The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-11

pointed first lieutenant, battalion ad-
1utant and quartermaster, and assign
ed to the state signal corps.
The Central Labor council OF Al
toOna, passed resolutions endorsing
Louis D. Brandies for the United
States supreme court bench.
STAFF Lieutenant Colonel James
Archibald has been appointed captain
OF infantry and assigned to Company
F, Fourth infantry, at Pottsville.
David Benjamin, a Hazleton strip
ping contractor, is a candidate for
delegate to the Republican national
convention from Luzerne county.
Corn last season was one Of the
most profitable crops, Lancaster farm
ers say. If the war continues, an in
creased acreage Of corn will be plant
ed.
Radishes, onions cabbage and let
tuce formed the bouquets and nose
gays at a dinner dance of society folk
at the Berkshire Country club at Read
ing.
From an injury in a basket ball
game TWO weeks ago, Charles Nc
Laughlin, a member of one of the
Pittsburgh High School teams, has
died.
The Ingersoll-Rand company, which
is making munitions for the allies in
Easton and in Phillipsburg, N. j., will
erect large new buildings at each
plant.
State college debaters, upholding
the affirmative side, for an interna-
tional police force, won the decision
from the Dickinson college team I'm
annual debate.
Miss Elizabeth Sillyman, who serv-
ed several terms at postmistress OF
Pottsville, being first appointed by
President Lincoln, was found dead sit
ting in chair.
Charged with neglecting a pen OF
twenty pigs, in consequence Of which
the animals starved and froze to
death, L. Peterman, Lemoyne, was
fined SO and costs.
Forty-five Sunday schools, with m
membership of $1,000, were represent
ed at the fifth annual district con-
vention at the First United EvangeIi-
SdA III E@dSJOu.
AS result of the Security Leagues
efforts, a new company of the nation
al guard will be organized in Lancas-
ter, the committee being headed by
Colonel John III. Croft.
Governor Brumbaugh issued the
death warrant and fixed the time for
the electrocution OF Martin Tristan,
the Allegheny county murderer, for
the week Of March 20.
Morgan E. Gable, fifty-four years
old, chief editorial writer of the Ga
zette-Times, of Pittsburgh, died after
a brief illness. The body will be taken
to Tamaqua, his former home, for in-
terment
When man and woman were found
unconscious in a Harrisburg house
suffering from an overdose of NOR
phine, the police unearthed extensive
violations Of the Harrison anti-nar-
cotic law.
The Firemen's Relief association OF
West Chester has received $24O from
the state as its share of the interest
on foreign insurance for the last
year, and now has a fund of more
than $4,000.
Its discovery of a formula for max
ing a sulphur black dye, heretofore
imported from Germany, has made or
the Reading Chemical Manufacturing
company one of the important indus
tries Of the country.
The application of the West Penn
company of Pittsburgh to merge its
electric power companies into one
company and its railways into another
company was approved by the public
service commission.
Live stock prizes offered by the
Montgomery county farm bureau were
won by Eugene Dambly, Jr., Centre
Square; Abram Cassell, Worcester,
and James L. Wood, Jr, and Raymond
Centre Square.
Negotiations are about complete for
the purchase of the Monongahela,
Ellsworth and Washington Street
line by eastern capitalists
The line will be extended to Halle
kirk and thence to Washington, Pa.
Several women, members of a swim
ming party at the Natatorium In Pitts
burgh watched John Plower break I'm
to the Army and Navy Goods store,
in Sixth street, summoned a police
man and assisted in capturing the
burglar.
Charles Dittman, a wealthy Waynes-
burg coal land operator, was sentenc-
ed to serve sixty days in the work
house, at Pittsburgh, and pay for the
Of a child of Pearl Ross,
following his conviction ON serious
charges.
Dodging from in front of an auto
mobile in front of car Of the Web
ster, Monessen, Belle Vernon & Fay
cite City Street Railways company,
IN Monessen, Annie KikeI, six years
Did, daughter of Michael KfkeI, was
killed instantly.
A troop of cOlOred Bow Scouts was