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COAL OPERATORS REJECT DEMANDS.
Action of Mine Owners Was Unani- |
mous In Turning Down All Conges-
sions.
A flat rejection of their demands |
will be the answer the representatives
of the miners will get from the an- |
thracite coal operators at their con-
ference to be held in New York on
March 13. This action was decided
upon at a conference of the operators
which lasted just one hour.
While the action taken does not nec-
essarily preclude further negotiations |
should the miners subsequently decide
upon a modification of their demands,
it nevertheless seems to heighten the
prospect of a strike.
The conference of the operators was
the first to be held since the formal |
presentation of the miners demands
last week. There were present forty
four men representing the indepen-
dents as well as the large coal com-
panies.
The operators assembled at 143 Lib-
erty street and it was very clear that
a unanimity of sentiment prevailed
and that the discussion did not last
long. J. L. Cake, of the Clear Spring
Coal company, a leading independent,
presided. It was decided to appoint
& sub-committee to meet with the
miners on March 13, this committee to
draw up the formal reply of the oper-
ators rejecting the miners’ demands.
The formal rejection of the demands
which the committee is instructed to
prepare will be drawn up at a meet-
ing the committee will hold next Mon-
day. It will take up each demand and
give the operators’ reasons for refus-
ing it.
The action of the coal operators in
thus rejecting the miners’ demands at
the start is a departure from their
attitude of three years ago when they
entered into negotiations with Presi
dent Mitchell and committee with &
counter proposal.
The most important demands of the
miners are the 20 per cent. wage in-
crease, an eight-hour day and the col-
lection of dues by the operators.
President White is in Indianapolis.
The belief was pretty general, how-
ever. that the miners would seek to
bring about further conferences.
Not one of the operators who was
seen would discuss the question of
coal on hand.
One operator said that he thought
it very likely that there would be a
suspension of work on March 31, when
the present agreement expires. The
agreement ends at noon on that day.
One of the best posted men on the
coal conditions in the city said that he
expects a strike of the anthracite
miners on April 1. As in the strike of
1902 bituminous coal would be used
for steam purposes if the small steam
sizes of anthracite cannot be obtained.
For Free Sugar and Income Tax.
The Democratic caucus ratified the
sugar bill and the income tax or excise
bili presented by Democratic Leader
Underwood, with the indorsement of
the ways and means committee. Both
bills will now be presented to the
house.
In reporting the free sugar bill to
the caucus, Chairman Underwood also
submitted a bill which in effect would
provide an income tax in the United
States.
It was proposed that the present
corporation tax be extended to include
“individuals and co-partnerships doing
a business of $5000 a year or over.”
Mr. Underwood stated that this prac-
tically would accomplish the purposes
of an income tax, and at the same
time comply with the supreme court
decision against the constitutionality
of an income tax. The proposed tax
would be one per cent.
Chairman Underwood made a state-
ment to the caucus that he had been
directed by the ways and means com-
mittee to'submit a bill to place sugar
on the free list and another bill ex:
tending the present excise tax, now
levied by law on corporations, to indi-
viduals and co-partnerships having an
annual income of more than $5000 a
year.
In explaining the effect of the bill
Mr. Underwood said:
“The bill removing the taxes levied
* at the customs houses on sugar, im-
ported into this country, will have the
effect of reducing the price of sugar
to the consumer about 1% cents a
pound.”
The statement further says that in
the opinion of the ways and means
committee the large profits made by
manufacturers and refiners of sugar
have been due to the customs tariff
and that placing sugar on the free
list would not destroy the industry in
the United States, but would result in
a saving to the American people of
$107,000,0006.
Body Was Found In Ohio River at
Pittsburg.
The morgue ambulance in Pitts
burg, Pa., was temporarily turned in-
to an ice wagon. Its cargo was a huge
cake of ice taken from the Ohio river,
Frozen in the ice was a man’s body,
which was discovered by two ferry-
men. It is thought the ice and body
came otu of the Aliegheny when sev-
eral gorges went out a few days ago.
Made Wooden Keys: Escaped Jail.
John Phonish, under sentence of two
years for attempted murder, and John
Crowley, under sentence of two years
for forgery, broke jail at Sparta, Wis,
and escaped. The two opened threy
Jocks with: keys they had made out
Burned to Death In Buggy.
