Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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Wyoming Valley *s     \ Great Home Paper
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THE WEATHER
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Kartern Pa.: rnrtly cloudy and sorpewhat warmer, possibly thunder showers Sunday; Monday fair.
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Entered   at   Wilkcs-Kirro,   Pa.. as   Second   Class   Mail   Matter.
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 24,1923
The   Only    Sund.^y    New.spnper Covering the   Wyoinins   Valley
PRICE EIGHT CENTS
GIRL IS KILLED HERE BY BOLT OF LIGHTNING;
HOT SPELL IS FEATURED BY A FREAK STORM
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GIVES JOB TO WIDOW
Dependent Of Heroic Soldier Is Remembered By The President Of His Country
HARDING ACTS
Finds Permanent Place For IVlrs. Briscoe Whose Hus¬ band Died To Save Two
Farrar Granted Divorce Decree
New York, June 23.—Gcraldine Karrar has won hor divorce which sliesou?;ht from her husband, Lou Tcllesen, according: to aniiounco- nient tonight by Samuel t'nter- niycr, the diva'.s roimsel. liefereo Mahony, who heard the case, filed a rocommondation favorln? tlie de¬ cree, Unter.nriypr said. Action wa.; bt^;un hero two ycar.s oko, three women being named. One of these, Stella Larrimorc, youthful actrefss. sued for a Jury trial of tho divorce I)roreedirtg:s becau.se lier name wa.s montioneil, wliereupon officially it v.as stricken from the records of the hearing, and action on this count ruled out. IJntermyer will appe.il to Justice Cohalan for ju¬ dicial confirmation of the referee's report and entry of an interlocu¬ tory decree in Parrar's favor next week. Lou Tellegen, when reache.l late tonlj^ht, said: "I am glad the lady got her divorce. I .wanted lier to have it from tho beginning."
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COURAGE GLORIFIED
Washington, Juna TS.—Just Tieforc closing his desk tofleave for Alaska, President Harding fotind time to give a Job to the widow of a dead soldier here. Jaded by the heat and a week's intensive speech .writing, Mr. Hardin* Just beforo train time last ^Vednes- day called for the caHO of Airs. Amelia V. nrlscoo, widow of a gallant soldier. With a stroke of his pen, he placed her permanently In tho government •ervlco and closed his de.sk.
Mr. Harding's heart had been deeply touched by tho story of Captain Wll- llan J. Briscoe's heroic death. The olDcer laid down his life that two of his men might live.
They wvro Filipinos, men of another race and color. P.ut they were his own men and Captain Briscoe did not heslt.ilo In the face of almost certain death fur himself and scant possibility of succcs^Cul rescue, the otilcial reco.-ils show.
Captain Briscoe. In charge of a de¬ tachment of Philippine Scout.s, vas directing a fight against one of the fierce forest llres, which frequently swept the islands.
Tw.i n.itive Igorrotes soldiers, fight¬ ing the Are which threatened govern¬ ment property in Camp John Hay, liaguoa. suddenly found themselves surrounded \>y a ^^all of flames. Blinded by heat and bewildered by smoke the men were seen to f.iU to the  ground.
.Vli hough the little brown men seemed doome.I, Captain Bri.scoc dasheil into the inferno and dragged them to safety. His act was pa¬ thetically heroic, for In saving his men he was so seared by the flames he (lied in a few liours, leaving a de¬ pendent  widow.
.\n apii. al at the White House la.<5t winter resulted in a temporary place being foun<l for Mrs. Bri.scoe. After rciiding the olticial rei>i)rls of Captain P.r.sioe's heroic sai-rilice, the I'resi- deni lurneil aside in the midst of his dep.iiture for Alask.i to Issue the or- dei- si\ing Mrr,. P.riiicoe a permanent clerkr.liip.
INSTITUTE OF PLANTS TO GUARD FOOD SUPPLY
Yonker.s, N. Y., June 23.- .\n insti¬ tute which is "to do for plants what the Kockefeller Institute has done for human bcinu^s," is l>eing established here by Col. William B. Thompson with an Initial outlay of jr.OO.OOO and a total outlay of $2..'.00,000, according to l")r. William Crocker, llniversity of Chicago, who has been appointed re¬ search director.
