The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-01-22
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
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News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
State.

D0JGCI1EGS are pIOCuIWS Cf4uSuCC
against saloons in Sunbury.
A fire in the Midvale colliery, near
Mt. Carmel, killed thirteen mules.
Cutting a corn with razor result
ed in John Bond, Milton, losing his
leg.
be a candidate for Senator divers
seat.
Johnstown has paid $4326 to the
state fund for insurance of city en-
ployes.
Sunbury is frightened by strange
man who goes about nightly and hugs
women.
John Moder:c, of Stowe, accidental y
turned on the gas and was found dead
in Reading hotel.
bread famine has resulted from
the lockout Of bakery statesmen and
drivers in Scranton.
Visiting in Pittsburgh, Bishop Hen
derson, of Chattanooga, scored sensa-
tional evangelists.
Four Carlisle Indian school girls
broke through ice, but were rescued
by human lifeline.
Music at meals for $50 convicts of
the Western penitentiary, Pittsburgh,
has been decided upon.
A train of fiat cars carrying cannon
and trucks marked "Haverly, France"
passed through Connellsville.
Russian reservists in the anthracite
coal fields will ignore the call of the
czar for them to return to war serv-
ice.
Master house painters and decora-
tors, in convention at Pittsburgh, de-
cry the immense increase in cost of
materials.
Caught in fall of coal, at Sterling
colliery, near Shamokin, Francis Nye,
aged nineteen, died ON his birthday
anniversary.
Miss Maud E. Wintermute, a trained
nurse, of East Mauch Chunk, suffered
a broken arm and gashed head in
fall down stairs.
The governor has granted a respite
Westmoreland county, from January
II to February %.
Caught under a fall of coal at the
Oneida coIliery of the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, Jacob Ritmeier, Of
Sheppton, was killed.
Dealers were all through Perry
county last week buying horses and
mules, to be transported to warning
countries in Europe.
The best furnace coke has reached
So a ton at ConnellsviHe for the first
time in many years. The demand is
greater than the supply.
By the accidental discharge Of a
gun which he was cleaning, Theodore
Mcfarland, aged thirteen, of Mahon-
ing Valley, lost his left arm.
Eight weeks after suffering the loss
of both hands while jumping trains,
Joseph Drahos, seven years old, of
Allentown, died in a hospital.
John Davis Rice, seventy-five years
old, died at Rices Landing, near
Waynesburg, as result of swallow
ing poison. He was a cooper.
The twenty-two-inch mill of the
Bethlehem Steel company is rolling
an order for 1000 tons of shrapneI
steel for the Russian government.
Factories in Boyertown last year
made 42,7O0,00O cigars and 10000 buri-
al caskets. The latter are now being
turned out at the rate of 180 a day.
His Christmas gift bicycle humping
into fence while he was learning to
O1d
Duncannon boy, fractured his left arm
After nursing his wife and daughter,
who were i'll with pneumonia, Arthur
A. Green, of Allentown, a quarry oper-
ator, contracted the same disease and
died.
Fire destroyed the large barn of
Horace Place, Eaglesville, causing
$4,000 loss. Thirteen COWS, seventeen
horses and twent! five sheep were res
cued.
Along with the election of former
County Detective D. T. McKelvey as
city detective, Hazleton has inaugu-
rated a system OF photographing all
prisoners.
The state compensation board is
considering the question Of what con-
stitutes daily and a weekly wage
and will issue a ruling for guidance
of employers.
John Dewar, Of Pittsburgh, was
elected president at the Master House
Painters and Decorators convention
and George Butler, of Philadelphia,
vice president.
Mrs. Jennie Gehret, of Reading, is
seeking a divorce because her hus-
band, John D., three months after Their
wedding, went to a lodge meeting and
never returned.
The four big annealing furnaces
built at the Jeanvesville Iron works
shrapnel plant will be fred this week,
and from 5000 to 1000 shells will be
tempered every eight hours.
Mrs. John Welsh. seventy years old,
Of Pittsburgh, who expressed a wish
to follow her seventv-year-oi husband,