The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-17
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.


are having the busiest times for years
Mrs. L. P. Hause, Catawissa, has
blood poison from cut by a ish's
| fin.
Tobacconist Walter Hartzell, des'
pondent shot himself and died at
Carlisle.
Reading will spend $4,000 for fire
trucks and other autos for the city's
fire department.
Two more complaints of jltneys op-
Grating outside the law in Scranton
have been filed.
Wallace J. Barnes, Homesdale, has
been appointed trustee of the State
hospital at Farview.
One thousand employees OF the Potts
colliery,' near Shamokin, are idle, ow'
ing to button strike"
Lehigh county's tenth grange has
been organized at Schoenersville, with
Stanley Biery as master.
Andrew Vender, of Summit Hill, was
drowned in a mine hole near Summit
Hill while taking bath.
The Cambria Steel company, at
Johnstown, has blown in its ninth
blast furnace, built in record time.
Milton r. Snyder has been appointed
constable of the eleventh ward, East
on, vice the late George Werkheiser.
Ninety automobilists were arrested
at Drifton and forty at McAdoo, on
oh 80 1iVo,if re
More than sixty applicants from
Lansford alone were awarded citizen
ship papers by Carbon county court.
More than 100 foreigners are before
Judge Barber, at Mauch Chunk, in nat
uralization court for citizenship pa
pers.
John Chesnik, who went to South
Bethlehem to attend christening, was
killed in a fall from a second-story
window.
The Pennsylvania Central Brewing
company has announced its intention
of reopening the Halle brewery at
Hazleton.
Reading railway section hands at
Tamaqua have struck for a 81 day Of
nine hours, instead Of a ten-hour day
for $1.80.
E. G. Simmons, a travelling sales
man, of Pittsburgh, committed suicide
in Reading hotel by inhaling illumin-
ating gas.
The Mauch Chunk Electric Light
company will connect its plant with
the Lehighton plant, and furnish cur
rent to it,
Bathing in an old mine breach, John
Goofra, of Summit Hill, was Liricken
with cramps and drowned before help
could reach him.
A special election will be held in
New Cumberland for authorization Of
bond issue of $4,000 sor the build
ing of new school.
The proposition of new city hall
for Reading, to cost about 100000,
may again be put before the voters at
the November election.
While sitting in the court room at
Norristown criminal court, Mrs. Mary
Johnson, of Glenside, was robbed of
a purse containing 81.
Grant T. Morrison, thirty-fve, lost
his right leg while working In the roll
ed steel wheel department at the
Standard Steel works, at Lewistown.
The Mauch Chunk Y. NJ. G. A. has
just closed three swimming cam
paigns and nearly every schoolboy
has mastered the art Of swimming.
Slipping and falling while he was
carrying milk bottle, Walter Van
Buskirk, of Pen Argyle, severed an
artery in his hand on the broken glass.
The Lebanon county commissioners
have voted to take over the abandon
ed Horseshoe turnpike and will spend
$4,000 to put it in frst-class condition.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has put on an additional work train
between Parkerford and Kenilworth,
where an additional track is being
| laid.
Nevin Hunsicker, who shot his wife
and himself a month ago, both recov-
/ ering, was sentenced by Judge Cor
man, at Allentown, TO seven years In
! prison.
A strike and mass-meeting forced
several score Of non-union miners into
the union, and the Harwood Coal COM
pany's operations at Harwood have re-
4 sumed
Swimming to his raft, which had
broken from its moorings in the Allie
gheny river, at Kittanning, Charles
Nunnemaker, seventeen years old, was
drowned.
Making good his promise ito end it
ALL" the mangled body OF Charles ia
coby, twenty-six, Of Berwick, was
found along the railroad tracks in
! Bloomsbury.
The Window Glass company at
Hazlehurst was compelled to close up
when its ring punchers and blowers
refused to work for lack OF union
recognition.
Making 1865 yards a minute, the
birds Of Ben Reinert won the 400-mile
pigeon fly from High Point, ". c., to
Allentown, in eleven hours and four
teen minutes.