The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-01-29


bria Steel company, furnished the first
fatal accident for which that company
must pay compensation.
The Punxsutawney Brewing COM
pany and the Elk Run Brewing cCrl-
pany, located at Punxsutawney, have
withdrawn their application for IL
cense IN Jefferson county.
Mrs. Forrest H. Mitchell has started
divorce proceedings, in Easton, on the
| ground of indignities, against her hus-
band, who is an officer in the British
army, stationed in Flanders.
Virtually all Altoona ministers, or
ganists, choir singers, ianitors and
other employees of local churches have
been insured in accordance with the
workmen's compensation act.
Robert Cullen, fourteen years old.
son of Alvin Cullen, OF Beaver, was
accidentally killed with his shotgun
while hunting. The charge of shot
tore sway enc side of his head.
William T. Tubbs, of Bloomsbury,
has instituted action against Berwick
borough, asking $4,000 damages for
injuries sustained in a runaway caus-
/ ed by neglect to repair streets.
The government employment office
in Pittsburgh has jobs for 1000 men.
Miners, lathe hands, furnace workers
and all-around machine hands princi-
paly are wanted. None is TO be had.
Rev. John J. Mcmahon, curate Of
st. Patrick's church, in N'Adoo, has
received word from England that his
younger brother, an officer in the Brit
ish army. he's been killed in Flanders.
The Joseph Seep Purchasing agency,
in Oil City, purchasers for Standard
Oil companies, announces that the
price for gathering" oil has advanced
to twenty to twenty-five cents per
barrel
Joseph Heron, Of Monongahela,
head of the banking house of AleXan-
der & Co., there, has announced as
candidate for delegate to the Republi-
can national convention in Chicago
next June.
Announcing himself as third-term
candidate for the state legislature on
the Republican ticket from the Halle
ton district, Representative william l..
Adams, of Beaver Brook, comes out
for local option
Colonel James H. Bigger, ranking
officer of the Eighteenth regiment, n.
G. p, after thirty-one years cOntinu-
Gus service, will be retired at his own
request on February I, with the rank
of brigadier general.
DR.. F. B. Brobst, president of the
| Taxpayers League, in Reading, has
stopped the pay of William Abbott
Whitman, councilman, on the ground
that Witman's election expense ac-
count Is incomplete.
! For two years there has been a de-
felt in conducting the University Elk.
tension course at Doylestown and now
1t Is announced that If the course is
not supported, this will be the last
year II will be given there.
The auditor generals department
proposes to stand pat on the new
escheat law and to require all com
panies, firms or persons coming under
Its operations to 1le reports by Feb
ruary l or to face prosecution.
Attorney r. w. Knox, OF Washing
ton, has announced as a candidate for
delegate TO the Democratic national
convention from the Twenty-fourth
Pennsylvania district to be voted for
at the spring primary, May 16.
The Allegheny county commission
ershave protested to Secretary Of War
Garrison against the raising of the
present bridges over the Allegheny
river, declaring thta 1t would involve
an expenditure OF millions Of dollars.
Fire destroyed a building occupied
by the Allegheny Supply company, the
DR.. Guy knight drug store and office,
and the ofice Of DR.. J. w. Hammond,
dentist, at Kaylor, eight miles from
Chicora, entailing q loss estimated at
$4,000.
John Gyzack, Of West Hazleton, has
confessed that he stole trunk with
$500 in money and 5000 in jewelry,
etc., from the home Of Ludwig Neu-
berg, thinking that as the house had
burned the theft would never be de-
tected.
A contract was let to the Rogers
Construction company, OF Cory, for
the enlargement of the TitusVle
Bethlehem Steel company The i'm
provements will cost 100000 and will
double the plants capacity.
The question OF abolishing the pres
ent business" council of nine in Pitts
burg, and providing for the election
Of one councilman from each Of the
twenty-seven wards is being strongly
agitated and will be an issue at the
next session Of the legislature.
John jenkins, nineteen years old,
a coke worker Of Mount Sterling, near
Uniontown, was arrested. charged with
the murder Of A. M. Wilson, sixty
years old, Of Mount Sterling, who died
on street car en- route to hospital
Wilson's skull was crushed by the
heel OF boot.
Copies OF the opinion OF Attorney
General Francis Skunk Brown, clari-
fYfn1 the child 1ahor Law m noI-@a