GIPSY BONG.
i I —
Under me the grass,
Over me the sky,
I can sleep and dream until
‘The night goes by;
Till the shadows pass,
Till the stars depart,
Let a roving gipsy fill
His hungry heart!
Voices in the vines,
Visions in the vales,
It is mine to know them all
Along green trails;
When the morning shines
Like a rose above,
Let me hear the gipsy call
Of birds I love!
Murmur of the stream,
Whisper of the tree,
I can understand the song
They sing to me;
Mine the Biisstul dream,
Builded of delight,
Let the gipsy’s day be long,
And brief his night!
~Frank ' Dempster Sherman, in Munsey’s
Magazine.
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L LONG, QUIET DAY ]
IN THE COUNTRY. 3
bq
It was Betty Coman’s idea—a long,
Quiet day in the country. It did
sound nice, but it turned out to be
the longest day I ever remember. ®
Betty invited seven of us girls to
80 on an early morning train to
Brookton. From there we were to
drive eight miles to Linden Falls.
She said Arthur Knight had prom-
ised to bring some of the men in our
crowd out in his automobile in time
for an early supper.
There was a wagonette waiting for
us at Brookton and we girls climbed
into it and it was nearly lunch time
when we got to the falls, We were
all hungry, but Betty said we must
save the best things for supper, when
the men would be with us. So we
had offly a little snack of plain bread
and butter and spring water. After
that we thought we’d take a nap and
we lay down in the shade, but the
mosquitoes were so plentiful that
sleep was out of the question.
Because we wanted something to
do we decided to arrange the supper
table. We spread a beautiful white
cloth that Betty brought and laid out
all the sandwiches, salad, eggs, sar-
dines, cake and cookies with heaps
of pickles and jelly. Then we made
wreaths of maple leaves which we
wove. The lunch ‘looked so inviting
we could hardly resist it. For fear
we might be tempted to mibble, we
went for a walk, leaving our driver
In charge.
We strolled beside the brook into
a deep wood, where we found quanti-
ties of ferns that we thought would
add the finishing touch to our decora-
tions, and we became so interested
in getting them we. stayed longer
than was intended. Then, suddenly
realizing how late it was getting, we
were afraid the automobile party had
arrived during our absence, and we
ran so fast that we were all hot and
breathless.
Betty fell and turned her ‘ankle.
She {is always turning her ankle.
She did it at almost every dance we
went to last winter. I can understand
that, for the men used to flock around
her and offer to carry her or tear up
their handkerchiefs for ‘bandages,
but I can’t see why she should turn
ankle out in the country with only us
girls around. ©f course we had te
stop running and help ‘her. She
leaned so heavily .on me that I had
to get one of the other girls to take
my place.
Maybe we weren’t surprised when
we got back to our picnic place and
found the horses, which had been
taken out of the wagonette and tied
to trees, standing om that handsome
tablecloth of Betty's. We rushed
upon them and shooed them away,
but we were too late—there was
nothing left of our delicious luncheon
but a few olives and one pot of rogque-
fort cheese. The tablecloth was ut-
terly ruined. Betty eried when she
saw the dreadful holes the horses’
hoofs had cut in it and all the jelly
spilled over it and trampled in. I
think it was silly of Betty to bring
a fine tablecloth. It was just a bit
of ostentation on her part.
“What will the men say?’’ all the
girls asked. -
““They’ll be starving and we haven't
a thing to give them,” moaned Betty.
“I don’t believe they’ll be any hun-
grier than I am this minute,” I said.
“If you had let us eat some of those
things at lunch time we would have
been better off now.”
“Well, don’t blame me. I didn’t
know that those horrid horses were
going to spoil everything.”
“The driver is to blame,” said one
of the girls. “I'd like to know why
he didn't stay here tp watch them
and where he is now.”
“He’s here,” erfed another of the
girls who had wandered a little way
from the scene of the disaster. ‘‘He's
sound asleep. Shall I wake him?”
“Yes,” we all answered in an angry
chorus.
