Bellefonte, Pa., March 29, 1907.
Sought Death Before Classmates Be-
cause Mother Scolded Her.
NO HOPE FOR HER RECOVERY
Philadelphia, March 26.—Scaring
her classmates almost to the verge of
panic, Anna Dragnetti, a 15-year-old
pupil in the Jackson public school,
12th and Federal stregts, swallowed
the contents of a one-ounce bottle of
atrophine, and is now in St. Agnes’
hospital, where the phyicians say there
is practically no hope that she can re-
cover.
The girl's action was a deliberate
atatempt at suicide, which, the police
declare, came as a sequel to a quarrel
with her mother at the Dragnetti
home, 128 Ellsworth street.
Anna, they declare, had been out
during the evening and did not return
to her home until not long before
midnight. Her mother was awaiting
her arrival and upbraided her. A lively
argument ensued, during which, it is
alieged, Mrs. Dragnetti expressed her
feelings strongly against the company
in which her daughter had passed the
evening. Anna went to bed after the
reprimand, and when school time came
she left the house as usual, and with
no outward sign that her mother’s
words had left any sting.
She had gone, however, to a closet in
the house wherein Mrs. Dragnetti kept
a little stock of medicines, abstracting
therefrom the vial of atrophine, which
she knew to be a deadly poison, it
having been used some two or three
years ago by her mother as an eye
lotion.
Concealing the bottie In her dress
the girl joined her schoolmates and
gave no hint of her purpose as she
took her seat in the classroom. The
session was nearly at an end when
Anna was seen to take the tiny bottle
from its hiding place, and lift it to
her lips. Her teacher and schoolmates
saw the action simultaneously.
Confusion reigned in the classroom
as the pupils screamed in terror or
sat aghast at the fast-paling face of
their comrade, who remained upright
at her desk in a stupor. Her teacher
hurriedly left the room, and ran to a
telephone, calling up the police sta-
tion, apprising them of what had taken
place. The patrol wagon went to the
schoolhouse on a gallop, and the girl,
still unconscious, was hurried to St.
Agnes’ hospital at breakneck speed.
Her teacher made the ride with her,
supporting the head of her pupil, who
seemed to be fast sleeping to death.
The other pupils, still greatly excited,
were quieted by the principal, and as
soon as some semblance of order had
been restored, the little ones were dis-
missed from further attendance.
At the hospital every effort was
made to revive the unconscious child,
and the only hope held out by the
doctors is that the atrophine, which is
one of the dealiest forms of poison
known, has lost some of its potency
from the long period during which it
was kept in the Dragnetti house.
LOCAL OPTION BILL LOST
Pennsylvania House Declines to Place
It On the Calendar.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 26. — The
house of representatives by a vote of
9¢ ayes to 89 noes declined to place
the Craven local option bill on the cal-
endar, less than a constitutional ma-
jortiy of 104 voting in the affirmative.
Mr. Craven, of Washington, called up
the resolution offered last Friday to
place the bill on the calendar, not-
withstanding the negative report of
the law and order committee. He said
church members of the state demand
such a bill and that the time has come
for the Republican party to “stop, look
and listen.”
Mr. Schad, of Allegheny, chairmen
of the law and order committee, sald
the bill had been negatived only after
careful consideration and hearings of
both sides.
TO RAISE FREIGHT RATES
Trunk Line Association to Make Gen.
eral Advance May 1.
New York, March 22.—Representa-
tives of the Erie, Lackawanna, New
Jersey Central, Pennsylvania, New
York Central and other railways of
the middle states having membership
in the Trunk Line Association had a
conference about general advances in
railway freight rates which are to be-
gin about May 1. These advances, it
is said, will be made through new
classifications. After the meeting it
was said thaht no schedules had been
completed and it might be a week or
so before new schedules would be
ready for the approval of the presi-
dents of the various lines.
DELAWARE'S SPECIAL ELECTION
Voters Will Decide For Or Against
Lecal Option.
Dover, Del, March 22.—A bill pro-
viding for a special election in Dela-
ware to decide for or against local op-
tion in the state, which passed both
houses of the legislature, was signed
by Governor Lea. The Republican
majority of the legislature passed the
bill at the suggestion of the Republi-
can state committee.
Big Fire at Minersville, Pa.
Pottsville, Pa., March 25.—Fire of
unknown origin destroyed the brewery
of the Union Brewing Company and
the tenement houses of Thomas Wig-
more, William Jones, George Reese
and W. K. Shissler, at Minersville, en-
tailing a loss of $100,000. The firemen
were sent to the scene of the blaze.
The loss is partly covered by insur-
ance.
HONDURAS CAPITAL CAPTURED
The Victorious Nicarauguans Occupy
Tegucigalpa.
