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PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJ BRIEF
interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
A roiling log killed Lawrence Deib
ler, near Curtin.
Mrs. James Arter killed a snake in
her kitchen at Sunbury.
Altoona will take a referendum vote
on more stringent Sunday closing.
Accused of deserting the navy, Ray
mond jiuuiffec. j>i Enola. was arrested.
of Eleven Counties To Celebrate
Plank Victories and Dedicate New State Flag
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TO-'CELEBRATE the Insertion of woman suffrage planks in the national party platforms, to dedicate and raise
the- new suffrage state flag for the first time and to feast and make joyous generally, 800 suffragists from 11
-counties will gather July 7. at "Suanlindar," the farm of Mrs. E. E. Kiernan, fourth vice president of the Pennsyl
vania Woman Suffrage Association, in an all-day rally. Among Mrs. Kiernan's guests will be the most widely
known suffragists of the state and scores of the most ardent workers in the suffrage cause. En route to and
irom "Suanlindar" numerous automobile parties will stop at towns and villages, make speeches and distribute
literature specially prepared for their itineraries.
The following counties will be represented by large delegations: Somerset, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Indiana,
Jefferson, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Westmoreland. Fayette, and Franklin.
Shown herewith are - Upper left —"Suanlindar." the rally center. Upper right—Mrs. George B. Orlady,
state suffrage president Middle left—Mrs. J. O. Miller, Allegheny county leader. Middle right—Mrs. J. E. Du-
Bois. Clearfield county president, and her children. Lower left —Mrs. R. E. Umbel, head of Fayette county suf
iffagists. Lower center —Mrs. Kiernan. rally hostess. Lower right—Miss Jane E. Leonard, preceptress of Indiana
"State Normal, and head of Indiana county suffragists.
Frank Templine, Shamokin, a satety
inspector, was killed in a mine at Sha
mokin.
Many Pennsy shopmen at Altoona
have volunteered for train service in
I case of a strike.
Mount Holly, Cumberland county, is
planning old home week for this, its
centennial year.
George Thomas was run down by
a jitney bus at Shenandoah and prob
ably fatally injured.
Flag decorations on the Carlisle
court house blew into the clock and
tied up the works.
The South Bethlehem school board
has raised the salaries of all its school
teachers and janitors.
At a sale of cows held by Colonel
David Mac Feat, of Spring City, prices
ranged from $7O to $ll6.
John Francis, aged thirty, was kill
ed by a fall of coal at the Pennsylva
nia. colliery, .Mt. Carmel
'Professor Harvey O. Dietrich, or
Kutztown, has been appointed superin
tendent of schools at Kane.
The rural free delivery men at
Pennsburg and Red Hill are delivering
the mail with automobiles.
While automobile riding, John Hall,
sixty-four years old, of Ickesburg, fell
dead in the car of heart failure.
Lancaster county commissioners at
last have decided to accept the pro
visions of the mothers' pension act.
Reading contributed $3544 on tuber
culosis day for the benefit of patients
at the Neversink Mountain sanitarium.
John Fry, of Kutztown, was sent to
jail at Allentown for four years and
five months for abusing his daughter.
Trackmen on the Catawissa division
of the Reading railway have been
granted an increase of one cent an
hour.
John Stout, arrested ten days ago
at Allentown for selling base ball pool
tickets, pleaded guilty and got a year
in jail.
Willis Baker and Ira Wise, mere
boys, were arrested for trying to hold
up and rob Abram Line in his store at
Huntsdale.
There is a movement among the
1200 Sons of Veterans in the Lehigh
Valley to enlist as a body for service
in Mexico.
Samuel Quarrels, of Virginia, was
killed in. a stationary engine accident
in the Blllmeyer stone quarries, near
Bainbridge.
Governor Brumbaugh has Issued a
death warrant for the electrocution of
Jacob Miller, Philadelphia, in the week
of July 17.
Berks county constables have shot
over 300 dogs thte month because their
owners failed to pay license tax for
the canines.
Mrs. Mary Lawson, fifty years old,
of Tamaqua, while on a visit to Shen
andoah, died suddenly from a stroke
of paralysis.
Joseph Ugard, of yVarren, is missing.
His motorboat, in which he was last
seen, was found near Glade, on the
Allegheny river.
On account of the scarcity of labor,
the Thomas Iron company has been
compelled to bank one of its furnaces
at Hokendauqua.
Word reached his father at Hereford
that James A. Rausch, a private in the
United States army, had been wounded
along the Mexican border.
Constable William O'Gorman, of
Summit Hill, already announces his
Democratic candidacy for sheriff of
Carbon year.
