‘Many Buried in
Lava and Ashes
Whole Island In Southern Japan It
Under Volcanic Dust of Varying
Depths.
Official reports of the disaster ir
southern Japan have brought out the
following general features:
The small island of Sakura is cov
ered with a layer of lava and ashes.
in places several feet deep. Beneath
it lie many bodies, whose number will
probably never be known. Any esti
mate of the dead must include a large
number of refugees who were drowned
while trying to swim from Sakura tc
the city of Kagoshima.
Kagoshima, last week a prosperous
town of 60,000 inhabitants, is in ruins.
Even stone buildings collapsed under
the weight of the hot ashes.
Simultaneuosly with the eruption of :
the volcano of Sakura-Tima, there oc
curred an eruption of Yarigatake
which threw a cloud of ashes over Mat:
sumoto, but did no serious damage.
The eruption of Sakura-Jima is
gradually subsiding. A heavy rainfall
is clearing the atmosphere and there.
by assisting the work of relief.
The entire island of Kiushiu, an:
area of 3000 square miles, is covered |
with volcanic ash in varying depth. |
At Kumamoto, north of Kagoshima,
over 1000 refugees have arrived and
the authorities are faced with the dif
ficulty of housing and feeding the suf-
ferers from the disaster, the full ex:
tent of which has not yet been told.
Kagoshima, the nearest large city to!
Sakura, while it suffered great dam |
age from the earthquakes, does not ap
pear to have sustained a severe loss
of life. H. Ijuin, former Japanese min
ister to China, who lives in Kago-
shima, sent a dispatch to the foreign
office, in which he said ten persons
have been killed and thirty injured.
Sakura-Jima, - at the height of its
eruption, is pictured in reports as a
terrifying mountain of fire. The air
for miles around is thick with ashes
and smoke. The police and soldiers of
Kagoshima, soon after the disturbance
began, made many rescues from the
island of Sakura.
The people at first did not seem tc
realize their danger and were slow in
trying to escape. It is feared that
many were killed before reaching the
seashore. Thousands, pursued by a
rain of fiery stones, knelt on the
beach, half submerged in water and
gesticulated wildly to the steamers
and fishing boats for aid. One small
steamer saved 300 persons, while the
other boats also did noble rescue
work. The cruiser Tone reported that
Sakura had been entirely evacuated.
A party of refugees from the island
of Sakura arrived at Miyazaki. They
reported that the inhabitants of 300
houses, composing the village of Seto,
on the island, lost their way in trying
to reach the seashore and probably
all perished together. The refugees
declare that hundreds were drowned
in trying to swim across the Gulf of
Kagoshima. They add that the volcana
of Sakura-Jima has completely chang:
ed its form, several new craters hav-
ing opened. The hail of ashes ceasec
at Miyazaki after lasting thirty-six
hours.
The whole volcanic range of Kius:
hiu burst into dangerous activity with
startling suddenness after having been
quiescent for more than a century.
‘Hundreds of earthquake shocks were |
felt all through the islands. Railroads,
telegraph lines and telephone lines
were destroved, and nothing like an:
adequate account of the disaster has
yet been received in Tokio. i
According to dispatches from Mito:
yoshi the main loss of life was appar-
ently on the island of Sakura. After |
having been dormant for 130 years the
volcano, without warning, burst into
activity and poured destruction on the |
villages on its slopes and base. |
The eruption began in the forenoon
of last Sunday, according to one of the
survivors, who managed to escape
from Kageshima and arrived at Naga-!
saki. Many of the islanders hastened |
to the mainland, a couple of miles dis-!
tant, abandoning their homes in ter-|
ror, but by far the greater number had
no time to escape.
The whole mountain seemed to
split. New craters opened up in a
score of places and lava and blazing
ashes came down the slopes, igniting
everything in their path, until the en-
tire island was a mass of flames.
Mine Cage Drops; Three Killed.
Three miners were killed when a
cable broke and a cage carrying six
men in mine No. 7 of the Spencer
Newels Coal company, at Mulberry,
Kan., fell 100 feet. The others were |
seriously injured.
Firemen Find Battered Corpse.
During the progress of a fire in
Rast Federal street, in Youngstown,
Ohio, the firemen forced open a door
and found the body of Peter Szenyk
| lying on a bed with the skull battered
in. An axe was lying nearby. The sum
of $1.55 was found on the body.
Preferred Jail to Music.
Declaring that he preferred jail te
music, Charles P. Phillips, of Chappa .
qua, broke a banjo over his son’s head
Thirty days.
