Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-11-01
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STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Cleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD

Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy objects-Items Of Bus-
ness ard Pleasure that Interest.
Judge Criswell, at Franklin, revoked
the sentence of Greek prisoner in or
der that he might go to war.
! Peter Aaburds died at the State
Hospital the result of fall OF coal at
Boston Run Colliery.
| The Allentown Fairgrounds Asso-
citation has been organized, with Mrs.
| Walter c. Guilder as president
| Seventeen foreigners were arrested
! in South Bethlehem ard fined 81 and
costs each for creating disturbance
| in coffee house.
Members of the Industrial Commits
sion, of Bethlehem, are trying to et-
feet, annexation of North Bethlehem
| to the borough.
| Thomas Ferguson was sent to Jail
| for two years by the Lancaster Court
| for robbing the house of William e.
| Reinhart.
James Mcdonald, well-known Cen
tralia resident temporarily insane
from i'll health killed himself by cut
ting his throat
! Clearfield people believe that GER
/ tain improvements and additions TO
industries will bring their population
up to $4,000 in five years.
A three-acre field of buckwheat own
ed by Jacob S. Meyer, of Bergey,
yielded $50 bushels OF the three-corner-
! ed grain.
The jury of view appointed by the
! Chester County Court has decided to
report favorably for the erection or
new bridge over Brandywine Creek on
| West Main street. Coatesville.
Leaning out of a second-story win
dow at York, Gladys, two-year-old
| daughter of James West, lost her bal
ance and plunged 80 feet TO the side
walk, sustaining fatal injuries.
1t is recalled by old residents OF Al
lentown that the Rev. Robert w. Lam
dis, who became the pastor or the
| first Presbyterian Church there IN
1889, inaugurated the system of rent
! ing pews in that church.
George MatZik was sentenced IN
Montgomery County 10 not less than
IA wears nor more than II years in the
Eastern Penitentiary for fatally stab
bing Andrew Babyok at King-of-Prus-
| Sia.
For taking liberties with Linnie Nc
Neill, of Chester county, while she was
guest at his home, in NorrlstoWn,
Thomas McCool, middle-aged and mar
ried was sent to Jail for two years by
Montgomery County Court
The Perkiomen Seminary building
committee has awarded the contract
for the $4,000 Carnegie library which
is to be built on the campus to the
Ochs Construction Company of Allen
town.
Men who cut down an immense oak
tree on the lawn at the Park Hotel. at
WiHiamsport found two owls nests
in the trunk The tree was long the
refuge of an owl that looked calmly
upon the people bound to and from the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad depot.
William A. Lightner, who was killed
by a locomotive at Erie few days
ago, was Treasurer of Perry county
from 1885 to 1888. He taught school
for II years in Perry and Cumberland
counties He was secretary OF the
Perry County Fruit Growers Asso
citation.
H. L. Murray, secretary of the Al
toona Market Company, while fishing
in the Juniata River, near his cottage
at Aughwick Mills, Huntingdon coun
ty, caught a large waterdog, or fresh
water alligator, which put up terocl
GUS fight before being landed. This is
not the first specimen of the rather
rare species of reptiles Mr.. Murray has
caught. The water-dogs, which are
more than foot long, and have the
Ieos tail mouth and other equipment