The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-22
Pennsylvania
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of ths State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
keystone State.

A mother fox and eight cubs were
killed by Joseph Kushner, at Eckley.
Hogs swimming in the Susquehanna
river was an unusual sight at Mariet-
Ia.
Charles A. Kabe was found dead in
the stable of the Millway Hotel in
Lancaster.
A white sparrow in a flock Of the
regular colored type was seen at
Mount Clare.
H. L. Dougherty has been appointed
superintendent of highways in Wash
ington county.
The first Schuylkin county recruits
expect to start for the Mexican bor-
der this week.
Yeggmen blew the safe in the post
Office in New Hope, but secured only
few stamps.
In thirty minutes Hazleton council
passed twenty-three ordinances, to
spend $15O,OOO.
Insurance underwriters expect to
raise rates to munition plants in west
ern Pennsylvania.
The Connellsville region made and
shipped 100000 tons of coke in the
years first quarter.
No criminal court or grand jury is
necessary-the second month in sue
| cession-in Perry county.
The Reading company will restore
to repair shop employees in Schuylkill
county $140O in coal taxes.
Lancaster business incident to the
April settlement amounts to $5,174,-
352.S3, breaking the record.
Trolleymen in and around Pitts
burgh demand from twenty to forty
percent increases in pay.
DR.. George Edward Reed, Whining
ton, will be orator at the Hazleton
High school, commencement.
William S. Zimmerman, Shamolin
merchant, lound forgotten dyes in his
cellar, worth a small fortune.
The commission of Cumberland
county are considering putting prison
ers to work on the county roads.
Mounted policemen at Hazleton have
been taken off day shifts and put on
night patrols in the outlying districts.
The 200 men who acted as ushers
during the Chapman-Alexander revival
service at Washington have formed a
union.
AS class memorial, the seniors of
State college have voted to erect an
elaborate gateway at the campus en-
trance.
Caught between a car and the roof
at the Richards colliery, Mt Carmel,
Aaphonsus Welsh, nineteen years old,
was killed.
Bidding goodbye to a friend, An
drew Martin. aged ffty-four, Morea,
took several steps and dropped dead
of apoplexy.
Lumbermen report finding the car
cass of half-grown deer in the Black
Log mountains upon which wildcats
were feasting.
Trout fishermen have given up all
hopes Of success in Miffiin county's
muddy streams during the early days
of the season.
Gottlieb Mease chopped his foot
with an ak, and is at Mahanoy City
hospital in a serious condition with
blood poisoning.
Plans have been completed for the
establishment of a butterine factory
at Carlisle by the Mt. Holly Springs
Industrial league.
Mistaking alcohol for water caused
the death of Lola, three-year-old daugh-
ter of Charles Irons, of Wrights Cor
ners, near Kane.
The Baker House, Lewisburg, one
of two Union county hotels refused
liquor licenses, has been sold to James
G. Packer, Sunbury.
1t Is planned to form branch Of the
National Security league in Cumber-
land county, and to locate its head.
quarters at Carlisle.
Pittsburgh council will ask the gov.
ernment to investigate a water meter
monopoly on charge Of combination
in restraint Of trade.
The Westinghouse Air Brake com.
pany in Wilmerding announces an in
crease in bonuses to workmen from
six to twelve per cent.
The Shamokin Lumber and Manu-.
featuring company was awarded the
contract, at $4,000, to build Halle
toms new high school.
Pennsy expects on April 30 to take
fourteen trainloads, or 10000 Stone
men from Philadelphia to institute a
council at Pittsburgh.
Mechanicsburg turned out in a pa
rade and celebration to mark the ar
rival of the new automobile truck of
the Citizens Fire company.
Dead with his right leg cut of, An
thony Valanlongavage, aged thirty
four, was found along the Pennsylva-
MIA tracks at Shenandoah.
Injury to Engineer William Bevan's
right thumb caused blood poisoning
which cost him his hand and may re-
suit in his death, at Frackville.
The addition to the Lehigh county
court house, which cost $273,000, has
been paid for out Of the current In.
come, Judge German announces.