Envoys Take up
Crisis in Mexico
President Notifies Huerta That Any |
New Administration Elected Oct. 26 |
Will Not Be Recognized by U. 8. |
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No reply was received at the state
department from the Mexican govern-
ment to either of the communications |
gent to President Huerta from Wash- |
ington. !
It was intimated that this govern- |
ment is no longer expecting a reply to
either of these notes, and it is hinted |
that this lies in the fact that steps |
were taken by Mr. O'Shaughnessy 0 |
head off a response. |
It is known that on Tuesday the |
Mexican cabinet busied itself with |
drafting a reply to the first note from
Washington regarding the safety of |
the deputies, which was pronounced in |
Mexico City as of intemperate lan-
guage. Advance information was re-
ceived in Washington that this reply !
was to be a very sharp retort to the |
United States. .
Much significance is attached to the |
meeting of the diplomatic corps in |
Mexico City upon the call of the Span-
ish minister, dean of that body since |
the retirement of Henry Lane Wilson.
All the members of the diplomatic
corps are in accord with President |
Widson so far as their attitude in re- |
gard to the imprisoned deputies is con. |
cerned. !
The greatest perplexity is admitted |
by high officials as to what is going
to happen next in Mexico. It is not |
even known whether Huerta intends te
go ahead with the elections or not. |
Plans for keeping an American |
naval force in Mexican waters also !
commanded attention, in view of the |
strained situation following so closely '
Huerta's announcement that his gov-'
ernment’s permission for the presence |
of American men-of-war would not be |
renewed this month, and the announce- |
ment of this government's intention to |
accomplish this end without conflict. |
ing with the laws of Mexico by chang- |
ing the details of ships. |
It was made plain that the Washing- |
ton government was determined to |
have naval representation ready for |
any eventuality, and some observers
thought the next step toward a culmi- |
nation of the situation might be forced |
over that point. |
There is greater anxiety in admin- |
istration circles now than at any time |
since the arrival of John Lind, Presi |
dent Wilson's special envoy, in Mex- |
ico. It is feared, because of acts in |
Washington and Mexico City, that a
positive rupture may prove unavoid-
able.
President Wilson followed up his
sharp note of Monday, which practi
cally demanded that the lives of the |
imprisoned deputies be safeguarded by |
Huerta, and which Foreign Minister
Moheno declared to be “intemperate,”
with a second note. It was much more
severe in its terms and notified the |
Mexican government that any new ad-
ministration set up as a result of elec. |
tion on Oct. 26 would not be recognized
by the United States government. |
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: chief inspector of mines, in giving this
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ABOUT 500 ARE RESCUED
Though By an Earthquake.
More than 400 Welsh miners per
ished, it is believed, from fire and
afterdamp in the Universal colliery
near Cardiff, Wales. A terrible explo-|
sion shattered the works sortly after
931 men had descended into the pit.
About 500 were brought to the sur-
face alive by rescue parties. The res-
cued miners, the members of the life
saving gangs and the officials of the
mine declared that they could hold out
po hope for the miners still below.
The men brought to the surface
were found on the east side of the
mine, where the ventilation remained |
fairly good. On the west side, where
the explosion occurred, fire soon added |
its terrors and the rescue parties were
unable to make any progress.
All the men in the east side of the |
still in the workings in the west side,
which were on fire. Colonel Pearson,
information. added: “The fire is in the
intake airway and everything is being
done to cope with it. We are hoping
to the last.”
Most of the rescued men presented |
a pitiable appearance. Nearly all were |
| suffering from burns, shock or the ef- |
fects of poisonous gases. It is feared 8 |
number of them will die. !
So violent was the explosion that!
the country for wiles around was
shaken as though by an earthquake,
and it was feared at first that all the |
entombed men had been burned to!
death or blown to bits. Cardiff trem-|
bled from the shock. i
The day shift of 931 men descended |
the shafts in the cages. An hour after- |
wards a deafening report brought the
residents in the vicinity of the mine’
running to the pit head, where they
found that the ventilating and hoisting
Blast Was So Terrific That Country |
For Miles Around Was Shaken as Commander of Doomed Ship Gives
Captain Tells of
Girl Kilis Her Father. |
Shot through the heart and lungs’
Sea Disaster during a family quarrel at his home, |
tails of Disaster Which Cost 136
wives.
The steamship Kroonland, bringing
nearly a hundred survivors of the Vol-
turno disaster to New York, has de
veloped a flaw in her crank shaft,
which is retarding her speed.
