_ Scores Dead in _ Mine Explosion The Few Survivors Who Escaped Fought Their Way Through Fire and Smoke—Rescuers Driven Back by Gas. With at least 100 men dead in the mine and a possibility that the list of victims will reach 200, scores of rescue parties are at work in the Cin- | cinnati mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company, on the Monongahela river, near Washington, Pa., where occurred one of the most disastrous explosions ever recorded in the long history of | mine fatalities in Washington county. The exact cause of the explosion is not known, and how many lives were sacrificed will probably not be ascer- tained for days. Less than two-score’ survivors have been rescued from the 300 men who were at work when the explosion occurred. Those men who came through the flames and smoke’ and reached the surface are suffering keenly from shock and fright and can: tell little of the horrors below the. ground. The explosion was terrific, the force of the concussion breaking windows in houses a considerable distance from the Courtney entrance of the mine. Before the reverberations had died away a hurrying panic-stricken pro-| cession was on its way to the main entrance. As these friends and rela-| tives of the men underground reached ' the entrance a smoke-grimed and ter- ror-stricken driven with his string of coal cars came tumbling out into the’ daylight. He said he was well within the mine with his cars when he heard the ex- plosion, which he estimated was at least a mile and a half from the sur- face. As he rushed to daylight and safety he passed two dead bodies, one of which he recognized as that of a Frenchman, Emile Leroy, who was a well-to-do resident of the little mining town. The alarm was sounded all up and down the river valley, and within a short time came scores of workers from other mines, volunteering for places on the rescue parties which were organized with all possible speed. On their first entrance into the work- ings the rescuers were driven back by the smoke and fumes which filled the passages. The force of the explo- sion had seriously damaged the fans, thus interfering with the air currents and adding the menace of asphyxia- tion to the dangers of explosion and falling coal and slate. Temporary re- pairs were finally made to the air sys- tem so that it was possible for the rescue parties to work in short shifts, But thirty-six men have been rescued from the mine. Of these twenty men escaped at the Mingo entrance, eight at the Finleyville entrance and eight at the Courtney entrance. “Those in charge of the rescue work have practically given up hope of sav- ing any of the 100 men at work on the left side of the mine, all of whom must have been within the immediate | vicinity of the explosion. Rappings have been heard beyond the piles of debris which choked up three main entrances of the mine, and it it hoped that some of the 300 workers within will yet be saved. No dead have been brought out, the rescuers confining all their efforts to the attempt to reach the men who may still be alive. The survivors who have gotten out tell terrible stories of the scenes with- in the mine and relate how fire broke out in places, adding to the horror. The most amazing escape was that of 8. T. Holmes, a negro, fifty-five years of age, who with his two sons was at work not far from the scene of the explosion. Holmes was hurled to the! ground and his "mp extingnished. All! about him was piled slate and coal | He started to crawl on his hands and | knees. Working his way along pain- | fully and slowly, the man literally tore | his wau out through small openings | in the debris, at times working his ' body throngh holes so small he could | scarcely make progress. He traveled | for a mile and a half in this manner, finally reaching the Finleyville en- trance of the mine, where he found one of his sons who had preceded him, The other son had been killed outright. Many English speaking miners were employed in this mine and among the missing are many men well known. Noticeable Improvement Shown In Pontiff's Condition. Pope Pius was again able to leave his bed and sat for a short time in his arm chair by a window in the Vati- can in Rome. The pontiff was not as depressed as the day before, the weather having become more favorable. After his call at the Vatican Dr. Marchiafava said that his holiness