The Conshohocken Recorder, August 27, 1918

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. 1 1 '. CONsllOIIOCKEN, PA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1918 $1.50 PER YEAR
THE MEN TO LEAVE
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Draftees To Go Next Week to
Fort Oglethorpe. 6a., for
Training
LIMITED SERVICE OPENING
The following men arc called for
the next contingent to go to Camp
Oglethrope, Qeorgta. These men will
entrain about Sept. 3rd.
George J. Marwood, Conshohocken,
Frederick C, Prey, Hatfleld.
Joseph Springer, Bridgeport.
Bamnel Stewart, Conshohocken.
Robert Burns, Jr., Bridgeport,
Amos F.isenherger, II. I''. I» Wo.l,
Conshohocken.
Boss P. Baldwin. Conabohocken.
Thomas J. MflQonlgle, Conshohock-en.
Frank Dennis, Bridgeport.
Aloyijti Brady, Hatii. Id.
Alfred B, Qodshall, Hatfleld.
Monroe Ott, Jeffersonvilte.
Daniel Tippln, Blue Bell.
John Carlton Master. Conshohocken
Burne Baldega, Conshohocken..
Frank T. Murray, Bridgeport.
Louis Dlmarco, West Conshohocken
Hohert Tompklm-.. Bridgeport.
William Brinton. Conshohocken.
James 10. Watson, Port Kennedy.
Maurice Austin Bailey, Wayne.
Samuel P. Gardner.
John Hex Pager, Three Tuns.
James A. Moiianty. Conshohocken.
Owen Nathan Davis, Conshohocken.
Luther Johnson. Conshohocken.
Julius T. Benedict, Conshohocken.
Alternates
Qeorge C Benner, Bridgeport.
Charles Miller. Lanadale.
William J. Carroll, Conshohocken.
I- rank Davis Edmundson, Bridge
port.
Special Calls
Benjamin Ivlham, colored, I'enllyn.
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcement w« ■•!" '•l" "n
Saturday, by Mr. and Mrs- Stewart
Davis, of -i i Basi Tenth avenue, an
nouncing the marriage ol their daugh-ter,
Blsle M, Davis to Mr. John .1.
McDonough, of Trenton, on April 4th,
1918.
Mrs. McDonough before1 her mar-riage
was employ*) as a bookkeeper
for the Bell Telephone Company in
Philadelphia.
Mr. McDonough is a correspondent
for New York, Philadelphia and New
Jerae] newspapers. The couple will
take up their residence In Trenton
after Eept, 16th, 1918.
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HELD AS A DESERTER
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AUTO ACCIDENT
BRINGS SUITS
Raphael Cerwlcs was arrested this
morning by order of Burgess Ray
and is held us a deserter from the
army. This morning, Cerwios refus-ed
to show his registration oard to
ihr Polish recruiting officer on duty
bere. The Burgess was appealed to
and the man still refused to show his
.ard. The Burgess detailed Officer
It tit h to anest the man. ite was tak-en
to the borough hall am. among hid
papers was found a notice to report
on June i to i,e assigned to service.
Another paper was found deferring
tbe first reporting date to June B as
CerwlCZ had arrived too late to go
awn> with the June 1 Contingent. He
was registered by local draft board,
division No 5, 328 Race street, Phil-adelphia.
The Burgess cdinmunicated with
the boan; and they Instructed him to
hold Cerwioi and have him returned
to the Frankford arsenal, Philadel-phia,
aa » deserter. Cerwlci was tak
en to Philadelphia this morning.
It is believed there are a number
Of PolandeTH here who are evading
the draft and Burgess Ray is now
gathering Information which he ei
pects will lead to the arrest of a num-ber
of slackers.
Brother of Prof. Knecht Now
92 Yrs.. Old, Fought for the
Freedom of Germany
HOPES FOR HUNS" DEFEAT
Emgleherl Knecht, brother of Prof.
Oscar Kenecht, of Spring Mill avenue,
this borough, a native Ol the Duchy
oi Baden, Germany and now residing
ai Palmyra, N. J., IS about to cele-brate
his 92nd blrthdaj anniversary.
