Taft to Evade |
Mexican Mix-up. |
Juntas Have Been Organized In Sev
eral States—Madero Administration
Charged With Financial Irreguiari-|
ties.
Washington, Feb 27.—Recognition |
of the Huerta government in Mexico
probably will be left to President
elect Wilson, it was learned at the
state department. i
Officials of the Taft administration
are of the opinion that inasmuch as
Mr. Wilson will enter upon the presi-!
dency with a delicate and critical |
Mexican situation upon his hands, the |
question of recognition should be left
undecided between now and March 4. |
Though Ambassador Wilson is in|
favor of immediate recognition of the
Huerta government, his views are not
fully shared by the present adminis |
tration of the state department. It is
believed by the present administration |
that broader questions than those in-
volved in the present situation in Mex-|
jco City make it advisable for the
United States government to withhold
recognition for the present. i
Absolute quiet in Mexico City and
more or less disturbance in the north |
of Mexico—that is the situation im
the southern republic, according to re-|
ports reecived at the state department |
from the American embassy and Unit.
ed States consuls. There is practically’
no change in the situation in Mexico |
or in the relations of the United]
States with the new government. !
It is reported that Governor Car-|
ranza, of Coahuila, has taken the field |
with troops to oppose the Huerta gov-
ernment in Mexico City. Federal
troops are approaching the governor's
forces from the direction of Monterey.
Rebels are likewise reported active in
Sonora and San Luis Potosi. At No-
gales and Hermosillo considerable bad |
feeling as a result of the killing of
Madero and Suarez is reported.
At Juarez events are moving more
favorably for the Huerta government.
Four hundred soldiers known as Ma
dero volunteers laid down their arms
to officers of the garrison. They were
offered their choice of enlisting in the
federal forces of the new government
or of returning to their homes. Most
of them are said to have declined to
join the regular army.
It is reported at Juarez that Inez
Salazar, one of Orozco's co-leaders,
will join the garrison at Juarez in a
few days. The majority of the city
civil officers have abandoned their
posis and fled across the river to El
Paso, Texas, leaving the military in
control of the city. The city is quiet’
and trains and telegraph service with
Chihuahua has been resumed.
MANY REBELS IN FIELD
Mexican Government Admits Upris-
ings In Several Provinces.
Mexico City, Mex., Feb. 27.—No offi-
clal confirmation was received of the
reported death of Emilio Maderc, a
brother of the late ex-president, who
was said to have been shot dead near
Monterey,
The representatives of the foreign
powers generally have formally ac-
cepted the official version of the death
of Francisco I. Madero and Jose Pino
Suarez.
Zapatistas took advantage of the
withdrawal of federal troops two!
weeks ago to occupy several towns in!
the state of Morelos. The most im-!
portant of these is Yautepec, forty
miles southeast of the federal capital,
Many depredations have been commit- |
ted and additional troops were dis- |
patched against them. Eufemio, a'
brother of Emiliano Zapata, has pro- |
slaimed himself governor of Morelos.
The state of Aguas Zalientes admit. |
tedly is in revoit, the rebels being led !
Yy the governor.
Padilla is reported at Cumpas lead- |
ing 500 revolting troops, who planned
to start for Frontera, where the new
rebel forces will mobilize.
Rebel juntas have been organized in|
many parts of Northern Sonora and!
are said to be working with Governor |
Maytorena, who has refused to accept
the Huerta government. i
The departure from Mexico of Er
nesto Madero, former minister of |
finance, was followed immediately by |
a hurried counting of the cash in the’
government treasury, The result show. |
ed a baiance of $92,000. There are also
various deposits in both local and for-
eign banks.
The new government has discovered
that Madero’s administration was
guilty of gigantic financial irregulari-
ties. President Huerta's investigators
announce that vast sums were receiv-
ed by the former government for con-
cessions, although the money did not
benefit the public treasury.
New discoveries are being made |
constantly which indicate that Fran- |
eisco Madero and his friends cast out
in every direction to obtain funds for
maintaining their regime.
Among other matters unearthed by
Huerta's financial experts are docu-
ments indicating that the Madero gov-
ernment paid enormous sums as bo-
nuses to railroads which have never
been built. Many of these projected
roads probably never will be come
structed.
Second G. W. Ties Up Town.
“I can't tell you a lie, papa. I did it,
and with this little Boy Scout hatch-
et.” This was the explanation given
by Timothy Butler, eleven years of
age, of Plantville, near New Britain,
Conn., when he was asked by his
father to explain the felling of a tree
that put every electric light, telephone
and trolley car in town out of commis-
sion.