On a nine-acre plot will be erected a large quailiangle of laboratories and numbers of green hou.=es. Hero the diseases of plants will be Btu<lied and attempts made to find cures for them.
Climatic conditions will be abso¬ lutely under control of the oxperimen- ti;s.
I'ower lights who.-^o intensity can y>o controlled will take the place of the Kim. Humidity, temperature and the proportion of carbon "iiovide gas in the atmosphere can be changed at will.
McADOO HAS CALL FROM DEMOCRACY
Cape INIay, X. J., June 23.—"William G. McAdoo stands a {rood chance of l^cinj? the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1924," William J. iJryan declared here today.
"And the Democratic Party will put a dry plank in its 1924 platform," the Commoner added.
I\Ir. Bryan made his predictions while commenting on the action of Governor Smith of New York in signing the dry law repealer of that State.
"Gov. Smith made one of the greatest blunders in the his- I tory of th.e Democratic Party in*New York," Bryan asserted.
Referring to the seizure of liquor aboard British liners to- : day Bryan said the vessels should have been confiscated as soon '\ as they touclied American waters. |
"I think it is supreme gall and impudence for foreign na- I tions to complain of rules adopted by our government for the ; waters inside the thi'ee mile limit," he declared heatedly.
Asked if he thought the Democratic Party v/ould adopt   aj wet plank in 1921, Bryan said: i
"It. would mean the deatli of the Democratic Party to espouse a v/et platform in 1924."
Asked for liis views of prospective candidates for the Dem¬ ocratic nomination, the Commoner asserted:
"McAdoo would stand a good chance on account of his con¬ nection witli the Ijig interests of this country, and I   am   sure ; they would stand for no wet plank."
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1,500Mine Workers Return To Job After Ending Strike Of Two Days
Fifteen hundred miners will resume work tomorrow at \ No. 6 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Company at Inker- man after being on strike two days. Their grievance com¬ mittee last night sent out notices to the men to return to. their places. Announcement that the Inkerman colliery* will again begin the production of coal ended rumors that all other Pennsylvania Company miners in the Pittston disti'ict were contemplating a general strike. The strike was called Friday morning because a miner refused to pay a $25 fine levied by local ofticers cf the union. lie was claimed to have done some Sunday '.'ork which resulted in the blasting of rock. When the miner refused to pay, all the other miners quit work. Spokesmen of the strikers declared last night that they will not permit the miner to work tomorrow. The matter will likely go to a conference of union representatives and company oflicials.
TRAGEDY OCCURS IN OPEN PASTURE ALONG WEST SIDE
Girl Attempts To Drive Cow Before Storm And Botli Arc Struck Dead By Flash From Skies—Raifi Fails In Scattered Sections Of
The Valley
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STREETS AND CELLARS FLOODED
NiNElY THOiiD ^HVffil FORTUNE
HELD BV SOVIET MINE lERS   ! CONVICTS AnUCK
KET TIIESOM MEN MRD TMN
OOLUmSISLEFT TO am HERE:
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ED TREETS
Will   Of   Late  John  Welles Two   Hundred   Millions   Of Hollenback Disposes Of a:    Dollars Is Moved In Special
Secretary Hughes Orders a' Coast Guard Cutter To In¬ vestigate Facts And Cause
Very Valuable Estate
INFORMATION LACKING
CHURCH GETS MOST
Washington, Jiyie 2,'?.--The coast guard cutter Bear has been ordered to the Siberian coast to investigate the fate of four .-Xmerlcan trading schooners reported held by Russian soviet authorities, It was learned to¬ day. The cutter was sent at the re¬ quest of Secretary of State Hushes.
Hughes was unable to obtain de- inite inform.ition as to the fate of the .\merican schooners and ho /irrangtrl to h.ave the Bear go to the Siberian coast to investigate.
Meagre preliminary reports of th'^ detention of the American vessels by Soviet authorities, reaching the Stale Department tonight, were not re¬ garded by oflicials as sufficient evi¬ dence for this government to base any action >ipon at this time beyond a thorough inquiry.
