The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-10
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Laurytown's almshouse will have
$1,000 greenhouse.
Light frosts damaged fruit slightly
about White Haven.
Delaware county is the final daggard
In filing primary returns.
Citizens Of Altoona have petittoned
council to Danish COWS from the city.
Daniel Young, Jr., has been appoint
ed alderman of the twenty-frst ward,
Scranton.
The $1O,5OO Greek Catholic church
at Frackville was dedicated with
big parade.
Wesley Dewald mangled both hands
In a potato-planting machine near
Bloomsbury.
A fall at Salem, Columbia county,
cost efghty-four-year-old Solomon Har-
mon his life.
Danville's Reading Iron Works pud-
dlers have been raised seVenty-hVe
cents, to Sc ton.
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation COM
pany is expected to buy the A. Pardee
company's mines.
War has caused rise in the price
of sundaes and other soda fountain
drinks in Pittsburgh.
Battery c, of Phoenixville, will be
equipped with smoke bomb OUTFIT,
the first in the state.
Ross H. Shiffer has been appointed
deputy Lebanon treasurer, to succeed
Thomas G. Spangler.
Run down by a shifting engine, Ben
jamin George, a Palmerton officehold-
er. was instantly killed.
There's a strike of 800 freight car
workers in the American plant at
Berwick, asking higher wages.
w. E. Mair, lieutenant OF state po-
lice, has been appointed captain and
assigned to command Troop d.
More Pittsburgh financiers are join
ing in the equity proceedings at Har-
risburg to test the escheat law.
Four hundred farmers from Ches-
ter and Lancaster counties Inspected
State college experimental farms.
Run down by a Pennsy passenger
train, near Shenandoah, Enoch Fanger'
aged forty-one, was fatally injured.
The drivers strike, which tied up
Primrose mine for weeks, has been
settled by awarding an extra hours
pay.
For cruelty to a horse, Christopher
Martina, of Coatesville, was fined
$2O.S6 by Justice George Myer, OF that
town.
A passenger train on the Williams
port & North Branch railroad chased
two deer for several hundred yards
recently.
The public sale of the effects Of the
late John Hottenstein, Of near Allen
town, gold dollar of 1857 was bid up
to $3.50.
The cornerstone of the new Catholic
Sacred Heart church, at Buck noun
tain, was laid in the presence Of a
large crowd.
Samuel A. Knauss handed In his
resignation as Allentown city treasu-
rer, and Miles X. Person was elected
his successor.
Paul Kurtz, fifteen, of Portland, has
died of injuries received several weeks
ago, when he was struck on the head
by base ball.
Governor Brumbaugh appointed w.
F. K. Ruth, Kulpsville, justice Of the
peace for Towamencin township, Mont
gomery county.
Human bones were unearthed by
Workmen digging beds at Hazleton's
city hall, which stands on the site of
an old cemetery.
John, three-year-old son Of ]. G.. Gill,
a prominent resident of Shenandoah,
is in critical condition from eating
quantity Of lye.
The Reading and Pennsylvania rail-
roads have just paid $148,000 in wages
to their employees at Reading for the
first half of May.
DR.. S. A. Everett, Of Freeland, dag
nosed a case of sickness encountered
in his practice as being caused by the
"hook worm" parasite.
Watching a base ball game, Joseph
Cameron, eighteen years old, OF
Bridgeport, was hit back Of the ear
with a bat and may die.
Caught under falling timber at st.
Nicholas colliery, Charles Cort, aged
eighteen, sustained broken back, on
| his first day in the mines.
Ex-County Commissioner H. w. Nc
Craney and wife, at their home In
Fowanda, observed the ffty-fourth an
/ adversary of their marriage.
/ The Lancaster board Of health has
/ removed the ban on kiddies attending
moving picture shows, the epidemic
Of measles having subsided.
The first compilation Of the laws OF
Pennsylvania relating to townships
/ has just been completed by the state
| legislative reference bureau.
| More than 200 delegates from al
parts of Northampton county attend
ed the annual convention Of the coun-
| ty P. o. S. Of A. at Bangor.
! Kicked by one Of his horses, Alfred
Frey, Of near Quakertown, died almost
/ Immediately. Coroner White granted
a certificate Of accidental death.