The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-15
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.

Keystone State.
A 7-mill tax rate has been adopted
by Boyertown council.
New Holland is floating a loan OF
$1,000 for a new town hall.
Carlisle held a test Of its new auto
mobile fire apparatus recently.
District Attorney w. G. Light will
be Lebanon's city solicitor, at $1,000.
Almost $4,OO0,0OO passed through
the clearing house in Lancaster in two
days.
Twenty-Five new auto tires we're
stolen from the Hazleton garage of
l. P. Pardee.
E. D. Schmittle has been appointed
justice for Cromwell township, Hunt
ingdon county.
AS result Of playing with matches,
Oscar Dunk, three years old of Sha-
mokin, is dead.
A ban has been put on liquor drink
ing in the Hazleton police department,
and on entering saloons.
Failing from bicycle, seven-year-
old Agnes Brazza fractured her skull
at Mahanoy City and died.
Along the Lincoln highway, near
Graeffenburg, automobilists saw six
teen deer grazing in fields.
Married at fifteen and deserted in
two months, Mrs. John Oudeck, Eek
ley is applying for divorce.
Despondent, Jacob S. Atkinson COM
mitted suicide by shooting in the head
at his home in Williamsport.
Sewing has been introduced into
FreeIand public schools under the aus
pices of the Anthracite Mission.
One thousand miners employed at
Ellsworth, Cokeburg and Acme have
demanded an increase Of ten per cent.
Two thousand white pine tree
sprouts will be planted by Boyertown
along it's entire watershed at Gabels-
vile.
Worried over his wife's illness,
Brakeman James A. Bradley, Of Leba-
non, hanged himself and died at Ann
vile.
Charles Olson, of Chambersburg,
convicted of assaulting ten-year-old
child, was granted new trial on an
alibi.
Demand for coal in the mills of the
Pittsburgh district is such that min
ing records are being broken almost
daily.
Employers recognized their union,
and 1000 of the 5000 Kiskimintas val
ley workers who struck have resumed
work.
At Welsh Run Mrs. Elizabeth Vance,
ninety-eight years old, has quietly
celebrated the anniversary of her
birth.
Miners of No. colliery of the G..
B. Markle company, at Highland, were
refused extra pay for curving buggy
roads.
From a pin prick in her right hand,
Mrs. John Wasko, of West Berwick, is
in critical condition with blood poi
soning.
The great demand for coal for in
dustrial plants in Pittsburgh has re-
suited Fl a boost in prices to domestic
consumers.
! Their big brown bear growing balky,
two street exhibitors had to put bruin
into a taxicab and haul him out of
Conyngham.
c. Willard Hill, Of Hazleton, has
been reappointed United States COM
missioner for the local district by
Judge Wilmer.
While burning waste paper, Mrs.
Wilson Benders, Bethlehem, suffered
probable fatal burns when her cloth
ing caught fire.
The large brick hall of the Tamaqua
Maennerchor society, remodeled at a.
cost of $4,000, was dedicated with i'm
posing ceremonies.
Boys Brigades, Boy Scouts and
school students will plant in one day
the $4,000 young trees the state do
mates to Altoona.
Crossing the tracks at Madeira Hill
colliery, Mahanoy Plane, Thomas Nor
gan was knocked down and crushed
to death by car.
William J. Laidley, farmer Of Car
michaels, has filed a voluntary petit
ton in bankruptcy. Assets, s112,100;
liabilities, s2OS,73S.
I Preliminary to a campaign for play
grounds, the Altoona chamber of com.
merce has donated $500 for recrea.
ton survey Of Altoona.
Allentown street cleaners have been
put in the regulation white wings uni
form and have had their wages ad-
vanced to s1.75 a day.
Williamsburg society women are bell
ing cats at the instance Of the Ornith-
ologists' association, to warn birds OF
the approaching felines.
Lured to a deserted hall In Lancas-
ter, c. T. Reid, Of Parkesburg, was
robbed Of his wallet containing $75
and iewelry valued at $50.
The wife Of the proprietor and two
children were carried unconscious
from the burning drygoods store Of
Israel Weiner, in Pittsburgh.
A small bottle Of wine removed
from the cornerstone of the old boys
high school, in Lancaster, built in
1875, had nearly evaporated.