |
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Milford, was killed by him while he |
was fishing there. “I have fished that
creek for fifteen years and never en-
countered a rattler.” said the governor.
“l put my foot down alongside the
reptile and was about to pick It up,
as I thought it was a biacksmake. It
was three feet nine inches long and
had ten rattles.” The governor killed |
it with a stone. |
Bethiehem.— Bernard Dean, aged 25
years, and William Shiner, Sr, 65
years old, employes of the city street
department, were Instantly killed when
a city truck Dean was driving was
struck by the “Queen of the Valley,”
the crack New Jersey Central train
en route to New York, at a grade
crossing between this city and Free.
mansburg.
Philadelphia. — Ethridge Sadler, the |
6-year-old Oklahoma boy whose life
was saved by physicians at the Jeffer-
son Hospital through the removal of |
a one-inch stove bolt from his lung
with a bronchoscope, left for his howe
with his father. When the boy was
carried from a train and taken to Jef-
ferson Hoepital he was gasping for
breath, An eight-minute operation
with the bromchoseope brought forth
the bolt mnd the child was resting eas
ily a few hours later. As he waited
for a train Ethridge, bright-eyed and
smiling, played with a shovel and |
bucket, souvenirs of a three-day visit |
to Atlantic City.
Sunbury.— With 132 freight cars, 68
of which were loaded, Pennsylvania
railroad officials left the Northumber-
land yards with a pew locomotive of
the “Booster” type on a trial trip te
Nanticoke, 60 miles. It was the long
est train ever hauled here and repre.
pented a gross tonnage of 03684. The
iocomotive was No. 1558 and of the
1-1-8 type.
Trevorten. — The Northumberiand
County Sabbath School Association's
annuoal convention was held here.
Bloomsburg. —For the 20th year Mrs.
W. C. VanHouton, of Berwick, was re-
elected president of the Columbia
County W. C. T. U.
Bedford Springs. Christian H. Ruhl,
of Reading, who thig year is celebrat-
ing the 50th anniversary of his prae-
tice of law In Berks county, was elect.
od president of the Pennsylvania Bar
fon at the last session of its
Blst annua! meeting here. A recep
tion to the new officers marked the
close of the gathering.
Lancaster.—A lost slipper led to the
arrest of Mary Benedict, 19 years oid,
living on the new Danville pike, charg-
ed with felonious entry and larceny
at the home of Harriett Forrest a
neighbor. Twenty dollars in cash and
clothing were stolen. Mary lost her
slipper when startled into flight by ap-
proaching persons.
Harrisburg. —Mers. Martha J. Megee,
of Philadelphia, was appointed to the
directorship of the Burean of Assist.
ance of the State Welfare Department,
succeeding Bromley Wharton, who re-
tired June 1. Mrs. Megee, who took
up her duties on July 1, will have
charge of the supervision of state.
nided hospitals and county almshouses.
Prior to coming here Mrs. Megee was
actively in social work in Philadelphia.
She organized the social service de
partment of the Pennsylvania Hos.
pital. served as assistant ry of
the Children's Ald Society of Pennsyl-
vania and ag district superintendent of
the Philadelphia Society of Organized
Charity.
Lancaster. Because she abandoned
her child along a road in Narvon,
Catherine Hall, 19 yetars old, Is In the
county jail in default of ball
Lewisburg. Federal Judge Albert
W. Johnson made Lewisburg a formal
federal court seat, removing the office
from Sunbury, where It was held dur.
Ing Judge Witmer's life. He sat upon
the same bench which he left four
yesars ago. as Judge of the Union eoun-
ty courts,
Tharptown. Two handits held np
Michael Rando and Theodore Back.
nus and after firing several shots wt
them took $42,
Altcona.—~While swimming In the
pool at Ivyside Park, James I. McCan-
ley, aged 8, was drowned,
Mt. Carmel. —Twp from
this place rounded out years of
traveling last week, P. F. Devine and
Harry Henderson,
Philadelphia. —Twelve horses, in.
cluding one expensive prize saddle
horse valued at $1000, five ponies and
one mule were burned to death dur-
Ing a fire which destroyed the stable
of William H. Gunnis, 4126 Ludlow
street. The damage Is estimated at
more tifan $10,000.
