V The Fulton County News McCcnnellsburg, Pa. THE CARELESS SMOKER. The average smoker U too careless In tbe manner In which be tosses burn ing cigar and cigarette butta and light-1 d matches about. Tbe chances are that no damage will be caused, and be takes those chances.. When a borne, a business house, a city block, or even a large section of a city, la burned by a Are starting from a smoker! care lessness the smoker goes acot tree. Is It not pertinent to ask why the law should punish a man tor spitting on tbe sidewalk because some one might contract a germ disease as a result of his carelessness, while no punishment Is fixed to deter Dim 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 w here It can start a fire. The cru sade of the anti-smoke contingent Is not making much headway as a moral Issue, a movement for the Improve ment of public health or an agitation against the boorish Individual who Is discourteous to those with whom be comes In contact. Bays the Louisville Courier-Journal. If It should result In the 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 blamefor 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? Tbts Is not a conundrum, but tbe In quiry of a correspondent who seeks to know what length of life a word must bave, bow 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 "the herring pond" means tbe sea. Most people would probably term It an American lam reterrlng to tbe Atlantic ocean Tbe only dictionary bandy duly admits the hyphenated word, describes It as slang, and Illustrates It with "to be sent across the herring pond: to be transported," says tbe London Chroni cle. Tbe word was used as long ogo as 1763, when an English ambassador wrote from Calais to a secretary of state that be bad "traversed tbe her ring pond after about ten hours' salt. Tbe burglar will always be about seeking for a chance to rob, and the police problem Is bow to reduce the ranks of these thieves to a minimum and make their work so dangerous that tew will dare to undertake It. 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 tbey 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 tbe line of perfecting the sight, en Urging tbe caliber and lengthening the range of sharpshooter rifles, and training men for their speediest and most accurate ue. The seizure of Dr. Rlchter, a noted German engineer, by Greek bandits who held him for a ransome of $225 000 will be apt (o cause travelers to avoid Mount Olympus until assurance Is received that the government of Greece Is strong enough to prevent uch proceedings by the Greek Na tional society, so-called, for the re ploolshment of the society's treasury. A Boston Chinaman 1b going back lo bis native land utter having amassed a fortune of bilf a million dollars out of chop suey. We venture to predict that be will lose bis head If be ever tries to spring that Amer ican Invention on bis follow country men. When we read bow 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 stago of much usefulness. In certain pnrts 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 ytur. One difference between Joy riders and night rldcra 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 ts said to be the narrowest skyscraper In existence. A glance at Its picture leads one to suspect that It la a smoke stack equipped with windows. It Is to be remembered, of course, that the bargain 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. IHE LAST 15 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. Doston. That tbe missing link In the chain of evidence ogulnst Hev. Clarence V. T. Itelcheson, charged with the murder of Miss Avis Lin nell, has been found was declared by the prosecution Saturday. All 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 mlulhter was tbe 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 hus been found and is a woman. Her Identity, however, the authorities refuse to reveal. According to her story, she was told by Avis Llnnell that Richeson und Avis were strolling together on the Fenway, a part of the Doston park way system in the Duck Bay district on the afternoon of the fatal Satur day. Kor the first time this brings the preacher and his alleged victim to gether between the time he Is alleged to bave 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 be was at the Edmunds home In Brookllne about 4 P. M. His time meanwhile has not been accounted for except by the witness found today. It has also been established that Avis 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 llalin drug store In Newton Centre, and much of the work of the preach er's counsel has been along thnt 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 lier life while suffering