“— Bellefonte, Pa. A Apri 1 19, 1907. “Sri Chilpuudingo and Chilapa Are Re- porisl ia Eu in Ruins, MANY ARE DEAD DEAD AND INJURED Chilpancingo, Mex., April 16. — This rity has been completely destroyed by sne of the most serious earthquakes that has ever visited this section. The known dead number 11 and the badly injured 27. A panic prevails every- where and people are fleeing to the open country. The earth continues to rock at half hour intervals and many minor shocks are completing the work of destruction of the first earthquake. All telegraph communication with the outside world failed when the first shock was felt. The telegraph oper- ators have installed temporary quar- ters in an open square. Word has reached here that the town of Chilapa, 42 kilometers to the northeastward, has also been de- stroyed. As yet no details have been received as to the number of dead and wounded, but it is feared that the number will be large. The city is the capital of the state of Garrero, and four years 2go was visited by an earthquake which killed and wounded many of its inhabitants and destroyed a large part of the town. The population of the town is 7498, and until the panic into which the citi- zens have been thrown abates it will be impossible to state accurately just to what extent the recent earthquake has decreased it. The population of the city of Chilapa is 15,000, and the place is the home of the bishop of the Cath- olic church, who administers the ec- clesiastical affairs of the entire region. No word has been received from the bishop's palace, and it is not known at this time whether or not he was a victim of the shock. Midway between the cities of Chil- pancingo and Chilapa is located the city of Tixtla. This is a prosperous and progressive community, and as no word has been received from that place it also has been destroyed. Ac- cording to the movements of the 2arth- quake, Tixtla would be in its direct line, and if the city has escaped it has been only by a miracle. The following message was sent to the federal telegraph office in Mexico City from Chilapa: “Our boys are working in a public garden. A terrible panic prevails, as the earth continues to tremble at regu- lar intervals. Send us tents that we may establish an office out in the country.” All communication with the west eoast has been cut off since the move- ment of the first big shock, and it is not known to what extent that region suffered. The nearest big town, Aca- pulco, which is 131 kilometers to the southwest of this place, has not been heard from. Both the volcanoes of Jorullo and Camola are in this region and are in eruption, and it is feared that the mo- tion of the earth may cause them to become more active and destroy much property and many lives. The city of Acapulco is located 97 kilometers from the nearest railway line, and it will be impossible for the people to flee except on foot or on horseback. This fact caused a con- siderable amount of anxiety, because the state is inhabited by a great num- her of Americans, who are engaged in prospecting for mines. HALF OF MEXICO SHAKEN Earthquake Feit By Entire Southern Part of Country. City of Mexico, April 16, — Word from the center of the great destruc tion of the earthquake was first given to this capitol by the Associated Press after repeated trials to establish com- munication with the stricken districts. As yet wires to the section are work- ing badly and no exact estimate of the number of dead has been received. It is believed, however, that the total death list will be large. There were no deaths in Mexico City, and beyond damaged plaster and cracked and fallen walls the property loss will be insignificant. Owing to the + long duration of the shock this is con- sidered most remarkable and is only accounted for by the peculiar swell- like motion of the earthquake, which was regular and from east to west, From messages received at the tele- graph office here it appears that the entire southern half of the republic, including the lower country and the “mesa” belt, felt the shock of Sun- day night. Messages from as far north as San Luis Potosi and as far south as the city of San Juan Bautista, in the state of Tabasco, reports that the shock was felt in varying degrees. But at no place up to date has a loss of life or great destruction of property been re- ported except in the state of Guer- rero. From these reports it would seem that the last earth tremble was greater in extent than any that has preceded it during the last hall cen- tury. The boundary line of the north- ern zone of the present earthquake shock, according to reports received up to this time, show that it extended across the country in a northwest. erly direction for a distance of over 400 miles, and that the southern ex- tent of the shock covered a distance of over 600 miles, making in all 24,000 square miles of territory affected by the last shock. Stage Held Up; $28,000 Stolen. Malta, Mont, April 15.