. | | 24. — After | killing the conductor and porter cn a Blue limited train of the Balti proaching Wilmington, J. H. Bethea, ' He was | finally shot to death, but only after he, had wounded three men. i The victims of the tragedy are: | Killed. J. H. Bethea, aged about forty years, of Dillon, S. C., shot in the face, ! arms, shoulder and head. 0. E. Williams, conductor of the ex-! press train, of Philadelphia, shot in! the abdomen by Bethea and died im- | mediately. Samuel Williams, colored, of Balti- | more. porter of the Pullman car, who | was shot in the chest by Bethea. } Wounded. Patrolman John Wiley, shot in the hand and groin by Bethea; seriously ; injured. Matthew Haley, spectator of the bat- tle: removed to a physician's hospital; | not serious. Urknown colored man, shot in the shou'der, but disappeared later. Created Scene In Car. Bethea boarded the train at Balti more. taking a seat In a well filled chair car. He appeared to be slightly intoxicated. A few minutes after the train left Newark, Del, he burst into obscene language. Williams, the por- ter, told him to keep quiet, and finally the conductor added his protests to those of Williams. Bethea with a wild yell sprang to his feet, drew a gun and shot the two men dead. The hor- ror-stricken passengers dashed from the car, leaving the murderer and the dead alone. Nothing more was heard of him un- til the train pulled up at the station here, three or four minutes later, at which time the other men of the train force had been notified of what had happened in the car ahead. On the arrival of the train the police and railrcad officials were notified and the | train was ordered held up until the car could be surrounded, Several men with guns took refuge behind box cars and two policemen of | the Wilmingion city force kept watch | until automobiles carrying a squad of | police from the city hall could be | rurhed to the scene, at which time it | wag discovered that the man had | taken refuge in the little toilet room | off the main portion of the car. Here | he remained. going out once or twice | to fee! the breast of the two men, in | the manner of going through their | pockets, but it is believed that he was | feeling to see if they were dead. When the train had reached heve | the man had barricaded himself in the toilet room, the police were summon- ed! and a fire company was called. The murderer fired repeatedly at the crowd | collected and was forced by a stream of water to the car platform. He con- tinued to shoot repeatedly and finally he was shot three times by the police. He was then captured and died in a few minutes. i Citizens Spent a Day Cleaning Out Rubbish. Burlington, N. J., March 24.—Maids and matrons, merchants and profes- sional men, ehployes and factory heads and 10,000 other citizens on the comnmon ground of “city cleaners,” jeined hands with Mayor Farner and the city officials to convert Burlington into a living illustration of “spotless town” officially. The date was fixed by Mayor Farner as the first annual city cleaning day, the executive call- ing upon citizens to observe the oc- carion for brushing out from their premises the waste and rubbish accu- mulating during the winter. Smoke from scores of bonfires, the hundreds of mounds of street sweep- ings that dotted the freshly brushed highways, and the piles of debris that were piled on the sidewalks attested to the activity, both among private citizens and city authorities. High school girls played a promi- nent part in the “scrubbing” act. Groupe of them formed “shovel and rake” brigades and made trips from yard to yard. Some of the most prominent society women in the city endorsed the may- or's recommendations for a “city clearing” by using the rake or the brcom to help ciean up lawns and garden paths, Unearths Ruins of Church. Richmond, Va., March 24.—Lyon G. Tyler, president of William and Mary Sollege, directing excavations on the Tabb farm, near Hampton, has un. earthed the ruins of a church built in 1612, the axistence of which had been forgotten. Records found by Dr. Tyler in Hampton Court House led to the discovery. Ruined Speculator a Suicide. Philadelphia. March 24. — W. H. Swanberg, manager of a Chestnut street department store, shot himself dead on an express train from Buf- falo as it pulled into the Reading Tern inal station here. Swanberg was returning from Chicago. A letter to his wife said he had met with reverses 1 ‘Wall street speculation and was badly embarrassed. Will Cross Continent Afoot. Los Angeles, Cal., March 24. — Paul home. He —alked from New York to San Francisco in 100 days last fall, v : has the | by an attemptto take from him the | | jumped into