was showing a satisfactory improvement. Puts Blame on Sheriff. The Scott anti-lynching bill, which was designed to make the sheriff of a county and the county, city or bor ough where a lynching takes place lable for damages, was passed In the house in Harrisburg, Pa. receiving 106 votes. It required 104. Keep Forest Fires From Powder Mill. An army of fire fighters fought a desperate battle with a big forest fire on the mountains near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and extinguished it just before the flames reached Oliver's big pow: der mill Hatfield Canrery Burned. The Morris cannery at Hatfield, Pa. was destroyed by fire. It is said that boilermakers at work on the boilers drew the fires, so that as far as is known there was no fire in the build tng. The loss is estimated at $15,000. | city at 4 o'clock. perate Attack by the Montenegrin Troops. It is officially announced in Cet tinje, Montenegro. that the Montene . grin forces have occupied the Turkisb city of Scutari. : The loss on both sides was heavy After a final desperate attack lasting twenty-four hours the Montenegrin troops forced their way into Scutari. The fortress for six months, since the middle of October, 1912, had offered a stubborn and heroic defense. Three thousand Montenegrins were killed in the final assault on Tuesday and 5000 Turks fell. Twenty-two thousand Turkish prisoners of war were taken. Since the siege began 10, 000 Montenegrins have been killed or wounded. The assault which gave the Monte negrins possesion of the city, which has been the sole object of their wai against Turkey, began on Monday night. The Montenegrin army took the offensive along the entire front. They completely surprised the Ottoman de fenders by pushing right up to the Turkish positions, where they engaged in close bayonet fighting. The Ottoman soldiers made a num- ber of counter attacks and tried with | their utmost energy to drive the at tacking force out of their works, but they were finally compelled to fall back and leave their positions in the! hands of the besiegers, who received constant reinforcements. It was midnight Wednesday night, when the Montenegrins obtained their, footing in the fortress, and detach ments of the besiegers entered the According to one report, Essaad Pasha, the Turkish commander-in- chief, recognized the uselessness of further resistance after the outlying key position of Tarakosch had fallen. He is said then to have ordered hig troops to cease their defense of the fortress. Another report says that the Montenegrin commander-in-chief had been negotiating since Monday with Essaad Pasha for the surrender of the place. Still another account says that the Turkish troops defended the city until the last. Although the Servian troops did not participate in the final attack, their artillery was used by the Montene grin gunners, and it is said that to this fact their success was largely due. The act of capitulation was signed hy the Turkish commander shortly after the Montenegrin troops had reached the center of the city. Tewer City Woman Admits Owning Gun Used by Murderer. Mrs. Bertha Hummel Patrick, a di- vorcee of Tower City, was arrested, charged with the murder of her father, George Hummel, of Tower City, and was committed to the Schuylkiil | county jail in Pottstown, Pa. She admits that she owned the gun with which the shooting was done. Her brother, Edward Hummel, was held as a witness. Hummel was found dead in bed on March 29 with a bullet wound in his head. There were powder marks about the wound, indicating that the pistol had been fired at close quarters. The belief at the time was that death was, ' due to suicide, and a coroner's inves tigation resulted in a verdict to that effect. Miss Hummel is twenty-six years of | age and was formerly married, but is now divorced. She says that on the evening of the murder her father was alone in the house, reclining on h | back on a lounge in the sitting roo | and fast asleep. “l went out to do some shopping. with Mrs. Jack Wolfe, and when we returned at nine o'clock we found the’ front door unlocked, as he left it. In| going through the sitting room to open | the kitchen door we stumbled over my father's feet, but at the time only thought he had rolled off the lounge. ! When we opened the kitchen door we | found evidence of a struggle, the car pet being