The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, October 28, 1909, Image 2

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ACCUSES HER
OWN HUSBAND
Rich Woman Alleges Scheme To
Rob Her.
IS CONFINED IN A SANATORIUM.
Bensational Declaration Made In
Nashville In An Application For
A Writ Of Habeas Corpus—Dr,
4. D. Plunkett, Prominent In So-
cial And Religious Circles, Is
Charged By His Wife With A
Diabolcal Plot,
Nashville, Tenn. (Special),—Mrs.
Eliza Plunkett, wife of Dr. J. ©
Plunkett, alleges in an application
for a writ of habeas corpus, filed in
the Circuit Court, that she is illegal-
ly confined in the City View Sani-
tarium, near this city, through the
scheming of her husband and others,
who, she says, have thus far obtained
some of her property and expect to
dbtain the remainder.
Dr. J. D. Plunkett {3s a well-known
citizens of Nashville, prominent so-
dally and religiously.
Mrs. Plunkett is also well known
in Nashville and elsewhere. She is a
glster of the late Thomas Swope, of
Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Swope was
several times over a millionaire. On.
ly a few days ago a copy of his will,
probated at Kansas City, was put on
record in the Davidson County Court,
Mrs. Plunkett is one of the bene-
ficiaries under the will, the estimat-
éd value of the property left her be-
ing $100,000.
At the conclusion of a brief hear-
ing Judge Matthews continued the
case for final hearing till 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, November 86,
and ordered that Mrs. Plunkett be
removed from the City View Sani-
tarium and placed at the home of
Mrs. Janie M. Baker on Eighth Ave-
nue South.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special).—
Thomas H. Swope, brother of Mrs.
Eliza J. Plunkett, who died here Oc- |
tober 3 last and left an estate valued |
at about $3,000,000. To Mrs. Plun-!
kett he bequeathed $10,000 in cash!
and half interest in a business block
here, making a total of about $85.-
000. To Gertrude Plunkett, his
niece, Mr. Swope beqeauthed the
other half of the business block here!
and $10,000 in cash, making
éhare the same as her mother's.
her |
40 PASSENGERS SAW HOLD-UP.
Watched Suburban Chicago
wayman Rob Conductor,
(Special).—In
High-
Chicago view of
scores of passengers of the Chicago-
to-New Orleans Central train two
highwaymen held and robbed
Conductor Davison when the limited |
train stopped Harvey, a Chicago
suburb, for water. Passengers. fear-
ing that the robbers would march
through the train and attack the
mail car, hurried into their seats
and remained ere until a posse of
citizens and deputy sheriffs arrived
at the station in answer to an emer-
gency call. The thieves obtained a
watch, a ring and about $190.
up
at
th
ta
Shot His Sweetheart.
Chicago (Special). When his
sweetheart told him she had rather
be dead than married him, |
Joseph Sezinski, a Russian, fired one
shot through the clothing of the girl
in a big department store here. The
girl was uninjured. Sezinski fired
two wild shots at an elevator boy
who tried to seize him, and then, in
the presence of 200 people, blew out
his own brains.
be to
Her Hair Pulled Out.
Centreville, Md.
Bertha Durney, who operates a type-
setting machine of the Centreville
Observer, was seriously injured by
getting caught in the belting which
runs the machine. She was stand-
ing on a chair when her halr came
in contact with the belting, and was
hurled to the ceiling. All the hair
on the right side of the head was
torn out, she received several acalp
wounds and was bruised about the
head and body.
{Special ).— Miss |
Big Prizes For Henry Farman,
Blackpool, Eng { Special), — The
aviation contests concluded
here. Henry Farman carried off the
chief prizes of the week, includiag
the grand prize of $10.000 for the
longest flight, and a prize of 82.000
for the fastest three iaps of the
course. Hubert Latham won the
prizes for general merit and the
were
Man Fell On Man, Kiliing Him.
Des Moines, lowa (Special). W.