Chester. Lorenzo Mattero, aged 34,
wag shot four times in the back and is
dying In the Chester Hospital. Police
are searching for Charles Mattero,
aged 82, who, it is charged, did the
shooting. The shooting took place In
the rear of a pool room and is sald
to be the result of a long standing
feud. The mén are said to be cousins,
Coatesville.— Two families were rbn-
dered homeless when fire destroyed
salesmen
25
The loss is estimated at $10,000,
Firemen were summoned from Coates.
ville, Parkesburg and Modena, but lack
of water supply hindered their efforts.
Hollidaysburg.—The Juniata river
east of Hollidaysburg was
Oil Company pipes, which are Imbed.
ded In the river bottom. The flour
Brua was partly de.
The Hollidayshurg fire de
blaze,
York.—About four acres of the pine
trees planted several years ago by the
miles south of York,
of several thousand dollars. The fire
was caused when an employe of the
State Highway Department cut the
grass along the curbing and burned
Altoona.--Joseph Brice, of Philadel.
phia, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brown.
ing, of Pittsburgh, were committed to
Jalil here after they hud terrorized
half a dozen physicians of the city
in an endeavor to obtain drugs. Trav.
eling In an automoblie, the three were
alleged to have gone from office to
office threatening the !ives of doctors
who refused to give them morphine,
Jeffersonville —Carl Opperman.
The
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nto
chicks In an odd manner
had taken the little brood
roadway, and the soft asphalt
dressing held the chicks much as flies
are caught on paper. The chicks were
dead from exhaustion and the mother
hen wag almost dead
Greenshurg.— Mrs. Dora Klome!, 1
old, of lLioydsville, a
east this place, died In
Latrobe Hospital from a
skull and broken neck,
she was struck by
driven by Edward J. Koszak, of La-
trobe. The Klomel and Koszak fam
filles were neighbors and good friends
Mrs. Klome!, with her eyes
a truck, stepped off the curh
path of the Koszak machine
driver stopped within a few feet
Pottsville. Because Ashland
ough in two counties,
the
nlso
of the
sustained wher
automobile
the
in
The
hor
Hes
code.
acreage lies In Columbia county, but
all the Inhabited section Is In Schayl
kill county. Under the decision of
court Ashland will he unable to got
any of the benefit of the new borough
code unless the legislature passes a
special enabling act
Sunbury. —Leon Fragan, 30, Watson.
town, died at Danville of injurics he
saffered when his automoblle was over.
turned on the Milton-Watsontown state
highway. Albert Benfer, with whom
he was riding, escaped Injuries, al.
though the machine turned three som.
ersaults, witnesses sald
Rockview.--lienry Edwards ner)
#as electrocoted In the Western Poy.
‘eniiary for the murder of Josepn
Jananvich, In Allegheny county,
a year ago. The condemned man
had no staton'ert to make other than
that he did not mean to kill the pe»
li~eman.
Shamokin. —As the result of a shot-
gun duel sald to have been fought on
the outskirts of Hickory Ridge, a min-
ing village near here, John Coleman.
32, negro, of Greenwood, N. C, is dead
and Willis Jackson, his alleged slayer,
is a fugitive. According to Coroner
J. K. Fisher the men had long been
enemies. Coleman Is sald to have
threatened Fisher's life recently. It is
said the men met and argued, finally
agreeing to settle matters in a forma!
duel. With duly appointed seconds.
the disputants retired to a secluded
spot. Each carried a double barreled
shotgun. They stalked a dozen paces
apart and on a given signal fired, It
Is charged. Coleman missed, but
Fisher's shot entered his opponent's
abdomen, the coroner said. Coleman
died at the Shamokin Hospital,
Harrisburg, — The state treasury
closed June with a balance of $7.660.
850 In the general fund and a total
balance of $31,650,404 In all funds
State Treasurer Lewis announced. The
state road bond fund showed a hal.
ance of $14550.4091, and the motor
fund one of $3,520.541.
Hazleton, Burgess Kubltsky hins
turned over to the West Hazleton Sul.
vation Army $14.50 taken from slot
machines seized In raids,
Hazleton.—-The annual convention
of the Pennsylvania State Forestry
Association closed with a motor ear
tour to Hudsondale, Nesquehoning,
Lansford and Conyngham.
Huzleton.—After a five-day trial the
automatic electric trafic control sys.
tem wus suspended for Thanges,
Hazleton —August Campbell was
Killed by a fall of elod nt the Hazleton
Shaft colliery of the Lehigh Valley
Conl Company.
CENTRE REPORTE
R, CENTRE HALL, PA.
1—Frank W. Mondeli, director
vention In Hot Springs, Va.
