— mee CHAPMAN.—AL five o'clock on Saturday | AT THE OPERA House.—One of the afternoon Mrs. D. L. Chapman died in | best dramatic plays probably that will | the Clearfield hospital after an illness of | be seen at Garman’s this season will be | more than four years with stomach |there tonight when Eugene Walter's | trouble and a complication of diseases, play "The Wolf,” will be the attraction. | “during which time she suffered much | The author picked the Canadian wilds as | agony and pain. She was a daughter of | the location of the plot of the play and | Mr. and Mrs. John T. Dry, of Tyrone, the audience is carried through a succes- | and was born on April 19th, 1885, hence sion of thrilling scenes of deep heart; Bellefonte, Pa., December 1, 1911 following wea: 7, Cen at the time of her death was 26 years, 7) interest to the final climax when right | Paid before expiration of year 1.50 months and 6 days old. In 1903 she was prevails and virtue is rewarded. The | 2.00 united in marriage to D. L. Chapman, stage settings are glaborate and very | who survives with one little son, Bruce. | real, blending harmoniously with the A baby daughter, Beatrice, died a year time and place. Can be seen tonight | or two ago. She also leaves her mother | only at Garman's. Price 25 cents to $1.00. | and the following brothers and sisters: | Grant Dry, of Smith's Mills; Mrs. Charles | up Rosary.— Every theatregoer in | Ermine, of Culver; Mrs. George Woods, | his city knows that “The Rosary” was | of Beaver Falls; Mrs. Clair Thompson, | the most talked-about play in the popular- | of Osceola Mills, and Ralph, of Tyrone. priced houses last season. This play | A number of relatives in Bellefonte also | gryck the popular chord of the people, | survive. The funeral was held at 10.30 | ang with its many human interest quali- | o'clock on Tuesday morning, burial being | (jes it proved to be immensely enjoyed. tion in Pennsylvania and from neighbor- | made in the Grandview cemetery. Ty- | Owing to its last season's success, “The | ing States. There were over 200 plates | Tone. ; Rosary” is being repeated again this sea. | of apples and several of grapes, pears i | and nuts. There were also several box ! son by the well known producers, Row- MAYES. — On Wednesday evening of land and Clifford, and it comes to Gar- | and barrel packs. last week James Mayes, a well known | man's, Tuesday evening, December 5th. Of the premiums offered Centre county carried off six firsts, 7 seconds and 4 ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. C— i CENTRE COUNTY MAKES GOOD SHOW? ING.—That Centre County can grow good fruit was evident to everyone visiting the fruit show held at State College by the Crab Apple Club during Pennsylvania Day. The Assembly room of the Agri- cultural building was filled with tables displaying fruit from almost every sec- ! when one of his fat steers sickened and died quite PINE GROVE MENTION. Jno. W. Fry and wife spent Saturday inspecting | the fall fashions in Bellefonte. ; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sunday attended the T. J. | Mayes funeral at Lamar last Sunday. | Miss Lida and Cora Corl were welcome visitors | the G. B. Fry home the latter part of last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Fry are viewing the show | windows in the city of Brotherly Love this week. | Mrs. Kate Gates Erb, of New York, is visiting | the home of her childhood here and notes many | changes. J. F. Weiland and Will Swabb came up from | Linden Hall for a little spin in the former's new | Ford on Monday. Alfred Musser came over from Clearfield to i tospend a few days with his mother. whose | health is badly shattered. We are glad to note the improvement of Clayton | Siruble from the injuries sustained in a runaway | last week. But he is still confined to bed. ! William Musser, of Minnesota, is here visiting | friends and his aged mother, who is quite frail. | He is in the lumber business and looking well. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Zimmerman. of Peru, have been visiting the J. B. Whitmer home at White | Hall the past week. It is 2 royal place to stop. Last Saturday while Mr. I. 1. Burwel! was mak | ing ready to butcher, in some way a sharp in- | strument penetrated his left eve, causing a bad ! injury. i C. L. Sunday, tenant farmer un the Dr. Houser farm at Fairbrook, had hard luck Sunday § ‘Why Interests Sup- ported T. R. Surprising Statement Made by Phila deiphia Banker Before Senate Com: mittee on Interstate Commerce. Wharton Barker, a retired banker af Philadelphia, sprung a sensation op the senate committee on interstate . commerce in Washington when he al leged that a New York financier told him in 1904 that the financial inter ests would support Theodore Roose velt for president because the latter had “made a bargain” with them “on the railroad question.” Mr. Barker's statement came in the midst of a vigorous attack on the “money trust,” in which he alleged. President Roosevelt had | been given details of the impending | panic of 1907 several months before also that it happened, but took no action tc | prevent it. He declared that the Aldrich cur rency plan was the handiwork, not ouly of former Senator Aldrich, but of a Mr. Warburton, of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York, aud that a fund of $1,000,060 had been and highly respected resident of Lamar, | “The Rosary” tells a modest and un. died at his home in that place after a assuming story of how the watchful and | thirds, most of these being from care- fully sprayed and pruned orchards. The following persons exhibited from this county: T. D. Boal, Boalsburg; W.K. Corl, State College; J. Cramer, State Col- lege; George Glenn, State College; G. C. prolonged illness with an affection of the heart. He was a veteranof the Civil war and an enthusiastic G. A. R. man. He | protective influence of a good priest uiti- | _ 0 | mately restored the happiness of a home | | : | J. H. und Ed Decker came up from Bellefonte | that had been wrecked by the evil plot- | Suurday 0 aid in their father's bir butchering | started to insure its adoption. © “Three of four weeks before the election in 1905," said Mr. Barker, “} met one of the most distinguished was an axe grinder by occupation and | ting of one who coveted his neighbor's | worked at the various axe factories in | wife, and sought revenge because his’ this part of the State until advancing age | rival had won the love of the woman to Hosterman, State College; Ed. Houser, State College; D. H. Louder, Oak Hall; W. H. McIntire, State College; Jno. 1 Thompson, Lemont: Wm. Thompson, Lemont. This was the first attempt of the stu- dents to hold a fruit show. It was so compelled his retirement. He was seventy- | whom he had paid suit in the days when six years of age and is survived by his | she was free to choose between them. wife, three sons and three daughters, | see r as well as a number of friends through: HARTMAN—MILLER. — The Methodist out this county. The funeral was held Parsonage on east Linn street was the from his late home at 9:30 o'clock Sun- | Scene of a pretty wedding at ten o'clock day morning, burial being made at Lamar yesterday morning when Edward Hart. successful that it will be made a perma- | | man, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hartman, nent feature of Pennsylvania Day in the | Tgessigr.—Elizabeth, the five year old | of Rock, and Miss Marjorie Miller, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Miller, of future. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tressier, | 3 01. Vr. and irs, AVEijam Alen O04 of ghia: t hip, died Hany) i y | this place, were united in marriage by morning after a brief illness with pneu- i the pasiny, Rev. E. Yocum, er thie : monia. The funeral will be held tomor- oy Y Wate Coven ot oe row (Saturday) morning, burial to pe | Of degroom’s parents where a re- | made at Shiloh. , ception was tendered and the Thanks, | giving dinner served as their wedding SCHOOL BOARD WILL ORGANIZE MON- DAY.—On Monday morning of next week, December 4th, the old school board will hold its final meeting and wind up the business of the past fiscal year, and im- "oe and take part in the big blow.out of the O, of 1. A. Saturday evening. ~Last Friday Harry Hoy, who was working on | the B. F.Homan farm at Oak Hall, gave up his job and moved to Pine Hall taking rooms at the J. N, Hoy residence. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bunnell, of Tyrone. are spending a week among their friends in and about town. Allen is John B. Campbell s right- bower in the dairy business. and well deserves a week's rest. On account of the high price of corn the bulk of the porkers are being slaughtered this week - So far as heard from lim Decker has the best a the 405 pound notch. Newt Yarnell expects to bh the blue ribbon winner. Thanksgiving day is over. Few big gobblers graced the festive boards, owing to the high price of the birds and everything else that goes to make up a big feast. Many bad to be content with that delicious dish, lver-wurst. The nimrods fare coming out. The Kepler