The Fullon Counly News ' McConnellsburg, Pa. MUSHROOM8 A3 FOOD. Professor F. E. Clements, the state botanist of Minnesota, hag attracted attention by bla estimate in a recent bulletin that the annual waste of mushrooms In the United Statei equals In value the entire agricultural product of the country, says the Man cheHter Vnlon. It Is easy for an en thusiast In any line of thought or en deavor to lose the sense of Just pro portion, and It may (erbaps be taken for granted that Professor Clements baa permitted himself to be carried way by the contemplation of the waste of a natural food product which la more or less abundant everywhere - and which has an unquestioned food value. Beginning with early summer and continuing until lute full, the pro ductlon of mushrooms in woods, pas tures and waste places Is something enormous, and a large proportion ol them are not only edible, but nour lablng. In so far as thy are not made use of and a small proportion of them Is ever gathered they ol course, represent a los of possible food supvly, but some account must be taken of the cost of collecting and dlstrlbu!Ing them to consumers, as well as of the danger from some spe cles which are harmful and of at least t io which may be classed as deadly. Thewe are easily distinguish ed, to be sure, by any one who baa nade a study of the mushroom tribe, but until Americans, as a rule, are tauch more familiar with the subject than at present, a great proportion of the edible varieties will continue to go lo waste. Basing calcu!itlons on the estimate that tba number of American tourists In Europe In a season la 800,000 and that the average Individual expendi ture by these tourists la $760, some ne baa easily figured that about $225, 000,000 of American money la spent abroad In the course of a season; and this doea not Include the cost of steam hip tickets. Bankers who handle the letters of credit for wealthy Amerl can tourists are quoted to the effect that $3,000 la a fair average for the value of these letters, says the Man Chester Vnlon. Among tourists of the wealthy class, says the report, it ti common to place from $25,000 to $75, 000 in the hands of the bankers, and, as a rule, fully two-thirds of the mount Is drawn. Possibly the major premise of this main proposition has been overdrawn; possibly the minor premise; possibly both and possibly neither. In any event, It must be ad mltted that $225,000,000 Is a tremen dous sum of American money to be taken to Europe and left there in a single season. An appeal for American-made rub ber tires Is made by the United States consuls in Germany, who say that a rich market Is being overlooked by the people at borne. These advance agenta of trade point out that in some of the cities on the high road of tourist travel there are for sale but two makes of automobile ilres, and those of French and German brands. Tbe use of the bicycle as a means of trans portation is reported on the increase, nd, aa If to add to tbe field for ex ploitation, many of the smaller cities are just beginning to awake to the advantage of rubber tires as a part of the fitting of general vehicles. An ungallant New Jersey farmer dressed up his scarecrows In bobble klrts and basket bats, and declares that the crows are too panic-stricken by the fashionable frights to come near his fields. Many men will think more of the intelligence of birds after this display of the crows' antipathy to hobble skirts. A Chicago teamster has been sen tenced to one year In the penitentiary for atabblng a horse to death because the animal would not stand quietly beside a hitching post No doubt be deserved what be got, but If he had merely killed a man be might be out on small ball. Blnce the means of identification by Pnger and thumb marks, New Jersey burglars are wearing gloves. It Is a I '.ty more commendable ambitions are not equally quick to take up-to-date advantage of all the resources of the age. A Connecticut woman has been turtd by a surgical operation of her mania for playing the piano. De iiiunils for simUar operations will prob ably now come pouring In from all parte of the United States. Blue paint, we are told, will drive away flies. If red paint would do the name a good many of our citizens would be willing to give up their sleep and make the town immune. Fifteen Philadelphia bakers have been arrested for dyeing their pies. Yet anyone who has tried to eat a Philadelphia pie will realize the neces sity for disguising them. It Is never too late to learn. The papers tell us that a New Yorker, ninety-five years old, has just leartad to smoke. The man who cut off bis nose to mite bis face is outclassed by the Brooklynlte who killed himself to cure a toothache. All dogs that walk abroad In the bot months should be adorned with a mu sle. FATALLY HURT A3 151 FALLS Audience In a Panic, but Aviator Keeps His Nerve. STRUGGLE FOR FIVE MINUTES Blrdman Tossed About by Trcaeh raus Current in lrho and Lotas Control of Hi Red Oavil. Erie, Pa. Pud Mars, the plucky aviator, was perhups fatally hurt at 1. 