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PAE PLATE
M Silverware.
Beautiful New
BRIDAL WREATH
Pattern
Wo are the first to place
torn op sale in Harris
-26-Piece Set
fi knives—6 forks—t> tablespoons—6 teaspoons—l butter knife
and susrar shell in beautiful mahogany finished chest 7P*
with drawer. Special priee I t)
Child's Set Cold Meat Forks
Knife. Fork and Spoon. $1.29 Berry Spoons I
' iced Teaspoons * Gravy Ladles
Set of six. Ot | /f Q
j Special, QQ/» Each I
Special, . . v i »40 t/Ot
CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED
The P. H. CAPLAN CO.
JEWELERS
I 18 North Fourth Street
DIES AS SHE SUES HUSBAND
>" on-Support Case Ends Tragically In
Police Chief's Office
Bethlehem, May 21. —Mrs. Louise
>' .-oh lers fell dead in Chief of Police
V lliam HaltemanV private offiee ves
teuiay. The woman was in the oflice
a.uting the calling of her husband's
«■; -e. she having had him arrested for '
lien-support.
It is supposed that worry over >eine
e<'in]H.'lleil to proceed against her hns
,l>:;nd cause I an attack of heart fai 1 -
u:e. ijiic was 15 7 yearn old.
l.too MAD SHEEP RUN TILL DEAD
Eat Camas Weed and in Frenzy Drown
or Die in Convulsions
Spokane, Wash., May 21.—More
than 1,100 sheep are dead within a ra
dius of three miles from Boyds, ham
let 75 miles north of Spokane, as the
resuh of eating white ramus weed, was
the report ma ie here yesterday by I.
J. Minnick, a state food inspector.
Crazed by the weed, part of the
cheep ran wild through" the town un
til they died in convulsions, while hun
dreds plunged into the Kettle river
and were drowned. The sheep were
part of a flock of 1,900 shippei there
a few days ago to be pastured in the |
jEorest reserve.
MAKES 910,000 IN SLEEP
W. P. Boland, Scrantor. Coal Operator,
Gets Pleasant Surprise
Seranton. May 21.—William P.
E'jland, independent coal operator,
awakened Wednesday morning to learn 1
that he was SIO,OOO richer thau he ;
■w;is when he went to sleep on Tues- ;
d y night.
Mr. Boland owns $7.">.00n worth of
sto.-k in the Scranton and Binghamton j
| Kail way. Company. The stock has been i
selliug aroun $24 a tdiare. Following
I the announcement Wednesday morn-j
ing of W. L. Council and T. J. Poster
anl .1. K. (Jriflirh selliwr their interests
tti Mortimer I!. Fuller, E. .1. Lynett
and M. W. O'Boyle, the price of the
6tock soared ten points.
Scalding Water Fatal to Tot
Wiikes-Barre, Pa.. May 21.—Fall-,
ing from a bed upon which she ha i
been romping, into a tub of boiling 1
water. May Stanley, 4. of Wanamie,
near here, received burns which re
sulted in her death yesterday. The'
mother prepared water, in which she in-]
tended to wash clothes. Leaving the >
scalding water in a tub at the side of '
a bed that it might cool, the mother
went to an adjoining room for a mo
ment. The chil l, alune, made it* way j
to the side of the bed and toppled oil j
inta the tub.
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Liuj $22.50 1
•JELL your friends and save them
money. For sale by
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E. Blumenstine
Electrical Contractor
14 South Court Street
Harrisburg, Pa.
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A very girlish frock for "grown ups."
It is of dnrk blue and white cheeked
pussy willow taffeta. The skirt is ent
so as to fall in a decided flare. The
top Is shaped like a middy blouse, has
pockets and 's belted with the silk.
Cuffs and collar of faille silk.
TRIES TO WRECK EXPRESS
Miscreant Fails to Derail Odd Fel
lows' Train on Curve
Stroudsburj. May 21.—An attempt
was made yesterday to wreck the
passenger train which
I 'eaves East Stroudsburg at 2.35 p. m„
on the curve about two miles below.