—Word has just been received of the hold-up of a stage, presumably by the “Kid” Curry gang, $28,000 being stolen. | Marcus A. Hanna, of Ohio, and widow ‘of a well-known mine owner, died at CAPITOL PAPERS HAVE VANISHED | ! Official Schedule of Pennsylvania | Building is Missing. Harrisburg, Pa., April 10.—The offi- cial copy of the schedule of 1902, upon which the $2,000,000 contract for the metallic furniture of the new capitol was awarded to the Penu:ylvania Con- struction company, is missing and can- not be found. This scheczle i$ neces- sary to show the terms of the contract between the board of public grounds and buildings, composed of the gov- erpor, auditor general and state treas- urer, and the construction company. Without the schedule the state would be unable to recover anything from this company if it should be found that there has been overcharges for the furniture. The testimony before the capitol in- vestigating commission showed that the official copy of the annual sched- ule for the state supplies is kept by the superintendent of public grounds and buildings. A copy is algo kept by the auditor general as a guide in set- tling the accounts between the state and the contractors for the state sup- plies. Former state officials testified that they had made a diligent search for the missing schedule and that they were unable to find any trace of it Charles W. M. Juhle, a former em- ploye of Architect Huston, testified that his work was to copy the original drawings of Henry Ives Cobb. The doors of the room in which Juhle worked were locked by orders of Hus- ton, and drawings were kept in a se- cret drawer when not in use. The wit- ness explained that Cobb was the ar- chitect who originally designed the capitol, and that Huston got all his ideas from the Cobb drawings. SHOT BY SISTER'S FIANCE Was Instantly Killed For Opposing Her Marriage. Philadelphia, April 15.—Alfred Ra- vello, aged 23 years, was shot and in- stantly killed at his home here by Jo- seph Dalrego, his sister's fiance. Dal- rego, it appears, had secured a license for the marriage of himself and Miss Ravello, who is but 18 years old. He went to the house and tried to induce her to agree to have an early wedding. She would not set the day. Alfred Ra- vello joined in the conversation and said that if he had the say in the mat- ter his sister should not marry. Dal- rego. in a rage, drew a revolver and fired three shots at Miss Ravello. The bullets went wild and the girl fled. Her brother triad to grapple with Dalrego and was shot through the heart. Dal rego fled and was captured on a trol- ley car by the father of the girl and the murdered boy. ONE KILLED, TEN INJURED —— Philadelphia & Western Railroad Collide. Philadelphia, April 16. — Guiseppe Gaspiro was killed and 10 other Italian laborers were injured in a collision between construction trains on the new Philadelphia & Western railroad just outside of the city limits. A loco. motive, tender and flat car, going west from the terminus of the road at 69th and Market streets, in the city, ran into a similar train coming east. The flat cars on both trains were filled with workmen. After the collision the east bound train ran backward down a long grade and jumped the track. It ran into a freight car on a Pennsylvania railroad siding, side-swiped a way sta- tion at City Line and turned turtle. Guiseppe Gaspiro was buried under the debris. Trains On Five Killed In Wreck. © St. Paul, Minn., April 16.—Running at a speed of 70 miles an hour on a straight track, the Great Northern west-bound Oriental Limited was de- railed at Bartlett, N. D. Five persons were killed and a score or more in- jured, some of them seriously. After the wreck a gas tank exploded and the train took fire, seven passenger coaches being destroyed, the sleeper and observation cars escaping the flames. There is said to be some evi- dence that the rails had been tam- pered with. Freezing Weather In South. Raleigh, N. C.,, April 16.