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the dispatch of a note
to all the belligerents, but
more particularly to Great Britain,
protesting against what the United
States regards as the Illegal and un
warranted extension of contraband
lists. A general attack on the British
blockade Is expected to follow. Secre
tary Lansing has the contraband note
before him for final completion.
Publication of Germany's last reply
to the United States in the Frye case
with the Important concessions It made
with reference to provisions for safety
of passengers and crews of vessels to
be sunk, created a highly favorable
Impression.
Taken In connection with the assur
ances given by the German Govern
ment that Its future Mediterranean
submarine operations UI1 be conduct
ed in compliance with the conditions
set forth by the United States, It en
couraged officials in the belief that
Germany will go to the utmost limit in
ing up the latest submarine crisis
ated by the sinking of the
Austria previously had given
' assurances.
KNOWN DEAD NOW 14.
a More Victims Added To Ohio
River Boat' List.
Parkersburg, W. Va. The number
"of those missing by the sinking of the
packet Kanawha, which went down in
the Ohio river 10 miles south of her,
was increased to It by the addition of
the names of I. C. Bradlee, of Mounfii
Tille, W. Va., who was known to brj
boarded tfie Doat, and a colored fire
man. Oz'.f (to bodies have been re
covered thus far, and it is not believed
that any more will be found until a
search Is made of the interior of the
195,000 HORSES FCr! V.'Afl.
Allies Bought That Many In East St.
Louis For $34,000,000.
East St. Louis, IllA-One hundred
and ninety-five thousand horses have
been bought at the National Stock
Yards here by the Kntente Allies. The
total expenditure has been approx
imately $34,000,000. he said. British
buyers have discontinued purchases
here, but French, Italian and Belgian
officers are buying about 300 horses
a day.
FOR GASOLINE INQUIRY.
Federal Trade Commission Will In
vestigate High Prices.
Washington. The Federal Trade
Commission announced definitely that
it would begin shortly an investigation
Into the cost of refining and market
ing gasoline with a view to determin
ing if recent prices advances were un-
.reasonahle. Numerous complaints
have .?vn forwarded to the commit)
sion by the Department of Justice.
LABOR CORNERSTONE LAID.
New Building In Washington Will Be
Federation's Home.
Washington. The cornerstone of
the n"W home here of the American
Federation of Labor was laid by Presi
dent Gonipers in the presence of
prominent national and local labor
leaders. Secretary of Labor Wilson
was the principal speaker.
EDWARD HIGGIN3 ACCUSED.
American Consul At Stuttgart Called
Anti-German.
London. The Amsterdam corre
spondent of tke Exchange Telegraph
Company states that the Cologne Ga
zetto and other German newspapers
are demanding the immediate recall
of Edward Hipgins, American Consul
at Stuttgart, on the ground that he
has'sh'own anti-German sentiments.
JACKSON'S FLAG AT HOME.
Illinois Returns Banner hie Carried At
New Orleans.
few Orleans. Illinois formally re
turned to the city of New Orleans the
flag carried by General Andrew Jack
son's troops at the battle of New
Orleans, and which was captured by
an Illinois regiment during the Civil
War. The return was the principal
feature of a two days' celebration of
the one hundred and first anniversary
rf tia battle of New Orleans.
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les Pan-Ameri-
Policy.
ICE IN THE AMERICAS
'Link Republics Of Two Continents.
deflates To the Scientific Con
gress Applaud New Pan
Americanism. Washington. The United States
Government's Pan-American policy
was revealed in detail by President
Wilson In an address before the Sec
ond Pan-American Scientific Congress.
He explained the proposals submitted
to South and Centrul American diplo
mats here last week by Secretary
Lansing as a basis for an effective
agreement between all the republics of
the Western Hemisphere "not only for
international peace of America, but the
domestic peace of America."
What Plan Embodies.
This program, as outlined by the
President, proposes that all the Ameri
can nations shall:
Unite In guaranteeing to each
other obsolute political independ
ence and territorial Integrity.
Agree to settle all pending boun
dary disputes as soon as possible
by amicable process.
