The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-27

Caught under the city's automobile
truck when it turned over, Frank
Herman, a young man Of Hazleton,
sustained a broken back and other in
jur;es.
Or. j. C. Biddle, OF the Miners hos
pita', near Mahanoy City, has remov-
ed . bullet from underneath the eye
of John Forster, aged twelve, acci-
6entary shot two years ago.
Prosperity in Pittsburgh worked as
handicap at the primary election.
and many polling places were unable
to secure thefr quota of officials, who
refused to lay off from work.
The Lorain Steel company Is the
first corporation in Johnstown to an
nounce that it will send a number OF
employees to the summer military en-
campment at Plattsburg, n. Y.
Answers have been filed with the
public service commission by 1S0 per
sons or firms charged by the Wilkes
Barre Railways company with operat-
ing jitneys in Luzerne county.
A Berks jury awarded Larue Myers,
of Williamsport, $4,000 damages from
Frederic P. Heller for the death of his
wife, killed in an elevator accident
at the Hotel Brighter, Reading.
In observance of the tercentenary
of Shakespeare's death, faculty and
students of State college presented In
pageantry form well-known scenes
from ten of the authors plays.
In her first attempt to run an auto
mobile, Mrs. George Marburger, of
1t down twenty-fve-foot embankment
and hurt herself and two children.
A one-ton piece of iron that fell on
Ignatz Gzenqski, a thirteen-year-old
Fullerton lad, while he was gathering
wood in the yard of the Lehigh foun-
dry, at Fullerton, squeezed him to
death.
Drivers and runners at the Drifton
colliery Of the Lehigh Valley coal COM
pany went on strike, claiming they
were worse off under the new eight
hour rule than when they worked nine
hours.
Joking students dismantled new
auto owned by Professor w. A. Robin
son, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and
after he had sent out q theft alarm
he found all its pieces in the college
chapel.
Erie railroad officials in Greenville
have received q check from an elder
ly woman, who writes she defrauded
the company many years ago by tell
Ing the conductor she had lost her
ticket.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has agreed to pay $500 to Mrs. Ada
Shope, widow OF Samuel Shope, loco
motive fireman of Allentown, who was
killed in a wreck near Port Royal,
March 3.
Because her husband, bartender.
died from injuries suffered when he
fell through a trap door left open by
a porter, Mrs. Selma Swanson, or
Windber, will receive $3,179.5O COM
pensation.
At the biennial reorganization of the
Lebanon Republican county commit
tee, William J. Noll, Cornwall, and J.
Hauer Reinoehl, Lebanon, were re-
elected chairman and treasurer re-
spectively.
Charging four members of his con-
gregation with perjury In having
sworn that he said certain members
of the flock could "go to the devil"
Rev. Joseph Navoroloski, Of Allentown,
has obtained warrants for them.
After sending to Italy for bride
and advancing the young woman $110
for expense money, Tony Combine, OF
Sharpsville, was Tilted. Miss Pasquil-
lima Canopoli, Combines fiancee, mar
ried Frank Kulliter.
A jury in Montgomery county court
awarded to the Salvation Army $2100
damages for the obstruction Of air,
light and access to its building by the
81" of the Philadelphia & Western
railway in Norristown.
Owing to changes being made In the
course of study, there will be no grad
uating class for 1916 at the Carlisle
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three-year vocational class who re-
turn will receive certificates.
Five persons were rescued by jump
ing from a second-story window into
the arms Of volunteer fremen during
a fire in the apartments of Mrs. Har-
riet Rowser, Homestead. The blaze
is believed to have been of incendiary
origin.
Twenty-Five of the twenty-six girls
employed by the Federal Telephone
company in Sayre struck when one OF
their. number was dismissed after
waiting on the superintendent with a
committee to ask for an increase In
wages.
Blacksnakes are numerous along the
w. & N. railroad near Joanna, where
Morris House shot two, each fifty-siX
inches long; William Scarlet, one.
four feet long, and brakeman saw
one across the tracks as long as
railroad tie.
Invitations have been sent to Presi-
don't Wilson Govarn0r pr.1Yrn ha110h and