The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-20

smith, of Emaus, were badly burned
In explosions in efforts to break open
dynamite caps with hammers.
Trustees of the Reformed Theo-
logical seminary at Lancaster approve
the sale of tract of land to Franklin
and Marshall college for $4,000.
The Firemen's Relief association, Of
Pottstown, has paid its first death
claim, that of the widow of Charles
FTech, killed by the auto truck.
The Chinese government has placed
orders in Pittsburgh for millions
worth of iron and steel, and depends
entirely on this country for glass.
1t is estimated that the state can
collect more than S4,000,000 from luna
tics whose estates or relatives are able
to pay for them as asylum patients.
James Basler, fifty-nine years old,
an engineer of the Pennsylvania Rail
road company for thirty years, ended
his life with a bullet at Lancaster.
One hundred and thirty-tive bidders,
ten less than last year, have submit
ted bids for furnishing supplies TO the
state government for the coming year.
Owing to a war argument Stephen
Koyat, an Allentown Austrian, is in
the hospital, and half dozen Slavs,
Russians and Germans were locked
up.
Charles P. Dewey, legislative aspir-
ant in bradford county, while canvass
ing, went over a ffty-foot embank-
ment in an automobile, but escaped in
jury.
Hundreds of new members were
gained ct Hazleton mass-meeting Of
the National Defense league, address
ed by Major General. c. Bow Dough
erty.
Luther Coble, q contracting tin
smith and roofer, Lebanon, has died
from complications resulting from
fracture of his right leg, suffered in
a fall.
Between 400 and 500 employees of
the Greenville Car company have
been given a voluntary increase in
wages, amounting to more than $4,000
/ a month.
Without an instants delay in traffic,
| three new 90-foot steel spans were
placed in the Pennsys bridge over
Catawissa creek, at Mainyille, Colum-
bia county.
The hills around Hazleton, stripped
of their timber decades ago to make
props for the mines, are to be reforest-
ed by the Wyoming Valley Water Sup
ply company
Pulled from buggy when his horse
| became frightened, Howard Sweger, a
Carlisle horse dealer, suffered dislo-
Gated shoulder and internal injuries
when trampled.
Eight hundred men and boys are
on strike at the Hickory Ridge col
liery, Shamokin, and the Susquehanna
Coal company's Cameron colliery Is
tied by strike.
Increases in pay for monthly men,
such as clerks, surveyors, foremen,
bosses, machinists and shophands, are
coming in the hard coal fields within
the next few weeks.
Erection of a mile and quarter OF
fences and blasting for foundations for
a machine shop S0x130 feet marked the
beginning of the new Benjamin Steel
works, at Hazleton.
Pleading guilty to defrauding on
$500 of funds of a sub-postal station
in Wilkes-Barre, John B. Reigle was
sentenced at Sunbury to nine months
in Luzerne county jail.
Almost drowned a short time ago
when a high wind blew her into the
Letort Spring, Eva Stringfellow, four
years old, has been knocked down and
injured by an automobile.
The Dodson Coal company, at Halle
ton, has imported big squad of Phila-
delphia navvies to work in It's mines
at Morea to take the place of men at
tracted to the munition plants.
Between 5000 and 1000 eggs of the
ring-necked pheasant will be distribut-
ed by officials of the state game COM
mission to various parts of the state
as a means of propagating.
Harry Witemeyer, secretary, has re.
ceived letter from Colonel Roosevelt
declining to address the home week
celebration in Mauch Chunk, because
it is physical impossibility"
Reading High school students, In
sixteen trolley cars, were taken TO
Stony Creek Mills, where, at Antietam
Lake, they assisted in planting $4,000
pine trees along Readings watershed.
About sixty st. Marys boilermakers
, employed at the machine shops Of the
Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern rail
road, struck for raise, but returned,
pending a conference with the receiv-
er.
Refused a license in Reading, owing
to the age of the proposed bride, Earl
. Coldren, twenty-three, and Miss EN-
ma E. Haas, sixteen years old, OF
Reading, eloped to Elkton, Nd, and
were married.
Chief William Guerin, head Of the
national fire preventing bureau, in an
address in Pittsburgh, declared
''Eighty-five per cent of the fires start
ed in this country last year were the
> result of carelessness."
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