A SIMPLE COUNTRY DINNER.
When we goed to Aunt Carrie's, he
Sez she ain’t had no time to
'A dinner like it ought to be,
"Cause she has been at work since six
O'clock, yes iin’ out th’ rooms
An’ tidyin’ place a lot,
So. if we're ne hy. she ? 'sumes
We'll haf to take just what she’s got.
'An’ nen she sez she ain’t th’ one
To try to put on city stvle—
She like relations just to run
n for a meal oncet in a awhile,
‘An’ be content with what is cooked—
A simple country dinner—so
If anything is overlooked
’T°]1 haf to be excused, you know.
'An’ nen she goes an’ shuts th’ door
’At leads out where th’ table is,
‘An’ pa, he sez he's glad he’s wore
’At country appuhtite o’ his!
‘Aunt Carrie tells us to come on
Although there’s nothin’ fit to touch,
But we can eat till it is gone,
But she knows that it 1sn’t much!
An’ there is chickens—young ones—fried;
An’ there's a juicy, big boiled ham,
"Ith lots o* gravy on each side,
An’ turnips an’ blackberry.'jam;
An’ Lisenits—just as 2
An’ quince p'serves. an’ peaches, too;
An’ mash’ potatoes, just as white!
An’ dandy pickles, I tell you!
andi
An’ heans. an’ peas, an’ corn. an’ rice,
An’ cherries ‘at is sweet an’ rec
An’ quince p’'serves—I’ve told ‘at twice—
But they're fine on Aunt Carrie's bread!
An’ pies—three kind o’ pies—an’ cake;
An’ apple jelly—it’s th best ;
You ought to see it shake an’ shake!
An’—goodness! I forget th’ rest!
An’ we all eat till we can’t hold
Another little bite, you bet;
An’ nen Aunt Carrie, she will scold
An’ say she knows we're hungry yet.
Nen pa, he sez ‘at this here meal
Has surely been mos’ glo-ri-ous,
An’ sez he wonders how we'd feel
If she had been expectin’ us!
—W. D.
Nesbit, in life.
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FOR RICHER,
By LULU
FOR POORER
LINTON.
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It was sweeping day, and Mrs.
Barnard, warm, tired and discour-
aged, sank down on the top step.-of
the stairway to rest a momnet be-
fore attacking the upper rooms. The
view of the lower rooms, even from
this lofty point of view, was discour-
aging. With the rugs up and the
pieces of furniture pulled away from
their accustomed places, the pitiless
sunshine showed clearly every break
in the carpet and every soiled spot
upon the wall-paper.
“What's the use of trying to clean
Cover up, and pretend any lon-
Mrs. Barnard said, bitterly.
“ believe that good things, when
they do begin to show the effects of
long and rough usage, look worse
than cheaper ones; but if they hadn't
been good I don't know what we
would have done, for we've never
been able to replace anything,” and
she sighed as she looked at the ex-
penzive furniture, now marred and
scratched, and at the carpets, still
bravely holding to their rich color-
ing, although worn almost thread-
bare.
Her gaze could not reach the din-
ing-room, but she knew that the
beautiful but fragile glass and china
with which she had so proudly start-
ed housekeeping had dwindled sad-
ly, and the costly linen was patched
and darned in many places. The bed-
rooms, still awaiting the attack of
her broom, were all needing sup-
plies. 3
“It's the old story of fiving before
we learned to walk. Here we are,
care-worn and- old before our time,
and in such straits that we hardly
know which way to turn, and think
of the start we had! Our little for-
tune was a curse instead of a Dbless-
ing, for it gave us a taste of a life
of ease, then left us to be common
drudges. If John had only known
how to manage, or if he could only
learn to manage now like other men.
we might get even with the world
once more, but I don't see much
hope. If I had a daughter, I'd edu-
cate her so that she might be able
to support herself, and teach her
to let married life alone. What right
has any man to persuade a happy,
care-free girl into risking her happi-
ness in his hands!”
The town clock struck 10, and Mrs.
