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court by Lancaster alderman.
Bethlehem is to have branch of the
United States weather bureau.
An egg that measured 8 by inches
was laid by hen belonging to r. J.
Heft, of Hellertown.
McKeesport's water tastes like car
bolic acid but is not injurious to the
health. The snow water that was
poured into the Youghiogheny river,
the source of the supply, is response
BILE.
Stopping to push his daughter out of
danger when they were caught in
front of an engine ON the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago tracks, Alex
ander Hilger, of Shousetown, receiv-
ed injuries at Leetsdale that caused
his death.
Il bequeath to my wife all that l
possess, both personal and real" was
the full text of the will of John T.
McAbee, of New Hanover townhsip,
who filed the testament at Norris
town His estate is valued at $50, 900.
The will is the shortest on record.
Somebody stole the front shoes off a
horse belonging to Jacob Lefever, a
farmer of near Lancaster. The animal
had been newly shod with neverslip
attachments and the thief entered the
rEo nd rafnny-a1 fha ChnaC with
pincers. Many novel cases of thefts
have been reported to the Lancaster
police recently.
'Well somebody else can have my
breakfast after today" remarked
Peter Jennings, one of the three vic
Tins of the nitro-glycerin explosion
near Franklin, that killed him, his 13
year old son aud an oil well shooter,
Jacob Green. This remark to his wife
the morning of the blowup gives rise
to the impression that while in an I'M
balanced state of mind he caused the
awful catastrophe. He had no reason
for causing death to himself
General Charles Miller, of Franklin,
is trying to get a divorce from his
wife. He alleges cruel and barbarous
treatment with indignities to the per-
son. She will not live in Franklin,
where all his interests are. Mrs. Mill
er was divorced from piano tuner
named A. D. Bulen, who charged her
with desertion. General Miller, who
owns palatial home in Miller park,
also has been divorced before. He has
four sons and one daughter by the first
wife, who lives in Franklin.
The Chester school board has de-
cided to carry into the courts the
cases of persons who sell cigarettes to
children.
While wrestling with Il schoolmate
110-year- Joseph Baker fell on the
ice at Marietta and fractured his
skull. His recovery is not expected.
Four thousand miners received word
in the Greensburg- Irwin field that
the Keystone Coal and Coke company
had raised their wages 10 per cent.
The advance came as a surprise.
Going for three days without food,
Henry H. Nipple, veteran of the
Civil war, walked from Lancaster to
Philadelphia through the snow. After
asking the police for his dinner he
started ont to find-Work
Allegheny county's court house
will not be traded to Pittsburg city
for use as a city hall. The county
commissioners will erect an Office
building at cost of 81, $50, 900 ON the
site of the old university and Third
Presbyterian church.
More than half Of the hundred men
riding on an accommodation train
near Mt. Carmel were bruised so that
days as the result of the cars leaving
the track and going over a bank The
snow saved many lives.
Miss Laura Hemmus White, aged
50, recluse of Pittsburg was found
dead in her home after the police had
broken in because she had been miss
ed. One side of her body was frozen
and the other partly devoured by
rats. She was not thought to be wortl
anything but it was found by her viii
which was discovered in the house
that she had property valued at 500.
00O She asks in her will that her bod,
be kept week before burial and b.
examined every day by doctor. Thel
that her heart be pierced three time
to make sure of death. Then the bod.
is to be cremated. Her request vii
not be carried out as "a relative ha
taken charge of the remains and ha
ordered that they be buried today.
Miss Hannah Ann Zell, of Philadel
phia, celebrated her 90th birthday an
niversary Monday. She is said to b
young yet in spite of her weight o
years and takes an interest in the at
fairs of the neighborhood.s Last wee
she was elected president of the GeI
mantown Library and Historical sc
ciety. The sudden death of love