The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-01-15

The state fisheries department has
seized 1000 pounds of fish taken
from Lake Erie with illegal nets by g
| Toledo fishing boat, and prosecution
will follow.
! Miss Helen Glenn, state supervisor
of mothers pension activity, has as
sumed her duties at Harrisburg, and
will have general charge Of the pen
sion system.
The Connelsville board of education
decided to resume medical inspection
and elected DR.. Katherine Wakefield
medical inspector for the remainder
of the term.
Court in Cambria county permitted
minors to wed on condition that the
| ffteen-year-old bride should take
charge of her young husbands $500
bank account
Lancaster district revenue receipts
! for December show a large falling
off, compared with November, cigars
alone yielding $4,000 less, owing to
the holiday shutdown.
Walter Biggs, of Pleasantville, n.
j., is in the Chester hospital suffer
ing with cCncussion of the brain as a
result OF a fall from a pole when his
climbers failed to take hold.
Mrs. E'eanOr Hutchinson Degolier,
| aged e: :gh y-siX, a prominent resident
of Brad r., and the mother of ex-
Mayor Spencer E. DegoHer, has died
of injU-i-s II a fall down stairs.
The first case Of trachoma in Con-
nellsvi-!e was found when the board
Of health QIiarantired Mary Crusko
and her son, George, eighteen years
old. The disease is highly infectious.
The Packet Granville, belonging to
the Mississippi Navigation company,
burned to the waters edge while
moored at Lysle landing in the Ohio
river at Pittsburgh. The loss Is $10,-
| 900.
After serving fifty years as tele-
graph operator on the mountain top
between McConnellsburg and Bedford,
along the Philadelphia-Pittsb pike,
Thomas F. Sloan retired with the old
| year.
August Tailley, q coal miner, OF
Bulger, was found murdered in his
home. The house was ransacked and
gave evidence Of terrific struggle be-
fore the old man was murdered and
robbed.
The Mariana mines, at Charleroi
are being put in shape for reopening
after a suspension of over year. EN-.
ployment checks have been issued and
orders are ahead for a run of several
months.
Unless bankruptcy papers are filed
against J. V. Thompson, at Uniontown,
by January Is, a half-million-dollar
judgment secured by a relative in
Pittsburgh becomes a first lien on his
property.
Twenty boys, some of them the sole
support of their widowed mothers.
were discharged at the collieries Of
the. A. S. Van Wickle estate, in Cole
raine, because they are under sixteen
years of age.
Thirty hCboes given lodging in the
central police station in Pittsburgh
tanked up on liquid developer used
in the Bertillon room. Six Of them
were so full they were unable to ap
pear at the hearings.
Miss Mabel Weaver, Melville, We
mango county, shot and killed herself
at the home Of her half brother, Will
liam Armstrong, in Pittsburgh, when
she received a letter from home say
ing her father was dying.
A postofice inspector has taken
charge of Deacy Piker, twelve years
old, and Clarence Sweeney, ten, ac-
cused of having broken into and rob
bed the Conemaugh postoffice. The
loot was a few dollars, a box Of candy
and a dozen briar pipes.
Judge ]. a. McLaughry, at Sharon
has continued the Mercer county il
cense court until January 81 There
are about forty applicants, includ n
wholesalers. This is the first license
court in which Judge McLaughry viii
preside. He has always had a lean
ing toward temperance.
Announcement was made at Nation
al Guard headquarters in Harrisburg
of the promotion of Second Lieuten-
ants Ira George Ryan to be first lieu
tenant of Company A, eighth infant
ry, York, and Edward Smeltzer, to be
first lieutenant of Company G, six
teenth infantry, Erie
West Chester is in the grasp of
grip TO an extent never before ex-
perienced. Every physician is caring
for dozens Of patients. 1t is estimat-
ed that there have been 1000 persons
i'll with the disease in the last two
weeks. There has been a large num-
Der of deaths among the aged.
Fearing q penitentiary sentence, ac-
cording to a story he told friends, be-
cause he had been arrested on New
Years day at Taylor, near Kittanning,
for shooting Stephen Grogovski, TWEEN
ty-eight years old, committed suicide
Monday by jumping off a bridge into
the Allegheny river at East Brady.
Sarah r Rodgers hvron Rode