Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-13

otAvroN n. T., sept iss-The sale for
deiinnuent taxes OF the property OF the
CLAYTON Development Company, comprlslns
the plant OF the Moore Brothers giess
works and numerous dwellings, mas sn usen
postponed here by Borough TAX Coheevor
shrevN for two weeks at the request OF tne
oId bondbolders' committee, which bought
I'm the property originally At q recelveI,s
sale This step indicates that the uohu-
holders committee will reclaim the prop
erty
wAsurSoroS. sent. is.--The National
Rcnublican Congressional Committee has
announced that n will open soon
western headauarters at Denver. with Rep
resentative Frank w Mondell, OF wyoming,
In charge, to supervise the campalsh .,
congressional candidates IN Paciho anu
Mountain states.
wttKFs.pARRE, Sept. 1s.--rhe allied
trndes OF the wyoming Valley were de-
nounced by Mayor Kosek at n meeting Q,
Council for their threat to call general
sympathetic strike here to aid the carmen
Kosek declared that such threats nave
brought about the reign OF terror that mas
come 10 this city since tho trolley strike
has been on. and said such threats were un-
patriotic and un-Amerlcan'
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Sept. IA head
ache powder given 60 Attorney X. A. Heick
of Frackville, nearly caused his death IN
court here. Reick, former chairman OF
the Democratic County Committee, net
friend who volunteered 10 cure him OF the
headache. His heart became affected. He
is in the Pottsville Hospital and Is believed
to be out o. danger.
HAzLETON, Pa, Sept. 13.--Resding n
newspaper 20 a blind woman named Mines
at Atlantic City, John j. Ferry, hotel clerk
from ,the Hazleton region, found clue TO
the whereabouts of Sarah Ann Mines, Mrs
Mary Milnes Pickford and Jane III. Astin,
three Hazleton women who left here In 1870
and who are heirs to an estate In England
A British law firm has been searching the
ccal regions for more than year for them.
They are In Schuylklll County.
POTTsvILLE, Pa. sept. is. - Traced
through a large amount of money in his
possession, John Kursavage, of Middleport
has been arrested as the slayer of William
Paul. the Kasla william school teacher.
whose body was discovered at a lonely spot
near Middleport yesterday. Kursavage
threatened to kill the teacher and search
showed 1910 on his person. the exact
amount carried by the murdered man.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1s.-That Sarah r..
tions of her husband and that the latter
was boarding his money to elope with the
girl, Is asserted by Mrs Helen Beattie, wife
of Dr. II. Osborne Beattie, a physician, who
has filed suit against the nurse for SIC, 900.
The girl denies II.
BERLIN, Sept 13.--"A Roman Catholic
priest, who is a citizen of the United
States. says he witnessed an incident which
occurred when the British took the Scam
dlnavian-American Line steamship Fred
erik VIII into Kirkwel early in August"
says the Overseas News Agency. 1.-THE
priest, who was a passenger on the steam
ship, saw the British take from another
passenger, who also is an American citi-
zen $4,000 In gold, giving him paper
money In place OF it,"
PORTLAND, Me, sept. 13.-Of Maine's
1900 national guardsmen on the Mexican
border at Laredo, Tex, 467 participated in
Mondays State election under the consti-
tutional and statutory provisions adopted
in 1854 to permit Names soldiers to vote
in the Lincoln-McClellan contest.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept. 13.-Captain
Constant Cord.er has been designated by
Secretary Baker to head the new Depart
ment of Military Science and Tactics at
Harvard University. He will become a pro-
fessor OF the college and commandant of the
reserve officers training corps The depart
ment Will be among the first added by the
larger institutions of learning under the
provisions of the national defense act
HARRISBURG, Sept. 1s.-The president
and other officers OF the Nazareth Fair
Association will be arrested for violation
of the State quarantine regulations for the
suppression Of infantle paralysis Their
arrest has been ordered by the State De-
partment Of Health, following the receipt
of information charging that sixty chill
dren under sixteen years of age were ad-
mitted to the grounds through a side gate.
HARRISBURG. Sept. I8.-The Upper
Saucon Electric Company, having Offices in
Philadelphia and operating in Northampton
County, filed complaint today before the
Public Service Commission against the
Halcyon Electric Light and Power Com.
pany. of South Bethlehem, charging in.
vasion of territory. The Upper Saucon,