2 CENTRAL PA. NEWS CRACKED PLATE CAUSE OF FIGHT Lively Times in Dining Room When Dickinson Profes sor Loses His Temper Carlisle, Pa.. Oct. 25. Enraged at the fancied slight when a cracked and chipped dinner plate was placed before him last evening. Prof. O. Lafayette Cram, assistant instructor of German and French at Dickinson college began a small riot in the state ly dining hall of Conway hall, and engaged in fisticuffs with two other professors, Anally being overpowered through the efforts of the big star fullback of the. Conway football team. Prof. Cram came to Carlisle about one month ago from New York City. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and obtained a master's de gree from Columbia University. His small daughter accompanied him to Carlisle and they have been living at Conway hall. Fall Down Stairs Causes Elizabethville Woman's Death Elizabethville, Pa., Oct. 25.—Mrs. Elizabeth Van NeWkirk, aged 85 years, died at the home of Edgar Van New kirk, her grandson, in East Main street, yesterday as the result of a fall down a flight of stairs, 1.415t Thursday even ing while walking from her room she fell headlong down the stairs. It was not supposed at the time that she sus tained internal injuries, but they rroved fatal yesterday. Mrs. Van New kirk was a widow and formerly lived at Newport. For several years she had made her home here with her son. John A an Newkirk, and her grandson, Edgar, at whose home she died. The body will be taken to Newport, where burial will be made on Friday. MARRIED AT WAYNESBORO "Waynesboro, p a ., Oct. 25. Robert E. Trone, of Harrisburg, and Miss Ellen R. Gladfelter, of York, were married on Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Koons, by the Rev. C. C. Miller, pastor of the Firs? United Brethren Church Mr. and Mrs. Trone will be "At Home" to their friends at Rutherford Heights, near Harrisburg. Abandon Efforts to Shorten Ten Commandments; Go on Record Against Rum St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 25.—Efforts to 1 shorten the Ten Commandments have I'een abandoned at the present session f the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, leaders announced. ! Until the next convention, in 131S, at, least, the decalogue will stand as it is. A commission appointed to suggest methods of revision of the book of common prayer favored the shorten ing of five of the commandments by 1 the elimination of the reasons. Meni -1 trs of the commission asserted to- j tlay, however, that this suggestion; would not be pressed. Discussion of cither phases of the proposed revision : •was to be resumed late to-day. The lower house adopted the report ©n the lectionary, which urged the i shortening of many of the Sundav school lessons. On Ro<"orf God at Bowmansdale, the ; Rev. E. J. Huggins, pastor. The pro i gram includes devotional service in I ;he morning by the Rev. A. B. Mower; address of welcome, Benjamin Wal jker, assistant superintendent; report |of department superintendents: ad j dress, "The Cradle Roll and How Con | ducted." Mrs. T. L. Gray; address, ! "Live Wire Officials," the Rev. J. J. j Resh. Afternoon session: Devotional serv ices. the* Rev. E. C. B. Castle: address. ! "The What and How of the Organized Class," the Rev. L. M. Dice; address, j "The Sunday School Organized for 1 Service." Miss Martha Robinson. State superintendent of rural school depart ment: address, "A Livewire in the 1 Rural Sunday School. Evening: Song service; address. : "Paralysis," James L. Young; address, ' "The Foe—The Fight—The Flight," ' the Rev. H. Hall Sharp. CONTRIBUTION TO FUND Waynesboro, Pa.. Oct. 25. The | local Methodist Episcopal Church i responded to the call of the Harris burg District for the Pennsylvania j Conference for $">0,000 as its appor tionment of the $10,000,000 annuity j fund for retired ministers and widows i and orphans of deceased ministers by a contribution of $2lO. I MAGISTRATE RESIGNS Waynesboro, Pa., Oct. 25. Mag ! istrate J. F. Newman has sent his i resignation to Governor Brumbaugh to become effective in the near future. | 111 health is the principal cause of the resignation. VERDICT