10 o'clock Friday afternoon when bis famous "Red Devil" biplane full 100 feet outside the aviation Held In apper Peach street, where he was giving flights ut the aviation meet held under the auspices of the Krio Dispatch. Murs Is ow confined to Hamot Hospital, in this city. Ho la In a semiconscious condition, suf fering from fractures of three ribs on the left slik', Internal huru and extensive body bruises and lacera tions. A piece of Jagged st el projecting from the engine of the biplane made a deep indention Into the pudding of the bead gear, but failed to pene trate its thickness. The accident was caused by the biplane hitting au air pocket. Mrs. Mars was sitting in the grandstand and saw the bi plane fall. When the crowds saw that Mars was losing control of his. biplane when he struck the airhole, all jumped to their feet and ran across tbe field and shouted words of en couragement to the daring Utile blrdman. "You'll get him excited by yelling at him," shouted Mrs. Mars, who was cooler and more collected than anyone of tbe more than 3,000 pres ent. The crowd failed to hear her, however. The police ran on to the field and started to beat back thb crowds. Despite the desperate battle he was having 100 feet above, Mars recognized that the crowd below was panic-stricken. He waved his band as if beckoning to the people to keep cool. When the police had forced all the people back to near the grandstand, Mrs. Mars coolly walked out over the field and watched her husband. There was not a sign of fear on her face. For five minutes the aviator lought desperately trying to extricate was plainly seen, however, that Mara did not lose his nerve. When be saw that his biplane was falling be tried to right It and guide It under a hundred or more tele phone and telegraph wires. As be bis biplane from the treacherous air . oreanlzations interested in ' 1 y J,r' " Ickersham holds Btateg that nave ratified the propos- pocket. But suddenly the biplane ' ,.na . " . . .rHi. . rp- 1 that "cond'Kn Punishment" should be ed fe()erai ineome tax and brings die dipped about 15 feet, then turning j J"""1 A,':, total UD to Tabulation shows on Its side began to fall slowly. It "fji" Ti?.,,. pnlTnr arranKement under whlch Dr" Rusby the necessary 35. or three-fourths' did so one of the planes of his ma-! adoPt?d , re801I" lon'' .'"V-hri. wnsatlon in excess of that al ehlne collided with a wire. It shot I he ? 8plrlt and trend f Chr"-. lowed by law. It is asserted that downward like a bullet, allehtlne on h- nnH W h ..! ed a mass of ill boys, un- wall of the aviation lie wreckage. Three small noticed by the police, were stand- , ......L u iJ UK uu iiiw uumiuo ui me ueiu peer Ing through a hole in the canvas. The biplane fell directly on top of them, but not one received a scratch. A moan went up from he crowd. Pandemonium reigned. There was a mad scramble to find out how bad ly Mars had been hurt. Mrs. Mars, though, was the first person to reach ber husband's side. A second later five officials began to lift up the wrecked biplane to remove Mars. It was at first thought he had been caught under the machine. He was Still sitting In his seat, the steering wheel forced against his chest. He was conscious, but was unable to peak Dr. Broughton Issued a statement from the hospital to the effect that the aviator's chest was badly injur ed; that he had sustained concussion of the brain and suffered Internal In- Juries, while he Is also bruised from bead to foot Judge and Contb'e Kl'led. Burnslde, Ky. Constable W. A. Heath and Justice A. J. Beatty were turn to his native land and that the Shot to death In the courthouse here. Venezuelan government itself had James Ellis, a former deputy sheriff, been unable to find anyone who had U under arreBt, charged with the seen Castro or had heard of his be double crime. Officers are pursuing ing near Columbia or Venezuela A. Helton, who. It Is alleged partlcl-! within the past year. pated In the affray. No one else was present when the shooting took place. Hid Mrn h In