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“KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS -
ARAGRAFY
‘While demonstrating a shotgui. to
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH. FOR THEIR AP-
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
to pay existing debt; and the debt cre-
ated to supply deficiency in revenue
shall never exceed in the aggregate
at any one time, one million dol-
lars,” be amended so as to read as
Core SaReRasS. ER
friend in his home, John Dimick, aged
sixty, of Foxburg, accidentally dis
charged the weapon and the contents
- of the shell entered the ' left side of
. BE. G. Eddinger, aged thirty-six, an oll
well driller of St. Petersburg, causing
tae latter's death. in ihe Butler Gen:
eral hospital. 4 : »
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Hundreds of lime kilns, which had|
been abandoned, some of them years
ago, are being started up in central
and eastern Pennsylvania counties be
cause of the demand for lime for agri
cultural purposes, due to the stopping
of the foreign supply of potash and
the exhaustion of stocks in this coun
iry.
The York Citizens’ Relief commuy
tee, organized to care for the depen:
dents of the York national guardsmen,
now on duty on the Mexican border,
has sent letters to 3,000 individuals
and organizations asking for monthly
subscriptions toward the relief fund.
About $1,000 a week will be required.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE.
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL-
VANIA, AND. PUBLISHED BY OR-
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE; XVilll OF
THE CONSTITUTION.
Number One,
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to Article
IX of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania. :
Section’ 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representa.
‘tives in General Assembly met, That
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and
the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the XVIII article
thereof: —
Section 16. The State, or any mu-
nicipality thereof, acquiring or appro-
priating property or rights over or in
property for public use, may, in fur-
the following amendment to thelimproving and rebuilding the highways
follows: {
Section 4. No debt shall be crea-
ted by or on bebglf of the State, ex-| «
cept to supply casual defidiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress fin-
surrection, defend the State in war,
or to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiencies in rev-
enue shall never exceed in the agsgre-
gate, at any one time, one million dol-
jars: Provided, however, That the
General Assembly, irrespective of
any debt, may authorize the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the purpose of
of the Commonwealth.
Section 2. Said proposed amend-
ment shall be submitted to the qual-
ified electors of the State, at the gen-
eral election to be held on the Tues-
day next following the first Monday of
November in the year nineteeen hun-
et Contents 15 Finid Drache
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For Infants and Childreft,
Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
The superior court granted the su
2
LORD ROBERT C. y
therance of its plans for the acqui-
sition and public use of such proper-
dred and eighteen, for the purpose of
deciding upon the approval and rati-
fication or the rejection of said
persedeas asked for by the convicted
ty or rights, and subject to such re-
Pittsburgh strike rioters, providing
bail is entered as follows: Fred H.
Merrick, $5.000, and $2,500 each for
Rudolph ‘Blum, Steve Tipsiek, Mike
Bssick, George G. Zebeer, A. Weston
A GENERAL SURVEY 0:
strictions as the Legislature may from
time to time impose, appropriate an
excess of property over that actual-
ly to be occupied or used for public
‘H. H. Detwiler and Anna Goldberg.
Melissa Copenhaver, aged sixteen,
living a mile and a half above Clear:
* field, was drowned while wading
the Susquehanna river with two girl
chums. The three had been riding
THE WAR
The battle on the British front in
northern France has been resumed
along the whole line from Pozieres to
Guillemont, the British war office re:
port says. The British captured the
in
in
a skiff which overturned in shallow :
*\ water and they began to wade
shore. They fell into a deep hole.
Frank E. Mc@Gailey,
sewer drop.
newspaper.
his rarents.
Jesse Fry, a farmer of near Greens
burg, is much peeved because of re
peated visits of a herd of deer to his
Deer cannot be killed
under penalty of & heavy fine, and the
state game warden, is unable to dea
grain fields.
with the question of damages.
i rrr Triad al
One of the fiercest and most de
structive electrical storms, attended
‘by a record-breaking rainfall, that has
ever visited that section, passed over
About five inches of rain
tell in five hours, breaking all known
Reading.
records for the leeality.
Frank Culp, aged twenty-six,
Hazelton,
brakeman,
was instantly killed
lightning a4
near that city, where he was on duty
as a flagman to wern approaching
trains of a washout.