Barnard rose wearily, picked up her
broom, and adjusted the towel that
was wrapped about her head. The
rooms must be put in order before
the noonday meal, and many tasks
were waiting yet in the lower part
of the house.
The postman’s whistle sounded at
the front door, and she went down
to receive from him two envelopes,
each address2d in the same hand-
writing. One was a wedding invi-
tation, and the other a letter.
*Why, it's from Una, my littie
Una!” exclaimed Mrs. Barnard, as
she read:
up,
ger
“Dear Aunt Una—-1 am not writing
letters to send with all my invita-
tions, but 1 wanted to write to vou,
to tell you that you must come to
my wedding. It would not be com-
plete without you. You know my
first experience in church weddings
was when I was flower girl at your
wedding, and I have never attended
one since that was half so pretty,
nor have 1 ever been so much im-
pressed by any other ceremony as 1
was by that, young as I was. I want
my wedding to be just as nearly
like yours as it can be, and oh, Aunt
Una, the strangest part of it is, 1
am to marry a John, tco. You will
remember John Neisun. He was
such a great, gawky boy, and 1
never dreamed that I would ever
marry any one I had always known,
but when you sge him you'll say he's
a perfect dear. Of course you will
not think him half as handsome as
your John, and 1 know 1 shall not be
half so lovely a bride as you were.
but we're very much in love, and so
happy! It will spoil all my pleasure,
though, if you fail {0 come. 1 want
You so mucn.
uy "
Little Una
“Why, she's only a child!" Mrs.
Barnard said, she folded the let-
ter. Then as she thought of the fif-
teen years that had flown since her
little namesake had been flower-zir
at her wedding, she realized that (he
second Una would be an older
than she h~d been.
The letters had miscarried,
had been on the road for somesdays.
The wedding was to ‘take place on
Wednesday evening of the next week
and _this was Kriday How she
would have to hurry to get ready
our
as
and
ana
tery!
find
bride i
away
{ back their money with
POPP 0090-00
for it! She must
right away, and she
the stairway like a girl.
She saved the Ilétter and invita-
tion for a little surprise at the table,
and was so eager to read them aloud
to her husband that she did not wait
to eat; but when she paused at the
close of the reading, her husband only
said, soberly:
“I don’t see how
present.”
‘Send it!’ she echoed, blankly.
“We: can: just take it as we go.”
John Barnard looked up in
prise. . “You know we can't go,’
said.
“We must go!
ding!’’ she gasped.
“I might say it is John's wedding,
too, although that does not make
any more difference than if his name
was Jeremiah. We can’t afford it.”
‘But being Una's: wedding. it's
different from all the other things
e’ve given up on account of the
expense. Why, John, she was named
for me, and has always called
me aunt! I loved her and nursed
her when she was a tiny thing, and
she was our flower girl, and she
wants me.”
She was pleading with him in her
eagerness, but he answered, a trifle
impatiently, ‘I tell A vou we can't.
We haven’t the money for new
clothes, and 1 can't spare the car
fare just now.”
He rose hurriedly
room, and his wife
like one dazed by sudden misfor-
tune. Of course, woman-like, . she
had thought first of the clothes. and
realized that the shortness of the
time would make preparations
harder; but she had thought that by
beginning that afternoon she could
make a pretty evening waist and
could make her old skirt presentable
by a little furbishing up. As for
John's suit, it could be brushed and
pressed. - No one ever noticed a
man's clothes at-a wedding, anyway.
But now, dropping her head on the
table, she sobbed like a disappointed
child. The children, not knowing
just how to aet in such an :emer-
gency, slipped out of their chairs and
betook themselves to the back vard
to talk it over.
“It isn’t the
always asking
begin hurrying
went tripping up
we can send a
sSur~
he
It's Una’'s wed-
she
and left the
gazed after him
as. if 1
things!”
same were
for she
STREN
Gets nearer
Be not simply
A man who lives right,
his silence than ancther ha
bells which ring out sweet
accidentally,
Let us be content,
not presunie to fret because it's little.