The lad was emulating George
Washington, and when he felled a ma-
ple tree service wires were carried to
the ground with it,
| }
| The riezc of Expedition Alive. With! covered in the breach.by
Six of His Companions, Are Re
turning.
Somewhere within the frozen Ant
arctic, not {ar from the magnetic pole,
two more lives have been sacrificed to
the cause of South Polar exploration.
A brief wireless message from the
little relief ship Aurora, of the Maw:
son expedition, from the neighborhood
of Adelie Land, received in Sydney,
announces the deaths of two promi:
nent members of Professor Mawson's
party, Lieutenant R. E. S. Ninnis, of
the British army, and Dr. Herz, the
Swiss ski champion. How the two men
met death the dispatch does not say.
The Aurora, which is a sailing ship,
had gone to bring out Dr. Mawson and
several of his men who had left the
mein party temporarily. Some unfor-
tunate circumstances, believed to have
been the sudden closing in of the ice,
prevented the explorers from regain
ing the ship, the message states, and
Dr. Mawson and the six men with him
will winter on Adelie Land. They are
well, according to the report, and have
accomplished some important explora
tions along the shores of Wilkes Land
by means of sledging expeditions.
The Aur: =a, with Dr. Mawson on
board, was known to have been on its
way to pick up Dr. Wilde, a former
member of both the Scott and Shack-
leton axpeditions, who with several;
companions had been left at the fcot
of Termination Glacier in 1912. It is
believed in Sydney that Dr. Mawson,
with a half dozen men, landed and
ventured on a side excursion, from
which they did not return in time to
regain the vessel.
The wireless message received in
| Sydney was addressed to Dr. T. W. BE.
David, professor of geology in the
University of Sydney, and himself the
Antarctic explorer who led the party
which reached the South Magnetic
Pole in January, 1909. This is the dis-
patch from Adelie, which was relayed
at McQuarie Island:
“Dr. Douglas Mawson and several
of his men missed the Aurora, which
had gene to fetch them, under the
command of Captain J. K. Davis. This
happened owing to unfortunate cir
cumstances. Lieutenant B. E. S. Nin
nis, of the city of London regiment ol
Royal Fusileers, and Dr. Herz, whc
was ski champion of Switzerland in
1908, members of the expedition, are
both dead. The others are well.
“Dr. Douglas Mawson and six othe:
members of his party probably wil
winter in Adelie Land. Some very suc
cessful sledging expeditions ware
made during the sojourn of Dr. Maw
son and his companions in the Ani
; aretic.”
Wrong Baby Buried In Mix-Up.
The confusion of two tiny paste
board charts at the Philadelphia Hos
. pital for Contagious Diseases, at Sec
ond and Luzerne streets, Philadelphia,
has developed astounding results in
| the burial of one child under the name
of another, who, to her parents’ over-
| whelming joy, has been restored to
them as one raised from the dead.
The living child is three-year-old
Mollie Engelman, daughter of David
and Mary Engelman, 629 West Mont
gomery avenue, where all day long
friends have collected in dazed sur
prise to express congratulations which
| are all too weak to meet the remark.
able situation.
In another home, that of Mr. and
Mrs. Isadore Kaufman, 2044 Westmont
street, there is naught but desolating
| sorrow, for there has pierced to their
hearts the terrible conviction that
their daughter, Beatrice, whom they
thought soon to have back in their
household, lies under the earth in Mt
Carmel cemetery.
The remarkable revelation which
carried such overpowering joy to one
home, such harrowing grief to anoth-
er, came when the Kaufmans refused
to accept the child offered them as
their daughter. Immediately there be-
an investigation which showed
that the little girl really was Mollie
Engelman.
Offered $20,000 to Release Thaw.
Testifying before Governor Sulzer's
committee of inquiry in Albany, N. Y,,
Dr. John W. Russell, the superintend-
ent of the Matteawan hospital, said
he was offered $20,000 by a lawyer a
few weeks ago if he would agree tc
release Harry K. Thaw.
Dr. Russell said he refused. He
could not recall the lawyer's name,
but said the offer was made in a New
York hotel.
Dr. Russell also testified that Wil-
liam F. Clark, secretary of the Sulzer
inquiry committee, has told him that
“Governor Sulzer would be pleased to
have Thaw released.” Dr. James V.
May, a member of the state hospital
commission, testified that he had been
approached in the same way.
Governor Sulzer declared that the
use of his name was unauthorized. “If
Mr. Clark or any other man made the
statement that Thaw's release would
be pleasing to me, it is absolutely un-
true,” said Governor Sulzer.