Serving fifty-two years as
Pittsburgh
going home at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing, heard a baby’s wail from under 2
He discovered "a little
fellow a few hours old, wrapped in 2
The babe is in a Pitts
burgh hospital while police search for
a Lehigh Valley railroad
the Crapberry crossing | of Baiburt, ‘which “recently Was
German outer works near Pozieres by.
assault and carried the fighting™inte
the village. Longueval also was the
scene of a desperate struggle.
Driving north from Bazentin and
Longueval toward Bapaume, General
Sir Douglas Haig's troops have ad
vanced as far as the Foureaux wood.
The British rush even cleared this
wood, but subsequently the Germans
were able to win back a part of it.
South of the Somme the French
have been able to hold trenches cap
tured in their drive along & five-mile
front on Thursday, withstanding a
vigorous counter attack. ‘South of
Soyecourt, on the French right, ac
cording to the French war office, the
Germans were driven back in disor:
der, sustaining serious losses. ;
Lloyds reports that the British
steamship Yzer has been sunk.
The British steamship Grangemoor,
owned by the Moor line of Newcastle
has been sunk by a submarine. Her
crew was l°nded. -
The succession of advancea by the
oi| Russians in Turkish Armenia has
been added to by the capture of
by Gumuskhanh, forty miles northwest
.cap
tured by Grand Duke Nicholas’ forces.
The forward drive here has carried
the Russians westward to a line even
with the important city’ of Erzignan,
to
engine | fifty miles to the south, and the ob
man, James Seitzinger of Shamokin ;
jective of the Russians advancing from
. ‘who was presented by comgress Wit}| Mamakhatun.
»@& medal for bravery on the battlefield
{ during the Civil war, has beén placed
.off the retired Uist by the Reading Rail
[way company.
ots
John Crutchers, forty-three, of Jean
mnette, who was fatally injured in
automobile accident on the Lincolr
| Somerse!
county, .died at the Westmoreland
highway at Stoyestown,
County hospital at Greensburg.
The fifth case of infantile paralysi:
to be reported to the (Pittsburgt
health authorities thigrmonth was thal
of George Karabinas, aged two, of For
ward avenue, Hazelwood, diagnosed by
City Physician B. A. Booth.
Riccato Casin, aged twenty-three, 0:
Duquesne, was instantly killed in the
Union railroad yards at Munhall. Casir
was underneath @ ‘car doing repal
work when the jack used to raise the
car slipped, crushing him.
E———
Robert M. Cooney, fifty-five, an
gineer employed by the Baltimore ant
Ohio railroad, wes killed when
stepped from his cab in front of
the railroad yard:
light engine in
in Connellsville.
. PD————
New Castle Elks dedicated thel.
new $125,000 home. Hundreds of visit
ing Elks from Greenville, Beave:
Falls, Pittsburgh, Youngstown and
other cities assisted in the ceremonies
A case of infantile paralysis was re
ported. at, Connellsville, the victim
five, a son Of
being Charles Cage, ~
Charles N. Cage. TI
afd partly paralyzed.
“Rev. C. W. Fowkes, aged sixty, oi
county, died from shock iz
Indfana county, died fror :
the. office ot Br. H.'D.” Graham
Brownsville after he had twenty-three
teeth: extracted. 10
‘ Thomas Eugene Auth, aged twelve
gon of Fra:cis T. Auth of Pittsburgh
was drowned while wading in Char
tiers: eroek at Crafton with a number
ef companions,
Five tin mills recently constructeé
in the McKeesport ‘Tinplate company's
plant, McKeesport, have been blowr
in, affording employment fo 250 per
sons.
William J. Shepherd, forty-three, o
Homestead, died in the West Peni
hospital, Pittsburgh, from ‘burns
ceived in a Homestead steel mill
Mennonite church congregations of}
the
several we
e victim's log,
state have. opened their annual
npmeeting services at Shamokin ta
The capture: of Gumuskhaneh
marks a notable advance for the Rus:
sian Caucasus forces under Grand
‘Duke Nicholas.! Gumuskhaneh- fis
forty miles northwest ‘of Baiburt, the
capture of which was reported bythe
Petrograd war office on July 16. It is
about fifty miles directly north of
Erzignan, the objective of the Russian
army, which recently took Mamas
hatun, fifty miles to the west. =
‘Repedted reports from Petrograd of
a more or less obscure origin have
reached London that General Kuro
patkin, commanding the. ‘Russian
forces in the north, in the Riga r-
gion, has launched a great offensive
against the defensive: line of Field
Marshal von Hindenburg. - =
The latest of these reports is from
Rome, and declares that the Russians
have been bombarding the German
front on the Dvina for three days with
out cessation and have smashed the
defenders’ works. It is added that
el | general Kuropatkin is now ready for
an advance with his infantry.