When he opened his eyes after a
thrust in the ribs from a white em-
broidered parasol he looked around
stupidly. Then he suddenly jumped
‘up, and asked excitedly, “Where are
them horses?”
Where were they? Not one of us
had thought of them since we chased
them off the tablecloth and now they
were nowhere in sight. The driver
began calling and whistling and tear-
ing around in every direction, and we
girls, all except Betty, joined in the
search.
“Well, we won't see them animals
again to-day,” said the driver at last.
“It’s dollars to doughnuts they have
piked out for home. I seen their
tracks on the road and it's no use
hunting any more.”
We looked despairingly at each
other for a moment and then Betty
remarked that Arthur would just
have to take us to the station in his
automobile—that we could all pile in
somehow. That thought’cheered us
and I looked at my watch to see if
it wasn’t time for the men to come.”
“Why, it's after six!’ I exclaimed.
“They ought to have been here long
ago.”
‘““They must come soon,” said Betty.
But they didn’t come. We waited
and waited, getting crosser and more
tired every minute. At eight o’clock
we sent the driver to find some farm
horses to take us to Brookton. It
was after ten o'clock when we
reached the station, and discovered
that we had just missed a train. We
had an hour to wait, and we were all
so hungry, irritable and peevish that
we couldn't speak without almost
snapping off each others’ heads.
Father met us at the train when
we got in town. I had telegraphed
him, and he and Betty’s brother, who
was there, too, got the crowd safely
home.
Arthur Knight called me up this
morning and told me that the auto-
mobile broke down fifteen miles from
everywhere and that they had a really
terrible time. He seemed to long for
sympathy, but he didn’t get any from
me,
I hope Betty won’t try to get up
any more excursions.—Chicago News.
Uncle Hez Makes
a Clean Getaway
By STRICKLAND W. GILLILAN.
“Once,” said Uncle Hez, our oldest
vet, as’ he hitched up on his crutch
and thoughtfully picked around over
the box of crackers until he found
one that wasn’t chipped, “I made
what Some braggin’ windbags ‘round
hyer would call a purty keen git-
away.” -
“Spin it, Hez; spin it.. Don't let it
ferment on yer mind. ’Tain’t none
too strong, as ’'tis,” put in Oscar
Hamebuckle as he shaved off a quar-
ter-inch slice of cheese.
“I was in Andersonville prison;
time o’ th’ war, an’ I was wantin’
turrible bad t’ git out. The meals
wasn’t what I'd be’n ust to t’ home,
an’ some other things about th’ place
hed got us fellers some disgruntled
with th’ management. I would of
left a heap sooner, only them blood-
hound dawgs was so allfired keen on
th’ scent that. mighty few o’ th’ boys
that started ever got more’'n a mile
or two before they was ketched.
“Once, though, I was hangin’
‘round th’ drug-store ©’ th’ prison,
when th’ feller in charge steps out,
leavin’ me standin’ clost by th’ door
unbeknownst t’ him. A idee come
to me like a shot. I hustled inside
an’ grabbed a big half-gallon bottle
0’ «chloroform an’ got plumb com-
plete away with it-afore he returned
back. :
“That night I fills m’ boots full o’
the stuff an’ sneaks through a hole
I’ dug ’'n-under th’ stockade. Away
I went, lickety-split, an’ ‘’twasn’t
more ’n ten minutes afore I hears
them hound dawgs a-bawlin’ on the
trail.
“I hurried on, hopin’ my roose
might work, an’ purty soon they
wasn’t but one hound ‘dawg a-bawlin’
on th’ trail, an’ he wes stoppin’ right
in the midst of ’is loudest and survi-
grussest bellers t’ gape an’ stretch
hisse’f. Ye could jest see ’im a-doin’
it. Between his bellers ye could hear
t’other hound dawg a-snorin’ half a
mild furder back. I was still hope-
ful.