from despond ency Miss Anna llarter, 33 years old, leaped into a pit at the city park in which were confined two lurge black bears. The bears, however, refused to harm her, and she was found In the pit some time later by Lee Stttckey, a park 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 hoBe and dragged Miss Hurler from the In closure. AMERICAN CARDINALS. The Papal Delegate Without Informa tion. Rome. The Pope will create a large number of cardinals at the con sistory to be held November 27. The Most Rev. John M. Farley, archbishop of New York, and the Most Rev. Wil liam H. O'Connell, archbishop of Bos ton, are among those who will receive the red bat. Monsignor Dtomede Falconio, npoBtolIc delegate at Wash ington, also will be elevated, accord ing to the announcement made Sat urday. Sends Books To America. v i. Cincinnati. Emperor William of Germany hus honored the German Lit erary Club of Cincinnati by present ing It with the jubilee edition of the complete works or the poet Schiller. Tho volumes have juBt arrived and will be formally presented to the club November 21t. The Emperor's gift 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 here by "the mother lodge" of the Benevolent Pro-' tectlve Order of Elks. Brethren from all partB of the United Stutes at tended. SO Insurrectionists Killed. Mexico City Fifty of Zapata's In surrectionary army were killed In one encounter at Yecaplxtl, near Cuatla, according to a Rpecial received by the Herald. Mrs. Stannard Not Guilty. Onanagan, Mich. Mrs. Laura Stan nard was declared by a Jury not guilty of murder. She was charged wltb having done her husband to death with strychnine. Three Reported Killed. Canton, Ohio. Three persons are reported killed and a dozen others seriously injured In a railway wreck at Minerva, 15 miles from this place. Li MORE WARSHIPS ST. GEORGE and the dragon up to date SENHO 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 thun has been done toward maintaining a naval force In the upper reaches of the Chinese rivers because of the luck of light-draft gunboats, Admiral Murdock, commander-in-chief of the Asiutlc station, hus de cided to strengthen the American naval representation at the deep water treaty ports. Therefore, ho has ordered the coast defense ship Mont erey and the doublo-turreted monitor Monuduock to proceed at once from Manila to the Chinese coatty Tho Qulros, tbe last of tho smulr. gun boats left at Manila, also hus been, or dered to China and will probably go up the Yangtse River. These addi tional ships are to look solely after the Interests of Amerlcuns und foreigners. Ambassador Bucon cabled from t Puris 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 was 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 Btage. The State Department was informed through the Chinese legation here of the appointment of Yuan Shi Kai to the supreme command of the military movements in China, confirming the press reports. Y'uan Shi Kal, at whose Instigation negotiations between the government j 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 tho campaign. His delay In taking the field when directed by tho throno to assume chnrge 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, seems to be favoring Yuan. Yin Tcheng, the deposed commander-in-chief of the imperial army, was his bitter personal enemy, wbllo Tan Shao VI, the newly appointed 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. Fisher, 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 tbe fuct, by a year's observation, that sporrows cling to prescribed localities and that an en tire space can be trapped clear of them. The extensive grounds of the Agri cultural Department, in the heart of Washington, have been piacticully made sparrow free. At the same time flocks of the birds range up and down the streets that bound the Agricul tural Department's park. Yeggs Break Oklahoma Bank. Shawnee, Okla. Robbers attacked the town of McComb, Bcevral 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' trail. Dynamite Pulverized, San Frunclsco. Southern Pacific Railroad officials here were notified of the finding of 36 sticks of dynamite In a frog on the track at Ellwood, Cal., a few moments after train No. 18, a southbound passenger, had passed the switch. Part of tho dynamite was pulverized, evidently having been ground by the car wheels. The ex plosive was found within a few miles of the bridge where a similar cache was planted when President Taft's train passed October 17. Military Aviator Killed. Rhelms, France. While trying out a military aeroplane the pilot, Jean Desparmeut, fell with the machine from a height of 600 feet and was crushed to death. 