—Ice formed everywhere in North Carolina, with serious damage resulting to crops. In the Wilmington section strawberries have been hurt and the shipping sea- son delayed. Vegetable truck crops have been almost ruined in the central and western districts. Wheat was badly damaged by the freeze, in some localities as much as 50 per cent. There will be no fruit this year, ex- cept possibly some late apples. Murder Jury Unable to Agree, Upper Marlboro, Md., April 13. — Unable to agree upon a verdict, the jury in the case of Corporal William F. Wineberger, charged with the kill- ing of Private Frederick Gosney an January 26 last, was discharged. Both men belonged to an artillery company stationed at Fort "Washington, and the killing occurred during a row several miles from the fort. Wineberger was remanded to jail. Mark Hanna's Sister Dead. New York, April 16.—Mrs. J. Wey- man Jones, a sister of the late Senator Roosevelt hospital of peritonitis, fol. lowing a surgical operation. Mrs. Jones was born in Cleveland 63 years ago. Connecticut Murderer Hanged. Wethersfield, Conn., April 16.—Hen- ry G. Bailey was hanged at the state prison. Henry G. Bailey, of Middle- town, killed George H. Goodale, who employed him on a small farm near Middletown, on July 6 last. He was ar- rested in Canada. Robbery was the mo- tive of the murder. OPEN YEAGER em)SHOES == & DAVIS. WALK-OVERS, RED CROSS, EDWIN C. BURT & CO. Quality, Style, Fit, Price and Satisfaction is our Combination. YEAGER & DA! EVENINGS.« VIS, HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE. WERE 7 TO S FOR CONVICTION abipy “I believe that every man in the jury possessing average intelligence, | | excepting possibly Mr. Bolton, compre- The Prisoner Was Remanded to the hend the weight of evidence and bal- Tombs For a Second Trial Next Fall, | anced it for acquittal. All my family Thaw Said He Hardly Expected Dif- | ferent Verdict After Long Delay. , bid me good-bye with courage. I trust (D. V.) we may ali keep well.” To his attorneys ‘rnaw said he was Jury Considered Everything Except | 9eeply disappointed. the “Unwritten Law”—Jerome i Oppose Admitting Prisoner to Bail. New York, April 13.—Hopelessly di- | vided—seven for a verdict of guilty of . murder in the first degree and five for acquittal on the ground of insanity— the jury which since the 23d of last January had been trying Harry K. Thaw, reported after 47 hours and 8 minutes of deliberation that it could not possibly agree upon a verdict. The 12 men were promptly discharged by Justice Fitzgerald, who declared that he, too, believed their task was hope- less. Thaw was remanded to the Tombs without bail to await a second trial on the charge of having murdered | Stanford White, the noted architect. When this new trial would take | place no one connected with the case could express an opinion. District At- torney Jerome declared that there were many other persons accused of homicide awaiting triaZ and that Thaw would have to take his turn with the rest. As to a possible change of venue, both the district attorney and counsel for Thaw declared they would make no such move. Thaw’s attorneys will have a conference with the prisoner to decide upon their next step. They may make an carly application for bail. Mr. Jerome said he would strenu- ously appose it. He added that the be- lief as seven of the jurors had voted for “guilty” his opposition probably would be successful. In that event Thaw has another long summer before him in the city prison, for his case on the already crowded criminal calendar cannot possibly be reached until some time next fall. The scenes attending the announce: ment by the jury of its inability to agree upon any sort of verdict were robbed of any theatricalism by the general belief that after their long de- liberation and the reports of a wide division of sentiment, the jurors could | have no other report than one of dis- agreement. Thaw, surrounded by the members of his family — the devoted aged mother, the pale young wife, the titled | sister, Countess of Yarmouth; Mrs. | George Carnegie and Edward and Jo- siah Thaw, the brothers—received the news in absolute silence. Called Evelyn to His Side. When it became known that the jury was about to make its report and | that the case would be disposed of, Thaw called his wife to a seat -by his side and sat with his right arm thrown about her until he was commanded to stand up and face the jurors. Smiling and confident as he entered