Mr. Knecht takes a deep Interest In
tbe present war and often cypresses
the hope Hint the Kaiser and his
party will be forever exterminated.
Mr. Knecht is a German patriot
and roughl to overthrow militarism
during, the unsuccessful revolution rrf
ISIS
Rev. A. J Kellerman Bled a suit
yesterday at Scranton against Harry
Drehrer, ol Btroudsburg, claiming
damages In the amount of 120,000 lor
Injuiii a sustained by bis wife and
himself when an automobile owqed
b) Drehrer and driven bj bis daugh-ter,
crashed Into the car in which
tbe Kellermana were riding.
Mr. and Mrs. Kellerman and their
daughter Helen, were returning from
a visii to Scranton with Mr. and Mrs.
Francis I,. Kreas. of this borough, tn
Mr. Press' car, and while driving
along the highway near MI.
Inn, a car came speeding out of a by-road
ami crashed Into the Proas car.
UP siting the letter and throwing the
occupants out. Mrs. Kellerman anl
fared a broken hip. Mrs. Press was
badly bruised and cut and Mr. Keller-man
am' Mr. Preas also suffered In-lurles.
MISS Kellerman was unin-
Jured.
All w.rc taken to a Scranton hospi-tal.
It Was lound Mrs. Kellerman
POLES IT IN SALOON
Ai BEAT OFFICER
Citizens Came to Rescue of
Police and Subdued the
Frenzied Men
DEFAMED THE AMERICANS
SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL
The. following letter written In
ATtlTgo to camp Bhenfien? vmrrr (.(I|]MI1 ,, ,, Bm|th Hlntlonetl il( camp
cothe. Ohio. en-jit- about Sept 1st.
Walter Maurice Smith, Conshohock
en.
Ross Noblit, Conshohocken.
Howard T. Wilkinson. Conshohock-en.
Karl Landls, Reading.
Will go to Polish National Alliance
College, Cambridge Springs, i-a., for
Special Instruction.
John Theodore Douglas, Bridgeport
Will report to Delaware College,
Newark, Del.
Ixical Board No'. :t. has a special call
for 2:t Special or Limited Service men
to go to Camp Dix, N. J., on or about
Sept. Sid. Any men who have been
placed In this class and who desires
to go enn report as volunteers.
The Board would remind their reg-istrant*,
that if their Status has
(hang.-.: since filing their question-nire
to report at once to the board,
also any man who has changed bis
occupation should report. This will
save their being called to appear be
lore tbe Board.
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MEN FOR CAMP
The following men have been se-lected
by the Third District Boar.:,
to go to Camp (ireene, N. C, Friday
August 80th, 1*18. They will report
to the Boyer Arcade Rooms. Noiris
town. I'e. Priday, August 80th, at 11
A M. for roll call.
These nre Limited Service men:
Wm. PastOriUB, Jr.. 126 Tth street,
Bridgeport.
Then Robinson, 1012 tireen street,
Norrlstown.
Harry J. Chase, 81 Dellaven ave-nue.
West Conshohocken.
Qeo. Trinkle. Center Square.
Frank J. Rorlck. ms Front Street,
West Conshohocken.
Eugene Francis Quinn. :ir.s Hector
street. Conshohocken.
Thomas Coyne, 107 W. 7th avenue,
Conshohocken.
Michael Mallon. Care or George 1\'ic
Neely. Orays Lane, llaverford.
Any Limited Service Men who de-sire
to act as Alternates will send
their names at once to ]>jeal Board
No. 3.
Several calls are expected coon for
limited men to go to Camp Dlx and
also to Camp Sherman.
He was horn in Stettin, Grand 'suffered a broken hip. She is now in
Duchy of Baden In 1828 His father the hospital in a plaster east and will
was superintendent of the national : remain there for three months. Mrs.
forrests. Prussia for a nmber of! Preas returned home after a week's
years bad been 1 ittendlng her policy, stay In the hospital and is now under
of militarism Into the oth.-i Herman a physician's care suffering with four
Merrltt, N. J. to a friend here tellu of
an accident I.. Francis J. Sirchio:
Camp Merrltt. N. J.
