The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-13

Tacitly admitting conspiracy In re-
straint OF trade, thirty-two master
plumbers were fined total Of $3.50
and costs at Pittsburgh.
Absent in Colorado forty-one years,
J. w. Bradley was recognized at once
by his sister when he returned 10
Ebervale, near Hazleton.
A shortage of water exists at Mill
helm. near Bellefonte. since the pipe
line that carries water from a resers
voir two miles away froze up.
Yuan Tsai, of Hongkong, China, As
spending three months at Lansford,
visiting the anthracite coal mines and
investigating modern mining.
Christmas check for $4,000 has
been received by directors of the In
diana hospital, in Indiana, from Miss
Georgine Iselin, OF New York
Work has been begun on tearing
company, at Pottstown, which will be
rebuilt in most modern lines.
The Herald, Titusville's only news
paper, has increased its subscription
rates to twelve cents a week, and ad
vertising rates ten per cent.
Playing with matches near an open
kerosene lamp at Mahanoy City, Jean
cite Janosky, four, was so horribly
burned that she cannot recover.
State Education Superintendent N.
G. Schaeffer told the American School
Peace League at Harrisburg he op-
posed schoc' military training.
Asphyxiated through a broken pipe,
Hezekiah Daley, aged seventy, night
watchman, was found dead in the base
ment of an Easton trousers factory
Thieves stole $26 from the home OF
Alderman Joseph Moody, Hazleton,
while the family was out Of town.
Dragged by train she was trying
to board, Miss Lorena Kilmore, Me-
chanicsburg, was seriously injured
HaZleton's American Red Cross so.
ciety elected T. d. Jones president,
and Mrs. c. J. Kirschner, secretary.
The various collieries Of the M. s.
Kemmerer Coal company, near White
Haven, will be operated by electricity.
West Fairview has raised the sum
needed to insure the location of a
shirt factory employing sixty persons.
Many Blair countians are cutting
out exchanges of Christmas gifts as q
needless addition to high cost of liv-
ing. =
Lloyd Blouch has been rearrested
at Lebanon, cl arged with deadly as.
sault upon and robbery Of e. e. Ar
mold.
Strausstown women boycotted milk
when it was increased two cents a
quart, and 1t soon went back to five
cents.
The American Iron and Steel com,
pany, Reading, will give its employees
a bonus of five per cent on their earn
ings.
Ellis Kempfer, OF Battery A, First
Field Artillery, South Bethlehem, Is i'll
with pleurisy in a Kansas City hos
pital.
Too deaf to hear warnings. Jacob
Bottle. aged sixty, was run down by a
freight train at Union Furnace, and
killed.
Federal authorities have lodged a
detainer at Easton against Herman A.
Morton, charged with passing bogus
checks.
kick Of a pet horse.
More than 1000 college men from
all parts OF the country attended the
biennial national convention of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, at
Pittsburgh.
Only the fact that he had center
fire cartridges in a rim-fire gun pre-
vented Raymond Lane, Carlisle, from
shooting John Baldwin, another negro,
at MELVILLE, in quarrel due to teal
ousy.
Bundling their three-months-old son
so that he would not take cold while
they were driving a mile to a neigh
bor's. Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur Shultz, OF
Madison township, Columbia county
arrived to find the baby smothered
Figures compiled by the national
and state mining bureaus show that
of $4,000 900 tons of coal mined in the
country last year, Pennsylvania pro
duced 247OOO,OOO, while Of 767,554
men employed in the nations mines
there we're 365,073 in Pennsylvania
mines.
Figures compiled by the department
Of agriculture for 1916 show an In
crease in farm wages in Pennsylvania
The average per week, with board, was
S2.35, some countieJ reporting as high
as 1925. The monthly average was
s27.5O. Harvest hands received an
average Of s1.89 per day, the rate be
Ing as high as $3.50 in some counties