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each year he has been in the plant
employ.
Carl Lee, of California, who fell of
trestle seventy-fve feet high, while
he was doing some work on it, is ex-
pected to recover from the injuries he
received. He sustained serious hurts
about the head, had one hip fractured
and the other dislocated.
Z. r. Barnum, superintendent of the
Houston Run mine of the Diamond
Coal and Coke company, near Wash
ington, and Thomas Jenkins, foreman
of the colliery, have been held in $500
bail each for alleged failure to observe
State laws ON mine ventilation.
James Gordon was held without bail
at Wilkes Barre for murder in the first
degree for the death of his mother-in-
aw, as the result of the verdict of the
coroner's jury The man shot at his
father in-law, it is said, and small
wound to the aged womans arm re-
suited. She died from fright
Ebenezer Hunsicker, huckster of
Bristol, to keep his horse from slip
ping, drew women's stockings over the
animals hoofs and as result has a
broken arm and a badly cut head. The
horse went all right until the stock
ings partly wore through, then it turn
Il E'Innnyar 1aa1-
ing the nag and went down with it.
Some unknown fellow in Chester
fired five shots at James p. Connell, of
Philadelphia, after Ellen Smith, aged
IS, had asked him to escort her be-
cause she was being followed by the
mysterious man. While she and Con-
nell were walking together he noticed
their shadower put his hand towards
his hip pocket. He told the young lady
to run into house and stepped be-
hind pole when the fellow fired. The
man with the revolver escaped.
When John Morton's horse fell dead
on the railroad tracks at Pittsburg he
was so bemuddled as the result of i'm
bibing to freely that he had no thought
of danger but clamly got down from
the set of his carriage, entered the
vehicle and went to sleep. A police
man happened along in time to save
the outfit from being struck by an ex-
press and when he wakened up the
slumberer that individual was found
to have thought that his horse was
merely asleep. Morton wept copiously
when told of his loss
Pittsburg bakers will support Chief
Chemist Harvey w. Wiley, of the de.
partment of agriculture, in his fight
against bleached flour,
Norman Miller, of Boyertown, was
set on fire when a ladle of molten
metal tilted. His fellow workmen tore
his clothing from him and saved him
from fatal injuries.
Daniel S. Emerich, a Reading bar.
Der who has been collecting butter
flies, locusts and other insects for
twenty-five years, now has several
thousand from all parts of the world.
Rev. L. f. Taylor, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Kittanning,
bit something hard while he was eat
ing and oysetr and found it to be a
pearl. He will have it mounted ON a
stick pin.
Philip Hoch and Andrew Nest. of
Pleasantville, have shipped 1000 musk
rat skins and 900 skunk pelts to Lon
don, England. They have gathered
over 100, 900 pelts since they started to
buy them from Berks county trappers.
Pittsburg's Young Mems Christian
association has started campaign to
raise $500, 900 for buildings lin various
portions of the city and for the extern
sion of work generally. 1t is hoped to
raise the amount in ten days. after the
work starts on January 25.
Misses Gertrude and Margaret Davis
of Sharon, have made application for
recognition by the Carnegie hero fund
commission because they saved the
life of Charles Bodamer, a wealthy
real estate owner. He slipped on the
ice in front of a fast approaching train
and they pulled him off the tracks.
Arrangements have been completed
by Secretary of Agriculture N b.
Critchfield for the annual meeting of
the State board of agriculture which
Will be held in the State capitol the
week of January "a. Governor Stuart
and other State officials will attend as
well as representatives of every agri-
cultural society in the State and many
men identified in general farming
work.
Mrs. Annie Munce, of Darby, was
held up by a nergo and gave a vicious
fight to retain the possession of her
handbag which contained "A consider
able sum of money. She was walking
with another woman when they were
approached by the man who asked
some ordinary question. He made a
grab at her handbag and she showed
fight. At last he grabbed the handle
from the bag, the rest remaining in
her hand, and made his escape. The