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THE ALTOONA MIRROR ALTOONA, PA 1917   1917 Submitted by Sue Smith NEWS OF NEARBY COUNTIES Frank Began of Patton was killed by an accidental shot while hunting with his brother in Cambria County. Mifflin's sixty-first annual institute is over following one of the most successful meetings ever held. William Bailey, colored, was severely slashed in a fight among several negroes at Johnstown., Johnstown's council has decided on a raise in wages for the city firemen in order to keep the entire force from leaving. J. T. Gephard of Bellefonte sustained a 3 inch wound in his head, following a gun shot from another hunter. Lewis C. Beate [?], who was employed in a farm near Bellefonte, was suddenly killed when a heavy farm wagon ran over his head. Cambria county courts have an unusually large number of cases this season.