Captain Francis Inch, of the Vol
turno, sent his story of the disaster
which cost 136 lives by wireless from
the Kroonland, on which he is being
brought to New York, to the officers of
the Uranium line.
“At 6.50 a. m., Oct. 9, 1913 latitude
49.12 north, longitude 34.51 west, fire
was reported in hold No. 1 by the
chief officer,” Captain Inch’s narrative
reads. “At 6.55 a. m. flames were burn
ing through No. 1 hatches, setting fire
to the forecastle and all deck fittings.
I slowed the ship down and kept her
before the wind to enable us to put the
steam extinguishers in operation, also
three fire hose from deck connections.
The flames were gaining rapidly,
reaching the height of the foremast
| light and imprisoning the watch be
low, who were burned to death in the
forecastle.
“A series of explosions now occur-
red, wrecking the saloon and hospital
amidships, the compass and steering
gear being also damaged by the ex-
plosions. 1 gave orders to get help by
wireless as soon as the flam2s burnt
the hatches. .
“It seemingly being impossible
save the ship, I had boats provisioned
and swung out. The ship was rolling
heavily. Boats Nos. 13 and 5 were
smashed, but No. 2 was lowered in
the water with cabin passengers and
stewardess, in charge of H. P. Miller,
chief officer. After this boat left the
ship she capsized, throwing her occu-
| pants into the water. She afterwards
| righted herself and several of the crew
machinery at the top of the shafts| 80t back into the boat, the chief offi
had been blown to atoms by the ex- |
plosion. A man who had been working
sixty feet away had been decapitated |
by the force of the blast.
Rescue parties of miners were soon
to i
save their comrades. The flery reputa- |
| tion of the mine, however, gave little!
hope that any of those below could be
rescued alive. :
The families of the miners rushed
to the mouth of the pit, frantic in their!
grief and anxiety and determined to
sacrifice their own lives if necessary
in an attempt to save those penned in.
the shaft. Hundreds of others, led by!
curiosity or the desire to give aid, |
clustered about the pit mouth.
Special trains and automobiles bear
ing rescue apparatus, medical sup
plies, doctors and nurses sped to tha
scene. A first aid hospital and a tem.
porary morgue were erected side by
side not far from the shaft opening. '
The excitement grew to such am:
extent that.-hundreds of constables
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of the mine. Lines were formed to
penned-up miners from danger.
When the call was given for volun-
cer being one of them.
“The No. 6 boat was lowered and
got away safely, filled with steerage
passengers, in charge of Fourth Officer
Langsell. The No. 7 boat on being
lowered was caught under the stern
of the ship, the boat being wrecked.
“Meanwhile the chief engineer, two
geamen and myself fought the flames.
1 gave orders to send no more boats
away, as | had received word from the
Carmania that she was hoping to be
with us by 11 a. m. Life belts were
put on each passenger. The passengers
now became calmer. Food was served
to them.
“At 9 a. m. the bunker was Jjound
to be ablaze. It being impossible to
stop the fire in the bunker on account
of gases, the water tight covers were
closed and water poured down the
No. 2 hatch into the fire, but the fire
was gaining all the time.
“At 11 a. m. the Carmania arrived
and lowered a boat, but could not
reach the ship on account of the high
seas. | asked the Carmania to look for
the No. 2 boat. The steamship Seydlitz
| keep the grief-stricken relatives of the | arrived and lowered boats, which could
' not reach us.
“Several steamships had arrived by
. 23 North Mississippi avenue, Atlantic!
: City, N. J, Nicholas Mancheri, a Penn. |
De | sylvania railroad employe, died in a 58-38-uf
few minutes.
{ Margaret, the man’s twenty-three
| year-old daughter; two younger broth-
' erg and three sisters were seen flying |
| from the house -after the shooting, |
| Margaret admitted to the detectives |
! that she had done the killing. {
At the city hall the children stated |
that their father had an ungovernable |
temper and had frequently abused !
them. When he returned from work, |
they said, he seized his sixteen-year- |
! old son, Anthony, by the throat. Mar |
| garet interfered to protect the boy, and |
| the father, turning on her, declared he
would kill her. He drew a knife, they
said, and darted toward the girl, who
ran to a closet and procured a revolver
and shot him.
Dentist Falls Dead Treating Patient.
While treating a patient in his of-
fice in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Dr. Albert
C. Hayes, a dentist, fell over dead. He
had shown no sign of illness, and when
a patient came to his.office he began
work, talking as he worked. His con-
versation suddenly ceased and he fell
to the floor. The frightened patient
found the doctor was dead and them
called for help.
New Postmaster For Reading.