On Feb. 15, Dr. Russell said, Dr.
May called him on the telephone from
Albany, saying he had seen the gov-
~enoT, and that Mr. Sulzer woukd issue
po order and “the case would have to
take its regular course.” “I told Dr.
May,” continued the witness, “that it
the governor wanted this thing done
he would have to give a written or
der.”
Brutal Wife Murder.
At “Turkey Run,” on the outskirts
of Shenandoah, Pa., Mrs. John Semone
owicz, thirty years old and mother of
three children, was beaten and then
choked to death, it is alleged, by her
| an overbearing, brutal husband, but
searching contains twenty-three of those deliyhtfully inter-
| esting legends that Mr. Shoemaker has the facul-
al Wilting io che Waory of i and
tion, placed ihe dead woman's hug. SPTEES and caves ot mountains section
band, John Semonowicz, under arrest, vb the tute, 10 hide 20 Well us bi Bevigus vol-
and he is in the lockup, charged with | So tt our great osuliy 0. ae Wicd
the murder. | posed to have heard from the Indians, or the first
The only witnesses of the crime settlers who lived among them. He has woven
were the three sons of Semonowics, | these, along with traditions that still cling to
aged respectively seven, four and {WO many localities hereabouts, into pleasing roman.
| ces of the early settlers, and the red man who
Neighbors say that Semonowicz was | possessed this country long before any of us were
| born. In the author's “argument” he states his
purpose to give “one legend for each mountain in
that Sie ite was thrifty and made an the Bald Eagle chain.” This latest
excel pmate. | closely to that purpose, making it particuiarly en-
Guisily Arrest Alleged: Rokivers; | ieuiting to veaders in Wiis sestion wiv kaow
While Mr. and Mrs. Levi Smith, ns often won-
| dered why the legends and romances that have
residents of Whipps Cove, Pz., four given many of these names, and about which
teen miles north of Hagerstown, Md., | there still exists traditions that border on the
were away attending services at the mysterious and supernatural, have never been
Church of God, burglars entered their | written into books. It is a work that will well en-
home and stole $1477 from an old can. | tertain any one who knows the localities to which
vass bag hidden for years in a bureau | 't refers, and most of us know them all.
in their bedroom. | TE LARGEST MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. —To-
They had thought their money safer | ’ .
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dra~ rr was pried open with a grub-| cons pericopy at all newsdealers. Every lady
bin; hoe, which the thieves left be, who appreciates a good magazine should send for
hind, with the canvas sack. | afree sample copy and premium catalog. Ad-
Constable Frank Heller lodged in dress, TODAY'S MAGAZINE, Canton. Ohio.
the Hagerstown jail James Seville and | 58.7-4t
Chester Hoiles, of Morgan county, W.| conmn— crs
Va. and Alfred Decker, of Fulton :
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The police, after a hasty investiga |
They were arrested in the barroom R SALE OR RENT.—The Orbison house,
of the Monterey hotel, at Hancock, in| : gn Pring etre. A Ben MES ORE.
the safe of which Decker had deposit-|
ed $1100, including many $5 gold
pieces and $20 bills, tied together and
identified as part of the loot.
Mother and Three Children Burned.
The wife of Howard Fisher, a car
penter, and three of her children were
burned to death in their home in
South Huntingdon, near Huntingdon,
Pa.
Mrs. Fisher had gone to a store,
leaving the children, two girls and a
boy, ranging in age from six months
to five years, unattended. On her re-
, in Exchange building.
Fo ean: heated in house. Three offices,
steam heated,
Storage rooms.
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Then, frantically, she ran to a rear Possibly ou, ve Jin a Manure
window and, although seized by two
men, succeeded in throwing herself
into the flaming interior in the first
floor. In this manner she me: her
death with her little ones whom she
was unable to save.
The husband was absent from home
and an eight-year-old daughter, who is
deaf and dumb, was the only one
saved from the flames.
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£30,000 Fire at Beaverdale, Pa.
Fire in the business section of
Beaverdale, twelve miles from Johns.
town, Pa., destroyed seven buildings
and stores and the Kensinger hotel
The loss is $30,000,
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PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAIN STORIES. —Another
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“Pennsylvania Mountain Stories” has, through
the courtesy and kindness of the author, Mr.
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1913.—And now, Feb
appearing to the Court that there
be trial for Sither the first
As.this order is made for economical
hese
as to the sanitary of this
3
lly reassuring character.
