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United States Demands
Full Reparation.
Message Insists on Damages For
American Dead on Lusitania, and
Any Hostile Step Is Left to Ger
many.
The United States government, in a
note to Germany, formally demands
of the imperial government a strict
accounting for the loss of American
lives in the sinking of the Lusitania,
and violations of American rights in
the war zone.
It asks an accounting, not only
financial, but moral, and a guaranted
that there will be ne repetition of un
lawful practices of German subma
rines.
With the plain intimation in it that
the United States is prepared to meet
any eventuality that may arise from
a non-compliance, the communication,
phrased in unmistakably emphatic
language, was prepared to be cabled
to Berlin.
Written by President Wilson and
approved unanimously by the cabinet,
the note was examined by Robert Lan:
sing, state department counsellor and
the law officers of the government at
the state department, to make surd
that its phraseology covered every
point of law involved.
As knowledge of the vigorous
course the government was preparing
to pursue became widespread, officiald
began to shed more light on their
plans. They indicated that the situa:
tion would grow only as serious as
Germany chose to make it and that
the United States would calmly stand
on its legal rights, taking successive
steps to bring the imperial German
government to an understanding of
the honest purpose of the United
States for an abatement of the sub
marine attacks on non-combatants and
reparation for offenses already com:
mitted.
The White House officially announc
ed the fact that the president had
finally determined the course of action
to be pursued, in the following state
ment issued by Mr. Tumulty, the sec
retary of the president, after a con
ference with the president:
“The course of the president has
been determined. It will be announced
just as soon as it is proper to publish
the note now in preparation.”
The president, it was said, realized
fully the gravity of meaning in the
note and was prepared for any event:
ualities that might arise from its pre:
sentation.
The note does not say exactly what
the course of the United States will
be in the case of a refusal, nor would
the president’s advisers indicate be:
yond saying that each step and situa:
tion would be considered as it arose.
May Question Neutrals.
In official quarters, However, the
eventual severance of diplomatic re
lations was declared not to be impos:
sible if there was no abatement of the
German practices.
One subsequent step being discuss
ed was that of conversations with
other neutral governments to deter
mine what steps they intend to take
to protect their neutral rights. While
the United States has traditionally
been opposed to joint action, it often
has acted identically with other gov-
ernments.
President Wilson, however, is not
convinced that the policy which the
United States has adopted, need ne:
cessarily lead to hostilities. Even a
geverance of diplomatic relations does
not carry with it such an obligation.
The sending of warship convoys
with American steamers has been
talked of among officials, as well as
other protective measures, but the
American government, according to
well informed persons, proposes to fix
the responsibility on Germany for any
hostile act.
It was learned that the president
framed his policy on Sunday night,
and that his specific utterances in his
speech in Philadelphia on Monday are
not reflected in the firm and unequi-
vocal phrases of the note.
Everywhere in official quarters, as
details of the president’s plan of ac-
tion became known, there was talk of
firmness and a stiffening of the posi-
tion of the United States government
towards Germany.
As for reparation, the United States
naturally will seek financial repara-
tion, but its protest now is in the
name of international law and hu-
manity to obtain a guarantee that such
tragedies will not be repeated and the
"lives of non-combatants sacrificed.
While high officials and cabinet of-
ficers were reluctant to discuss its
contents, it was agreed that the note
voiced the intense feeling of the Unit-
ed States over the occurrences in the
war zone and wanted an explanation
of them, as well as a guarantee that
they would not be repeated.
Reviews Violations of U. S. Rights.
The communication lays stress on
the inhumanity of the attacks, with-
out warning, on merchant vessels. It
reviews in a general way every case
in the war zone in which the rights
of American citizens have been trans-
gressed—the sinking of the steamer
Falaba, with the loss of Leon C.