President Wilson sent to the senate
the nomination of Charles N. Seits-
inger to be postmaster at Reading,
Pa. Mr. Seitzinger is a prominent labor
leader and by trade a cigarmaker. He
was one of sixteen Democratic candi
dates for the position to succeed A.
M. High, who died two months ago
after holding the office nearly fifteen
years.
Scalded to Death In Bath,
Henry W. Judd, a wealthy retired
business man and a director in sev.
eral local corporations in Cleveland,
Ohio, was scalded to death in his bath
tub. It is supposed he fell into the tub
and was unable, because of his en
feebled condition, to climb out.
Jilted; Nailed Cross to Girl's Home,
Following Miss Anna Solla’s refusal
to wed him him, Vincenzo Nenchia
nailed a cross, draped with crepe, on
the door of the Solla home in Garfie!ls,
N. J. The girl declared it was a sign
of a vendetta threatening death. Nen
chia was arrested.
New Advertisements.
OST.—Certificate of it for $150.00 with
Bellefonte Trust Dio for the retu
of which a resonable a will be ry
5841-1 * Mgrs. CLARA CALHOUN.
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Attraction.
Garman’s Opera House, Oct. 23, 1913
Don’t Miss the Sensational Court Room Scene in the
“A BUTTERFLY ON THE WHEEL.”
58-41-1t. Prices 25, 50, 75¢, and $1.00, and a few at $1.50.
Clearance Sale!
A BONAFIDE BARGAIN SALE NOW ON.
SPECIAL BARGAINS.
Riu, Flic. Bargain Prices. Reg. Prices. Bargain Pricse
Knives.......... von 28C Sc Swifts Laundry Soap, 8 cakes for.......... 25¢c
Dresser and Bureau ...81.23 15¢ Boys and Youths nd d Der pair. 8¢
0) Ladies aud Gents Umbrellas.......... 5c Standard Dress Patterns....................... 10c
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Punch Bowl 12 mugs & 12 Hooks Sc Celluloid Rattlers, Pink, Blue .. 8c
Flower Pots and Saucers, large......... 49c 15 and 20c Framed Pictures and Mirrors....10c
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HARE SR RE.
Bush Arcade LS 'S West High Street.
Building. FINKE TINE Bellefonte, Pa.
58-27-3m. tore Open Evenings.
The Centre County Banking Company.
May 1 erm, 1912. In reassigned iy
Convicted of Making False Statement | teers to enter the mine at the risk of | dusk. The Kroonland put away boats, | ; Howard Tipton, of ourtin township, Centre
of Campaign Fund. their own lives, hundreds of miners which made four attempts to come an yaa. ia
According to seemingly accurate in- |
formation from the impeachment
court in Albany, N. Y., whose final |
deliberations are secret, Governor |
William Sulzer was found guilty of |
having made a false statement of cam-
paign contributions, the charge set
forth in article 1. |
The seven other articles are vet to
be voted on. The reported vote was
89 to 18. The two-thirds required for
conviction ig 38. A change of two votes
would have saved the governor.
Four court of appeals judges are
said to have voted not guilty—Chief
Justice Cullen, Willard Bartlett, Wil.
liam E. Werner and Emery A. Chase.
There was no separate ballot as to
the validity of impeachment articles
1, 2 and 6.
The court decided that article 4 was
broad enough to cover the Peck testi
mony in the trial of William Sulzer. |
Woman Denies She's Witch,
Accused of practicing the black art,
Miss Ellen Shoemaker, a resident of
Bloomsburg, Pa., comes out in a state-
ment to the public, in which she says
she is not a witch and knows nothing
of witchcraft. She says that any one |
accusing her of being responsible for
the death of a Bloomsburg man and
woman by reason of the “spell” she
put over them, will be arrested.
Smallest Woman In lowa Dead.
Miss Ruthey Howes, who is dead
in Albin, Iowa, at the age of sixty-six
years, was reputed to have been the
smallest perfectly formed woman in
the state of Iowa. She was thirty-seven
inches tall and weighed sixty pounds.
Miss Howes was a remarkably beauti-
ful and attractive woman. She was a
school teacher and a musician of con-
siderable ability.
Said Wilson Had $2,000,000 of His.
Daniel Remngton, seventy years of
age, tried to see President Wilson
in Washington, saying that the lat.
ter had $2,000,000 of his money locked
up in his desk. Remington, who says
be is from South Dakota, was arrested
by the White House police and sent to
the Washington Asylum hospital.
