SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality- Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—items of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. August Ilese, injured in the trolley wreck at Luzerne borough died. Boyertown's Board of Health will demand from Council better sewerage. llo£finan Brothers who are drilling ;an artesian well near Weatherly, have discovered traces of anthracite coal. Jacob Beek, of Lancaster, has sued <F. E. Engle for $2500 damages for al 'leged slander. Striking roadmakers at Pottsville, accepted SI.BO for a 10-hour day la stead of $1.75 for nine hours. Striking Scranton liodcarriers tied up building operations, and pickets smashed a contractor's telltale cam era. Lucas D. Hall has been appointed Justice at Great Bend, Susquehanna county, vice William Williams, re signed. Fred W. Curtis and wife and daugh ter Antoinette, of Reading, have re turned from a four months' tour through Europe. Oram Lyte, principal of the Millers ville Normal School, with which he has been connected for 45 years, will resign on account of ill-health. Professor Charles F. Richardson, lately of the faculty of Dartmouth Col lege, will be the speaker at the annual commemorative services at Wyoming monument, near Wilkes-Barre, on July A son, the fourteenth child, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. David Eck, of Collomsville,Lycoming county. Twelve tire living. Mr. and Mrs. Eck have the largest family in Nippenose Valley. Sterling, the world's first large coke plant, at Scotland, has closed its doors as a coking field after a long life of 41 years, 8 months and 21 days of use fulness. A visitor to West Chester a few days ago was W. Torbet Ingram, a re tired farmer of East Bradford town ship, who at 95 years of age walks and taUis as sprightly as a youth of 50. Men employed at the shippings, in and around Lost Creek were given a 10 per cent, increase and a threaten ed strike was prevented. Cramped for room for its 3500 public school children, Pottsville has given contract for an addition to the new Patterson Memorial School to coat $7,- 000. G. B. Markle & Company, the larg est individual coal operators in the an thracite fields, approved plans for 100 new houses for miners between Eber vale and Oakdale. Edward Weaver is in the Allentown jail for a theft of $25 from the clothes of Lloyd Moser, a fellow-employe in a pretzel bakery. His excuse was that he wanted to see his grandmother in Wilkes-Barre. Work on the erection of the immen se electric light, heat and power plant at Ilouto by the Lehigh Coal and Navi gation Company an dtlit; construction of the large reservoir is well under way. Every drunkard now discovered in Coatesvillo streets is hauled to head quarters for his sentence of $lO tine or 30 days in jail. One day yielded 14 of them. For alleged neglect to repair roads, Stephen Allen, Abraham Ackerman and Luther Thomas, supervisors of Washington township, Northampton county, were arrested on bench war rants and held in SSOO ball each for trial at Court. Johnstown Lodge, of Elks, has voted to open a vacant lot adjoining the club's home on Locust street and dedi cate it to the city as a public play ground. The Elks will equip it at an expense of SSOO and then turn it over to the Park Commission for supervi sion. Suffering from melancholia, Mrs. Laura V. Hollinger, 65 years old, a wealthy Carlisle widow, committed suicide by taking gas. Adam Hottko, while seesawing in the air on a big swing, at Wilkes- Uarre, lost his hold and was hurled to the ground, breaking his neck. f'raig Sporrior, of West Fairview, Cumberland county, a Pennsylvania ltailroad brakeman, in attempting to K>>t off his train at Creswell, fell undel ete wheels and was killed. REPUBLICAN WOMEN FLOCK TO CONVENTION CITY Mrj. /A?far ■ /Ffcu<?>•»/<?/ —* Cecil Lyost Scores of the delegates to the Republican convention and others drawn to Chicago by the big event are ac companied by their wives. These ladies usually are deeply interested in the proceedings, but many of them com plain that they are neglected by their busy husbands, and are driven to while away the time shopping or taking automobile rides. PLOT TO OUST MAJOR GENERAL WOOD CHARGED Accusation Made That Cabal was Started by Senator Hanna —Sen- ator Warren Assailed. Washington—Startling charges of ail intrigue against Major General Leonard Wood, chief of Btaff of the anny, begun by the late Senator Mar cus A. lianna and kept alive by his friends, were only a few of the sensa tions which attended the adoption by the House of the conference report on the ar.Vy appropriation bill. References to Senator Warren whose son-in-law, Hrigadier Gen. Pershing, would be one of the lirst officers in line for appointment to Gen. Wood's office ir President Taft signs the bill which carries an amendment to de pose the chief of staff; allusions to Major General Charles F. Humphrey as "the agent for the powder trust;" and to Senator du Pont's former con nection with the powder business, fur nished other incidents in what per haps was as stormy an afternoon as | the House had