Agree to handle all disputes
arising among them by patient,
Impartial investigation and to set
tle them by arbitration.
Agree that no revolutionary ex
pedition shall be outfitted against
or supplies for revolutionists ship
ped to nejehborlng slates.
"These are very practical sugges
tions," said the President, "and I, for
my part, believe that they are going
to lead the way to something that
America has prayed for for many a
generation."
He said the Monroe Doctrine always
had been and always would be main
tained by the United States on Its own
authority, but that the doctrine did not
disclose what atti'ude the United
States would assume toward other
nations of the hemisphere, and conse
quently the other nations hnd been dis
trustful of it.
MOB SETS FIRE TO OHIO TOWN.
Torch Applied At East Youngstown
After Pistol Battle.
Youngsto n, Ohio. Three men were
killed, 19 persons, including a woman,
were wounded, more than six city
blocks were burned, with a loss esti
mated at $800,000, and state troops
were called out to restore order as the
result of rioting in East Youngstown
following a battle between a crowd of
strike sympathizers and armed guards
at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company.
The trouble was the culmination of
a strike of laborers which began at
the plant of the republic Iron and
Steel Company a week aco and spread
to the plants of the tube company, the
Youngstown Iron and Steel Company
and the Brier Hill Steel Company, all
"Independent" concerns. The men de
mand 25 cents an hour, the companies
offer an increase from 19 V4 cents to 22
cents per hour.
BATTLES AT DARDANELLES.
Bomb-throwing On Both Wings and
Heavy Artillery Fire.
Constantinople (via London). The
Turkish War Office gave out the fol
lowing statement :
"On the Dardanelles front there
have been heavy battles, with bomb
throwing on both wings and a tem
porary artillery fire alon? the whole
line. A hostile cruiser and a monitor
retreated after a temporary bombard
ment of our positions.
"Our airmen flew over hostile posi
tions and made a successful recon
naisance. Near Ari Burnt: cases
of ammunition which were concealed
bv (he enemy were found."
FIRST RESERVE BANK DIVIDEND.
Five Per Cent. Declared By Richmond
Institution.
Washington. A 5 per cent, dividend,
the first paid by any Federal reserve
bank, has been declared by the Fifth
district bank at Richmond on its net
earnings for the period between No
vember 2, 1914, and December 21. 1915.
Announcement of the action was
made by the Reserve Board. The divi
dend goes to member banks in the
Richmond district. Several oilier re
serve banks have more than made ex
penses and many declare dividends
later.
R. L. KNOX DECLARED INSANE.
Federal Official Who Killed Two Men
Sent To Ho'rpital.
Baton Rouge, La. Robert L. Knox,
surveyor of customs for the port of
New Orleans, who on December 22
shot and killed two men in a railroad
station here, was adjudged insane by
a lunacy commission and ordered con
fined to the Timinal division of the
State hospital. The grand jury recent
ly declined to indict Knox because of
his mental condition. He has not yet
resigned bis official position at New
Orleans.
CONGRESS MAY INVESTIGATE.
Resolutions Introduced Regarding
Price Of Gasoline.
Washington. Congressional investi
gation of the rise in gasoline prices
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Renewed Vigor Everywhere
Says Federal Reserve Board.
OUTLOOK MOST PROMISING
Unusual Demand On Iron and Steel
Factories In Philadelphia Dis
trict General Activity
Throughout South.
Washington. Continued business
improvement over the country gen
erally is reflected In monthly reports
from the 12 Federal Reserve districts
Just made public by the Federal Re
serve Board.
Improvement in the Boston district
has continued with "renewed vigor,"
says the report from that district. The
upward trend, starting In lines affected
by emergency war orders, now has
spread until business In general is
"better than it has been for a long
time."
Trade in the New York district re
ported as unusually active and still
expanding with retail and department
stores doing a large business and
wholesalers receiving heavy buying
orders.
Philadelphia reported general busi
ness conditions In Its district still im
proving, with banks declaring the out
look most promising. Factories are
running full time, pay rolls are largo
and in the iron and steel Industry the
unusual demand has led to the repair
ing and putting Into operation of iron
furnaces that have been idle for years.