StnMe. New York. Hiding for nearly a month in a hay loft, her only food being horse fodder, Vera Trevor, a beat-crazed AuBtraln girl, was dls - covered by the police nearly dead from starvation. Four Boys Lost on Lae Huron Black River, Mich. During the high wind Tuesday four little boys were carried out Into Lake Huron In an old boat and were lost. Three of them were sons of Joseph Mar qulB Alfred, George and Jean, aged respectively, 9, 7 and 5 years the other being William, the 7-year-old son of John Lalonde. The children bad been forbidden by their parents to go near the water, but slipped away, found the old boat at the mouth of the river and started for an Island. Stick Pin Into Dynamite Cap Lynchburg, Va. A young son of Mrs. Virginia Brooks, who lives In Bouth Lynchburg, finding a dynamite cartridge, ran to his mother, asking what It was. Mrs. Brooks did not know, but proceeded to investigate with a hatpin. The cap exploded, blowing the woman's first finger en tirely off and tearing away portions of ber thumb, second and third fingers. Sbe also sustained an in jury to her right eye and right Ihouldor. "GOING '".... 60 f- '! J-50 ... i(.o(irishl. 11 1. 1 "DRY" NATION JULY 4, 1920 Chrlstlin Endeevorers Enl St Entire rVerrb rshlp In Fight Against Saloon. Ey Champ ia-k The Christian Endeavorers are doing a good work, as an Institution halfway between the Sunday School md the Church. It is an organized body which Is the best way of getting results. This Is the first time I have ever (.1 tended one of their national t-onventions and it Impressed me as a most enthusiastic rally.' Py D . Flovi Temk'na. The convention has been a blessing to all who attended. First, By bringing them near er together as Christians. Second, By making them more eager to work. Third, By impressing them with the reality and power of Christianity. The results will bo carried to many cities and homes and churches. A growth will result in all good things. Atlantlc City. "A Saloonless Nation" by the Fourth of July, 1920, 1 : the 300th year from the landing of tre Pilgrims at Plymouth, is to be ; the Bi0gan of the Christian Endeav i nrpr. nf th world and of an sects adopted by the Christian Endeavor Convention on the Million Dollar Pier. mis resolution, - be ma(e Dr. H. H. Rusby. a stringent hb it is. however, is on y , recoffn,,ed pharmacognosy of Co one of a number of unanimously ...,. t-iv.ri,v VnrV tnr I ua" E'nuett. .. ... COmprenensive l.quur reau.u t,on derlare8 that Christian Endeavor 1 18 an uncompromising foe of saloon .nima And Inaloia imnn (ha n hnll " - .".V.',;" n ttlon of the liquor tramc, in every t . . . . . , one of Its phases, local, State, Na tional and international. As a grand climax to the nine years country-wide liquor campaign. It Is proposed to work for the amendment of the Constitution of the Vnlted States, to the end, that results of the campaign may be made Irrevocable. Liquor is branded as "America's Greatest Curse," and an appeal Is Issued for a united, but bloodless, because legal, and moral revolution, for a new declaration of Independence. CAST R 3 THE MYSTERIOUS i Veneiueien P'ot-er Seems to Have Again Die ppsared Washington. The Castro mystery fc. Hnnrt A.,nr.ntlv h earth ha8 opened and again swallowed up . I..WI- .... me worm a must ..... r of ARrlcuIturei asked about dogs have been killed during the past ' i finiui c,( ,.kwi I"8 flx,nK of the Ba,ary of Dr. Rusby 12 months by Boston's official dog American Minister Garrett cabled .,,., " ,' , ... ?, rn,,ha The official doit-catchers from Caracas that he could got no confirmation of Castro's supposed re- Ta t to Open in By Statu. Boston, MaBS. President Taft will deliver his first political speech In Massachusetts when he becomes the guest of the Essex County Club at tg outing to be held on August ; 26 at the home of Congressman A. ! j, Gardner at Hamilton. Governor Unas, of New Hampshire, will be an other guest of the day. Will Colonlz Drunkards. New York. From now on a card Index will be kept of the records of all male persons arrested In New York for intoxication, an Investiga tion made of what persons are de pendent for support upon the offend ers, and a hospital and Industrial colony will be established for the care and treatment of such caaes as are deemed "habitual drunkards." This work was ordered by the Board of Inebriety which was authorized by an act of legislature In 1910. Hitler Foe Gives $100, COO Indianapolis, Ind. James Whit comb Riley, the Hoosler Poet, it was announced recently gave real estate valued at $100,000 to the Board of Commissioners as a site for a public library and administration building for the public schools of this city. Kll ed Plsy ng Indians. New York. Playing Indian caused the death of Arthur Zwart, aged seven years. His brother Alfred, aged nine was the cowboy, chasing the Indian with father's revolver. UP" aV.W TIM J Wickersham Recommends Pure Food Man's Resingation. TAFTGiVES DEFENSE CHANCE Will Not et Un II He Ha Heard the Other S de Like Bal- llnger-Pinchot Con troversy. Washington. Dr. Harvey Wiley, the famous chief of W. the Bureau of Chemistry, who has been i battling against tremendous odds for ' the fearless and impartial enforce-! ment of the Pure Food law, Is again under fire. His resignation has been recom mended to the President on the basis of a report formulated by Inveterate enemies within the Department of Agriculture, who charge him with evasion of the law and Irregularity. Attorney-General Wickersham has indorsed the recommendation for the resignation of Dr. Wiley, the dls- missal of Dr. Rusby, and the reduc- tion or ur. Lyman . Kebier, chiei of the Division of Drugs. In advising President Taft to oust i was empioyea. . It is charged against Dr. Wiley mai ne permmen an arrangement io the arrangement was to put Dr put Rusby on the payroll of the depart ment at $, 600 a year a8 an empIoye of the BureRu of chem,Bt a agreement being made with him that he should be called upon to perform only such service as this salary would compensate for at the rate of $20 a day for laboratory Investigations and $50 a day for attendance In court, Attorney - General Wickersham held that the law permitted the pay- ment of only $9 a day, this sum later being increased to $11 a day. The record in the case was before President Taft for action, but he recognized the Incompleteness of the case and the papers are now all be- fore Dr. Wiley, who Is preparing his defense against the charges which were filed against him by an assist- ant w'.io was running the Bureau of Chemistry during the famous chemist's absence. These charges and Insinuations of I irregularity and evasion of the law , ere never submitted to Dr, Wiley. He wns nierely called before the Committee on Personnel In the De without any Intimation that "a case" WILEY CONFIDENT FACING CHARGES was being mnde against him, and on are Huntingdon Smith, Julian Cod this record furnished Attorney-Gen- man and Dr. Frank J. Sullivan, all eral WIckerBham with the excuse to wealthy citizens. They are officers recommend the official decapitation , of the Animal Rescue League and of Dr. Wiley. volunteered their services. The dogs "Worse than the inquisition or have been picked up by the league anything In the third degree," Is how employes, the friends of Dr. Wiley, familiar ! with every stage of the fight against him, within and outside the depart ment, characterize this attempt to "get his scalp." L-t $1,000,000 So'-uUtlng. Chicago. By speculating on tips Jacob Henry Leshner has lost $1,-1 law, of the Increase from $18,000, 000,000 in the last four years. HeloOO to $50,000,000 of the Texas has also lost his wife and must pay her alimony. Fire Wipes Out Maine Town. Blddeford, Maine. Fire practical ly wiped out the villnge of South Waterboro. The hotel, railroad sta tion, all of the stores In the village and more than two-score dwellings are In ruins. Estimates of the loss In South Waterboro placed the fig ures at upward of $100,000, while the timber loss already sustained Is many thousands more. Thirty fam ilies, nearly one-half of the popula tion of the village, were driven from their homes. Opposition to Gomes Spreading. Washington. Dispatches received by the State Department from Hav ana say that the opposition to Presi dent Gomez's administration Is grow ing, and there Is much discontent with the alleged graft revelations. GosbIp Is still busy with the attempt of certain friends of President Gomez In the Cuban Congress to approve a bill subsidizing a road which was to have been built to a sugar estate recently bought by him. MM DEAD IN FOREST FIRES Entrapped Miners, Cut Off from escape Big Property Loa. . Toronto. The loss of life in Porcupine district from Thursday's Ilres is known to be several hundred,' and the property loss will reach sev erui millions of dollars. Only three of the 84 employes of the West Dome Mine have been ac counted for and 200 miners, mucin ers, etc., In the Dome mine have been suffocated. The mines burned In clude the Dome, North Dome, Pres ton, East Dome, Vlpond, Foley