The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, July 22, 1909, Image 6

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    SLOP ¢ CAPSIZES AND
TEN PERSONS DROWN
Tragic Ending of a Day of Merry-
making.
TWELVE ARE SAVED FROM DEATH.
The Little Vessel Ran Into A Ter-
rific Squall While Returning
From An Outing And Turned Over
~Tug Larmont Rushed To The
Rescue And With Life Lines And
Buoys Saved Ten——The Survivors
Exhausted,
New York (Special).—Ten persons
were drowned, two of them little
girls, when the excursicn sloop ROX-
was cap-
in lower
ana, carrying 22 passengers,
sized by a
New Yrk
The captain of the
the 12 survivors were
under great difficulties
and choppy by the
The Roxana with her skipper,
Captain Samuelson, was chartered al
Ulmer Beach, Brooklyn, by a part
of Swedes from n sail
across the bay
Staten Island,
leg on the voyage was made
mish and hands piled
to make m jeer was
and some of
but a hazy
All afternoon
breeze from the
left a nasty cross sea, To
o'clock: the Roxana, n
ward acr the bay
sail good judgment would
be carried, slipped into a squall.
lay over until the copper plates glis-
tened in the sun, as the angle of the
deck steepened to the be Ww
in her lee. The women screamed
scrambled for the upper rail
The captain struggled to
away his sheet, but there was no t
for measures relief In
ment the Roxana was bottom
the foam was black with
heads. In another the Roxana
i and by one
fol
foll
sudden squall
Bay.
Roxana and
picked up
in a rough
sea tug Lamont,
for a
Beach,
Brookly
to Midland
and back The firs
ashore
served,
ap, all
erry.
the survivors could give
account of the accident
Was a
Wi
there
southwest,
ree I
under all
permit
1
ross
fey
ling
one
up a
bbiz
of
Ot
ho
one
afloat,
brisk
he capsiz
ined
tried to cling
but as th
plight was
ven
be
obta
©
vivors
women
a6
A Rescue of "Atlantic
City, N. J
City.
{ Special)
Atlantic
lan
Keeper Bowen,
Cedar Creek
made a lone re
Nix, whi
and fam
in
in
were
two n
iy
“ down
jowen
was
plain
he saw the
He dragged
through
out
anc
©
Fe
Gi
Four Drown.
rt says that
drowned
Launch Upsets;
A repe
persor IS Were
ing of a launch at Coal
Fort Thomas, Ky
also reported mi
Cincinnati at
least four in
the overturn
Haven, above
eral persong are
ing.
NO BIG BOND ISSU E NOW,
Has Authority To
Float Securities When Needed,
Washington, D. C. (Special)
The bond resources of the Treasury
declares Sec-
But Treasury
Department are ample,
retary McVeagh in a statement is-
sued to the Treasury, and even if
Congress authorizes 3 per cent. bonds
to cover the entire cost of the Pana-
ma Canal less the amount already
jssued the bonds “will only be issued
as required.’
The Secretary
resources now
states that the
include $45,000,600
of unissued Panama bonds and
$100,000,000 of unissued per
cent, certificates,
There will be no issuance of the
entire amount immediately, and it
was even stated that while the pres-
ent situation warrants immediate
steps to safeguard the Government
by securing authority for the bond
fssue no decision has been finally
reached as to issuing any amount of
3
o
of the revenue might make’ it
market,
Jeflerson Davis' Daughter Dead,
Colorado Springs, Colo. (Special).
—~Mrs. J. Addison Hayes,
of Jefferson
Confederacy, died at her home after
an iiness of six months
Fatal Row Along Thieves.
Columbus, ©O. (Special)
giving his name as John Brown and
his home as Nebraska died in St.
Francis’ Hospital from a bullet
wound sustained In a quarrel with
small amount
to divide the spoils. John Nolan,
a bartender, who tried to head oft
the two fleeing men after the shoot-
ing of Brow, was himself wounded
A BANKER SHOT
BY HIS WIFE'S ADMIRER
J. B. Sayler Killed n His Home By
Dr. J. B, Miller.
Wife Fled From Home During The
Shooting—Admits She Is Fond Of
The Physician—Doctor A Frequent
Visitor At The Sayler Home,
Banker Had Endured Conditions
To Protect Daughter From Scan.
dal—Had Expected A Tragedy For
Sometime Past.