Boy Skater Drowns.
Horace Lewis, nine years old, was
drowned in Newton lake, at Collings-
wood, N. J., and his body was found
by Isaac Collings and the boy’s uncle,
Isaac Dolby.
The boy left home to go skating,
;and when he did not return a search-
ing party went to the lake and, pro-
curing a boat, they broke the ice and
grapled for the body near a large hole.
The body was found in five feet of
water.
Wreckage From Vessel In Distress
Drifts Ashore—Ships Rush to Her
Aid.
The Royal Mail packet Cobequid,
still clinging to the Trinity Ledges,
with the waves breaking over her,
was sighted by a lone fisherman just
as the fog lifted on Wednesday morn
ing.
All hands are safe. Nearly all of
those on board have been landed at]
Yarmouth, N. S. The steamer West: |
port brought ashore seventy-one and
the others came on the steamer John
L.-Canm, +:
The decks of the Cobequid are awash.
If the present weather continues the
Cobequid will hold together. She is
heading off shore. The Cobequid went
ashore at 6.15 a. m. Tuesday. The
Trinity Ledge, where she struck, is
gix miles off the mainland of Nova
Scotia and fourteen miles from the
port of Yarmouth.
The Cobequid’s masts and funnels |
are standing, though terrific seas are.
sweeping over the ship. The ship's |
cargo, including many barrels of mo |
lasses, is coming ashore. |
The wreckage includes an extension
ladder, a hatch combing, companion
way fixtures and a sign board bearing |
the inscription “Keep clear of twin |
screws.” As.the Cobequid is a twin |
screw boat it is thought the sign! Aldrich and signed by all the mem,
| pers of the commission. In its open- |
came from her stern.
Radiograms had been sent out from !
St. John ordering all ships that could
be reached to hasten to the Cobe
quid’s assistance. The steamship John |
L. Cann was sent out from Westport
and a tug was sent out from Westport
and a tug was dispatched from Yar-
mouth.
The Trinity Ledges, on which the
Cobequid stranded, are a collection of
jagged rocks just out of water on the
eastern side of the entrance to the
Bay of Fundy, and fourteen miles
north of Yarmouth.
They are more than five miles off
2p
' the regular course into the bay from
the southward and eastward, and the
Cobequid was carried on to them by
the westerly gale.
The faint purr of an “S. O. 8.” call
from the missing Cobequid was picked
up ai several points in the Bay of
Fundy early on Wednesday morning.
The Canada Northern liner, Royal
George, caught the cry of distress
three times and heard the steamship
Lady Laurier replying, asking for the
location of the Ccbequid.
TO HOLD REFUGEES
3000 Mexican Feerals to Be Detainec
In United States.
All of the Mexican Federal soldiers |
now in the custody of the United!
States borden patrol forces at Presi !
dio, Texas, will be transferred to Fort |
Bliss and interned there indefinitely.
Secretary of War Garrison ordered
the transfer, witb permission for the
refugee women and children to accom-
pany the soldiers if they desire.
There are about 3000 of the Mexi-
can officers and men who fled across
the Rio Grande when the victorious
Constitutionalists entered Ojinaga,
and with them, besides many women
and children, are some 1500 civilian
refugees. The latter are not prisoners
and will be allowed by the military au-
thorities to do as they please, though
those desiring to remain in American
territory will have to satisfy the immi-
gration authorities.
$13.000 PACKAGE STOLEN
Disappears In Conellsville After Being
Received From Pittsburgh.
It has become known in Pittsburgh
Pa., that a package containing $13.-
000 was stolen from the office of the
United States Express
Coonellsville on Monday night.
The
Pittsburgh bank to the Second Na:
tional bank, of Connellsville. Express
company detectives and the police are
looking for Ralph Wyant, night clerk
in the express company’s office at Con-
nellsville. It is said he has not been !
seen since Monday night, when he re-
ported for duty.
FIRST POSTAL BANK SWINDLE
Arrest In Omaha Brings to Light Suc-
cessful Forgery.
What is believed to have been the
first case of successful swindling of
the postal savings bank through for-
gery came to light in Omaha, Neb.
with the announcement of the arrest
there of Philip Nugent, alias Jack D.
Lynch, of Phoenix, Ariz.
Nugent is accused of forging the |
name of Coval Morris and obtaining
$30 deposited by him in the Omaha
postal bank.
Scranton Coal Dealer Slain.
The frozen body of Robert Fidiam,
fifty-six years of age, prominent in
coal mining circles in Scranton, Pa.,
was found in the Green Ridge section.
