The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-08

/ invested having Deen broken up as
/ lotteries, 800 Chambersburg residents
propose banding to recover their mon
| ey by suits.
I Injuries received IN a fall caused
the death at Bangor Of Mrs. Mary A.
Dennis, aged eighty-six, who was
resident Of Stroudsburg up to four
! .een weeks ago.
/ Mrs. Horatio B. Croll followed her
husband from California to Allentown
/ to collect SIS a week alimony. He
was held in bail for the federal court,
at Philadelphia.
John S. Rippey, Of Canandaigua, N.
Y, railway mail clerk on the Elmira
! division of the Pennsylvania railroad,
fell dead in a mail car near Canton,
while sorting letters.
Receiver Horace E. Davis, of the
defunct Pittsburgh Bank for Saving,
announced that fifty per cent divi-
dend will be distributed by the insti.'
tuition on April Is.
When the dress of Lillian Mitchell,
aged seven, of Spring City, caught fire
from the stove, she was fatally burn
ed, dying shortly afterward in the
Phoenixvine hospital.
Rev. George Powis, Primitive Meth
odist pastor at Mt. Carmel, has ac-
cepted a call to Girardville. Rev.
Paul, the present pastor, has accepted
call to Plymouth church.
Coal exhaustion is to result in the
permanent suspension of the Schoen-
berger mine of the Pittsburgh, West.
moreland Coal company, at Baird sta
ton, near Charleroi, April /.
Returning from school, at Altoona,
Tcny Cicarelli, aged seven, became
lost and wandered a day and night
until he was found in a forest, so stiff
from cold he could not move.
The state board Of health Is after
the borough OF West Grove, near West
Chester, and has ordered that the
water there must be treated with
chlorine to kill possible germs.
Wild turkeys have made a path
across the tracks Of the Pennsylvania
railroad near a telephone booth in the
Lewistown Narrows, where they go
to the river to bathe and drink.
The tax valuation of Schuylllill
county has been increased $3,000,000
by the property assessors, and now
amounts to $63,969,372, as against $780,.
515,S53, at the last triennial revision.
Readings city planning commission
has recommended the purchase of a
site for a high school in the newly.
annexed Cumru section, or eighteenth
ward, and a site for a municipal park.
Attorney ]. Banks Kurtz, of AL
toona, has entered the fight for the
Republican congressional nomination
in the nineteenth district as a har.
mony candidate, and for Governor
Brumbaugh.
Preliminary surveys are under way
for the probable extension of the Lew
istown & Reedsville Electric railway,
across the Seven mountains, via Mil
roy, Potters Mills and Bellefonte to
State College.
Advised that under It's charter the
borough can make electricity for it.
self, and also sell it commercially,
both inside and outside its limits, Cat.
asauqua council will establish a muni.
cipal lighting and power plant.
The construction Of three new Cotton
open hearth furnaces and a speaking
pit were begun at the Carnegie Steel
company's Farrell works, near Sharon,
to be completed in six months at a
cost of $1,OOO,O0O.
William Cook, of Bradford, killed
himself by swallowing a dose Of rough
on rats. He had recently been re.
ceiving treatment at the Towanda In.
sane hospital. He leaves his widow
and three children.
After eighteen months August Buo.
no, accused of the murder of Calogero
Sanfllippi, in barber shop in Char
leroi, November 24,1914, was arrested
in Alexandria, Ind, by Chief of Police
G. w. Albright, of Charleroi.
The Manor Turnpike Road company,
between Lancaster and Millers vile,
Is alleged to charge excessive tolls
and the road is said to be in poor con-
dition, under a complaint filed with
the state public service commission
Dunbar township authorities are
prosecuting many violations of child
labor laws. 1t is charged that boys
eleven to fourteen years of age are
compelled to go out on coke ovens
near COnnellsVille in the early morn
ing hours.
The Cumberland Valley railroad has
inaugurated a system of sending postal
cards to all persons seen walking on
the tracks or grounds of the company
The cards contain warnings and show
the percentage Of deaths from acci-.
dents Of this kind
After her husband had been absent
for three months. Mrs. George Rath-.
ford, Of New Castle, received a letter
from Can9dian army paymaster con
tanning hair her husbands wages. He
is a member Of the Ninety-ninth Bat
talon, Canadian army
Rev. T. w. Young, of Washington
pastor Of the Beallsville Presbyterian