V The Fulton County News McCcnnellsburg, Pa. THE CARELESS 8MOKER. The average smoker 1b too careless In tbe manner In which be tosses burn ing cigar and cigarette butts and light ed matches about. The chances are that no damage will be caused, and be takes those chances.. When a home, a business bouse, a city block, or even large section or a city, Is burned by a Are starting from a smokers care lessness tbe smoker goes scot tree. Is It not pertinent to ask why tbe law should punish a man for spitting on tbe sidewalk because some one might contract a germ disease as a result of his carelesMieBH, while no punishment Is fixed to deter him from throwing fire about, although millions of dollars worth of property and many lives may be lost If the butt or match chances to fall wbere it can start a Are. The cru sade of tbe anti-smoke contingent Is not making much heudway as a moral Issue, a movement for the Improve ment of public health or an agitation gainst tbe boorish Individual who Is discourteous to those with whom be comes In contact, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. If It should result in tbe enactment of city ordinances mak ing it a misdemeanor to throw lighted matches and butts about, and In state laws providing punishment where It Is possible to fix the blame tor a fire upon a negligent smoker, millions of dollars' worth of property and many lives might be saved. The habit of smoking cannot be ended by agitation. When does slang cease to be slang? This Is not a conundrum, but the In quiry of a correspondent who seeks to know what length of life a word must have, how long must It be used and generally understood, before it passes from being, as it were, an un desirable alien in the realm of our words and becomes naturalized. Every schoolboy knows that "tbe herring pond" means the sea. Most people would probably term It an American Ism referring to tbe Atlantic ocean. Tbe only dictionary bandy duly admits the hyphenated word, describes It as lang, and Illustrates It with "to be sent across tbe herring pond: to be transported," says tbe London Chroni cle. Tbe word was used at long ago as 1763, when an English ambassador wrote from Calais to a secretary of state that he bad "traversed the her ring pond after about ten hours' sail." Tbe burglar will always be about seeking for a chance to rob, and the police problem Is bow to reduce tbe ranks of there thieves to a minimum and make their work so dangerous that few will dare to undertake tt. Carelessness and forgetfulness on tbe part of the housekeeper make the work of these gentry far easier than It would otherwise be. Tbe police generally do the best they can, but they could do far better were not the burglars offered so many golden op portunities for tbe work they are al ways so ready to do. A one pounder mounted on a gun carriage Is said now to solve the prob lem of firing at aeroplanes. How such a weapon could be effectively sighted remains to be shown. Tbe convic tion grows that efforts to prepare for tbe aerial battleship should be along the line of perfecting the sight, en larging the caliber and lengthening tbe range of sharpshooter rifles, and training men for their speediest and most accurate use. Tbe seizure of Dr. Rlrbter, a noted German engineer, by Greek bandits who held him for a ransome of $225. 000 will be apt to cause travelers to avoid Mount Olympus until assurance Is received that the government of Greece Is Btrong enough to prevent such proceedings by the Greek Na tional society, so-called, for the re plwilshmcnt of the society's treasury. A flout on Chinaman is going back to bis native land after having amassed a fortune of tnlf a million dollars out of chop suey. We venture to predict that be will lose bis bead ir he ever tries to spring that Amer ican Invention on bis fellow country men. When we read how the aviators are held up by rain and logs and other weather conditions It becomes more and more evident that an Immense de velopment must come In the flying ma chine before It arrives at tbe stage of much usefulness. In certain parts of the country farmers have been cutting hay with their automobiles. Unfortunately It will not be possible for many of them to dig potatoes with automobiles this year. One difference between Joy riders and night riders Is that Joy riders sometimes manage to kill themselves, But tbey are both dangerous to tbe In nocent bystanders. The Pullman building In New York Is said to be tbe narrowest skyscraper in existence. A glance at Its picture leads one to