“Finally th’ other hound dawg laid
down an’ jined in th’ snorin’, an’ I
knowed I was saved. I tuck off m’
boots, emptied the rest o’ th’ chloro-
form out 0’ my boots, worked ower
my feet till I got ’em t’ set up an’
take notices, an’ by mornin’ 1 wos
out 0’ reach—hey, Oscar? What's
that you're puttin’ through ye?”’—
From Judge. ’
An Old “Ad.”
“Nothing succeeds like persever-
ance,” said Mark Twain at a Winner.
“When the luck seems most against
us, then we should work and hope
hardest of all. In moments of dis-
couragement let us remember my old
friend, Henry Plumley, of Virginia
City.
“Henry Plumley ran a collar fac-
tory. Times were reputed to be hard
with him. When his factory, which
was very heavily insured, burned
down there was every indication that
he had get the place on fire himself
in order to get the insurance money.
Virginia: City was the soul of honor
in those days. Shocked beyond
words, it rose enmasse, seized Henry
Plumley, put a haltér round his neck
and lynched him.
“But he did not die. The Sheriff
arrived and cut him down in time.
He was tried and found guilty and
served a term in jail.
“On his release you wouldn’t have
thought that he’d return to Virginia
City again, eh? He did, though. He
came back, reopened his collar fae-
tory and prospered.
“What gave him his start was the
odd advertisement with which he an-
nounced his return to business among
us. Preceded by a brass band,
Henry, in a great gilt chariot, burst
upon our streets. He sat on a kind
of golden throne, and he held on a
crimson cushion in his lap an old,
old collar. Above the collar, on a
crimson banner, waved this inscrip-
tion in huge letters of gold:
‘“ ‘This is the collar we wore when
we were lynched. It saved our life,
Be wise in time and use no other.
At all retailers, ten cents apfece,
three for a quarter,” ’’ — Washington
Star.
‘August 26,
lands in no small quantities.
A Frenchman in Paris has an arti-
ficial face which he can remove at
pleasure.
New York City’s bonded indebted-
ness is now close to the five hundred
million mark.
New York City's old tenement
house blocks have twice as large a
population as they had fifteen years
ago.
The ancient Chaldeans were of the
Semitic race, from the princely breed
of which came the ‘Lion of the Tribe
of Judah.”
There is enough money in the New
York savings banks to give $240 to
each man, woman and child within
its borders.
The population of this country is
approximately 80,000,000. Out of
that number there are, of all denomi-
nations, 150,000 preachers.
Of the 306 delegates who, under
Conkling's lead, fought like giants
for a third term in the memorable
convention of I880, there are still
living only seventy-three.
It has been quite clearly estab-
lished that Caesar, starting from Bou-
logne, France, about midnight of
55 B. C., landed some
time the next day with his 8000
legionaries at Romney, England.
The peanut industry of the coun-
try, which has grown up within the
last twenty-five or thirty years, em-
ploys over half a million people, re-
quires some 400,000 acres of land,
yielding a profit of from $20 to $150
per acre, and aggregating a crop
worth from $15,000,000. to $17,000,-
000. :
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ASIATICS DISPLACING WHITES.
Japanese Also Beginning to Control
Canneries and Minés.
The situation which culminated in
the Vancouver riots has been causing
the Canadian authorities much un-
easiness ever since the heavy influx
of Japanese began shortly after the
war with Russia. This immigration,
reinforced by that from India, as-
sumed such large proportions as seri-
ously to threaten the labor situation,
and brought about the organization
of so-called Asiatic exclusion leagues
and a demand for the enactment of a
law similar to that which ‘regulates
the Asiatic immigration into Natal.
According to recent reports from
the British Northwest, the labor sup-
ply for the salmon fisheries and can-
neries is now largely Japanese, who
are displacing the white and Indian
labor formerly employed. The Jap-
anese also have spread to the lumber
camps and into agricultural ‘pursuits
and the mines. In facet, Japanese
capital is said now to control a num-
ber of canneries and copper. mines,
and also to have acquired agricultural
The
Japanese are also turning their atten-
tion to the shipping industry in Brit-
ish Columbian waters, and Japanese
individuals and companies are report-
ed to own a number of vessels used
in this coastwise and inland water-
WAY commerce.