I shall pass through this world but once.
or any kindness that I can show to any
therefore that I can do,
Punian being, let me do it now.
t, for I shall nov. pass this way
and is right,
s by his words.
music, and which,
resounds with sweet music.—Phillips Brooks.
in work, to do the thing we can,
ability to clear the path even whan
seemingly insurmountable obstacles
loomed up, returned to their play.
In the first moment of bitter dis-
appointment over her husband's re-
fusal to attend the wedding, Una
Barnard had given it all up, but the
children, by bringing out their small
hoard, had suggested a new plan.
Tucked away in her handkerchief-
box upstairs was a precious bill that
had been her birthday gift from her
only brother. She had been saving
it, not because there was no pressing
need for it, but because there were
so many needs that it was hard to de-
cide where to use it to best advan-
tage.
It was just enough to pay the fare
to the home town to attend Una’'s
wedding and to buy some pretty
trifie for a wedding gift. This would
give her more pleasure than any-
thing else in the world. She would
have to gzive up the new waist, but
perhaps her old one would not be
noticed much in a crowd.
Her spirits rose as she went about
her work that afternoon, and shen
John Barnard came home at night,
tired and discouraged, dreading to
meet his wife's reproachful eyes, he
was surprised to find her talking
cheerfully to the children as she set
the tea-table with more than usual
care. Almost her first words to him
were:
after all: I've
Slocum to keep
“We're
arranged for
the boys
He opened his lips to protest, but
she interrupted him quickly. ‘No,
you need not lose any time. We can
leave here after the factory closes,
stay for the wedding and reception,
"take the last train back-to.-the city,
and come out home on the ‘owl car.’
As to the expense, I'm going to pay
that with my birthday money.”
John Barnard knew how many
times this precious money had al-
ready been spent in imagination, and
how badly his wife needed it to re-
plenish her scanty wardrobe. His
face clouded, as he answered:
“I can't let you take your money
to pay my way. If you must go, take
part of it to buy something new to
wear and the rest for your car fare
I'll stay with the boys.”
She answered, ‘I can't go back
there alone! I must go, and you
must go with me. I don't care much
for the clothes, but, O, John, I ‘do
want to go to the wedding, and you
must not spoil my pleasure!”
The excitement of preparation on
the eventful evening brought a color
to Mrs. Barnard’s cheeks+and a light
to her eyes that made her look al-
most youthful; and as she kissed the
boys good-by, little Wendell touched
the soft waves of her hair, saying al-
most reverently, ‘Pretty mamma!”
Catching her husband’s quick glance,
she blushed like a girl.
They arrived at the church, and
saw many old friends ushered into
the seats about them. Mrs. Barnard
folded her hands with the best glove
on top, and wondered if her waist
did look very narrow between the
shoulders.
But the soft, sweet. music was
soothing the ache about her heart,
and when it pealed out triumphantly,
announcing the arrival of the wed-
ding party, she was absorbed in the
excitement of the moment.
Then came the clear, slow, proces-
sicnal notes, and she caught her
breath with deep feeling. It seemed
that she was living over «gain her
own wedding night.. ’
The bridal party passed down the
aisle. Mrs. Barnard clasped her
hands tightly, but they shook with
nervousness.
going,
Aunty
GIH FOR F VERY DA
And he who serves his brother
best,
to God than all the rest.
—Ruskin.
good—-be good for something.
—Thoreau.
has more power hy
Character is like
when touched
and
E. B. Browning.
Any good thing
Let me not defer it or neglect
again.—A. B. Hegeman.
There are { vo good rules which ought to be written on
every heart: Never
less you positively know it is true;
believe anything bad about anvbody un-
never tell even that, unless
vou feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listen-
ing while you tell it.—Ilenry Van Dyke.
Srececesese
sobbed. ‘I've learned long ago to
do without and keep my longings to
myself. He treated me as if 1 were
a spoiled child.”
so thick and fast that they
out the words.