This is one of the sharpest curves
in the road, and if the attempt had
foeen successful hundreds of passengers
might have been kiflcd or injured, as
the cars would have gone down a 15-
foot embankment.
The train was crowded with dele
gates returning to their home# from
the Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge COH
vention, which closed vefsterdav.
Cries of Baby Saves Family From Gas
Bloom9burg, Pa., May 21. —The cry
ing of a baby in the family of John
Yeagle, of Exchange, near here, prob
ably saved the entire family from
asphyxiation. The father was awakencl
and managed to crawl to a window and
open it. He found his wife and other
children unconscious. They are in a
critical condition.
Six Burned by Explosion
Mahanov City, Pa., May 21. —An ex
plosion of pis which blew down doors
and timbering in the Nog. 10 and 14
mines of the I>eliigh Coal & Navigation
colliery yesterday, seriously burned six
men, Daniel Snedvion, William Heath,
Andrew Lynch, Ignatz Domboroski,
Charles Smith and William Lynch. A
fuse set off the gas. The men are at
the Panther Creek Valley Hospital.
Prof. Joseph H. Dennis Dies
Bloomsburg, May 21.—Professor
Joseph H. Dennis, head of the College
Preparatory Department of the
Bloomsburg State Normal school for
the last twenty-three years, died yes
terday, the bursting of a blood vessel
causing death. Ho was also one of the
most prominTnt Odd Fellows in Cen
tral Pennsylvania. He was 49 years
old.
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HAKRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21. 1915.
REVIEW OF 1915
SESSION HILL
Legislature This Year
Appropriated $65,-
000.000, $15,000,-
000 Less Than 1913
BOTH BRANCHES
PARED DOWN
Important Measures Passed Inclyde
Workmen's Compensation and
Child Labor Laws—Most Notable
Defeat That of Local Option
Probably the most important legis
lation enacted by the 1915 session of
the General Assembly of Pennsylvania
which eame to an end yesterday, was
that providing a system of workmen's
compensation.
The subject was contained in six
bills and a joint resolution proposing
I a constitutional amendment empower
| ing the Legislature to make the work
| men 'a compensation law compulsory
I instead of elective to which it is now
restricted by constitutional provision.
The six bills, which provide for the
j law, its administration and several
. forms of insurance including a State
I insurance fund, were passed finally
j yesterday and are now in the lianas
j of the Governor who is in favor of
j placing them on the statute books,
j One ot the six bills exempts domestic
i servants ami agricultural workers from
| the operations of the law.
I Workmen's Compensation Law
The enactment of the workmen's
| compensation law is the result of four
j years of effort and the system to be
| adopted the first of next year in this
! State is declared to compare favorably
| with any similar law in this country.
Another important measure passed
j and which is now a law and will be
! come effective on January 1, next, is
I the child liibor act which had the
: backing of the State administration
j with the workmen's componsa-
I tion bills. The child labor act was
! strongly opposed but the administra
j tion succeeded in having it enacted by
both houses without material change.
This law fixes the hours of labor tor
I children between 14 ::ud 16 years at
not more than 31a week nor more than
J 9 a day. Each minor under 16 years
who is employed must attend a Voca
tional school at least eight hours a
week which time must come out of
the 51 hours allowed by law. No minor
under 12 years of age is permitted to
sell newspapers and all messengers em
ployed by telegraph, telephone or mes
senger companies after S o'clock at
night must be il'l years old or over.
The Legislature also -provided for vo
cational schools to mane the provisions
of the child labor law- effective.
County Local Option Defeated
The most notable piece of legisla-
I tion defeated was the county 10-al
option bill which had the uneompromis-
I ing support of Governor Brumbaugh,
j Ihis ii>ill failed to pass the House rffter
the Governor had made a sharp fight
' for it.
While no definite fitjures are yet
obtainable as to the total amount of
money appropriated it 4s estimated
i that the General Assembly provided
for the expenditure of more* than $65,-
1)00,000. A's the estimated revenues
j for the next two years will be about
$64,000,000, it will be necessary for
Governor Brumbaugh to exercise his
constitutional right and cut appropria
tions to meet the revenues. He has
thirty days in which to do this. In his
inaugural address the Governor point
ed out that the chief executive should
not have imposed upon him the duty
of cutting bills to meet the revenues
but that this duty should be performed
by the Legislature.