suFpcct that it Is a smoke stack equipped with windows. it l to be remembered, of course, that the bnrgaln counter came In after the hoop skirt went. out. If Reno divorces should compel owners to live In Nevada there would be fewer divided households. SAYS THE LAST ISF Richeson Prosecution Announ ces Evidence is Complete. MEETING WITH GIRL SETTLED Evidence Cannot Be Used At Trial, However Defense Calls the Paste Episode Absurd Connects Principals. Boston. That the missing link in the chuin of evidence against Rev. Clarence V. T. RelcheBon, charged with the murder of Miss Avla Lin nell, has been found was declared by the prosecution Saturday. AH that remained for the authori ties, they had steadfastly maintained, to prove their contention that the girl met her end by cyanide of potassium given her by the Baptist minister was the finding of some one who could positively testify to there having taken place the meeting with the girl short ly before her death. That witness has been found and Is a woman. Her Identity, however, the authorities refuse to reveul. According to her story, she was told by Avis Llnnell that Richeson and Avis were strolling toge'ther on the Fenway, a part of the Boston park way system In the Buck Bay district on the ufternoon of the fatal Satur day. For the first time this brings the preacher and his alleged victim to gether between the time he Is alleged to have bought the .poison from a Newton Centre druggist and the tragic death of the girl. ' It has been established that Riche son left Cambridge on a Boston car at 12.30 o'clock Saturday afternoon and that he was at the Edmunds home In Brookline about 4 P. M. His time meanwhile has not been accounted for except by the witness found today. It has also been established that AvIb Llnnell left the Young Woman's Christian Association about 2 P. M. and returned a little after 4 P. M., at which time she told several girls that she had been with Richeson. The defense, as indicated in dis patches, will deny that Richeson ever bought cyanide of potassium at the Hahn drug store In Newton Centre, and much of the work of the preach er's counsel has been along that line. The attorneys will offer also what they regard as the refutation of the latest clue Involving the purported statement of the defendant's house keeper, Mrs. Frank II. Carter, to the effect that Richeson asked her for the loan of a bowl one day to mix a flour paste, and that when he returned It he cautioned her "to wash it out thoroughly, as it had held poison." JUMPS INTO PIT WITH BEARS. Animals Refuse To Harm Girl Tired Of Life. Lima, Ohio. In an attempt to end her life while suffering from despond ency Miss Anna Harter, 33 years old, leaped Into a pit at the city park In which were confined two large black bears. The bears, however, refused to harm her, and she was found In the pit some time later by Lee Stuckey, a Dark attache. The bears attacked him when he went to the woman's rescue and drove him from the pit, but he subdued them with a stream of water from a hose and dragged Miss Harter from the In closure. AMERICAN CARDINALS. The Papal Delegate Without Informs tlon. Rome. The Pope will create a large number of cnrdinalB at the con slstory to be held November 27. The Most Rev. John M. Furley, archbishop of New York, and the Most Rev. Wil Ham H. O'Conuell, archbishop of Bos ton, are among those who will receive the red bat. Monsignor DIomede Falconlo, apostolic delegate at Wash Ington, also will be elevated, accord Ing to the announcement made Sat urday. Sends Books To America. .Cincinnati. Emperor William of Germany has honored the German Lit erary Club of Cincinnati by present Ing It with the jubilee edition of the complete works of the poet Schiller The volumes have Just arrived and will be formolly presented to the club November 29. The Emperor's gilt was In recognition of the services of the club In furthering German cul ture. Elks Dedicate Costly Club. New York. A magnificent new fifteen-story clubhouse, costing 2,600,- 000, was dedicated hero by "the mother lodge" of the Benevolent Pro tective Order of Elks. Brethren from all parts of the United States at tended. 