money kings in New York, a man now dead. He said 10 me: “We are going to elect Roosevelt,” 1 expressed sur. prise. He said that they had fright ened Roosevelt so he had made a bar . gain with them.” Members of the committee looked . somewhat incredulous, and Mr. Bar ker added: “1 wish Mr. Rovsevelt were here.” *] wish he were,” said Senator Townsend; “it would he interesting.” Mr. Barker continued: “‘He is to holler all he wants to,’ he told me, ‘but by and by a railroad bill will be brought in by recommen- dation of the president, cutting off re bates and free passes, which suits us who own the railroads, permitting pooling arrangements and providing for maximum rates.” mediately thereafter the new board will organize. There will be but three of the old members on the new board, Dr. M. J. Locke, Charles F. Cook and A. C. Min- | pig 3ppointments in the United Evan- | gle. The new members will be Mrs. Mary E. Brouse and Mrs. Caroline Gilmour, the latter the two women elect- ed at the recent election. This will be fined to the house with the grip the past | week and on Sunday was unable to fill gelical church. In his absence Rev. C. C. | Shuey filled the pulpit in the evening. i . Sl — | ——The Philipsburg Shirt company ——Rev. J. F. Hower has been con-| live in Bellefonte. The Fleet Foots have one to their credit. Last Saturday evening while James Kelley: Wharton and Dallis Weller, of Erbtown, were ee NOLL—MESIMER.— On Tuesday after- | noon George A. Noll, of Bellefonte, and | ying to town in u buggy. their horse became Miss Beatrice L. Mesimer, of State Col- | unmanagesble near the railroad station and ran | lege, were united in marriage by justice | away, the young men jumped and Kelley and feast. Mr. Hartman is employed in Hazel crowd brought down one deer. The Modocks | Bros. store and the voung couple will | came out Wednesday with two fine bucks; Dr. J). | young coup} | B. Krebs and C. M. Baker were the lucky shots, | | of the peace W. H. Musser, at his office Wharton was only slightly bumped up but the The railroad man added, said Mr. Barker, that under the latter author ity it would be possible to add [rom | $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 to the to tal ireight charges paid by the Amer ican public. “1 told him [ didn’t believe Roose: | velt made any such agreement,” said Mr. Barker, “but when the annua! Beattie Pays Death Penalty. Heury Clay Beattie, Jr., who was put to death in the electric chair in Richmond, Va., confessed to the mur der of his young wife. He left the fol lowing statement: “1, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous of standing right before God and man, do on this 23d day of November, 1911, confess my guilt of the crime charged against me. Much that was published concerning the details was not true, but the awful act, without the harrow- ing circumstances, remains. For this action | am truly sorry and, believing that I am at peace with God and am soon to pass into his presence, this statement is made,” Beattie's confession was jollowed by the following statement by the attend. ing ministers: “This statement was signed in the presence of the attending ministers and is the only statement that can and will be made by them, “Mr. Beattie desired to thank the many iriends for kind letters and ex- pressions of interest and the public for whatever sympathy was felt or ex- pressed.” Beattie's death was instantaneous, according to the prison surgeon. The utmost care had heen taken in the preparation of the electrodes and in seeing that the straps and clamps were in proper place and prepared to withstand any strain. Not at any time was there a slp. The murderer's exit was sald to have heen as painless as modern science conld provide. Just one minute after the electric current was turned on Beattie was pronounced dead. Beattie was laid to rest in a grave alongside that of his young wife, for whose murder he paid with his life Boy Shoots Chum In Fight. Claude Booth, a lad of twelve years, and a son of Frank Booth, of Salis bury, Md., is lying in a critical condi tion in the Peninsula hospital, as a re- sult of being shot, it is said, by Ralph McAllister, of about the same age, in South Salisbury. A fight ensued between the two lads and McAllister got his rifle and shot Booth, the police say, with a 22-caliber bullet. The bullet entered Hooth's jaw on the right side and came out on the left side of the boy's face. The boy was rushed to a hospital, where be is not expected to live. McAllister was ti ken into custody by teh police and held to await