The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-11-21
TAH STATE AT A GLANCE.

Charged with using formalde-
hyde in their milk, Dairymen J. c.
Lundy of Sunbury, and J. c. Bros
cions, of Stone Valley, were fined
S79.
There is an epidemic Of diph-
liberia at Lanesboro, Susquehanna S
eastern suburb There have been
a number of deaths and the affected
houses are closely quarantined and
the public schools have been closed.
T. H. Harper, of Sharon, was
accidentally shot through the hand
while walking through the woods
Monday. The bullet struck book
he carried in his coat pocket, which
saved his life. The shot was evil
IDENTIFY fired by a reckless hunter.
Natural gas and salt water
have been struck at the Apalachin
we'll al Susquehanna. The drill
went down 1860 feet, a foot below
sea level. Another we'll will be
sunk on line with the we'll. The
promoters are Binghamton capital
lists.
-Hazleton Councils have unani.
mously adopted joint resolution
requesting Congressman-elec II.
w. Palmer, OF the Twelfth Luzerne
district, TO work and vote for any
act introduced at the next session
of Congress designed to keep the
Chinese out of the United States.
After deliberating 20 hours, a
jury in the Criminal Court, at Erie,
Monday afternoon, acquitted John
J Kane of charge of murder. He
killed William Harrington last May
during troubles incident to a strike
OF longshoremen, and proved that
the deed was done in elf-defense.
The mangled body of Miss
Emma Heister, forty-hve years old,
was found on the Pennsylvania
Railroad moi far from her residence
at Ryde Monday morning clad only
in her night clothes. She had,been
addicted to sleep walking, and it is
supposed she was struck by train
while so doing.
Solomon Roth, a clothier on
West Market street, York, stepped
on rusty nail OH November 10,
which penetrated his foot, making
painful wound. The foot began
swelling Immediately and short
time alterward developed into lock-
jaw, from the effects Of which he
died on Saturday.
George Schucker, aged s.
years, was found dead in mine
breach near his home, at Pottsville,
Monday morning, sixty feet from
the surface. He was missing since
Saturday night, when he left Potts.
vile tor his home at Mt. Pleasant.
He evidently walked into the hole
in the dark. His head stuck in
the mud. His feet and legs were
above the water.
Shortly before midnight Sun
day night Horace Musser, 2S years
old, one OF the bar clerks at the
Hotel Crystal Palace, Reading, was
found in'his bed room with his
throat cut and his wrists hacked
with a dull knife. On his bureau
was note reading: Everything
belongs to my brother Fred" He
recently worried over the probable
less of his position if proprietorshiI
of the hotel changed.
Owing to the smallpox epi
demic in Plymouth, DR.. F. l.. Nc
Kee, the smallpox physician, hai
requested the schoolboard TO dis
continue issuing monthly reports
He says that some ambitious moth
ers send their children to schoo
when they are slightly indisposec
in order to get perfect report a
the end of the month, and that il
some cases these slight indisposi
tions might develop into smallpox
Owing to a large number o
deaths resulting from scarlet fevet
and the rapid spread of that dis
ease, the board of health of Shame
kin met in special session Monda,
afternoon to consider the advisable
ity of closing the lower grades O
public schools. 1t was decided t.
keep these grades open for the pres
ent, but enforce the quarantin,
laws rapidly. Forty-threes nev
cases have been reported thi
month.