Edward Wallace, a well-to-do far.
mer, sixty-five vears old, was burned
to death in his buggy while returning
to his home at Mansfield, 0. from
Sullivan. He had a ighted lantern in
the buggy, and it is supposed that {he
lantern overturned and set fire fo his
clothing.
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Died After Hold-Up.
Harvey Grasley, a blacksmith, died ’ eed pigs too Bad rich foods, particular-
in Allentown, Pa. He had returned {ly corn, as itis to starve them. If the
| to his home from Philadelphia Sun- | Minister Calhoun Ordered to Protect | is fed on stuff that is purely fatten- |
day night, and said that he had been
beaten up by thugs on Tenth street, in
that city. He was dazed and unable |
to give any connected account of what |
had happened to him. i
{ wanderings while in Philadelphia, nor |
| is it known whether or not he ha¢ |
any large sum of money on his person |
when he was attacked. He had none |
when he reached his home. The po- |
lice in Allentown have communicated |
with the Philadelphia authorities, in |
an effort to find out whether or not |
they can tell where Grasley was at-
tacked.
Slay 36 In Mexican Jail, !
Thirty-six lives paid the penalty of
a revolt in the penitentiary at Mon-
terey, Mexico, according to incoming
passengers at El Paso, Tex.
These passengers said six of the
prisoners were killed during the out-
break and twenty-five others, regarded
as ringleaders, were executed.
There were about 3000 prisoners in
the institution. Reports said the war
den of the penitentiary was among
the slain,
The passengers were unable to de-
scribe in what manner the remaining
five victims were killed, but it is as.
sumed they were among the number
slain in the first rush of revolting pris-
oners.
Woman to Die In Electric Chair,
For the first time in Massachusetts
criminal procedure a woman, Mrs.
Lena Cusumano, was sentenced in |
Plymouth to death in the electric
chair.
Enrico Masciolo, whose name has !
been anglicized into “Harry Marshall,” |
and who was convicted jointly with |
Mrs. Cusumano for the murder of the |
woman's husband, in September, 1910, |
also was sentenced to death. '
Both sentences are to be carried out |
in the state prison at Charlestown |
during the week heginning June gs!
next. :
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Her Dowry Too Small. !
It has been learned in German mili
tary circles in Berlin that Count Graf
Fugge had proposed for the hand of
Nancy Leishman, but withdrew his !
proposal on learning the amount of |
Nancy's probable dowry, which is re-
ported as not being sufficient.
In American circles, while awaiting
confirmation of the report, it is sup-
posed the ambassador may have placed
the figure lo was a polite way of re- |
fusing the count's offer. !
Vaccinated From Sisters. i
Miss Ella McHale, of Altoona, Pa. |
is just recovering from a double ill. |
ness, one-half of which was contracted
in a peculiar manner.
While dressing the arms of two of |
her sis’2re, who had been vaccinated, |
she vaccinated herself involuntarily, !
through a cut on the end of one of her |
fingers. Her vaccination “took” all |
right. Meantime she contracted diph- |
theria, but antitoxin brought her
around. ' |
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Clown Quits to Be a Preacher.
+ After making thousands of persons |
laugh during the ten years he has
been a clown with one of the big
circuses, with winter quarters in Peru,
Ind.. Raleigh lL. Wilson, of Lincoln, |
Neb., has resigned. He will devote his |
time to evangelistic work. i
Wins $40,000 Heart Balm.
The United States circuit court of
appeals has sustained a decision by a
lower court in St. Louis, awarding
$40,000 to Miss Ellen R. Day, of Me-
nominee, Mich., for breach of promise
and loss of service.
Miss Day said that James S. San-
born, of Pukwana, S. D., had broken a
promise to marry her and for that
asked $25,000. She said also that she
had worked for Sanborn without com-
pensation, believing she was to become
his wife. For this service she asked
$15,000. The jury gave her the full
amount, $40,000.
Starving Persians Eat Each Other.
Startling allegations of cannibalism
among starving Persians are contained
in letters from Teheran to the Per-
sian-American society in Washington.
The writer, Dr. Susan I. Moody, for
merly of Chicago, declares fathers are
eating their children and children are
eating each other in northwestern Per
sia, in the vicinity of Hamadan, where
famine has followed the sacking of
twenty-five towns and villages by the
rebel troops of Salar ed Dowleh, broth
er of the deposed shah.