Presently something rattled
lap,
ly stroking her hair, and
of her four little boys said,
“We put all our money in Wen-
dell’'s bank, and we want you to have
it to go to the wedding We
saving it. for Fourth of July,
we're 100 big to care much for
and—and—O0O, mother, please
the oldest
but
that,
don’t
{ he looked up in astonishment, to
her four children regarding her
wide, sympathetic eves. Drying
tears, she gathered them all in
great motherly embrace, kissing
all- their worries, and giving
as much tact
as if it had been offered by older
friends, assuring them that she could
manage some ~:r2r way to go to the
wedding. # . the children, used to
mother’. '.:. .. .. managing, and her
with
her
one
Then the sobs came |
choked |
in her |
a hard little hand was awkward- |
timidly: |
were |
| for poorer; in sickness and in health;
The pretty young bride stood trust-
fuily and proudly beside the tall
young man, who henceforth was to
be her shield against the world. The
minister was speaking. Una Bar-
inard’'s heart stood still as she heard
the groom repeating after the min-
ister the solemn words of the beau-
| tiful ring service:
“I John, take thee, Una, to my
wedded wife.” John Barnard moved
| uneasily. The ceremony proceeded:
“For better, for ‘worse; for richer,
| to love and to cherish; till death do
us part—"’
Una Barnard turned a wistful face
toward her husband; and reaching
over, he clasped one of her work-
hardened hands with ona of his big,
strong ones.
Then the girl's sweet voice was
heara distinctly, as she repeated: “I,
Una, take thee, John, to my wedded
husband, to have and to hold, trom
this day forward.”
Una Barngrd’s eyes were blurred
by tears of memory and regret as
she listened to the promises: ‘For
better, for for richer, for
poorer.”
Ah, the sacred promises, and how
poorly she had kept them! She had
been a gay, bright companion in the
time of abundance, but in the time
of loss and unaccustomed toil she
had been bitter and gloomy, silently
pining for her care-free girlhood in-
stead of trying to cheer the man who
was struggling to make a home for
her. He, too, had been accustomed
to a life of ease. How hard the
struggle for daily bread must have
been for him! There were gray
hairs about his temples and lines of
discouragement about his mouth.
She caught her breath with a sob and
clung to his hand as if she would
never let go.
The audience was intent on the
ceremony, and no one saw or heard
when John Barnard patted the hand
he held, and stooped to whisper lov-
ingly: ‘‘There, there, dear! It's all
right. We'll try it all over again.”
Then came the closing prayer, and
the organ pealing out the recession-
al. The bride looked trustfully up
into the face of her husband as they
passed down ‘the aisle to the door,
and the people in the audience sighed
or smiled, according to the way
ceremony had affected them.
In the crush of the reception, Una
and John Barnard were almost the
last in the line to offer congratula-
tiors.
The groom asked; as he
John Barnard's hand, “Well,
vou feel as if you were being
over again?’
And John Barnard
nestly, ‘‘I decided to-night that it
would be a good plan for every mar-
ried couple to have thé ceremony per-
formed at least cvery firteen. years, if
not oftener.”’
At the same moment Una Barnard
was clinging to the bride, whispering
brokenly between gisses, “Una, Una
darling, whatever happens, don't
forget that you promised for richer,
for poorer!”’—From the Youth's
Companion.
worse;
grasped
sir, did
married
answered ear-
’ WHEN A PROMISSORY g
NOTE IS A FORGERY ¢
NINGONENENINE © ENI/7ENEV/ ENE
In Bradstreet's it is reported that
the Supreme Court of the State of
Maine has held, in the case of the
Biddeford National Bank vs. Hill
that where a person did not intend
to sign a promissory note, but by
fraud and deceit was tricked into
signing an instrument which after-
ward proved to be a promissory note,
such instrument was a forgery, al-
though the signature aflixed thereto
was genuine.
This is a very important decision
and we are glad that it has been
made, and we would like to have the
courts of other States pass upon this
matter.
The case upon which the decision
is given is one which has very ma-
terially affected the retail merchants
of the country, and it is one which,
in the years past, we have been called
upon to deal with not infrequently.
For example: Representatives of cer-
tain manufacturers call jon a retail
dealer and induce him, by roseate
representations, to put in a stock
of goods, making all kinds of tacit
verbal agreements relative to the
sale of the goods, paying for the
same, and the return of unsold mer-
chandise.