the court rocm, he sank limply into his chair when Foreman Deming B. Smith, in | response to a guestion by Clerk Penny i as to whether a verdict had been | agreed upon, said: “We have not.” The mother, her features hidden be- i hind a dense veil of black, sat stolid | and motionless. In ill health of late, she had felt severely the strain and stress of the long hours of anxious waiting. The wife, by her husband's side, gripped his hand tightly as the Jury foreman spoke, and then, when he | sunk down by her side, she tried to cheer him as best she could by saying that she believed he would now be ad. mitted to bail and that a second jury | would surely set him free. The mother, the sisters and the brothers, pale and well nigh exhausted by their tedious, nerve racking wait for a verdict, smiled wanly at Thaw as he was led away again to the Tombs. They were permitted to speak with him for a few moments to bid him be of good cheer, before he crossed the “Bridge of Sighs” to the cell in the prison, which, until a few minutes before, he had hoped that he was about to quit for- ever. Thaw, when he had returned to the Tombs prepared and gave out the fol lowine statement: “But I could hardly expect anything else in view of the events of the past few days,” he added. How the Jury Voted. The story of the proceedings in the jury room as they were learned far outranged in interest the brief court proceeding which brought the famous | trial to a close. It developé® that the | jury had considered everything con-! nected with the case except “the uo- | written law.” Basing their judgment entirely upon the evidence they voted either for or against murder in the | first degree when they cast their first ballots. The first vote was 8 to 4 in favor of conviction. Then the jury tried to reach a common ground upon a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree, the punishment for which ranges to a maximum of 20 years’ im- prisonment. The men in favor of ac- quittal—largely on the ground of in- sanity, it is said—would not change their ballots, and in the end won over to their side one! of the eight who favored conviction. During the nearly | .48 hours of deliberation only eight’ ballots were cast. The jury spent the two night sessions dozing in their chairs. The entire story of what tran- spired in the jury room from the time the 12 men retired at 5.17 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon until they finally decided that the prospects of a ver dict were too remote to warrant longer discussion of the facts, was told by one of the jurors, Henry C. Harney, No. 5, a manufacturer of pianos. The final ballot—taken just before the jury re- ported its disagreement in court, was as follows: For conviction of murder, first de- gree—Messrs. Deming B. Smith, fore- man; George Pfaff, No. 2; Charles H. Fecke, No. 3; Harry C. Brearley, No. 6; Charles D. Newton, No. 8; Joseph B. Bolton, No. 11, and Bernard Gerst- man, No. 12. For acquittal, on the ground of in- | sanity—Messrs. Oscar A. Pink, No. 4; ! Henry C. Harney, No. 5; Malcolm S. Fraser, No. 7; Wilbur F. Steele, No. 9, and John S. Denee, No. 10. Mr. Bolton is the juror whose wife died during the trial while the jury was being kept under lock and key. . Juror Harney's Story. Juror Harney said: “About 10 min- utes after reaching the jury room we took the first ballot, and it resulted in a vote of eight for conviction of murder in the first degree and four for absolute acquittal. The men who voted for conviction were: Smith, foreman; Pfaff, Fecke, Brearley, Dennee, Bolton, Newton and Gerstman. “The men who voted to set free were Pink, Harney, Fraser and Steele. “Thirty minutes elapsed before an- other ballot was taken, and then the votes remained unchanged. A third ballot was taken at 9.45 p. m. on Wed: nesday, and still there was no change in the opinions of the jurors. There after there was a considerable discus: ' sion among the men, but most of the | night hours were spent in sleep, and no ballot was taken until 4.30 o'clock the following (Thursday) afternoon. This was several hours after the jury had appealed to the court for a re reading of the testimony given by eye witnesses of the tragedy. The fourth ballot marked one change in the vote. Four of the jurors still held out for an acquittal, but of the rest, Bernard Gerstman, the 12th juror, changed his vote from murder in the first degree to that of manslaughter in the first degree. About two hours later