August Hi, 1918.
Private Francis J. Sirchio, known
as tip- ' l.one Star" in the Seventh
Division Military Police, and who was
the champion lightweight wrestler
with the Eighteenth F. A. is now In
the hospital at Camp Merrltt, N. J.
He recently arrived from a training
camp in Texas when he was admitted
to the hospital, suffering with a brok-en
WTlSt and a sprained arm.
He was one of Consholiorken's
early volunteers.
While with the Military Police he
has be.n engaged In several wrestling
contests and made a very high record
in Waco. Texas. He Is improving
every day and will visit relative.; and
friends in Conshohocken soon.
Very Sincerely,
Corporal E, SMITH.
LAST WEEK OF MOVING
PICTURE SHOW
After a very successful summer
arrangement, the Moving Picture hen
ilil for the War Chest will terminate
next Friday, August 80th.
Great credit is due Mrs. Maurice
HallOWell for the way she has man-aged
this enterprise. Those who
have generously assisted Mrs. Hall-owell
have added much to the success.
We wish to publicly acknowledge
Mr. Uakoski's generous offer of his
playhouse, and the Film Companies
in donating their films.
Next 1 riii:i> evening will be the
last picture show for the benefit of
the War chest.
J. K. M0ORBHOU8B, Chairman
provinces anil in IS-IS the Herman
people revolted. Young Knecht. he
was then "'-' yearn old, enlisted in the
cause of the people ami raised .
company of :it'0 volunteer* and lie
was made captain. The revolution
was of short duration and was ef-fectually
broken b\ the lack 01 sup-pin-,
and Prussis was rictorlous
Knecht was sentenced to death
and ha 1 been taken to Berlin. He
.scaped to Switzerland and later
made hlB way to Prance and 11..111
there came tu Hie United Statej, set-, found that
Hlng In Philadelphia, where he en- ' whom It IJ
gaged In the surgical and, mathe-matical
Instrument trade at Seventh
and Chestnut streets. He retiree
from business la years ago. He has
been a resilient of Palmyra tot the
njael 36 years ami ha* been one of the
town's moat progressive ottlssn
Mi. became an American citizen in
1860 ami several years later, the Oer
man Government granted amnesty to
him but the offer held no attractions
for him after he had enjoyed a resi-dence
in what he declares to be the
best country in the world.
Several months ago Mr. and Mrs.
Knecht celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary.
Prejf. Knecht In speaking of his
brother's military experience said,
at the time of Hie revolt, he was
three years of age hut his soldier
brother made such an impression up-on
his mind that he has a vivid recol-lection
of seeing his brother and bis
company of patriots, who stalled out
BO gallently to fight for the freedom
..I Germany,
The old veteran says thai his fond-est
hope Is that be may live to see
this country and the allies accomplish
what he am", the other patriots tried
to accomplish in 1848: exterminate
the Kaiser and militarism.
broken ribs. Mr. Kellerman has two
libs broken and is also under fhe
cue of B physician. Mr. Freas is re-cow
ring from his injuries which con-sisted
of sever cuts and bruises, ills
automobile was struck broadside and
benl double.
Both Mr. Freas and Mr. Kellerman
tried to communicate with Mr.
Drehrer by telephone but he refused
to talk with them. They rent :.;m
letters and received n.-i reply. They
communicated with HarriBburg and
Mr. Dreher'a daughter.
claimed, was driving the
car at the time of the accident, had
not a stale license permitting her to
drive an automobile.
Mr, Kellerman entered suit yester-day
and Mr. Freas will also begin an
action against Drehrer.
DRAFTEES GIVEN A
GREAT SEND0FF
TEACHER RESIGNED
Miss Marion Smyth, of West Con-shohocken.
has resigned her posit ion
as a departmental teacher in the Con-shohocken
schools. Miss Smyth is
a graduate of the local high school
and has taught here for several years.
She was reelected for the present
school year at a salary of *7f. per
month.
Miss Smyth has taken a eouise In
"filing" and will enter business life.
