The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-10

engine, George Zamany saved four
year-old Anna Hunse from being run
down on a crossing at Berwick.
Caught between cars at Evans col
hery, Beaver Meadow, Wassil Cherba,
of Stockton, father of eight small chill
dren, died at the State hospital.
At bankruptcy sale, the Alburtis
silk ribbon mills, capitalized at $780,
600, were sold to Attorney Calvin E.
Arner, Of Allentown, for $21,000.
Factory girls picked up the body Of
baby in the gutter in front of the
First Baptist church, Hazleton-the
second infanticide case In two weeks.
Her clothing igniting while she was
working about the kitchen stove, Mrs.
Frances Henry, of Nazareth, was seri-
ously burned about the face and neck.
Governor Brumbaugh will appoint
Michael A. Rafter and Anthony P.
O'Donnell, Democrats, and Benton T.
Jayne and A. T. Connell, Republicans,
registration commissioners Of Scran-
ton.
Frank Krebs will be made the sub
ject Of a Carnegie hero medal appli-
cation by friends, as he saved an
Austrian from drowning at Mauch
Chunk.
Enough union suits for women to
last his family for a long time COM
prised the booty of thief who looted
the factory Of the Hazleton Knitting
company.
The 500 puddlers OF the Reading
Iron company, at Reading, after a
conference, decided to accept the com
pany's offer Of Sc a ton, and the rate
will go in force at once.
Finding Upper Dublin not sufficient
ly populated to become a f1rst-class
township, residents of Fort Washing
ton are agitating to incorporate the
community as borough.
Robert Miller, who stole Honus
Wagner's new automobile in Pitts
burgh, returned it when he learned
who owned the machine, was SEN
fenced to nintey days In jail.
Brooding over the recent death of
one of her children, Mrs. Adam Bush,
thirty, attempted to commit suicide by
shooting at Bangor, and the bullet en-
tered her chest above the heart.
Seven locomotives for the Duluth
Mesaba & Northern railroad, and four
for the Lehigh Valley railroad, have
been completed at the Eddystone plant
of the Baldwin Locomotive works.
Thirty deputy coroners in Berks
county are without jobs, owing to the
recent death Of Coroner Hahn; and, as
the next coroner will be a Republican,
their chances for reappointment are
slim.
Within a stones throw of the police
station and in the business district Of
Sharon robbers entered the store Of
Shontz and Myers and took 5000 worth
Of silk shirts, silk underwear and silk
hose.
Wedged for hours in a hay chute
which had to be destroyed to release
him, Daniel Klingaman, farmer, near
Allentown, has become a maniac, and
has been removed to Rittersvtlle hos
pital.
Judson ]. Van Gordon, of Allentown,
aged seven, and his father have start
ed $4,000 damage suit against r. Fl.
Bander, of Emaus, alleging he ran
over the boy with his auto and broke
leg.
Labor is so scarce through the Le-
high coal field that the strippings of
the Pennsylvania Quarrying company,
needing 800 men, can't resume until a
sufficient force is recruited after two
weeks strike.
Accosted on lonely street in West
Chester by strange man, Miss Alice
Hibberd, of that place, promptly
knocked the man down by several
blows in his face with her fist, and
the fellow decamped.
An analysis has been ordered by
Judge Barber, of the contents Of cup
of coffee served to Mrs. Mary Houser,
Lansford, by Elizabeth Ray, a servant,
who alleges Henry Williams, under ar
rest, ordered her to place poison in it.
Reading has awarded contracts to
the Hassam Paving company, of Wor-
cester, Mass, to macadamize streets
in the city for $88,05708, and Fehr e.
O'Rourke, Of Reading, TO pave other
streets with brick and wood block at
$50 ,377.77.
William H. Hackenburg, president Of
the Jewish Hospital association, pre-
sented the diplomas to the class OF
1916, Jewish Hospital Training school,
at the exercises marking the gradu-
ating of the twenty-third class, at the
institution.
Great preparations are under way
among members Of the thirteen Lu-
theran churches in Reading to enter
tain the 500 ministers and the several
hundred lay members who will attend
the ministerium of Pennsylvania there,
June IL, 1915.
Three students of the Bellefonte
academy, Gordon Montgomery, Of
Bellefonte; Melvin Bassett, Of Phila-
delphia, and Ernest Poole, of Reading,
1 have been appointed cadets to the Ma
val academy at Annapolis, and Elliott
| Lyon Morris, another student has been