50 Insurrectionists Killed. Mexico City. Fifty of Zapata's In surrectlonary army were killed In one encounter at Yecaplxtl, near Cuatla, according to a special received by tbe Herald. Mrs. Stannard Not Guilty. Onanagan, Mich. Mrs. Laura Stan nard was declared by a Jury not guilty of murder. She was charged with having done her husband to death with strychnine. Three Reported Killed. Canton, Ohio. Three persons are reported klllod and a dozen othen seriously Injured In a railway wreck at Minerva, 15 miles from this place. I E SENT TO CHINA American Naval Forres There Are Increased. NO JOINT ACTION AT PRESENT Chinese Government Instituting Ne gotiations With Rebels In Hope Of Terminating the Revolution By Con cessions Gen. LI Yuan Henge, Rebel Leader, Proclaims Himself President Gen. Yin Tchang, the Minister Of War, Ordered To Turn Over the Imperial Forces. Washington. Unable to do much more tban has been done toward maintaining a naval force In the upper reaches of the Chinese rivers because of tbe luck of light-draft gunboats, Admiral Murdock, commander-in-chief of the Asiutic station, has de cided to strengthen the American naval representation at the deep- water treaty ports. Therefore, he has ordered the coast defense ship Mont erey and the doublo-turreted monitor MonadnocL to proceed at once from Manila to the Chinese coutt. The Qulros, tbe lust of tho sinulh gun boats left at Manila, also has been, or dered to China and will probubly go up the Yangtse J'lver. These addi tional ships are to look solely after the Interests of Amerlcunb and foreigners. Ambassador Bacon cabled from i Paris that the French government had decided that It did not see the present necessity for Joint action of the for eign naval forces In China. This wns doubtless In reply to the state depart ment's suggestion to various Ameri can Ambassadors and Ministers that they learn the purposes of the govern ments to which they were accredited In dealing with the situation In China, and tho French response Is exactly in line with the desires of the State De partment at this stage. The State Department was Informed through the Chinese legation here of the appointment of Yuan Shi Kal to the supreme command of the military movements In China, confirming the press reports. Yuan Shi Kal, at whose Instigation negotiations between the government and Insurrectionists are about to be gin, Is believed here to have been awaiting such a concession on the part of the government before con senting to take active part In the campaign. His delay In taking the field when directed by tho throne to assume charge of the government troops Is thought to have been a move to force acceptance of his plans for bringing about peace. The progress of events in China, It Is pointed out, Beems to be favoring Yuan. Yin Tcheng, the deposed commander-in-chief of the Imperial army, was his bitter personal enemy, while Tan Shao Yl, the newly oppolnted minister of communications, Is one of his proteges. Indications here are that Yuan will be chosen premier. TRAPPING SPARROWS. Government's Experiments Develop Unexpected Results. Washington. Experiments conduct ed by Dr. A. K. FlBher, of the govern ment biological survey, In the trap ping and poisoning of English spar rows have developed some unexpected results. The government scientists have established the fact, by a year's observation, that sparrows cling to prescribed localities and that an en tire space can be trapped clear of them. The extensive grounds of tho Agri cultural Department, In the heart of Washington, have been piacticaliy made sparrow free. At the same time j flocks of the birds rango up and down I the streets that bound the Agricul tural Department's park. Yeggs Break Oklahoma Bank. Shawnee, Okia. Robbers attacked the town of MeComb, seevral miles from here, cut telephone and tele graph wires, then blew open tho safe In the town bank. They got a large amount of money and escaped before a Sheriff's posse could head them off. Big posses are on the robbers' trull. Dynamite Pulverized. San Francisco. Southern Pacific Railroad ofllcluls here were notified of the finding of 36 sticks of dynamite In a frog on the track at Ellwood, Cul., a few moments after train No. IS, a southbound passenger, hud pussed the switch. Part of tho dynamite was pulverized, evidently having been ground by the car wheels. Tho ex plosive was found within a few miles of the bridge where a similar cache was planted when President Taft'B train passed October 17. Military Aviator Killed. Khelms, France. While trying out a military aeroplane the pilot, Jeau Dcsparment, fell with the machine from a height of 600 feet and waB crushed to deuth. 7 Men-o'-Wartmen Drowned. Kiel, Germany. A small boat which was being lowered over the side of the German cruiser Muenchen cap sized, throning Its occupants Into tbe water. A boatswain and six sailors were drowned. ' Woman Lashes Judge. Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Christine Olson, a prominent suffrage worker and voter, horsewhipped Judge John F. I lain, of the Superior Court, In the corridor of the County courthouse. She rushed upon the Judge unexpect edly and with strong arms wielded the big horsewhip across his face, head and shoulders, raising large welts on bis face. An attachment has been Invented to make an alarm clock turn on and light a gas Jet at a predetermined time. ,1 WARSHIPS ST. GEORGE AND THE iCowyrlKhU Will ITALY'S LOSS IN TRIPOLI Left Line Of the Italian Defense At Sharashett Hard Pressed By the Arabs Canena's Plans For An Advance Into Interior, London. Four hundred Itallnna were killed or wounded In the fighting around Tripoli on Monday and Tues day, but all newspaper correspondents were forbidden to communicate the extent of the casualties, according to dispatch received here from Tripoli, which escaped the Italiun censorship by being filed at Valetta. The sltuutlon of Tripoli, the dis patch adds, is serious. European resi dents fear a massacre, as a holy war has been proclaimed by the natives. At Sharashett tho left line of Italian defense Is reported as being hard pressed by Arabs. A large number of Italian officers were killed and wounded In the but tle. The specters of revolution in Con stantinople and complications In the Balkans are again alarming official circles here, but It Is believed that the danger which would result from an Italian occupation of tho islands In the archipelago or the bombard ment of Smyrna has been removed, as there are Borne Indications that Italy has abandoned tho plan after sound ing the powers. BRIEFS BY TELEGRAPH Cambridge, Mass. If anybody finds a Bt.-ay planet or BBteroid running around loose the Harvard Observatory should be notified. Tho planet was discovered October 3, but disappeared too rapidly for observation. New York. Because "we arc all living beyond our means" and It was their first offense, Judge O'Sullivaa parolled two girls who pawned even ing dresses they had rented for party wear. Newark, N. J. A newspaper with neither paper nor Ink, The Telephone Herald, told COO fans about tho wotld series game, play by piny, and de livered by phone other news Just like a regular paper. New York. Hy man Schaeffer, a Jeweler, reported a loss of 200 uncut diamonds, valued at 19,000, to tho police. He carried them In a wallet. New York. A portrait of George Washington, woven entirely of silk and presented to the city In 1853 by Frenchmen, Is gradually splitting, aud it is feared will be destroyed. Washington. Becauso his receipts were $1 short of $1,000, the East Ber lin (Ct.) postmaster loses $700 a year for rent and clerk hire. A dollar spent for stampB would have saved $700. Wabash, Ind. Advertising for a wife William Riley wasn't at home when she nrrived. He found her cook ing dinner. "Will you be mine?" ho cried. "Taste my pie," said Mabel Baker, now Mrs. Riley. New York. For preserving moving picture and phonographic records of hlstorlcnl events, tho Modem His torical Records Association has been formed. New Brunswick, N. J. That he Bhot three men. killing one, while in a dream was the defense of Marino Bel- Hum when placed on trial for murder. He" attributed his mental condition to typhoid fever. New York. Charged with stealing $321 Leon Ellery, a subway ticket sell er, told' Judge O'Sulllvan he would rather Btay sober five years than go to Jail for that long and was parolled. THIS GIRL CAN DRIVE NAILS. Twelve Buried In Board In 46 2-5 Seconds. St. Paul, Minn. Ono more stride was taken in the field of feminine ac complishment when Miss Florence Wilcox, of St. Paul, a Junior co-ed In the Minnesota Agricultural School in the annual field meet, drove 12 ten penny nails In tho girls' nail-driving contest in the record breaking time of 4G 2-5 seconds. PAUL AND BEULAH ON STAGE. Beattle Case Notoriety Responsible For Vaudeville Turn. Richmond, Va. It Just became known here that Paul Beuttie, princi pal witness In the Beattle murder trial, left for New York last Saturday to appear In vaudovillo with Beulah Blnford. Exactly what role he is to take docs not appear to be known hero. Paul will appenr on the stage against the wishes and advice of his mother-in-law and his wife. DRAGON UP TO DATE FATHER AND SON P Rev. C. V. T. Richeson Declares, "I Am Innocent" "MY BOY" SOBS THE PARENT Col. Thos. Varland Richeson, Of Amherst, Va., See His Offspring For the First Time In Seven Years. Boston. Col. Thomas Varland Richeson, of Amherst, Va., visited