seen in inanv a day. Nevertheless, in spite of a vain tight led by Representatives Prince, Cooper and Martin, the House adopted the re port, which hud been approved by Its ! cont'errees and accepted by the Sen ate, and if President Taft signs the I bill, as it is said he will, General Wood | will be removed from his office on .March 4, 191;!. Under the bill, too, the ' retention or disposal of many array i posts which the War Department has i characterized as useless will be left ! to a commission. Representative Prince began the light against the report by characteriz ing it as "an insult to the army, the House and the country," and in the debate which followed Representative Cooper brought in the name of Sena tor Ilanna. "In all my public career," Mr. Coop er said, "I know of no officer who has been so malignantly misrepresented as General Wood. I was told on the very best authority that when General Wood was in charge of affairs in Cuba a certain Senator asked him what he proposed to do about Major Rathbone, Director of Posts of Cuba, then involv ed in the postal frauds. TAFT'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT SAFE. House Sees to It That the $25,000 Will Be Ready for Travel Expenses. Washington.—President Taft will get his $25,000 appropriation for trav eling expenses this year. The House defeated a motion of Representative Page of North Carolina to strike the appropriation from the sundry bill. Representative Fitzgerald, chairman .of the appropriations committee and many other prominent Democrats join ed the Republicans iu voting down Mr. Page's amendment POLICE IN FIERCE BATTLE WITH STRIKERS Bluecoats of Perth Amboy Use Pistols Upon 4,000 Angry Men—Run by I. W. W. Agitators. Perth Amboy, N. J. —A sudden out break among tj.oOO striking Hungarian and Slav laborers of five of the largest factories of Perth Amboy, many of the men aflame from drink, swept the small police force of the town help lessly before it and made it necessary for Sheriff Albert Bollachweiler to round up special deputies and send to New Brunswick for additional help, at the same time making ready to send a call for the mill 'a, if order were not restored, llefon the rioting stopped three policemen were injured and three strikers shot; twenty cars were attacked and stoned, and the trolley service was blocked for half an hour, stores were smashed, prisoners were rescued from the police and the police forced for their own safety to take shelter in buildings and hallways, leaving the street in \indlsputed pos- J session of a surging mob of angry men. Every window in the smelting plant | and in buildings on all sides of it was ! smashed. The show window of two j stores nearby were knocked out with rocks and chunks of iron. After a day of peaceful attempts to organize, the strikers learned that 500 strikebreakers had been brought in by boat from New York. The subject was discussed with growing heat and anger over refilled glasses in various saloons. As night fell a mob of about 4,000 strikers of the Smelting Com pany and the Rarber Asphalt Company gathered threateningly before the fence that surrounds the Smelting Company's plant. Then came a fusillade of rifle shots and in the gathering darkness scores of private detectives could be seen firing from the low roof of the steel plant, where they had climbed in an ticipation of just such an attack. As the strikers fell back they carried with them three of their number wounded The pursuers caught up, however, closed around the wagon, and In a moment had overturned it, spilling the four men out and rescuing the prison er. FOR RECALL OF JUDGES. Senate Votes to Retire Circuit Justices Now On Commerce Bench. Washington.—The Senate went on record in favor of the application of the legislative recalTto Federal judges. Not satisfied with the House provision wiping the United States Commerce Court out of existence, the Senators went further and took action looking to the retirement to private life of the live judges of the United States Cir cuit Court created by the Commerce Court act. OLYMPIC ATHLETES SAIL FOR SWEDEN American Team Off for Stockholm to Conquer the Word —Ail Brim ful of Confidence. New York. —One hundred and fifty athletes, representing the cream ol the United Stales on track, field anu path, sailed for Stockholm, Sweden, where, in July, they will represent this country at the Olympic games in com- j petition with all nations. The steamship Finland, of the Ked Star Line, took them away, and will lirst call at Antwerp, after which it j will go direct to the Swedish capital j and there anchor in the harbor until the games are tlnished, the athletes living aboad the ship tor thirty-six days. The ship was gayly decorated in | bunting, bands played, girls and men waved flags and cheered at every op- j portunity, and hundreds of persons on the pier shouted a last farewell and j called "Good Luck!" as the Finland j backed into the stream and headed foi the ocean. Of the picked lot, three are real Am- j ericans—Andrew Sockalexis, Louis Te wanina and Jim Thorpe. George L. Horine, whose high jump ing