The promiit action of Mr. Hughes in ordering the Bear to investigate the reported seizure, however, in<li- cated that this government was pre¬ pared to do anything nece.s.sary to in¬ sure the safety of .American lives and property.
It was believed that once Mr. Hughes is in possession of all the fact.s he will insist upon the safe de¬ livery of the vessels anii all those aboard by the Soviet authorities.
It was just such a seizure of Brit¬ ish vessels as is indicated in connec¬ tion with American craft in Ilus.sian watci-s that led to .a recent exchange of notes between London and Moscow, which nearly leil in turn to a serious rupture between Great Britain and Soviet Russia.
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LIQUOR RAIDS MADE
IN SCRANTON DISTRICT
May Ficjht For Shamokin De-i Two Rockvlew Refugees Ob- mands And Also For Mu-;  tain Clothes And Money And
tual Insurance Company
LEWIS WILL ATTEND
Xcw ¦J^age demands and v orking .conditions to be, u.'c-il as a basis for .a worliiiig ;i'.;rornvnt to bo negoiiated with    iintliracite    operators   to    take
Then Evade Police
SEEN NEAR DANVILLE
Acconling to report.-? received by the Bloomsburg police last night, two of the six convicts who dug their way out of the Rockvlew penitentiary    in
I place ol' the present agreement which! Centre County on Wednesday morn- . expires on Aug. .^1, will be dr.vfted at ing, early yesterday morning beat up j tho fri-di.strict convention of I'nitedjand robbed two men from Maudi Mine Workci-s of America to be held | Chunk on a Philadelphia & Reading starting    on    Tuesday | Rupc-t.
in Scrinton, .starting on morning. The sessions will be held in ^cl•;•.nton Town Hall an(l it is e.xpecteil they \Sjil continue until Krid.iy or Sal- ruday.
. About 500 delegates from districts No. 1. 7 and 9 navo been elect'd by the vaiious local unions to repre.sci.t tho l.'.d.OOO anthracite mine workers at the Convention. On account of the re¬ tail coal dcalei-'s convention V)eing held in Scranton at the .same time there is a scarcity of hoi •! rooms and u uum- ber of di'lcgatcs from districts 7 and n lu;ve made rcscrvatioas at the loca; hotels.
It Is bc'ievcd that th" delegates will wage a i.tiff battle to have th<! fainoas nineteen demand-- of the Shamokin l^'2i convention used a.s a l:)a.'-is tor a new agreement with the oi>erators. Several months ago when the tri- di.-tiict c-\cculivc bo.irds in ses.^ion in this city issued the call for the tri- di.strict convention the question ot using the 19i;2 <ltinando as a ba.-i.s for a new agreement was discussed for somo time when it was decided to allow tho delegates to <lctermine tho course of action
Thcmen who refu.sed to give their names, said that the convicts took their clothes, money .nnd other valu¬ ables and left their prison uniforms. The shirts they lett bore prison num- bcis of Rockview pcniUt'niiary.
After being held up by the convicts the two men from Mauch Chunk made their way to Dr. Vastinc at Catawissa where they were given first aid treat¬ ment and clothes. Their boilies were badly bruised, their f:'.ces blackened and their heads laorrated from being struck by blunt instruments carried by tho convicts. The prison uniforms worn by the two convicts and left with their victims when the change -was | marlo were left with the Catawis.'ia physician and last night identified by officials from Rockview penitentiary as the uniforms of two of tho convicts who escaped from the institution.
Alarms have been sent all over this section of the State in an effort to ap¬ prehend the convicts.    They were last I seen  riding on a freight train toward
The   convention   will    be   called   <":Tamaqua.    The Ciinvicts    made    the
AVIATORS ARE KILLED
IN TESTS IN EUROPE
Prohibition enforcement agents as¬ sisted by State police made two large hauls of liquor yesterday afternoon in raids in Lackawanna County. Moon¬ shine liquor and alcohol were confis¬ cated by the raiders who ordered the owners to apjiear for hearings. James D. Bachman, who was in charge ot tho expedition, declared his men en¬ countered no resistance.
