The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-01-15
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
State.

Cumberland county contemplates
building a new insane asylum.
A textile factory, to employ 1000
persons is to locate at Edgley.
The Duplan Silk Mills at Hazleton
have barred all drinking employees.
Barnesboro, Cambria county, is
promised a new 100000 government
building.
B. S. Winegardner was drowned
when his wagon skidded into creek
at Three Springs.
Governor Brumbaugh has appointed
DR.. H. M. Keller a trustee OF the State
hosp pital at Hazleton.
Lancaster county began the new
year with cash balance OF $254, ,255.S0
and all 1915 bills paid.
George J. Palmer, OF West Chester,
was robbed Of a $2500 motor car while
on a visit to Philadelphia.
Thieves have taken 400 fowls from
roosts in and near Mooredale, Cum
0erland county, in three days.
Mrs. John Hoffman, seVenty-one
years old, CT Mt. Holly Springs, is
cutting her third set of teeth.
The winter meeting Of the state
board of agriculture will be held at
the capitol January 26 and 27.
Caught under falling coal at Park
collery, near Mahanoy City, John
Kelmelis was crushed to death.
Pills bought at medicine show al
most caused the death Of Mrs. Newton
Holland, of Shrewsbury, York county.
Thirty Mount Holly Springs citizens
have pledged $4,000 to obtain kitchen
utensn industry to employ fifty hands.
Kicked on the head by mule at
Turkey Run colliery, Stephen Kruss-
risky, aged nineteen, was instantly
killed
Steps for arrest of all BARRIERS keep
ing shops open on Sunday were start
ed in Harrisburg by the journeymen
BARRIERS.
A jury at Rigeway found Mike Fam
bellino guilty in the second degree in
the murder of Mike Malak, also Of
Ridgeway.
Falling under Lehigh Valley coal
train while attempting to board it at
Delano, William Riddle, brakeman,
was killed.
Cunning in woods near his home
at Gratersford, Edwin Mayberry shot
a handsome gray fox. He is having
it mounted.
The York hospital will receive 81, GOO
xrri1J Of M q
bachelor, to establish ward for the
care of children.
Hazleton region mine operators will
not discharge men of large families
to avoid increased liability under the
compensation law.
Citizens in all walks of life and
the collieries suspended operations to
attend the funeral of Coal Operator
James at Shenandoah.
The Frog, Switch and Manufactur-
ing company, of Carlisle, will indem-
nifty it's own injured workmen and
share profits with them.
In poor health, Elmer Copenhaver,
aged twenty-three, of Lebanon, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head while in bed.
Banking Commissioner Smith has
called for statements Of the 1876 build
ing and loan associations of Pennsyl-
vania, as of December 81.
Harry KIapper, of Hazleton, is host
to a cousin aged sixteen, who escaped
from conscription agents OF the Rus
sian government in Poland.
When a ladder broke, Mrs. Gottfried
Pfadt, of Erie, fell, crushing to death
her son, Gerald, three years old, who
was climbing up behind her.
The state department of agriculture
reports less than one per cent OF the
staple groceries sold in the state dur
ing the year were adulterated.
William Deis, stricken with appen-
dicitis while snowballing, died wit in
two hours after being operated upon
at the Hazieton State hospital
Rev. S. L. Flickinger, pastor Of the
Marysville and Duncannon Reforme 1
churches for nine years, has accepted
a call to Shepherdstown, w. Va.
Philip Lisnki braved a strong cur
Francis Riddle from drowning when
the latter fell from pier at Chester.
With $4,000 in its treasury, the Cum
berland Valley Railroad Relief asso-
citation decided to collect no dues from
Its hundreds Of members for Febru-
Rry.
Traf1c over the Philadelphia divis-
ion Of the Pennsylvania railroad for
December shows a twenty-five per
cent increase over that Of December,
1914.
Papers have been signed whereby
the state has secured the stock OF
the Slippery Rock State Normal
school. the sixth OF thirteen In the
state.
The Lehish Valley Coal company
has appealed to court from the assess
ment OF $4,000 an acre on its anthracite
land lying within the Hazleton city
limits.
AS a result Of q beating which her
husband is alleged to have inflicted.