The total appropriations this ses
sion were about *15,000,000 under
those of the 1913 Legislature. Govern
or Tener was compelled to reduce them
to $87,000,000. The paring down this
session by the Senate and House ap
preprint ion I'omini'ttpos was made net?-
essary by the fact that the State's
estimated revenues for the next two
years are about 3 1-2 millions less
' than for the last two years.
Of the money appropriated this ses
-ion for the next two years, $15,000,-
000 go to the public schools; $1,000,-
j OOu to the vocational schools; $425,-
I 000 to continuation schools; $H,404,-
000 to public roads; about $3,000,000
j for the maintenance of. the state's
! tuberculosis sanitoria. The expenses
| of, the Department of Labor anv! Indus
\ try are increased about $900,000 by
MourOwn
Beauty Doctor
CuticuraSoap
and lot Water
Preceded by light touches of
Cuticura Ointment will help you.
Samples Free by Mall
Cutteura Boap and Ointment sold everywhere. |
Liberal sample of each mailed free, with 32-p. book.
Addrees po«Vcard ••CuUcura." Dept. 16P, Boston. |
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J Roin K wear 011 Decoration Day.
m Mtyt you from looking your besf on
Si M 111': \\\ 'To-morrow we are going to specialize
A, : \; • WfmM t in Snits »* $lO, sls and S2O. Suits
tH ift. v' I -/ mmm vfm/j- •/PtoSbe il that are worth a lot more but we be
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m VATjilf'F/MRNLrM #A high rent, high price district helps us
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reason of the administration of the
child labor and workmen's compensa
tion acts.
Millions for Charities
Between sixteen and seventeen mil
lion dollars is appropriated for the
charities of the state comprising state,
semi-state and private institutions,
hospitals and homes, (if this amount
about $5,000,000 is for private lio--
pitals and homes. It will take $4,000,-
000 to maintain the insane of the
state. This does not incliv le new
buildings and improvements for state
institutions for the insane. Nearly two
million dollars is provided for the
maintenance of penitentiaries and re
formatories. Educational institutions
that usually receive state aid were pro
vided for, the University of Pennsyl
vania and State College each being
granted $1,000,000 and the University
of Pittsburgh $(550,000. For the eradi
cation of the foot and mouth disease
the Legislature appropriated $925,000.
The port of Philadelphia was granted
$500,000 for harbor improvements.
Among the measures passed to in
crease the revenues of the state were
those providing a tax on anthracite
coal, providing that counties pay their
own primary election expenses, placing
a two-cent tax on every SIOO of stock
transfers, escheating to the state all
money in financial institutions that
have'been inactive for many years
with the presumption that its owners
are dead or cannot be found, and com
pelling persons to pay for the care and
maintenance in stato institutions of in
sane relatives where they are able to
pay.
Constitutional Amendments Proposed
The Legislature also passed joint
resolutions proposing amendments to
the constitution the most notable of
which iB that giving women the right
to vote. Another constitutional amend
ment to come before the people in No
vember will be one permitting tlie city
of Philadelphia to, increase its borrow
ing capacity from seven to ten per cent,
of the value of its assessel' taxables.
The workmen's compensation constitu
tional amendment will also be voted
upon in November. All these joint reso
lutions were also passed by the 1913
Legislature. A joint resolution propos
ing a constitutional amendment per
mitting the state to borrow fifty mil
lion dollars for good roads was passed
by the Legislature this session and if
again adopted in 1917, it will go to the
people in November, 1918.
Among other bills that failed 1 to pass
wan tho proposition for holding a con
stitutional convention to draft a new
instrument to take the place of tho
present constitution.
Election bills passed included one
; which will put the Republican party
back in the first column on the election
: ballot, displacing the Democratic par-
I ty. Bills designed to prevent fusion
were also passed.
Many other bills of more or less im
portance were passed. The National
Uuard was reorganized so as to conform
with the organisation of the United
States army, the Attorney General's
Department- was reorganized as was
also the Agricultural Department.