In a rai<l on the premises of Morris Tjebowilz at 129 North Main street, Taylor, tho raiders seized 240 gallons of whiskey and 150 gallons of alcohol. Thirty-five gallons of whi.skey became the property of the government in a raid on the saloon of Joe Yahascs on l.ackawannii. avenue, Scranton.
Pari.% Jtme 23.—.\vlation fatalities were reported froni various parts of Europe today. At Lo Touqtiet, Jean Casale, who held the French altitude reconl. was killed and his mechanic Injured when their big four-motored plane fell 6O0 feet.
Signor Mercanti.  Italian  nir mlnl.>(- ] tcr, was piloting his own plane    from i Turin to London when    he fell    near ' Aix-Les-Baincs ami was slightly    In¬ jured.
Major E. L. Toot, flying a baby nonopiane in a 104 mile race in Eng¬ land, was killed and burned beyond iccognition when his plane fell near Cl-.crtrey.
Lieut. W. H. Longton, flying a 110 horse power Eopwith "gnu"  won the race In 4  hours and  40 minutes.    It I was confined  to  planes  of  less  than IJO horse power.
Another air minister, in addition to Signor Mercanti, was flying today. Sir Samufl Hoare, M. P.. secretary of State for aviation in the Stanley Bald¬ win cabinet, crossed the English channel in .i plane, accompanied by bis wife.   Thc> landed safeU' at Paris
CANCER REALLY CURED IS BELIEF OF DOCTORS
San Francisco, Calif., June 23.—The cure of cancer by X-ray and radium is believed to be almost certain by mimy physicians attending the annual convention of the National Thera¬ peutic Society here. Development of the X-ray is contributing daily to the funds of information regarding cancer it was said, and many physlcian.'j ex¬ pressed themselves as surprised at the progress made.
One of the most interesting of the exhibit.s, according to viewing physi¬ cians was a film shown by Dr. R. H. Stevens, of Detroit. The film is a record of the treatment of a cancer patient with high voltage X-ray when the spine and lower portion of Uie body had been completely disin¬ tegrated.
Dr. W. E. Chamberlain, of San Francisco, who had charge of the ex¬ hibition, explained that following the treatment all evidence cf cancerous infection had disappeared and the bones previously affected had been regenerated in. spectacular fashioa.
icnUr at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morn- ! ing by Thomas Kennedy of Hazleton,
¦ cl.airman ot ihi: tri-district scale com- jmitlte. Tho morain;.' will be taken up 1 .vith the rcccivin.4 of credential.; fitoiii
¦ accrediced dolcvatcs and other I'r.v ; iiminary work. John L. I-ewis, inter- : national president of I'nited Mine I Worker of America, Philip J. .Murray, {international vice president, and other ' international  officers  are  expected  to
arrive  in time  to  tal^e chi-.rge of_lhe convention sessions on Tuesday after¬ noon. I     It   Is   believed   the   delegates   will ! .i.iopt a form of mutual insurance to jbc   controlled   by   the   three   districts ;:.nd to be known as tho John Mitchell I .Mutual    Insurance    Compaony.     The |di.«tricls  have  been  unable  to obtain I insurance  for  the   workers  from   the Hill   line   companies   and   the   idea   of f'irming an insuranco company amonc the members of Ui'- three district will be   fidvanced   by  delegates   from   dis¬ tricts   will   be   adv.mccd   by   delegates from district No. '.>.
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HUSBAND RETURNS;
MAN DESERTS AUTO
Kingston   pohce  came   into  sudden possession of a new Dodge coupe last night when the owner of the machine fled on foot before an irate husband. Early   today   the  car  was   paiked   in the West Side borough building while the cops hunted for its owner.    They are attempting to trace him by means of the license plates.    The Dodge was deserted while its owner was making a social call on Atherton street, West- moor.    For some reason, someone in tho neighborhood   called    the    police. Just before the cops arrived, the hus- I band   suddenly  returned   home.    The ' owner   of   the   machine   fled   along I Atherton   street   leaving  the   car  be- i hind.    The ch:;.'--^,   in  which the hus- ¦ Viand  w.!s outiUbtanccd,  wiis watched iby tho neishborbood.