7 Men-o'-Warsmen Drowned. Kiel, Germany. A small boat which was being lowered over the side of the German cruiser Muenchen cap sized, throwing Its occupants into tbe water. A boatswain and six sailors were drowned. ' Woman Lashes Judge. Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Christine Olsen, 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 tho Judge unexpect edly and with strong arms wielded the big horsewhip across his face, head and shoulders, raising large welts on his face. An attachment has been Invented to make an alarm clock turn on and light a gas Jet at a predetermined time. iCopyrlKtit. UUl.i 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 Italians were killed or wounded lu the fighting around Tripoli on Monday and Tues day, but all newspaper correspondents were forbidden to communicate the extent of the casualties, according to dlHputch received here from Tripoli, which escaped the Ituliun censorship by being filed at Valctta. The situation 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 tho bat 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 the Islands In the archipelago or the bombard ment of Smyrna has been removed, as there are some Indications tbut Italy has abandoned the plan after sound ing the powers. BRIEFS BY TELEGRAPH Cambridge, Mass. If anybody finds a stray planet or asteroid running around loose the Hurvard Observatory should be notified. The planet was discovered October 3, but disappeared too rapidly for observation. New Y'ork. Because "we are all living beyond our means" and it was their first offense, Judge O'Sullivau parolled two girls who pawned even ing dresses they had reutcd for party wear. Newark, N. J. A newspaper with neither paper nor Ink, The Telephone Herald, told COO fans about the world series game, play by play, and de livered by phone other news Just like a regular paper. New Vork. Hyman SchaefTer, a Jeweler, reported a loss of 200 uncut diamonds, valued nt $9,000, to the pclice. He carried them in a wallet. New York. A portrait of George Washington, woven entirely of silk and presented to the city In 1858 by Frenchmen, Is gradually splitting, aud It is feared will be destroyed. Washington. Because his receipts were $1 short of $1,000, the East Ber lin (Ct.) postmaster lose $700 a year for rent and clerk hire. A dollar spent for stamps would have saved $700. Wabash, Ind. Advertising for a wife William Riley wasn't at home when she arrived. 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 historical events, the Modern His torical Records Association has been formed. New Brunswick, N. J. That he shot three men, killing one, while In a dream was the defense of Marino Bel Hum when placed on trlul for murder. He" attributed hia 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 Burled In Board In 46 2-5 Seconds. St. Paul, Minn. Ono more stride was taken in the field of feminlno 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 the girls' nail-driving contest In the record breaking time of 46 2-5 seconds. PAUL AND BEULAH ON STAGE. Beattle Case Notoriety Responsible For Vaudeville Turn. Richmond, Va. It Just became kuown here that Paul Beattie, princi pal witness In the Beattie murder trial, left for New York last Saturday to appear In 'vaudeville with Beuluh Blnford. Exactly what role he Is to take docs not appear to bo known hero. Paul will appear on the stago against the wishes and advice of his mother-in-law and his wife. FATHER AND SON MEET IN P Rev.C. V. T. Richeson Declares, "I Am Innocent" 'MY BOY" SOBS THE PARENT Col. Thos. Varland Richeson, Of Amherst, Va., Sees His Offspring For the First Time In Seven Years. Boston. Col. Thomas Varland Richeson, of Amherst, Va., visited In Charles Street Jail her his youngest son, the Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlche son, who is accused of the murder of Avis Llnnell, his one-time fiancee. Since the young man left his Virginia home, seven years ngo, to enter tho Buptlst ministry, his father had not seen him und the meeting was diumatlc. In the first words of greet ing, even before he hud clasped hands 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 along expressed belief in his sou's innocence, was visibly af fected. He triuHued the bars for sup port, while be answered only, "My boy,. My boy." For more than an hour father and son 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 Brookllne of Moses Grant Edmunds, father of Miss Violet Edmunds, to whom the clergy man was to be married. It was re ported that a family reunion was to bo held at the Edmunds home, at which would be present also Miss Lillle V. Richeson, of Saranuc Lake, N. Y., a sister, and Douglas Richeson, of Chl 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 defeuse. It was the government which scored, for Judge Murray iu the Municipal Court ruled ngaist tho petition of Attorney Philip R. Dunbar that the defense be present at a second autopsy. The body wus subjected to an ex amination by Medical Examiner Tim othcy Leary, following which District Attorney Pellier Issued a statement declaring that no poison receptacle was found buried with tho body. He ulso suggested the possibility that an other poison as well us cyanide of potassium may have been used. At the conclusion of the medical ex aminer's Investigation tho collin was forwarded to Hyannis and reburied. 