AGAINST COMPANY Carlisle. Pa., Oct. 25. Harry L. | King, of Harrisburg, won a verdict ! against the Riverton Consolidated | Water Company in the sum of $3,700. King claimed that this sum was J due him from the corporation for ser- I vices and material furnished during -the time he was employed by them. TINY GIRL SMILES AT JUDGES' ORDER Tearful Throughout Habeas , Corpus Session, Little Grand daughter Finally Laughs [J JJxj )c II phin's Judges had 1 y gravely pronounced [' I day In the long legal controversy to de- I tern> ' ne 'nto whosti ' keeping she should l!tl fllSnHpiHS'# ' ,e placed did pretty jj !.y *J 8-year-old Evaline Hoth Judges Kun j ivei and AlcCarrell were on the bench to-day to hear the habeas corpus pro i ceeiiing instituted by aged Solomon j W avadau, of Hampden township, Cum berland county, for the recovery of his small granddaughter Evaline, who had been practically kidnaped by her father. Simon P. Walters, while the little girl was on her way home from school. The child has been living with her grandparents since she was 2 years old. Recently her father remarried and wanted the girl to live with him. ; she objected; so did the grandparents, j lor a number of reasons. One day I W alters drove to the and endeavored to persuade his daughter io accompany him to his home in Pen brook; she refused; he grabbed her in his arms and drove off. Throughout the hearing this morning the little girl sobbed convulsively on the witness ttand and she firmly, if tearfully, held to one childish phrase: "Jus' let me go to grammy—l want my grammy!" Pack in the courtroom a gray-haired grandmother hid her tears and smiled < ncouragement. Eventually the judges gravely conferred and then issued the order that turned the little girl back to the custody of her grandparents. And Evaline smiled. I Let Rriilgv Contract, —Whittaker & \ Diehl won the contract to build a new concrete bridge across Paxton creek a , mile and a half north of Progress : when the County Commissioners < pened bids at noon to-dav. The win ning firm bW $3,826 for the job, $1,510 per cubic yard for extra excavating and sl2 per yard for additional con creting. The Ferro-Concrete Company bid $4,115. $2.50 and sl4. respectively; G. W Ensign, Inc., bid on a lump sum for $4,011.50. Murphy & Sons' bid was rejected because the requirements tor tiling bid and certified check to gether hadn't been complied with. V> hittoker Diehl will be required to build the bridge within sixtv working tin vs. Withdraws Appeal.—Donald Keller, a resident of the Fifth ward.. Second ward, who had appealed from the refusal of the city registrars to register him, to-day withdrew his appeal. He is going to move to Lemoyne. At flic Resistor's Office.—Letters on the estates of Ellen E. Hain and W. E. T. Komberger were issued respectively to-day to L. C. Carl and Jennie E. Komberger. Typhoid Claims First Victim at Dauphin Dauphin, Pa., Oct. 25. Typhoid claimed its first victim' in this town last night when Mrs. Howard White, aged 30, the wife of the local sec tion foreman of the Northern Central Railroad died after a brief ill ness. MITE SOCIETY ENTERTAINED Dauphin. Pa., Oct. 25.—Last even ing the Mi|p Society of the Presby terian Church was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Forney at their home in Market Square. After the regular business meeting refreshments and c. social time were enjoyed by Mrs. I". C. Gerberich, Mrs. William Haw thorne, Mrs. Sarah Sponsler, Airs. George Gilday, Mrs. J. D. Reed, Mrs. Harry Reed. Miss Anne R. Miller, Miss ! Helen Miller, of Philadelphia: Miss! Annie .R. Webner, Miss Esther Shaffer, Miss Sara Margaret Hawthorne. Miss | Ethel Forney, the Rev. R. F. Stirling, j Charles A. Shaffer, Russel lieed, Paul | Gilday and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. j Forney. WEST SHORE NEWS Mrs. Willis Stricken With Paralysis at Dinner Table Cumberland. Pa,, Oct. 25. Mrf. Willis died suddenly at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Parthe more, at New Market, yesterday. She was 63 years old and lived at Golds boro. On Saturday she came to pav her daughter and son. Thomas Willis, \