But. neither the official reports from
Petrograd nor from Berlin mention
any such offemsive movement as this.
Russians advancing foward the Ga
lician border have defeated the Aus:
tro-Hungarians in the region of the
confluence of the Stye and Lipa rivers,
and have captured more than 1,600
prisoners, says the oficial’ statement.
Before a Russian assault the Aus
ar
he
southern Bukowina, southeast gf Tat".
row, have withdrawn towagd, the main
ridge of the Carpathians, the Aus
trian war office officially announced.
‘Italian troops’ are continuing their
pressure on the Austrian lin
ir
nolo and Cision ‘valleys in the Dolo
mites) DO .
"VIENNA PARRIES REPLY
Asks For Additional Details ‘on Petro:
lite Attack.’ x
through Am:
bassador Penfield at Venna, a request
for additional details regarding the
attack by an Austrian submarine upon
the American tank steamer 'Petrolite.
Mr. Penfield’s dispatch; gave no in-
Te} dication as to whether the Vienna gov
from Austria-Hungary,
American demands for
trians in the Carpathian region of
\e Austrian lines in the
Trentino, scoring new :adzances along
the Pesing-lineiandion the Sette Com:
muni; plateau. © They also “have taken
strong positions between ‘the Trevig-
The state department has received
ernment intended to comply. with the
an apology,
punishment of the submarine comman.
for thé damage
use, and may thereafter sell or lease
such excess, and impose on the prop-
erty so sold or leased any restrictions
appropriate to preserve or enhance |
the benefit to the public of the prop-|
erty actually occupied or used. i
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1. :
CYRUS E. WOODS, |
Secretary of the Commonwealth. |
Number Two. “os |
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania so as to consolidate
the courts of common pleas of Phil-
' adelphia. county.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representa
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and
the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the eighteenth article
thereof:- ‘ . 3 :
That section six of article five be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 6. In the. county of Phila.
delphia all the - jurisdiction and
powers now vested in the several
numbered courts of common pleas of
court of colamon less cofiiposed of]
all the judges in comanission in said |
courts. Such jurisdiction .and powers
shall extend to all proceedings at law:
and in equity which shall have been
instituted in the several numbered
courts and shall be subject to such
change as may be made by law and
subject to.change of venue as. provi
ded by law. The president judge of
the said court shall be selected as
provided by-law. The number .. : of
jndges in said conrt may be by law
|inereased from time to time. This a-
mendment shall take effect on the
first day of January succeeding its a-
doption. Lo afe min
In the.county of Allegheny all the
jurisdiction rand powers now vested
in‘ the several numbered courts of
common pleas, (shall je vested in
one court of common pleas, com-
posed of all the judges in commission
in said courts. ‘Such jurisdiction and
powers shall extend to aif prpceel-
"ings at law and in equity which shall
have been instituted in the several
pumbered courts and shall be subject
to such change as may be made by
law and subject to change of venue
law. The number of judges In
said court may be by law increased
from time to time. This amendment
shall take effect on the first day of
January succeeding its adoption.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2. p-o~
CYRUS E. WOODS.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, ' section four of the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; authorizing the
State to issue bonds to the amount
that county, shall be vested in: one |
as provided . by law. The presi-|so much of the debt of said city as
dent judge of the said court | shall have been incarred, and the
shall be selected as provided by |proceeds thereof invested, in any
amendment. Said election shall be
| opened, held, and closed upon sald
| election day, at the places and within
the hours at and within which said
election is directed to be open-
ed, held and closed, and in accord-
aneé ‘with the provisions of the laws
of Pennsylvania governing elections, }
and amendments thereto. Such a-
mendment shall be printed upon the
ballots in the form and manner pre-
scribed by the election laws of Penn-
sylvania, and shall in all respects
conform to the requirement of such
laws.
A true ~ of Joint Resolution |
No, 3.
ty
“CYRUS E. WOODS,.
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THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NIW YORK CITY
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to. section
eight, article nine of the Consti-
. tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
gsylvania in General Assembly met,
and is hereby enacted by the author-
ity of the same, That the Constitu-
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, in accordance with the pro
visions of the eighteenth article
thereof: — or ;
Amendment to Article Nine, Section
i Eight. .