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escape from the prison by sawing iron rars on the windows and tunneling their way under the concrete wall which surrounds the institution. I
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CHARGED WITH THEFT FROM HIS EMPLOYER
Joe Hichcharle, alias Joe Herker, aged 21, of Swoyerville, was arrested by menibei-s of the Kingston police de- partme. t, last night, charged with the theft of approximately $300, and is being held pending a further inve.-;- tigalion. The pri.soner has been em¬ ployed for some time by George Schei- lenberger, chief of the Kingston fire department, who also conducts n S^irage on the West Side.
Shortly after noon, yesterday, Mr. Schellenberger, while working en a car with Hetker, discovered that his purse containing approximately $300 was missing. Though suspecting the employee of having the money ha made no report of tho matter until last evening, preferring rather to watch the movements of the young man closely in an effort to make cer¬ tain that the young man hai the money before taking any fu-nher ac¬ tion.
Last evening the matter was re¬ ferred to the Kingston police and soon afterward Ofllqpr Holcomb 1.;].] placed Herker under arrest as he was on his way home from work, a search of the young man's clothing re¬ vealed nothing but arriving at his home the suspect was asked to re¬ move his shoes, which he did, and money neatly folded was found in one of the phoes.
Late last night, it is said, he made a full confession of having picked the pocket book containing the money up from the garage floor after he and his employer had been working on a truck. He will likely be given a hear- ^iQS tomairovr moming.
Wealth, whose lowest estimate is five million dollars and which Is thought by some to approach close to twenty million dollars, I.-* disposed of in the will of the late John Welles HollenViack, who, until his death on Tuesday morning, at the ag^ of ninety-six years, was Wilkes-Barro's oldest resident and nl.so ono of its most charitablo and di.stinguished. Mr. Hollenback's will was filed yes¬ terday and it makes bequests totaling ninety thou.saiKl dollars to various charitable in;:titutions and to others associated with  welfare movements.
First Presbyterian Cluinh of AVilkes-Barro receive.^ the greatest amount among tho bequests to charit¬ ablo and weir.ira Institutions, Mr. Hollenback directing that it be paid the sum of forty thou.sand dollars. Other bequests are In amounts vary¬ ing from ten thousand dollars U> one thous.and dollars each.
During his lif.;-time John Welles Hollenb.ick disposed of m.my thous¬ ands of dollars in gifts to various enterprises Iviving to do with tho betterment of the people, of Wyoming Valley and he was always numbered among the most generous contrlmtors to any project designed to uphold Wyoming Valley's performanco of humanitarian duty. Tho leading be¬ quests made in his will are as follows-
To First Pre^<hytrrlan Cliurch of VVilkes-Barre   $10,(00.
To Youn- Women's Christian As¬ sociation, •i'.  .000.
To Wilkcs-Barre City Hospital, $10,000.
To Home of Frlrndlers Children, $r>.noo.
To   Home    for    Homeless    Women,
$r.,ooo.
Mr. Hollenback makes the f.-.llowing bequests in his will, directing they be paid in cash to:
Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian  t.'hurch,  $3,000.
Board of Foreign Ml.'isinn.'^ of tlje I'resbyterian  Chiircli,  $3,000.
Presbyterian Board of I'uhllcation and Sabbath School  Work.  $1,000.
Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freom'^n, $1,000.
Presbyterian Board for the relief of disabled mini.sters and their widows and orphan.s, $2,000.
Ksfate lo ("hildron
Ho leaves to dau.trhter-s .\mella B. and Anna W. Hollenback. Josephine H Twycffort, Eleanor H. Gibson, Emily T. Taylor, equal shares in hi.« real csUto at the corner of Market and River streets, with the request that this property and all hts coal lands remain in his family.
Ho leaves the remainder of his estate to the above named daughters in share ami share alike, and he names his son-in-law. Dr. Lewis H. Taylor, Samuel C. Chase and his daughter, Amelia B. Hollenback. as executors. He makes the request that his son- in-law. Dr. I..ewis H. Taylor, shall as¬ sume chief charge of the estate, and designate the work and duties of him¬ self and his co-executors. He leave^ instructions as to the safe handling of the estate, and makes the .sugges¬ tion that after a period of five years that the coal lands and leases be placed under the management of a trust company.