10 TEACH BOYS
USE OF TOOLS
Sr ————
Industrial Training Urged in Public
Schools,
Strong Arguments Made Before The
Federation Of Labor—Where Eu-
ropean Countries Are Ahead Of
The United States—Work Of The
¥. M, O. A, In Training Boys De-
scribed By Sec, Towson.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The
social and industrial conditions in
the United States demand that in-
dustrial education for rich and poor
alike should be democratized.
This conclusion was reached by
many prominent leaders of working-
men and industrial educators, ad-
dressing the American Federation of
Labor's committee on industrial edu-
cation here. Suggesting that Euro-
pean countries were far ahead of
the United States in the matter of
fitting young girls and boys for a
trade, Charles F. Richards, of New
New York, originator of the National
Soclety for the Promotion of Indus-
trial Education, argued that the
committee should fight for a plan
that should relieve the American
schoolboy of the confusing plight of
not knowing what to do when turn-
ed away from the school, He declared
that more than one-fourth of the
boys left the public schools in New
York before graduation because they
were "sick of it.” This he regarded
as an appalling fact, due to the lack
of industrial training which they
were forced to acquire elsewhere.
In the schools, he sald, there should
be Injected practical
future career. He deprecated
fear which he sald existed that trade
schools would flood the labor mark.
et and said that this phase of the
cation.
Vice President
the Federation,
James Duncan, of
strorgly
trial training into the last grades of
grammar schools The
the
mechanical pur-
“misfit be-
inclination for
was turned out a
iis mind had been
the wrong line
an
suits
developed
This
expressed
that the
leaders who
as believing
labor
selves
ing of more technical
AFT.
NEW AUTO FOR T
Special Machine Purchased
Handling The Presidential
Baggage,
Washington, D. C.
President Taft has adde
his collection of autos
ment has purchased an
chine for purpose
baggage the
express
the of
to station when
the White House
or leaving
wagon |
kind made g
Taft became President. thereby
trating the
the handiness of auwos
may
f purchase
Mr
{ius
ines
+
10 oe ii
chief executive's
Accuser The Guilty One.
Louis (Special } Mra
L. Lillard, accused
St
nette
Nan-
who Mrs
«d candy, confessed to the poiice that
FLL OF THE
Result of Attacks on Spanish
Government,
A NEW MINISTRY IS FORMED.
Moret Of Prendergast The New Pre-
The Maura Cabinet's Resignation.
The Fall Of Maura Not Expected
At The Vatican—Reserved About
The Change,
Madrid (Bpecial).—The Spanish
cabinet, which was formed Jaauary
25, 1907, under the premiership of
Antonio Maura, resigned as a result
of the bitter attacks made against
the government by the former pre-
mier, Moret y Prendergast, repre
senting a powerful opposition,
Premier Maura told the King that
in the face of Senor Moret's state-
ment, that the opposition would re-
fuse to discuss even the most urge.
measures, he had no option but to
resign, He asked, bowever, the
members of the majority to support
the new ministry.
Upon the receipt of the re signatio
of the Premier and his
Moret y Prendergast und riook to
form a new ministry, himself assum-
ing the post of premier and minister
of the interior
who took the
follows
Premier and Minister of the In
terior Moret vy Pre ndergast
Minister of Foreign A fairs
Caballero
Minister of
rado.
Minister of War—Lieg
eral de Luque
Minister of Marine
oath of office, are as
Finance
Rear
sinister of Public Works
Gasset
Minister or
Senor Barroso,
Minister
Campo,
When the
ber of Deputies ma
ment of the ¢
was received with
ting uproar th
adjourn the
Prece ling
Maura cabinet
than five Liberal
months The religious
been the rock on whi
tries had been wrecked
cession to power of
had bef held
Public Instruction
of Justice
president
of
sit
the :
has be
ministries
ther
re
for the Cle ricals
use a revolutionary
ime the oppos
1tion of Ferrer f
monstrations of
brought matters to a ef
THE PURE ICE PROBLEM.
Food Congress.
The
Fe youd
Paris (Special)
Pure
second
in-
Congress en.
