The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-13
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CJLLEO FOR QUICK READING
News Of All Kinds Gathered Fron
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State

NSS1Sono SSAt
Steve Masihla, aged six year,. s0A
of Michael Masihla, of Indiana, was
drowned In Two Lick creek while
skating. The body was not recovered,
Audenried Is slowly and steadily b&
ing improved and moderniZed and will
soon become one of the most up-to-date
towns in the lower anthracite region.
Wholesale liquor dealers in Carbon
county have raised the price Of beer
delivered in barrels to saloons 1fty
cents a barrel, making the price $3.50.
Paroled prisoners, when rearrested
under conditional release, must serve
full terms, without possible commuta.
ton, the state law department holds.
Injuries sustained when he was
thrown against the boiler Of an en-.
gine, proved fatal to E. G. Clawsonr
of Greensburg, Pennsylvania engin'
eer.
M. W. Watson, fifty, telegrapher fol
Pennsy, suffered a stroke of apoplexy
while on duty at Lewistown sigma
tower, and Is in an unconscious condi.
ton.
William Campbell, aged seventy
eight, Of West Brownsville, Is in 4
critical condition as a result of burns
sustained when he fell into an open
CRATE.
George Michael, Of East Lebanon, is
dying in the Good Samaritan hospital
from a gunshot wound, inflicted with.
out provocation in a Christmas cele.
bration.
A pile of 400 pine rails, valued al
$500, belonging to DR.. A. N. Miller, OF
East Texas, near Allentown, was de.
stroyed by a fire started by mischiev.
Gus boys.
Conductors and motormen of the
Pottstown & Phoenixville Railway
company had their wages increased
from twenty-three to twenty-five cents
an hour.
State Game Protector Charles F.
Fenstermacher estimates that the rab-
bits and birds killed during the game
season in Berks county had a food
value of $23,05S.
"a
in wages has been granted the 1000
employees of the American Window
Glass company, at Jeanette, as q
Christmas greeting.
Because of a coke shortage, due to
railroad congestion, blast furnace No.
at Sharon, went out of blast for an in,
definite period. One hundred and fifty
men are affected.
For jolxingly turning on the molasses
barrel spigot in James McMeen's store
and soiling and sticking all sorts OF
goods, Revert Irwin, of East Water.
ford, is in jail at Lewistown.
Customers Of the Consumers Water
company, of Montrose, are told to pay
their bills and the complaint of the
borough against the water company
! adjourned until Wednesday, January
10, in an opinion filed by Public Serv.
ice Commissioner Michael ]. Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Fahrenbach
of Bernville, celebrated their flftiett
wedding anniversary with guests pres
ent from Pennsylvania, Tennessee
Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and New
York, and the Berks County Agricul
tural society presented beautiful
clock to Mr.. Fahrenbach.
The Hotel Anthony Schultz and two
adjoining houses in the center Of Pitts
ton, were burned. The blaze threaten
ed to spread to other places in the
business district, but was checked
when fire departments of the surround
ing towns came to the aid of the city
force. The damage is estimated al
$25, 900.
Following an attempted holdup IL
the outskirts of Midland, the body OF
John Ganvi, aged twenty-five, was
found in field, and Macuro Magereto
aged thirty, is in the City hospital
East Liverpool, Ohio, with a bullet
wound in his right arm. Dominick
Rumondo, aged twenty-five, alleged tc
have done the shooting, is under ar
/ rest.
Washington county wool purchasers
are offering the highest prices fo1
/ f1eeees in twenty-five years. Some
/ DONEGAL township farmers have &C
( cepted forty-eight cents, while others
/ are holding out for fifty cents. Though
much wool has been purchased By the
! dealers, large stocks are in the hands
I Of farmers who foresaw that the waT
would bring high prices.
G. II. Miller, foreman Of the Pennsy
shoDs at Lewistown Junction, has been
parOled, pending retirement under the
pension system at siXtv-fve ye7rs.
I Despondent, John Ulri"h, an inmate
Of the Lancas ster almshouse. ended his
life by sending a bullet into his brain
Mrs. Catharine Forsythe, sivty-foul
. years old. is dead at Lewistown, afte1
living almost a quarter of a century
in total blindness as the result Of the
A. William Daufenbach has resigned
his position as deputy warden at the
Rockview penitentiary. at Bel7fonte,
He will be succeeded by Fred B. Realy
The annual banquet of the New
Castle Chapter Sons of the Am er-can
Revolution, will be held at tie Law