These gentlemen are usually good
talkers and as they run on they deft-
ly shove a printed agreement in front
of the dealer, leading him to under-
stand that it is an order for goods,
or some such generally harmless
agreement. Usually this is accom-
panied by deft manipulation of the
agreement which is printed in blank
and filled in with pen. Some time or
other, it may be sooner or it may be
later, the dealer finds that he has
signed a promissory note, which he
usually ascertains when payment is
demanded, either by the parties to
whom it was given or through a bank
with which it has been placed for col-
lection.
The retail merchants have been
particularly marked for this sort of
fraud by unscrupulous persons who
have thus obtained their signature
to promissory notes.
Of course, a promissory note is
the strongest possible legal document,
and when a person has been confront-
ed by a note bearing his signature,
the genuineness of which he could
not dispute, he has known the fu-
tility of making any objection and
has usually paid it and pocketed the
loss. In the past it -has been gen-
redress for a person whose genuine
signature appeared upon a promis-
sory note; how it got there mattered
little; it was there and he put it
there, and presumably he knew what
he was doing, and rather than con-
test in the courts a promissory note
most people would pay them.
This decision, if it stands and is
held to be valid, will enable justice
to be done to a good many people
who, by various causes such
due influence, oversight, misunder-
standing, a lack of business sagacity,
hurried manipulation, and so on, at-
tach their names to promissory notes.
When this is accomplished, even if it
is their own free act and deed, it is
fraudulent and was obtained fraudu-
lently with fraudulent - intentions.
Such notes should not be held valid,
and this decision of the Maine Su-
preme Court is very important and
far reaching. ,
No Corner in Executions.
No, Mildred, the hanging gardens
of Babylon were not the place where
all the executions of murderers oc-
curred.—Somerville Journal
the |
PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS
CAR RUNS INTO CROWD
Many Are Injured—Motorman Falls
Unconscious at Switch When
Struck by Brake.
A West Penn railway's
from Uniontown to
the derailing switch
street crossing
railroad in New
jury to seven
the front of
car, running
left
Main
sreensburg,
at the
Haven,
DErsons,
a store.
The Injured.
Mrs. Catherine Mickey
bilt, severely bruised:
Province of Connellsville,
ternally: Mrs.
Vanderbilt,
Miss Rose
cut and
causing in-
and wrecking
of Vander-
Mrs. J.
injured in-
bruises;
of Connellsville,
bruised; , Miss Josephine
Rinehart of Connellsville, injured
about the chest in the rush to get
out; Charles Lakin. motorman, of Mt.
Pleasant, serious contusions of the
head and shoulder: Mrs? Andrew
Dunbar, suffering from shock. "
Motorman Lakin was applying the
handbrake to stop the car at the de-
railing switch when it slipped from
his grasp and struck him in the stom-
ach. He dropped unconscious and
j falling his hard struck
turning the power on full.
Leaving the rails at the switch, the
car shot across the pavement into the
front of Henry Rhodes’ department
store.
Wemen waiting
a trolley car were
painful cuts aud
Dunston
the controller,
on the sidewalix [or
knocked down and
customers in the store were panic
stricken. The. whole front of Rhodes’
place practically demolished. All
those injured in the accident will re-
cover.
is
BANKER LUJBEC
False Pretense
Some of His Denositors.
John Lujbec, banker,
have represented
$200,000 when he
tional - Exchange Bank at
five months ago, was arrested at his
home in Johnstown on the charge of
embezzlement and was jailed at
ler.
Lujbec’s affairs have been
gle and the bank crippled
manager left mysteriously
ago, taking with him, it
$5,000 of the. bank's funds.
paid some depositors and settled a
half dozen suits. He claims to have
paid out $4,000, partly in checks on
a Johnstewn bank. Some of the
checks went to protest.
Suits were started against Lujbec
and this week when he failed to ap-
pear a charge of talse pretense was
placed against him by depositors.