Requirements of steel buyers in the
Cleveland district were reported as
great enough to Insure that the entire
year's mil put would be taken care of.
At present'the only embarrassment Is
due to freight congestion in the East.
Trade in almost all lines of the
Richmond district has been satisfac
tory in the past month with no re
trogression from the advances of Oc
tober and November. A decided ten
dency has developed to store some of
the unsold cotton crop because of
softening price, but that has not pre
vented liquidation of debts due for set
tlement. General activity and expansion in all
lines was reported from the Atlanta
district, and sound and permanent
prosperity predicted for 1916.
Chicago reported general Improve
ment In business and manufacturing
with manufacturers, retailers and
wholesalers doing business on an
"even more than normal basis."
Prospects throughout the St. Louis
district were declared to be excellent
in virtually every Industry. Business
men were reported generally optimis
tic, with wholeralo interests in muny
lines showing gains.
The outlook for 1910 in the Minne
apolis district was reported as excel
lent, with all lines of business optim
istic. The lumber trade continues to
revive and again is approaching
normal.
Kansas City reported that probably
at no time In the history of the dis
trict had wholesale trade been so ac
tive and satisfactory. Unprecedented
sales are being made by Jobbers, and
collections are far above the average.
Lumber and oil industries are un
usually active In the Dallas district,
with increased ' prices that give
promise of permanency.
Leading railroads in the San Fran
cisco district report record earnings,
and are buying ties freely with a good
effect on the lumber business.
TO STUDY RAILROADS NEEDS.
Senate Committee Takes Up President
Wilson's Suggestion.
Washington. President Wilson's
suggestion to Congress that a commis
sion be formed to inquire into legis.
latlon affecting railroads was reflected
in the adoption by the Senate Inter
state Commerce Committee of Senator
Newlands' resolution to create a joint
committee to investigate the adequacy
of railroad legislation and the Inter
stat Commerce Commission, with a
view to making recommendations to
CongresB next December.
HANS SCHMIDT LOSES AGAIN.
Ex-Priest To Die Next Week For Au
muller Murder.
Albany, N. Y. The Court of Ap
peals denied a motion for a reargu
ment of the appeal of Hans Schmidt,
the New York priest, convicted of the
murder of Anna Aumuller and sen
tenced to die In the electric chair at
Sing Sing next week. The motion was
made by attorneys for Schmidt last
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YEAR
THE PERSIA
A GUN
New Development May Compli
cate the Situation.
CONSUL TO GET AFFIDAVITS
Sensations In Submarine Warfare
Lead the President To End Hi
Bridal Tour To Take Charge
Of the Situation.
Washington. President Wilson is
back in Washington to take up the
grave diplomatic situation that has
again been created by the activity of
the submarine ships. To the destruc
tion of the Persia with the loss of sev
eral hundred lives, among them one
American, comes the announcement of
the sinking of the British steamships
Glengyle and the St. Oswald and the
Japanese freighter Kenkoku Maru. So
far as is known no American lives
were lost on either of the two British
ships or the Japanese freighter.
The destruction of the Tersia,
ominous as it is because of the death
of an American, Consul Robert N. Mc
Neely, will not threaten a rupture of
relations between Austria-Hungary
and this country, even if it develops
the fact that it was an Austrian sub
marine that sent her to the bottom.
Secretary Lansing pointed out that it
had not yet even been established offi
cially that the Persia had been tor
pedoed. Baron Zwledenlk, the Austria-Hungarian
charge de affaires, was
at the State Department and assured
Secretary Lansing that his govern
ment would disavow the action of the
submarine commander if it proved to
be an Austrian submarine which was
at fault.
Evidently the State Department be
lieves that it was an Austrian sub
marine that was responsible If the
ship was torpedoed, for Ambassador
Penfleld, at Vienna, was cabled to
make Inquiries of the Austro-Hun-garian
government.
A Gun On the Persia.