disturbed.” Will Not Alter Decision of Powers to! Incorporate City In Albania. ‘While the capture of Scutari is be lieved in European capitals to have complicated the situation created by the decision of the great powers to include Scutari in the future state of Albania, the opposite view is held in Balkan circles. There the opinion prevails that the Montenegrins, having accomplished the object they have aimed at since the beginning of the war, will find it more easy to accept the decision of the great powers, and that the latter on the other hand, will be more ready to grant her a rectification of he: frontier which will satisfy her. The fall of Scutari has caused the greatest anxiety in political circles at Berlin, which fear that it will ulti mately involve the peace of Europe. Would Censor All Songs. A board of censors to pass on all songs published in the United States was proposed at the session of the National Federation of Musical clubs, held in Chicago, by Mrs. Jason Walk er, of Memphis, Tenn. This is to sup press suggestive songs featured in the cabaret shows. Mrs. Walker furthe: suggests that the 100,000 members ol the federation blacklist all music no approved by the board. Hangs Death Sign In Shop; Kills Self. Thomas Braidanti, forty-two year: old, the owner of a small coffee and cake saloon on First avenue, in New York, shot and killed himself in his rooms above the cafe. He had been acting strangely for several days and Tuesday closed the cafe and hung 8 sign In the window which read: “Closed on account of death in th family.” Atsanian ty Falls Before a Des Bryan and Clark Make Up The Two Clasped Hands, Broke Bread the home for twenty years, and that Mayor Will Go to School. | her mother and sister were Rudolph Blankenburg, the reform "be buried in cemeteries. Her er! mayor of Philadelphia, and the mem- died of old age nine months before bers of his cabinet have decided to her sister, who died Feb. 20 of heart go back to school to take a course in. Together and Then Issued State ments. Champ Clark and William J. Bryan have wept on each other's shoulders and made up. After elaborate nego tiations, covering several days, the two were brought together at a luncheon in Washington for the first time since the falling out at the Bal | timore convention which resulted in the overthrow of the Clark boom and the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. The two clasped hands, broke bread together and issued statements. The Bryan statement is plainly apologetic. The secretary of state says | in effect: “You were all right, Champ; it was the company you were keeping that } objected to.” Here is the Bryan statement: “My meeting with Mr. Clark has served to clear up a misunderstand ing as to my exact position toward him at the Baltimore convention. I have tried to make it clear to Mr. Clark that I have always regarded and do now regard him as a good, clean, pro gressive Democrat. If my language at Baltimore created any impression that I was charging Mr. Clark with be ing in sympathy with any of the re actionary forces I am glad of the op portunity to correct any such miscon struction of my words or acts, for did not intend to reflect upon either the personal or political integrity of the speaker. It is my earnest wish that there may be cordial co-operation | between the state department and th: speaker in carrying out the policies ol the administration.” Here is Clark's statement: “It is beyond the power of Colone! Bryan or any one else to correct the injustice that was done me at Baltl more. The loss of the presidential nomination was a small thing as com | pared to the injury done to my repu| tation in the eyes of the world, bul} now that Colonel Bryan in his public! statement has done what he can tc remove the injurious impression that | was created by his Baltimore speeches I feel that we can all better co-operate for the good of the administration. ] can only repeat what I have publicly declared time and time again, that ali personal or selfish considerations must give way to the duty that al Demcerats owe to our party and tc, our country.” Bryan's statement had been subunit | ted to Clark and Clark's to Bryan, and each had heen O. K.d by the other be fore the formal meeting and the hand shake took place. The reconciliation of the commoner and the speaker h place at a luncheon given by Ira E