Thresher, an American; the attack by
German airmen upon the American
steamer Cushing; the torpedoing of
the American steamer Gulflight while
flying the American flag, and, finally
the destruction of the Lusitania, with
the loss of more than a thousand non
combatants, more than 100 of them
Americans. :
The note, while firm and pointed,
does not abandon tones of friendli:
ness, giving room for a disavowal by
Germany of her acts or an abatement
of her practices. This is intimated in
the suggestion that the German gov:
ernment and the German people could
certainly not have intended to sacri
fice American lives in the pursuit of
their maritime warfare.
Attention is called to the fact that
while advertisements of warning ap-
peared in the newspapers, the United
States government was never officially
informed of it.
But irrespective of that, the position
is taken that the serving of notice to
do an unlawful act neither justifies it
nor makes it lawful.
The note calls on Germany for an
explanation of her past and future
course and leaves open the steps the
United States will take to compel an
acquiescence in its position.
1153 LOST ON LUSITANIA
115 Americans Among Victims of
German Submarine.
Hope of finding further survivors ol
the Cunard line steamship Lusitania,
which was torpedoed by a German
submarine on Friday afternoon on the
south coast of Ireland, has been prac
tically given up.
The death list, as given out by the
Cunard offices, stands at 1153, of whom
115 were Americans. The Cunard
line’s official report says:
“Total number of survivors, 764, in:
cluding 462 passengers and 302 of the
crew. it
“One hundred and forty-four bodies
recovered, of whom eighty-seven are
identified, and fifty-seven unidenti
fied. Identified bodies include sixty:
five passengers and twenty-two crew.
“Number of persons injured: Thirty
passengers, seventeen crew.”
Of the survivors, seventy-three are
reported to be from the United
States.
The Central News has received a
dispatch from its correspondent at
Genoa, who says that a telegram re
ceived there from Munich declares the
German submarine U-39 was responsi
ble for the sinking of the Lusitania.
Among the dead are Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, the principal hair of the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt; Elbert
Hubbard, the well known essayist and
satirist, and his wife; Charles Froh:
man, the popilar playwright; Charles
Klein, theatrical manager; Paul
Crompton, the - Philadelphia leather
manufacturer; Harry J. Keser, Phila
delphia banker, and William S.
Hodges, representative of the Baldwin
Locomotive works in Paris.
Rivals Dead and Girl Dying.
Two men are dead and a girl was
probably fatally injured as the resull
of a double shooting and suicide af
Jersey Shore, Pa.
Lester Poust, twenty-eight years ol
age, a machinist employed by the New
York Central ‘railroad at Avis, shot
and fatally wounded Charles Holes,
aged thirty-two, a bartender, and
wounded Cecilia Sowers, aged twenty:
two, a dining room girl, when he
found them together in a rooming ||
house. *
Poust shot both of them through
the head and then shot himsell
through the mouth, dying almost in
stantly.
The girl is in a hospital. Holes was
married and leaves two daughters liv:
ing at Jersey Shore.
New Advertisements.
OR SALE.—An old established business
stand, consisting of Soda Fountain, Ice
Cream. Confectionery and Tobacco. Price
reasonable to a quick buyer. Inquire at this of-
fice. 60-18-6t
HERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of
Fi Fa issued out of the Court of Common
Pleas of Centre county, Pennsylvania, and
to me directed, there will be exposed to public
sale at the court house, in the borough of Belle-
fonte, Pa.,on on
MONDAY, MAY 17th, 1915,
at 1 o'clock p. m., the following described real es-
tate, viz: hy :
All that certain messuage and lot of ground lo-
cated in Taylor township, Centre county, and
State of Pennsylvania, and bounded and describ-
ed as follows: Beginning at a post, thence south
forty-five degrees, east twenty rods to stones;
thence north forty degrees, east twenty-four rods
to atree; thence north seventy-one degrees west
twenty-seven rods to a post; thence south thirty
degrees west fifteen rods to the place of begin-
ning. Containing three acres more or less.
Thereon erected a two story frame dwelling
house, stable and other out-buildings. Being the
Seip premises which Amos Copenhaver by deed
da February 23, 1901 and recorded in Deed
Book 90, page 251 ‘granted and conveyed to Anna
B. Woomer party of the first part hereto.
Seized, levied upon, taken into execution and
40 be sold as the property of Anna B. Woomer.
