Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-10
News Items of Interest
in Central Pennsylvania
Special to The Telegraph

Mahanoy City.-Opening the second
week of a thirty days religious cam
paign in a big frame tabernacle here.
the Munhall-Lowe party, of Philadel-
phia, was gratified when 165 men and
women hit the trail"
Wil1amsport.-Attr the cause
of the failure to the European war, the
Eastern Facing Mills Company, max.
ers of foundry supplies. closed it's doors
to-day under the action of the sheriff.
Wilkes Barrels he worked on the
top OF pole James Gallagher, aged 33
years, lineman in the employ of the
Wilkes-B Barre Gas Company, came in
contact with a high-tension wire and
was instantly eleotrocuted. Gallagher's s
fingers were burned off.
Nork.-Stricken with neuralgia of
the heart while attending to his duties
as sexton at st. Matthew's Lutheran
Church. John c. Taylor dropped over
dead. He was 6S years old and a Civil
War veteran.
AShland.-Twelve cows, two mules
one horse and many pigs and fifty
chickens, together with the seasons \
crops, and several wagons, were con.
sumed at Fountain Springs last night
when fire destroyed "a big barn owned
by Samuel Quick, Sr.
Pottsville.-Michael van Blargen. of
Sheppton, when called for trial to-daS
on the charge of blowing up a railroad
, track with dynamite, thereby causing
a wreck, pleaded guilty, but could give
no reason for his deed. He was de-
clared insane.
Eork-Driven from it's haunts in
the South Mountains by the forest
Ires, a fleet-footed deer walked into
the borough of Nashville Sunday
morning and remained in the vicinity
for nearly an hour, feeding.
Pottsville.-Isaac Loeb. a Pennsyl-
Vanla Railroad official, who deserted
MS bride at the altar in this city on
saturday and was believed ITO have.
committed suicide, has turned up in
Philadelphia. He telephoned the Rev.
A. o. Reiter from Philadelphia ex-
pressing contrition for his deed.
Pottsviiie.-The powder plant of w.
n Biumenstelne, Mount Carbon, has
| Deen purchased by a syndicate which
| Will use the product to export to
Europe. large contracts having been
entered into with one of the govern
| ments at war.
Herndon. - Despondent because of
! illness, Thomas Troutman, IS years
OLD; shot himself through the head
with shotgun.
PottSville. - Harry Shoemaker fell
dead to-day while eating dinner. He
sat down apparently in his usual
| health.
Altoona.-After the Rev. Charles Fl.
Brandt, superintendent of the Altoona
olstr1ct OF the Anti-Saloon League re-
! ported to the Altoona ministerium to.
| day that at the temperance field day
mere yesterday per cent. more money
| mad been collected and pledged than
ever before the ministerium adopteu
resolutions indorsing the league and
asking citizens to generously support
| its work
Mahanoy City.-Due to undermining
! IN the vicinity of the Reliance coai
mine, an operation of the Philadelphia
| ana Reading Coal and Iron Company.
steam shovels and other machinery in
! stalled for stripping of q large coal
area were carried down into the earth.
| Experts are trying to recover thew
,freeland. - Daniel Ferry, of this
place. was crushed to death between q
| car and mule at the Dtifton collierv
Hazleton.-Through a benefit NOV
ing picture performance at a local
! theater with the cooperation of the
camp Fire Girls of Hazleton, recently
! organized by Miss Marguerite Bright
$3.50 was realized for the European
| war orphans.
Allcntown.-Dr. Peter l.. Butts. said
| TO nave been the oldest practicing den
tist in Pennsylvania, died suddenly at
ms nome in Allentown of PARALYSIS of
the heart in his seventy-ninth year.
| BloomShuFg.-It was discovered YES
! terday that small bone in the shout.
der OF Louis Brenner. quarterback of
the FRANKLIN and Marshall reserves
| VINO played here Saturday, had been
broken during the game
| AlIentown.-M ], Maguire has bea,,
appointed district deputy of the Fra
ternlal Order of Eagles for twelve
counties in the eastern section OF
pennsylvania, including PHILADELPHIA.