a fifth ballot was taken, and this showed a Prove] thot 1ho elon of lhe been altogether in vain, ceeded in winning over Juror Denee, who up to ha 41 voted for conviction. The res | changed their ballot to that of not jurors, with “the ‘exception of George Pfaff, who had voted for murder in the first degree, decided that Thaw was only guilty of manslaughter in ing first degree. The sixth ballot was taken at 9.25 o'clock Thursday night, and remained unchanged. After that there was no ballot until 12.20 o'clock Friday afternoon, when all of the jur ors showed that they were of the same mind as before, excepting Brearley, who, in addition to voting for man: slaughter in the first degree, added that the defendant should be recom: mended to the mercy of the court. “The eighth and last ballot was taken at 3.45 o'clock Friday afternoon and showed a most remarkable change in the entire jury. The five men who | had voted for an asbolute acquittal guilty on the ground of insanity in the hope of winning over their colleagues, but the remainder of the jury, all of whom, with the exception of George Pfaff, had voted for a verdict of man slaughter, made up their minds that Thaw was guilty of murder in the first degree and voted accordingly. This practically ended the deliberations of the jury, and the jurors arriving at the conclusion that they could never agree, asked to be discharged.” Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw said: “I can't understand it. I don't see why they couldn't come to an agreement.” Russia Trying New Time System. St. Petersburg, April 15.—Russia is experimenting with the 24-hour time eystem, the hours being numbered consecutively from one to 24, instead of in two periods of 12 hours. The min- ister of railroads has directed that the summer time tables for the railroads to Moscow be printed in the new system, Died of His Injuries. Norfolk, Va., April 16.—J. C. Apper- son, aged 70 years, prominent in his bome county of Mathews, Vt, where he had served as a magistrate for 32 years, died in Portsmouth, Va., where he was recently assaulted and robbed ; by an unknown highwayman near the home of his son whom he was visiting. | PRESIDENT’S | COUSIN DEAD George W. Roosevelt, American Con: | sul at Brussels, Dies. Brussels, April 16. — George W. Roosevelt, the American consul gen- | em eral here, is dead. Mr. Roosevelt was | a cousin of President Roosevelt. His i end came unexpeectedly. He was un- der treatment early in February for intestinal trouble and his condition was then serious. He recovered and on February 14 his condition had so improved that hopes for his complete restoration to health were entertained. Disappeared From Steamer at Sea. New York, April 16. — A wireless message has just been received by way of Halifax stating that Percy Jan- is, a brother of Elsie Janis, the young star of the “Vanderbilt Cup,” disap- peared from the steamer Minneapolis at sea. It is believed that he either fell or jumped overboard. He was 22 vears old and was on his way to Lon- don, where he was to take part in the production of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab- bage Patch.” “Oyster Paddy” Died On Train. Pittsburg, April 15.—~Hugh O'Don- nell, 56 years old, known to the sport ing fraternity all over the country as “Oyster Paddy,” died on a railroad train while coming to his home here |’ from Wheeling, W. Va. Death was due to heart disease. He was proprie- tor of a hotel on Fourth avenue, which in the 80s was frequented by the criminal class. Recently the building was razed, and six skeletons were found buried in the cellar. Will Erect Monument to Ensign Bagley Raleigh, N. C., April 15.—A monu- ment to Ensign Worth Bagley, who lost his life on the torpedo boat Wins- low in the Spanish-American war, will be unveiled in the capitol square on May 20. Congressman Richmond Pear- son Hobson, of Alabama, has eccepted an invitation to deliver the dedicatory address. ! Coal and Wood. JPVARD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, en DEALER | Non ANTHRACITE anp BITUMINOUS Ey ~~=CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS == snd other grains, —BALED HAY and STRAW— COALS. BUILDERS’ and PLASTERERS' SAND ~—RKINDLING WOOD— by the bunch or cord as may suit purchasers. Respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and the public, at Telephone Calls Goutral I near the Passenger Siation. 18.18 Telephone. 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