The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-05


displaced an agent to DlBois, where
it is reported a case of smallpox had
developed which was not properly
diagnosed.
Employees of the Eagan Rogers
Steel Casting company at Leipcrsvil.e
will have their wages increased.
Workmen getting So day will re.
ceiye $3.50
The St. Charles Hotel, Lewistown.
has been sold TO Henry Kreutzman
for $4,000, less than half the price
paid for the property under the Il
cense regime.
Complaint has been made to the
public service commission that the
Consumers Light company, of Ply
mouth, has suspended work at It's
plant for year.
Phoenixville and Royersford boards
of trade will cooperate in appeals
against an increase in the price OF
100-trip tickets between those towns
and Philadelphia.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to con-
St. Patrick's Catholic church in Nor.
ristown, if the members of the church
raise a similar sum.
Because of injuries received while
being initiated into Manifold Nest,
Order of Owls, Joseph Laust, of Wash
ington, brought suit against the lodge
for $4,000 damages.
Ali schools, churches, moving pic
ture shows and other places of amuse-
ment and public gathering have been
closed at Conneautville because of an
epidemic OF smallpox.
James Johnson for secondtdegTee.
murder, was sentenced at Bedford to
nine years in the Western Peniten-
tiary, and George Jones, for man
slaughter, to six years.
Despite a shortage of dyestufss on
account of the European war, the silk
industry throughout the anthracite
fields is prosperous, and all plants are
operated on steady time.
A corps of twenty-five engineers has
begun surveys near Connensville for
line to connect the Baltimore &
Ohio line at Fayette Station with the
Western Maryland railroad.
Uniontown business men went to
Pittsburgh and asked President Will
son to call off the Federal probe OF
Josiah Y. Thompson failure, as pre-
judicial 10 creditors claims.
Mrs. Anna Flamm, thirty years old,
of Pittsburgh, was shot th ea times
at her home The shooting is alleged
to have been done by Mrs. Elizabeth
Wuehner, of North EraddCck
After having been ped, lured
away from home, robbeu and held
prisoner at Middletown house,
Harry Hill, twenty-eight years old,
was brought back to Harrisburg.
julius ]. Seibert, of Clarion, has
appealed to the courts in Pittsburgh
to restore his bride, fourteen years
old, who, it is alleged, has been kid
mapped by her father Abraham Decht.
James Gordon Reilly, New York
architect, has sued Lebanon county
for $12,246.95, claimed for profession.
al services and expenses incident to
his preparation of plans for a new
courthouse.
Henry De Huff, of Mifflin, the old
est engineer in point Of service on the
Middle division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, will retire on a pension Mon
day, after fGrty-seven years of active
service. I.-a- - 1se.., -.
The Mcdowell administration in
Chester is putting all slot machines
out of business. Dominac Grant, pro-
prietor of a>eigar store, was held un-
der 5000 bail for having a. nickel-in-
the-slot machine in his store.
Evidence that the farmers of the
state have commenced to use tractors
on an extensive scale is shown by
sixty per cent Increase in the regis
tration at the state capitol. The num-
ber of tractors registered thus far is
325.
The Pennsylvania State Poultry as
sociatiOn has decided to reorgan re
and secure a new charter to cover a
more extended field. The plan is to
establish a representative in each
county and to build up new organi-
zation.
Nine Harrisburg master BARRIERS
have been prosecuted for shaving on
Sunday. The owners are retaliat.ng
on the journeymen behind the move
ment by having them arrested for
up cases against them on
Sunday.
Five hundred more persons were
given employment at the Remington
Arms company, at Eddystone, near
Chester. Among the number were
nine young women. The concern will
employ about 500 women in the pol
shing department.
Immense orders for glassware, ma
chimes to draw gold, silver and cop
per machinery for equipping glass fac.