The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-01-22

near Mauch Chunk, and was sentenc-
ed 10 five years in the Eastern peni
tentiary.
Since A. Pardee & Co., Cranberry
and Crystal Ridge mines, suspended
breaker boys who did not meet the re
Quirements of the child labor law, the
mines are working under crippled
conditions.
William H. Ball, chief of the bureau
of city property of Philadelphia under
the Biankenburg administration, was
appointed private secretary to the
governor. He will assume duties with
in few days.
Robert Hill is in Jail at Harrisburg
and his sweetheart, Lucy J. Jones, is
in the Harrisburg hospital with a bull
let in her neck as the result of an
argument between the two over HilPs
drinking habits.
Raymond Wyerman, of Youngstown,
Ohio, after visiting his fancee, Miss
Mary Springer, in Leetsdale, commit
ted suicine at Pittsburgh when he re-
turned to the Hotel Gross, where he
was stopping.
Eight persons were injured, one IA
tally, four children were overcome by
smoke, and $4,000. damage was done
in a fire which destroyed the bakery
owned by Frank Frado, Gil Margar-
eta street, Braddock.
Four men were showered with
metal, John Streibel dying and three
being seriously burned, at the Sheen
berger works Cf the American Steel
and Wire company when blast fur
mace stove evrtojed.
Mrs. Maggie Eaniuff, who says her
husband deserted her, applied, with
her four children, at the police station
in Pittsburgh, for lodging. She is
trying to reach her father, who re-
sides in Elizabeth, N. J.
R. H. Jones, secretary and treasurer
of the Bethlehem Steel company, has
given $1,000 to the South Bethlehem
Children's home to establish an mfr
mary in memory of his deceased sis
ter, Miss Frances F. Jones.
The Cornplanter township school,
near Oil City, was closed as a result
Of the epidemic of measles that is
sweeping that section. Over 100
cases were reported by the health Of
ficer of Oil City Wednesday.
Miss Mary Sandt, of Hellertown,
near Easton, won a verdict of $30.06
against Edward Refs, formerly a po-
Hceman, who, 1t is alleged, struck
her while she was dressed as a cow
boy at a Halloween celebration.
Mrs. Clara Ziegler, widow of Irwin
Ziegler, of Allentown, who received
a Carnegie medal and a pension, has
sued William FIGHTER, an Allentown
contractor, to recover damages for
the death of her husband, who was
smothered in sink.
Stating he had already more things
to do than he could attend to, DR.. Will
liam E. Slemmons, pastor, First Pres
byterian church, in Washington, re-
fused the position on the Washington
school board to which he was elected
about one month ago.
The attorney generals department
has brought an action in equity to re-
strain the State Capital Savings and
Loan association, of Harrisburg, from
issuing full paid stock which it has
issued for a number Of years. The
association will contest.
On his first trip run as a brakeman
on the Pennsylvania railroad, William
]. Jordan, twenty-five years old, of
Pittsburgh, slipped into the river
from the roof of a freight car cross
In ctn hTiI Tc
land and was drowned.
Supreme court in Philadelphia re
fused to allow appeal from the su-
perior cuort in the case of w. w
Wheelock VS.. Erie Railroad company,
appellant, originating in Crawford
county, where Wheelock obtained a
$3.50 verdict for injury to horse.
BERTHE Lowell, thirteen years cid, Of
McKeesport, a horse thief since he
was eight years of age, stole the
horse and wagon of John Vogel. He
was captured near Irwin. The boy
has been arrested several times. Once
he escaped from the court room while
awaiting trial.
Some idea of the growth Of the
oIdLO IlCSnSS Sy0l6Iu Oh OlcO can DS
gained from the statement that thee
are about 400 such licenses in Ale.
gheny and 300 in Philadelphia Eight
years ago there were only two in
Philadelphia and in some interior
counties none
A remonstrance bearing the sigma
lures Of 10000 persons has been filed
in court in Punxsutawney against the
granting of licenses to six brewery
and two wholesale liquor applicants
in Jefferson county. Remonstrances
have also been filed against the thirty
six applicants.
W. H. Baird, manager of a Chicago
packing company branch, was found
guilty In Altoona of selling eggs that
were not fresh as fresh eggs" It
was an important victory for the state
dairy and food department, as it gives
legal standing to the states standard