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SOMEWHERE TI!E SNOW IS EIGHT INCHES DEEP
Safes By Guards
ALL HEAVILY ARMED
New York, Junn 23.—T^vo htindred million dollars In gold and .securities, tha greatest sum ever transferred at a single time In the history of New York, was earned by an armore<l cara¬ van ."evei-il mile.s up tho East Side to¬ day—while the city's liandits slept.
Tho cargo of wealth was taken from tho Bowery Savings Bank In the Bowery to an ui)town branch.
It was move<l in fourteen armored vans, each accomp.mied by .six heavily armed iiit.arfls In nn hour and forty miriules without mishap.
Tlio iocurities, millions of which v.hlch were negotiable, represented the wealth of tho bank's $155,000 de¬ positors.
Movable 400 poimd .safes containing scaled metal boxes In which the secur¬ ities were placed were trundled out of the b.ank and loaded on the vans. A .guard with a machine gun and five other F.uarils witn revolvers followed each .sii'o jnto tho vans-.
A bank official locked each safe a; it w.iH removed to the vans and re- i.ajned the key. At the uptowlf brancJi another offici.al with the (mly duplic.ite key tinlocked the safes when they. V.ere delivered inside the bank's mas¬ sive vault.
IJvery precaution had been taken to Picvcnt a holdup. .Special guards of pjoliec '.ver<' staiuncil about both l).;nks and i)lain clothes policeaien wer^^ .it all princip.d cros.-town street. Motorcyle police accompanied each pair of v.ins.!
The ilriver of each van .sat in a vestibuli; of bullet inonf gla.ss seven- eighths of of an inch thick. Port holes in tho .sides of the vans were protected with  removable bullet proof glat:s.
A surety company bonded each guard for VilO.OOO.
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KISSING IN PARKS
DEFENDED BY WOMAN
A girl was killed by Iii-htnin,T, I streets were flooded and farm crops badly damaged in a series of freak storms that circled around Wyomin.g Valley late yesterday as the heat wave became more inteuhe. Wilkes-Barrc entirely escaped tho storms which left behinti tragedy and pioi)erty los.s.
Helen Valetsko. 10 years ol.I. of ISC'J Main strci't, Dickville, a pait of Swoy¬ erville, was in.stantly killed by u bolt of lightning  in  a  field one    hundred j yards from her hoiu(>.    A cow    being ; driven  by  tho  girl    a.s    she    hurried ; along before a Uireatening .storm, was i aLso killed by the same shaft.
The fatality was tho tiist of its kind ! to occur this year but it bore close re- ! semblance to a •ti'a.ge<ly . at.  Geoj-ge- tov.n last summer where a school Ixiy was killed duringa baseball game.    In both instances, tlie'fatiirbolt of li^ht- nin.g struck before rain be.gan falling. When storm-clouds dic.miu to^ gather over the West Side la.st evening short¬ ly before  7  o'clock,, t.he  Vakl.sko  girl was sent by her parents to bring homo a cow that had been placed in pasture. Her riath led through somo fields be¬ tween   Swoyerville and the  bounilary line of Wyoming borough.
Neighbors See Tra;;e<ly With tho cow in tow, the girl was passing thnough a field close to her! home ;is the first drops of rain fell. The nearest shelter was one hundred yards away. Before she had gone half a dozen steps, according to nei;;hbors who watched her from other liouses in Dicksville, a flash of lightning illuminated the countryside. The giii was  seen  to  stagger and  fall  to  the
Tho lightiiing left no other fnai*. Tho ground where tho girl and tho cow collapseil showed no disturbance. Trees in the rear of tho Valet.sko home were un(Hsturbo<l. Tho-vTctim is sur¬ vived by her jiarcnts and several brotiiers and sist&Ts.
l-'rcali Slorm.s
The .storms which darlod in and out of Wyoming Valley late in the day failed to break tho sweltering heat wave. Temporary relief vas afforded by torrential rain at several places b'lt as soon as tho <u;\viipour ceased, tho mercury Climbed back to its former position.