Forty thousand persons are starve
ing, it is declared. The society has
started a relief fund.
Broken Neck Heals.
With one chance in a thousand,
Adam Patten, fifty years old, of Pitts.
burg, Pa., has won, and recovered en-
tirely from a broken neck.
Patten’s neck was broken three
months ago. The axle of his wagon
snapped, the wagon was jolted and he
was thrown head first against the pa-
ving stones. For a month he lay in
bed with a five pound lead on one end
of a rope, attached to a pulley which
held his head in such position that the
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broken vertebrae might grom together
-—and it did.
Dr. Wiley Upheld. i
By a vote of two to one, the board
of cabinet officers charged with the
enforcement of the pure food law en-
tered a final decision against the use
of saccharine in prepared foods.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Na- i
gel confirmed the decision that food
containing saccharine was adulterat-
ed. Secretary of the Treasury Mac.
Veagh dissented.
One month's grace will be given the
manufacturers to arrange for the elim.
ination of saccharine.
i 5,000 KILLED IN CHINESE MUTINY.
Americans In Danger Zone at Any
Cost.
Yuan Shi Kai stated in Pekin that
five thousand persons were killed in
Nothing is known concerning his | that city since the outbreak of the mu-
tiny.
The property loss amounts up to
more than $15,000,000.
Rushing Foreign Troops to Scene.
After a four days’ reign of terror in
China, marked by indiscriminate mur-
der, looting, arson and general de-
struction of property under the Man-
chu soldiers, a calm developed, ac-
| cording to dispatches received in
Washington,
Minister Calhoun, of Pekin, was in-
structed to keep the closest possible
watch on the situation, to give every
protection possible to Americans in
the danger zone, which has been
spreading in the last few days, and to
call directly upon General Bell, at Ma-
nila, and upon Admiral Murdock, at
Shanghai, for any number of rein-
forcements that an emergency may
seem to require.
Admiral Murdock, commanding the
American Asiatic squadron at Shang-
hai, notified the navy department that
he is dispatching 200 additional ma-
rines from his warships on the collier
Abarenda for Tientsin. The cruiser
Cincinnati will accompany the col-
| ler.
At the present time there are ap-
proximately 6700 foreign soldiers in
the trouble zone, including the regular
legation guards.
Minister Calhoun, in one of his dis-
patches, recites that although the riots
started at Pekin last Thursday, no at-
tempt was made until Sunday vo sup-
press them.
Mr. Calhoun states that a number of
bullets and one shell fell in the Ameri-
can legation compound, though the
shell did not explode. While this was
not an apparent intentional attack on
the American property, the minister
| has demanded an apology of the Pekin
authorities.
On the whole conditions are most
pitiable, Mr. Calhoun states. Many
coolies and boys, who had picked up
articles discarded by the soldiers, have
been summarily executed, while the
soldiers themselves so far have es
caped. Sunday night, however, the au-
thorities managed to confine the sol-
diers to their barracks, while the po-
lice preserved order, such as it was,
Last Friday the mutineers seized
three trains and went to Tao-Ping-Fu,
where there was an uprising, and at
Feng-Tai and Tientsin, where there
was much burning, plundering and
killing.
Mr. Cahoun states that the situation
at Titntsin is very grave, the losses
by fire being enormous and over one
million taels have been taken from
the government mint. The Chinese au-
thorities have appealed to the foreign
consuls to assume control of the city
with the foreign military forces, and
this will be done if found necessary
upon a further consultation of the for-
eign ministers.
The mutineers attempted to hold up
a train carrying American troops from
Tientsin to Pekin, but were fought off
by the American and British railway
A machine gun on a flat car
in front of the engine proved effective,
Mitchell Declines to Dodge Contempt
Charge.
Declining to accept what Justice
Wright in Washington intimated
might be immunity from further pro-
ceedings in the renewed Bucks Stove
& Range company contempt case if
he apologized for past actions, Vice
President John Mitchell, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, stood pat on
his testimony.
“I would feel more contentment if
convicted, conscious of the rectitude
of my course and the truthfulness of
my evidence, than if acquitted on any
other grounds than the facts as they
have been presented and the law as it
has been enunciated by the higher
tribunal,” he sald in a letter to Jus-
tice Wright.