The most sensational development
of the deslructlon of the Persia proves
to be the presence of at least one 4.7
gun mounted nt her stern. The infor
mation that the Persia was armed
reached the State Department In a
dispatch from Consul Carruls, sent
from Alexandria, F.gypt.
The State Department recognizes
the importance of the presence of the
gun on the Tersla. While declining to
answer any questions, officials of the
department concede that a 4.7 gun on
a merchantman may rob the ship of
Its immunity against attack without
warning. The ordnance experts of the
Navy Department, while observing
due caution in their statements, made
it clear that a 4.7 gun on a ship would
prove a grave menace to a submarine.
It was recalled by the ordnance ex
perts of the Navy that the four-Inch
guns of the German cruiser Emden
proved effective at a range of 20,000
yards, which is nearly 12 miles, and
it was pointed out with pride that the
United States Navy has recently per
fected a four-Inch gun that is thor
oughly effective at 22,000 yards. A
one-inch gun, it was said by the ex
perts, could fire a shell that would
prove fatal against a submnrlne at a
mile or a niile-and-a half distance.
ASKS PREPAREDNESS INQUIRY.
Wants Relations Of Both Sides To
Munitions Shown.
Washington. Represent a' Ive lien
ley, of Missouri, a member of the
House Naval Committee, and one of
the opposition to the naval increases,
introduced a resolution for investiga
tion of organizations active for and
against preparedness, including the
Navy League, Labor's National Peace
Council, the National Security League
and the American Defense Society.
The proposed Investigation- includes
inquiry Into what, if any, interest
members of such organizations have
In the manufacture or sale of muni
tions. MATHEW PINKERTON DEAD.
Head Of Pinkerton U. S. Detective
Agency.
Chicago. Mathew W. Pinkerton,
head of the Pinkerton United States
Detective Agency, died at bis home
heio after an illness of two months.
He was born at Mount Eaton, Ohio, In
1852. Mathew W. Pinkerton was not
related to tie late Allan Pinkerton
and was not c. nnected with the rink
erton National Detective Agency.
BOARD
War News in Brief
German advices admit that the Teu
tonic situation of Czernowlta is criti
cal. For 50 hours the Russians shell
ed the Austrian's position with 400
guns.
Austrian official report says the Rus
sian losses on the Bessarablan frontier
and the Strips region during the New
Year's fighting were 50,000.
There is no Indication in official re
ports of marked activity on any of the
war fronts except along the line in the
east from Volhynla, southward to Bes
sarabia. Even hero the fighting be
tween Austro-German and Russian
forces seems to have slackened.
A British submarine wis sunk off
the Dutch cobsL The admiralty an
nouncement of the sinking does not
state tho cause or give the name of
the submarine. The entire crew of 32
was rescued by a Dutch cruiser and
taken to Holland.
Previous statements that no warn
ing was given tho liner Persia and that
the blow that sent her to the bottom
came from an unseen source are con
firmed in affidavits from 21 survivors
obtained by United States Consul Car
rels at Alexandria. The ronnul so ad
vised the State Department. One of
tho affidavits was from Charles H.
Grant, an American citizen.
Tho movement for the rehabilitation
of the Serbian Army Is growing, ac
cording to advices from various quar
ters. The Teutonic allies still threaten to
expel the French and British from
their Macedonian positions, but no for
ward move has been detected thus far
In that direction.
Strong Turkish forces are said to be
concentrating on the Thraclan frontier
of Greece, and It is suggested the
Turks may attempt to make good some
of the territorial losses they suffered
during the Balkan wars.
The British public Is enncernrd
chiefly with the domestic crisis. Not
withstanding the heavy majority for
the compulsion bill on first reading in
the House of Commons, the press is
speculating on the possibility of a
break-up of the political truce, with a
general election as the final chapter
of the controversy.
KAISER'S ILLNESS SERIOUS.
Affection Deep -Seated Artificial
Palate Necessary.