Bennett, editor of the Washingtor. | Post, in a private dining room at the’ New Willard hotel. The passing of the | peace pipe was the result of efforts! by Mr. Bennett and Theodore A. Bell | of California. i The harsh feelings between Clark’ and Bryan have been one of the dan ger spots in the Democratic situation The speaker came out of the Baiti more convention vowing he would never again have anything to do with, Colonel Bryan. Clark on every occa! gion showed his bitter feeling toward the commoner. Had Long Hunt For Baby Buffale. The herd of buffaloes in Colonel Harry C. Trexler's game park along the Jordan, near Allentown, Pa, which was started three years ag with three animals, has been increased by the arrival of two baby buffaloe: during the past week, to twelve. The first one of the new arrivals was born last Wednesday, making the eleventh in the herd, and it was the first time that the gamekeepers were aware of such an event. The head gamekeeper telephoned to Colone! Trexler in Allentown, and immediately Mrs. Trexler started for the game park. She got there within an hour and it took several hours more to find the young animal. Baby as it was, the young buffalc immediately found its legs and, swim ming the Jordan, joined the main herd. When it was three hours old Mrs. Trexler, after a strenuous hunt found the youngster four miles from the place where it was born. As he automobile neared the young buffal the rest of the herd surrounded it and made a hostile demonstration. That a baby buffalo only three hours old should have traveled four miles caused wonderment. But Colonel Trex ler, as a naturalist, was able to ex plain that a buffalo calf was the only animal known that could proceed or its feet as soon as born. Buried Mother and Sister In Cellar. The bodies of Mrs. Ernestine Komni chau and her daughter, Selma, were found buried in the basement of @ building at 2412 South Broadway iv St. Louis, Mo. Marie Komnichau, another daugh ter, was arrested at the City hospital for an Investigation in connection with the mystery. The investigation that led to the finding of the bodies resulted from the owner of the building, Albert Stuhr, reporting to the police that he had noticed a peculiar odor in the cellar. Detectives found a newly-made grave. Three months ago three women moved into the house. Three weeks ago one of them disappeared and the other said that she had died and that the mother had taken her to Illinois for burial. Both bodies were encased in con- crete. Marie Komnichau was taken to the city hospital two weeks ago, after she had broken her leg in a fall downstairs. Miss Komnichau said they lived n trouble. economy, So that say may ‘ Used Rose to Drug Gi A drug saturated rose, Charles Decker in his efforts to induce | Barbara Smith, sixteen years old, to go to New York with him, figured! attend a course of lectures at the Uni- prominently in the girl's narrative, versity of Wisconsin. The course, when she appeared against Decker in’ which is short and theoretical, is de the police court in Scranton, Pa. She! signed to solve the problems that con- said she became stupefied after smell-' front modern municipalities. ing the flower. | When the mayor and his directors Decker, who claims to be a vaude- return they expect to be able to ride . ville actor, was held in $500 bail to, lightly over some of the municipal await trial. The father of the girl quagmires which have all but engulfed made a rush for the prisoner and tried them to date. to strike hin. Officers interfered and | for a moment the court room was in an uproar. In the midst of the excite ' ment the girl fainted. i mayor and at least two mem- | be | affairs of the city. The i | bers of his cabinet have arranged to to! go to Philageipnia Judge Dead. Judge Edwin W. Magill, of the | court of common pleas, who was ! seized with an attack of acute indi Colored Mob Lynches Negro Woman.| gegtion while on the bench ten day: Mrs. Matthew Musee, a negress, Was ,g, died in the University hospital lynched in Strander, Miss, by a mob i; philadelphia. He was fifty-five of negroes after she had murdered years old. Judge Magill, one of the her husband by cutting off his head most prominent jurists in Pennsylva- with a razor. The woman sang a hymn pia was appointed to the bench of as she was being put to death. common pleas court No. 1 Feb. 12 The woman attacked her husband! 