Plcture transmitted by A,
quake.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Earthquake on Pacific Coast
Wrecks Business Section
of Santa Barbara.
EY
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NZ since the great
earthquake and
been a disaster on the Pacific coast
comparable to that which over
whelmed the pretty city of Santa Bar.
bara on Monday.
eariy in the morning suffi
most of the
were f{ollo
fire has
Two severe shocks
ed to lay in
business sectic
Ly 8 number
added to
to the hour
shocks ocourred,
fact that the
practically
of life was surpris
Eleven died
under
SCOres
Lt
§
wed LoL
other temblors at the
th
bh
Owing ! at
which the worst
with the
ions
: resi
sect
i joss
ingly small persons
of them the
and
walls
were (njured
the
Sheffield reservolr, the main
source of the city's water supply,
but the Gibraltar
in the d and
prevented by
old series f
col
walls of the
dam up hills hel
{amine was
mains
qd ant
SU) (Xn),
with an
property loss was
and
buildings wrecked,
thousands of Americ
Californ
estimate
Lown
ans who
fi Const. were
Ari hotels,
Californian
county
and
hen
library,
1gton
courthouse
and jail, hall of records, American Le
and Eiks
County Na-
‘olumbus
buildings, Central bank,
bank, Morning Press building
the Santa Barbara mission. An
expert survey shows that nearly all
the structures destroyed were
on filled-in land.
While the earth was yet trembling
the people of Santa Barbara began to
ang within three days gangs of Lull
of the wrecking crews
ranged for a revolving fund of $2.50.
000 Immediately and began negotia-
tions to borrow $20,000,000 from finan
cial institutions throughout the United
States
This coast quake was preceded by
eaveral temblors In the mountain re
gions of Montana, Wyoming, Ildaho
and Washington. Great landslides oc.
curred, forming new lakes and In a
number of Instances Interrupting rail
road communication. Several through
trains laden with tourists were stalled,
but there was no loss of life. Fur
ther avalanches are looked for, espe
cially in the Teton National forest,
where one side of Chief mountain is
reported to be cracking.
Dr. Paul Goode of the department
cago holds that these earthquakes are
explained by a subsidence of the bed
of the Pacific ocean and the rettling
the continent. Other scientists who
are experts In seismology have other
explanations. But all agree that more
quakes along the Pacific coast may be
expected, This, however, does not
dismay the Californians any more
than such predictions ever dismay the
people who live In earthquake regions,
RANCE for the first time has for-
mally acknowledged her debt to the
United States and the cabinet has
voted to send a mission to Washington
as soon as possible to arrange for
funding the debt. This is In accord.
ance with the advice of Foreign Min-
ister Briand und Finance Minister
Calllaux. Notalpg definite ls known
as to what the French will propose,
but it Is assumed they will ask a
moratorium and credits in America.
It Is expected the French mission will
accompany the Belgian delegation
headed by former Premier Theunis,
There may be some delay In the
French cabinet’'s program due to the
Socialist opposition to Caillaux's plans
for financial renovation, especially his
taxation plan for providing a sinking
fund for deht payments. Negotiations
for funding Italy's debt are held up
for n month or so while Mario Alberti,
technical expert. goes to Rome for ad
ditional data on his country’s eapacity
A
ou
Fra
3)
of War rinunce corporation, winning
to pay, and to discuss the debt gitua-
tion fully with Premier Mussolinl
WA/ FDNESDAY
| anniversary
of
night, the
of the Inauguration
through transcontinental alr
service, the overnight alr mall service
New York and Chicago
From each end of the route a
on
main
| between was
started,
squadron of planes hopped off at the
| same time, Vice President
i Ing the word to go by radio
| Postmaster General Paul
! was at the Chicago end. and Postmas
| ter General New swung the first sack
of mall onto a plane at Hadley field.
New Brunswick, N. J.. the eastern end
The rate for the service Is 10 cents an
and the normal! time between
two cities Is eight hours and If
teen minutes. The route is lighted for
the pliots hy 150
beacons, and thirty-two landing flelds
have been provided for emergency, des
Dawes giv.
Assistant
Henderson
i ounce,
the
trys
in
nenge electric
ignated by Intermittent flashes of
flashes tell
conditions. Ea
pliot carries flare lights of a new type
! which,
fi
:
searchlights, Other
pilots the weather
attached to parachutes, make
reed landings comparatively safe,
ENT COOLIDGE
edly fre
presn
harri mn the sur
House at Swampscott to
{ because of the serion
father But the aged
ted to a surgical
progress of his recovery
that President
the inns told the
physi
he could return to White Court SG in
and Mrs
or. loslr
a few dave he Coolidge start.
ed back by mot g thelr way sey
eral times but Itim arriving
safely.