the canal and tried to { the rules committee with the high i lost. It is a forerunner of other bat. — — TO CUT DOWN SPEAKER'S POWER. committee on rules will be followed | Bary power to name committees. i This will not be done this session | | or in this congress in all probability. and the body | It i= likely no further attempt will be’ several hours. Parnell was made tc change the rules this session. | But when tho next house is organized, then it is probable that the great work which was begun in the last’ few days will be completed by a pro- vision in the rules that thc house! shall elect its own committees as the, senate does now. Until that is done the speaker will have more authority than a large share of the house mem- | bers believe he can be safely entrust- | ed with. i Having passed the Norris resolution enlarging the rules committee and re- moving Speaker Cannon from it, the next thing for the house to do is to pick the new rules committee. Thal body has been composed of Speaker Cannon, Representative Dalzell and Representative W. I. Smith, Republi cans, and Champ Clark and Fitzger ald, Democrats. It will now consist of | six Repubii~ans and four Democrats, and Mr. Counon will not be one of the Republicans, Under the resolution of Mr. Norris the election must be in the next ten days. It is expected the Republicans will caucus to select their six mem bers, and that the Democrats will can. cus to pick their four. The probabili- ties are that the regulars will control | the situation as to the cancus so! completely that not an insurgent will! be put on the rules committee, though for the sake of inducing party har. mony some concessions may be made. | Representative John Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, one of the high priests of the Republican organization in the house, a man unrelenting ir his bitter antagonism to the progres: ive wing of his party, hes long been identified with the rules committee. Almost as much as Cannon himself, he typifies in the ! eyes of the country the tyranny exer: | cized through a long series of vears' by the committee on rules. The house | regulars wonld go far to smooth things | over in the house and satisfy the sen. timent In the country against control o fthe house by a small element if Dalzell were kept off the new rules committee. But there is no sign thus far that anything of this kind will he done, It is probable Dalzell and Smith will | be kept on, and that such powerful! chairmen of committees as Tawney, | Payne, Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Mann. of Thinois. will be added on the Republican side. While these men, | and others aligned with them, who | are possibiiities, are Cannon men, *! would be impossible for them to run hand it has been run in the past. The first battle against the system that has so long dominated the house has been fought and the system has tles by those who believe the house should be the truly representative body that the fathers of the republic contemplated. Not only has the Can: non organiration been shattered, hut the whole organization of which Jo: seph G. Cannon is the head in the house and Nelson W. Aldrich is the head in the senate has been jarred. Not yet is the end in sight of re volt against rule of the house by small coterie of powerful politicians. But a tremendous step in advance has been taken since the outbreak of the Democrats and insurgents last Thurs. day afternoon against the speaker. These are the chief things that have been accomnlished: By 191 to 155 the house adopted the amended Norris resolution. which de- poses the speaker from the rules com: mittee and enlarges that committee to ten. Speaker Cannon has been :de an absolute impossibility for re ~tion to the posit'on of speaker of the ~~ « after this congress. despite the that the house on Saturday, by a vo of 191 to 155. refused to throw hi: out of office. 45 Dead In Train Wreck. At least forty-five persons were killed and thirty-one injured in the wreck of a Rock Island train four miles north of Marshalltown, fa. It is feared the death list resulting from the crash, whick occurred on the Great Western tracks. will reach sixty Three thousand searchers are working in the debris and an effort is being. made to account for a numbr~ of pzssengers who are reported miss. ing. No easterners are among the dead and injured so far as reported. The wrecked train is a combination train. The train was forced to make a detour over the Great Western tracks on account of the burning of a bridge seventeen miles north of Cedar Ra. plds. It was while the train was mov- ing over this stretch of track that the crash came. The engine left the