the result of the wound. the first time a woman ever served on the turned out of its factory last week, by smaller boy was badly injured. He was taken to | IN€Ssage of 1505 went to congress he Bellefonte school board and naturally | their administrations will be watched special order a shirt which measured 68 inches at the breast, 21 inches at the col- | with more or less interest. In the or- ganization of the board there will be 10 | cuffs and was 40 inches 1 ong. It was elect a president, secretary and treasurer, | made for a man in Alliance, Ohio. We'll and there is also some speculation as let it to our readers to figure out the size whether either of the women will be se-' of the man who could wear such a shirt. lected for one of these offices. But : ——tn whether elected to an office or not they, __The Bellefonte High school foot- can’t very well be excluded from the com- | hall team closed the season last Saturday mittees and on these they will have an | afternoon in a game with the Bellwood opportunity to prove their efficiency. | High school eleven on Hughes field, de- : soe ! feating the visitors by the score of 35 to INJURED STUDENT IMPROVING.—H. V.10 During the year the Bellefonte boys Flagg, the State College Junior who had | played cight games winning five of them. | his skull fractured, his wrist and three | The Bellefonte Academy team on Sat- ribs broken by a fall of thirty feet in the | yrqay suffered their second defeat of the lar, 32 inches at the arm holes, 14 inch | in the Crider building. They will make | i, Woods office and given proper attention. | . The horse was found a mile cast of town with a = . | few scratches, but the buggy was a wreck. | ——W. Harrison Walker Esq., repre: | Last week Luther Peters bought the D. G. Meek | senting the State Highway Department, | farm, known as the Bunker Hill tract, which has has received the blank applications for | een in the Meek name since 1790. Li is where automobile tags and licenses for 1912 | grandmother Elizabeth Meek, lived and spent her : : * | life. Her home was headquarters for the Meth. and automobile owners and drivers can | odist clergy. She frequently traveled horseback their home in State College. applying to him. Application should be | M¥ rugged mountains over Indian trails to be ade earl possi in order | present and attend conference. Mr. Peters is to J — pi Sd ih bo scans be congratulated on his purchase, for the small sum of $4.800. The farm has new buildings and is in the Department through the volume | one of the finest homes in the Fairbre x section. of business. : SPRING MILLS. coe Real Estate Transters. t A number of folks will entertain quite lirgely T. B. Budinger et ux to Kelley Bros. | on Thanksgiving day. recommended most of those things, 1 have same filled out and forwarded by | to Williamsport fording swollen rivers and climb. : armory at the college last Wednesday afternoon, is improving slowly and the | season at Bloomsburg when the Normal school team of that place were the victors Coal Co., June 8, 1911, tract of land in Snow Shoe; $200. Wm. P. Humes et al to Chas. P. Norris, party at cards on Friday evening last. Miss Bessie Grove entertained quite a large physicians now have some hope of his by the score of 6 to 5, Dillon missing the Aug. 26, 1911, tract of land in State Col | week were a good imitation of winter. The cold weather and snow squalls during last : wrote to President Roosevelt and told him what I heard. Jt was the only letter of mine Mr. Roosevelt ever rail. ed to answer.” Members of the committee asked Mr. Barker to give the name of the financial man who had told him that Roosevelt was to he elected. “1 cannot do it,” said Mr. Barker, “but subsequently somebody was al leged to have siolen some correspond- ence between Mr. Harriman and the president, telling of $250,000 put up for election expenses in the city of New York.” Mr. Barker said that in October, when the financial upheaval reached its crisis, he urged President Roose- velt to distribute the $145,000,000 of cash on hand in the treasury among the banks of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and other large cities, recovery. After being brought to the goal after the Academy had scored a | lege; $750. Bellefonte hospital he was unconscious | touchdown. Clement Dale et ux to Elizabeth Wetz- for over forty-eight hours, but since that coe i ler, Sept. 20, 1911, tract of land in Boggs time has been perfectly rational. ——The December term of court will | TWP; $550. 