There were many bills passed affecting
third class cities ami boroughs.
LANCASTER'S POSSESSIONS
Richest Agricultural Country Not So
Heavily Taxed
Lancaster, May 21. —The wealth
' of Lancaster county shown by statistics
just compiled from the assessors'
j books. The number of property owners
is 21,6*58, there are 22,140 tenants,
8,217 single men and 1,531 single
women who pay taxes.
Thy assessed value of real estate is
$110,826,238, and church and school
property oxempt is valued at
979. There are 58,432 aires of timber
land and 515.597 of farm land.
Taxes are paid on 29,511 horses,
valued at $2,152,581 and on 28,980
cattle, assessed at $852,621.
Tho amount realized from county
taxes is ?283,835.72. There is invest
ed in mortgages and judgments $3'2,-
376,794.
Dallastown Physician Weds
York, l'a., May 21.—Dr. Charles
Wilson Froy, a physician of Dallas
town, and Miss Virginia D. Billet, of
North York, were marriel! Wednesday
evening. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. R. R. Rhodes, pastor of the
Fifth United Brethren church.
Gets Damages to Property From Oil
Norristown, l'a., May 21. —John
Litka, of Yerkes, was awarded $1,500
damages in court yesterday, against
United States Pipe Line Company, be
cause oil from a break "in the pipe line
flowed over his land, damaging his
property.
Octogenarian Dies at Lewistown
Lewistown, Pa., May 21. —Thomas
M. Utley, 80 years old, died suddenly
last evening from heart disease. He
was the oldest member of the Mifflin
County Bar Association, and an active
member of the firm of Utley & Son,
lawyers. Ho was a veteran of the Civil
war.
Boardwalks White From Frost
Pine Grove, Pa., May 21.—Frost ap
peared throughout this region yesterday
j morning, ami roofs, fences ami l board
walks were white. It is feared early
vegetables and grapes suffered. From 5
o'clock Wednesday afternoon to 5
o'clock yesterday morning the mercury
dropped thirty degrees.
Colliery Employes Strike
Wilkes-Barre, May 21.—Refusal of
a few employes at the Empire shaft
of the Lehig'h and Wilkes-Barre Coal
Company, in I his city, to join the union
i ranks, yesterday cmsed a button strike
! at that colliery. About 8(10 men and
j boys are affected.
Illinois to Pay for Cattle Slain
j Springfield, 111., May 21. : —The sl,-
| 000,000 foot and mouth appropriation
i bill, signed yesterday bv Governor
I Dunne, provides for the state's share in
j reimbursement of stock raisers as a
j result of the slaughter by state and
6. R. KINNEY & CO.
Shoes of the Better Grade, Workmanship $ j AO
and Quality at the Popular Price of. .
The combined output of our chain of 48 stores in as many different
cities gives us advantages in buying, and so enables us to sell better
goods for less money.
A glance in our window? or allowing us to demonstrate valu'e will con
vince you of the merit of our goods and truth of our claims.
Men's and Boys' Rubber Soled Oxfords and High Shoes in A* qq
tan or black, we sell at I *%/0
Every pair with hand-sewed soles.
Newest novelties in High or Low Shoes for Ladies, grades that cannot
be bought elsewhere for less than $3.00. dt 1 QO
Our price, V i ti/O
Misses' and Children's Barefoot Sandals, all 4f\
sizes . . . TFI f C
Ladies' White Canvas, Rubber Soled Oxfords, just the thing for An
outing. Special, UO C
G.R. KINNEY & CO.
19 and 21 North Fourth St.
federal authorities of cattle infected
during the epi'dtemic.
Neutrals
It is generally acknowledged that
neutrals have rights. After the war
is over these will be respected.—ln
dianapolis Journal.
Baffles Burbank
Even Luther Burbank seems unable
to invent a seed that your neighbor's
chickens can't scratch tip. —Washing-
ton Star.
Pessimist
Stranger (to clerk at weather bu
reau) —I'm to be married to-morrow.
What are tho probabilities?
Clerk—'Why, judging from your
looks—rotten!— Now York Grlobe.