O'Brien, Philadelphia, I'nlted Porcu piao, Eldorado, Porcupine, Stundurd I Imperial, West Dome and Success. ; Among the doad are Robert Weiss, I mannfcer of tho West Dome, and his ' w Ife and child. I The Philadelphia Mine's loss Is I about $50,000, United Porcupine ! loss $20,000; Eldorado Porcupine all buildings destroyed; Standard, about '$40,000; Imperial, about $35,000; I Success, probably destroyed; West Mines about $75,000. Alt reports give but a vague Idea of the loss or life as well as prop erty In Porcupine Camp, which prob ably will total millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. Two Towns Destroyed. In four short hours, commencing at 12.30 noon, the lire swept from the Standard Mines through tbe shores of Porcupine Lake, where It ate up the towns of South Porcu pine, Pottsville and part of Golden City, as well as many small build ings ulong the lake front. While some loss of life occurred in tho vicinity of Porcupine Lake, the greatest havoc was wrought around the main mines, notably West Dome and Big Dome. There the en trapped miners, cut off from escape, were forced to take to the shafts for safety and, penned In by flames, per ished. This was notably true at 1 Dome and West Dome mines. At Preston East Dome an untimbered shaft gave shelter and none perished. The streets of South Porcupine were strewn with dead persons, horses, dogs and cattle. Along the mine roads are the charred bodies of those overcome trying to escape. NEW YORK FOR INCOME TAX Ratifies Ion, However, Is Out of Question This Year. Albany, N. Y. New York state went on record in favor of a federal Income tax, when the Assembly, by a vote of 91 to 42, passed the resolu- tion ratifying the proposed amend ment to the federal Constitution au thorlzlng such a tax. The measure passed the Senate on April 19. New York swings Into the list of vote of the Btates, is out of the ques- ton thig year Fifteen states have elther defeated the amendment in one or both Houses, have adjourned without taking action, or having In dorsed the measure In one branch, have gone Into adjournment with the other branch unrecorded. BRYAN NAMES AVAILABLES Without Expressing a Preference or , Anyone, .' Lincoln, . Neb. William J. Bryan has made up his list of avallables for the Democratic Presidential and j Vice-Presidential nominees. Without i expressing a preference for anyone, Folk, of Missouri; Wilson, of New i jersey, and Speaker Champ Clark i Bre indicated probabilities with an ex- ' tended list of possibilities. j The list is remarkable in that the ! name 0f Governor Harmon, of Ohio, nowhere appears. Mr. Bryan says that no one questions the availability o( Folk) Wilson or Clark, but that aBjde from thege there are many gvailablea. ! , 3,000 STRAY DOGS KILLED Work of Gentlemen Dog Catchers of Boston. Boston. Three thousand stray catchers. 1 he omciai aog-cntcners OH Trust Split Begins. Columbus, Ohio. Apparently the reorganization of the Standard Oil Company, ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, has begun. Secre tary of State Gray has received no- , ice. as required under the Willis company, a subsidiary of the cor poration, with offices at Beaumont. Germany Protest Havana. Germany, through her minister here, has officially protest ed to the Cuban State Department agalnBt "the growing Insecurity of the government and its failure to protect foreign lives and property." The German note cites the case of Karl Meyer, a wealthy German planter, who was recently held up, robbed and left for dead on his place In Santa Clara Province by the bandit Soils Alvarez. To Prevent Suicide. Cedar Point, O. To prevent sug gestion to others the State Pharma ceutical Association has requested the press, In p-lntlng accounts of suicides, not to mention the means employed. A French Aviator 'Killed. Algiers, Algeria. Edouard Pall lole, a French aviator, who was giv ing an exhibition during a review of the French troops, fell with bis aero plane and was killed. TWENTY-ONE DEAD IN HE FLASH Little Damage by Explosion; Deadly After-Damp Kills. ALL IN MINE ARE KILLED. Eleven Victims In One Heading Found With. Dinner Palls All Forelgnora Except Three. Dubois, Pa. Twenty-one miners were killed in un explosion In tin shaft of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company's mine at Sykesvllle, nine miles from here Saturday night. The explosion occurred at 9.30, but It was after midnight before the ex. tent of the disaster was known. All of the dead but three were foreign ers. The explosion was slight, as evi denced by