2 Young Flagg's case is one deserving of | begin on Monday of next week. The | a lot of sympathy. His parents are not | criminal list is not a very large or im- well-to-do and the young man has been portant one but the calendar of civil cases working his way tfirough college by wait- | for the second week is quite lengthy, and ing on the table at one of the fraternity | will make a full week of it if fifty per houses. His father had been laid up for | cent. of them are tried. One of the cases five weeks with illness and had gone to! ig that of Samuel Osman, of Port Matilda, work for the first time since his recovery | against the supervisors of Spring town. on the morning of the day his son was | ship; the plaintifi seeking to recover Mary H. Lynn et al to Edward H. Gehret et al, Oct. 31, 1911, tract of land in Bellefonte; $200. Wm. Weaver admr to Conrad Long, Apr. 30, 1892, tract of land in Howard Twp.; $27.50. John Gilson et ux to Agnes Hoover, June 17,1911, tract of land in Rush Twp.; W. E. Hurley sheriff to A. R. McNitt, G. R. Kennelley, who has been on the sick list for a week or two, is able to be about again, It has been definitely decided to postpone erect ing the condensary plant to be located here until | early spring. - The Grange hall is rapidly approaching com- pletion. When completed they talk about having | a “blow out.” : After an absence of ten days the Penn Hall hunting party returned home on Saturday last with four deer. ! "8. L. Condo has his large carriage and vehicle | factory about ready for the painters. he build: | ing adds greatly to the appearance of the neigh- borhood. “He wanted to do it,” he said, “but he called in Mr. Knox and Mr. Cortel- yon and Mr. Root, and the result was the whole amouni went into Wall Indian Dies In Electric Chair. Ross French, a Cherokee Indian, beionging to =a family of Oklahoma Indians, paid the death penalty in Raleigh, N. C., in the electric chair for the murder of Miss Ethel Shu- ler, near Birdtown, in Swain county, last September. After the girl's body was found IPreneh was arrested and carried to Asheville to prevent lynch- ing. French confessed he had attempt- ed to attack the girl and she had struck him on the head with a stone, after which he drew his knife and cut her throat, Explogion Kills Thirty-three. Thirty-three workers were killed and upwards of 10¢ injured by a boiler ex- plosion which occurred at the oil cake millg of J. Bibby & Sons, in Liverpool, Eng. The roof of the great mill was blown off, while the walls split and crumbled. Nearly 400 workers were engaged in the building at the time. street.” The Philadelphia man declared that those who backed the Aldrich mone- tary plan had begun a “propaganda” in which it was proposed to spend a million dollars to secure the indorse- ment of the proposed currency legis. lation. “Monday a banker in Philadelphia started to collect that city’s share of The bodies of those in or near the boiler room were horribly mangled. some of them being thrown into the streets, together with bricks and de- bris. Secretary Knox's Son to Wed. A marriage license has been is- sued in New York city to Hugh Smith Knox, «on of the secretary of state, hurt. On being notified of his son's fall | da Zor the \uss of 2 Nov. 13, 191], tract of land in Bellefonte; and injury he came to Bellefonte, arriving | in the lake out at the Gentzel farm dur- here on Thursday noon and remaining | ing a freshet in the spring of 1910, when until there was a change for the better in | the road was not guarded by danger his condition. signals of any kind. M. 1 Gardner et ux to A. Clyde Smith et al, Nov. 20, 1911, tract of land in Bellefonte; $7250. nn Marriage Licenses. Harry H. Leitzel and Rhenie E. Boob, et i RAILROAD TRACK LABORER RETIRED. ! so PASTOR GIVEN INSPIRING RECEPTION. | the money, $100,000,” he said. Butchering is in full blast in this neighborhood. | He urged a law that would compel have been reported—about 300 pounds is the | garve in cash, instead of having the G.C. King is enclosing and shedding all the , banks of New York. machinery and trucks in his large saw mill locat- | re mee ed above the railroad station. This will enable | Negress Accused of Killing Six. but strange Lo say. as yet, no very heavy porkers | national banks to hold their legal re-’ | power to redeposit part of it in the’ —George W. Morrison, of Unionville, the well known track laborer on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad, will be retired today at his own request. The retiring age for the Pennsylvania railroad com- pany is seventy years, but an employee who has become physically