There seems to be no reason why the citizens |
should not freely come to the
of business or
of the count
county seat for the transaction
other purposes.
Now therefore the prothonotary is directed to
tf | potify all jurors
commanded
summoned NOT
and also to notify the
time, and also to noti
cree. By the rt,
ELLIS , J
A . L. ORVIS, P. J
D. R. FOREMAN, Prothonotary, 5882t
Bellefonte, Pa.
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PCE SRR STUNG, THE
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reasons
reasons to be mis-
find them greatly improving and of a gen-
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constables to
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Aggregate Statement of the Tri-ennial Assessment of Centre Co., Pa., as made by the Assessors for 1913.
sm : .
Houses and || Seated Lands.| Unseated | Horses and Cows. Occupa- |For State Tax| Dogs.
Lots. Lands Mules. | tions. | |
sri) 5 [208 |Z 037 52% 38(§[30%4 (3 58 fee
== || 58 3 3 g 2 2 zg I 8 3 il 3 zl 2c |hwgl §
8 n or | a os 2 2 i i “ g = 2 ° z
DISTRICTS. 3% LH 3 5 3 Z 2 2 [*3] § |3 g 3 3 I 2” FE $
-~ - - 2 2 - .
sal B2| EQ] 202] ilo [BR] 5 (83 32 lal 2 ioe?
ig 2 E iz E s |g 2 El & 1g] § Es:
Eire lz 1E]3 EE |Bl2v EEF |°1 3 :B%: (:
es a = oe 2 . Zz ® «8 » . ~~ : :
§ B ? : : : : : is ro REPD 51: | : H ot gl: :
Bellefonte Boro, N. W... 556 432] 836,436; 2 a 1319 3 3 1022407 250 % 2
Bellefonte Boro, 5, W;-- 1d 3 os| 24/l 12.100] 72|| 210.658) soof| 20
Bellefonte Boro, W. W.. Ji EE aa 160 s10| 31) 11900] 72|| 127.957 28] 3
Centre Hall Boro. ........ ag1f| 196] 138,970 ol si al need) iy dnesr) 118
Howard Boro........coees 270 199] 184,025 5 303. 24 Lee . Sie Lh ¢
Milesburg BOro........ tl zasl| 187] 78,655 sil a0) af eso Sh) fab ob 3
Millheim BOO. .......::+ "| 2esl| 203] 176,580 8) 300 29) 12480) 18) SRI Sah 2% 2
Philipsburg Boro, 1st W...| 33) Zi 0400 bl 81| 12|| 25.860] 75| 81,469 34 1
Philipsburg Boro, Ind W.| #23) 308 130000 14] 200] 15 19.760] 67|| 19.000 19
Philipsburg Boro, 3rd W..| 422) 206| 118425 1 gu 150 19760) 61): 10.309 mo
Snow Shoe Boro.......... 230 132] 82,675 5 S75 1 11.530 3 $5111
State College Boro. ...... 592|| 452] 650,425 1) 210) 24) 40055) 98) 10.208 28 2
South Philipsburg Boro...| 217|| 153] 37, Si 180 30 ass az) 100
Unionville Boro..... enn 250 98] 66,760 wl iw 0G Lol 1H
Benner TWPe«.+ssrsecseses 373 13,074 565,878) 941] 1,365 1041 9,720. 24 6. 336) 1, ol 8
BOBES TWP. +s +ssvsirsiee 508 165.427 249,170|| 15,107] 17,100 3 4.213) 18] 9,645] 40) 26,707 wil 1
Burnside TWP... + eres], 120 7.381) 34,537|| 38,178] 41,126 Jol. Goo 16 2,355 3 Sa 200 63 2
GOHEER TWDre r+ vs rescens 339 10,314 457.853] 3 1000 281; 10,023 27! 6,645 9 89 2
Curtin TWP...eeneneees nl 2a 5,284| 103,347(| 17,376] 23,8 121] 3.026] 25/1 6,720] 58 EL ¢ool| 96] 16
Ferguson TWP.......eseeed 560 26.560] 585.938| 4,712] 8,874 537] 13,400 25]| 13,550) B6l| 79.772} 2,700 137 11
Gregg TWD...... ay. BET 22922 575.137] 2,210 2,144 6161 15,530 25/| 16,635! 58] 116,500) 2.5001 165 10
HAINES TWD... roe rsrrrrsss 478 17.114] 488.607] 4,993 5,324 517] 14.444] 28] 14,410] 60|| 111,710] 2,650( 169 4
Half Moon TWD... .eseess 176 8.969 193.155|| 3.668 10,101 1761 3.54 21)| 8.655] 51|l 22,494] 250 51
HAEFIS TWPsevs sesvssss ors 300 10,010{ 308,050{ 3,385] 3, asl 805] 20i| 9.200] 57/| 69,692! 1200{ 63] 2
