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Benoraif Ycwan,
Bellefonte, Pa., November 19, 1915.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
BOROUGH COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS--Seven
members of borough council met in regu-
lar session on Monday evening. There
were no verbal communications but a
petition was presented signed by fifty
eight taxpayers of Bellefonte protesting
against the expenditure of any money in
the straightening of south Potter street,
and asking that the petition calling for
the removal of buildings along the rail-
road be set aside. The petition was re-
ferred to the Street committee, as all
former petitions have been, with the re-
quest that the members get busy and
in connection with the borough solicitor
get some definite report to present at the
next meeting of council.
Commander A. J. Nealis, of the Lieut.
George L. Jackson Camp No. 70, Spanish
War veterans, petitioned council for an
appropriation to pay the expenses the
Camp incurred on last Memorial day, in
accordance with an Act of the Legisla-
ture passed June 25th, 1913. He pre-
sented an itemized statement of ex-
penses which amounted to $19.17. No
action was taken in the matter.
A written request was received from
patrolman H. E. Yerger asking for an in-
crease in salary, owing to the high cost
of living. No action was taken.
The Street committee presented a res-
olution requesting the county commis-
sioners to make the much needed repairs
to the superstructure of the Lamb street
bridge over Spring creek, inasmuch as it
is now in an unsafe, even dangerous con"
dition. The resolution passed.
The Water committee reported various
repairs around town and presented the
treasurer’s receipts for $25.95 for a sewer
permit, tapping pipes, etc.
The Fire and Police committee pre-
sented Burgess Blanchard’s check for
$27.00 for fines and licenses collected.
The Finance committee reported that
the borough treasurer had paid off the
two notes negotiated during the year to
meet current expenses, and recommend-
ed that the sum of $2,000 be applied to
the sinking fund. It was so ordered.
In compliance with the request of Dr.
Samuel G. Dixon, State Commissioner of
Health, that some action be taken look-
ing to the safe-guarding of the big spring,
Bellefonte’s water supply, a resolution
was passed requiring all property owners
living on Pine street, “Stony Lonesome”
and that section of south Water street
contiguous to the spring to close their
cesspools and connect with a public
sewer within ten days from date; that a
lock be put on the gate at the spring and
the public be excluded therefrom in the
future, nobody but the proper officials of
the borough and employees of the water
department to be permitted within the
charmed circle of the big spring’s iron
fence. On roll call members Brocker-
hoff, Harris, Haupt and Lyon voted for
the resolution and members Cherry and
Seibert against it.
Chairman Harris, of the Street commit-
tee called attention to the way the Steam
Heat company and the State-Centre
Electric company dig up the paved
streets and the hap-hazard way of relay-
ing the brick, leaving the pavement in
anything but a good condition. A mo-
tion was passed that the secretary be
instructed to send each company a copy
of that section of the street paving ordi-
nance which requires all parties to secure
a written permit before digging up the
streets, and then do the work under the
instruction of the borough engineer, and
to replace pavement in accordence with
his directions.
Bills for the preceding two weeks were
passed and council adjourned.
FootBALL NEWS—-The Penn State foot-
ball team defeated Lafayette at Easton
last Saturday by the score of 33 to 3.
This week the members of the team have
been resting most of the time prior to
the preparation for their final game with
Pitt at Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving day.
While State’s supporters tealize that this
will be the most grueling contest of the
season, owing to the rivalry between the
two teams, they will go to the Smoky city
neither over-confident nor fearful of the
result, but determined to fight for vic-
tory until the referee’s whistle sounds
the end of the game. The team will £0
to Pittsburgh next Wednesday and will
be accompanied by the Cadet band and
hundreds of student rooters. A good
sized delegation of Bellefonters will also
£0 out to see the game.
The Penn State Freshmen met their
match at Mercersburg on Saturday when
the Mercersburg Academy played them
to a 7 to 7 score.
The Bellefonte Academy team went up
to Loretto and defeated St, Francis Col-
lege 31 to 0.
At Lock Haven the High school team
of that place defeated the Bellefonte
High school 7 to 6, the local kicker miss-
ing the goal from touchdown.