TERMS OF SALE.—No deed will be acknowledg-
ed until the purchase money is paid in full.
a ARTHUR B. LEE, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Bellefonte, Pa. 60-17-4t
April 19th, 1915.
HERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of
Fi Fa issued out of the Court of
Common Pleas of Centre County, Penna.,
and to me directed there will be exposed to pub-
lic sale at the court house in the borough of
Bellefonte, Pa., on
MONDAY, MAY 17th, 1915,
at 1 o’clock p. m., the following described real
estate, viz:
All that certain piece or parcel of land situate,
lying and being in the township of Ferguson,
county of Centre, and State of Pennsylvania, and
bounded and descril as follows, to wit: Be-
ginning at the nort-east corner of property now
or late of W. W. Feide, formerly known as lot
No. 111 on the plot or plan of lots laid out by said
Foster Brothers. thence in an easterly direction
fifty feet along College Avenue to property now
or late of J.C. Krebs, formerly known as lot No.
109, on the plot or plan of lots laid out by said
Foster Brothers, thence in a southerly direction
one hundred and fifty feet along line of said prop-
erty now or late of J. C. Krebs to Calder alley,
thence in a westerly direction fifty feet along the
line of said Calder alley to aforesaid property
now or late of W, W. Feide, thence in a northerly
direction _one hundred and fifty feet along the
line of said property now or late of W., W. Feide
to College avenue and the place of beginning.
Being known as lot No. 110 on the plot or plan of
lots laid out by the said Foster Brothers. Being
part of same land which Robert Foster, late of
State College, Pennsylvania, deceased, seized and
by his said will duly proven in Centre Sounty de-
vised thesame to his two sons, Thomas Foster
+ and William Foster, grantors,
Seized, levied upon, taken into execution and
to be sold as the property of J. A. Decker.
TERMS OF SALE,—No deed will be acknowl
edged until the purchase money is paid in full.
ARTHUR B. LEE, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Bellefonte, Pa.,
April 19th, 1915. 60-17-4t
K. H. HOOVER, S. C.
Visiting Chiropodist
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Bell 'Phone 299 J.
60-20-2t.
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New Advertisements.
OTICE.—I hereby notify the holder of the
note I gave J. E. McWilliams ($201.00) in
payment for one black mare that I will
not pay the same as I did not get value received.
I have taken the mare back twice and the owner
would not keep her. The endorser of the note,
also will not stand good for same.
J. W. WEAVER,
Stormstown, Pa.
60-19-3t R.F.D. No. 1.
RPHANS’ COURT SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.—By virtue of an order
issued out of the Orphans’ Court of Cen-
tre county. the undersigned executor of Catha-
rine Harper, late of Potter Township. deceased,
will sell the following real estate on
FRIDAY MAY 21st A. D. 1915
at 100’clock a.m. at the Court House in Belle-
fonte Borough, Centre county, Pennsylvania.
The premises are situate about one mile south
of Potters Mills.
All that certain messuage, tenement and tract
of land situate in the Township of Potter, Coun-
ty of Centre and State of Pennsylvania, bounded
and described as follows, to-wit: —
Beginning at a post near the run; thence North
fifty-seven and one fourth (57 %) degrees East
forty-five perches(45)to a small pine; thence South
thirty-two and three-fourth (323%) degrees East
forty-five (45) perches to a stone; thence
South fifty-seven and one fourth (57 %) degrees
West forty-five perches (45) to a spruce pine
stump; thence North thirty-two and three-fourth
(32-3) degrees East forty-five (45 perches to the
place of beginning, Containing twelve (12) acres;
thereon erected a two story frame dwelling and
out buildings.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten per cent of bid when
property is knocked down and the balance on
confirmation of sale,
WILLIAM GROH RUNKLE,
Executor of the last Will and Testament of
Catharine Harper, deceased.
60-18-4t Bellefonte, Penna.
To Washington.