IN JAIL
Charged With by
said to
worth
interna-
I.yndora
who is
himself
opened the
as
in a tan-
since his
five
alleged.
Lujbec
is
PROSPERITY
Monessen Tin Plate Plant Goes on
Full Time Next Week.
Monessen is getting its share of the
increasing prosperity and it is now
apnounced the big tin vlate mill of
tHe Anierican Sheet Steel and Tin
Plate Company at that point will be
running fuli in a short time. Some
1,400 men will then be at work.
The plant is cone of 28 mills.
last. October but 13 of them
been in operation, but last week
eight more were started and next
week the remaining seven will start.
All will run full time and it is expect.
ed work will be continuous.
INCREASES
Since
have
BROTHERS ARE RELEASED
Evidence Too Flimsy to Hold Them
on Murder Charge.
Lawrence and Harry
and Charles Lyons, all of
who were arrested on- a
murder, a month ago, re- |
ceived a preliminary hearing before
Justice of the Peace John Young, of
Beaver, and were released because
of the allezed fiimsy eharacter of the
evidence vinst them. a
Two yea ago. Thomas Stein. who
had been seen with the feur defend-
ants, suddenly disappeared. A few
days afterward his charred remains
were found in the ruins of a box
car, which had burned.
Christmas Couses Tragedy.
Because he did not have
buy a: Christmas present for his
sweetheart, Homer V. Ammer at-
tempted suicide at Butler. He was
found in his room nearly dead from
wounds on his wrist and neck inflict-
ed with a razor. When taken to the |
hospital Ammer told cf the loss of his |
savings, and said he would father die
than fail to send a Christmas gift to]
the young wgman to whom he had
been paying attention . He will prob-
ably recover.
Luther,
brothers
Industry,
charge of
Duck, |
money to
Woman Collects Weasel Bounty.
To Mrs. Celestine Stevenar of ur:
gettstown, belongs the distinction of |
|
‘ Indiana.
as un- ;
= 00
bein
erally understood that there was no i 8
the first Washington county
woman to collect a bounty on a wea- |
sel scalp. When Mrs. Stevenar heard |
a commotien among her chickens she |
armed herself with a club and discov-
ering the weasel dispatched it. She
brought the trophy to Washington
and secured the reward.
Leaves 130 Grandchildren.
Rebecca Smith, wife of]
Smith, died at her home in
She was 84 years old. She
her husband, 11 chil-
grandchildren and
My. Smith is
counle were mar-
Mrs.
Michael
is survived by
dren and 130
great-grandchildren.
vears old. The
ried 64 years ago.
Pennsylvanians Get Piums.
The senate confirmed a number of
nominations including thé following:
George W. Woodruff, of Pennsylva-
nia, to be assistant attorney general
for the interior department; William
Wallace Brown, of Pennsylvania, to
be assistant attorney general before
the Spanish treaty claims commis-
sion.
Andrew Iloltman, of Hillside, was
run down by a fast train near Derry,
sustaining injuries from which he
will likely die. He is at the Greens-
burg hospital.
of the Pennsylvania |
D. 1
Margaret Williams of |
in |
But- |
weeks |
{ minated
|. mer,
priest,
| Inte
i ture
| been serving
| at Steelton
| without delay.
t to
MURDERED IN CELLAR
| Throats Are Cut; Police Are Searchs
ing for Boarder Who Was Or
dered Away.
Mrs. Mary Perkatis, 40
and her four-year-old son, John, were
murdered at their home in Shenan-
doah. Their throats were cut.
The crime was discovered by the
| eight-year-old daughter of the mur-
deréd woman about four hours after
{its commission, who, with another
little child, went down into the cellar
and found the victims lying side by
side in a pool of blood.
The police are searching for John
{ Rodgers, a boarder at the Perkatis
| home. He had been ordered Satur-
day to pay his board or leave. Sat-
urd2ay he drew his pay and spent a
considerable amount of it for drink.