VINCENT P. WOOD
PURCHASES A HOME
"Old Orchard." the county seat of
Captain John W. Converse, Mont rose
avenue and Old Coneslogu road, Rose-monl,
Pa., ha* been sold to Vincent
P. Wood, who alter considerable al-terations
to the interior of the proper-ty,
will occupy it has his home. The
property consist* of a large English
style residence and outbuildings on a
tract of about six acres. While the
consideration was not disclosed, the
property was held for sale at 160,000.
Mr. Wood is the manager of (he
.1 wood Department of the Alan
Wood Department of the Alan Woo.l
Iron * Steel Company.
Preparing for Lawn Festival
The ladies of St. Gertrude's parish
nre preparing to hoi da lawn festival
during the second week In Septem-ber.
The proceeds will be for the
building fund.
Rubber Hose cut to any length, 12%
cenU per foot at KEHOE BROS.,
Fayette Street-—Adv.
Penn Club Outing
The Penn Club will hold its second
base ball game and outing of the
summer at Sanatoga Inn, Wednesday,
September 4. The Club will mi.ke the
trip In automobiles and the out in*;
has been arranged by former Burgess
Fred. Bloo'mhsll. who has so success-fully
managed the previous outlng6 of
the Club.
3PORTING GOODS of all kins at
KJEHQES, Hector attest,—Ady.
AUTOS COLLIDE
Automobile.", owned and driven by
Aired Bongor/.one. of East Hector
street, and John Hrogan. of Plymouth
Meeting, collided at Hector and Fay-ette
streets, Sunday afternoon. Bon-gorzone
was driving west on Hector
street and was crossing Fayette
street when Brogan, wlio was driving
north of Fayette street and in the
course of traffic, struck the rear of
Bongorzone's car denting a fender.
Brogan's car was damaged and had to
be towed to a garage. The steering
gear was broken and the front axel
bent. Neither party saw the other
approaching and the accident was
witnessed by many persons.
Hundreds of residents of this com-munity
went to Norrlstown last night
to give tbe local contingent of draf-tees
and those from Noj-rislown, a
memorable farewell on their depart-ure
for Camp Lee, Vs. ,\ slmrt street
parade was held here and at Not 1 is
town. The parade was purely a Third
District affair and several hundred
persons participated in the parade in-cluding
a number of automobile par-ties,
William Laoey, of this borough,
heade.i the parade ami escorted by
the Conshohocken band, the marchers
were taken to the train to go to Nor-rlstown.
At NorUstown the local contingent
had no hand but a drummer was
Sd into service. In the line of
march were many men and a section
of girls, numbering over 100, marched
in honor of the draftees.
The men hoarded 11 special train at
Bridgeport composed of seven cars
and in which were the contingents
frmo the towns BOUth Of Reading.
Tbe tr&ln passed through West
Conshohocken at 11..10 and a great
throng of people cheered the boys.
Whstlei all along the line greeted
th strain and the hoys were given aa
noisy and enthusiastic farewell ns
Were Hie first contingents.
Lewis '.roster Summerdale, I'hlln.
Albert Levering, Jeffersonvllle.
John .1. O'Neal, North Wales.
Harry Russell Sholler, I'enllyn.
Stanley Myers, Moornstown. N. .1.
William Meyle. Gwynedd Valley.
Oscar I.. Davis, Wayne R. P. I'.
William Ilobbs, Wayne, R. 1'. D.
Charles R. (ierhait. Hatfleld
Zeiglev Cope, Hatfleld „
Harry Tyson Myers, Jr., Lansdale.
.Jacob llaiick, I.ansdalc
11 erli.it AdOOOk, Ambler.
Raymond .lobnon. Ambler.
John Jos, Powers, W. Conshohocken
Wm. l-.\ Mlnnis, West conshohocken
l-Mwin .1. Car. Bridgeport.
Frank Joseph Maute, Bridgeport
DonatO DIRollo, Bridgeport.
Thomas Rath, Bridgeport.
Cornelius Rodgers, Bridgeport
John BS. Whal.n. Conshohocken.
.John .1. Murphy. Conshohocken.
