The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-23

death of Mrs. A. 8. Payne, 1903
Market street, Harrisburg.
lSz-neath. at Dauphin county aims
house. at the age of SO years, of
Jacob Lenker, once prominent
mar of affairs in the upper end of
Dauphin county.
death of Abraham r. Hess, a
prominent steehon grocer, aged
so years.
Annual Bueknell Getty ysburg foot
ball game played on Island Park,
Harrisburg, Bucknell winning, 25
to 0.
lo-Death of John G. Willis, 10 North
Eighteenth street, Harrisburg, su.
perintendent for the Boil Bros. ,
Manufacturing Company and a
prominent fireman of the city.
| beginning, at the Capitol, of an
nual session of the Welfare and
Efficiency Conference, accompanied
by an interesting exhibit of safety
machinery, at Chestnut street au-
ditorium, which had opened on the
10th.
Death, in Philadelphia, of Charles
\. Fahnestock, native of Harris
burg.
death of Thomas R. Dickert, 113
Market street, Harrisburg, a re-
tired stonemaSon.
lS-Death of Michael c. Bitner, 323
Granite street, Harrisburg, ma.
chinist at the Lucknow shops.
lS-Conductor Charles p. Treadwell,
ol North Eighteenth street, Har,
risburg, fell dead at his home
after the excitement caused by a
slight fire next door.
lS-Twenty-seven head of live stock
burned up in fire of supposed in
cendiary origin which destroyed a
large barn two miles from Car
isle
l9--Death of Mrs. Mary Bowers, of
New Cumberland, less than a week
after the death of her husband,
Harry c. Bowers, leaving six
doubly orphaned children.
2 IA fire in rooms of the Masonic
Temple, Third and State streets,
Harrisburg, seriously meuaced that
tine building.
Final football game between Tech
meal High school, of Harrisburg,
and Steelton High school, won by
the former by the remarkable
score of "a to 0.
, 24-Foreign Trade Conference held i'll
Harrisburg with distinguished rep
resentatives present from many
cities and towns Of Pennsylvania.
24-i,arge barn on a farm near Camp
Hill tenanted by p. A. Sewers de-
stroyed by fire, with the loss of
twentyone head of livestock.
death of George II. 'Conklin, Steel
ton, a veteran of the Civil war.
25-H. B. Stevens. a railway mail
clerk, fell dead on a Harrisburg
street.
2o-Caroline Weaver committed sui
eide at Dauphin county almshouse,
26-Anuual Thanksgiving football
game on Island Park between Cen
tral and Technical High schools of
Harrisburg, won by the latter, l9
to II, before crowd of fully s.,
coo persons.
IA siX-year-oid Steelton boy killed
by a street Nar after jumping off
wagon.
2S-Sudden death of Miss Edna Nc.
kee, Colorado postmistress.
whilst on visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. {. Mckee, of Harris.
burg. -
G. Forney. 434 Harris
street, for the second time submit
ted to an operation by which he
gave a large amount of his skin
to save the life of boy to whom
he was total stranger vino had
oeen terribly burned July 8.
2S-Judge Sadler at Carlisle, sentenced
Max Morganthau, of Harrisburg,
to the electric chair for the murder
of John, NJ. Rupp, Of Cumberland
county, May 21.
2S-Death in New York City of Miss
Blanche L. Butler, 17t6 North
Third street, Harrisburg, former
stenographer on Capitol Hill.
29-Suddeu death of Mrs. Lizzie
Drummond. 1916 North Fourth
street, Harrisburg, as she was
about to leave the Harrisburg Hos
pital.
29-Death of Mrs, Mary NJ, wife of
George H. Wingard, 544 Woodbiuc
street, Harrisburg.
29-Sudten death of Samuel Jones,
627 Mahantongo street, Harris
burg, a watchman at the 'Tele-
gra A. building.