Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-02


hook and line in the Conewago Creek.
Falling in play in front of his home.
Earl Allen, 10 years old, OF Chester,
fractured an arm in two places.
Carroll NJ. Hall, of West Chester,
recent graduate of Annapolis, has
been promoted from midshipman to
ensign.
The directors of the public schools
in East Nantmeal township, Chester
county have fixed the tax rate for
next year at mills.
The Reading Railway has forbidden
Shamokin miners to walk in the mid
die of the tracks on account Of numer-
Gus fatal accidents.
guiea chick with an extra leg
growing from it's back is the freak
hatched on the farm of Thomas Shortz.
at Hobbie, near Hazleton.
DR. r. L. Slagle, president OF the
South Dakota State College at Book
ings, visited relatives at his old home
in Hanover, York county.
Attacked by a rattlesnake, Emma
Pascoe, 14-year-old Hudsondale girl,
killed the reptile with a club after 1t
had coiled three times to strike her,
removed the rattles as trophy and
will La skin iOtn hplt
Five thousand new members were
enrolled in the Shenandoah union or
the United Mine Workers, and Local
1885, the largest in the anthracite re-
gion, now has 400 members, with
more than $4,000 in the treasury.
Playing with keg OF blasting pow
der, four children-AleXande Tedmoa-
bis, three years old; Michael, his
brother, aged 10; George Stepsk, 3,
and Patrick Perossi 5-were frightful-
ly burned at Washington.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Strohm who died
at her home in Lucknow following an
operation for appendicitis at Harris
burg, weighed 31S pounds, and the
casket was so large that funeral SER
vices could not be held until the door
jambs and much of the surrounding
woodwork had been removed by car.
penters
Lewis G. Hill, of Lookout, says his
father has two fields OF alfalfa in
Wayne county. The crop on a four
acre field was damaged by the cold
weather during the winter, there hay
inS been very little protecting snow.
The first crop OF teu-acre field cut in
June was quite large. and the second
crop will be cut in August.
Walter S. Hertzog, for four years
one of the State inspectors of high
schools, has resigned his position in
the Department of Public Instruction
to accept the principalship of the Cali
fornia State Normal School. He was
appointed from Western Pennsylvania
and aided in building up the inspection
system. This summer he is an in.
structor at summer schools in Grove
I City and Mt. Gretna.
Former State Senator Kline, OF
| Hazleton, is entertaining Captain John
r. Vaughan, of the New York City
| Fire Department, at his bungalow at
| North St. Johns. Mr. Kline was a
! guest at the Rayne Hotel, New York.
over twenty years ago, when it was
| destroyed by fire. He was hemmed
! in on all sides by the flames, and was
about to give up when Captain Waugh.
an pulled him from hB room and
| brought him TO safety.
Owen Berkenstock, a rural mail car
rier in Lycoming county, saw fawn
day or two ago feeding on shock OF
| wheat on the farm OF Mr.. Bickhart.
three niles from White Deer. David
Moore later saw the deer running
across the fields toward a small tract
of timber on an adjoining farm. Two
does and a buck have been frequently
seen in the vicinity of the Round
Top" an open place in the woods TO
the right of the pike between White
Deer and Forest Iron Works. Dogs
have chased them Several times, but
the deer return 10 their feeding
ground like cattle.
Three brothers who have attained
distinction in the Lutheran Church
were guests of honor at the reunion
of Susquehanna Synod at Riverside
Park, near Milton. These were the
Rev. DR.. ]. B. Reimensnyder, of New
York City, president of the General
| Synod of the United States; the Rev.
j. Nj. Reimensnyder, for "a years pas
tor at Milton and formerly of the