Massachusetts,
organizations in
sharply protest-
ation of nat.
ural ice at the Geneva Congress last
The petitions were
Association of
other similar
United
and
States,
in it
R. W. Lillard, a newspaper
who sold her the candy,
own Mrs. Lillard fainted.
Nicaragua Rebels Win.
The town of Chile,
point twenty miles above Nama, is
in the hands of the
There was sharp firing long before
the place was taken. The leaders of
the Zelaya forces and of the Estrada
forces were both killed.
Died In Church.
Paul's Methodist Church, Mrs.
George W. Killian, 60 years old, wife
of a prominent carriage manufac
turer, was attacked by paralysis, dy.
ing in her pew a few minutes later.
On account of the excitement the
Increase In Denatured Alcohol,
Washington, D. C. (8pecial).— Ra.
reported a resolution
gress and setting forth that natural
and shipped under conditions that
would make contamination impossi-
ble.
A subcommittee reported in favor
tities of boracie acid as a preserva
tive without indicating the presence
of the same. Another subcommittee
reported in favor of requiring cof-
fee with which chicory has been mix.
ed to be labeled as adulterated.
Other committees in their reports
that the coloring of
oring in jams be approved
Edward P. Shaffter is the rep-
resentative at the Congress of the
United States Department of Agri-
(N THE WORLD OF FINANG:
10° EXPERIMENT
~ WITH WIRELESS
——
The Navy Will Make Elaborate
Tests,
Efforts Will Be Made To Transmit
Messages Over A Distance Of 3,000
Miles On The Atlantic Seaboard
~-Brant Rock, Mass,, Will Be The
Base Of Operations During The
Trials—To Be Secret.
Washington, D.C. (8pecial), ~~
The Navy is soon to conduct experi-
ment in long-distance wireless tele-
graphy. Impressed with the import.
ance of a system which will in cases
of necessity transmit messages from
some place on the Atlantic seaboard
for a distance of 3,000 miles, the
matter was taken up in earnest al-
most 8 year ago.
of such long-distance communication
the officials say is obvious, for in
times of war it would prove invalua-
ble to the government. 3y its
means the Navy Department will be
able to control and direct readily
from shore the movements of
fleet. This, together with the propo-
sition to install wireless Apparatus
on ships so that they may be able
to communicate with each other at
a distance of 1,000 miles, will put
the government in the position where
directions given to one ve gael
may be transmitted tq
The experiments
ting 3,000 miles
Brant Rock, Mass.,
late Dec
nsiructed
vit
Quickly
another
communica
place
beginning
instru-
are to take
in
ments oq
have
100 high
the Salem and Birmi
be utilized as
alled
been
feet Two
receiving
al sen
Te
by the
1 #
miles
Strict
down
ments will rest
erect fi hy the
tower at Washi
chusetts belong!
Bans
p
Autopsy Shows Diplomat Was Vie.
time Of Heart Failure.
London (8peclal).—An autopsy on
the body of William I Buchanan, the
lowing which it was officially an-
nounced that Mr. Buchanan had died
of heart failure.
The official papers and personal
papers found in the hotel rooms oe.
cupied by Mr. Buchanan have been
sy.
Investigation thus far bas failed
fo throw any light on
ments of the diplomat
few hours preceding his
Friends who had seen him during
the day, say he appeared to be in the
best of health and spirits He left
his hotel just before the dinner hour
on Saturday, but where or with
whom he dined or how he spent the
evening has not been learned. There
were no evidences of assault or rob-
bery.
during
death
fornia pioneer, died Wednesday
night. Aside from her widespread
reputation as a philanthropist, Mrs.
Jones was well known as a capital-
ist, managing her holdings with rare
PANANA CANAL
ss —
frmy and Navy Board Wiil Consider
the Project.
a cn———————
PROBABLY TWELVE-INCH GUNS.