$1 a5
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WASHINGTON
JUNE 4 to 7.
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PENNSYLVANIA R.R.
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SALE.—Motorcycle, Indian 1914 model.
Run only 690 miles. Reason, bought auto.
Cost new $265; terms, $195. Appy to
CARPENETO’S Pool Room.
OR
60-18-4t
that an application will be made to the
Governor of Pennsylvania on the twenty-
fifth day of May, 1915, by Warren Partridge,
William O. Hoover and James P. O’Laughlin
under the Act of Assembly entitled “An Act to
provide for the incorporation and regulation of
certain corporations,” approved April 29, 1874,
and the supplements thereto, for the charter of
an intended corporation to be called the Snow
Shoe Light, Heat & and Power company, the
character and object of which is manufacturing
and supplying light, heat and power, by electric-
ity, to the Publicin the Township of Snow Shoe,
Centre county, Pennsylvania, and to such per-
sons, partnerships and corporations residing
therein or adjacent thereto, as may desire the
same, and for these purposes to have, possess,
and enjoy all the rights, benefits, and privileges
of said Act of Assembly and supplements thereto.
MURRAY & O’LAUGHLIN.
Solicitors.
Ceca NOTICE.—Notice is hereby given
60-18-3t
Pipes.
Every Day Is
Day Here
We're strong for the Wellington
Pipe. It's built on exactly the cor-
rect principle for the coolest, sweet-
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enjoy in the big chair.
Smoke a Wellington and you won't
have any boiling in thebowl, because
saliva can't get to the fire. You stuff
a load of your favorite tobacco into
this bully good pipe, and you're
off for a g time.
Pick your Wellington from our
assortment—a shape for your pref-
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Medes & Finkelstein,
Bellefonte, Pa.
Made In
America
Farm Implements,
Etc.
Prepared to supply the
Farmer’s every want.
The oldest house and Largest Dealers in the county in
Hydrated Lime
and Fertilizers
of every kind, for every use, and well
prepared for drilling.
McCormick Binders, Mowers, Tedders, Hay Rakes, Hay
Loaders, Walking and Sulky Plows, Harrows and Land
Rollers, Conklin Wagons with patented truss axles,
and a complete line of Farm Machinery and Im-
plements, Binder Twine and Farm Seeds.
Coal, Wood, Wall Plaster, Cement
AND BUILDER'S SUPPLIES.
An Old Established Progressive House, with an Up-to-
date line, with a guarantee back of it.
McCalmont & Company,
Bellefonte,
60-15-tf
Penna.
‘OO SUNDAY
EXCURSION
Sunday, May 16
WASHINGTON
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
t=See the New National Museum, Library of Congress, Capitol Building,
Washington Monument, Botanic Garden, and Corcoran Art Gallery, all open to
the public on this date. -
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
REGULAR TRAIN LEAVES
Saturday, May 15
Round Trip
Saturday, May 15
Bellefonte............c.c.ovuviiivsin iri 8.33 P. M. ...9.01 P.M
Milesburg. .8.44 P.M. 9.12 P.M
CUThn oT 8.50 P. M. 928 P.M;
Connecting with Special Train from Lock Haven}
Returning, Special Train will leave Washington 5.40 P. M., running through
- to Bellefonte. :
AN IDEAL SPRING OUTING
60-20-1t
Tickets on sale beginning Friday, May 14
Jewelry.
The Graduation Season
is approaching.
Ati article of Jewelry
makes a gift of life-
long remembrance. ..
3 ART A . ,
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JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS,
Bellefonte, - 5. - Penna.
he Centre County
‘Banking Company.
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“STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!”
A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these
. words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis-
ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars
in damages. It’s a good sign. It’s worth $10,000.
Wise people are oftén warned by a similar sign on
the road of extravagance. They stop in time.
How about yourself? Think this over seriously.
A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at
any time. If you haven't a bank account now,
start one at once. Any account, however small
you are able to begin with, will be welcomed and
carefully conserved.at
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
56-6 BELLEFONTE PA.
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