Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-07-26

was loaded and shot himself through
a hand, the bullet then breaking leg.
Edward William Matthews, of Dal-
| lastown, York county, has an orchard
containing 1900 trees, 20OO of which
are bearing.
A vicious dog near Belfast attacked
T. F. Hawke, of Easton and tore one
of his legs in a half-dozen places be-
fore being beaten Off
William Maury, one of Allentown's
best ball players, is suffering with a
broken arm, the result of a friendly
wrestling match in camp along the
| Perkiomen
Two girls who recently graduated
from the Carlisle High School have
taken the examination for letter car
| rers and will seek positions in that
town.
Thomas b. Beaver. of Bellefonte,
WIZ mas bttI dppOliIed DdbldIloA ftu-
jutant of the Tenth Regiment, Nation
al Guard, is a son of Judge James A.
| Beaver, former Governor
Catching by the neck a rattlesnake
that struck at her three times, near
Hazleton, Emma Pasco, II years old
killed the reptile and carried it home
in triumph
Climbing after a nest OF young pige-
ons, Herman Walters, a Dover town
ship, York county boy, fell 20 feet,
breaking his left arm and sustaining
serious internal injuries.
In the seven anthracite counties of
Carbon Columbia. Dauphn, Lacka-
wanna. Luzerne. northumberland and
Schuylkill there are 81 silk mills. EN-
ploying 1920 operatives.
BY granting an increase of two
cents an hour to 500 laborers, the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steel
ton has ended dissatisfaction which
caused several strikes in departments
A little daughter of Barney Sheeler,
of near Saratoga, was severely burn
ed during a storm when lightning
struck the brass top of a parasol she
was carrying.
Crawling through a picket fence in
the back yard, William Adams Huff,
51year-old son of Clarence Huff, who
resides along the canal at Riegelsville.
fell into that stream and was drown
ed.
William F. Buck. of HolldaT sburg.
killed champion" weight calf few
days ago. The animal was "a days
old and weighed III pounds avoirdu-
pois. 1t was raised by a Franistown
township farmer.
Found dead in Yellow Breeches
Creek, near Lehigh Station, Adam
Stein, of Chambersburg, Cumber-
land Valley brakeman, is believed to
have been killed by falling from a
train.
Because a five-year-old daughter
was awakened and gave the alarm
when a coal oil lamp exploded. and set
fire to the home of Mrs. Minnie Bar
ger, at Carlisle, the family was proba-
bly, saved from burning to death
A Gettysburg foundry has shipped
to the Daughters of the American Re
volution of New York city two British
cannons captured at Yorktown in 1871.
Carriages were made for them at the
foundry.
H. Fuller Smith. of Fernwood, was
sent to Media jail, in default of $500
bail, on the charge of stealing three
watches from Township Commissions
er William Shepley, of Upper Darby
township.
John Joliat, a Frenchman who lives
in West Mead township, Crawford
county, always a hard-workng and
thrifty man, has purchased the Henry
Lippert farm in that township. When
he came to pay the real estate agent
who made the sale, Mr.. Joliet had half
of the purchase price, $1100, in silver
dollars and half-dollars. The shining
coins filled tin bucket, and the
weight was considerable.
Ex-District Attorney John NJ. Riley,
OF Carlisle, who Las been elected
president of the Oratorio Society, was
journal clerk of the Senate when the
old Capitol burned in 1897 and while
the firebrands from the ceiling were
dropping about him, he cody made a
record of the motion to adjourn. tell
ing what caused the adjournment
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