The head was battered in and the cir- |
cumstances pointed to murder. Search- |
ing parties were sent out after Mr.
Fidiam when he failed to return home
after having been absent since Mon-
day morning.
First Steamer Through Canal.
through the Panama canal. It was the
Alexander Lavalley, a crane boat, and
it carried no passengers. It had been
operating on the Atlantic side and
gradually made its way through dur-
ing the course of its dredging opera-
tions.
Goes Blind at Meal, Regains Sight.
While he was eating his dinner,
Charles E. Gilbert, a constable, of
Mount Holly, N. J., was stricken with
blindness. After being confined in a
dark room his sight was restored. It
is thought he was stricken with para-
lysis of the eye, caused by the strain
of wearing a pair of cracked glasses.
company at |
money had been sent by a;
The first steam vessel has passed.
WILL BE FREED ON BAL
Members Unanimous That Silayer’s
Relcase Would In No Way Menace
Public Peace and Safety.
The commission appointed by Judge
Aldrich, of the United States court, to
reach a finding as to whether it would
be a public menace to liberate Harry
K. Thaw on bail, pending a final de-
cision of his case in the federal court,
has reached a conclusion and filed the
same in writing with the clerk of the
United States court in Concord, N. H.
The report of the commission was
made public and its conclusion is
couched in these words:
“In our opinion it is reasonably
probable that Harry Kendall Thaw's
liberty under bail would not be dan-
gerous or a menace to the public peace
and safety.”
The commission further states by
its written report that its members
have formed a unanimous and positive
opinion as to the state of Thaw’s mind
at the time of the homicide, but re-
frains from expressing that opinion, . "The heavy stow fail last" Sunday ‘a webk ‘ago bed, havi
because the scope of its inquiry does
not permit of a finding or an opinion
on this point.
The report is addressed to Judge
ing pages of the somewhat exhaustive
report the commission says that they
went carefully over the case book of
the Matteawan hospital covering the
period from Feb. 1, 1908, to Aug. 11,
1913, when Thaw escaped.
| It also examined transcripts of all
| other legal proceedings, including the
' various close and direct examinations
of Thaw and all evidence submitted at
the two trials of Thaw for homicide.
The commission refers to the public,
hearing which it gave on Jan. 7, at
which only witnesses in favor of Thaw
appeared, and then concluded its re
port as follows:
“To determine the immediate ques,
tion before us, our inguisition was
, necessarily directed to four points:
“First—Careful physical examina-
tion to determine the presence or ab
sence of structural or functional dis
, turbance of the nervous system.
“Second--The conduct of Harry K.'
Thaw since his committal to the Mat.
teawan State hospital on Feb. 1, 1908.
up to the present time.
“Third--Whether he is now suffer-
ing from such a disease of the mind |
' or whether his present condition of
| mind, whatever it may be, is of such
! character as to predispose to acts of
; violence, independently of the nar
rower question whether such acts act-
ually have been committed since his
| confinement or not. .
“Fourth-—-The circumstances and
conditions which outwardly and in:
wardly led to the homicide on June
, 25, 1906, and the probable condition
of mind of Harry K. Thaw at that
time. ; ]
“In its studies and deliberations the
commission has in the main confined
its attention to facts, preferring to at
tach little importance, for its purpose,
to the conflicting opinions of expert.
and other witnesses.
“In our opinion it is reasonably
probable that Harry K. Thaw's liberty
under bail would not be dangerous or
a menace to the public peace and
safety.”
Would Bar Cheap Labor.
Any alien laborer, who, within the
year previous to his admission tc the
United States had not earned 30 per
! cent of the wages paid in this country
| for the same work, would be excluded
{ from the United States, by a bill in-
| troduced by Representative Gillette,
of Massachusetts. It is designed tc
| bar cheap foreign labor.
Rob Theater of $1800.
Cracksmen broke into the Academy
theater, in the heart of Buifalo, N.
Y., and bound and gagged the watch-
man, blew open the safe and escaped
with $1800 in currency. The robbers
left a satchel of safe-blowing imple-
ments behind them.
With the hurches of the
County. :
Notes of Interest to Church People of
all Denominations in all Parts of
the County.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY.
Service Sunday 10:45 a. m. Wednes-
day 8 p. m., 9% E. High street.
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LEMONT.
The sledding has been all that can be desired.
Chas. Thompson and wife spent afew days
among friends here.
+
Monday was a bitter cold day, with a strong !
west wind and drifting snow.