Santl Mammo, Conshohocken.
I 1 ril inan.I L. Reber. Conshohocken
Charles B. Feather. Conshohocken
lt.nl. F. Maag, Conshohocken.
Percy II. Hidden, Conshohocken
.James Campbell, W. Conshohocken
U m. B. Bailey, Conshohocken.
Charles McOrath, Conshohocken.
Aaron Klein, Conshohocken.
trended men, they brbke a'panel In
the front door and through the open
Ing unlocked the doors. They wit-neaaed
1 desperate fight with ti f-iic.-
r .-.nil shaw withstanding the
three men. They quickly subdued the
Polandera by giving them Revere
punishment with their flats.
Alter the prisoners had been placid
in the station house, their friends and
hall .-.ml were repeatedly disbursed
families gathered about tbe borough
by the police but each time thej
gathered again and called into the
nun in the ells until the .ally hours
of this morning, disturbing the peace
f th.- wholi neighborhood.
Albert White Wounded
Rubber Hose cut to any length, 12%
cents per foot at KEHOE BROS.,
Fayette Street Adv.
Albert White, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William White, of Ridge Pike, White-marsh
township, has been wounded
In action In France. His parents re-ceived
a trench card giving notice of
him being wounded and that he Is
A parly of drunken Polandera ox-presslng
anti-American sentiments
Pocono! caused a small riol at Kim and Poplar
si reels last evening and kept the
neighborhood of the borough hall,
where the men were placed in cells,
in noise and excitement all nlghl long-
The big fight developed from a lit-tle,
sociable fight the Polandera were
about to have among themselves. A
number of men congregated in the
alhy below Hector street at Poplar
street and began a light early in the
evening. At 7 16 o'clock, officer Camp
hell, patrolling his heal, saw the men
and ordered them to disburse. John
Leminski, 80 Poplar street, a big,
powerful man. i.ere.i at the officer,
Campbell seeing that the men were
drunk and in an angry mood tele-phoned
for help and the men ran
1'own the street and Into the bar
room of the McClellan House. Camp
bell followed them and called to his
assistance Harvey Shaw, an ex-foot
ball player and an Iron worker. The
two men went into the bar to arrest
Leminski when they were attacked
by two other Polanders: Frank Ignet-tskl,
West Twelfth avenue and Hud-wig
Zadroga, West Conshohocken, all
big. powerful men. The men all at-tacked
Campbell and cut the *lde of
his nose anil bruised his eye. Camp-bell
put up a game fight and hhaw
was soon by his side. The two men
fought the frenzied Polanders who
Were cursing the Americans. John
Bauter, the proprietor of the hotel be-came
excited and inatead of opening
the front doors, locked them. Shaw
called for help, calling for Americans.
Hio calls were quickly answered by
Thonns Nevins. Philip Kelly, Thomas
Beaver. Howard Freas. all livtf.*- In
the neighborhood, and Walter Toin-llnson,
of West Conshohocken. They
forced their way into the barroom
and quickly subdued the Polanders.
The lighting aroused the whole neigh
borhood and a coll was sont for the
other police. Illleald. Ruth and Spur
lento quiokly responded and arrested
three ol the men, and th fourth, who
hail a badly injured hand, caused by
breaking a pane of glass, made his
escape.
In bringing the men to the -station
house, the police and their prisoners
Were ftllOWed by a great crowd. Peter
Ochiska was also arrested by the po-lice.
Officer lleald, testified at the
preliminary hearing before Burgess
Hay. this morning, that Peter called
out a number of times, somlehlng in
Polish and each lime the prisoners
would try and resist the police. Tin-men
were landed safely in the station
house and officer Ruth started out to
round up Zadrago. He and officer
lleald found him leaving a physicians
office and arrested him. Zadrago had
hi* left hand badly cut. After he had
be.n locked u)) for a while, it was
necessary to again give him medical
treatment.
Burgess Ray gave the men a hear
ing this morning ami neaid them
cadi under fl'OO bail for a further
hearing next Friday evening before
Magistrate Light. The men were
charged with drunkenness and dis-orderly
conduct and resisting an offi-cer.