1907. He was a graduate of the Uni following a quarrel. The negro mob yersity of Pennsylvania, class of 1881, is the first on record to execute sum- gang was admitted to the bar of Phila: mary vengeance upon a woman of delphia in the same year. their own race, so far as is known in Strander. ! New Advertisements. Convicted of Murder, Admits Another. OR SALE.—One A. Slechens stocks, in A Og After a sen'ence of life imprison-. ment for the killing of William H.| Tone aT McPherson had been pronounced | upon him in Boston, William B. Jen- | i 73 pom the estate of Mss, Raa Woo- Drew Target Over Heart. | fet, , late 5 Haya Jownship. deco deceased, With a plece of chalk Emil Meyer, faving een Kranted to the ed core and of Chicago, drew a series of rings, are to make immediate payment, on his vest directly over ‘his heart| those Ravin clams a lo Semen. and then fired a bullet into the cen- | t f the t. t, killing himself. Six | Re i er of the targe ng himsel ng other persons committed suicide on NB; SPABRLER,. bec the first perfect spring day Chicago) — roe SorcE “Notice is hereby | —Notice is has experienced this season. en that the undersigned Auditor, uly | appointed by the Orphan’s Court of Cen- | tre county, jo make distribution of the funds in the hands of Albert N. Fierly, Administrator of the estate of David C. Walter, to and among those entitled thereto, will meet the par- ties in interest at his office in C 's Exchange Building, Be Hefonte: Ta on T ls 13th . at ten o'c a. m., when and RL a: will be heard N. B. SPANGLER, Finds Nickel In Boiled Egg. When Mrs. George Simpson, of 2725 Concord avenue, Camden, N. J., open-| ed a chicken egg at breakfast a five cent piece fell out. The nickel was of | the issue of 1900, and embedded in! the center of it was a large black | 8173 Auditor. shot. HEKIFES SALE. virite of a wilt of L1e ri Facias issued out of the Court of Com: _ ,——— uit Pleas of {entre to me direct- Upton Sinclair Marries. ! | ed, there will be xpot o public sale at the court house in Bell , On Upton Sinclair, the writer, and Miss Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of! Judge and Mrs. A. McC. Kimbrough, of Greenwood, Miss., were married in| | Fredericksburg, at the home of Mrs. John Thurman, a relative of both the bride and bridegroom. MONDAY. } MAY 19th, 1913, 1a 1.30 p. m., the following described real estate, ground bein of onte, coun- of Centre, and State of Ivania, Saal ne es = ol a qouths is near what was for- ye ihat ce Sena messuage, tenement and lot of in the borough o Bellef ie 21, et E H 2s S Lis g i Snake Venom Killed Hagenbeck. Slow-working snake venom was the cause of the death of Karl Hagenbeck, the animal collector, on April 14, in Hamburg, Germany, according to the physicians who attended him. He was bitten years ago and the venom event- ually affected his liver. gomery. ‘TERMS OF SALE,~No deed oid be akomlbly paid in full ed until purchase money is a Sherifs ofc, ARTHUR'S. LEE: ii. e poplliation of New Yor! 8 s 5,332,000 persons, according to tHe Bellefonte, Pa., April 21, 1913. 58-17-4t latest figures compiled by the New SALE.—By virtue of a writ of Fi York health department. The census Sera eri Facias issued out of the Court of Com- of 1910 ded a population of red. there wil be Sxposed (0 public. sae a the had ro MONDAY, MAY Toth ons, rs real estate, 766,883. Three Killed When Balloon Bursts. Three aeronauts were killed by the bursting of a spherical balloon at a| State bounded suburban town five miles northeast of | to wit: Paris, France. Five persons were on board at the time, of whom three were officers of the French army. Wilson Honorary Head of Boy Scouts. President Wilson accepted the hon- orary presidency of the Boy Scouts of America. He promised his active sup- port. i Pugilist Also Forfeits $2000 Necklace to the Government. Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist was fined $1000 by Judge Carpenter in the United States district court in Chicago after charges of smuggling a Bellefonte. Pa.. April 21st. 1913. 58-17-4t | 58-8-6m to Madison, Wis., next month to] A ie fri asin’ New Advertisements. Fi LE a at reat of Mrs. Jenuié Michels" troperty "en Loe ve Ree x OF" "Bens TO CEMETERY LOT OWN. Fem cad nea he Jew cmc” Rous in the rear and a small emorial year. and, if Mr not from lot owners, with the money, before the date named, je will assume that they do not wish him to care for their lots. 58-15-3t* OTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHAR- TER.