The Defense Of The Intec-Ocean
Canal Will Be Divided Between
The Fleet And The Land Forces
Congress Will Probably Be Asked
To Make The Necessary Appropri-
ation At The Coming Sessiop—
Officials Are To Visit The Canal,
Washington, D, C. { Special) The
Important work of constructing forti-
fications for the to the
Panama Canal will be given careful
consideration by a joint army and
navy board during the coming winter
This board, the personnel of which
has been partly completed, will
entrances
investigation of
there most complete,
that the work for fortifying shall be-
Colonel Goethals, the
and the chief engineer
commission, has promised that
ready to be open
the
of
canal
January 1, $15, and
President and his eabinet feel
the work of placing that
in an {impregnable position
finished
by
ed by
that
waterway
v np
he
Way
for
Cones
TO SCALE MT. M'KINLEY.
Amateur Mountain Climbers
Follow Dr. Cook's
May
Boute,
WASHINGTON
| BY TELEGRAPH
ized the release of De Lara
$2,000 bond.
The application of the offic
to be held in Boston in November,
to haxe exhibits entered free of duty,
has been granted
skins of animals killed in Africa by
Roosevelt has been
Smithsonian
The Supreme Council, Southern
Jurisdiction, Scottish Rite Masons,
elected a number of active members
The revenue cutter Windon has
Napeague, L. |
American capital is being invested
heavily abroad in the construction of
railroads
The Navy will soon conduct experi
ments in long distance wireless
telegraphy,
The revenue cutter Windham has
from Galveston to Corpus
America reelected Jolin Golden Jrosi-
After selecting Cincinnati, Ohio,
as the place for its next convention,
HAVOC WROUGHT
BY THE TYPHOON
FHerce Storm off Philippine and
Chinese Coasts.
MANY LIVES ARE PROBABLY LOST.
Communication Cut Off With Points
In Luzon — Seviral Suspension
Bridges Carried Away—The Prope
erty Loss Severe — Torrential
Rains Flood A Vast Area — Big
Steamers Bump One Another In
The Hongkong Harbor,
Manila
unus
{8peclal) A
ual severity swept across
ern and Central Luzon.
of
North-
typhoon
Lr
wire com
munication with all polr beyond
Dagupan and Luzon w as cut off. One
ia
message brought
San Faglan says that the loss of life
| Wag considerable and the damage to
| property heavy Torrential rain
accompanied the
tensive area was
| road bed was washed out
pointe and one rafllway
| BWeptl away,
The famous Bengu
jing 50 miles from
tuio, where the governm
established a summer
health resort,
that prot
quired
to Dagupan from
i
1 and ae
storm and an
flooded
CX
rail.
everal
was
i
Dag
ably
y { ald
ior its repalr
| that tw BUS]
Borges
ri Ho 18
the
wd fe
have
HE FLEW ABOVE
THE EIFFEL TOWER
The Sensational Feat of Count
De Lambert.
In A Wright Biplane The
Aviator Makes The Round Trip,
A Distance Of 3 Miles, In Less
Than 50 Minutes—Parisians Wild
With Excitement And Even Orville
Wright
French
On His
Daring
Enthus asm
To Grief
shows
Aviator Comes
First Attempt.
startin
Lhe
to Paris,
i After maneuvering
cy an average height of four
dred be ascended in gradus i
diminishing circles and passed seov-
eral hundred feet the Eiffel
Tower He the returned to Juvisy.
Thousands who watched from
credit
their senses when they saw the aero.
ine
aLroqQrome at
¢
flew a distance of about
if over
#
at
feel,
above
the
above the tower, and the sensa-
tion created here by this perform-
ance was more profound than when
Santos Dumont cireled the structure
in his dirigible balloon in 19046,
Count de Lambert was given =a
tremendous ovation on his return te
Juvisy, Orville Wright, who was
there with hig sister, rushed forward
and wrung the hands of the aviator
as he alighted, pale but radiant. He
was led to the pavilion, where his
health was drunk, the crowd mean-
time cheering lustilv and crying.
“long Live Count de Lambert’
"Long live Russia.” De Lambert be
ing of Russian extraction.
The Count held up his hand and
shouted: “Cry long live the United
States, for it Is to her that I owe
this success.”
