The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04

The Diamond mine surface property
of the Diamond Coal and Coke com.
pany, near West Brownsville, was al.
most completely destroyed by fire OF
undetermined origin. The loss Ia es-
timated to be $125,000.
On the very first day the Swiss
Cleaners and Dyers had pat their new
$4,000 plant in operation at Easton,
William F. Schneider, connected with
the concern, received gasoline burns
which resulted in his death.
A man who crept into barn at
Gillentown, near Bellefonte, to sleep
got up in the dark and walked out of
an open door, falling twenty feet to
his death. Papers identified him as
Charles Ludlow, of Philadelphia, or
Pittsburgh.
In an attempt to board a moving
train at the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
railroad station at Beaver Falls, Miss
Molly Marcus, twenty-five years old,
slipped and her feet were crushed.
At the Providence hospital the feet
were amputated.
Mrs. Carl r. Rudolph, of Chicago,
daughter, Is made the beneficiary
in the will of Mrs. Peter Bloom, the
woman who was murdered at Butler
week ago. Relatives of Mrs. Bloom
are said to have found the woman's
will after the funeral.
With Mrs. J. o. Miller, of Pitts.
burgh, state suffrage chairman, pres
ent as chief speaker, a suffrage con-
ference was held in Charleroi. Dele
cations were present from points
along the Monongahela valley and in
terror Washington county.
Hereafter all policemen in the en-
ploy of the city of Pittsburgh will
have to stand at attention and salute
whenever the national emblem passes
along the street, according to new
rule which is incorporated In the new
edition Of the police manual.
Roy Schultz, eighteen years old, was
fatally injured when his motorcycles
crashed into a telegraph pole at Brad
ford. He died in the Bradford hospit-
al. Schultz and Louis Strait were ON
the machine when 1t became unmanag-
able, but Strait escaped injury.
Jerome Brody, fve-year-odd SON OF
Herman Brody, Of Monongahela, died
from injuries suffered a short time be-
fore when he was run over by an auto
mobile truck. The boy had been TO
store for his mother and was hurry.
ing home when he ran directly into
the machine.
G. A. Booth, fifty-six years old, gov
ernment employe, OF Panama, died in
the Southside hospital, Pittsburgh, of
a fractured skull received Saturday
night in an automobile collision I'm
Fairhaven. Christ Huber, of Fair.
haven, who was also in the accident,
is In serious condition.
The potato crop Of Lawrence county
this year was a complete failure. Land
that has previously produced $50 bush
els to the acre and better has only
produced forty bushels this year The
dry weather is held responsible. Farm
ers are receiving s1.75 bushel, and
this price is expected to go higher.
The almost nude body of Charles
Mortimer, fifty years old, Of near
Barnesboro, was found in the woods
between Carrolltown and Ebensburg
by hunter Mortimer had been miss
ing for a week. Mortimer, who was
a cripple due to infantile paralysis,
had announced his intention Of going
to the county almshouse.
By a decision OF the court the title
to the old Trinity Protestant Episco-
pal church, In ConneIlsville, reverts to-
James A. Veech and seventeen others,
heirs of the late Mary Meason. In
1888 Mrs. Meason gave the plot to the
congregation. The adverse decisfon
in court will not halt the plans for a
new church on the West Side, It is
said.
Irwin ]. Henry, blacksmith Of Her.
mimic, near Greensburg, vas drowned
in a bucket of water. Henry went TO
his shop in the rear Of his home, and
when he failed to ssturn his wife in
vestigated and found him dead. A
bucket had been sunk in the ground
to catch water flowing from a spring
in the rear Of the shop, and 1t is be-
lieved when Henry stopped over to
get a drink of water he tainted and
fell head first into the bucket.