Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-30

ness and Pleasure that lnterext.
Carbondale's smallpox is increasing
and there are now 18 cases in town
and three near by.
Albert McElroy, aged 72, was found
dead of heart disease in his stable
near Waynesboro.
Young Peter Bersna, of Exchange,
has surrendered himself for the killing
of Charles Augustine.
Stanislaw Fachunis, wellknown
miner, was probably fatally injured at
Maple Hill colliery by a fall of coal.
Frank Manchunski, 20 years old,
was found dead in the yard of his
Shenandoah boarding house with his
skull fractured
Wilson B. Little, of Pittsburgh, has
been selected as dean Of Conway Hall,
to fiji the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Charles Swift
Owners of timber land in the lower
end of York county are plying the AK
to a multitude of chestnut trees in
fected with the blight.
At Kulpmont little Rose Lacovice
ran on the Shamokin-Mt. Carmel troll
ley track and was struck by car,
which amputated her arm and fatally
hurt her.
Standard OIL Company linemen kill
ed g. copperheads and two rattle
snakes in the South Mountain, near
Mont Alto.
Alexander Graver, of Weissport, ar
rested five automobilists for exceed
Ing the speed limit. In each case the
offender was fined $40.
Lewis Hopes and his two sons, OF
Mahoning township, Carbon county,
while employed in a field killed
blacksnake 16 feet in length and 20
inches in circumference.
]. Harry Zimmerman, assistant
yardmaster of the Pennsylvania Rail
road in Harrisburg. committed suicide
by taking poison, to end financial trou-
bles.
A nest of infuriated bees cleared a
bleacher in Quakertown ball grounds
crowded with 500 persons at the re-
union of the Golden Eagle Castles of
Bucks county.
J. Calvin Sterner, of Richlandtown,
dispatched a threefoot snake, and i'm
mediately thereafter found himself
surrounded by reptiles, and succeeded
in killing 10.
AS a result of fall from a plum
tree. Denton Ditch, aged 70, for years
chef at the Central Police Station,
died at Altoona. He fell and broke
his shoulder and several ribs.
Sauerkraut and pork were fatal to
John Hartman, aged so years, of Read
ing who tackled them at a resort on
Mt. Penn. A piece of pork lodged in
his windpipe and he was strangled.
Henry Tetlow, the Philadelphia
with a summer seat at Jeffersonville.
suburb of Norristown, has just har-
vested 500 bushels of wheat from a
10-acre field.
Charged with beating his 1S-year-old
daughter and driving her out into the
rain, although she was compelled to
turn over her weekly wage of $150
to him, Levi Weidner OF Pottstown.
was held for Court.
Suffering with tuberculosis, John
Ginnis, the half-breed Indian who was
committed to Chester County Jail
some time ago for an attempted as
sault upon a farmers wife near
Parkesburg, has been removed to the
county hospital at Embreeville
Much interest has been aroused be-
cause of the taking of oil and gas
leases in the north of Cambria county
recently. The first leases were taken
in the neighborhood of Pindleton.
I,lacklick township, and it is said to
be the intention to obtain leases on
all the land lying along the Laurel
Hill anticline from the Blacklick
Creek to the vicinity of Carroltown,
comprising about 10000 acres.
Stricken with paralysis while run
ming his engine in the Lehigh Valley
yards at Easton, Erwin Hile was re-
moved to a hospital
The council of the Daughters of the
Revolution at Coudersport, Potter