Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-27
News Items of Interest
in Central Pennsylvania
Special 10 The Telegraph

Sunbury.-Dragged a hundred and
fifty feet when their team ran away on
a road near Washingtonville, Mrs Har-
vey Harris was bruised and lacerated
almost from head to foot and Harvey
Housenicll was badly bruised.
Sunbury.-A black bass that weighed
pounds ounces and was 9h inches
long was caught in the North Branch
of the Susquehanna at Chulsaky by
David II. Haney. of DanVille.
Waynesboro, Pa, Oct. 27.-Y ester
day the decomposed body of a child
was found in the mountains near Maria
Furnace by two sons of John Sells,
who were hunting chestnuts. The
bundle was wrapped in piece of car
pet and wedged between two massive
rocks in an out -the-way place.
Bethlehem. - Word was received
here to-day by Clinton A. Billheimer
that his brother, John NJ. Billheimer,
was killed while fighting against the
Germans in France. Billheimer went
to Canada and was among the first
of the Canadian soldiers sent to the
war zone.
Lancaster.-Levi Hainley, q farmer,
of Cocalico township, who was here
on business, fell through a hay hole in
the Lincoln Hotel stable, breaking his
neck.
Scranton.-Notifying the Judge that
lIleN WtIt suOp6ltSSly ulNlhtu, IIG jury
in the case of William Pegram, tried
for murder twelve years ago, was
brought into court and told it must
agree. The jury was out since Thurs
day.
Easton.-Dr. Victor j. Koch, a Naaz-
reth physician. began a suit for di-
vorce against his wife, Mrs. Louise w
Koch, and naming S. Warren Snyder
as the correspondent. Snyder is en-
ployed as chauffeur by Mrs. Koch's
father, Henry Kraemer, a wealthy
Nazareth manufacturer
Easton.-Abram Walter, GO years
old. a contractor, was injured when a
boiler fell on his left arm and crushed
ii. He was married a week ago and
had just returned from Philadelphia,
where he and Mrs. Walter spent theil
honeymoon.
Mount Carmel. = Harry Mellett,
George Price. John Cummings and p.
j. Keogh. of Shenandoah, narrowly
escaped death on the Pennsylvania rail-
road near here when a passenger train
ran into their automobile. They were
hurled from the machine and all were
injured.
South Bethlehem.-The Bethlehem
Steel Company is erecting on the hill
side near it's Redington proving
grounds a building for the manufac-
ture of all the various fuses and de-
IOndt1nB fuses, DOln IOT Snfapnel ana
shell ammunition.
Lancaster.-Last evening an electric
light wire set fire to a pile of excelsior
in a stockroom at the post office build
ing. 1t gained considerable headway
before being discovered. Post Office
employees eXtinguished the flames.
Hazleton.-His hurry to prepare for
church proved fatal to August Motz-
kus, of Upper Lehigh, aged 60, who
slipped at the head Of the stairs and
was picked up at the bottom with his
neck broken.
Reading.-Berks County Conserva-
tion Association yesterday began the
planting of 5000 Scotch and white
pine trees on Mount Penn overlooking
the city under the direction of irwin
C. Williams, Deputy Commissioner of
Forestry. Monday, November 2, the
association will put a fire patrol of
about thirty men on duty.
Tamaqua.-While visiting his brother
here yesterday Henry G. Roppel, of
Pottsville. fell from a second-stor
window and landed on q picket fence,
being so badly injured that he died an
hour later.
Tamaqua.-One of the largest re-
ligious gatherings in the history of
the town was held here last night
under the auspices of the Federated
Mems Bible Glasses. Many hundreds
paraded, while the Bethany United
and Methodist Episcopal Churches
were crowded.