—In the rt mon Pleas, for the county ui re. Notice is heres given that i ication will b be Ph to the charter of an Intended ended corporation to be c county, Rr t aracter and df which is to sto provide social enjoyment Fy its rpeses to have, Hea hese pu ee all the rights, oF benefits and ees conerred by the ihe. Act and its La Ww. G. RUNKLE, oc 58-17-3t URT PROCLAMATION. ~Whereas Honoranle Ellis L. Orvis, PEER of the Court of Common Pleas of 49th Judicial District, consistin, having tne of, "he the 29th Say March, 1913, to me directed for Oyer and Terminer and General Jai ail Deliver. Bellefonte, jor or the county of Centre, and to THIRD MONDAY OF MAY, pings, otherwise known as “Kid car- | Ex BS ATES ves DE . J Say of May, 1913, a. 19 com, ” ga musical rig the Coroner, | ter, the pugilist, rose i nthe dock and Hovlass Hh por. of RE {2 hergly given to 4 to Jugtices ' said: “I killed Mildred Donovan. That | county of Centre, that they be then and there in was only one of the many murders ' OTICE.—The Geiss formally of Centre persons at 10 o'clock in the forenoon that I committed. That is all I have Hall, are now located at 1702 Greene St., | of the 19th, with their records, i Phil in charge of an Apartment | inations and their own Jemembrandces, to dothose to say.” The Donovan murder last New House, and would Blessed to have persons | things which to their office appertains to be | Year's eve hus never been cleared up. | Y/*itin& the city stop with them. Bra Ete ho ave hound i jason shai Ben XECUTOR'S NOTICE.—Letters testamenta- the he: full of Centre them a3 "County. be then nd x to at Bellefonte, She 21st , and r of the In America, ARTHUR B. LEE, Sheriff's office, Bellefonte, Pa. Shell April 21st, 1913. (ps my day of April, in the Lk, oo our Lord 1913 the one hundred and thirt; Sixth dependence of the United 58-17-4t "CATTLE PASTURE The Lehigh Valley Coal Company will open their 5000 acre range on Beech Creek, May 1st, 1913, under the management of Mr. Geo. Lorrah. . Season May 1st to October 15th. TERMS, $1.50 PER HEAD PER SEASON. Cattle received only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Address Lehigh Valley Coal Company, Snow Shoe, Pa., for any further information. 58.14-6t. ——— Attention Farmers. = Spraying Time a W Lie i Jl give you Good Ret SPRAYERS, i. Ne dave Possibly vou have ci mind a Manure Spreader. We represent the NEW IDEA SPREADER. You can try ote and know itis the best before you settle for it. it, WIARD PLOWS, We sell all kinds of them. Both Walking and Reversible Sulkey Plows. EE ky Land Rolo 6 bit. Single Disc METAL TROUGHS for, Sagtle, Hoge and Chickens, Powltey BROOKVILLE WAGONS. GASOLINE EN- GINES, FERTILIZERS AND SAND PLASTER. In fact everything the agriculturist needs. We Have Barcains For You If You A%2 Looks For Trey. J OHN G. DUBBS, BELLEFONTE. PA. The First National Bank. $2000 necklace had been dropped and Johnson had pleaded nolle contendre to charges of concealing from fed eral officials that he had the jewelry. The necklace was forfeited to the government and probably will be sold at auction. Johnson is still to be tried on a charge of violating the Mann whitd slave law. Play With Dynamite Cap. William: Walcon, Michael Holland, John Vasilis and William Kisset, four school boys of Mahanoy City, Pa, were seriously lacerated about the face, hands and arms during the recess hour at the Mahanoy street school building when one of the four found a dynamite cap and started tc pound it with a stone. The cap was heavily charged, and the explosion that followed created great excitement in the school yard. Explosion Kills Three Men. Three men were killed and seven injured in an explosion in the pack ing house of the Atlas Powder com: pany at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. The packing house was wiped out and no trace was left of the three men known to have been working inside at the time. The explosion broke win: dows of houses at the other end of | the lake, four miles away. ture. Travellers cheques for use in all parts of the world. A safe and convenient way of carry- ing funds. Write us for letera- The First National Bank, Bellefonte, Pa. Travellers Cheques
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