Deserters May Receive Citizenship.
The house passed a bill granting to
the president power to set aside the
loss of citizenship now imposed on de-
serters fro mthe military service. It
confines such clemency, however, only
to thoes offenders who avoid o rescape
militar yor naval service in times of
peace.
One Killed and Four Hurt In Chemi- |.
cal Factory Explosion.
A man was blown to bits and four
others were badly injured by being
hurled through windows by an explo-
' sion in the Anderson Chemical com-
pany’s works at Wallington, N. J.
The two-story brick building took
fire immediately and was entirely de.
stroyved before the arrival of the vol-
unteer firemen. The loss is estimated
at $50,000. .
In the room where amylacetate acid
and soluble cotton was made were
five men. Attending the fifteen-galion
draining tank was Andrew Dolak, a
Pole. When the explosion occurred he
shot toward the roof, and parts of his
body was found in the open field. One
leg was picked up more than 100 feet
from the building.
The other four were picked up un-
conscious fifty feet from the building
and were badly injured.
Pottsville, Pa., Girl Dies In Philadel-
phia Hospital as Result.
Having swallowed a steel rivet she
was playing with, Ethel Anderson, col-
ored, six years old, of Pottsville, Pa.,
died in the Jefferson hospital in Phila-
delphia.
The rivet had lodged in the little
girl’s bronchial tubes and she was un-
able to breathe. She had heen in the
hospital several weeks and underwent
an operation.
—It is almost as great a mistake
ing and without the proper bone-and
muscle-building material, the pigs will
become soft and flabby and lack stamina.
Real Estate Transters.
i. H. Haupt Admr. to Sarah E. Heaton,
tract of land In Boggs Twp.; $200.
{ W. H. Thompson et ux to Mary E.
Casselberry, tract of !and in Howard
Twp.: $303.50,
Thomas Houtz et ux et al to Monroe
‘H., Kulp & Co.,, 130 acres of land in
Miles Twp.: $150.
! Wm. R. Good et ux to Monroe H. Kulp
1 Co, 150 acres of land in Miles Twp.:
| $150,
! Elizabeth S. Shiliingford to Joseph H.
| Burroughs, 7333.3 acres of land in Rush
{and Taylor Twps.; $1.
. Odile A. Mott et al to Eimer E. Bart-
ley, 33 acres of land in Boggs Twp.:
$2200,
Jas. B. Sliker et ux to Charles E. Bart-
ley, 21 acres of land in Boggs Twp.: $400.
Frank Bronoel et al to Elmer E. Bart-
ley, 38 acres of land in Boggs Twp.:
$2200
Agnes Shipley et bar to Harry M.
Stere, tract of land in Union Twp.: $1000,
John C. Lingle et ux to Henry Stover,
G5 acres of land in Gregg Twp.; $625.
Mary E. Beck to Ida Bell, tract of lan
in State College Boro.; $4500.
! May Finberg to John F. Schnars, tract
of land in Philipsburg; $600. .
Henry Thompson et ux to C, Ellis
Pietcher, tract of land in Howard Twp.:
Martha S. Shope to Hattie Zimmerman,
tract of land in Boggs Twp.: $1.
H. H. Harshberger et ux to Harriet
Zimmerman, 7 acres of land in Boggs
Twp.: $120.
Clarence F. Heim et al to Philip Heim,
tract of land in Gregg Twp.: $250.
Robt. Smith exect to Ellen Long, tract
of land in Gregg Twp.: $650.
M. L. Gill et ux to Laura H. Gill, 4
acres of land in Spring Twp.; $1200,
Julia C. Harvey et bar to Joseph W.
Harvey, tract of land in State College:
$400,
John Hamilton et ux to H. A. Leitzell,
tract of land in State College Boro;
Arthur B. Lee, sheriff, to Samuel C.
Hoy, 175 acres of land in Marion Twp.:
$75.
Adam Mayes et ux to John Moore,
tract of land in Philipsburg; $600.
Arthur B. Lee, sheriff, to Frank Mc-
ra. tract of land in Bellefonte Boro:
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Ezra Smith to Martin [shler, J acres
of land in Benner Twp.: $800.