From time to time meetings of or-
ganized labor associations formed to
combat Asiatic immigration have
made their grievances known to the
Dominion authorities, but all at-
tempts to obtain legislative action
have failed. The Colonial authorities
apparently have found themselves in
the dilemma of embarrassing the
home Government’s foreign-policy as
manifested in the alliance with Japan
or risking serious political changes
by disregarding the demands of or-
ganized labor in the Northwest.
Mr. Ishil, the Director of the Com- |
mercial Bureau of the Japanese For-
eign Office, who was involved in the
riots at Vancouver, came to this coun-
try to investigate and report on the
recent anti-Japanese demonstrations
in San Francisco. While this was
given out as the specific object of his
visit, it is generally understood that
his mission was to make a thorough
study of the whole Japanese question
on the continent and to ascertain the
cause and extent of whatever preju-
dice may exist against the Japanese.
He spent some time in San Francisco,
and after traveling extensively in the
United States went to British Colum-
bia.
Fatal Praise.
The foreman of a railway construc-
tion gang engaged on a spur near
Philadelphia was approached not long
since by an Irishman of the gang, who
asked about a job for his brother
Dennis.
‘“He’s jist as good a man as mesilf,”
said Mike. “Can't ye fix him here?”
“I guess 80,” responded the fore-
man. “Send him here to-morrow
morning.”
‘“Whoile I'm about it,”” continued
the Celt, “I'd loike to put in a wor-
rud for my other brother, Malachi.”
“Is he a good man, too?”
‘““Me fri'nd,” said the Irishman, im-
pressively, ‘‘Malachi’'s a better man
than mesiif an’ Dennis put together!”
“In that case,” said the foreman,
with a grin, “tell Malachi to come,
and you and Dennis can look for oth-
er jobs.”
Standard Oil Couchant.
Kind Sir! Kind Madam! Pity me! Oh,
strangers, fall ip line
And drop your pennies in my cup to help
me pay my fine. .
I’m lame Pon blind and almost Lald; I've
many to support.
Nay! Do not pass me by, I beg, for I am
short, so short. Tn
A cruel judge has sentenced me for villainy
and theft.
I need your help.
billion left.
(I only have about a
«Life.
Fierce.
Cholly—*“Get the deer?” :
Algy—*“Yes, it was evidently a
savage one, for it had been belled.”—
New York Sun. .
Reticence.
“I’ve been reading one of Henry
James’ stories.”
“What’s it about?”
“He hates to tell.”—Life.
Wall Street Water.
Church—*" Have you read the stock
list to-day?”
Gotham—*“Yes; just waded
through it!”—Yonkers Statesman.
The Real Nature Fakir.
Bacon—“Why do you call him a
nature fakir, I'd like to know?”
Egbert—“Why, don’t you see he
dyes his hair! —Yonkers Statesman.
No Postponement.
“George, dear, I'm afraid” our wed-
ding will have to be postponed.”
“Impossible, darling. My cred-
itors . won't stand it.”—Illustrated
Bits.
A Ricky Game.
Hewitt—“Do you ever take part in
games of chance?”
Jewett—“Well, I was best man at
my brother’s wedding. ’—Illustrated
Bits.
No Mistake.
“Yes,” said the girl who makes col=
lections, ‘it is one of the best auto-
graps I have in my collection.”
“But are you sure it is genuine?”
“Positive; I cut it from a telegram
that his wife received from him.”—
Tattler.
Antiques.
Police Inspector—“How much do
you value the stolen boots at?”
Owner—*“I paid six rubles for
them; they were mended twice ot
two rubles. That makes ten rubles.”
—Kurger, of Poland. ,
Ever Hear It?
“She Jdooks very young to have a
grown daughter.”
“Yes; she was just telling me
“] know. That she was married
when she was just barely fifteen
years old.”—Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, .
”
A Sorry Figure
The sculptor was working on’ a
statue of Melancholy.
“May I ask what you are doing?”
inquired the visitor. :
“Cutting a sorry figure,” said the
sculptor, scowling at him.—Chicago
Tribune.
Delicately Put.
He would not say that she painted,
powdered and all that. He was too
much of a gentleman for that.
“Btill, I may as well confess,” he
said, “that she impressed me as one
who thinks she can improve upon
the Lord’s handiwork.”—Auburn
Citizen.
Foundations.
“I hope,” said the sincere patriot,
“that the mere question of compensa-
tion is not influencing you to accept
public office.” %
“Certainly not. I want to get to
Congress so that I can get a good
start at lecturing and writing for the
magazines.”—Washington Star.
Correct.
“Now,” said "the vicar,
one tell me what a lie is?”
Immediately a small hand shot up.
“Well, my little man?”
“Please, sir, is an abomination
unto ever one, but a very pleasant
help in time of trouble.”’—Luthergn
Observer.
“can any
Well Named.
“This 1s a parlor, eh?” tentatively
remarked the real estate agent, who
was looking over the house.
“Yes,” replied the old man Kidder,
“but I usually call it the court-room.
I've got seven daughters, you know.”
—Auburn Citizen.
Ran Across a Friend.
“But, cousin Bertha, how did you
make the acquaintance of your sec-
ond husband?”
“It was quite romantic. I was out
walking with my first, when my sec-
ond came along in an automobile
and ran him down. That was the
beginning of cur friendship.”’—Flie-
gende Blaetter. 5
Realism.
Colored Lion Tamer—*“ What you
gwine lo do wid dat paint, Andy?”
Irish Handy Man—*“Sure, the
polar bear’s goin’ in here, and sorra
an obstacle there'll be betune him
and -the Bingal tiger but half an
inch o’ board, so ’tis the way I'm
goin’ to paint a little sketch of an
iceberg on ut, just to desave the
varmint! "—Punch.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS
Burgess of Greater Wash-
ington.
The consolidation of Washington
and East Washington, brought about
by the favorable vote, on the proposi-
tion at the election Tuesday, has re-
sulted in a peculiar situation as to
the office of burgess.
The law under which consolidation
was effected’ provides that the bur-
gess of the older borough shall be-
come the chief executive of the new
one. Burgess Marsh
a 8ayS his borough - is older on
ground that when Washington
North Washington were united
the
and
five
ington ceased to exist.
to decide the question.
FLED FROM BULLETS
Italians Attack Mine Foreman, Shoot-
ing at Him Ten Times.
Mine Foreman McFarland, at
Tyler mine, near Dubois, was attack-
charged, and although they shot
McFarland 10 times he escaped with-
out injury.
The Italians waylaid him along the
road near the mine, and when they
began firing he jumped over an em-
bankment and taking a short cut es-
caped into the mouth of the mine, the
bullets fiving around him as he ran.
The Italians ran over the county
line into Elk county, but were arrest-
ed and are locked up at Dubois.
CUPID BUSY AT BUTLER.
Ten Marriage Licenses Issued; Three
in One Family.
bers of the same family, that of
James Wimer of Grove City, and four
couples were married by the
minister, Rev. W. W.
the parsonage together. Every bride
was under age. :
The couples were: Charles Blair
and Edna Wimer, Grove City; David
Boozel, Plain Grove, and Pearl Wim-
er, Mercer township; Julius Reiger,
Butler, and May Sopher,
township; Floyd Wimer, Grove City,
and Velia Park, Butler.
Hanged Himself in Jail.
In. the county jail, where he was
awaiting trial on a charge of bigamy,
Henry Washabaugh committed suicide
by hanging at Washington. Washa-
baugh was a Pennsylvania
brakeman. At the request of his wife
Washabaugh’s friends, who are
to be wealthy, refused to bail him
lence. Washabaugh left two
to her unopened.
refused to receive her husband’s body.
Finds Skeleton in Thicket.
While hunting near Clymer Myron
Maxwell found a human skeleton in a
thicket. The bones were
with moss.
pers still legible showed that the man
had been a member of the United
Workman lodge of Pittsburg, and a
lodge pin was attached to the coat.
the man wore mittens.
House Blown Up.
By the explosion of 30 sticks
dynamite in Washington township,
York county, the home of John Goch-
-enour was blown up and its owner
seriously injured.
A few minutes later there was a ter-
rific explosion which wrecked
house.
.Cash Only Where Necessary.
Harrisburg banks and trust
panies have taken precautions to pre-
vent embarrassment on account of
the scarcity of currency by deciding
to pay cash only for the actual needs
of their depositors.
quirements checks
payable through the
only.
will be issued,
Judge Was Sarcastic.
case of illegal liquor
come under their notice. The court
sarcastically remarked it was evi-
dent from their returns that Wash-
ington county had almost reached the
millenium stage.
The Citizens Water Company of
McDonald awarded the contract
the sinking of two gas wells on
company's property on the edge of
the town. Gas in paying quantities
was recently discovered there,
by the sinking of wells it is hoped to
secure an abundance of fuel at a
minimum cost.
Company has been organized ‘with
$30,000 capital and application will
be made for .a State charter. The
incorporators are Thomas J. Fulmer
and Frank Douthitt of Ellwood City,
and John M. Montgomery of Sewick-
Vv
Breaks All Sheet Tin Records. |
All monthly records were smashed |
at the South Sharon plant of the
American Sheet & Tin Plate Compa-
ny during October. At the Bray |
sheet mill the tonnage exceeded by |
1,300 tons the greatest output for any |
previous month.
Mill Workers on Strike.
Three hundred employes of the silk |
mills of Stehli & Company at Lan- |
caster struck for a ten hour day in- |
stead of 103 hours, and for the com-
putation of their piece work by yard
instead of the French measurement.
The mill employs about 500.
The Courts to Decide Who Will Be
of Washington |
years ago the old b8rough of Wash- |
The court will likely be called upon |
the |
ed by two Italians whom he had dis- |
at |
Ten marriage licenses were issued |
same |
Alexander, |
within less than an hour, all going to |
Oakland |
said |
out, as Mrs. Washabaugh feared vio- |
letters |
for his wife, which were turned over |
Mrs. Washabaugh
covered |
Two pennies and a knife |
were found in the rotted pockets. Pa- |
The clothes were of fine texture and |
of |
The dynamite was |
to be used in blowing. away stumps, |
and, thinking it was frozen, Gochen-
our placed it above the kitchen stove. |
the |
com- |
For all other re- |
clearing house |
The 74 constables of Washington |
county in making their returns to the |
court informed the judges that not a |
selling had |
for |
the |
and |
The Ellwood Brick & Limestone |
DISPUTE OVER CONSOLIDATION | TO FORM STUDENT SENATE.
|
Seniors and Juniors of W. and J. to
Have Governing Body.
At a joint meeting of the Seniors
and Juniors of Washington and Jef-
ferson College it was decided to or-
ganize a student senate to act for
| the student body in matters of im-
| portance.
Following a recent accident to a
| student in the annual pole rush be-
{ tween the Sophomores and Fresh-
rmen, an effort was made to abolish
the pole rush by popular vote in the
two upper classes, but a compromise
was effected by the decision to or-
ganize a student senate, which is to
{ act as an intermediary between the
| students and the faculty, formulate
rules for Sophomores and Freshmen
{ and to make recommendations as to
class fights.
The faculty has given its indorse-
{ ment and promised to co-operate
{| with the senate in remedying evils in
| the present system of college govern-
ment.
TO MARK HISTORIC SPOTS
National Military Memorial Associa-
tion Proposes to Erect Tablets.