I'iltsfon and vicinity expcrlencol tho woi-.st sionn. P.ain began fallins early in the evening. Jt steadily in- cii'a.sed iiiilil there were fears of a cloudburst. For half an hour it con¬ tinued and in the mcaiVJnio streets in tho bii.siiie.ss district of I'ittston were flooded to anklo depth. Cellars of some stores an<l «lwellings were flooded but no other d.imago was done, the police announcefl.
.\ similar sioiiii swept through part« of Hanover Township late in the after¬ noon. . Heavy riin ac<!oinpanie/l by thunder and lightning full in torrents, caasiiig heavy lo.sses to farmers. Th« storm extend"d south as fir as Nantl- coke, i)ut did not enter ¦*.V'ilk( .•-Barro. No Ijuildmgs «vero struck by lightning, an in,! • tiijation rovealiii. In Nantl- coUo the heaviest walcridl occurred bctn-cep 1:3'l ,'Uid t -I.', o'clock. Itilcrlcrcs With Cars
Passi irpcrs traveling on tho V i!I:es. Barro & Hazleton electric system pa.ssed through a heavy storai that extendeil from Conyngham \'alle.y but
,.,.,, ... ,. I subsided niMi- the Sugar Notch tunnel,
ground.   A   the .same mstant the cow i    ^ ,,^^ ^ ^^ thV.tonn, operation
also crumpled m a heap. I ^^ ^.^„.^^ ^^..^^ difficMlt.
Memlicrs of the Valetsko family .n^id several other persons wont to her aid. When they were unable to arouse the gill. Dr. G. E. Baker, of Forty Fort, v.as summoned. H" made h^i exam¬ ination at the place of the trageily. Ho pronounced the girl dead. The only m.irk ou her body wa.s u small burn. Dr. Bak-^r carried tho victim to the  homo of her parents.
Outlyin.tr farming region.^ nlso re¬ ported heavy loss to ciop.s. In somo localities cioris were iii>rooted. Heavy niin also fell last night in Miners Mill*. State police reported that mountain fires whicli ha<l gained a. big he.-idway ill the pa.'it few days, were quenched. i;.iilroad.s, tcleiihone companies and j li.i-'iit companies announced their prop- I cities escaped with slight lo.ss.
RGilTMilVCiiySE
Toledo, Ohio, June 23.—Toledo Housewives League today went on record against the prohibition of "pet- tlnng parties" in city park.s. In a resolution adopted after a stormy ses¬ sion this afternoon the organization d' fends the "right of Toledo girls to be kis.scd." The re.rolution scored city authorities for their recent campaign ag.-jinst spooning in the parks.
".Vn occassional kiss can't hurt a girl," said Mrs. Dougla.s, president of the league, who led the flghb for the resolution.
"If she goes to the park find Is kiss¬ ed occasionally by her beau, the up- lifters are horrified.
"'if sh"* Lakes him to her room she Is severely crtlcised."
Tho resolution will be presented at the next meeting of tho city council. •
PRESS OF BRITl TKES NOTICE OF SEIZURE OF BOOZE
"fCONTENDER
Larksvillc  Man  In  Hospital CriticiEm Aimed At Ship Own- And Neighbor Is Held By '    ers For Usurping a Part In
Police Of Plymouth - A PROPERTY DISPUTE
Injured internally in a fight with a neighbor. Jos>ph Stis.s;ick, 42 years old, of 2.';i East Poplar street, Larks- ville,   w;is   taken   to   M^rcy   Ho.';pi*al
Foreign Dispute PROHIBITION   QUESTIONED
l,ondon. Juno 23.—Tho action of British steamship line.s in making a test ca.se nf the I'nited .States Supremo Court's ruling that foreign ve.s.sels can- j not enter Amerii;n ports with liquor Ifi-st night in a serious condition. He:,nhoaril was decried in tho London has a fair chance for recovery, ho.s- prrs.'^ today and the shippers were pital authoritir.s announce.], but in the taken to task for interfering in what meantims Burge;;.'^ fleorge Gwiiliani of was claimerl to be an issue between Plymouth is holding Micfiael .Mod;. 3S   two governments.
vears old. a n-xt door neighbor of the The Evening Standard, commenting Victim, for thn as.-aiilf. Meek is a O" the breaking of the British seals prisoner in  Plymouth Town  Hail. ='"'' »f'<^ seizing of liquor in New York.