EE ee
——The Bellefonte borough’s steam
roller is now being used in repairing the
steets of Centre Hall.
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—Have your Job Work done here.
TUTEN.—The news of the sudden death
of Earl C. Tuten, at his home in DuBois
on Sunday night, came like an appalling
shock to his many friends in Bellefonte
when they became apprised of the fact
on Monday morning. Only in the prime
of life, and always in apparent good
health, it seemed almost beyond belief j
that his eyes had closed in his last long i
sleep and his friends should know him
no more only as a kindly memory.
Mr. Tuten was in usual health and
even worked at his desk as city editor of
the DuBois Express up until shortly after
noon on Thursday. Becoming ill he
went home but it was not until Friday
morning that a physician wassummoned.
His illness was at once diagnosed as erysip-
elas, fluctuating between the heart and
the brain. Every possible thing known
to medical science was done and by Sun-
day the disease was broken up but still
he showed no signs of improvement. A
specialist was sent for who arrived late
Sunday afternoon and after a more thor-
ough examination it developed that it |
was not the erysipelas that was eating
his life away, but a leakage of the heart,
and the specialist gave it as his opinion
that the disease was of long standing.
Mr. Tuten’s death occurred at ten
o'clock and he was conscious up until al-
most the last moment.
Earl Chester Tuten was a son of Ed-|
ward Tirrell and Marie Phebe Tuten
and was born at Sheldon Falls, Mass., on
December 4th, 1870, hence was 44 years,
11 months and 10 days old. When he
was a child less than three years old, or in
1873, his parents came to Bellefonte and
this had been his home practically all his
life. His entire education was received
at the Bellefonte Academy. When a
young man he went to work as a clerk
in his father’s grocery store in the Bush |
Arcade where he remained several years
then went to work as local editor on the
Daily News and Bellefonte Republican.
Later he acquired the above newspaper
plant and conducted the papers until he
was elected Register of Centre county in
the fall of 1905. Even after his induc-
tion in office on the first Monday of Jan-
uary, 1906, he continued in charge of the
papers until the plant was sold a year or
two later to Charles E. Dorworth. At
the conclusion of his first term for Regis-
ter Mr. Tuten was a candidate for re-
election and won out by a handsome ma-
jority, serving until the first Monday in
January, 1912, when he was succeeded’
by the present incumbent, J. Frank
Smith. :
After his retirement from the register’s
office he went into the fire insurance
business, which he conducted with more
or less success. In the fall of 1913, he
accepted a position as local editor on the
Centre Democrat, doing newspaper work
in connection with his insurance busi:
ness. In March, 1914, he accepted a very
enticing offer to become city editor on
the DuBois Courier and about six weeks
later moved his family to that place. He
worked on the Courier about seven
months then resigned his position on that :
paper to accept a similar place on the
Express, an afternoon paper published in
DuBois, and was working for that paper
when he was taken sick last week.
Mr. Tuten was a member of the Belle- |
fonte Lodge of Masons, the Bellefonte '
Lodge No. 1094, B. P. O. E. and the
Logan Steam Fire Engine company. He
was also a member of the Bellefonte
Presbyterian church and after moving to
DuBois a regular attendant at the First
Presbyterian church in that city. Social-
ly, and as a man who had been more or
less in public life since early manhood,
he was held in the highest esteem by all
who knew him. It was his disposition at
all times to 'not only think well but do
well by others, looking with a broad
charity upon the frailties of his fellow-
man while scorning the petty mean-
nesses by which many men tread the
road to success and fortune. He was
unselfish, good natured and good hearted
to a degree not found in many men. As
a husband and brother he was kind and
loving, and as a father thoughtful and
indulgent to the utmost limit. His last
visit to Bellefonte was during the Old
Home week celebration when he spent
the most of the week here with his wife
and family; and at that time he was
looking’ forward to some future day when
the wheel of fortune should so shape his
destiny that he could again come back
here to make his home, little thinking
that his next trip to Bellefonte, and that
in only four short’ months, would be on
the road to that eternal home from
whence no traveler e’er returns.
On the 7th of December, 1903, Mr,
Tuten was united in marriage at the
Trinity Methodist church, Williamsport,
to Miss Rebekah Cole, who survives with
two small sons, Tirrell and John. He
also leaves one sister, Mrs. Charles L.
Gates, of this place.
The remains were brought to Belle-
fonte on the 1.08 p. m. train Tuesday
afternoon and taken direct to the home
of his sister, Mrs. C. L. Gates, on east
Lamb street, where funeral services were
held at four o’clock on Wednesday after-
noon. His late pastor, Rev. J. Vernon
Bell, of DuBois, had charge of the serv-
ices at the house while his burial in the
Union cemetery was in accordance with
the beautiful ritual of the Masonic fra-
ternity. The Masons attended the fun-
eral in a body.
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BAILEY.—William Bailey died at his
home at Morrisdale on Sunday morning
following a year’s illness. He was a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bailey and was
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: born at Pennsylvania Furnace fifty-seven
‘years ago. He had been a resident of
| Morrisdale a number of years and of
| late was a rural mail carrier. He never
| married but is survived by three broth-
.ers and two sisters. Burial was made at
Morrisdale on Tuesday afternoon.
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LEATHERS. —Warren Mitchell Leathers
died at the Nason sanitorium at Roaring
Springs at 7.30 o’clock on Tuesday even-
ing following an illness of eighteen
months as the result of a stroke of paral-
ysis. Deceased was a son of Nathan and
Margaret Leathers and was born at Mt.
Eagle, this county, on March .2nd, 1853,
“hence at his death was 62 years, 8
was spent at the home of his birth and
lived until stricken with paralysis in
home of his daughter in Tyrone and
sanitorium.
Forty-three years ago he was united in
marriage to Miss Rebecca DeHaas who
died three years ago. Surviving him,
however, are the following children: Mrs.
John R. Smith, of Renovo; Chauncy
Edward Leathers, of Stone borough,
Mercer county; Mrs. C. C. Davis, of Mc-
Alice Leathers, both of Tyrone. He also
leaves these brothers and sisters: Daniel
Leathers, of Juniata; Mrs. W. C. Snyder,
of Garrett, Ind.; Mrs. D. D. Long, Sun-
all of Curwensville.
were held at the Klechner home in Ty- |
Snow Shoe for burial.
the illness and death of Miss Mary E. |
Eby, which occurred at the home of her
brother, W. C. Eby, on the old home- |
stead farm this side of Zion, on Friday |
afternoon. Miss Eby was housekeeper |
for her brother and was in splendid |
health up until Sunday night, November
| 7th, when she suffered a severe stroke of i
paralysis. She never regained conscious- |
] ness but lingered in a comatose condition |
| until her death on Friday. {
, Deceased was a daughter of John W. i
1 and Jennie Sharer Eby and was born at
. Zion on February 1st, 1891, making her
lage 24 years, 9 months and 11 days.
« When a young girl she became a mem-
{ ber of the Lutheran church and took an |
!active part in all branches of church |
work. She was a young woman who |
stood high in the esteem of all who knew |
her, and her death in the budding years |
| of womanhood is deeply regretted by the !
| entire community. She is survived by
her parents, living in Zion; two brothers |
i and two sisters, namely: W. C. Eby, on
| the old homestead; Clara J., Helen B. i
and Malin J., at home.
| her aged grandmother, Mrs. Mary Eby, !
' who lives with the Eby family in Zion.
The funeral was held at ten o’clock on
Monday morning. Rev. Shultz, of Sny- |
» dertown, had charge of the services and |
burial was made in the Zion cemetery. |
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EISENHAUER.—Miss Lillian Eisenhauer
died at four o’clock on Saturday morn: |
ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. C. |
Wentzel, in Tyrone, after suffering a
stroke of paralysis superinduced by an at-
‘tack of inflammatory rheumatism. She
i was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
| Eisenhauer and was born at Milesburg
: on January 30th, 1896, hence was not
| quite twenty years old. She went to Ty-
rone about a month ago when the Went-
zel family moved there from Milesburg
{ and it was after her arrival that she was
taken sick. Surviving her are her par-
ents and several brothers and sisters,
The remains were taken to Milesburg on
Saturday afternoon, to the home of her
parents where funeral services were held
and burial made Tuesday afternoon in
the Trcziyulney cemetery.