Paris. Press dispatches from Swltr
erland and Italy continue to affirm
that the illness of Emperor" William Is
serious. It Is stated that he was oper
ated on last Wednesday successfully,
but the nature of the operation is not
specified. It is stated that the Em
peror Is suffering from a deep-seated
affection of which the cutaneous erup
tion Is but an Incidental symptom and
that the malady Is complicated by the
reappearance of his old throat trou
ble, which has extended to the mouth.
TO BRING MARINES FROM HAITI.
Transport Prairie On Way There From
Philadelphia.
Washington. Navy officials hope
soon to begin withdrawing the marines
on duty in Haiti. The transport
Prairie, which left Philadelphia for
Haiti, probably will remain In South
ern waters until the withdrawal be
gins. All recent reports have Indi
cated thnt tranquility had been re
established on the island under the
temporary arrangement for enforcing
provisions of the pending treaty for
an American protectorate over the re
public. GOLD IMPORTS $450,204,000.
United States Accumulation Largest
In World's History.
Washington. Shipments of gold
into the United States during the
calendar year of 1915, Just closed, ag
gregate in value the enormous sum of
$450,204,000, representing the largest
amount of the precious metal ever re
ceived by this country during any pre
vious 12 months of Its history. In
normal times, before -the European
war broke out, the Importations of gold
ranged between $50,000,000 and $73,
000,000. GREEK KING IMPROVED.
Surgeons Report Hit Condition Most
Satisfactory.
Athens, Greece. Professor Fried
rich Kraus, of Berlin, and Professor
Eiselberg, of Vienna, who nre attend
ing King Constant ine, announced that
his condition was most satisfactory."
Paris. A Havas dispatch from
Athens says that the German physi
cians of King Constant ine are leaving
on board a torpedo-boat.
LAST SURVIVOR OF MONITOR.
William Durst, Member Of Crew, Diet
In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. William Durst, snid
to be the sole survivor of the crew of
the Monitor, which engaged the Con
federate ironclad Merrimac in the his
toric battle In Hampton Roads, died at
his home here from pneumonU. He
was 7ti years old.
BRITISH LOSS AT LOOS 59,666.
Under Secretary For War Gives Fig
ures In Commons.
I London. The British casualties in
the battle of Loos, trance, last Sep
tember totaled 2,378 offlcers and 57,288
men, according to an announcement
made in the House of Commons by
Harold J. Tennant, Parliamentary
Under Secretary for War.
TRICKED OUT OF PANAMA TOLLS.
House Has Bill To Circumvent Foreign
Ship Owners,
Washington. Tricks resorted to by
foreign ship owners to cut down their
Panama Canal tolls were revealed by
Representative Adamson, of Georgia,
(jhairman of tho House Interstate Com
merce Committee, in introducing a bill
to authorize a new1 system worked out
by the War Department for measuring
vessels thft pass through the canal.
WARNS AGAINST
TRADE DANGERS
Labor Commissioner Jackson Ittuet
Pamphlett To Reduce Aceldentt
and Diteate.
Harrlsburg. A popular appeal for
;he prevention of occupational diseases
bas been instituted by Commissioner
John Price Jackson, of the Department
of Labor and Industry, by the publlca.
tion of a Berles of small pamphlets,
prepared by tho Division of Industrial
Hygiene and Engineering, calling at
tention to the every-day dangers In
various trades.
This scries of Bmall pamphlets is en
titled "Timely Hints." The first folder
of the series, for employers and em
ployes, point out to tho employer the
econolmc value of safety in the fac
tory, and to the employe the danger of
dust, Impure air and personal careless
ness. Many Killed Carelessly.
An appeal for the prevention of In
dustrial accidents and disease Is voiced
In the secoud pamphlet of the series.
This folder declares that more than
three persons are killed and 150 in
jured every day In tho industries in
Pennsylvania, and that fifty per cenL
of these accidents are avoidable. A
separate folder for elevator operators
points out t,hat ninety per cent, of ac
cidents on elevators occur at landings,
and are due to carelessness. Steam
boiler firemen are warned that last
year In the United States there wore
467 boiler explosions which killed 148
and Injured 315 persons.
Death By Lead Poisoning.