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, Chung Yin Tang, who Is now In Mexico. Mr. Sze Is a gradu ate of Cornell University and connect ed with the ChlneBo Foreign Oltiee. Mr. Sze Is not a stronger In Wash ington, as he came here first In 1892, when he was enrolled as a student in the Ceutral High School, from which he was graduated four years later. Ambassador Off For Japan. Sun Francisco. Charles Page Bryan, who was recently transferred from tho position of United States minister to Belgium to that of nm- I bassudor to Japan, sailed Wednesday for his new post of duty at Toitio. Shakespeare Is Rejected. Chicago. Shakespeare has been re jected as "licentious," unclean and ob jectionable" by the Youthful Literary 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 and Pericles banished from the curriculum. Becbon Amos, represent ing the chief literary societies of the school, In presenting the demand to the faculty, characterized the Hard of Avon as "a cheap grandstand player." Falls Hunting Child. York, Pa. Lee Boughter, who keeps Wild Cat Inn, near Marietta, while hunting for little Arthur Ely, dropped 25 feet from a cliff. Boughter would have been killed hud It not been for his striking a bed of soft leaves. lie was badly bruised and cut. Miss Taft Thrown From Horse. Ipswich, Mass. Helen Tuft, daugh ter of 'the President, was thrown from her horse while following the Myopia Hunt Club's hounds through the fields, but was uninjured. RISON I HE GOVERNMENT SUES STEEL TRUST Ac'ion is Instituted for Its Dissolution. 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 capitalization- $508,000,000 common slock, $3(l,000,00i). preferred stock and $596,0(10,0(10 bonds, a total of $1, 464,000,000. Was organized in 1901 under the financial management of J. P. Morgan & Co. Among the Individual defend ants w ho will be subpoened ate J. Plerpont Morgan, Charles M. Schwab, Ethelhert H. 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 Biiit to break up the bo culled Steel Trust was begun here Thursday In the United StateB Circuit Court. It is the most sweeping anti trust 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. Pieimont Morgan, John D. Rocke feller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, George W. Perkins, K. H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry C. Frick, Charles Steele, James Gay ley, William II. Moore, J. H. Moore, Edmund C. Converse. Perelval 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 cancel Is alleged to be lllegol. This action of ;he directors was taken but a few hours before the filing of the bill. The government acknowledges that It was advised of the steel cor poration'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 liiiiit upon the amount of ore that can be taken out In the meantime. Sensational 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 pnnic 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 MuNamnra dynamiting cases sup plied a theme for consideration by counsel for the defense of John J. and James B. McNamara, and attracted at tention in tho odlce of District Attor ney John D. Fredericks ns well. A lull In court procedure while a new venire was being summoned gave opportunity for consideration of tho subject. It was believed that thu whole aspect of tho case might be changed by tho action of the Federal authorities and that the McNamaras, under 1!) Indictments for murder In connection with the destruction of the Los Angeles Times Building, might enter upon an entirely changed legal status. Farmer Asleep a Week. Dunkirk, N. Y. Isaac Beloto, a fanner of Forestvllle, has been asleep since last Thursday. Electric bat teries and other efforts by well-known physicians to awaken him prove futile. Nourishment in liquid form is being given him through a tube. Bailey Will Surely Retire. Washington. Emphatically deny ing reports that he had changed his mind about retiring to private lire, Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, In an Interview here, stated that his decision to leave the Senate at the explintlon of his present term In 