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SMITH.—]. Wilbur Smith died at his
home at Unionville about ten o’clock on
Tuesday morning following an illness of
brief duration. He was fifty-three years
of age and during the past six years had
been postmaster at Unionville. He never
married but is survived by his mother,
| Mrs. Sarah Smith, one brother and three
sisters, namely: Frank Smith, who oper-
ates the flouring mill at Unionville ; Mrs.
Joseph T. Barton, Mrs. Anna VanValin,
of Unionville, and Mrs. Myra Lewis, of
Tyrone, who is at present dangerously
{ill in Clearfield county. He also leaves
a half-sister, Mrs. Mollie Buck. He was
a member of the M. E. church and Rev.
Lepley, of Milesburg, will have charge of
the funeral which will be held at ten
o'clock this (Friday) morning, burial to
be made at Unionville.
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RipkA.—Following a prolonged illness
with tuberculosis Ezra Clayton Ripka
died at his home at Tusseyville on Fri-
day of last week. He was a son of Peter
and Amanda Ripka and was born in
Georges valley forty-three years ago.
Surviving him are his wife and six chil-
dren, Catharine, William, Carl, Rufus,
‘Verna and Ruth. He also leaves his
‘aged mother and the following brothers
and sisters: William, of State College;
Jacob, of Altoona; Howard, of Feidler;
‘Mrs. Catharine Horner, of State College,
and Mrs. C. B. Sheasley, of Potter town-
ship. Revs. Stover and Faus officiated
at the funeral which was held on Mon.
day afternoon, burial being made in the
Tusseyville cemetery.
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FORMER CENTRE COUNTIAN COMMITS
SUICIDE.—Under date of Tuesday, No-
vember 15th, our staunch friend, Daniel
McBride, of Hobart, Oklahoma, sends us
the following account of the suicide of a
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| native of Centre county:
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: Sterling S. Zimmerman, a native of
i Pine Glenn, Centre county, was found
dead this morning sitting in a chair, in
his home here, with a bullet hole through
his head. A coroner’s jury decided it a
: case of suicide.
He had been complaining for some
time of some ailment of his head and
lately had seemed to be somewhat wrong
in his mind.
He was a widower, living entirely
alone. He was about fifty years of age.
He leaves two daughters, both living in
California; a father in Logan, Kansas,
and a brother living in Shawnee, Okla.
later he moved to Snow Shoe where he |
June, 1914, when he was taken to the |
last April was removed to the Nason
bury; Harry, Mrs. Laura Starr and Lynn, |
Funeral services |
morning the remains will be taken to |
She also leaves |
He followed contracting and building
and was a skilful workman. He owned
{ several valuable houses and other prop-
' erty.
He was a quiet, unassuming man, and
an exemplary citizen.
COBLE—JOHNSON.—A quiet wedding
took place at the home of Milton R. John-
son, last Thursday morning, when his
daughter, Miss Mildred T. Johnson, be-
| came the bride of Charles W. Coble, of
! Lemont. Only the immediate friends
! were present to witness the ceremony
; which was performed by Rev. E. H. Yo-
Keesport; Mrs. J. W. Klechner and Miss i cum, pastor of the Methodist church.
| Mr. and Mrs. Coble left on the 1.08 train
| for a wedding trip through the western
part of the State. They expect to go to
| housekeeping at Lemont in the near fu-
| ture.
SHEFFLER—KESSLING.— James Sheffler,
/ : > son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sheffler, and
rone at 7.30 o’clock last evening and this ' Miss Margaret Kessling, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Kessling, both of Snow
| Shoe, came to Bellefonte on Saturday
{ and at three o'clock that afternoon were
EsY.—Residents of Zion and vicinity | united in marriage by "Squire Horace M.
were considerably shocked last week at | Musser, at his office in the Crider build-
ing. Returning home in the evening
they were accompanied by Mrs. M. Ton-
er and Miss Nellie Toner.