"Mrs. Frank" Smith,* or Hazieton, SSK
ed the Hazieton police to find her hus
band, who is missing, leaving her and
eight children without support.
The Potts town school board decided
by a rote of four to three to discon
' tinue half sessions the first two and
last two weeks of the school term.
Michael Klbachubis' auto 'bus went
over the bank along the State road
near Nesquehoning, and, jumping from
the machine, the owner broke a leg.
. Thomas Kennedy, prominent among
United Mine Workers erf the Haxle
lon district, has been appointed a trus
tee of the State hospital at Hazieton.
The Berks county farm bureau will
devote its greatest attention this sum
mer to the organization of cow-testing
associations and young farmers' clubs.
Petitions are in circulation in But
ler asking the borough council to sub
mit the matter of applying for a third
class charter to a vote of the people.
Despondent, it is said, because of
domestic troubles, W. L. Held, aged
thirty-eight, chief of the Vandegrift
Heights fire department, killed him
self.
Palmerton is contemplating the pur
chasing of a new up-to-date fire engine,
to cost $9OOO. Lacsford, too, has plac
ed an order for such a modern ma
chine.
BettUng of the Lehigh & wIIRes-
Barre Coal company workings under
the borough of McAdoo affected many
houses so that doors could not be
closed.
School chiddren of Reading and
Berks county have sent through E. H.
Knerr, a Reading banker, another con
tribution of $lOO to the Belgian relief
fund.
Conductor Peter J. McConnell, sixty
years ofld, of Mahanoy Plane, died
while sitting chatting on the front
porch of his home, a victim of heart
failure.
Brooding over a love affair at Car
lisle, Marporie McGee, seventeen years
old, attempted suicide by shooting with
a revolver, but the bullet only grazed
her head.
John Brennan, of Farmertown, was
felled by a highwayman with a black
jack, but he quickly gained his feet
and beat his assailant uptll he called
for mercy.
Hazieton council has given Patrol
man Albert Koch three days in which
to apologize to Chief of Police E. R.
Crittenden for an insult or else get
off the force.
Rev. E. H. Reewan, pastor of the
Unitarian Church of Our Father, Lan
caster, has resigned to accept a call to i
a newly organized Unitarian church at \
Trenton, N. J. j
Leslie Jones, of Montrose, who en- i
listed in the navy in January and de- \
serted from the battleship Arkansas at
Brooklyn, June 7, has surrendered to j
Hazieton police. i
Six hundred men and bovs returned j
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to work at William Penn colliery, near
Mahanoy City, after being on strike a
week over an interpretation of the
new eight-hour day.
Half barrels of beer brought fifty
cents and bottled beer went for ten
cents a box, at Hazleton, when Con
stable William Campbell sold the ef
fects of the Hotel Majestic.
Easton officers are trying to run
down a man who poisoned twenty-five
fancy chickens belonging to J. Martin
Rausch and then, several days later,
poisoned Mr. Rausch's three cows.
Damage estimated at $lOO,OOO has
already been done to property in West
Scranton bv the surface disturbances
over the Oxford mine workings, and
twenty-five families had to move out.
A Carbon county jury awarded Mrs.
Elizabeth Farley, near Bowmanstown,
$17.73 in her suit against Moses
Straup, a neighbor, for half the ex
penses of a fence between their farms.
In a long message to council, Con
troller Horn, of Easton, states that
the city's tax rate, which 1b the lowest
in Pennsylvania, should be increased
to meet improvements demanded by
the public.
Catasauqua has been choeen as the
place for holding the next annual con
vention of the Pour-County Firemen's
association. Robert -Montgomery, .of
Catasauqua, as elected president ot tne
association.
The commissioners of Northampton
county have decided to present to the
Bucks County Historical society the
gallows used in Northampton county
for a number of years and loaned to
other counties.
The Carpenter Steel works, Reading
Iron company, Consumers' Gas com
pany and Curtis & Jones company,
Reading, will pay the salaries of em
ployes while they are serving at the
front.
Dr. Walter J. Cathrall, of South
Bethlehem, a former surgeon in the
United States army, after service in
the Philippines, has been asked by the
government to respond to a call for
service in Mexico.
Convicted of firing four shots at
fifteen-year-old Mary Castronorto be
cause she refused to marry him, Ml*
chael Astono, of Easton, was sentenc
ed by Judge McKeen to serve two and
a half years in prison.
H. B. Hagy, of Reading, haa return
ed from Kansas City, Mo., where he
disposed of the Kansas City Bolt and
Nut works for $500,000. This proper
ty belonged to the estate of the late
J. .H._Sternb§rglLJ2f Reading.
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