1doliza-
17
Watsexa,
tion of his daughter Goldie,
old, is said to have caused J
Sayler, vice president of the First
National Bank of Crescent City, Ill,
suffer in the domestic
that his death Sun-
day night Dr. W
R. Miller, who for many months hi
paid ardent attention to the 1
er's wife, mother Goldie Sayles
While the story of
ing of be decide
until on the ca
Savler
of a4 mart)
name of his daughter
last, it is alleged, been
the
invaded
ni. { Spec fal).-
years
B
to lence
to
al
led
at the hands
tragedy
of
of
real the
Sayler ill not
a jury
was intimated
himself something
protect the
at
molated by
home
According
who
man
to W
bank
president,
termined
1 take
e ni
1
10
silence ath ar
ould i do
oriety
“He seemed 1o
solution of the
Nightingale.
during
hab it
which he would
il ut
envelog
fear some
situation,
Whenever he
the
to
tragi
Mr
last
seek
yer con
appen ‘
open this packet
7
ictions
ould to
ays told me,
follow the letter the
therein.’ After eacl
, he desiroyed the
eturn He was awa)
ago, but
pvining
to instr
the
brother of
Dr. Miller’
wien
Among
a
a hatchet
shadow on
pre-
at
was tak-
to
few days
her parents
There
at the
An
gOomev
Savler
that she
success at
er
Sayler refused,
His Mrs
due to his belief
doctor attained
1 by a system of signals
Grace Davis and other girls and
Godfrey Ruhle stopped to chat for a
moment with Mr, Savler at the front
just a few minutes before he
was glain. He in a good humor
They had left Sayler about three
minutes when they heard the fatal
shots
state 8,
and
the
refusal,
ie
gate
was
EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE,
Persons Killed
And Villages Destroyed.
London (Special).—A dispatch to
a London news bureau from Athens
says that a violent earthquake has
occurred In Southern Greece, result-
ing in considerable loss of life and
damage to property.
Twenty persons are reported dead
and 100 injured in one village, and
three other villages suffered heavily
The dispatch adds that when
details are learned it is likely
the casualty list will be greatly
creased,
Athens,
Many
in-
An
the
of
villages
people
loss is
Greece { Special)
earthquake has occurred in
Province of Elis, the capital
which ls Pyrgos. Several
were destroyed and many
perished, The material
A Black Hander Hanged,
Hahneville, La. (Special). —Leo-
Gebbia, an Italian, the first
the name of the so-called
Hand” Society, was hanged here. He
received the last sacraments of his
Disease Caught From Cows.
Ogdensburg, N. Y
cott, of Uatario, near here, are all
down with an illness believed to be!
anthrax. Prescott recently lost three!
cows by anthrax, and in caring for |
them developed all the symptoms
himself. Now hia wife and their
two-weeks-old babe, two other chil-
dren, and a hired man are ill. A
government Inspector has ordered
the carcasses of the cows dug up and
burned.
Ar eA A A
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
BY FALLING WALLS
Twenty-Five Others Are Injured By
Flying Bricks,
HEAT OVERCOMES THE RESCUERS.
Building On Busy Philadelphia Core
ner Collapses With Terrific Roar
Killing Workmen And Injuring
Work For Hours With
tims — Market And
Streets Are Roped Off And Traf-
fic Ceases,
The Vic.
VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY.
A brick bullding collapsed in
Philadelphia on Market and Elev-
enth Streets, killing seven and in-
juring twenty-five one
of them lataliy
The dead are:
‘harles Lars
n of
Fritz,
persons,
TE. TH ¢
Peter
ul Hanning,
rose
could
i be must ered
teamstors’
nearby vehicles wre A11-
the dead or § hur.
mob
all sorts of
z th
wagons and
4
ried to
general
wi and
hospitals
alarm
foot
was sounded
as well
ambulances,
sponded,
and
ount-
iCiADS
An ne | f r hor irs
ined
rey
' i
cident
tering
18 BeAr
Ts
it
they
to th
hers
wag a
several
iris Fi "aa yenetrate
were An army
crowds gathered quickly and
as strenuous as digging up
njured was the task of keep-
the congested masses of people
from surrounding closely the
wreckage he walls which were jeft
standing looked unsafe, but the peo
ple surged forward, heedless of the
danger When the police reserves
arrived, however, both Market Street
Eleventh Street were roped off,
the
uin 4
The
almost
I
of people
the
ing
fon
| verted to other thoroughfares
which runs along
a few feet distant
Market
from the
the building, was tied up.