AARONSBURG.
The stork visited the home of Horace
Stover and left a fine little daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Bartlett have re-
turned home from a trip to various
-places.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Osman, of Harris-
burg, spent a few hours in town among
relatives.
J. T. Eisenhauer left yesterday morn-
ing for Milesburg to attend the funeral
of a niece.
Master Paul Krape returned home
from Sunbury, where he spent a week
with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hain.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Crouse have again
returned home from a visit with friends
in Pittsburgh and Akron, Ohio. They
report having had a very pleasant visit.
Mrs. Boyd Vonada returned home
from a visit among relatives in Lock
Haven for a week, while Mr. Vonada at-
tended teacher’s institute in Philipsburg.
William Walter, of Grampian, and
Mrs. John Reed, of Clarion, were guests
over Sunday with Mr. Walters’ sister,
and Mrs. Reed’s mother, Mrs. A. D.
Keener.
Mr. and Mrs. George McCormick and
two children, also Mr. McCloskey, of
Potter's Mills, spent Sunday with Mrs.
McCormick’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Mingle.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brooks and
daughter Lila, of Centre Hall, autoed to
Vinburg Tuesday evening bringing with
them Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Brooks, now
of Bellefonte. While in town they were
guests of Mrs. Lemuel Brooks’ aunt,
Mrs. Thomas Hull.
EAST BRUSHVALLEY.
O. F. Stover and wife were Sunday
callers at C. O. Mallory’s.
Howard F. Weaver was a Sunday visi-
tor in Upper Pennsvalley.
Quite an autumnal wave struck this
section of the country on Monday.
Corn husking is at an end for this sea-
son. Everybody reports having a good
crop.
Ed. Gilbert and family and James Mc-
Cool and family were Sunday visitors at
Harry McCools.
Henry Penticuff, who was working for
Ed. Bierly at Wolfs Store, is at present
working for S. C. Yearick.
We are sorry the state road limit has
expired for this season, as repairing at
some places is badly needed.
Paul Winters, the sonof A. W. Win-
ters, is the proud owner of three fine
skunks. How fragranton a foggy morn-
ing.
Stanley Mallory, who spent the sum-
mer months with his parents at Shady
Side, left on Friday for Pittsburgh where
he has recently found employment.
HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
British Vessel Bearing Wounded Sent
to Bottom by Mine.
The British hospital ship Anglia
was sunk by a mine in the English
channel. Three hundred men were
saved out of a total of 385.
The statement issued by the official
press bureau gave news of the dis-
aster. It said there were thirteen
wounded officers and 372 men on
board.
The war office report follows:
“The hospital ship AnghHa struck
a mine in the channel and sank.
There were on board at the time
about thirteen officers and 372 men,
making a total of 358. Of this num-
ber, about 300 were saved by a patrol
boat.
. “A vessel that was proceeding to
the rescue of those on the Anglia
struck a mine and also sank.”
The Anglia was a merchantman
which was taken over by the British
admiralty after the war began, and
refitted as a hospital ship. She was
commissioned in August, 1914.
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With the Churches of the
County.
Notes of Interest to Church People of
all Denominations in all Parts of
the County.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY.
Service Sunday 11:00 a. m. Wednes-
day 8 p. m., 93 E. High street.
UNION SERVICE ON THANKSGIVING DAY.
The annual union Thanksgiving serv-
ice under the auspices of the Bellefonte
Ministerium will be held in the Presby-
terian church on Thursday morning,
November 25th, 1915, at 10 o'clock sharp.
The sermon will be delivered by the
Rev. E. Fulcomer, pastor of the United
Evangelical association. The offerin
will be given to the hospital fund. ‘
Wm. M. B. GLANDING,
President of Ministerium.
Go-to-Church Sunday will be observed
by the members and friends of St. John’s
Reformed church next Sunday, Novem-
ber 21st. The day will mark the 14th
anniversary of Rev. Dr. Schmidt’s pas-
torate in Bellefonte. Every member is
urged to be in his place. Friends are
cordially invited. Morning service at
10:30; evening service at 7:30.