A sledding party .came up from Centre Hall
to spend the day at William Ralston’s one day
last week. ;
Wayne Thompson. is at present employed in
Philadelphia and has leased the Center Furnace
farm to_State College.
The United Brethren congregation is holding a
protracted meeting at present, and itis hoped
that there will beimuch good done.
.. The venerable George Baker, who camein
from the west to attend his sister Mary's funeral,
had the great misfortune to fall last week, but it
is hoped that his injuries are not serious.
wrecked John Osman'’s barn, Thos. Houtz’s wag-
on house, and corn cribs, some buildings for
Daniel Keller besides the ones reported last
week.
Elopers to Fight White Slave Law.
Shocked as Mobile, Ala., society was
to learn that the “Mr. and Mrs. Fos-
i ter” it had entertained lavishly were
' a girl stenographer and her married
employer, it was even more agitated
' to learn the more startling details oi
the romance.
| With Joel M. Foster, forty-two years
' old and wealthy, held for an alleged
violation of the Mann white slave act,
and Miss Delilah Bradley, seventeen
years old and pretty, under guard in
her fashionable hotel as a material
' witness, many a fashionable hostess
in Mobile fears she may have to ap-
| pear when Foster is brought to trial.
With the arrest of Foster for a
technical violation of the white slave
law, the story of their elopement from
Pemberton, N. J., came out.
| After his arrest both Foster and
the girl admitted that they were not
married. but intended to be as soon
as the man could be divorced. Both
have so far maintained a defiiant atti-
tude.
| It is said he will test the power of
| government agents to arrest any man
under the Mann law, unless they can
| prove the suspect is actually a “white
slaver.”
Foster and Miss Bradley eloped
from Pemberton early in December,
where the girl was Foster's stenogra-
pher. He was the general manager of
one of the largest chicken farms in
the world there, and his father is the
head of the Scranton, Pa., correspond-
ence schools.
Paid Man to Kill Him.
. That William Lechtenfeld, whose
body was found riddled with bullets
in Briar Creek township, near Ber-
wick, Pa., Dec. 19, had paid $30 for his
own murder, is the conclusion an-
nounced by officers who have been
working for weeks on the case.
Lechtenfeld furnished the revolver,
that he borrowed from another. He
bought the cartridges that were to
penetrate his own bedy. He then
hired the assassin to commit the deed
and stood in the bushes while the fel-
low aimed and fired, is the theory of
the police. :
~ To prove this the state constabulary
officers have much evidence. ‘The mo-
tive o! the crime was lacking from the
first. There was every indication of
suicide, with the impossibility of it.
He had threatened suicide by poison-
Ing and shooting, but feared to do so.
In a saloon he offered money to a man
to kill him, and it has been establish-
ed that he left the saloon with a
strange foreigner, although nothing
was thought of it at the time. :
The fact that he paid for his own
murder is indicated by the fact that
he had money above the amount he
offered for the killing when he left
home, and there was little money on
his person when the body was found.
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, Mutineers Get Three and a Half Years
| Sentences of three and a half years’
. imprisonment and $100 fines were im-
posed upon the seven convicted muti-
, meers of the bark Manga Reva .y
Judge Bradford in the United States
district court in Wilmington, Del.
Smoked a Cigarette as Anaesthetic.
Smoking a cigarette, Lawrence Uy-
saz, a Pole, lay on the operating ta-
ble at the Alexian Brothers’ hospital
i in Elizabeth, N. J.," watching his own
| operation. He was too weak for ether
ti be used.
Overturning of Stove Burns Village.
The village of Castel Guglielmi, near
i Venice, Italy, was destroyed by fire,
i caused by the overturning of a stove.
; Its 3000 inhabitants escaped without
| injury. . ’
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{ XECUTOR’S NOTICE—Letters testamenta:
| upon the estate of Hannah Ianthe Py
{ ston, late of Bellefonte borough, deceas-
E Deen granted to the undersigned. all
. persons knowing themselves indebted to same
| are requested to make prompt payment, and
| those haying claims against said estate to present
| them duly authenticated for settlement. !
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W. HARRISON WALKER, ry a.
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Bellefonte. Pa., on Monday, January 26th, 1914,
at 10 o’clock a. m., for the election of directors
for the ensuing year and to transact such other
business as may properly come before such
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Believing that banking co-operation tends
to develop the resources of the small de-
preciative attention to all who bring their
business here regardless of the size of
their transactions.
You are invited to open an account at
this bank, no matter how small.
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