track and stuck in the bank in a deep cut at the top of a hill while going at the speed of twenty-five miles an hour. The see ond engine hurled itself on top of the other, crushing it further into the earth. The sudden impact caused the Pullman sleeper to telescope the smok- ing car just behind, driving the sleep- ing car clear through the smoker. The smoker in turn telescoped the woman's day coach. In these two cars the death loss was appalling. there being Girl Killed For Refusing Kiss. Sarah Porter, twenty years of age, drowned in the canal imme i from Dutch Flat, near Auburn, Cal Parn save her, but sank not his home and is held pending investi- gation. : f Pays $500,000 For Painting. Half a million dollars—a record high price for a painting—was paid for the | celebrated portrait of Franz Hals, the Dutch painter, and his family, painted by himself. The purchaser was Otto Kahn, the New York banker, who pur- chased the portrait from Duveen Bros. J. P. Morgan bid between $350,000 and $400,000 for the picture. i Efforts were made to keep the paint. | forever debarred from coming in upon said ing in England, but they failed, and 5.30.3 it is one of the first really great Euro | pean masterpieces to be brought te | this country duty free, under the new tariff provisions. Republican Stronghold Democratic. For the first time in its hostory the Fourteenth congressional district eof Massachusetts went Democratic, when Eugent N. Foss, of Boston, not a resi- dent of the district, was elected over William R. Buchanan, Republican, of Brocton, by a plurality of 5640. The special election was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wil liam C. lovering, a Republican, who represented the district since 1896. Mr. Lovering had 14,000 Republican Plutulity when he was re-elected in 1908. See Companion Burn to Death. A cigarette falling on his powder covered cl thes caused the death of! Matthew Madison, a nemploye of the Burton Powder company, near New Castle, Pa. His companions were com- pelled to w~tch him burn to death for fear that tneir own clothes would be- come ignited. Robs to Pay His Rent. | Henry Hoffman pleaded guilty at Lancaster, Pa., to stealing his land. lord's chicvens, and had a very novel excuse, He said he was in arrears for rent and threatened with eviction, and with the proceeds of the theft had paid the rent. He goes to jail for nine months. Chinaman Strikes It Rich. Ah Kai, a Chinaman. cleaned up $204,000 in gold from a grave! pit at You Bet, just across the Bear river Ah Kai, who had leased the ground, ran a 200-foot tunnel and struck an old river bed. It is the largest find since the early days of the old Placer county go!? mining. Beef Cattle Sell For $100 a Head. One hundred dollars a heard was paid at Fort Worth, Tex.. for a herd of 459 Oklahoma fed beef cattle. This is gail to be the highest price for this clas: of cattle ever paid in the United States. ‘iother and Baby Burned. Mis. George Hamilton and her two- year ~ld baby were killed and another child was fatally burnt when their home at Springfield, Ky., was destroy. ed by fire. Real Estate Transfers. —— Harry Keller et ux to Edward H. Witmer et ux, tract of land in Belle- fonte Boro, March 14, 1910; consider- ation $1050. William L. Foster et al to Keystone Real Estate & Improvement Co., of State College, Feb. 25, 1910, tract of land in State College; consideration Philipsburg Coal & Land Co. to Grayson Vaughn, Sept. 6, 1909, tract os land in Rush twp.; consideration Edgar T. Bechdel et ux to Edgar L. Morrison, March 6, 1910, tract of land in Liberty twp.; consideration $400. John W. Yearick et ux to A. A. Stevens, March 12, 1910, tract of land in Marion twp.; consideration $5,000. John H. Best et ux to Isabella Yo- cum, March 14, 1910, tract of land in Walker twp.; consideration $725. Annie B. Tate et bar. to John W. Fry, March 3, 1910, tract of land In Ferguson twp.: consideration $70. Bridget Smith to Harry Action et ux, March 15, 1910, tract of land in Philipsburg; consideration $2,000. Sara M. Hartsock et al to Franklin D. Lee, Sept. 4, 1909, tract of land in Spring twp.; consideration $5,800. W. E. Hurley, sheriff, to R. March 5, 1910, tract of land in Howard os al Boyd A .Noll, Feb. 28, 1910, tract of lang 2 in Bellefonte Boro; consideration Mary C. Vallimont et bar. to Henry J. Kohlbecker, March 17, 1910, tract of land in Centre county; consideration ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR CONCRESS, aidaie for Com i the 21s Fem a dis: BE LEI prominent members TY Be a RE nd: in Federal 1 believe in Je I Ry Lora: sets, Taek the support of the of this Bradford, Pa., March 15, 100, ERY Jr STATE SENATOR. I re ia Brood Sow for Sale PLENDID BROOD SOW FOR SALE, Ai to purchase an Breed nyone ——An advertisement in the WATCH- Low Rates to the West. MAN always pays. wo WH paige home Fr 55-12-1t Bishop street, F°* REN T.—~The Noll old homestead farm account, to to receive the same, will meet all 1 make and prove claims or J K- JOHNSTON . Fl | uD JOR NOTICE. —in the Orphans lA Cour Zenit county, inthe matter of HS | Monday the of oI at o'clock EER a . Fe Nl a Eo aan ate of the bora of 5511.2, a He '% FOR RENT. and Hoy Row. $9.00 per month. | I HOY. Real Estate For Sale. FOR SALE—Two nice homes in for sale on easy terms. One , one . Much better induce- * | ments for cash. LC 54-334 DER, county. Peaneyummin 2H persons indebted so The fash of the late Hesckiah estate are requested to make and all occmel. Socal nV BLANCHARD & BLANCHARD, Bellefonte, Pa. of which allisina state of aaa oh < Grow of white & re This Jarm is, one the most XECUTOR Estate of Anng Dale properties valley. E 3 ) EWN Souitty, Pend Letters | 54-47-f. Co., Pa. beet ranted to the Register TATE COLLEGE PROPERTY FOR SALE. sons indebted to estate are to The of the late Ewing, Snake payment, persons having or fae aqainat said estate are requested to corner of Beaver and Allen Streets. Busse} make the same known, without Is a corsier rapenty & ¢ Slcge camps DAVID DALE, and one of the most desirable in t Executor, State College. BLANCHARD & BLANCHA! Bellefonte, Pa. , M. A Attorneys, RD: 55-106t | S54-47-tf, pr Co., Pa. Gasolene Engines. “The Advance” —) 1S THE BEST (— Gasoline Engine ON THE MARKET. Manufactured by the HENRY, MILLARD & HENRY COMPANY, YORK, PA. Bellefonte Foundry & Machine Company, BELLEFONTE, PA. Sales Agents for Central Pennsylvania, 55-121. “THE ADVANCE” IS GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR. It is simple, durable and economic. Steady as a steam engine when in operation. Is built of the best materials and has throttle governor. 1 The First National Bank. Bo DE. BE. BB. Be. BB. BA. DB. DM. AD. Al WE STILL HAVE SOME SPACE IN OUR : Safe Deposit Boxes WHICH IS AT THE SERVICE OF OUR DEPOSITORS. —— Remember that we are just as attentive in our dealings with the small depositor as with the large one; you are not too small for us nor are we too large for you. WE INVITE CHECKING ACCOUNTS, issue certificates of deposit and transact any business connected with banking. EE The First National Bank, Bellefonte, Pa S148-ly Lime and Crushed Limestone. Ee — You Farmers and Agriculturists: Your land must have Lime if you want to raise paying crops. Use Hydrated Lime (H-0), through your drill or broadcast when you seed, for quick results, or use ordinary lime, fresh forkings, or lime for general use. But be Sure to Use Lime Lime for Chemical and Building Purposes. Limestone for Walks, etc. All sizes of Limestone. Works at Bellefonte, Frankstown, Spring Meadows, Tyrone Forge and Union Furnace. ALL RAILROAD CONNECTIONS. PROMPT SHIPMENTS. Write for information to American Lime & Stone Company, 554-1y. Office: TYRONE, PA. Limestone crushed to any size. Fine The largest lime manufacturers in Pa. PPO OYTO YTV UY YT YY YT YY YT TUT YY Ye ve oF re Brit EEE the no an act to provid on for the Poth, 1874, and the supplements "benefits ir hehe wh : or of and its supplements. . oe ol chafier now on file in the office za. EAL, DMINIST RATOR 5 NOTICE: =— AVPITORS NOTICE. Hughes Palmer a 190 7 ignes Balmer & Co..] No. Court of Com. Sno Soe Driving f ‘wun j g Bs i pl and piace all parties pT a 55-11-3t S. KLINE WOODRING, Auditor. Boalsburg , over Spring creak, in township; length png Juris Low truss. of roadway 14 feet. Oak Hall over Branch, i re eS 30 To an Bran, in Culleg oo lw teak All bids must be in by 12 o'clock noon of the 2nd of May, 1910, and wil! be opened 3rd off aos Mati. othe Paint will be furnished by the ty, and TE Ee yd bide On the contracts the Commissioners will require 4 bond for the faithful performance Com _-es missioners reserve the right to reject JACOB Ww JOHN I. pt Attest: E. J WiLrtiams, Clerk. * Office 55-11-2t Bellefonte, Pa., March 14 1910. Oleomargarine. Why Pay 35 to 40 cents for butter when you can buy I “ee High Grade Oleomagarine from me at 25 cents per pound. R. S. BROUSE, Bush Arcade, 5445 Bellefonte, Pa. Automobiles. THE NEW BUICK IS HERE. ARRANGE FOR DEMONSTRATION. Second Hand Cars;For Sale and Accessories. W. W. Keichline & Co. South Water St. Bellefonte. Pa. LIVERY ATTACHED. 55-1-1y Lumber. a BB BE BB DE BA AB BA. A A BUILDING MATERIAL When you are ready for it, you will get it here. On LUMBER, MILL WORK, ROOFING, SHINGLES AND GLASS. CE AN ESTIMATE ? BELLEFCNTE LUMBER CO. 525-1y.
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