Washington, March 26.—Senor Co-
rea, the Nicaraguan minister, received
a dispatch from President Zelaya, of
Nicaragua, announcing the capture
and occupation of Tegucigalpa, the
eapital of Honduras.
President Bonilla, of Honduras, has
reorganized his army, and intends to
make a prolonged resistance to the
Nicaraguan forces. This news reach-
ed the state department from Philip
R. Brown, secretary to the American
mission to Honduras and Guatemala,
who is now at Tegucigalpa.
Two Hundred Killed in Battle.
Managua, Nicaragua, March 26.—A
few details of the capture of the Hon-
duran-Salvadorean position at Cholu-
teca by the Nicaraguan forces have
been received. The Nicaraguans cap
tured 1500 rifles, a large amount of
ammunition, and quantities of field
equipment. The Hondurans and Sal-
vadoreans had 200 men killed and
about an equal number wounded. Some
of the Nicaraguan wounded who were
captured by the enemy before Presi:
dent Bonilla fled are reported to have
been hanged and their bodies barbar-
ously mutilated.
NO ARREST IN MARVIN CASE
Detectives Are Going Slow, As They
Fear a Lynching.
Dover, Del, March 25.—The corps
of detectives investigating the Marvin
kidnapping case has been increased by
the arrival of some Philadelphia detec-
tives. They returned from their new
line of investigation without making
any arrests.
The rumor that some local men were
implicated in the conspiracy attracted
a crowd to the farm house. The de-
tectives are going to renew the local
investigation and are proceeding slow-
ly in order to preclude a mistake, as
the feeling runs so high that a lynch-
ing might result from the first ar
rest.
Some detectives are not satisfied
with the theory that the child has
been abducted, but believe the boy
wandered away and fell into one of
the many streams in this vicinity in
which there is tide water. All these
which trere is tide water. All these
streams empty into Delaware bay.
The postal order issued by Presi
dent Roosevelt to the 20,000 postmas-
ters has had the effect of decreasing
the Marvin mail from almost a pouch
full to a dozen, these principally from
business friends of the doctor.
HEADLESS MYSTERY SOLVED
Woman's Confession Clears Sunbury,
Pa, Murder and Implicates Husband.
Sunbury, Pa., March 26.—The mys-
tery surrounding the finding of the
headless body of a man sewed in a bag,
which was picked up in the Susque-
hanna river near Georgetown on Sat-
urday, may he cleared up by the re-
ported confession of a Mrs. Kcomes,
near Wilkes-Barre. According to the
story which the authorities here have
received, Michael Kropaskie was mur-
dered on March 15. The body was
hidden in the Koomes cellar until
Sunday, March 17, when it was put
in a bag and thrown into a creek
which empties into the Susquehanna
river. The body found in the bag at
Georgetown in a general way answers
the description of that of Kropaskie.
Mrs. Koomes is alleged to have im-
plicated her husband in the murder.
CHURCHES COMBINE
Congregational, United Brethren and
Methodist Protestant Merge.
Chicago, March 22.—By an act of
union, by which the Congregational,
United Brethren and Methodist Pro-
testant churches of 14 states are form-
ed into one large religious organization
to be known as the United Churches,
was consummated here. The final vote
was taken after the Methodist Protest.
ant delegates from Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi “bolted” the conference. The
unification of the three churches
brings together more than 1,200,000
communicants, and the new church
will be about the fifth largest Pro-
testant organization in the United
States.
MANY INJURED IN PANIC
Gas Explosion Wrecks a Moving Pic- |
ture Show.
Greenfield, Ind., March 26.—Twenty-
four persons were injured, some seri
ously, and a two-story building, occu-
pied by a five-cent theatre, with mov-
ing pictures, were wrecked by an ex-
plosion of natural gas used to heat
the building. About 200 persons were
in the theatre at the time of the ex-
plosion, and in the panic that followed
men, women and children rushed for
the doors, trampling on one another.
Find Woman Drowned In Ditch.
York, Pa., March 25. — Searchers
found the body of Mrs. Adam Rebling,
68 years old, who disappeared from
her home in Hanover, this county, on
Tuesday. It was partly submerged in
the mud and water at the bottom of
a ditch on a farm about two miles from
her home. The finding of the body was
followed by wild rumors of murder,
but $75 in water-soaked bills fished
from the ditch dispelled this suspicion.
The woman is believed to have wan-
dered off in a fit of aberration.
Dying From a Fall.
New York, March 23—John P. Kelly,
a former member of the board of edu-
cation, and prominent politically 10
years ago, was found unconscious at
the entrance to the Brooklyn bridge.
He was removed to a hospital, dying
from a fracture at the base of the
gkull. It is believed that he was in-
jured by a fall. Mr. Kelly had been
connected with the Mutual Life In.
surance company for many years.
Gtole 9-Year-Old Boy and Kept Him
a Prisoner For a Week.