Lead poisoning is declared to be
most dangerous to painters. Symptoms
of lead poisoning and preventive
measures are explained.
Printers are also warned against the
.dangers of lead poisoning and tubcrcu
Josls. It is pointed out that of every
1,000 deaths among printers, 292 are
caused by tuberculosis. The necessity
of proper light for work in a printing
establishment Is explulned.
The series of "Timely Hints" will be
continued Indefinitely, to cover virtual
ly every vocation. Copies of the fold
ers may be obtained on application to
Commissioner John Price Jackson, at
the Department of Labor and Industry
at Harrlsburg.
34 Pass State Dental Tests.
Announcement of the result of the
recent State dental examination held
in Philadelphia, was made here by the
State Dental Examining Board.
The names of the thirty-four suc
cessful candidates are:
Benjamin Mitchell Axelrad, Philadel
phia. Kavork Axnavoor, Wilmington.
Isaac Bar, Emilio M. Barreior,
Edwin W. Barton, Philadelphia.
Arthur T. Burchill, Towanda.i
Lionel James Burston, Robert Ward
Carroll, Jr., Philadelphia.
Wilson Y'oungs Christian, Ocean
City, N. J.
Carl Antoine Christian!, John
Hivard Curry, Ernest Colman Dacosta,
Robert Stevens DavlH, John Joseph
Foran, Caroline Edythe Hauer, Phila
delphia. Ralph Hayes Husted, Wilkes-Barre.
James Kershner Loewen, Tamuqua.
Pedrlo A. Lopez, Philadelphia.!
Robert Dean Miller, Norrlstown.
William Joseph Morris, ScrantoI.
James Joseph Nelson, Philadelphia.
Harry David Newton, Athens.
J. A. Orwig, Sunbury.
Ernest Clifford Phillips, Victor
Manuel Sarti, Philadelphia.
Frederick Ellsworth Sloan, Worces
ter, N. Y.
Ralph Cramer Stevens, Rockhill
Furnace.
John Grofius Stewart, James Stuart
Tait, Simon Francisco Tecson, Phila
delphia. Frank L. Wertz, Lewlstown.
F. Roland Wessels, Philadelphia.
Warren Abel Wood, Hammonton,
N. J.
Frederick Walter Znrher, Philadel
phia. State Society Wlil Organize.
The organization of the Pennsyl
vania State Society, which will bring
the officials of the State government
together at monthly luncheons and for
discussion of State affairs, was effect
ed at a meeting held Wednesday. The
membership of the association is now
being worked out. The dinner at
Philadelphia on February 29, will
bring together many notable men.
Want Plant Of Filter.
Massachusetts State authorities
have written to Commissioner of Fish
eries N. R. Buller for plans and models
of the filter for manufacturing plants,
which is designed to prevent pollution
of streams. This filter, which is being
installed at over forty manufacturing
plants in this State, was invented by
Mr. Buller and Warden Albert.
Investigate Effect Of New Law.
State officials are making an effort
to ascertain the effect of the new child
labor law on breaker boys and miners
employed in mercantile and industrial
plants. Reports of dismissals are be
ing sought and some may be investi
gated. State Game Officers Re-elected.
The State Game Commission re
elected Dr. Charles B. Penrose, Phila
delphia, as chairman and Dr. Joseph
Kalbfus, of Harrlsburg, as secretary.
State Auto License Income $5,416,000.
Pennsylvania's income from auto
mobile licenses In the ten-year period
which It has required registration
motor-driven vehicles amounts to
416.169.19. without counting nearly
ree-auarters of a million dollars al
ready received for 1916 licenses.
In 1906, the first year in which the
Slate licensed automobiles,' the State
Highway Department received $f2,
460.42. In 1915, the tenth year for li
censes, the revenue from motor
vehicles was $1,665,276.50.
THE' MEWS TOLO
PARAGRAPHS
Latest Happenings Gleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS.
John W. Barnes, aged fifty-five. Jani
tor of the Town Hall, Wrlghtsville,
committed suicide, and his body was
round in tho building, with a bullet
hole through the head. He left a not
and $25 to be used in burying him.