In Charles Street Jail herd his youngeBt son, the Rev. Clurence V. T. Riche son, who Is accused of the murder of Avis Llnnell, his one-time fiancee. Since the young man left bis Virginia home, soven years ago, to enter tho Buptist ministry, his father bnd not seen him und the meeting was dramatic. In tbe first words of greet ing, even before he hud clusped hunds with his father through the bars of his cell door, the clergyman exclaim ed, "Father, I am Innocent!" The veteran Confederate soldier, who has all ulong expressed belief in his sou's Innocence, was visibly af fected. He grasped the bars for sup port, while he answered only, "My boy,. My boy." For more than an hour father and sou conversed, and Colonel Richeson then left the Jail as ho came, in a closed carriage, and was driven, It is believed, to the home in Brookline of Moses Grant Edmunds, father of Miss Violet Edmunds, to whom the clergy man was to be murrled. It was re ported that a fumily reunion was to be held at the Edmands home, at which would be present also Miss Llllie V. Richeson, of Saranue Lake, N. Y., a sister, and Douglus Richeson, of Chi cugo, a brother of the minister. All are In the city to aid in the clergy man's fight for acquittal. Tho exhumation of the body of Miss Llnnell precipitated the first court clash between attorneys for the prose cution and for the defense. It was the government which scored, for Judge Murray In tbe Municipal Court ruled agaist tho petition of Attorney Philip It. Dunbnr that the defense be present at a second autopsy. The body wub subjected to an ex amination by Medical Examiner Tim othey Lcary, following which District Attorney Pellier Issued a statement declaring that no poison receptacle was found buried with tho body. He also suggested tho possibility that an other poison as well us cyanide of potassium may have been used. At the conclusion of tho medical ex aminer's Investigation tho coflin was forwarded to Hynnnla and reburled. NEW CHINESE MINISTER. S. Alfred Sze Appointed To Succeed Chang Yin Tang. Washington. S. Alfred Sze has been selected to be Chinese minister to Washington, to succeed the in cumbent, Chang Ylu Tang, who la now in Mexico. Mr. Sze is a gradu ate of Cornell University and connect ed with the Chinese Foreign Office. Mr. Sze is not a stranger in Wash ington, as he enme here flrBt in 1892, when he was enrolled as a student in the Central High School, from which ho was graduated four years later. Ambassador Off For Japan. San Francisco. Charles Pago Bryan, who was recently transferred from tho position of United States minister to Belgium to that of nm- I bassador to Japan, sailed Wednesday for his new post of duty at Tokio. Shakespeare Is Rejected. Chicago. Shukespcaro has been re jected as "licentious," unclean and ob jectionable" by the Youthful Llternry Lights of the Hammond High School, and they are receiving the support of their teachers to have the author of The Taming of the Shrew, Venus and Adonis und Pericles banished from the curriculum. Beebon Amos, represent ing tho chief literary societies of the school, In presenting the demand to the faculty, characterized the Bard of Avon as "a cheap grandstand player." Falls Hunting Child. York, Pa. Lee Uoughter, who keeps Wild Cat Inn, near Marietta, while hunting for little Arthur Ely, dropped 25 feet from a cliff. Boughter would havo been killed had It not been for his striking a bed of soft leaves. He was badly bruised and cut. Mist Taft Thrown From Horse. Ipswich, Mass. Helen Taft, daugh ter of 'the President, was thrown from her horse while following the Myopia Hunt Club's hounds through the fields, but was uninjured. MEET III RISQN THE GOVERNMENT SUES STEEL TRUST Ac'ion is Instituted Dissolution. for Its SURPRISE TO THE OFFICIALS Former Secretary Of War Dickinson, Special Counsel Of the Govern ment, Filed the Bill, Which Was Kept a Secret. IN THE BIG CASE. Defendants In the case, the largest corporation In the world and the richest Individuals. Steel Corporation's capitaliza tion $508,000,000 common Btock, $:t!io,000,00ii. preferred stock and $596,0(10,0110 bonds, a total of $1, 44,0(l0,0O0. Was organized In 1901 under the financial management of J. P. Morgan & Co. Among the individual defend ants who will be subpoened are J. Plerpont Morgan, Charles M. Schwab. Ethelbert 11. Gary, An drew Carnegie, John D. Rocke feller, Sr., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry C. Flick and James J. Hill. Trenton, N. J The government's long-planned suit to break up the so culled Steel