A movement has been started by
Wilber C. Kraber. who recently or-
ganized the York Cadets, to establish
a national military memorial associa-
tion to mark historical spots through-
out the United States with tablets or
monuments. Mr. Kraber has writ-
ten to prominent men throughout the
country, including Gen. Frederick
Grant and Gov. Swanson of Virginia.
He has interested the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in the proposed
erection of tablets on the Columbia
bridge to commemorate the burning
of the bridge by the Confederates.
reneral Manager “WW. W. Atterbury
{ has promised to co-operate in the
| project.
in one day by Clerk Leroy Christley |
at Butler. Three were issued to mem- |
DIED IN BOILER.
Man Chose Flue. for Berth; Later
Firemen Found Charred Body.
Drenched after having wandered
the streets of Charleroi all day Sat-
urday during the bridge opening cele-
bration; Richard Eckles of West
Brownsville, crawled into the flue of
one of the large hoilers at the Ham-
ilton Bottle works at Charleroi late
Saturday night. The fires were
started beneath the boilers at mid-
| night and Eckles’ charred remains
were taken out Monday morning. The
| fireman detected the odor of burning
flesh and hunted several hours be-
| fore he located Eckles’ body.
It is supposed Eckles was first
| overcome by gas fumes from the boil-
er fires.
railroad |
DRIED DYNAMITE ON STOVE.
Explosion Which Followed Killed One
and Injured Two.
Frank Matugle was instantly killed
and Peter Mattie and Joseph Carbace
were- probably fatally injured in an
i explosion at Payne, 18 miles east of
{ New Castle. The men were drying
dynamite upon a stove. Matugle
| was standing nearest and his head
| was blown off.
The two others were so mangled
that they will not likely recover. The
accident occurred at the home of
| Carbace, whose wife was slightly
{ hurt.” = The men were employed in
| quarries.
MINE FOREMAN ARRESTED.
| Test Cases Based on Mining Law of
1893,
With a view to testing the mining
| law of May 15, 1893, Mine Inspectors
| Issae G. Roby and Thomas D. Will
{ ilams have brought criminal proceed-
ings-against about a dozen prominent
mine foremen employed in the mines
of Fayette county.
It is alleged that the mine foremen
| have been allowing the miners to
take out the coal without first under-
cutting the same properly before
blasting.
Accuse Italian Detective.
Frank De Martini, an Italian of
| South Sharon, who has been plaving
| the role of a detective for the State
| Constabulary, must face three serious
| charges. Informations were made
| before Justice of the Peace Peter
Cook charging blackmail, extortion
| and threatening to Kill. The af-
| fidavits were made by three Italians
| of South Sharon. :
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| Cave-In Causes Wreck.
The Jersey Central flyer was
wrecked. near Pittston. The engine
| and four cars tumbled over an em-
| bankment, killing Engineer Johnson
| and seriously injuring the fireman.
| None of the passengers was seriously
| injured. There was a settling” of
the tracks, due to a mine cave-in. |
Death claimed a second victim of
{ the dynamite explosion at Payne,
near Portersville when Peter Mattie
| died at the hospital. Joe Carbacc
and his wife may not survive.
At New Castle Dr. Samuel W. Per-
ry entered suit for $1,000 damages
| against the traction company, be-
cause of an accident last July when
a street car smashed his automobile.
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roa ReS Lt Bristor
| Greene county,
| in
of Jacksonville,
was seriously injured
a hunting accident when a com-
| panion shot at a rabbit and the
| charge struck Bristor.
Walking into a wholesale liquor
store in South Sharon, John Costa,
| aged 28, dropped dead, after asking
for a quart of whisky. Deputy Cor-
oner Walker is investigating a ru-
mor that Costa was poisoned.
Henry Logan, 35 years old, was
found dead at East Charleroi in Ros-
traver township. He carried a card
indicating membership in the Corry
Aerie of “Eagles.
Sheldon Booth, aged 15 years of
Lone Pine, Washington County, while
gathering hickory nuts, fell 40 feet
from a tree, breaking both arms and
sustaining severe in.ernal injuries.