The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-20
pennsylvania
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOns of the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Pittsburgh cobblers have formed
union.
Forest fire near Altoona destroyed
1000 acres of timber.
People are enthusiastic for good
roads day in Blair county.
There are twenty-nine new cases for
the next pardon board meeting, May
"a.
Rngle Brothers, Shamolin silk man
ufacturers, have granted raise and
shorter hours.
FIfty-thousand-dollar forest fires
have destroyed timber on estates near
Wilkes-Barre.
Clerks, carpenters and shopmen
hope also for raise at mines in the
anthracite region.
An unidentified man hanged himself
with a handkerchief from a bridge
brace near Lebanon.
The state will pay $4,000 for the
Bloomsbury Normal school and as
sumo its $4,000 debt.
John Resh, an eleven-year-old Read
ing lad, has been missing since a cir
Gus was in the city last week.
The Topton board of health has
uuarantined all public places on ac-
count. of thirty cases of measles.
The revenue from Lehigh county's
liquor licenses this year is $63,85O, OF
which Allentown's share is $4,000.
Under the new law minors under
eighteen may not run elevators or do
acetylene welding in PENNSYLVANIA.
Owing to scarcity of female help,
the keystone Stocking company, Of
Spring City, will move to Philadelphia.
Elmer Rinker, of Nazareth, while
STOPPING to put on his shoes, was per-
haps fatally stricken with paralysis.
F. G. Ackley has been appointed
postmaster at Wyalusing, Bradford
county, succeeding DR.. ]. w. Chamber
! lain.
Kinwood stock farm, at Jefferson
Vile, was purchased for $4,000 by
James Bell, the Philadelphia horse
man.
H. Fred Grander was elected treas
urer Of Royersford to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of George w
| Bowman.
After long idleness, fires have been
lighted in the furnace plant at Sheri
dan, and ferro-manganese will be man
ufactured.
Harry Wheeler, Chicago, was the
principal speaker before the National
Pipe and Supplies Association, at
Pittsburgh.
A large number of Mexican quail
liberated at the big place Of P. M.
Sharples near West Chester, have all
disappeared.
The family escaped in their night
clothes when the home Of Miss Weav-
er, Northumberland, was burned, with
$4,000 loss.
The annual conference Of the east
ern district Mennonite churches, at
Altoona, adopted an anti-preparedness
resolution.
A large force of men excavating for
a modern new $150,000 Shenandoah
high school struck for So a day and
eight hours.
Russell, five-year-old son of Mer
chant August Carl, fell from second
story Shenandoah fire escape and frac
tured his skull.
Seven steam shovels are idle al
strippings in the Hazleton coal fields
through men leaving to take jobs In
munitions plants.
The Reading railway transferred
$50 ST. Clair and Schuylkill Haven
shop workers to Port Richmond, to
trim coal" vessels.
William Ludwig, Of Schwenkville, has
an egg laid by a white Leghorn her
that Is 8x71a inches in circumference
and has three yolks.
The Prohibitionists of Northampton
county met at Belfast, and were ad
dressed by DIR. B. E. Prugh, of Harris
burg, state chairman.
The ninety-frst anniversary Of the
Reformed Theological seminary a
Lancaster was observed by breaking
ground for dormitory.
In court at Sunbury, Harry Price
Scranton, pleaded guilty to selling
heroin to habitual drug users, ant
sentence was deferred.
A true bill was returned at Sunbur.
against William Phipps, Harrisburg
charged with having opium and NOR
} phine in his possession.
Extensive improvements are beinj
made with a view of adding to trans
portation facilities on the big stat'
camp site at Mt. Gretna.
Close to 1000 miners struck in tn
Lykens Valley mines in dispute owe
2 membership in the union-commonl.
called a button" strike.
Connellsville region merchant cox
operators are meeting the recent fv
l and ten per cent wage increase Of tn
H. C. Frick Coke company.
Work will begin shortly on the ex
: istence Of the Cumberland Valley rail
road high line near Newville and tn
construction of new buildings.
Accidentally struck on the head b,
, a hoe in the hands Of a cousin, two
year-old Mary Wentz is in Carlisl
hospital In a critical condition.
I Deer and game from the state gam