Trust was begun here Thnrsduy In the United Stnles Circuit Court. It Is the most sweeping untl tniBt action ever brought by the De partment of Justice. The government asks not only for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation, but for the dissolu tion of all constituent or subsidiary companies which are alleged to have combined In violation of the Sherman law to "maintain, or attempt to main tain a monopoly of the steel business." There are 36 subsidiary corporations named as defendants. J. Piermont Morgan, John D. Rocke feller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, George W. Perkins, E. H. Gury, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry C. Frlck, Charles Steele, James Gay ley, William H. Moore, J. H. Moore. Edmund C. Converse. Perclval Rob erts, Jr.,. Daniel G. Reid, Norman B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener and William P. Palmer are named Individually as defendants. Sensational Charges. The steel corporation's lease of the Great Northern Railway's ore proper ties which the directors of the steel company Thursday formally decided to cuncel Is alleged to be Illegal. This action of the directors was taken but a few hours before the filing of the bill. The government acknowledges that It was advised of the steel cor porat Ion's Intention In this respect, but states that under the terms of the lease no cancellation would be effec tive until January 1, 1915, and there Is no liin.t upon the amount of ore that con be taken out in the meantime. Sensationr.l allegations fairly topple over each other in the government's petition, which is an equity proceed ing praying for Injunctions to estop continuance of the alleged monopoly and such other relief as the court may grant. The steel corporation's acqui sition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company during the panic of 1908 is declured illegal und scathingly criti cised. GOVERNMENT MAY STEP IN. Rumors Of Federal Investigation Of the McNamara Case. Los Angeles, Cal. Reports from Indianapolis that a Federal grand jury would investigate the so-called McNamara dynamiting cases sup plied a theme for consideration by coumui for the defense of John J. and James B. McNamara, und attracted at tention in the ollicc of District Attor ney John D. Fredericks as well. A lull In court procedure while a new venire was being summoned gave opportunity for consideration of tho subject. It was believed that tho whole aspect of the case might be changed by tho action of the Federal authorities and that the McXainaraa, under 19 Indictments for murder in connection with the destruction of the Los Angeles Times Building, might enter upon un entirely changed legal status. Farmer Asleep a Week. Dunkirk, N. Y. Isaac Beloto, a farmer of Forestville, him been asleep since last Thursday. Electric bat teries and other efforts by well-known physicians to awaken him prove futile. Nourishment in liquid rorm is uemg given him through a tube. Bailey Will Surely Retire. Washington. Emphatically deny In? reports that he had changed his mind nhout retiring to private life, Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, In an Interview here, stated that his flof.lslon to leave the Senate at the expliation of his present term In 1913 was irrevocable. Inaugurate Madero November 5. El Paso, Texas. Telegrams receiv ed here from Francisco I. Madero an nounce ho will be Inaugurated Presi dent of Mexico November 5 Must Not Disgrace Family Name. Evonsville, lnd. "So long as they do nothing to disgrace the fumily name," the six children of tho lute Adam Delfrich urc to receive tho In come from his $100,000 estate, accord ing to his will. The widow and elder son nre to bo sole Judges of the con duct of the others. Moroccan Affair Nearly Closed. Berlin. The German Foreign Office substantiates the French report, that the Moroccan negotiations probably will -rtnlnate this week. THE NEWS OF PtHHSYLVAIlA Chester. Jonathan Grant, one of Chester's oldest citizens, who was for many years a member of the school board, died while Bitting in a cluilr ut his homo, aged eighty-three year3. He was stricken with apoplexy. Erie. Lowry Barber, a rest estate dealer of Waterford, and treasurer ot .he County Democratic Committee, was killed and four other injured when an automobile In which they were riding turned turtle. The In Jured will recover. Harrisburg. The locomotive draw ing the southbound Buffalo express, struck a market wagon driven by Washington Sheets near Dauphin, and demolishing the wagon, hurled