\Y bw EDITH NOURSE ROGERS
4 has been elected by the voters of
the Fifth congressional district of Mas
:
sachusetts to fill the the
vacancy In
house caused by the death of her hus
band, John Jacob Rogers She
Republican and defeated her Demo.
cratic opponent, former Gov. Eugene
i N. Foss, by more than two and a half
to one. Mrs, Rogers will be the first
| New England woman to sit in con
gress,
is a
HANG TSO.-LIN. the Manchurian
war lord, has forced the Chinese
| government to. deal! first with the
strike Incidents at Shanghal and thus
at least defer a break with the powers
| A Joint commission is now considering
{that phase of the
{ doesn’t sult Gen. Feng Yu-hslang, who
contest ut DUnEers coon-
foreigners. 3%
Santa Barbara, Cal.,, after the earth.
i
i
ia war to abolish the extraterritorial
rights and other alleged Injustices
| Meanwhile the British have landed s
considerable force on Shameen island.
the forelgn quarter of Canton, In the
face of a demand from the government
that the Island be evacuated with an
withdraw thelr warships from Kwang.
| tung waters snd make compensation
| erty.
rare taking In
| ances, It was provided by the arrest st
wife,
were found on them, one specifically
certifying that Dosser was sent by the
“agitation department™
munist party to Hongkong and Canton
to organize strike committees,
John MacMurray, the new American
king.
serious emergency should induce
America to make armed intervention
and that this does not exist at pres.
ent.
A
front. In this they were alded hy
many loyal Moroceans., Abd-el-Krim
led his troops In person.
MERICA'S great Pacific fleet, com.
priging HM vessels, sailed from
Honolulu on Wednesday for Australia,
New Zealand and Tasmania, When
nearing Australia the fleet will be split
into two detachments, and later the
ships will scatter a good deal so ag to
Vieltah ports in that part of the world
.
lulu on September
The day the fleet
sentatives of eight
ing on the Paclfic met
a Pan-Pacific
hope will
10,
countries
in Honoluly In
conference which
Governor Farrington weleomed
Le delegates and the residents are do-
themselves proud in the way
Among those attend
ing the conference are mn eminent
educators. economists,
statesmen and business men
n
ing
make
of
entertainments,
any
scientists,
OHN 1. LEWIS, hend of the eonal
miners, addressing a tri-state meet-
#t Scranton, Pa. promised
a fight the finish in the ap-
proaching negotiation the an
thracite operators to ¢ the con
31. and then
warned the bituminous operators that
sOft-conl
tract expiring
12 August
fi nation-wide
¢
H be ordered unless
strike in the
welds might
sles
were fo enforce the Jackson
He hi
MEpiracy
taken
agreement
yr
in “infamous ¢ between
soft-conl operator and cen
liroads to scuttle the
threes
I). Rocke
lex M Nehawh
* Treasurys
and scored J
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade an
Market Reports.
BALTIMORE
winter, spot, domestic,
red winter, garlicky,
$1.69,
Corn—No, 2,
ig quotable at about
for carlots on spot
Oats—No. 2
58.
Hay-—No
18.50; No. 3
light clover
clover mixed
mixed, §13.50@14.50 -
Straw--No. 2 straight, rye, $1850@
19; No. 1 wheat, $14@ 14.50: N
$16.50@ 16
City Mille Feed—In
per ton Spring whe
$36@37;
$394 40
Eggs
32¢.
Butter
No. 2 red
$165: No. 2
domestic,
-Wheat
spot,
for domestic
$1.28 per
i : ; y
delivery,
v 3
bushel
id Ns a
0c; No. 3
white, white,
2 timothy
timothy, $14
mixed, $16
$15.50@ 16;
per ton
BOGE
oy pe
bg l
$is@
No
Western mid i
fresh-gather
Nearby
Creamery
do, choi
do 8, 43@1
Pennsvivania
31¢ ir
21
} vive
Pennsylvania
packed,
process butter, 35%
‘oultry { Kens
per |
ERE
i over
ght several times to
hut
Last fall he
governorship
quit his pres
to
wanted to go
as Prohibitior
*, but President Coolid
mind.