John Leminski, a powerful man,
and supposed by the police to be the
instigator of the trouble, showed the
effects of the mauling he received at
the hands of Campbell and the civili-ans
who assisted him. as hiB face was
bruised and badly swollen and his
lips were several times their normal
size. Officers Campbell and lleald
both testified that Leminski was the
man who was cursing the Americans
and calling all Americans vile names.
Both officers testified that leminski
said: "I'll get you." They also testi-fied
that he had made the same
statements at his wark In the local
boiling mills: he said 'get' Campbell
and Heald.
NO BOOZE FOR MEN
LEAVING FOR ARMY
Stricter Regulations Announced Re-garding
the Departure of Drafted
Men
Warning has been issue.: to liquor
dealers not to furnish liipior to regis-trants
who have l.poitxd to local
draft boards for entrainmenl to enter
tin- mllltsrj service.
Selective service headquarters st
Harrisburg announces that in Boms
Instanced In the past registrant; of
Philadelphia have reported for en-trainmenl
iii an Intoxicated condition,
but this condition will no longer be
tolerated. Ixical boards are urged to
gel evidence of violations by any
liquor dealor of the act of Congre
approved May IK. l'.HT.
Selective service regulations now
contemplate placing inducted men in'
a temporary uniform and appointing
leaders of contingents, as special mili-tary
police. Upon induction by local
boards, selected men are subject to
military discipline and must BO con-duct
themselves as not to bring re-proach
upon themselves or the service
to which they belong.
The local draft boards will appoint
a leader of each contingent who will
receive a warrant of appointment as
leader and special policeman. He
will have direct charge of the parly
assigned to his care and be held re-sponsible
for the enforcements of the
regulation!. Warrants lo serve as
special policemen will also be Issued
lo assistant leaders.
The local selective service boards
will furnish each selected man lit
the lime he reports for duly, fll tin*
first roll call wilh an arm band, or
brassard, bearing the letters "I1. S.
N. A." This will be stitched imme-diately
to the left sleeve of Hie man,
two inches above the elbow. The
arm band or brassard will constitute
the uniform of the National Army
from the time of induction into the
military service until the arrival or
the man at Hie mobilization camp. It
has been ordered that the arm oand
or brassard shall not tie removed
from the clothing of the selected man
prior lo his arrival at the mobollzation
camp.
In addition to the brassard to ne
placed on the left sleeve of each man.
the local boards will furnish and have
si itched to the" light sleeve of each
leader and assistant leader an arm
band on which will appear the letters
"S. IV
Any persons subject to military
law who behaves himself with dis-respect
toward hi* superior officer
will be punished a* a court martial
may direct.
SOLDIER TELLS OF WOUNDS
Citizens, who witnessed, the fight
and aided the officer, stated that
Campbell followed the men to the sa-loon
and they at once nttacked him.
now in a base hospital. The nature Harvey Shaw ran to his assistance
of his wound was not disclosed. land found "Campbell gamely battling
Private White enlisted In the N. O. a» his assailants. The bar-room
P. and saw service on the border and I doors were quickly shut and locked
in the Western part of this State af- and the citizen* coOld not gain en-ter
war was declared. He went to | trance for a time. Knowing the Pol-
France last May. i anders were drunk, powerful and X
Mrs. John McHuigan, F.ast Sixth
avenue, received a letter from her
son, Corporal Edward Mi-Hulgan. ser-ving
in France, in which he said that
ho had lost a leg and expected to re-turn
home within a short time.
Corporal McHuigan notllier his par-ents
some lime ago that Tie rm« i^'en
wounded. He made light of his
wound and did not give Ihe least inti-mation
Of its seriousness. He wrote
short cheerful letters, several Of
which were published in Ihe Recorder
telling of the fine treatment he was
receiving in the hospital and his ex-pected
return home. He wrote of th*
gallantry Of the American troops but
never wrote a word as to his own
wounds except to say he had sustain-ed
a wound In the leg and^ that lie
was rapidly recovering.