the small daniHge done Id the mine, but the deadly after damj la responsible for most of the deaths. Three sets of brothers and a father nd son are numbered among the dead. George and John Heck and Nick Paveliik and his 16-year-old son were found by the rescuers locked In each other's arms as though they embraced each other In their dying moment. None of the bodies was mutilated and only several showed any burns Eleven of the men In one headlnghad apparently made ready to escape, foi they carried their dinner pails and were headed for the opening. The first intimation of the explo sion at the surface was when the safety door on the fan blew open and the machinery began to run. It is Surmised there was trouble below, but it was almost midnight when rescuers could enter the mine. It took some tl;ne to get to the scene of the accident, a mile and a half from the opening, because the rescu ers were obliged to carry oxygen with them. All but four of the bodies were brought to the foot of tbe shaft early Bunday, but were kept there until all were recovered. Four bodies were buried beneath a cave-In in a heading. The State police from Punxsu tawney were called to police the vi cinity of the shaft, and when the bodies were brought out there was little distress or excitement. Neither mine officials nor mine in spectors are able to assign a cause for the explosion, as there are no survivors from which to gain an ex planation, but It Is the general belief that some of the men drilled into a pocket of gas. , The shaft is known as a nongase ous one, and Fire Boss John Brown reports he was through the heading where the explosion occurred but an hour before and found no trace of gas. Six men working In another head ing of the mine at the time of the ac cident knew nothing of the explosion until the compressed air stopped their drills, and one man was knock ed from his rock drill. They realized something had happened, but did not know the nature of It until they met a party of rescuers coming foi them. When the rescue car of the Bureau of Mines arrived here the service! were not needed, as all the men wer dead and the air in the mine had been cleared. THE HORSE STILL POPULAR Improvement of Pure Blood Anlma's Not Hurt by utos. Washington. The popularity ol the automobile has by no means pul a stop to Improvement of the Ameri can horse. Animals of pure blood constantly are being brought from foreign countries for breeding pur poses. Certificates of pure breeding, required by custom officials for the free entry of animals imported into the I'nlted States for breeding. pur poses, were Issued by the Department of Agriculture for 710 horses during the first quarter of this year. The list shows the following breeds: 337 Percheron, 262 Belgian draft, 65 Shire, 21 Shetland pony, 16 Clydes dale, 13 Welsh pony, six hackney and one thoroughbred. FH 150 Feet Tarrytown, N. Y. Joseph Kin ward, an emnloye of the Maxwell Briscoe Motor Company had a miraculous escape from death. He was on a swing painting the water tower when the rope gave way. He dropped 160 feet and struck a guard wire which broke his fall and mad him turn a complete somersault and land on his feet. He smiled and laid: "I didn't expect, to come down this way, but I'm all right." Report All R llroad Acc dents Washington. The appalling toil Of human life exacted by American railroads is reflected in the fact that the Interstate Commerce Commission receives dally from responsible offi cers of Interstate carriers an average of 30 telegraphic reports of accident! involving the loss of one life or more The reports are made In response to an order of the commission, which became effective JuTy I. Generally the railroads are complying with It Can Oeal With T uttt. Washington. Attorney Genera.' Wickersham has decided that it if not unlawful for the United Statei to deal with the corporations re cently declared by the Supreme Court of the United States to be lllega! combinations. The question cam up In connection with contract; awarded to the Standard 01 Com pany for a year's supply of oil and gasoline for the military Department of the East. THE NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA West Chester. Severol weeks ago while Carroll Taylor, aged 11 yearB, Of Toughkenamon, and Barton Deltz, aged 6 years, with other young sters, were playing "Wild West," Taylor, who was armed with a re volver, shot the Dletz lad In the back, the bullet entering his spine. H was totally paralyzed and his death Is expected In a Philadelphia hospi tal. The