Sheets thirty feet. He was brought to a hos pital in this city aud although suffer ing from broken bones, will recover. York. The Western Maryland Kail way train ran down and killed Erwin Kohler, near Eleska, while he was re turning from a coon hunt accompanied by his brother, Allen Kohler. The brother guarded the body until a Hack walker came upon the scene. Coopersburg. A herd of 25 Jerseys from T. S. Cooper's, Linden Grove Farm was shipped to Chicago to com pete uh an exhibit in the National Dairy Show, the greatest cattle nhow America bus ever Been. The Lehigh display is valued at in .ire than $100,000. Bristol. Incensed because his wife did not have dinner prepared on limp, John McGill, forty-five years old, of Edgely, above Bristol, seized a lunch er knife and plunged it through his heart. He died Instantly. McGill was employed as a laborer at the Floral Exchange. Harrisburg. West Chester resi dents protested to the State Kailrnati Commission that the line of the West Chester Traction Company in that town Ib in bad condition, and that some places the rails have parted and the operation of the heavy cars jars the houses. The commission Is asked to abate what Is declared a dangerous nuisance. York. Metallic poisoning, contract ed while employed in one of the local Industrial plants here, caused the death of George W. Brenner, a former sergeant of police. Brenner had been a prominent local politician. He was forty-five years old. Harrisburg. In the Dauphin Coun ty Court Harry A. Claybaugh was con victed of murder in the first degree for cutting the throat of Mrs. Mary A. Goudy In this city, last summer. The jury was out less than two hours fol lowing a trial of three days. Scruuton. Edwin G. Eckert, pro prietor of the Acme Extract and Chemical Works, of Hanover, IX pleaded nolo contendere in Federal Court when Indicted for BelliiiK ex tracts that were act properly labeled. He was sentenced to pay u tine of ten dollars and the costs. Pittsburgh. Answering the publish ed statement that options on five thou sand acres of land had been taken by Warden John Francis with a view of locating the new Western penitentiary near Bellefonte, the Warden said that the fact the options had been taken did not Indicate the Institution would be located In Center county. West Chester. In the Chester Coun ty Common Pleas Court, T. Larry F.yre brought suit against the Western Telegraph Company to recover ?l,m, damages to his 138 acre farm on t Brandywine, by reason of employees cutting down three large shad.! trees, the. limbs of which Interfered with wires. The jury uwarded Mr. tre $.100. Sharpsville.-Tho safe in ih Ps' ofllce here was blown open with "r0- n.i t'iftiiii in stamps nml $1,500 in money taken. Tho build B was damaged to tho extent of 1.ihh-n-una livini? near the building lie:" a the report, but attributed it to an ex plosion at one of the blast furnace s. The robbery was not discovered until the office was opened for business. Slatington.-Edward German, the richest man of this section, was pros ably fatally injured when a P bull overpowered him In i J" counter and inflicted wounds o fa m" ouh character. Last summer j attacked by the animal ' ,d! herd and came off vlctorh . s free use of a pitchfork. Inc nn.nui seemed resentful since. r. ,, u-mi,,,,, F. Llmler-nan. an twenty-five years, cmi". engineer at tho Deyr Q.mrrl.' , Blrdsboro, wns killed machinery In the stone cn.sl ,ng. It Is thought he ,w the shafting and whlrle. I to -Men finding the ..inch. m X W" an investigation and ' llK, man's body lying near 11,0 His neck was broken. South Bethlehem.'Heh;;),; a Bethlehem Steel Com I u nt man, was almost, instant! k the steel works when he u. a car and fell under the wlei-. severed both legs. Curlisle.-Bocause a . H-j of citizens of Shipponsb" k ut . the Court to suspend sc . ten" bur Hockersmlth, convict o tf at the last criminal sesslo Juui. F. Sadler has issued un , or. ' ' Ing sentence on condition youth leaves the State and I8 cost of prosecution. o( Reading.-Snulre F. Y. Kan m 01ey,wholsoneoftheex,rUtr9 estate of Elizabeth keim. (W township, found n num y (() tll0 attic of the Kelin homo f lh brim with money, which totaiou i .Inl1ifd seven thousand uu...... w Chester.-....-- -Daniel Nlckoia. r i ill Ui the employ oi - the employ or nam . , Rid . .. vnirvlew roii' ., helU up on uiu i m" ley township by two coin ed relieved Mm or a. ,(ip oc collected, about $i0. ' ,j(,lper currcd at a lonely Bpo. "resbyUrlan Church.
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