Danville, Va., March 25. — James
Childress, a young man, was arrested
here on the charge of kidnapping and
detaining through violence Clarence
Jarrett, aged 9 years, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. T. Jarrett, of this city,
who mysteriously disappeared from his
home last Monday morning. The little
boy disappeared after starting for
school, and since that time it is al-
leged he has been in the custody of
Childress. Childress was leading the
boy along a side street when arrested.
The hoy was ragged, dazed and half-
starved when found. It seems that he
was lured from schoo! by some promise
by Childress, who carried him to his
home. Childress resides on the out-
skirts of the city with his aged grand-
mother. The boy says that he was
kept a prisoner here by Childress and
and his grandmother, and that at
nights he was locked up in an outhouse
like a dog. Childress, he declared,
pointed a pistol at him when he cried.
The alleged kidnapper had planned, it
is said, to leave the city, when’he
heard that officers were on his track
and was en route to the station when
caught.
FIFTY HOUSES BURNED
Mill District of Spartansburg, 8. C,
Almost Destroyed.
Spartansburg, 8. C., March 26.—
Fanned by a fierce gale, fire destroyed
50 tenant houses in Spartans Mills, a
cotton mill district in a remote part
of the city. The fire spread over 25
acres. The Spartan Mills were saved
by the wind carrying the flames in
another direction. The mills shut
down, and all its employes carried
household goods from the buildings
in the fire zone. Owners of houses
which were burning made frantic ef-
forts to save their property by drench-
ing their roofs with water carried in
buckets and pulling down fences and
outbuildings. The fire burned half
a mile from the starting point. The
city fire department worked under dif-
ficulties, as the water had to be forced
through lines of hose so long as to
have little pressure at the nozzles.
Besides the houses of mill operatives,
several small stores were burned.
CHILD AIDED SUICIDE
Six-Year-Old Girl Attached Rubber
Hose to Gas Jet For Father.
New York, March 26.—With the in-
nocent aid of his little 6-year-old
daughter Violet, Theodore Schmidt, a
painter, who was partially paralyzed,
committed suicide with illuminating
gas in his home in East 138th street.
Mrs. Schmidt left the child at home
to care for her husband, and during
her absence Schmidt instructed the
child to bring a piece of rubber hose
from the kitchen, attach it to.a gas
jet, wind the other end around his
neck and place it in his mouth. He
then told her to turn on the gas and go
out to play. The child did as directed,
and when Mrs. Schmidt returned her
husband was dead. The little girl told
her mother her unsuspecting part in
the tragedy.
POISON IN TAINTED HASH
One Dead and 75 In Serious Condition
at Soldiers’ Home In Leavenworth.
Leavenworth, Kan., March 25.—One
death resulted among the 900 old sol-
diers at the National Soldiers’ Home
here, who were poisoned by eating
tainted meat hash. The victim was
William J. Cook, aged 64 years, a mem-
ber of the 14th Missouri cavalry. He
leaves a widow at Mexico, Mo. About
75 of the veterans are still in a seri-
ous condition, but it is not thought
any of these will die. The majority
of the others made ill have recovered.
A report that some of those affected
were missing was emphatically denied
at the home. The government physi-
cian stated that only those who were
already suffering of disabilities and
were in a wekened condition were seri-
ously affected.
FARMER'S DINNER WAS FATAL
James Collins, of Lancaster Co, Pa,
Accidentally Choked to Death.
Lancaster, Pa.,, March 23. — James
Collins, a prominent farmer of the
lower end of Lancaster county, met a
peculiar death. He went to Quarry-
ville, where he had to transact some
business. He was eating dinner at
Conner's hotel, when he suddenly
choked on a mouthful of food, and in
a few minutes he was dead. Medical
aid could no nothing for him. The cor-
oner's jury decided that death was due
to strangulation. He was about 80
years old and was prominent in poli-
tivs, having at one time been county
auditor.
Playful Cat Caused Death of Two.
New York, March 25.—Mrs. Dora
Greenberg, 60 years old, and her
nephew, Harry W. Greenberg, 25 years
old, were found dead in their apart-
ments in Brooklyn, where they had
been asphyxiated by gas. A pet cat,
which was found dead in the kitchen,
had apparently in play disconnected a
rubber tube through which gas was
carried to a gas stove,
Boy Kidnapped For Ransom.
Salonika, European Turkey, March
25.—Robert Abbott, the son of a well-
to-do British subject, was kidnapped
from his father’s garden, which is in
the immediate vicinity of the British
consulate general. It is believed the
deed was done with a view to secur-
ing a ransom. The authorities are act-
ing energetically.
Was Chicago's First White Child.
Chicago, March 26. — Alexander
Beaubien, said to be the first white
child born in Chicago, died after a
long illness. Beaubien was born in
Fort Dearborn on January 28, 1822.
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