Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-07-19


Lower Carbon county has a grass
hopper plague.
A seabass opened by D. 7. Foster,
Mauch Chunk, was found to contain
small deviltish.
Fred. T. Mackereth has been ap-
pointed Auditor in Penn township,
Chester county.
Chester County Court has appointed
C. J. Miller to be tax collector in High
land township.
Hog cholera reappeared at Black
Creek. and a quarantine has been es-
tablished.
Hon. B. X. Focht, of Lewisburg, will
be the orator of the day at the annual
picnic to be held at Blain, Perry coun-
ty.
Thrown from his carriage in run
away Chief Burgess Henry Lintner,
Ringtown. was dragged and lacerated
all over the body. -
A mad dog attacked William Sny-
der. at Shamokin, and chewed one or
his ankles and calves, then bit three
dogs before he was killed.
Charged with running away from
street fight Policeman William Leiby,
of Blooms burg, will be called upon TO
defend himself against expulsion.
Caught between a car and gang
way. George Roscoe, aged 81, was
crushed to death while completing his
lays labor at Morris Ridge Colliery.
Catasauqua Town Council has pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting the use of
bricks in the laying of sidewalks,
which must hereafter be concrete.
In the upset of a hay wagon Mrs.
George Cunfer, one of the few women
of Carbon county who still do farm
work, was severely injured.
Two sirens on the roof of the Jer-
sey Central freight station, at Mauch
Chunk, have taken the place of the
church gong as a fire alarm.
Stanley Schofeld, of West Chester,
has been lodged in the county Jail,
charged with furnishing liquor to a
resident of known Incorporate habits.
Mrs lima Shedid, of Kulpmount,
near Shamokn, widow of one of the
victims of the Titanic, will receive a
pension out of the fund collected for
the benefit of the surviving kin.
William Kent bachelor, of Spring
field township, Delaware county, has
just completed a silk quilt which con-
tains 1000 small pieces of silk. 1t took
Kent three years TO make the quilt.
For falling to register births accord
ing to the State law, DR.. p E. Stem,
of South Bethlehem, was arraigned
before Squire J. II. McGee and held
IN leaVy pail Tor court.
SO many grievances are being sent
into the district Offices of the United
Mine Workers by the men since re-
sumption OF operations under the new
agreement that the leaders are unable
TO look into them as fast as received.
tttprpay Il T. Diyely who has hapn
practicing law in Apollo, Armstrong
county, has returned to Altoona and
will be associated with his father, At
torney A. V. Dively. in the practice of
law
Thomas J. Baughman, of Loomis.
Cal, who left East Berlin, 80 years
ago. and who for the last % years has
been a resident of California, is visit
ing at East Berlin. Mr.. Baughman is
fruit grower.
S. C. Yocum, of Shamokin, who has
been teaching in the schools of Coal
township many years, has been elect
ed instructor in Latin and Greek in
the Sunbury High School, at salary
of 800 a month.
County Commissioner w. F. Gard
ner, County Attorney, John ID. Faller
Janitor George Brown and c. c. Bas-
shore, of Carlisle, spent night fish
ing in Sherman's Creek, Perry county
They caught "a eels and half-dozen
big "snappers.
DR.. T. Edward Munce, deputy State
veterinarian, and Mrs. Munce, have
sailed for Germany, expecting to re-
main away for six weeks. DR.. Munce
will take special course of study in
connection with his work at the Uni