Timithy Lester Woodruft, lieutenant
governor of New York for three termg
(1897-1903) was born at New Haven,
Conn., on Aug. 4, 1858. Me took up his
residence in Brooklyn in the spring of
1881 and entered politics in the same
year, when he joined the Brooklyn
Young Men's Republican club.
“At the Republican national conven.
tion in 1908 Mr. Woodruff made the
speech nominating ‘the late James 8.
Sherman for vice president.
{ Rose down, and as he regained his feet
dashed forward and begged to be al. | alongside, but were swept away i
lowed to join in the relief work. |
Seriously Wounded by Bomb Thrower. |
Jerome Rose, owner of one of the
most prosperous farms near Montrose, |
Pa., was called into his yard at mid!
night and two dynamite bombs were
hurled at him. |
Both of the bombs exploded, and!
one inflicted injuries which probably |
will result in the death of Rose. !
His wife, Mrs. Clara Rose, and Leon
Granger, of Montrose, who was sald
to have heen a frequent caller at the
Rose homestead in the absence of Mr, |
Rose, were arrested. |
A man rapped at the front door of |
the Rose home, and when Mr. Rosa
opened the door he was informed that
an old friend of his wanted to see him
out at the road gate. |
Mr. Rose walked down the path with
the stranger, and when he was near
the road the caller suddenly ran to
cover. A bomb was hurled through the
air at him. He dodged to one side and
the bomb fell on the grass and ex-
ploded. The concussion knocked Mr.
he staggered twoard two persons,
whose shadows he saw in the dark.
As he did so another bomb was!
thrown. He ducked his head, and as
it passed him he heard the fuse hiss.
ing. The nd bomb exploded before
it touched the ground. This tore great
wounds in his chest and face, ripped
one leg open and so severely injured
hig face that if he recovers he prob-
ably will lose the sight of one ey2. The
persons who threw the bombs ram]
down the road, escaping in a carriage. |
Bankers Honor Pennsylvanians.
One of the most signal honors ever
paid to Philadelphia financial institu-
tions was conferred by the American
Bankers’ association in Boston when
assembled in a convention represent- |
ing every city in the United States,
William A. Law, first vice president
of the First National bank, of Phila
delphia, was elected first vice presi
dent of the organization.
Falls 200 Feet and Lives.
Fred Clappin, on a mine
locomotive at the Continental col-
lery at Centralia, Pa., stepped from
his engine, lost his footing and plung-
ed 200 feet down a chute to a counter
me.
“At 9.30 p. m. the saloon and chart
house were blazing. The deck, bridge
and all before the ‘innel were burning
fiercely. Our pumps and dynamo stop-
ped for want of steam. The Marconi
operators were working with the ac
cumulators until 11 p. m., when the
magazine on the bridge blew up, car
rying the aerial away.
“Several boats by this time were
lying off the ship. They induced passen-
gers to jump and they were rescued
by boats. The fire meanwhile worked
through the women’s steerage to the
after end of the ship, but we kept the
knowledge of this from the passengers,
who were quiet throughout the rest of
the night.
“The chief engineer, the Marconi
men and seamen and myself passed the
night making small rafts in case the
fire burned through the deck before
daylight.
“At 5.15 a. m. the first boat arrived.
Weather and sea having moderated,
boats were enabled to come alongside
the ship, which enabled passengers to
embark quickly. All the steamships
around the ship sent boats. Now we
were enabled to load three boats with
passengers at once. The passengers
left in an orderly way and there was
no panic, women breaking down and
crying when help was alongside, and
all, about 400 passengers, were off the
ship by 8 a. m. [I searched the ship
myself and found no one else on board,
so decided to abandon her, as the
No. 3 hatch was well alight by now,
go with remainder of the crew I em-
barked on board the Kroonland.
“The ship was abandoned in lati
tude 49.30 north, longitude 34.57 west.”
Woman Killed Four Step-Children.
Mrs. Ellen Etheridge, the second
wife of J. D. Etheridge, a farmer, of
near Waco, Texas, has confessed that
she murdered two of her step-children
last June, and two on Oct. 2, by admin-
istering poison, according to a state-
| ment given out by the prosecuting at
torney. She sald she was jealous of her
husband's eight children,
The Champion Hen.
Upon hen “C-543” the Oregon Agri.
cultural college in Corvallis, Orefon,
has conferred the title of “the greatest
hen in the world.”
She has just laid her 283d egg with.
ip a year, making what is said to be a
world’s record.
“C-543" was hatched April 29, 1912,
and began laying:at the age of five
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debarred from making any claim against the said
J. THOMAS MITCHELL,
Auditor.
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gate of Henry H. Fredericks, late of
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