1913 wus Irrevocable. Inaugurate Madero November 5. EI 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. Evansville, Ind. "So long ns they do nothing to disgrace the fumily nnme," the six children of tho loto Adam llolfrich are to receive tho in come from his $100,000 estate, accord ing to his will. The widow and older son nre to be sole Judges of the con duct of the others. Moroccan Affair Nearly Closed. Berlin. Tho German Foreign Office substantiates tho French report, that the Moroccan negotiations probably will jruiinate this week. THE NEWS OF PfliHSYLVAIlfl Chester. Jonathan Grant, one of Chester's oldest citizens, who was for many years a member of the school board, died while sitting In a chuir at his home, aged eighty-three years, lie whs stricken with apoplexy. Erie. Lowry Barber, a rest estate dealer of Waterford, and treasurer ol .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 Duuphin, and demolishing the wagon, hurled Sheets thirty feet. He was brought to a hos pital In this city und although suffer. Ing from broken bones, will recover. York. The Western Maryland Kail way train ran down and killed Erwin K.ohler, near Eleska, while he was re turning from a coon hunt accompanied by his brother, Allen Kohler. The. brother guarded the body until a track walker came upon the Bcene. Coopcrshurg. A herd of 25 Jerseys from T. S. Cooper's Linden Grove Farm was shipped to Chicago to com pete as un exhibit in the National Dairy Show, the greatest cattle show America hus ever Been. The Lehlnh display is valued at nuro than $100,000. Bristol. Incensed because his wife did not have dinner prepared on time, John McGill, forty-five years old, of Edgely, above Bristol, seized a butch er knife and plunged It through his heart. He died Instantly. McGiU'was employed as a laborer at the Floral Exchange. Harrisburg. West Chester resi dents protested to the State Railroad Commission that the line of the West Chester Traction Company in that town is in bad condition, and that some places the rails have parted anil 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. Clnybaugh 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 anil Chemical Works, of Hanover, Pa, pleaded nolo contendere in Federal Court when Indicted for selling ex tracts that were nc. properly labeled. He was sentenced to pay a lino 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 Worden 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. Lar ry F.yre brought suit against tho Western Telegraph Company to recover $l,n"0 damages to his l.Wncre farm on Brandywine, by reason of employees cutting down three large shad.! trees, the. limbs of which Interfered with wires. The jury awarded Mr. lore $300. Shnrpsville.-Tho safe l l"""" office here was blown open vwth "'tro glvcerlne, und $3,000 In stamps ami $1,500 In money taken. The I.ui b niR was damaged to tho extent of $1."- Persons living near the buiming the report, but attributed it to an ex plosion at one of the l.laat fur" The robbery was not discovered until the olllce was opened for business. Slatlngton.-Edward German, the richest man of this section, was prob ably Tatally injured when a pi W bull overpowered him In "wond counter and Inflicted wounds of a r ous character. Last summer he " attacked by the animal I!'"', herd und came off victor ta.s jfl free use of a pitchfork. The amm" seemed resentful since. Rcudlng.-Wllliam K. twenty-flve years, cn.pl""' " J engineer at tho Deyr Quarr es So . nirdsboro, was killed wo. J macninery in um o1""- jn Ing. It Is thought ho was the shafting and whirled to I.. M"e Men finding the machinery id", an Investigation and found . man's body lying near the His neck was broken. South IMhlehrm.-MU'ha'-J;" a Bethlehem Steel Wn , man. was almost. Instantly the steel works when he was ' a car and fell under the wheel, severed both legs. lumber Cnrlisle.-BeruuBO a uitM . of citizens of Shlppenshnrg pet" W tho Court to suspenu - , bur Hockersmlth. convicted o at the last criminal session, J uui. F. Sadler hus Issued an order u r Ing sentence on condition n. youth leaves tho State am. cost or prosecuui'u. f Reading.-Squire F. Y. KanfmJ Oley, wno is ono oi "' ' -i ( jik estate of Elizabeth Kelin. . . M 1 - tit I I M ( IU township, iouiiu , (0 in.- attic of tho Kelm h" "'J,dd alB1o.i brim with money, which totals .. I .Ullul-B seven inousuim umi. , .. ..... K-,b,,m a driver in Chester. uamei , tfa ...... - o... ....... m. ww- the cmpioy oi n CUMl, MUiMiy . . .. ... near tl.e 1 curred at a toneij "reshytcrlan Church. -nd in nu ... held up on the Fnirv.e v j ley township by two colou , relieved him of air th e mo . collected, about "r! eU
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