, That section eight of article nine
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‘bt he Constitution be amended by os ni .
striking out the said section and in-| ~~.
serting in place thereof the follow-
ing:—
- Section 8. The debt of -any county
city, borough, township, school dis-
trict or other municipality or imcorpo-
rated district, except as provided here
fn and in section fifteen of this arti
cle shall never exceed seven (7) per
centum upon the assessed value of the
taxable property ‘therein, but the
debt. of the city of Philadelphia may
be increased in such amount that the
total city debt of said city shall not
exceed ten per centum (10) upon the |
assessed value of the taxable prop-
erty therein, nor shall any such mu-
nicipality or district incur any new
debt, or increase its indebtedness to.
an amount exceeding two (2) per |
centum upon such assessed valuation |
of property, without the consent of
the electors thereof at a public elec-.
tion in such manner as shall be pro-|
vided by law. In ascertaining the
—the Big Crusade |
against the germ - laden broom, dust -cloth | |
and feather duster—ecan best be waged with '|
HOTPOINT VACUUM CLEAN- Cf
'ER— which operates’ from lamp-
socket and can be bought during
Hotpoint Week (July 3-8) at a sav-
ing ot $5.50.
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borrowing capacity of the said cify
of Philadelphia, at any time, there
shall be excluded from the calcula-
tion . and deducted from such debt
-—
public improvements of any character
whieh shall be yielding to the said
city an annual curnent net revenue.
The amount of such deduction shall
be ascertained by capitalizing the an-
nual net revenue from such improve
ment during the year immediately
preceding the time of such ascertain-
ments; and such capitalization shall
be estimated by ascertaining the | 8
principal amount which would yield,
the average rate of interest, and sink-'
ing-fund charges payable upon the;
indebtedness incurred by said city | city,
for such purposes, up to the time of
such ascertainment.
of fifty millions of dollars for the
improvement of the : highways of
the Commonwealth,
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House - of Representa
tives of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the eightéenth article
thereof: —
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
“Section 4. No debt shall be crea-
ted by or on behalf of the State, ex:
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasions, suppress in-
surrection, defend the State in war, or
determining such amount, so to be de
{eral Assembly. In incurring indebted-
ness for any purpose the city of Phila.
; delphia mey issue its obligations ma- |
| turing not later than fifty (50) years o'
| from the date thereof, with provision |
for a sinking-fund sufficient to retire |
ment to such sinking-fund to be in
equal or graded annual or other per-
iodical instalments. Where. any
: debtedness shall be or shall have!
| been incurred by said city of Philadel
in- |
terest and
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| Pennsylvania, until the expiration of
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Every Farmer with two or more cows
needs a
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THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE,
J. T. YODER,
223 LevergoodSt.
JOHNSTOWN, PA.
such annual, curnent net revenue, at! :
me i used in the construction of wharves or
. docks owned or ‘to be owned by said
such obligations may be in
| amount sufficient to provide for, and
The method of! may include the amount of, the in-
sinking-fund charges ac-
ducted, may be prescribed by the Gen- cruing and which may accrue there-
on throughout the period of construct-
ion, ‘and until the expiration of one
year after the completion of the work
indebtedness shall
been incurred; and said city
shall not be required to levy a tax to
Constitution ‘of Pennsylyania be, and |said obligations at maturity, the pay- 2% ex
y ; Y, € pay charges as required by section ten.
which said
said interest and
nine of the Constitution
| said period of one year after the com-
pletion of said work.
SOMERSET COUNTY WEDDINGS
Harry Snyder of near Friedens, and
an | Miss Many A. Boberts, of Ebsensburg,
Pa., were married at the Luthera®
parsonage Somerset by Dr. I. Hess
Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder left on
the afternoon train for Washington;
D. C., to spend their honeymoon. Mr.
Snyder is employed by the KEucus-
burg Lumber company and he and hig
bride will make their home at the
Cambria county capital.
Miss Melda Saylor, eldest daughter
of former Sheriff James B. Saylor was
married to F, A, Bassett of Holyoke,
of | pass, where her husband is engaged
in business as a coal broker. The
wedding occured a week or two ago
and the news has just reached the
| phia for the purpose of the construct |. A true copy of Joint Resolution No 4. |bride’s friends here. Before here
: t
ion or improvement of public works of |
any character from which income or |
| revenue is to be derived by said city, |
or for the reclamation of d
CYRUS HE." WOODS.
| marriage Miss Saylor was employed
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Secretary of the Commonwealth. | as a teacher in the Pittsburg schools.
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