Ont was persuaded
can
R% P. WILCOX Eau 8
Wis, president of the Wisconsin
Bar association, is first an
nounce his candidacy the sennte
seat made vacant by the death of Mr,
His announcement says:
not be 8 candidate any
group or faction. but shall welcome
the support of all those who have Io
the past supported the things | have
stood for, and of all who may wish to
support them now A new deal In
Wisconsin polities Is demanded. which
shall be In hearty accord with Pres
ident Coolidge fn his program for re-
duced taxation and efficient constity.
tional government We are fortunate
to have such a leader.”
Francis BE McGovern of Milwaukea,
former governor, also announced that
he was a candidate for the senate seat.
Others who have heen mentioned for
the place tut who have not declared
thelr Intentions Include Mrs LaFol-
Secretary of State Fred Zim
the well
of {‘iaire
.
he
for
to
of
known author,
LL but two of the ice-box manu.
facturers who, together with a
lot of other furniture makers, were in-
anti-trust law by stabilizing and ar
tifieally raising prices, pleaded gulity
The next bunch
to be arraigned comprises the makers
of dining room, bedroom and living
room furniture,
R, JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN,
the new American ambassador to
Germany, presented his credentials to
President von Hindenburg and made a
neat little speech.
“It is the desire of my government,”
Doctor Schurman sald, “to cultivate
to the fullest extent mutual friend
ship between our two countries. Ani
mated by cordial sentiments originat-
ing in my youthful studies In Gen
many, I will find special satisfaction
in carrying out the instructions of
my government.”
NE hundred American physicians
are attending the first Interna
tional congress of radiology, which
opened In London, but Industries like
con! and structural steel are also
deeply interested, for the radiologists
are developing methods of analysis
and tests of strength by the X-ray.
Something of this was told In the
opening paper, which was read by Dn
Norman Kemp, an American sclentist
Oats
58 %%¢
Butter !
tras, 42@ 43%; do
42@G 42%: do,
40% @G 41%; packing
make, No. 2, 32
Eggs “rm;
higher
€xXiras
firsts (58 1«
stock
fresh gathered extra
firsts, 35% @37; do, firsts, 32% @33%:
do, seconds, 31@32; nearby hennery
whites. closely selected extras, 46@47;
nearby and nearby Western hennery
whites, firste to average extras, 37@45
Cheese—State, whole milk. flats,
fresh, fancy to fancy specials, 22@24c
GO, average run, 21%: State, whole
milk, flats. held fancy to fancy spe
cials, 28% @ 27%
Live Poultry—PFirm: broilers
freight, 30@40c; do, by express
44; fowls, by freight, 26627
express, 24@27; roosters, by
13
by
12@
do, by
freight,
PHILADELPHIA ~—Corn—No. 2 yel-
low, $1.22@1.23,
Butter-—8olid packed. higher
extras, 4% 947%c, the latter
small lots; extras, 92 score, 43%:
score, 42; 90 score, 40%
39%. 88 score, 38%; 87 score, 37%:
score, 36%.
Eggs—Firm; firsts, 37¢: firsts? in
new cases, 34; in second-hand cases,
33: seconds, 3021
Live Poultry—Fowls, fancy fat Ply
mouth Rocks, 30c: medium. 276 20¢:
mixed breeds, fancy, 27@ 28: common
fowls, 23@24; leghorns, 25@ 26; spring
chickens, Plymouth Rock broilers, 2
pounds, 48048; 1 and 1% pounds 36
@ 40: mixed breeds, 2 pounds, 40G 42:
1 and 1% pounds, 348237: legchorn
broilers, 2 pounds, 32: 1 and 1%
pounds, 23@28; roosters, 15@17; tur
keys, 20825.
LIVE STOCK
NEW YORK.—Cattle—Steers, $6.75
@11.50; State bulls, $3@5.60; cows,
$2.25G6.
Calves—Veals, common to prime, $8
@12.50; culls and little calves, $567;
buttermilk calves, $4@5; fed calves,
$e.
Hogs—Light to medium weights,
$1275@13.25; pigs, $1250012.75:
heavy hoge, $13.25@18.75; roughs,
$10.76@ 11.
than
for
3 |
£8 score,
£6
BALTIMORE. --Cattle—Steers, good
to choice, $5.75@10.50; medium to
good, $8.5069.25; common to mediam,
$7.25@S; common, $6¢P6.75. Heifers,
good to choice, $8.25@8.75: fair to
good, §7.26G%; common to medium
$5.25 7. Bulls, good to choice, so
6.50; fair to good. $5@5.75¢ common
to medium, $44.75. Cows..(Good to