The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 19, 1907, Image 2

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Domestic
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the explosion in the Naoml
mines condemned the use of electric
wires and open lights, and made oth-
or recommendations looking to the
prevention of similar accidents.
Stuyvesant Fish, in an afidayit
filed in the Superior Court, Chicag
declares that if he obtains a ae
of the proxies at the Illinois Cen-
tral election he will depose BE. H.
Harriman as a director.
Banks in New York have been
swindled out of considerable money
on fictitious cotton warehouse re-
ceipts purporting to be from Georgia,
Ely Weitzel, aged 34, of Norris-
town, Pa., died Is a physic fan's of-
fice just after he had been given an
injection of antitoxin.
Bartow Worthy, a negro,
ed by County Policemen
and Riley, in Pittsburg,
resisting arrest.
Isaac Jacobson
vine were killed
they stepped in
train.
According to a statement made by
the Pennsylvania Rallroad, the opera-
tion of the two-cent-rate law has
caused large decreases in the gross
revenue and net earnings.
Plans to make Sunday
political issue in Cook County and
other Illinois Districts are being laid |
by the United Societies for Local |
Self-government. }
In a branch
was kill-
Robinson
Ga., while
Abraham Le-
Chicago when
of an express
and
near
front
closing a
of the Little Osipee
River, at North Shapleigh, Me, the
body of Mrs. Andrew Jackson Smith,
who disappeared from her home, was |
found.
The
the Waterbury
closed down in|
memory of a woman who had been |
in the company's employ 46 years
Aug Rose, a prominent wit-
ness in the Jefferson murder trial in
Burlington, N. J., was shot by an |
unknown man.
Five hundreds
Irish Swedes and Rus
homes in the South
next month.
John W. Riddle,
bassador to
post at St. Pe
Amerika.
The Lebanon Valley Branch of the
Reading Railroad was completely tied
up r many hours by a freight
works of
Buckle Company
fstus
Germans
seek |
lands |
American,
gsians will
Pacific Is
the
Russia
ters
American am-
sailed for his |
burg on the steamer |
relina Anselene was 8
the penitentis
Iip Ferreo
en
Ary
in
Years
of
"Phil
Chicago
of Mrs
of Secre tary
The funeral Louls sit
mother
her
Taft,
from
Three
Montoya were
their home,
Jacob 3
’
I&TTH
vife more
Three ur
dead io
C hicago
} ransatlantic
as broken the
E. Youtsey te tt
trial that
(rOovernor
tified in
Powers shot
Goebel, of Ken-
nor Taylor had
pardon to any-
Henry
Caleb Powers
and killed
tucky, and that Gover
offered money and a
one who would kill Goebel,
Oklahoma elected two
pratic United States senators
.. Owen, who has Indian
his veins, and Thomas P
blind man.
New York City has placed a penal-
ty of $500 a minute on a power com-
pany in case of a delay of over three
minutes in getting pressure on fire
plugs. }
Walter J. Bartnett, director of the
suspended California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company, who was ar-
rested, has been released on 75,000 |
bail.
Three thousand dollars in twenty-
dollar gold pieces was found in a tea-
kettle buried on a farm in Connec-
ticut
resident David P. Walker, Vice
President 8. Dalzell Brown and Vice
President W. T. Barnett, of the West-
ern Pacific Railroad, have been plac-
ed under arrest in connection with
the closing of the California Safe De-
posit and Trust Company,
Alfred H. Smith, vice president and
general manager of the New York |
Central Ralircad, was placed on trial
charged with manslaughter in con-
nection with the wreck of the Brews- |
j& express, in which 24 lives were
ost,
Governor
John F,
Borough
on charges
duct.
Demo-
Robert
blood in
Gore, a
has
removed
the
offico
miscon- |
Hughes has
Ahern, president of
of Manhattan, from
of neglect and
Foreign
The Bulgarian Government has
gent a note to Russia denying that |
residents of Sofla are participating
in the attacks made by Bulgarian
bands in Macedonia.
The Shah of Persia ordered the ar- |
rest of the Premier, and the ministry
resigned. A mob fired upon the Par-
iament building in Teheran,
There was a brilliant demonstra- |
tion in Tokio over the arrival of the |
Crown Prince of Korea and Marquis
ito.
Toklo advices sas
kahira is certain of being sent to
Washington as Japan's representa- |
tive. i
W. D, Stevens, the American diplo- |
mat who has just been appointed ad- |
visor to the Japanese ambassador at
Washington, has arrived at Tokyo en
route to America. |
Count von Kanitz, the Agrarian
leader in the Relchstag., while deliv
ering a specch on the monetary situa-
tion, became suddenly fil.
Boris Sarahoff, a famous Bulgarian
leader, was killed by a Maecdonian,
as was also another revolutionary
chief named Garavanoff.
"ire destroyed the house of Wil-
liam Hewitt, in Cobalt, Ont, and
canged the death by suffocation of
his two little girls,
The Congo annexation treaty pro-
vides for the annual payment of $69 -
000 to members of the family of
|
:
§
that Baron Ta- |
King Leopold,
TALL EUROPE'S EYES
ON THE NAVAL MOVE
oapn———
“|| Comment on Significance of "the
Cruise.
A SHOW OF AMERICA'S POWER.
Germans and Russians Contrast Cruise
of the American Ships to That of the
Russian Fleet Around the Sea of
Japan—Far-reaching Effect of Shift-
ing American Naval Strength,
FOREIGN VIEWS OF IT,
ENGLISH.
The Outlook ‘As a possible
battle ground in the future, it is
no longer the Atlantic but the Pa-
cific, that claims American
thought.”
The Sunday Observer—"The
fleet bears the American flag to
the Pacific as a symbol of power.
There is an element of potential
peril in the voyage."
FRENCH,
be
Ja-
Opinion divided, one view
ing that differences between
pan and United States will be
amicably adjusted; the other that
a clash sooner or later is inevita-
ble,
GERMAN,
German admiralty regards it as
the most unusual naval experience
of modern times Splendid prac-
tice for the fleet,
RUSSIAN.
The strength and preparedness
of the Americans a strong con-
trast to that of Rojestvensky's
squadron on its ill-starred cruise
The Novoe Vremya—"A bold
Rooseveltian stroke" restore
balance of power the Pa-
{to
the in
cific,
The
shing long af
New York
reparations for the
of Rear / Admis al Evang’ flee
naval columns experts discuss
the resist-
wear and
Naval offi
although ex-
», and
(By C
publi
London able). dail
newspapers are
nts from their Corres
cruise t
In the
of testing
to the
of ships
YOYARt »
power
¥
Of
also
battle
hat
» Outlook
other
Hawali
COMMEerce
Japan have
if America
reasing intensity As a possib) eb at-
ground in the future, it ia
longer the Atlantic, but the Pacific,
American thought.”
grounds, and the
that it would demonstrate the
gic necessity of the Panama Canal,
and that it would serve as a warning
to Congress that the present forces
are not sufficient to protect the two
coast lines, the cruise held to be
lefensible, but still “it is impossible
to separate it from the tension that
exists between the United States and
Japan.”
The
stinies «
flew
no
that claims
On these
is
Sunday Observer says that it
American fleet is dictat-
ed by purely professional reasons
The plain fact is,” says the
server, “that the cruise Is a political
reconnolssance of force, in view of
The fleet bears the
American flag to the Pacific as a sym-
bol of power and an expression of
the national will that it will
and develop American interests. [is
an indiscretion. We fear that
the Americans have made a profound
on Japanese patience. It is unde-
| niable that there is an element of po-
tential peril in the voyage.’
The Sunday Times dwells upon the
of Count Harashi, the
Japanese foreign minister, to whom
SEEK STATE ALD.
Physicians Wi ant U aitori Medical
Laws In All Sections,
Chicago (Special) .—Physiclans at-
tending the legislative conference of
the American Medical Association
here indorsed a plan broached by Dr,
Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati,
for the assembling of a national coun-
cil to secure the passage in all states
of uniform laws regulating the prac-
tice of medicine in order to create
reciprocity in state licensing
Dr. Reed, in his report as chairman
of the meeting, urged that not only
this end, but the settlement of other
problems of social and commercial
importance depended primarily upon
the enactment of standard laws
throughout the Union.
ARE CAUGHT BY
THE READY CASH
Denver Gets Democratic National
Convention.
PUBLICITY OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS.
the Convention - Louisville the Only
Other City That Showed Any Support
July 7th Fixed as the Date.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Den
Jilly 1.
inducement $100,000 cash
Resolution to return balance
the money after
penses paid
Res us
— GXPEensoes
(ol
150%
ver,
of
convention €x
vated dow
public
adopts i
Wore
ution ging ation
of
gn
Was! 18] £3 {
National Com
took two b
ington, Special)
mitiee
The Democratic
after day allots
sitting all
to find out what
after having
July 7 AR
ion,
ether
city they wanted and
th
en accepted
the for
date
time
id take al
Ik nyver or
set
spent some
they
offered
ing wh
money
only enough
penses of the
mitt
]& p
cities askir
then
wou
by accept
eX
the actual
convention The co
pent 4] im i
Os .
resentation f the claims of
1
railing 1H
OoTHIng
» COnve ntion
about four
asked for
the first
following
vention
and 14 were
sentiment was
and res
date,
v
i URES
largely
ited
July 7 in
of that
GRANDMOTHER KILLS TWO,
Children
Drowned
Stupefled By Gas And
In Bath Tub,
{ Special) Mrs
police
Somerville, Mass
Emery Huntley walked into a
station here and announced that she
had killed her two grandchildren,
The bodies of the children, Raymond
Shomo, six years old, and Caroline
Huntley, four years old, were found
shortly afterward at Mrs. Huntley's
They had been stupef
illuminating gas and then
in a bath tub
Mrs. Huntley is forty-five years of
age. It is alleged that she has beéen
considered mentally weak for some
time past The children had been
dead about an hour and a haif when
thelr bodies were found Their
mother died by suicide shortly after
death of her husband, a few
years ago
Killed Brother's Wife.
Tex. (Special)
E.
Cleburne,
Ww.
| migrants {s a matter of life and death.
He 1s not the
at the dispatch of
the Times, and, it adds, “if
he ignores the move for the time be- |
ing, he will plod on until he succeeds |
with peaceful remonstrances or can
see no issue but to fight.”
The Dally Mail editorially describes
cruise as a movement the full
will only be un-
derstood by posterity.
The Daily Telegraph admits that
curcumstances of the
will but that it
the Ameri- |
ican Navy falls short of the highest |
igtandard of efficiency.
be disclosed,
cruise,” says the be
wise or unwise,
paper, ‘may
extraordinary degree the Presi-
dent's firm conviction of the perma-
nence of the good relations between
the United States and Europe, other- |
wise he would never venture to send |
the United States to
parts of the earth.”
$100,000 Fire In Pittshurg.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special) Fire in
the downtown business district and
a loss from the flames, smoke and
water of $100,000. The fire started
in the building 8565 Liberty Avenue,
owned and occupied by Graff & Co.,
stove manufacturers, and before it
was controlled damaged the adjoin-
ing properties of John Flocker &
Co., rope and cordage dealers; Seo-
ley & Leard, wholesale hat dealers,
and H. W. Johns, electric railway
supplies, Several firemen were
slightly injured.
the uttermost
i
i
by her husband's brother, Curtis Ma-
gon, of Dallas. Rev. W. E.
and his mother, who were shot at the
same time, are considered to be out
danger Curtis Mason, who
and is in jail at Fort
bury, Tex
| Worth.
Morgan Cannot Buy These.
Rome (By Cable). — It
that Mr. J. P.
000 for the original manuscripts of
ten compositions of Paganini, which
were lately discovered in the archives
of the municipal building of Perugia.
has forbidden the
sale, proposing to acquire the manu-
scripts for the state,
Childless, Pays Millions,
Fribourg, Switzerland (By Cable).
~La Liberte savs the Geneva treas-
ury. will receive $4,000,000 from the
child, who died in the city of Geneva
lon November 18 last. Under
law, a quarter of the property of
married persons dying childless goes
to the canton.
5 ARI SANA
FINANCIAL
i
A A AMO a
The Girard Trust, Philadelphia,
has declared a regular semi-annual
dividend of 12.per cent.
The Bank of England's 7 per cent.
discount rate remains unchanged for
another week.
An interesting report is that $50,
000,000 New York Central preferred
stock will be placed ahead of the
common shares.
SKULL CRUSHED IN
BY BLOWS FROM HAMMER
Undertaker Found Dead in An
Orange Hotel.
KILLED AFTER BEING ROBBED.
Murderer Took a Diamond Ring, a
Gold Watch and Chain and $150
in Money, After Which He Took
the Precaution to Wash His Hands
and Clothing.
*
N. Jd. Fred-
Romer, undertaker,
in his bed in the |
Hotel here, His skull was
in with blows from =» hammer and
his face terribly bruised. Romer had
been robbed of a diamond ring, a
gold watch and chain and about $150
in money.
There
derer, nor
Orange, { Special).
erick R.
found dead
was
‘ark
shed
an
crus
wag no trace of the
was the weapon
with which Romer was killed. Two
women who occupied a room near
Romer's heard groaning
during the night, but, the sounds
BOON ased, they paid heed
Entrance Romer’ was ef
fected by foreing an
lon the fire but apparently
| murderer left through the hotel halls
! The in and i i
| room «d that the
| washed his hands clothin
{the murder
On the
mur-
found
someone
as
no
i room
window
ce
io
escape,
water ba tow
show i
and
ained sheets
half dozen open letters that
derer had read He had put them
down on the bed clothes
the blood had dried
not even faint marks on the paper
This ums indicated that
the slayer bh
ad spent at least an hour
in the
he had sh-
ed his {
blood -st
the mus
after the
and there were
Cire tance
room after
rime
HH accompld
ADDS TWO MILLIONS MORE.
tions Now $160,.
Washington, D, C
drew Carnegle has added
to the $10,000
of the C
250, 000.
(Special)
the
$2,000,000 00 en-
dowment fund arnegle Insti
tution Announcement of
was made
Willard of
at a di
nner
board
whi
to ich
iL Higgins
Seth low, BS
Morrow,
Mexicans Kill
Denver, Colo. (Special)
American,
Robertson Boggs aged fifty
the
country,
death
1. by
his employ,
hs ceived here
foremost medal
was wid n
near Topia, Mexico, December
a gang of Mexican miners
according to a letter just
Boggs had been
ble get money his men,
ant this led to his mt Fifteen
men have been arrested for the mur-
der
rEgists Of
n
d ston
edd to
to to pay
irder
Killed By Cow.
Eastport, L. 1
engaged in milking a
farm in this village Nathaniel Howell
aged 82. was savagely attacked by
the animal and sustained internal in-
juries from which he died a few
hours later Mr. Howell visited the
stable and had just begun 10
‘the cow, when it turned upon
{ knocking him to the
{ horns
While
{ Special)
cow on his
him,
“Express Wree Kked.
O. (Special)
Pan Handle train
Keystone express,
wrecked at Frazeysburg, forty-nine
miles east of Columbus It
‘half a dozen passengers Were
| jured. None fatally. The
cars of the train left the rails, two
Pullmans turning over on their sides
Either a defective truck under one
Columbus,
i section of No.
29, the
KINDNESS REWARDED.
Miss Annie Burkhart Sole Heir To
A 875,000 Estate.
Perggicola, - ¥la. (Special) Miss
Annie Burkhart, 20 old,
fHought she was entertaining a pau-
per in Thomas Caldwell, an aged re
cluse, who came here from Chicago
two vears ago with a stock of gro-
ceries in a trunk and who eked out
a miserable existence by peddling
fish and food.
Miss Burkhart ministered to the
man when he was ill and he often
sald she had saved hig life, The girl
Thursday received information that
she had been made the sole heir to
the estate of Caldwell, valued at
$75,000. His four sons have been
cut off with $1 each.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Years
He Says He Wil Kot Change His
Decision,
THE FIELD IS OPEN TO OTHERS.
Recalls the Announce-
ment He Made on the Night After
His Election, to the Effect That He
Would Not Be a Candidate for
Accept Another Nomination,
or
Washington
ident Roogevel
didate thir
for a
on this point
authoritatis
here {io LI
tion mads
ied
Hooseve lt
and shall
Official
Presid
the nie
Announcement,
iatement
| WASHINGTON
neral of
t submitted his annua
Immig
tion Sargen
wort
i ghowing ha a
fig
¢
HOW
reo
during the
ures was made wg tl pa
¥
al Year
The Senate commitiee is
n the
against the Kickapoos bY
combine of whites
The Chines
gration question
will be inquired in
gration Commission
Judge Van Orsdel has
late Judge Louis E. McCom
{e judge
associat
Ap PE als
of
frands
and
jeeeed
the
an
Court
as
in the Distrie
of
the Navy Metcalf
pt the
Brooks, Ji
Secretaary
has fused 10 accee
{f Lieutenant Leroy
married recentis
Secrtary of the
declares that the
from the
» y tenation
ri réesignalion
who
Treasury Corts
rumor he
Cabinet is
1 %
ivyou
ig 10 re-
rail caused the wreck
Talked By Wireless 13 Miles,
Washington, D. C. (8pecial).—On
the way out of Norfolk on their
| eruise to the Pacific an opportunity |
i
!
| pedo-boat destroyer flotilla to dem- |
| onstrate the usefulness of the wire- |
{less telephone with which they are
equipped. Messages subsequently |
verified were exchanged
tance of more than 13 miles.
have wireless telephones.
Dies At Age Of 114,
Council Bluffs, Iowa (Special).
John Busha, 114 years old, died
| Wednesday night. Busha took part
in the Black Hawk war in 1832, He
has been blind and helpless for fif-
teen Years,
Ww hat Big Shells “Cost.
Wahsington (Special).-—The Navy
Department awarded contracts for
furnishing shells for the Bureau of
Ordnance ag follows: The First
Sterling Steel Company, 3,000 12-
fnch at $220 each, 2,600 S-nch at
$70 each, 3,000 7-inch at $50 each
and 24,000 6-inch at $26.50 each.
The Crucible Steel Company, 1,600
12-inch at $239 each and A, 13-
I at $300 each. The Bethlehem
Stoel Company, 40,000 56-inch shells
at $20.90 each.
i
Officars of the National Gu
held a conference looking
to increased c«fficlency of the militia
Gen. William C. Oates hag succesad.
Colonel Elliott as commi
mark Confederate graves
Representative Clayton, author of
the anti-third term resolution, intro-
duced a resolution in the House con-
gratulating the country upon the
declination of the President to
for another term.
Charles W. Galloway,
of transportation of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad, testified in
{the Terra Cotta wreck trial,
The Senate adoptel a resolution
calling on the administration for in-
formation regarding the recent mone
itary relief measures,
Senator Frye, of Maine,
ducted into office as president
of the Senate.
ard As
sioner
ed
to
superintend-
was in-
| by lumbermen of the Northwest that
{the Hill-Harriman roads had com-
bined to exorbitantly raise the rates
on lumber.
senator Jeff Davis,
who, when elected
would attack the truss jfmimediataly |
after taking his seat, fulfilled hi:
promise, making a bombastic speech,
A bill giving the Becretary
Navy authority to purchase three
steam colliers of American registry
was introduced by Senator Lodge.
Secretary Wilson recommends the
purchase by the government of Ap-|
palchian watersheds for the establish. |
ment of national forests,
The War Department
of Arkansas,
hopes
GEN, FUNSTON AT
COLOFIELD, NEVADA
Declare Martial if Any
Outbreak.
CONFERS WITH GOVERNOR SPARKS,
The Governor Assures the General That
the Presence of the Troops Has Pre-
vented Serious Trouble, and He Con-
siders It Necessary That They De Kept
There Untii All Trouble Is Over.
wil! Law
Goldfield, Crowds
gathered stati
the ar here of
jor George ”
the
from
| and
who
Francisco
General
ac
iG
Lhi«
vent
opinion
had pre
BANK CASHIER A SUICIDE.
No For fet
aston.
The Of
Heason
R. P. }
hnown
bank
Easton
bank organization
of its stockholder He
and leas idow
recent
since 1
was
and
call
banks In
bank
that
one
ried
children
the conditions of all
fr
$01
1al«
i Easton's
made one © the best reports
wag sent out rom this section of
The report
to be " exe
bank is
carried dej
+
the
st
slale showed the
tution
The
and
inst-
ition
apitalied at "$25.1 }
of $150,000
»llent cond
wosits
Two Are Scalded Fatally.
Ohio (Special) Erne:t
WwW. Ryle
Cleveland
Schultz and F
scalded and twelve others sev
burned in an engine room at
American Steel and Wire Company's
A fiywheel burst and punture d
steam pipe. The engine room Was
«1 with steam and wreeked with
contents
were fatal-
erely
the
a ¥s ¢
plant
ntence For Burglar.
NM. ¥Y. {
Life Se
White Plains,
Murray. a burglar, recently
convicted for the fifth time, who was
sent to Sing Sing for eighteen
months, will brought back to
White Plaine within a few days and
resentenced to prison for life. A new
law makes the fourth conviction for
burglary a life sentence
Special
James
enced
11 be
Finds Kettle Full Of Gold.
New Milford, Conn. (Special)
Three thousand dollars in $20 gold
J. Jones
on his farm in the Merriall district
while he was digging a trench. Mr
rmerly a New York bus
man and about a year ago
bought the farm from Edgar Peet.
The gold was in a tea kettle, which,
its appearance, had been in the
many years
Entombed Men Alive.
Reno, { Special) Three min.
erg. Brown, McDonald and Balley,
who have been entombed for a week
drift the 110 foot level of
the Alpha shaft of the Gircux mine
lat Ely, are still alive and able to
| communicate with miners at the top
‘of the shaft The imprisoned men
have been given enough os and
water through a six inch water pipe
{o last them a week ey They
Nev
Foe
Ea
i at
i EMS OF INTEREST.
The water of the
springs of Droitwich
| stronger than son water,
This year the area in Kansas in
alfalfa f¢ 742.000 acres, an increase
over 1906,
ja reported to have
brine
times
natural
is 12
Meerut, India,
month.
The Interstate Commerce Commis.
gion decided the terminal charge of
$2 imposed by Union Stockyards, of
Chicago, to be exorbitant.
the memboerghip being 4,131
Mattresses of paper shavings are
supplied to the soldiers of the Ger:
man Army. They are enid to he more
comfortable than those of straw,
One filing will last three years.
oor Wor AR oe