Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-05-31

ment ring, FRANK Brown, Oh Souln
Bethlehem, was sent TO jail.
The Rev. Robert ]. Allen, of Lock
Haven, has united in marriage Simeon
Poorman and Miss Mae Rich.
Charles w. Killian has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Hemlock Creek,
.uZerne county.
Annie II. Waidley has been appoint
ed postmistress at Enhaut, Dauphin
county.
The Rev. Charles f. Rudy, of Ian
caster, has accepted a call to the
Frackville Lutheran Church.
Charged with murder at Corning,
n. Y, Rafelo Meralo was arrested at
Williamsport.
A little yellow chick hatched by a
hen owned by William Haws, of South
Pottstown, has four legs, and uses all
of them.
When Francis Hartranft, of Wor-
man, broke open an unusually large
egg another of the usual size rolled
out, which she sold.
Schuylkill County Court appointed
a dead man, w. f. Stocks, school audi
tor for ST. Clair district, in making
code appointments.
Charged with inducing veXatious
suits, Justice Of the Peace Jesse Haug,
was arrested and held in bail for Court
on a charge of barratry.
Charged with attacking Robert Las
ten in the woods in Springfield town
ship and attempting to Kill him, John
Gregal was arrested.
John Kokus, who was 80 years old,
committed suicide at Mahanoy City by
drinking roach powder mixed with cot
fee.
The brewery of August Schneider,
bankrupt, of Reading, together with
dwelling house, We're sold to the mort
gagee, katherine B. Stocker, for $55,-
600.
Among the many farmers around
Joanna who find the raising OF beef
who has a herd of Is steers, averaging
400 pounds.
William, the 4-year-old son of John
Beard of Sunbury, was taken TO Elk
hart, Ind, by his grandfather William
Haupt The boy har hardly gotten off
the train until he was struck by troll
ley car and his skull fractured and
several ribs broken.
o. B. Tennis. whose home for many
years was at Thompsontown, Union
county, but whose business headquart-
ers have been in Chicago, visited his
old Pennsylvania home, previous to
making another trip to Europe. This
will be the ninety-ffth time Mr.. Ten
mis- has crossed the Atlantic, or the
forty eighth round trip, and he expects
to live to make his fiftieth trip across
the Atlantic, and perhaps many more.
Undertaken James Moore, of Wilkes
Barre, haG completed the contract of
removing the bodies buried in st. Vim
cents old cemetery, Plymouth, a por-
ton of which had caved into the Gay
lord mine workings. The Kingston
Coal Company provided land for new
cemetery, and since October II, 5000
bodies have been moved to the new
cemetery. The old cemetery was de-
dicated in 1874, and was used for 3S
years.
Although AZ years have passed since
the civil war and the time when Jo-
seph f. Hicks, of Bloomsbury, receiv-
ed his discharge, he has received let
ter from E. p. Seeds, auditor of the
War Department, stating that he was
entitled to 1886. Mr.. Hicks has no
idea what the money was due for, but
he sent the form back and later re-
ceived a letter from the War Depart
ment stating that he had been dis
charged on June 8, 1865, but had been
held until the 18th of the month. For
those six days he was entitled to pay
amounting to $467 and also $1.69 was
due him for clothing during the six
days.
A company of National Guards for
Bloomsbury is now assured and already
over 100 young men of town have sig
nified their intention of trying to get
in. The limit to the company is 61,
While making garden at Holidays
burg O. W. Gardner and James A.
Stanley found a nest of wild rabbits.
There were four bright-eyed young
ones and pair of old ones. Mr.. Gard