The   fipht   between   Sti.s.sack   and'"'''"'•''"¦'''l ^tnfihatically that tho decision Mock  occurred  early ve.stenlav  after- | "f "'« Sui.ie.me Court was not a fight
PLYMOUTH BOY SCOUTS KEEP UP FUND APPEAL
Redding, Calif., June 23.—Fresh snowfalls of the jJast twenty-four hours are 8 inches deep on the level at Bonanza King Mine, near Carrville, Calif., a^'^ ^^ inches deep at Shasta Forest lookout between Carrville anil Castello in this State. Snow fell all this afternoon on the Trinity Moun¬ tain Divide between Trinity Gulch and Trinity Centre. Old timers caid this was a' record storm for J'jne in tllis part of-ilie State,
Not satisfied with the returns re¬ ceived to date in the drive for 2500 with which to make it po:;sible for the Plymouth Boy Scouts to attend the annual outing at Camp Acahcla, this year, thorc in charge of the drive have decided to continue the campaign for another week, if necessary. Until this year, the Scouts at Plymouth had not been sufficierrtly organized to warrant their participation In the big Scout encampment but this year a number of prominent citizens of the town took it upon themeelves to col¬ lect funds with ivhlch to finance tlio Plymouth troop's partMvat^cs ta the encampment. The , workers In the drive were organized and a systematic canvass of the town was begun about a week ago. I.,ast night a total of $1235 had been solicited with prospects of this amount being increased con¬ siderably when some of the wards not
noon .at the former's home. The two men had been on unfriendly terms for nearly a year because of a dispute in¬ volving sone real estate. Mnok i.s al¬ leged to have visitrd the older man's home yesterday for the purpo.so of settling the difficulty.
Instead of ending the dispute, the two men plunged into a flgljt. Stis- sack In a statemf-nt to Burge.ss Gwil- liam at the ho.spital charged that Mock kicker! him in the ab.lomen. After the fight the victim remaineil at homo until 5 o'clock when his condition be¬ came serious. His family had him taken to the ho.spital. Surgeons de¬ clared  an  openition   wa/i   immediately I of concern for diplomats and govem-
betwren the steamship companies and the I'nited .States customs authorities.
.\nieriea's right to dry up vessels bound from America to England was d.'Clared to be qiustionablo and an In¬ fringement of "the courtesy due one gr'e-'it nation from another."
"The United Stafe.s has no title to en.ict legislation restricting the rights of foreigners on the high seas," tho Stand.ard .stated.
In a .similar vein, the Sunday Times att.uk.s the st.and taken by the United States and vievv.s the court's ruling as a "blow that i.'! aimed at foreign ves¬ sels entering New York and a matter
ncce.'isary. When it appeared th;it Stis.^ack might not recover. Sergeant Ignatius Ho'ioy of th" Plymouth police wa's notified. Mock's .irre.st by Bur¬ gess Gwilliam and Chief Henry Jones followed at his home.
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TWO DROWN IN WRIXK
Philadelphia, June 23.~One man wa."! drowned -ind two others barely es¬ caped with their Utos when the ttig BflBCfTB mtfwwtf fnte & rnnaTl lannoh on the Delaware River tonight, ac¬ cording to the police.
The launch, operated by S. J. Taitt. National I'ark, N. .T., with William Stevcr..son and Frank Breu. both of r'.iiiadelphia, aboard, way running op-
ments" The foreign office was <yitl- cized for its alr>ofne.ss in allowing tho ship lines to fight "what is unques- tion.ably a national battle."
"I.iepend upon it, this' is no way to win the American government over to rai'cful procedure in international in¬ to icoui-se," the Times warns. "A great majority of Americans are on our si i'.-^ Prohibition was forced on them and tlicy Wv« oo dcbire t« lorue it «¦
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positt the Gloucester immigration riier \ serious   nature. ^Already naahed liave been canvassed. 1 when tho boats crasbed. i was broken.
KING ALBERT INJURED
Brt:sselB. June 23.—Injuries received I by King Albert of Belgium, who was i thrown from his horse today, were de- Ic'.ared tuni^ht to be in no wise of a His  majesty's  wrist