unable to oerform his duties, ar whose health is not good, is retired upon request at the age of sixty-five years and placed upon the pension roll. Mr. Morrison is sixty- five years of age, a veteran of the Civil —Rev. William P. Van Tries, son of Dr. | both of Millheim. T. C. Van Tries, of Bellefonte, entered upon his pastorate of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian church, Altoona, on Sunday and Monday morning's. Altoona Times had the following to say regarding his reception: An inspiring r tion was tendered Sunday to the Rev liam Porter Van- Tries, newly-chosen pastor of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian church. His maiden Charles E. Hartman and Margery B. Miller, both of Bellefonte. Ernest J. Treaster and Clara M. Reiber, both of Spring Mills. George A. Noll, of Bellefonte, and + Beatrice Lillian Mesmer, of State College. Thomas A. Packer, of Pleasant Gap, and Virgie B. Hummer, of Riverside. appearance in Altoona as = pastor at-. RUNVILLE RIPPLINGS tracted one of the largest congregations ' — to gather in that edifice, there being over | : y fifteen hundred friends and laymen pres: | the important engagements. After his | one jy the morning he a well- | discharge he returned to his home and | gelected sermon, after which the hand of | entered the employ of the company as | fellowship was extended to the pastor by ! track laborer, which position he has held | the large congregation. His sermon in | until the t time.’ OF. recent the evening was also the main drawing | up um presen recent | card for an audience much larger than at years his health has been greatly impair- | the morning service was present. ed on account of trouble from his wound | - oid = of forty-eight years ago, and it is because | NEW STALLION LAW.—The new stallion war and was severely wounded in one of Butcherings are all the go in our town at present. Mrs. William Watson and son Victor were Mrs. Aunie Crock and daughter Bertha were seen in our town Friday and Saturday. Clyde Watson and Miss Swope, of Chestnut rove, spent Sunday with Rev. I. H. Dean. A number of our young people attended the revival services held at Wingate Sunday night. Mrs. Claude Lucas and family, of Snow Shoe, G of this fact that he will be retired today | law passed by the last Legislature will go | "crane at the home of Mrs. Lucas’ at his own request. into effect on January 1st, 1912, and own- | ers of stallions throughout Centre county | should inform themselves fully on the -oe FRUIT GROWERS MEETING.— The Cen- tre County Fruit Growers association provisions of the Act, which are rather will hold a two days meeting at Millheim | strict, and carry a heavy penalty. Especial | on Friday and Saturday, December 15th | attention is called to the provisions of and 16th. Prominent speakers will be Section 7 of the Act, which is as follows: present and make addresses on various = SPCTION 7. The owner, part owner, or keeper | : | of each stallion or jack, standing for public serv- | opis of leant 10 frit growers, SUCH | jee in his State, shall keep his license certificate. prog rees, methods | or a copy thereof, displayed n conspicuous man- getting rid of injurious insects, spraying, | ner at cach and every stable at which the stallion etc. All fruit growers in the county are | or jack stands. Said copy must be at least as invited to attend, whether members of | 183e me vie orjgind Jee Co he the association or not. land advertisement fssued by the owner, part owner, or keeper of any stallion or jack licensed En —— mother. A large crowd attended the services on Sunday whichwercheldby the P.R. R. Y.M.C. A. at the U, B. church. Milligan Lucas, who is employed at the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania round house, at Belle fonte, was ut the butchering of Willis Poorman, last Thursday. a ——_ Overlooked a Point. "Take as much of this powder, once a day, he doctor said, "as will go ona x that all?" asked the patient. “Then it doesn't make any difference whether I disinfect the 10-cent piece or him to operate the plant regardless of weather | conditions. | Since Wm. Ruhl disposed of his livery at public sale, with no successor, quite a number of com- mercial agents were puzzled how to reach certain stores inthe surrounding country, but they got there, nevertheless, J. Warren Wood, of the Spring Mills hotel, will have sale of all his household effects on Wednes- day, and will leave for Jersey Shore, his future residence, next week. We are very sorry to lose Mr. Wood, as he is a good citizen and an able