The note also said that Barnes bad
neglected to look at the steam gauge
and "cracked the boiler." It Is said
Barnes attempted to kill himself
twenty years ago.
Eluding the vigilance of relatives,
Edwin Tomlinson, forty-three years, a
farmer, at Red Lion Road, hanged him
self in the barn on his farm. His
absence caused an Investigation and
he was found suspended from a rafter
by his brother, Raymond Tomlinson.
Tomlinson had been in ill health, and
members of the family feared he would
end his life.
Reports made by the State Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate that less
than one per cent, of tho staple
groceries sold in Pennsylvania during
the year Just closed were adulterated.
This report Is stated to show tho best
condition ever noted by tho agenta of
the pure food division of the depart'
ment.
The twenty-seventh annual reunion
of the descendants of Frederick W,
and Maria V. Hoover held at the home
of J. Benton Hoover, Glenside, waB at
tended by one hundred members of thst
clan, when Truman J. Hoover, Glen'
side, was elected president, and J.
Lowell Hoover, of Philadelphia, vice
president. Toying with a loaded revolver in a
poolroom In Chester, William McCue,
eighteen yenrs old, pulled the trigger
and the bullet struck Lawrence Ward,
eighteen years old, in the right side.
Ward was taken to Chester Hospital
for treatment and his condition is se
rious. McCue was arrested.
C. C. Richard, a truck farmer resid
ing near Stoneybrook, killed himself
with a shotgun after having tried to
murder his wife and three-year-old
son with a hatchet. A horse trade in
which he believed he came out loser
is believed to have unbalanced Rich
ard's mind.
Sixty-four prosecutions for the dis
play of moving-picture films against
the regulations of the State Board of
Moving-Picture Censors were pushed
to conclusion and the exhibitors fined
during 1915, according to the office of
the State Board of Censors.
Solitary confinement Is emphasized
in the case of Oscar Schmoyer, Dan
ville, who is In jail there awaiting trial
for arson. He is the only prisoner in
the Montour county jail, and has been
so for five -weeks.
Ambler Council authorized a vote of
the people on February 16 on the mat
ter of Increasing the bonded ind"bted
ness $30,000 for street and sewer work,
and automobile fire apparatus.
Charles Wilkinson, of Muuch Chunk,
a Central Railroad of "New Jersey fire
man, was severaly injured when ho
slipped from his engine step and fell
against the wheels.
Mauch Chunk Council organized by
electing George W. Sendel, president,
and Robert Heberling, Esq., secretary.
The salary of the secretary was raised
to $200 per year.
John Kelmls, aged twenty-five years,
a contract miner, was crushed to death
by rock, at the Park Place joine, Ma
hanoy City.
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Com
pany has suspended a large number of
boys' coming under the sixteen-year
limit of the child labor law.
Charles E. Shires, Strawberry Ridge,
bas lifted his ninth commission as a.
Justice of the Feace there. He has
served for forty years continuously.
A fire in the roof of the foundry at
the Eddystone plant of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works caused damage
amounting to about $1,000.
The Lehigh County Grand Jury con
demned the insane department at the
county home, and prayed the court to
take steps to erect a safe structure.
Mrs. Eliza Freed, aged ninety-four
years, wife of Lafayette Freed, of '
Tughtown, fell dead from heart disease.
Arthur Chapman, a member of the
State Board of Game Commissioners
and a wtU-known lawyer of Buck
county, died at his home in Doyles
town. ' George Brown, a foreman In the
Hartzel Ore Mine, near'lronton, x-ns
killed by a cave-ln.-
Chief of Mines Roderick announced
that he had assigned the sixth anthra
cite district to D. T. Williams, of
Scranton, over whose status there had
been some question.
Hazleton Man On Hospital Board.
Governor Brumbjtufe') appointed Dr
II. M. Keller, Hazleton! vft member of
the Board of Trustees of ' J lie Jil ate-
Hospital at Hazleton, and M
Ross'ter, Erie, a member of li
of Trustees of tho Erie
Mothers' Pension Fund.
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