Mr. Marshman, of State College, will
have charge of the services in the Pres-
byterian church Sunday. At the even-
ing service he will recite “The Lost
Word,” by Henry Van Dyke. Mr. Marsh-
man’s ability and reputation for this
work should attract a large congregation.
Members of the Presbyterian church es.
pecially, are urged to be present.
——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
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NOTED NEGRO LEADER DEAD
Well-Known Colored Educator Was
Under Care of Specialists in New
York Until Friday.
Booker T. Washington, the noted
negro educator of the people of his
own race, died Sunday at Tuskegee,
Alabama, where he made his home,
8 few hours after his arrival there
from New York. Death was due to
arterio sclerosis.
Mr. Washington had been ill for
some months. He left New York Fri-
day for Tuskegee, accompanied by Dr.
John A. Kenny.
Uu to the time he left New York,
In care of Dr. Kenny, to go to Tuske-
gee, Mr. Washington had been a pa-
tient at St. Luke’s hospital, after sev-
eral weeks in the Rockefeller Insti-
tute, and up to the middle of last
week it was hoped that his condition
would yield, temporarily, at least, to
treatment and that he might recover
sufficient strength to resume his la-
bors at Tuskegee, where he was the
head of the Tuskegee institute, or-
ganized by him for teaching negroes
along scientific lines, according to
their capabilities.
When it was found that he was
growing weaker it was decided to
take him to Tuskegee, and Dr. John
A. Kenny, his local physician, decided
to accompany him. The hardening of
the arteries from which he was suffer-
ing had been made worse by over-
work in the last few years and the
patient did not have enough strength
to rally from the acute attack which
caused him to go to St. Luke’s for
medical care.
Booker Taliaferro Washington was
born near Hale’s Ford in 1859. He
was graduated from the Hampton in-
stitute, Virginia, in 1875. He remain-
ed at Hampton a teacher until he was
chosen to organize Tuskegee insti-
tute. He was head of the Tuskegee
Institute from 1881 until he died. He
was a prolific writer on the problems
confronting the negroes, and was
noted for his ability as. a public
speaker and lecturer.
Probably no negro ever lived was
more honored by white men than Mr.
Washington. President Roosevelt
had him to the White House for din-
ner, greatly scandalizing all sorts of
opinion in the south, thereby creating
throughout the country as a whole a
more favorable impression. Andrew
Carnegie, whose rise from poverty
and menial labor, was in some re-
spects not unlike the career of
Booker T. Washington, once remark-
ed that history would tell of two
Washingtons—one white, the other
black, both fathers of their peoples.
It was through the generosity of
Mr. Carnegie that Washington was
left free to devote his life to the
cause of educating negroes. Mr. Car-
negie gave $600,000 to the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial institute at
Tuskegee, Ala., the school made fa-
mous throughout the world because
of Mr. Washington’s connection with
it ana devotion to it.
Boy Hunter Killed
William, fourteen-year-old son of
Luther Purdum, Cedar Grove, near
Hagerstown, Md., was shot and kill
ed accidentally on Arthur R. Watkin’s
farm.
The boy was with his older brother
and the latter's colored chauffeur
hunting rabbits. The chauffeur fired
at a rabbit and young Purdum receivs
ed the load in his right thigh. He
died at Germantown while prepara-
tions were being made to take him
to a hospital in Washington.
Shot Boy in Race Riot
Samuel Gunning, aged twenty-two,
was fatally shot and Chief of Police
Hilyard and Policeman Ruffle were
injured as the result of a race riot
at Middletown, Del.
Gunning, bystander, was shot in the
left lung, the bullet going completely
through his body. He was brought to
a hospital in Wilmington. The other
victims will live. The trouble start.
ed when Ruffle attempted to arrest a
colored man for carrying a concealed
weapon. The assailants escaped.
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Austria for
Ancona Details
Asks
This Action Quickly Followed Receipt
of Austrian Statement at the State
Department.
The state department cabled Am:
bassador Penfield, at Vienna, to re
quest from the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment complete details of the sink
ing of the Italian steamship Ancona.
