The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-14

side the Reading tracks In Mahanoy
City, killed by train.
The Pennsylvania Railroad 10 pre-
pairing to build a $4,000 passenger
station at Brookville.
Seven police insp ectors and six de-
tectives in Pittsburgh will resist re-
moval for lack of city revenues.
At Lancaster, William G. Brobst, a
prominent contractor who shot him
self week ago, Is dead.
While on duty at the Mofrisville
station of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
George G. Bunting fell dead. He was
freight agent for many years.
United Mine Workers have recruit
ed up to 20,236 in the HaEleton dis
trict 64,278 in No. /, and 49,o80 In
No. 9.
Michael Burke, Of Yatesville, a mi
ner at the Knickerbocker Colliery, was
shot in the face and head by a pre-
mature blast
Payment of relief was started by
the Garment Workers Union to idle
employees Of the Gardhardt shirt fac
tory, Hazleton. .-l
Telegraphers at the Hazleton &
Mahanoy division offices of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad have been granted
increases of from IS to $40 month.
Jacob K Miller succeeds James A.
Mcclure as carrier of mails between
Maytown and Marietta. The latter
held down the Job about 38 years.
John Markla, the Jeddo coal oper-
ator, will sail for Europe. He expects
to spend the greater part OF the sea
son abroad.
Ex-Mayor Confer and d. e. Byles, of
Oil City, have departed from an ex-
tended trip through the West Indies.
They will spend some time at Pana-
ma looking over the big ditch.
Meadville merchants will hereafter
not permit the placing of advertising
cards in their show windows. The
merchants, as a rule, advertise in the
newspapers, and probably believe that
other people should do the same.
At GirardviIfe, John Huffey, his
wife, son and daughter, ate heartily Of
preserved fish for supper and all four
were taken violently Ill. The physi-
clan diagnosed the case as ptomaine
poison, and they all are out Of danger.
The twenty-nfth anniversary of the
Woman's Missionary Guild was OBJ
served at the regular meeting Of the
Guild in the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church, WilliamspoTt. One Of the
charter members gave a brief history
of the Guild and an account of the
work done by the society.
An OIL portrait of the late Judge
Adam Hoy, recently completed by
Philadelphia painters, has been pre-
sented to Centre county by Mrs. w.
Fred Reynolds and Albert Hoy, and
has been hung in the gallery of judges
portraits in Memorial Hall in the
courthouse at Bellefonte.
The names of S3 men, Incorporate
and otherwise, have been posted in the
several Waynesboro barrooms as per
sons of known intemperate habits,
and to these the barkeeDers are In
structed not to sell alcoholic drinks,
Some persons named on this list are
indignant over what they call the II
belous suggestion, and have raised
nearly 5000 to carry the matter into
the courts.
The Bellefonte fish hatchery is still
sending out yearling trout but the
stock is pretty we'll reduced and viii
be cleared up entirely before long
All told, about 100000 yearlings viii
be put out of the Bellefonte hatchery
this year, while few of them are OF 8
size large enough to catch, the mos
of them will be next year, and the re
suit should be apparent during tht
trout-flshing season.
DR.. Charles Meme, postmaster o
Germania, for more than half q cen
, tury a practioing physician in Ger
mania, and for 90 years school di
rector Of Abbott, is 81 years young.
Jay Tussey displays at Altooni
trophies OF his recent Florida hunting
expedition, including three skins o
deer, one of fawn, one of South
I ern squirrel and three OF snakes. IN
principal exhibit Is the tawny skin o
a diamond snake, feet in length. 1
inches wide. with 10 ratties at tn
end.
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