The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-06
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A reduction from ten hours TO nine
with the same pay has been granted
900 employees of the Tyrone and VIII
liamsburg paper mills.
First Lieutenant Thomas H. Ather-
ton, Jr., of Wilkes-Barre, has been pro-
NOTED to captain and assigned to Com
pany A, Ninth Infantry.
The home Of Martin Kater, near
Walkertown, was dynamited. Kater
had been active in forming an indie
pendent miners union.
While blowing, Edgar N. Shultz, of
Manor township, near Lancaster, un-
earthed a skeleton of an Indian i'm
bedded in mussel shells.
A runaway bull stampeded 300 per-
sons at public sale on the Schwartz
farm, near Reading. Four men finally
subdued the animal
Caught under coal at the Drifton
boiler house of the Lehigh Valley Coal
company, Michael Midlich, Sr., was
gmothered TO death.
Kicked in the abdomen by dying
horse, DR.. P. E. Althouse, Of Sunbury,
was made unconscious for more than
an hour. He will recover.
The strippings started at CoIeraine
for the A. S. Van Wickle Coal COM
pany will mean four years work to
uncover the anthracite beds.
Andrew Wurisko, of Jeddo, fell
headlong seventy feet down a strip
ping near his home, but escaped with
a few bruises of the head
Charged with pocket-picking on
train, two Philadelphians, giving their
names as Harry Jackson and Joe Rose,
are under arrest at HazletOn.
Earl Sans, a colored policeman, has
been suspended by the police trial
board in Pittsburgh for insulting re-
marls about the American flag.
CHARGED with stabbing Gustave
Runeberg. at Shenandoah Thomas
ShuczinsE. was arrested at the point
of a revolver by Patrolman Goderick.
Dynamite explosives killed hundreds
of trout in Quakake creek, stocked
with 5000 last fall by the McAdoo and
| Weatherly Game clubs with state fry.
After four weeks Of agony, Locha
Chazlin, aged four, daughter of Ma
than Chazlin, of Hazleton, died from
scalds due to falling into bathtub.
Mrs Mary Tihi, of South Bethlehem,
who sued the Hungarian Beneficial So
ciety for insurance on her late hus-
band, was given a verdict for $1110.36.
His shirt sleeve catching in the fly
wheel of a gasoline engine, John Hin
kir, of near Biglerville, may lose his
right arm through cuts to the bone.
Eli B. Hassler has been appointed
assistant city engineer of Reading,
at salary of $1,000, and James E. Ellis
has been promoted to chief transit
man.
A score or more of citizens Of
Schnecksville have organized Farm
ers' Grange, which was Immediately
instituted by Organizer Daniel Hop
kins.
Director Frank Schlesinger, of the
Allegheny observatory, at Pittsburgh,
has been elected a member Of the Ma
tional Academy of Science Of Wash
ington.
A number of Mauch Chunk fisher
men have returned within the past
few days with forty fine trout each,
the limit allowed for a single days
catch.
Using a buttonhook to open a lock
to bureau drawer, William G. Rine-
hart confessed to stealing $40 at a
house in Lancaster, where he was
painting.
The state highway department Is
rebuilding 5000 feet of the road in
East Bristol township. Bucks county,
with water bound macadam and as
phalt top.
An outbreak Of hog cholera in York
/ county has resulted in quarantine by
the state live stock sanitary board Of
a number of farms in and about Dover
township.
The body Of a boy found in the
Susquehanna as Columbia has been
! identified as that of G. A. Baleman,
Jr., of Sunbury, who disappeared
March II.
Opening of the saloons Of Lawrence
county caused big increase in the
number of arrests in New Castle. Pris-
oners will work out fines on the streets
after May l.
Bethany Orphans home, Womels-
dorf, will receive a bequest of $500
from the estate of the late Nathan
Stofflet, of North Whitehall township,
/ Lehigh county.
The Northampton County Christian
Endeavor Union will hold its twenty
fifth annual convention and the quar-
ter-century anniversary on May and
6 at Bethlehem.
After twenty-five years absence the
stork visited the home Of DR.. J. P.
Kerr, president of council, of Pitts
burgh, and left a boy. DR.. Kerr has
I three daughters.
As q result Of taking from thirty
five to forty drinks a day, young Al
toonan is recovering in the Altoona
hospital from terrible attack Of de-