Monday he quarreled with the
landlady and after she had gone into
{the cellar to get a bucket of coal
i he sent the daughter to the store to
| get him his tobacco.
| The little boy held
i the top of the broken
{ nrother. When the girl returned
found the door locked and then
to a mneighhor's where ‘she
{'several : hours. © When’ she
there no one in the
Rodgers left on a tr: about,
"hours before the erime was
ed, bound for New York,
| has been telegraphed along
{ for his apprehension. The
was at work in the mines at
vears old,
|
i
the ea
steps
at
his
she
wont
ved
returned
house.
ndle
for
was
vin two
discover-
and word
the line
husband
the time
{of the murder.
SHARON WANTS COUNTY SEAT
Mer-
County Court House Re-
built There.
Sharon business men are ends
to raise R100.000 to have a
court house erected in Sharon,
ing the destruction of old
Mercer, :
If the amount
offered along
commissioners
change the
Attorneys
impossible to change
the county seat. The
have already taken ste
at Mercer.
Will Gffer Inducements to Have
cer
leavor-
new
follow-
at
ing
the one
will
the
to
it
to
inducement
to Sharon.
is practically
the location of
commissicners
to rebuild
here
site
raised
with a
an
countv seat
claim it
is
be
oa
als
1S
ps
TAKE CASE TO COURT
Proceedings Instituted to Determine
Who Will Be Burgess of
Washington.
controversy between
Marsh: of Washing
R: Wright,
to which
The
ACh
goss J.
ton, as
of the
Burgess
and Bur-
of KE Washing-
is chief executive
consolidated municipality, cul-
in quo warranto proceedings
instituted by Wright quesriening the
other's right to occupy the burgess’
seat. i
The
rion,
ast
court
to
granted a rule requiring
Marsh make an answer on Decem-
ber 30. The action is based on the
claim that West Washington was the
older borough. Marsh contends the
spirit of the law makes him burgessy*
regardless of technicalities. :
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
Enemies of Polish
Dynamite Under
he
Priest
His Residence.
alleged have
part in breaking a
Exnort mines last sum-<
John Getschi, a Polish
the object of an assassi-
Explode
Because is to
taken ‘an active
strike at the
Rev.
was
nation plot
Dynamite placed
house was exploded,
intention of wrecking
and killing the inmates.
sion only damaged the
shattered the windows.
an - effort: was made
church.
under the
with the evident
fhe building
The explo-
porch: and
l.ast summer
to burn the
parish
‘Issue Exsovtion Roast Bondsmen.
the Peoples Bank of
closed. had an execu-
the note for $20,000
Stroud and: Cary
for. OQ, F. Piper,
bank, now in the
They have refused
fight. Stroud has a
large hardware store at Coal Center
and Cary Piner has drug at
California, Charleroi and Donora.
Water Tank Bursts.
The bursting of a water tank, at
the Macbeth glass plant, in Charleroi,
was the cause of the destruction of
the cutting shop, entailing a loss es-
timated at $5,000. The tank had a
capacity of 3,000 gallons. The build-
ing swept away was a brick struc-
and had been in use only three
weeks.
Counsel
California, now
tion issued on
given “by W. A.
Piper, as bondsmen
cashier of the
Washington jail.
to pay and will
for
stores
Not a Citizemn.
Although John Arnold, a negro, has
as a tipstaff in the
Dauphin county court at intervals the
past five years, has voted in Harris-
burg for four years and previously
for many more years it
has just been developed that he is
not a native of the United States
and has never been naturalized.
Priest is Threatened,
Father Gottsel, of St. Mary's Slav-
ish church, at Ashley, received a
second letter threatening him with
death unless he leaves the parish
The police are trying
locate the writers. Father Gott-
sel is being guarded by several of
i the faction which favors him.
Much Suffering, Preacher Asserts.
Many New Castle families are in
actual need of the necessities of life,
according to Rev. Herbert Dyke, who
has been making an investigation.
He declares the condition of the
poor is worse than in many years
past.
Increase of Capital.
The Capital stock of the Brookville
& Mahoning Railroad has been in-
creased from $1,300,000 to $10,000,000.
This road is building from Brookville,
Jefferson county, to Freeport, Arm-
strong county.