has been the sensation in athletics this year, was there, a long distance from his home in San Francisco, but in perfect form and sure of the points in his event. Marc S. Wright, the Dartmouth pole vaulter, who says ho is going to clear a Stockholm sky ; scraper before he gets back, listened to a hearty "Wall, Who, Wah" in his honor us he waved farewell to many j friends. Craig, the sprinter; Mel Sheppard, 1 the pride of New York; Kiviat, the : crack middle distance runner; Donhag, Tewanina, the Carlisle Indian; Do j Mar, Sockalexis, Erxleben, Marathot ! hopes; Thorpe, rated one of the best all round men in the world; Ralph Roße, the giant weight man; "Matt" McGrath and nearly every athlete in America of any prominence had a place on the team. Each of the carefully trained repre sentatives wore a hat band of black embroidered *with a United States shield iu colors. VOLCANIC ASH BURIES TOWN. Heavy Loss of Life Feared in Alaskan Islands. Seward, Alaska. —A fresh eruption of the Katmai volcano started, ac companied by explosions that could b« i heard for miles. It is believed certaii that uli the villages at the base ol Katmai Mountain have been destroyed and that there has been considerable loss of life. North Kadiak Island and Afognakt Island are covered with ashes, it some places forty feet deep. ALL TOLL ROADS AREJIOOMED Highway Commissioner Bige low Places Ban Upon Them. HE WILL ABOLISH THEM Those of Franklin and Fulton Coun ties to be Taken Over—State's Sys tem Freed From Hold-Up Gate Owners. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence. Harrisburg.—State Highway Com missioner E. M. Bigelow announced tiiat lie would inaugurate the first of the proceedings by the State to secure roads which are included in main high way roules but are owned by turnpike j companies. The first action will be j brought to condemn the toll road be tween Chambersburg and the Bedford ! county line, which crosses portions of | Franklin and Fulton counties. Later on proceedings to condemn turnpikes | in the vicinity of Philadelphia and other cities where such roads are on main routes will be undertaken. The ; actions will be in charge of Attorney | General Hell with whom the commis sioner has conferred. It is the idea j to take over turnpikes as needed to improver main highways. Commission er lMgelow conferred with a delega tion of Franklin countians, who asked the right to run a trolley line from Greeneastle on the main highway, but no decision was reached. He also had a talk with J. Horace McFarland about the importance of preserving the trees along the Riverside road near Fort Hunter, and will take a trip with Mr. McFarland over the route and about the city's park system. As Mr. IJige low was the father of Pittsburgh's splendid park system, his tour will probably be of importance to this ci'.j'. The commissioner will visit Lancaster to meet good roads advocates and out line plans for that county. The con struction work for which bias will be asked in July will be as follows: Main Highways—No. 163, Lehigh county, Zeiglersville to Schechsville, 16,300 feet; No. 57, Centre county, Philips burg to Osceola, 10,750 feet; No. 161, Northumberland county, Shamokin to Mount Carmel, 40,142 feet; No. 11S. Washington county, 3,760 feet; No. 63, Jefferson county, Punxsutawney to the Indiana county line, 13,800 feet. State Aid Highways—Berks county, Here ford township, 8,354 feet; Bucks coun ty, Emily and Fallsington townships, 18,163 feet; Blair county. Frankstown, on main highway route No. 260. Receiver Applied Fcr. Application has been made to the Federal courts for a receiver for the Corporation Funding and Finance Company, a Delaware company which has had offices in Reading, and which figured in proceedings bofore the In surance Commissioner some weeks ago. It is contended that the liabili ties amount to $495,000 and that the assets are less than $50,000. After False Weights. The city of Scranton has put on two sealers of weights and measures and has asked the Slate authorities togo over the standards. Chief Sweeney will handle the weights and meaures as soon as received. Lackawanna county is moving in the same direc tion and the value of the Bureau of I Standards is being recognized more ! every day. I To Act on Report. 1 President Francis J. Torrence and i Secretary Bromley Wharton, of the State Board of Public Charities, who have been attending the national con ference of charities and corrections at I Cleveland, arrived here for the meet ing of the State Board. It is certain some action will be taken regarding I the reports on the Dauphin eouuty almshouse or prinon. Party in Debt. Thomas L. Hicks, who recently as I chairman and treasurer of the Key stone party State committee, filed an account as acting treasurer of the committee at the State Department. It shows that from December 11 to June 5, last, he received $552.57 ami expended the same amount. Indebted ness is shown to the amount of $2,000, which are notes. Details for State Police. The State Police Department creat ed the rank of corporal for the four troops, under the act of 1911, and es tablished 12 substations for the sum mer. The details are: Troop A. at Greensburg, Somerset, Portage and Kredericktown; Troop B, at Wyoming, Peckville, Hazleton and Berwick; Troop C, at Pottsville, Waynesboro, Newton and Shenandoah; Troop I), at Butler, Indiana, Hymersburg and Bea ver Falls. Pheasants Breeding Fast. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Came Commission, spent the day on the State preserve in that county and in looking over the site of the proposed reserve in Centre. He says that game is abundant and in stanced seeing three pheasants each with a brood, in a radius of forty feet. Game is well protected there and is multiplying. Incidentally there was frost in the mountains on the days he was on his visit. He is very enthusi istic o v °r the prospect of the pre tT . J. Woman conceals only what she does flot know.—Proverb. For regulation of the stomach and bo won you will tiuU Uarlleid Tea very benutiuiai. The young man who tells a girl sha la a dream Is likely to bump up against a rude awakening shortly after mar riage. * Instead of liquid antiseptics, tablets and peroxide, for toilet and medicinal uses, many people prefer Paxtine, which is cheaper and better. At drug gists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on re ceipt of price by The Paxton Tollel Co., Boston, Mass. Her Foresight. "It Is really by little things that one can tell a man's character." "Yes; I think that was the reason Julia broke her engagement. Henry used to bring her such cheap choco lates." When Your Eyes Need Care Try Murine Eye Remedy. No Smarting—Feoli Fine—Acts Quickly. Try it for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus trated Book in each Package. Murine i* compounded by onr Oculists —not a "Patent Med icine"—but used In successful Physicians' Prac tice for many years. Now dedicated to the Pub lic and sold by Druggists at '2sc and 60c por Bottle. Murino Eye salvo In Aseptio Tubes, 25c and S(Jo. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago Just to Accommodate. Hungry Girl (one of a party of tour ists who have arrived late at a coun try inn) —No fresh eggs? But you've got hens, haven't you? Innkeeper's Wife —Yes, but they've all asleep. Hungry Girl —Well, but can't you wake them? —Fliegende Blaetter. Poor Father. Mayor Turnbull, of Canton, was talking about a statement, made all unconsciously by a Titanic officer, that had been a terrible black eye for the Tltanio administration. "This statement," he said, me of a little Canton boy. " 'Tommy, why are you so unkind to your nurse? Why don't you love her?' his mother once asked him. " 'Because I don't,' the infant terri ble replied. 'I just hate her! I could pinch her cheeks like papa does!'" Going Further Back. A man who had suddenly become very rich went to live in New York and began to spend money with a lav ish hand. He decided that his name j needed advertising, so he visited a | genealogist. "I suppose," he said, "if I pay you ; enough you can trace my family back i to Adam." "My dear sir," replied the genealo -1 gist, "if you're willing to put up the j money we can prove by evolution that | your family existed before Adam."— j Lippiucott's Magazine. THE KIND HE WANTED. I Cholly Gayburd—Do you believe the 6tory of Jonah and the whale? Grace Saintly—Why, of course I do. I believe every word of it. Cholly Gayburd (enthusiastically)— Dear Miss Saintly, will you be my ' wife? OUTDOOR LIFE. Will Not Offset the 111 Effects of Coffee and Tea When One Cannot Digest Them. A farmer says: "For ten years or more I suffered | from dj'spepsia and stomach trouble, j caused by the use of colfee (Tea con | tains caffeine, the same drug found | in coffee), until I got so bad I had to ' give up coffee entirely and almost give !up eating. There were times when I j could eat only boiled milk and bread; and when I went to the field to work ; I had to take some bread and butter 1 along to give me strength. "I doctored steady and took almost 1 everything I could get for my stomach I In the way of medicine, but if I got any better It only lasted a little while. I was almost a walking skeleton. "One day I read an ad for Postum and told my wife I would try It, and as t« the following facts I will make affi davit before any Judge: "I quit coffee entirely and xised Pos tum in Its place. I have regained my health entirely and can eat anything that Is cooked to eat. I have increased In weight until now I weigh more than I ever did. I have not taken any medi cine for my stomach since I began using Postum. "My family would stick to coffee at first, but they saw the effects It had on me and when they were feeling bad they began to use Postum, ono at a time, until now we all use Postum " Name given by Postum Co., Battla Creek, Mich. Ten days' tvlal of Postum In plac* of coffee proves the truth, an easy and pleasant way. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," iu pkgs. "There's a rea son." Krer rend the letter? A new one nppettn from time to time. Tliey ire arenntne, tree, and full of ho ma a tatereat.
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