FEWER FATAL ACCIDENTS -IN MINES DURING 1914 No Great Disaster Occurred Throughout Year in Bituminous Region, Al though Three Catastrophes Hap pened in Anthracite Shafts According to the returns made by ♦ in- various niiue inspectors to the &t»te Department of "Mines there was a ile cideit rediK'tiou in the uumber of fatal mine accidents iu Ulie mines in 1914 as compared with the previous year, 1913. In the anthracite region the number of fatal accidents in 1913 was 024; iu 1914 the number was 596. The number in the bituminous region in 1913 was 611; in 1914 the number was 4 01. Tiie record in the bituminous region is remarkable in that there were uo great disasters during the \ ear. The largest number of persons killed at one time was three. The reduction of acci dents in the bituminous region is at tributed largely by the Department to the rigid enforcement on the part of the inspectors of the many safety and precautionary measures embodied in the mine code of 1911. This mining code is probably the most comprehensive and efficient in existence. In the anthracite region, however, one accident, the result of a cage fall ing down a shaft, killed thirteen men, another similar accident killed six aud an explosion of gas also resulted in six fatalities. It is undoubtedly true with relation to the anthracite region that conditions of safety have been im proved by the issuance to the opera tors in December, 1913, of additional precautionary rules and suggestions for the lessening of the dangers of mining operations. The rule requiring two daily inspections of every working place bv the mine foreman or assistant mine foreman, in additiou to the other inspections made under the law. has proved efficient as a protection to the workmen. T'ne output ot' void in tho anthracite region will be about 90.000.000 ton? or approximately the same as in 1913. In tne bitumiou's region the production will be about 140.000.000 tons, show ing a decrease of about 34,000,000 tons. The coke production will show a decrease of probably 9,000,000 tons, and this decrease materially ailects the production of bituminous coal. Other contributing causes were the unsettled conditions produced by national legisla tion and the European war. The pros pects for 1915 seem to be very promis ing. according to the prediction of the district inspectors. TO SEND BELGIAN FOOD FREE Governor Tener Is Advised of New Plan of Forwarding Supplies Lindon W. Bates, vice chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. No. 71 Broadway. New York City, tele graphed Governor Tener yesterday as follows: '•The Commission for Relief in Bel gium, the officially designated sole agency through which food and sup plies may be brought into Belgium, has just concluded arrangements with the Postoffice Department and with express companies whereby any one in America may forward foodstuffs for relief in Belgium by parcel post or express without cost of transportation to the sender. The supplies needed are non perishable foodstuffs, also new blanket? and new clotting. "On account of the postal laws, par cel post packages cannot be sent bv parcel post 'C. O. D.' By following the instruction of the department, how ever. the sender may, if he wishes, have his postage refunded. A similar re-1 fund will be made on all packages sent by the following express companies: The Adams Company, the American Company, the Welis-Fargo Express Company and the Northern Erpress Company. "The response of America to the appeal of Belgium has been gratifying, but the task of provisioning over 6,- 000,000 people. 1,400,000 of whom are absolutely destitute, requires the dispatch of a shipload of food every other day and the maintaining of a transport line. State relief organiza tions should be put cn a permanent basis for continued effort until sum- Bier. if not longer. "Detailed instructions for sending packages an! for obtaining the refund transportation money are in the hands of the State committee? representing the Commission for Relief in Belgium. They have also been posted by permis sion of Postmaster General Burleson in the 65,000 postoffices throughout the I'nited States. Similar instructions have been placed in the offices of 35,- 000 express companies. This informa tion may also be had by addressing the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York City." GETB CREMONA VIOLIN CHEAP Pittsburgh Man Pays M.70 for Old Italian Instrument Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 15.—A Cremo na violin, brought to this country 30 years ago by an old Italian, since em ployed as a leader in a Cumberland ild., mine, where he kept his "fiddle," came into the possession of Furev Burt, ot' Beevhview. this city, last week for the paltrv sum of $4.70. Burt brought his prize to this city Wednesday. A few hours after his ar rival William P. Schwartz, a local mu sician, offered him $2,000 for the Cre mona. Lift Lancaster Quarantine T.aacaster. Pa., Jan. 15.—The quar antine placed on the local stock yards j to prevent any further outbreak of! hoof-and-mouth disease has been lift ed, but cattle can be received for sale only for immediate slaughter. Diving Log Knocks Out Trolley Lewiatown, Pa.. Jan. 15.