Life y
The Life Guards are two Fegimante of
cavalry forming part of the British house-
are gallant soldiers,
loyal British heart is proud of
them. Not only the King’s household,
but ours, 's should have
its life guards. The of them is es-
peciall great when the grea
fe, ta find allies in the very ele-
ments as colds, influenza, catarrh, the
grip, and pneumonia do in the stormy
month of March. The best way that we
know of to against these diseases
is to stren the system with Hood's
Sarsaparilla—the greatest of all life
gua It removes the conditions in
which these diseases make their most
successful attack, gives vigor and tone to
all the vital organs and functions, and
imparts a genial warmth to the blood.
Remember the weaker the the
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greater the to disease. Hood's
Sarsaparilla the system strong.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE,
pave are authorised to anntunce that, Robert M,
Romer gf State College, ll DE
a
from Centre count; bject to the approval of the
DE vats 1 eapreaee ot primaries
on April 13th, 1912, *
We are toannounce that George A.
Beezer of will be a candidate for Leg-
Deemer af emt wl dot x
ay an oxDrGisey at. the
form primaries to be held Saturday, April 13th,
FOR NATIONAL DELEGATE.
We are authorized to announce that Wiliam
fas candidate for i ga Bemotratic o
to be held Satu Aor ith 1912, subject
a en I Voters of the 21st
congressional district.
‘We are requested to announce that W.
t
. of Clearfield will be
foregut ts the Democrat Nationa
of the 21st al
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to
ic 28 expres a 1 primaries Saturday
DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION,
We are authorized to Abram Webs
Esq. of Howard as a the
doar at the oil Th. ie
‘We are authorized to
of as a candidate for
Bermocoui Su So the
expressed at t
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Attorney Administrators.
57-10-6t Lemont, Pa,
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Huston, Snow
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No will be allowed oi
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New Advertisements.
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New Advertisements, Sttect, Elves s0oma.* All modern con
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Care of Mrs. 5. W. Beach,
UTOMOBILE FOR SALE.—One six passen- Princeton, New Jersey.
ger touring car, 50 horse vor, fully
equipped 1911 model 18 Matheson. ‘Silent
| {"MIRLS WANTED. —Six or eight girl
HUGH N. CRIDER, | G iO Su i nk
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79:2,
years, in the shirt factory to learn shirt
Bellefonte :
57-10-11, making.
D. RAY
5 Pellefonte, Pa.
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R SALE. —Genera! store, located at State
College. Doing good business, fine loca-
i tion, stock in good condition, rent not
{ high. Steam heat, elecuric light. Will give bar-
| gan to quick buyer. Reason for selling, health
| failing. Address
MERCHANT.
57.83* Box 02, Sta
OST.~In the vicinity of the Public School
building, a pair Gold-rimmed eye glasses
=< «in a Haskin's case. A suitable reward
will be paid for their return to this office or to the
Bush House. 56-49 ti,
EWING MACHINES OF ALL MAKES
Can be repaired by G. S. Clements. You will
his est . i
iS shop on Ww t Bishop street, opposite
machine
te College, Pa.
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Frans will be ude lnown on doy of Sale.
The Centre County Banking Company.
Strength and Conservatism
are the banking qualities demanded by careful
depositors. With forty vears of banking ex-
perience we invite you to become a depositor,
assuring you of every courtesy and attention.
We pay 3 per cent interest on savings and
cheerfully give you any information at our
command concerning investments you may
desire to make.
The Centre County Banking Co.
Bellefonte, Pa.
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Currant Bread
How To Make Currant Bread
Housewives who have heard about the wholesomeness of Currant Bread
and know thai it is as nourishing as it is “good to eat” will appreciate these
two new receipes :
No. 1.—Scald 2% cups milk.
butter the size Ri
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cool add three
When y sugar, a little salt,
Tr "2p 3d one pound ae
There is nothing so good as Currant Bread for growing children. It
makes ideal school lunches. That no butter is needed is also worth consid-
ering. —57-7-4t*
Do Not Forget
that up to date business methods are necessary these
Your business must be small indeed if you do
It
helps you to save, it records you transactions,
days.
not have a checking account in a good bank.
and best of all it makes you known where you can
borrow money in time of need.
The First National Bank,
Bellefonte, Pa.
a H. NOLL, Jr.,
ATTEST: . A :
H. N. MEYER. BA EROVEN
Clerk
March 5, 1912 County Commisgionurs: