Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-13
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| Clayton Lefevre has been arrested,
accused of stealing the team of John
! Wilmer, of Lancaster.
Herman Fink, IA years old, of Phila-
delphia, was caught robbing a mail
! box near Palmyra.
| Wagons collided in a mine gallery
at Buck Ridge, near Shamokin, killing
William Thaw.
About 400 Indian girls and boys
have returned from their summer va
cation to the Carlisle school.
Samuel Dyer, who has been q fugi-
| tive on charges of embezzlement and
robbery, has been arrested in Lancas-
! ter.
Standing up in farm wagon, Miss
Lysle Fuller of Carlisle, was thrown
put and severely injured when the
| team started.
Mary Martin, of Jeansville had her
| left hand amputated at the State Hos
! pital at Hazleton after Gripping it in a
wringer.
A 30-inch rattlesnake killed by Miss
! Josephine Hassler near Craffenburg
| contained nine young rattlers, varying
In length from eight to nine inches.
! While he was shooting doves the
gun of James Carpenter, of Shamokin,
discharged and a bullet punctured
Martin Becker's lung.
Stricken as he sat in a chair, An
! drew Newguard, inventor of the gang
plow, fell to his porch dead at Trever-
! ton.
| Struck by a Reading freight while
returning to his home in Buck Noun
| tain, Martin Roberts was mangled to
| death.
Farmers in Berks county report
themselves in readiness for the frost,
all danger of delayed crops having
been passed. The harvests, they say,
are above the average and the pre-
dicted shortage in the potato crop will
be supplanted by an extra supply of
| high-grade tubers.
| Charged with making too much
noise" j. w. Frease, the pioneer auto
mobile owner in Somerset was arrest
ed by the authorities in Schellsburg,
Bedford county. His discharge was
| gained only after expert testimony cf
doctors, other tourists and the like
that little footing of the horn is not
hard on the nervous system
First awakening their victim by
throwing stones a, the door of his
home, four men made vicious as
sault upon Joseph Homiak, of Dia-
mondtown, Northumberland county,
when he appeared in his night clothes
to investigate the racket. Homiak re-
| ceived broken jaw several fractured
ribs and numerous cuts and bruises.
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Mount Carmel, had a miraculous es-
cape from death at Snydertown, when
an upright boiler burst within ten feet
of where he stood directing building
| operation. Pieces of the boiler were
thrown high in the air and several
horses which were being used in the
work We're bruised and stunned.
| State health officials in charge of
the smallpox epidemic in Carbondale,
Lackawanna county, traced the origin
OF the forty-two cases to man who
| came to Carbondale from Seattle,
Wash. He was treated by local physi-
clans. but the fact that he was suffer
| ing from smallpox was never report
ed. DR.. ]. c. Hunt, who is in charge
of the situation for the State Depart
ment is positive that the present epi-
demic is directly traceable to this
case.
Elk county farmers are troubled
over a contagious disease affecting
| the eyes of cattle, which seems to
have gained foothold There has
been reported one case where the
! COW so afflicted has gone totally blind,
another case where the aniSlal is
gradually getting worse, and another
instance is cited where the entire herd
is afflicted. The only cure is said to
| be the European method of injecting
mixture of snuff and sugar into the
| animals eyes.
Carlisle has collected s120 in auto
speeders fines in three weeks
The Allentown Democrat directs at
tention to little matter of history
when 1t relates that thirty-four years