—Traffic was interrupted yesterday on the Lew i'-town and Reedsville electric railwav when a* thirty-foot log 'broke from its ' fastenings in a lumber camp, shooting over a rocky crag 100 feet high and striking and dislocating the tracks. A Bald Head Only Indicates that the scalp has been neglected. We recommend that you use SsssSS: Kills the germ that causes the hair to fall out and will keep the scalp healthy, ttaorge A. Uorga*. SI.OO I I $2.00 "Tad MARK-DOWN SALE DFI 'sTm i Thousands of Them—All New Desirable Patterns—Not a Poor 1 Shirt Nor an Old Shirt in the Lot 1 Starting Saturday morning, Jan- Isl 50 16,867 Shirts of the finest qual- I uary 16th, at 7.30 A. M, and continuing ' itv and workmanship will pass from us B without interruption until Saturday, Jan- ShIPTQ . .1 , * _ c „ . , , .. t uary 23rd, at 11 P. M. THIS GREAT ® to the wise men of Harnsburg and vicing LIVE STORE for men will turn its entire I | A ity at a fraction ol their true value. But 1 | attention to the conduction of Harris- II B V t^ie has come when these shirts h |j burg's greatest of all Shirt Sales. ■ must go regardless of what they cost. i I A most extraordinary opportunity—A sale of high-grade shirts of I I present season patterns—many of them advanced styles. THIS LIVE STORE never S I'- handles seconds. Every shirt guaranteed to be absolutely satisfactory, just the same i as though you paid the regular price. Our January Suit and Overcoat Reductions j II include every Suit and Overcoat in the store. The sort of clothes I you have always considered worth the former prices, the sort you rarely have an I opportunity to purchase at these prices. I Every $15.00 Suit $12.50 Every S2OJW Suit and Every $25.00 Suit and Overcoat now $21.501 $2.50 I IYSIt tj U EHIKI | $3.50 Shirts Shirts | $1.89 304 Market St. Harrisburg, Pa. $2,691 LANDSLIDE BLOCKS TRACKS Heavy Blasting Necessary to Remove Storm-Loosened Bocks Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 15. —Over 500 tons of earth and roek fett upon the Pennsylvania railroad freight line at Turkey Hill, near Columbia, Wednesday night, due to recent heavy rains. Dynamite blasting to reduce the size of rocks was so heavy that houses a dozen miles away were shaken. In Co lumbia people ran from their homes in terror. At the Columbia rolling mill the night shift fled from the works, be lieving a boiler had exploded. . Little Daughter Finds Him Dead Kane, Pa., Jan. 15.—When Oertrude, j the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ! John Konoski, of Johnsonburg, arose j yesterday morning before other mem-, bers of the family, she found her fa- I ther dead on the floor, evidently a vie- j tim of heart disease. V "„■ - ~ y '• • ■■«■ " v . "'■ ' '•« *v v HARRTSBITRO STAR-INDEPENDENT. FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 15. 1915. EX-BONIFACE FACES TRIAL ! He la Accused of Burning Hotel to i Collect Insurance York, Pa., Jan. 15.—Accused of hav-j ing set fire to the National hotel in Dover, York county, last August, when j he was the proprietor, to obtain insur ance, William Myers was arrested in j York and held under SI,OOO bail yes terday. The prosecution is brought by I W. W. Wunder, of Reading, a Deputy' State Fire 'Marshal. Discovery was made, it is alleged, j that the fire started in several places j about the building at the same time. Loses Her Tresses as Penalty Tamaqua,' Pa., Jan. 15.—Mrs. Felix' Upulsky, with her hair flit oif close to i her head, had her husband before Jus- | tiee Beard yesterday, claiming that Felix had done the iutting, because she j refused to sign away her interest in a i small property owned toy them. MAY DROP REVENUE DISTRICT York Considered Better as a Branch Than Separatsly York, Pu.. Jan. 15.—The York office of tbe State Highway Department which administers to York, Adams and Lancaster counties, is to be abolished, it is reported, (ommiesioner Bigelow, it is said, is not satisfied that it has been conducted as economically as would be possiible were it partitioned to adjacent districts. As a preliminary move seven mem bers of the local force have been order ed to HarrisJrurg, leaving Assistant En gineer Edward $. Frey in charge with 'but three helpers. The York district has been in existence about four years. Ex-Senator Manbeck's Son Weds Mifflintowu, Pa., .fan. 15.—Was •Lydia R., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Vincent, of this place, was married yesterday to Maxwell Man beek, son of ex-9tate Senator Manberk. FEWER HOURS AT SAME PAY I Hanover Shoe Company Cuts Working Time, but Not Wages Hanover, Pa., Jan. 15.—The Hanover . Shoe Company announced yesterday that the working hours of its male em-' | ployes is reduced from 57 1-4 to 54, | hours per week, effective at once, with out reducing the wage. About a year I ago the hours of the female operatives ; ; were reduced from 57 1-4 to 50 hours, 1 J with the same pay. No pentone under | 16 years of age are employe!. On New Year's Eve this company,! •which' operates a chain of stores in .prin cipal cities and is the town's biggest] I industry, owning two big factories, gave j I a dance for its employes, with 1,200 persons in attendance. On New Year's Day it gave an entertainment for the children of Hanover, at which there were 2,000 guests. Three new stores will be opened thi« month. I FALSE TEETH KILL WOMAN ! Become Lodged in Windpipe as She I Stoops in Street Car Scranton, Pa., .lan. 15. —Choking; on 1 a set of false teeth which became lodged in her windpipe when she bent! I over to pick i«p her purse from the floor j of a. street car, Mrs. Thomas J. Middle-! ton, of 312 North Bromley avenue, this; 1 : city, Hied last night before she could bo ! removed to a howpitul and the obstruc ': lion removed. Scores See Man 'Killed Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 15.—Scores of j . j people at the Beading Railway station j 1 1 here last night saw William C. Martin, I 1 a brakeman, aged 45 years, struck by* i a sh-iftiug engine which knocked him > down and cut off both legs. He died in i an ambulance while comrades were tak i; ing him to the Pottsville hospital. He | leaves a widow and seven children. 7 ! REFUSES LIQUOR LICENSES j Lebanon County Judge Turns Dowt. Four Applications ijetoanon. Pa., Jan. 15.—Judge H.-u ry yesterday refused four application* | for liquor license. All the application* refused yesterday had remonstrance-! I filed ayainst them by the Anti Saloon Lcag ie of Lebanon county. They were for the Steitz Hotel and Majestic Cafe, both in this city; Wash ington Hotel, Annville, aud Crouso House, My erst own. The Majestic ami Washington licenses were revoked last year. Fxtally Shoots Brother .Scranton, Pa., Jan. 15. — Angered be- I cause his brother, Harvey Emery, re fused to attempt to 'break a will of tlusir father, which cut him off with $5, Al fred Emery yesterday shot and prob ably fatally wounded Harvey Emery, of South Canaan township, Wayne county. Harvey Emery got SIO,OOO in the will.
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