The ship was torpedoed in the
Mediterranean on Monday of last
week by a submarine flying the Aus
trian flag, and among the passengers
lost were nine American citizens, ac
cording to latest accounts.
The message to Ambassador Pen:
field was sent after the department
‘had received, through the Austro-
Hungarian embassy, the statement
made by the Austrian ministry of ma.
rine. Secretary Lansing said the
statement did not contain sufficient
information and that Ambassador
Penfield had been instructed to secure
all available details. The request
would seem tio indicate that the state
department accepts it as established
that the submarine was Austrian.
There have been intimations that it
might have been a German boat.
Secretary Lansing’s instructions to
Ambassador Penfield are to inquire
and forward such details as are avail
able. The ambassador also has other
detailed instructions which the state
department did not make public. He
will not make any representations,
however. Action followed quickly the
presentation to the state department
of the Austrian admiralty statement,
transmitted through the Austrian em:
bassy.
The American government will
await the receipt of the Austrian gov-
ernment’s statement of facts before
considering whether any rights of
Americans have been violated.
The state department thus has be
fore it the Italian government's com:
munication announcing the sinking of
the Ancona as an “unparalleled atro-
city” and the statement of the Austro-
Hungarian admiralty.
The two statements differ. Italy's
communication charges that “without
even a blank shot of warning, from
the attacking submarine” the Ancona
was shelled and that the killing and
wounding of passengers continued
after the vessel stopped.
The Austrian admiralty statement,
as published, declares that the An:
cona attempted to escape and only
after repeated shelling was brought
to a stop. It also claims that the
Passengers and crew were given
forty-five minutes to escape in small
boats and denies the charge that the
submarine fired on the boats.
The state department has many re
ports of rumors cabled by consuls
but they will not be given out fot
publication.
BABE, LEFT TO FATE, DIES
Little Defective Perishes While Sci
ence Witiiolds Saving Hand.
The Bollinger baby, a defective
mite whose mother on professional
advice decided it should not underga
an operation which would probably
save its life, died at the German
American hospital in Chicago.
Mrs. Anna Bollinger, the mother
remained in her bed near the doom
ed baby.
She was steadfast in her belie
death was best for the little one. She
has three healthy children and the.
plight of the condemned one is be
lieved to have been due to an attack
of typhoid fever which the mother
suffered recently.
“It is not heartless of me,” Mrs
Bollinger said. “I love the little de
formed one as I love my three other
healthy children. But the doctor told
me, it would be, perhaps, an imbecile,
8 criminal. Left to itself, it has nc
chance to live. I consented to let
nature take its course.
“No one need think me an unna
tural mother. This baby, if allowed
to live, would be a burden to itself
Its life would be barren, useless. Ii
is one of nature’s blunders. I am
willing nature should correct its er
ror by my baby’s death. I am satis
fied I am doing right.”
The principal physical deformities
of the baby are the closure of the in
testinal tract, paralysis of the nerves
of the right side of the face, the ab.
sence of the right ear, blindness of
one eye and malformation of its
shoulders. Dr. Haiselden, who offi
ciated at the birth, noted the absence
of a neck. The brain is found to be
only slightly subnormal, but the cra
nial nerves were absent or undevelop
rd.
Hunters See $1000 Fox
A black fox, supposed to be extinct
in Pennsylvania and whose fur is
worth from $1000 to $1600, was seen
in Tioga county by Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam E. Mumaw, of Hazleton, Pa.
while gunning for pheasants. They
brought back twenty-five of the birds
but missed the black hide, although
one of their party fired a shot that
knocked the fox over, but it got tc
its feet again and escaped.
Child Drinks Whiskey and Dies
Victor Vinesky, three and one-half
years old, found a pint bottle of whis.
key on the kitchen table of his pa-
rents’ home, in Chelsea, Mass., drank
some and died of convulsions.
Lynch Man Critic of Women’s Dress
Unfavorable cri*icism of the pre-
valling styles in dresses worn by
white women cost the life of John
Taylor, colored, at Aberdeen, Miss.
Taylor voiced his views on white wo-