matter was called to the attention of the county authorities, who caused the arrest of Taylor, and be has been committed to the Houxt of Detention, at Embrcevllle, In de fault of $2,000 ball. Stouchburg. The late Miss Sahins Yeagley had no faith in banks and used every nook and corner as s hiding place for hundreds of dol lars In her home. This was reveal ed to her neighbors when she fell downstairs, causing her death. The fall caused a pool of blood on the carpet, and under the same were found hidden $10 bills. After hei death a thorough search was made and many five and ten-dollar Ml In and gold pieces were found sewed in stockings, sleeves of dresses, hidden in heaters, drawers and cuphnardi and In a dozen other places. A dozen bills were found hidden in old books. Berwick. Awakened to see a masked burglar standing over her, a revolver pointed at her head, and hearing him exclaim "If you cry, I'll kill you!" Miss Sarah McAfee, resid ing with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crlsman, of Berwick, fainted, while the burg lar fled. The burglar got a watch and chain valued at $200, the prop erty of Mr. Crlsman, who, with Mrs. Crlsman, was occupying another room, while the burglar over looked Mrs. Crlsman's Jewel cane, placed alongside the watch, In which were a number of diamonds, another watch, as well as other Jewelry. Shenandoah. Two men were kill ed and another man so badly burn ed that he may die from his injuries at the mines. Joseph Godbar. S3 years old, was crushed to death un der mine timber he was unloading from a railroad car at Gilberton Col liery. Matthew Chowisky, 42 yean old, was crushed to death under mine cars at Maple Hill Colliery. An drew ldukas, aged 37 years, wai burned about the head, face and chest at Shenandoah City Colliery, and there is little hope of his re covery. Mahanoy City. Two huge boiien of a nest of six blew up at McTurk'i washery, Just outside of Glrarrtvllle, fatally Injuring two workmen and reducing the boiler house and sever al smaller adjoining buildings to splinter. The two workmen were Italians employed as firemen. They were scalded by steam and hurled many feet. One of the boilers a blown far up the mountain, telephone and telegraph communication with the town was cut off and Reading Railway traffic held up by the wreck. Pottsville. The charters of eight new electric light and power com panies, with a total capital of $80, 000, were recorded here, and the companies will go Into buslm-sB at once. The incorporators arc: V A. Lathrop, of Dorranceton; R. K. Wilbur, St. David's, and K. F Baker, Germantown. The new com panies will distribute light and power over forty square miles In the row try districts of Schuylkill County. Gettysburg. A macadam hlgh'f from Gettysburg, to Washington, built by Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia, is planned by State Highway Commission Bigelow. Mr. Blgelow says that he expects the necessary co-operation from Maryland and the District, paying for the portion of the road within its territory. Joanna. Lightning played oi queer pranks at the large barn w Christian W. Stoltzfus, tearing three large holes Into the roof, shattering six rafters, then tore a board from the side of the barn, carrying same across the street through a second-story window of a bouse, depow ing the spllsters on a bed In room. . Carlisle. Action to recover U.' 000 damages for the loss of b was brought by Henry M- K , against Charles W. Stray". known contractor, who on June struck and killed Nickel's son. j who crossed the road In fnl Strayer's automobile. ...mi have Boyertown. This town another Industry, a glove ' which will start with thirty e ees in the former canning f building. f 1 Harrlsburg. - Matthew Und one of the wealthiest fang y Cumberland County, was km a wagon whicn DacKi-.. and rolled over him. J'r- ' , was the owner of a number of and prominent in anairs 6 berland Valley r-tn va f 1 I He Reading. Trapped into , fcBslon by County Detective Charles Hicks, 48, a farmer oi Valley, admitted, the theft dreds of chickens from n bors and was committed to J Shoemakersvllle.-On nforrrit furnished by Health Office" A. Ernst, of this place, W I"" " j of Windsor Township. 8 flk by Constable Straub, cUrff ,c violating the health laws. ! ,f. cused of moving from h on tri ter a placard had been tacKe door announcing there was scarlet fever within. t h to sD Germany suffragettes wis (4 fsh the use of the word Fr propose Frau for general u ibol-
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