Some of the debris tumbled down the
of the
{ Street and rolled out over the plat.
form and on the tracks A woman
ticket seller, terrified by the crash of
the collapse and the shower of
bricks and stones that poured down
the stairway, fainted in her office
A 3.TON "HIPPO" GOES DOWN,
Roosevelt Fells Him With
His Big Gun.
Naivasha, Africa (Special).
odore Roosevelt, who is at
hunting on the south shore of Lake
Naivasha from the ranch of Capt.
Richard Attenborough, succeeded in
bringing down a big hippopotamus,
The animal Is estimated to weigh
three tons.
Colonel
IW THE WORLD OF FINANCE
“Best crops the country ever had,”
says President QGarling, of the St,
Paul.
President W. E.
States Steel,
Europe.
A Philadelphia iron man said:
| “The demand for steel billets is now
| keener than at any time for over
two years.”
Canadian Pacific marketed 85.
000,000 of new 4 per cent. preferred
stock in London at 102
Cambria Steel has received an ord.
er for 1,000 all steel hopper cars
{for the Buffalo, Rochester & Plits.
| burg Rallroad.
Of the 383,000 Connglisville coke
| svens almost 30,000 are pow in blast |
which is a larger number than in
any week since the middle of 1907.
A movement 18 on foot among
Philadelphia banks to request Cone
gross to exempt them from the pro.
posed corporation tax of 1 per cant.
Corey, of United
has arrived home from
!
SAY ELSIE SIBEL
ENDED HER LIFE
Officials, However, Scout Idea She
Took Poison,
Denver C biness Hear Chinese Gove
ernment Are shield. |
ing Leon Ling, But Chinese Con.
sul At New York Ridicules The |
Story—Leon Supposed To Have |
Fled To Escape Blame,
And Masons
Denver,
by Chinese
government,
Col grat-
{ Special) it is
ed herd ‘hinese |
rt of
following the repo
the Chinese
the Elsie Sig
{Of offic
tion of
{ Masons and
found with
countrymen
¢ Chinese
2 ay A RE 4 i
Kil . { upon
Ha
ial upon
approval protec
Leon
iD ene
by
GIRLS AS FOOTPADS,
Rob Victim Of Dime At Point Of
evolver,
Reysy td
«OU x
revalver force
Cents 5
vunndar
uinGel
escort
girls
TEean
joe ores
of whom
and good looking,
recently had visited a
show and had ome
the idea that
way to obtain
claring
soda
small,
they
West
with
CARY
The are
said
wild
imbued
Was an
stout
Bese
robbery
money.
fowa Woman
Dies Twenty
! Mason City, lowa (Special).-
Mrs. Mary J. Buck, a resident of
Garrison, died 20 minutes after be-
ing stung by a bee
A hive of bees belonging to a
neighbor swarmed and one stung
Mra. Buck as she was sitting on the
porch of her home She called for
help, and was carried into the house,
Physicians were summoned, but be-
fore they could reach her she was
dead Doctors here say that it was
the first instance they knew of death
resulting so quickly from the sting
(of a bee,
Bitten On Temple,
Minutes Later,
Killed By Stepdaughter,
Raleigh, N. CC. (8pecial).—Joe
Pulley was killed with an ax at his
| home near Selma. His skull was
.erushed in several places. It is
charged that his 12-year-old step-
daughter, Marie Pulley, struck him
as he lay sleeping, as he threatened |
{to whip her and drive her from
{ home. !
A A A AANA
| London (Special). — What is be- |
illeved to be the highest price ever |
| paid here for a domestic cat, namely |
| $525, was given by Mrs. Lynas, of
| Chicago, for Rob Roy 11., England's |
| champion male chinchilla Persia, the |
winner of numerous prizes. The ani. |
mal will be sent to the United States
on the steamer Majestic.
A Dirigible Torpedo.
Stockholm (Special). ~~ A new |
dirigible torpedo recently patented
by a Swedish Inventor, has aroused
great interest in Swedish naval eir-
{eles. The projectile is operated by
electricity. It is said to have a range
‘of 5,000 yarde, and its course can
be altered, while submerged, from
the point of departure at the will
of the operator. Furthermore, it
ean be exploded whenever desired,
and it has a speed of 30 knots an
honr at any depth,
i
$
i Highest-Priced Cat,
THE SHAH OF PERSIA
1S DETHRONED |
He is Given Refuge in Russian
Legation.
HIS SON IS _ChOSEN AS RULER.
