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work, WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY
and ATLAS of the WORLD. Must be
educated and able to furnish good re-
ferences as to ability and character.
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO.
1t is said that from $4,000 to $4,000
children will be given Christmas gifts
in Pittsburg by the Toy mission.
Mahlon Long, aged 10, was held for
court ON the charge of attempting to
wreck train on the Reading road
near Reading. He is alleged to have
put fish plates on the rails
Nine hundred men and boys are out
of work at Mahanoy City as the result
of the closing down of the New Boston
colliery of Jones Delan Co., ON ac-
count of the drought. Other mines
may have to close.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burg railroad has finished big reser-
voir on Jackson run near Punxsutaw-
ney 1t has "a capacity of 6, 900, 900 bar
rels and is said to be the largest arti-
fetal body of water in central Pennsyl-
vania.
Wesley Kline, Ephraim Hardy and
W. J. Bishop were injured, twenty-five
cars were piled up and the track was
torn up for quarter of q mile when
the engine Of the Butler merchandise
train left the track on the Butler
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio road
At Reibold,
Catherine Frellick, aged 10 and her
sister Jennie, aged is, were suffocat-
ed by gas as the result of a leaky tube
running to gas stove in their room
Rt Philadelphia The gas had been
turned off at the stove and not at the
cock. The mother of the girls found
them dead A little sister had been
siok and left the room and so escaped
death.
Rob Roy, Is Cinchilla male Persian
cat from England, worth $525, the
highest price ever known to be paid
for feline will be exhibited at Pitts
burg in the show to be given by the
Pittsburg Cat club, November 30 and
December and 2. Upwards of 300
oats, from the tabhy to the rarest
breeds will be shown. There will be
$1,000 worth of pussies ON exhibition
George W. Cole and f. S. Hall are
in prison at Pittsburg on the charge
of using the United States mails in an
endeavor to obtain credit in excess of
their property. They were in business
nt Erie under the names of the Green
Vile Supply company when the alleg-
cd crimes were committed. They claim
that at the time they wrote the let
ters they had property enough to just
ify them fully in their actions.
Alfred Philips, who drove u traction
engine which broke through bridge in
Sugarloaf township, near Bloomsbury,
is suing the township for SO, 900 for
injuries which he received. j. II.
Howett, the owner of the engine wants
800, asserting that damage to that
amount was done to his machine. 1t is
claimed that the bridge ought to have
been in good enough repair that it
could be travelled without danger.
Lawrence F. ellison, an attache of
the Pittsburg dog catcher's wagon, was
attacked by ferocious canine and is
thought to be developing rabies. The
man was bitten no less than 300 times
during his seven years experience ON
she wagon, but his bites did not seem
she least bit frightened Mt the thoughts
Of the disease.
N. b. Kelly, who has been appoint
Ell census supervisor for Philadelphia
by President Taft, says that he is of
the opinion that the supervisors in
large cities are going to have trouble
in getting enumerators. The job lasts
but two weeks and when the time
comes for the census to be taken all
the industries will be taxed to their
utmost and competent people will not
be looking for temporary jobs
After an idleneSs of over two years,
the Bray department of the Sharon
plant of the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company has resumed operation
giving employment to 100 skilled men.
The mill was closed when Dounor
Bros. of Monessen, charged the Amrri-
can Sheet aud Tin Plate company with
infringing patents. President Me
Ardle of the Amalgamated associa-
tion, declared the mill on the unfair
list, but nevertheless, all the old EN-
ployes but two returned to work
Alleging that air has been furnished
instead of gas to heat aud light St.
Patrick Roman Catholic church in
Sugar Greek township, near Kittan-
ming, the officials of the church have
obtained a preliminary Injunction
against the Philadelphia Gas company.
The church owns the ground from
which the gas is taken under lease by
the gas people. The company is under
agreement to furnish gas free to the
plaintiffs and it is alleged that the