HOWBFE TWhuessossreersrs 157 9.007) 146,780] 3,455) 4,414 160i 2.795! 17) 3.965] 40 ,r10 s00!| 64] 12
HIRStON TWh «gor riss 223 10,958] 95.232( 4,042] 7,388 16s] 2.615) 15|| 5.450] 48 24,208). 64 1
Liberty TWp..... | 288 10,787] 193,952 5,502] 5,468 169 4170) 20/1 9,555] 45(| 12608 675 113 4
Marion TWD... 177 9.920, 252.258|| 2,498] 5,578 235 6.3900 26l| 3,190] 46fl 12931] | 57 9
Miles Twp... 460 22.207 446.418] 11,947 19,917 1701 11.865 27!| 12,615] 62] 101,753 109 2
289 10.709] 260,714 3,495| 8,136 212 5.25) 24l| 7.760] 43} 31,142) 9Goll o4| 22
243 12,085] 333,945| 1,121] 1,034 204| 7.565) 22i| 9.208| 56|| 57.866 750ll 85] 5
556 25.177] 636,880 2.797 2,782 7o4| 20.447] 28|| 10,805] 48|| 43.304] 2,700) 175 9
1,104] 550 7.711 471,485|| 69,879(244,202 50l| 380] 7.728] 20| 33.920] 43|| 22,218 228] 10
654 3.491] 183,989! 61,465) 74,212 a5e| 4.175] 16|| 24,210] 45(| 5.687 257] 81
o21l| 376 12192] 722,929! 1,902] 3,189 esll 117! 10416] 25|| 25.695] 54|| 128.267 228] 3
195! 13,559 83,275 1,692] 1,953 sll 118) 1.844] 16]| 1.870] 411] 1.408 68
240 7.750] 131.890| 12,097] 14,383 soll 1771 3.sso| 22! 2.760] 40|i 21,215] 2,100 88!
407 14.909] 440,314/| 11,931 13,73 esll 377] 11,110 9,175] 45 uel 2
256 9.195] 117.802] 3.620] 10,632 soll 138! 3.488] 26] 6,865] 57' 25999 1 1
13.858] 4,312]3,666,265([317,112]5,079,530]/288,387(531,421(3,880,213][6,822[467,967| 66([7,879/190,625] 23 188,645) 58]3,308,008|21,320/[3,440] 203
In accordance with the Act of Gen-| NOTICE OF TRIENNIAL ASSESS- Monday, April 14. Thursday, May 1, and Friday, May 2.
eral Assembly, regulating the Trien- MENT APPEALS FOR 1913. Worth, Taylor, Patton and A General Appeal will be held in the
nial Assessments and constituting a Noti 15 hotéby FIV that the Moon Townships at the Hotel at Port Commissioners ! Office, Perfo ns wish-
Board of Revision, the County Com- |. otice ere 2 en Matilda. oe io Te heard at this peal io
missioners of Centre County publish ers 0 entre County, uesday, April 15. ve Assessor presen -
the above statements made by the ‘As. | Pennsylvania, will meet the taxpayers | Unionville Borough, Union Township | range with him as to his compensa~
sessor for the several districts of Cen- yf the various Hatriots of the squaly and Huston Township, at the Election | tion. _ ’
tre County for the year 1913 upon all | {08 the Duipong 2 saving appeals, at | House in Union Township. a UNSEATED LANDS.
property le by e following times and places: Wednesday, April 16. ap will be held as follows, at
And Monday, April 7. State College Borough, College, Har- pr od Difical
February 28th, and Bellefonte Borough, at the Come [ris and Ferguson Townships, at the ’ 2
1st, Iont,: have been fixed upon which | missioners’ Office. hotel at State College. Harris, pn
the valuations of the Assessors Tuesday, April 8. onibe Thureday, April A ana | Walker T . :
been made Beaner snd Townships, at Townships, at the Hotel at Cen 3 May
ing, however, the Comm Ps, at the Ho " {io Liborty. Cortih, ward, Boggs, Un-
duties of Wednesday, April 9. Friday, April 18. jon, Patton, ait Moun and
De same. and Town- | Millheim Borough, Haines, Penn and Friday, May 9.
a ea Miles Townships at the Hotel at Mill-
as provided
1909, P. L.
The ral
fixed at 7 mills, a
gh ding