landlord. Candidacy For Renomination Favored by Republican Editorial Association. The Illinois Republican Editorial as- sociation, in session at Springfield, adopted resolutions “approving the’ candidacy of President Tait for re- nomination and endorsing his admin-* istration.” Regarding the tariff the resolutions say: “We adhere to the Republican! policy of protection and favor a scien- tific revision of the tariff which con-! templates the maintenance of the American standard of living.” : A copy of the resolutions was or- | dered sent to President Taft. Arrest Scrantcn Man For Forgery. ' Charged with forgery involving a sum said to he in the neighborhood of says. Robbers Kill Man. The vostoffice at Manteo, Va., a few | miles from Richmond, was blown up Arrested on the charge oi the mur- ; der of six persons, Clementine DBarna- ; bel, a young negress of Lafayette, : La.,, only laughed at the police when confronted with bloodstained ar-' | ticles of her clothing found near the | home of Norbert Randall, whose fam- ily of six persons were all found dead | in bed, their bodies horribly hacked. They were negroes. i Taft Receives Russia's Ambassador. President Tait interrupted longest cabinet session of his admin- the | and Miss Katherine McCook, daughter of the late General Anson (i, McCook. Young Knox gave his age as twenty- eight: Mims McCook said she was twenty-two. She lives in New York. The date of the wedding has not been announced. Too Early. One raw February morning an in- structor in the University of Michigan was calling the roll of an § o'clock class in English. “Mr. Robbins,” said he. There was no answer. “Mr. Robbins,” in a slightly louder . volce. Still no reply. “Ab,” said the instructor, with a quiet smile, “confe to think of it, it is rather early for robins.” | ambassador, George Bakhmetieff, The $30,000, a man named Grausman, from | articles Scranton, Pa. is held in Montreal, | N. J, Can. He will fight estradition, he P. i | 200, and for the Liggett & Myers To | heceo company, capital $26,800,200, : The instructor was the late Moses Coit Tyler, who later became profes- sor of history at Cornell, and it shows im in the pleasing light of a man who could be hoyishly gay at a gray and cheerless hour—-no small feat, if one stops to consider an instructor's provo- cations to morning dullness. istration to receive the new Russian’ envoy was received in the blue room at the White House in the presence of | the president's aides and the attaches | of the embassy. { Hunter Killed by Friend. Johnston Hardester, 1wenty-three years of age, was shot and instantly Horse Riding In Ancient Times. killed by his friend, George Massey, Stirrups were unknown to the an- while they were gunning in swamps | cients. Along the public roads there near Laurel, Del. Massey shot at a were placed stones to enable the horse- ' covey of birds, not knowing his irlend | men to mount. Stirrups were used to was in that directlon. Hardester's' gome extent in the fifth century, but Jos Vite is prostrated and Massey | were not common even so late as the ost crazed. . twelfih. Horseshoeing is a very am- clent art. It is represented on a coin incorporate New Tobacco Companies. | of Tarentum of about 350 B. C. Itis In the recreation of the tobacco trust | sald that William the Conqueror have been filed in Trenton, | brought the first iron horseshoe to for the incorporation of the ' Bngland.—Tondon Graphle. Lorillard company, capital $26,463. ' mm —— Putting It Mildly. “That man seems to be proud of his Daath. hy . stupidity,” said tbe impetuous person. Choked to Death by Tobacco. | lan’ » replied Clyde Bowyer, a night watchman, t put it that way, B ¥. —Mrs. Wilbur Baney, of east Lamb street, has heen confined to the house the past week with an attack of tonsilitis She isnow recovering. under this act, and used for advertising such | not? stallion or jack, shall contain an exact copy of his license certificate. Newspaper advertise’ ments, where space is paid for, shall contain th® class and number of the license certificate. by robbers, and a man who surprised them was shot and instantly killed. The robbers escaped and are being pursued by a posse. 0, yd means, disinfectit! J—er— forgot that.” ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. of Cleveland, 0. went to sleep with conservative friend. “Td . a chew of tobacco in iis month. In the that when it comes to a morning he was found dead. He bad wisdom Ie's a probibitionist.”—Rx- choked to death on his chew. i i
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