The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-15

! Because OF an epidemic OF rabies in
Cory, nearly fifty dogs are under
quarantine and a dozen have been
killed, having bitten residents.
Dumping a knee against a tomb
stone, Thomas Kummel, a seventy
four-year-old war veteran of Lewis
town, is using his first crutches.
Overturning q burning lamp in her
sleep, Mary Coheland, of Frackville,
set fire to her home and was found
unconscious on the floor by firemen.
Mrs. Susan Shoner, aged seventy
I one, of Maysville, Ia, is visiting her
brother, John Metz, whom she had not
seen in thirty years, at West Hazleton.
An extension meeting of the Lay
mems Missionary convention at Har-
risburg will be held in the First Pres
byterian church in Carlisle on May ..
An exploding dynamite cap, care
lessly left in coal by miners at Lewis
town, injured the right arm of VIII
liam R. Beason, a Pennsylvania fireman
Charles Reiger, S. c. Moore and
Adam Schenck, commissioners of But
Ter county in 1915, have been sur
charged $652.21 by the county audit
ors.
After a year Of paralysis from
blood clot on the brain, inflicted In
boxing bout, Danny Cullen, of Halle
ton, has recovered, but can never fight
again.
Lehigh county farmers protested to
the state highway commissioners
against roads so smooth that horses
slip and fall, They were promised
relief.
d. Edward Long, defeated for the
judgeship in Franklin county by Judge
w. Rush Gillian, and who polled the
anti-liquor vote, is to run for state
senator.
Cumberland county will lose the
state apportionment of the mothers
pension fund, $4,000, unless action to
establish the project is taken before
May 81.
The Connellsville coke trade reach
ed a new high record last week, ship
ments being 477,000 tons, an increase
of $4,000 tons over the first week in
January.
Bethlehem and South Bethlehem are
In need OF $500 new houses to accom-
modate the large number of people
drawn there by the extension of the
steel works.
Seven track laborers, all foreigners,
were injured at West Brownsville
Junction when freight train backed
into them on a siding of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad.
Cyrus Fisher, of Belle Vernon, near
Charleroi, was seriously injured when
heifer that he was taking lone from
sale butted him into q gutter and
jumped on him.
Unable to recall how it happened,
Cyrus Snavely, aged fifty-four, is in
the Emergency hospital, Miffin, with
one leg amputated as a result Of a
railroad accident.
Sixteen-year-old JOHN Heffefnger,
who ran away from his Carlisle home,
enlisted as twenty-one and was found
out, has worked his way home from
Fort Slocum, N. Y.
Charles Renniger, a farmer Of New
Hanover Square, near Boyertown,
whose condition was pronounced hope
less, is recovering from lockjaw by a
scratch from a rusty nail.
Borrowing a dollar from Burgess J.
A. Heineman, in Butler, for marriage
license, S. A. Ambuster swallowed poi
son with suicidal intent after two days
of wedlock. He will recover.
Notice has been given by City En-
gineer Briggs, Of Erie, that the bed Of
Garrison Run must be repaired at
once, as a disastrous food through
the valley would follow a heavy rain.
For furnishing Hiram Breudle, four
teen years old, for non-attendance,
Samuel Eberly, a teacher in the
Adamstown public school, has been
prosecuted on the charge of assault.
Earl Berkheimer, five-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Berkeimer, Me-
chanicsburg, while trying to stand on
playmate's shoulders lost his bal
ance and fell to the ground, sustaining
a concussion of the brain.
The smallpox epidemic in Paint
township, Somerset county, where
there are sixteen cases, has spread
into Adams township, Cambria county,
Just across the dividing line. About
200 employees Of No. AZ mine will be
vaccinated.
Confronted by the father OF Miss
Elizabeth Young, seventeen years old,
of Pittsburgh, whom he was engaged
to marry, with the charge that he was
a married man, Albert Smithey, twen-
ty-seven years old, blew cut his brains
with a revolver.
Absent from her homo in Okla, Que
bee, Canada, for five years, Mayor
Filbert, of Reading, has been asked to
assist in a search for Mary Bowen
Mingiki, who will be an heir to a
wealthy estate at the death of her
father, who is past ninety.
The Berwind-White Coal Mining
company, in Johnstown, has advised
it's 5000 employees, non-members Of the
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