EPILEPSY
PROVES FATAL
Young Italian Found Dead in
His Bed Room on Sunday-
No Struggles Heard
FOUND BY A RELATIVE
Roger Btevlro, aged 26 years, single
was found dead in his bed room St
the homl or Tony Mussochettl, 946.
Kast Klin street, where he boarded.
shortly after lu o'clock ..n Sunday
morning. Coroner Hevllle Investiga-ted
the .as.- and found that death
was due to an attack'of epilepsy.
Btevlro was employed ai the i-ee
Tire & Rubber works. Saturday eve-ning
he remained at home and spent
the evening writing a letter to his
sister at Memphis, i'.-nn. After com-pleting
bis letter he retired to his
room about 9.30 o'clock. Sunday
morning, he did not rise at his usual
hour but nothing was thought of the
matter, ihe family supposing he tie-sue.:
to rest. At 1" o'clock, <!us Naz-zachetti
caller at the house to see
Btevlro and was told he was In bed.
lie went to the bed room and knock-ed
at the door. He received no an-swer
and opened the door on a jar
and peered into the room. He saw the
body of Btevlro laying partly on the
bed and on the floor. He was horri-fied
at the sight and quickly left the
house and went in search of his bro-ther
Tony, who he found and told of
what he had seen. Tony immediately
called a physician on the telephone.
They wenl to ihe house and found
Btevlro who iras an epileptic, had suf-fered
an attack while In bed and in
his Struggles he partly fell" from the
bed, hi3 head was on the floor and
under a bureau while his legs and
feet were on the bed. In that posi-tion
he strangled to death. The
physiclaii. who examined the N>dy
about II a. m. said death ensued
about 4 hours previously.
No one In the house had heard
St.viro's struggles.
He Is survived by two sisters. Mrs.
Alfred QOstlnell, of Fast Blm Btreet.
and a sister residing ai Memphis.
Tenn. The fatter was notlBed ot her
Ifrolher's death and came here to at-tend
the funeral.
The funeral was held this morning.
High Mass of Requiem was celebrat-ed
In the church of SS. Cosmos and
Hamian and the Interment was at St.
Matthew's new cemetery.
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FIRE MENACED FACTORIES
Bank Teller in Army
George Slaughter, teller at the
Tradesmen's Rank, has been inducted
lnt othe army and left today with the
contingent from Willow Grove.
TELL IT TO THE RECORDER
Going away?
Just coming bock?
Any guests visiting youT
If so, tell the Recorder.
Phone Bell or Keyatona.
Wail be glad to get It.
DR. K. J. MEYERS
Dentiat.
70 Faystte 8t. .»t. Adv,
The refuse dump near Ninth avenue
and Ilallowell street was found to be
afire about !' o'clock last night by
Francis Freas, of the Francis Freas
Glass Company. The flames had
gained good headway and menaced
the factory buildings or the Freas
cias.; Company and the Ruth plasi
Company. Mr. Freas not Hied the No.
2 Fire Company which Immediately
went into service. The Company
laid SlIO feet of hose and used a plug
stream, quickly extinguished the fire.
Early In the evening a number of
Children were seen playing on Ihe
dump and It is supposed they caused
the fire.
AWARDED CONTRACT
FOR HOU8E8
Contractor Oscar Freas has been
awarded a further contract by Ihe
Alan Wood Iron & SteVl Company for
the erection of 12 dwelling houses in
Koulke street. liyiiioiith township.
Mr. Preas now has a contract for the
election of IS houses for the com-pany
and a number of these are near-ing
completion. He began on the new
operation yesterday.
The houses are 3 l-U story brick
containing conveniences and are mod-ern
Industrial dwellings.
THE PLAYGROUND CLOSES
Active preparations for the closing
day of the Public Playgrounds are In
progress. Parents and visitors are
invited to the grounds, Thursday af-lernoon
at 2.90, and the progress of
events will begin promptly. A Flag
drill, games and a play "Helping
Jack" are features of the afternoon.
An interesting exhibit of things made
by the children on the play ground is
on exhibit in the window of McClem*
ents drug store.
For BABY COACH TIRE8 of- 'all
•ires, go to KEHOES, Hector street.
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