And
An
And
To
Hunting
Capital
Protection For 1 Deposed Shah
His Family Furnished Under
Arrangement Between British
Russian
Join The
Down Looters — Persian
Still Agitated,
Legations — Cossacks
Nationalists In
Teheran ‘ cial), Mohammeaq
companies
Overnimg«
business
ant iD Oe
West P
ranc
2 § ’
War Departmen
asgignment of the
Hates 10
oint
the various 1 hes
army service
sentative Vreeland was in-
jured while practicing for the ball
game between the Democratic d
Republican congressmen
President Taft discussed
ernment’s financial situation
Senator Aldrich and Represen
Payne,
The State Department announced
candidates who have becom gible
to appointments in the consular Serv.
fee.
A meeting between President Taft
and President Diaz, of Mexico has
been practically arranged
The Department of Agriculture
has instituted 13 prosecutions under
the Pure Food law
The sessions of the Sutton court
of inquiry will undoubtedly be pub-
le. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
is strongly in favor of wide public
ity The two chauffeurs have been
subpenaed to attend
Capt. James C. Gilmore, U. 8. N.,
who is now in command of the bat-
Repre
an
the gov-
with
{ative
ie elig
command the armored cruiser Mary.
land.
Albro lL. Burnell, American vice
at Barranquilla, Colombia,
said the insurrection against the ex-
isting government had been termina-
i ted.
James Bryce said that the band
of pirates which recently captured
North Bor.
neo had been exterminated.
In the conference on the tariff
bill the representatives of the House
agreed to accept the Senate ous
toms court provision.
Payne and Senator Aldrich
Californians have objected to Mex.
fee's agreement with American races
ed
Ratification of the American-Ger.
man treaty for the reciprocal protec
tion of patents were exchanged
The Interstate Commerce Commis. |
sion decided that it Is not an unlaw.
ful discrimination to charge for bag.
gage In excess of 1560 pounds,
| EXPLOSION ON
| BIG BATTLESHIP
Ensign Aiken Killed On the Worth
Carolina.
‘A CANDLE IGNITES COAL GAS.
| Accident Nearly Causes The Destrace
tion Of An American Warship In
Italian Waters—Captain Marshall's
Prompt Action Keeps Flames From
Magazine — Alken Kept Sailors
From Into Danger With
Him,
Going
officers
warships
solemn
Ensign
NaAple
i
1 in an
The
trd on
Rev,
A.
juad-
iress,
who
Was
HIS TERRIBLE REVENG]
A ldier's Aue
Forturers
Russian
His
at
A
lashes
ret few
ing from
ed to be
wre nched
iraw-
eaped
ipiain
10
Idiers
bur-
JOHN Ir. MARING OIL BUTTER.
Now
That
Turning Out Brows
rar
Standard
Paste Get Rancid.
The firs§
Stand-
be
River re-
wnt
to
made to
here and
ipped
known
is said
siency as
olor. It
ih age.
doer pol
Town Named For Cleveland.
D
Washington, ial),
*Clevelandia,” former
Presiden nd, | be the
name of the municipality of Bella
Vista de Palma, ording to
news received at 5 Depart
ment This homage | aid to Mr.
Cleveland because services as
arbitrator of ques f hoand-
ary lines between Brazil and the Ar-
gentina.
the
For Airship-Railroad Line,
Berlin (Special) Count Zeppelin
in Berlin with the
Prussian railroad ation for
a working arranges between his
proposed airship passenger lines and
the raliroads by which railroad sta
tions are to be enlarged to serve
as fhelters for airships, This is con-
sidered less costly than the erection
of special airship sheds in the prim-
cipal cities of Germany
negotiating
adm
is
inistr
ment
Lightning Strikes Bal] Crowd.
lead, 8. D {8pecial).— While
watching a ball game hetween the
Deadwood and Lead teams Weston
Fry and Thomas Harvison were kills
ed, and eight others were seriously
hurt by lightning during a passing
thunderstorm. A pabic was narrow.
ily averted in the crowded grand
stand.
i A"
Missionaries Warned.
Lagos, Dritish West Africa (Spe
dal). ~The native chief of the town
of Oyo, in Nigeria, whence the Rov.
8 GG. Pinnock, a mistionary of the
| Foreign Mistion Board of the South
; Baptist Convention, was expelled re-
| conn, haa sent a letter to the Amer.
can missionaries notifying them
that if they desire to retugtn to Oyo
| they must enter into a writlen
| ment with him not to interfere with
his methods in governing his people,