The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-20

Agents representing the Italian
government are going through the an.
thracite fields 10 induce reservists OF
that country to return and enter the
army.
The historic old Gettysburg Presby-
terian church, used at the time Of the
battle Of Gettysburg, as an army hos
pital, Is undergoing repairs and reno
vation.
The past year brought 131 new fac
tories to York county for the manu-
facture of cigars and other forms of
tobacco, and now there are 1900 in the
county.
The trustees Of Allentown College
for Women, now located at Cedar
Crest have sold the old college build
ings in the city to A. D. Gomery for
$28500.
An explosion of gas blew section
Of the wall out of the Ward apart
ments, in Altoona. Mrs. George Slea-
mond, aged twenty-six, was perhaps IA
tally burned.
Caught between a tank and shaft
wheel, Frank Salinko was crushed TO
death and Joseph Galinsky seriously
injured at Lehigh c. & N. water shaft
No. 6, Tamaqua.
Two hundred and fifty employees of
the D. M. Bare & Co. paper mill at
Roaring Spring have been notified of
ten per cent increase in wages, ef
fective January 1.
Josept Pisko, aged seven, son of
John Pisko, of Meadowlands, died in
the City hospital, in Washington Of
fractured skull received when he was
kicked by horse.
Drawn into a sand crusher, hand
and arm Of Roy Bixler, aged twenty
five, of Mount Holly Springs, were
caught in the fork and mangled and
torn off at the shoulder.
Archibald Johnston, of South Beth
lehem, has notified the public service
commission of his acceptance to the
Craftsmanship of the committee to
bridge the Bethlehefns
Caught beneath a fall of frozen
earth at the concentrator plant Of the
Bethlehem Steel company, at Lebanon.
Raymond Donhower aged nineteen,
died Of internal injuries.
Virtually scalped by an assailant
with an ak, Wassil Fatalowitch, of
Sandy Run, walked into DR.. Richard
Truckenmiller's office at Freeland for
first aid and twenty-five stitches.
William B. Wilson, secretary Of Ia
Dor; Congressman j. Thomas Heffiin,
of Alabama, and John J. Reardon, of
Philadelphia were speakers at the
Jackson day dinner in Williamspor,.
All the salaried employees of the lie.
high and New England Railroad com
pany who have been in the service
one year have received a bonus, the
amounts varying according to position.
DR.. J. A. Tweedle, of Weatherly,
civil war veteran and Mason for over
half century, enjoys the distinction
of having shaken hands with every
president from Lincoln to the present
day.
Allentown merchants have been
swindled out of several hundred dol
lars by man who got checks cashed
by showing a bogus bank book which
indicates that he has a large balance
on deposit
Hog cholera has made its appear.
ance in the Perkiomen valley for the
third time within year, and William
Debert, of Zieglerville, has lost eight
hogs through the disease and twelve
more are dying.
Charging that the defendant bea.
and abused her while serving papers
at the farm Of her husband, Mrs. Au-
gusta Redmer, of near Hazleton,
started suit for s25,O0O damages
against Constable John w. Smith.
Runaways from an institution near
Chambersburg, Hannah Kline, aged
eighteen, with her hair trimmed and
dressed as a boy, and James Jones,
aged twenty-seven, were arrested in
Shippehsburg while starting for Cali
fornia.
Pennsylvania's postmasters recently
appointed were confirmed by the
United States senate as follows:
Frank Clancy, Conneautville; Joseph
L. Infield. FTedonia; Edward F. Paist,
McSherrytown Katharyn Mcclellan,
Marienville.
Three barns were burned and three
residences were damaged. causing z
total loss of $500 in Applewold, acrosz
the Allegheny river from Kittanning
The buildings burned were those o.
Mrs. Holtzhauer, Herbert BoOher anL
NJ. A Millron
James A. McMillin, aged seventy
eight, Of New Castle, died after an IL
ness Of a week. Mr.. McMillin was
twice elected county commissioner Of
Lawrence county. He was a veteran
of the civil war. He leaves one sor
and onn dauohter