The aviator said that throughout
bis trip he had entire control of the
machine. The only inconvenisnce he
suffered was from the throbbing of
the engines and from difficulty in
seeing towards the end in the gath-
ering gloom.
The official time of the flight was
of the Carriage Builders’ National | 44
fation adjourned. minutes 39 seconds. The dis.
J. Kennedy, a brick mason, at work i ports to the Treasury show that there end of 1907. | judgment She leaves an estate esti.
: : Nsw, tance
on the Des Moines Coliseum, fell,
John Holmquist, a passer-by,
below,
ken and he
oy Kennedy was seriously injur-
—-——— ———
Defended Wife's Name,
Bridgeport, Conn. (8pecial) En.
in the quan-
in the United States during the past
fiscal year. There were 4,666,419
wine gallons produced, against
3,221,462 the previous year,
Big Gain In Internal Revenue.
Washington, D. C. (Special)...
mentioned in a gcandal, Joseph Naj-
the younger
man, shot John Ecka and then blew
| his own brains out.
Train Wrecked, But Child Saved.
; Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special)...
_ Beeing a five-year-old girl playing
| on the track ahead of him at Ash.
| ley, John Knapp, an engineer on the
~ Central Railroad of New Jersey, was
| compelled to apply the emergency
| brakes to his long train of coal ears
80 suddenly that the train buckled
In the middle, throwing several cars
from the track and making quite a
wreck. Traffic was delayed for some
time. The locomotive was stopped
few yards from where the child
Treasury officials that the internal
revenue collections during the cur.
rent fiscal year will exceed last year's
by between $12,000,000 and $15,-
000,000.
Corporation Tax Attacked.
Denver (Special).—The feature of
the opening session here of the con-
vention of the American Association
of Public Acocuntants was the ad-
dress of Allen Ripley Foote, of Col-
umbus, Ohlo, president of the In-
ternational Tax Association, He de-
clared that the corporation tax which
recently becamo a law was “a erime
against American men,"
ness
that It worked a hardship on ov
corporation stockholder, ol "
Baltimore
returned a gain of $1,099,424 in
gross earnings and a gain of $470,-
326 in net profits,
London got rid of about 40,000
shares of U. 8. Steel, but brokers
sald many of the seliing orders were
sent from America.
pany of New York.
creased in the third quarter of 1909
ita output of electric power over 71
1esponding quarter of 1908,
Bethlehem Steel, according to ine
side prople, is earning 14 per cent. on
its $14,908,000 of preferred stock or
say 7 per cent. on the preferred, and
an equal amount on the common.
America owes Europe a great deal
less money than has been represent.
ed, declared Jacob H. Schiff, the emi-
nent banker, who just returned from
abroad,
Judge R. 8, Lovett was elected
president of Union Pacific, to suc
ceed Harriman, and A. L. Mohler, J.
C. Stubbs, Julius Kruttachnitt and
William Mahl were appointed vice-
presidents.
mated at $4,000,000. Numerous
sons and daughters will share the
a AA 3555
Burned Ingersoll Books.
Roanoke, Va, (S8pecial).—A pub-
vicinity of Pennington Gap, took
It was due to a relig-
fous revival which has been in prog-
ress there for several weeks. A pray-
er service was held while the burning
was in progress. A large congrega-
tion attended the special services at
Salaries vs. Living,
Washington, D. C. (Special), —
In making an earnest recommenda-
tion for an increase In salary for
Government clerks General Charles
H. Whipple, paymaster general of
the army, points out that one of the
prominent mercantile agencies of the
of living uen
expenses. Conseq
each year the burden falls hea
on the salaried employees. viet
being implicated in the California
The conduct of national bank ex-
condition of two banks in Michigan
and Wisconsin is being investigated.
An official of the Agricultural De-
partment declared that the rigid in.
spection of meat in this country is
responsible for the high prices,
John L. Griffith, United Stats
consul general at London, reports a
large increase in the number of un
employed in Great Britain,
A bulletin ®f the Census Bureau
shows a decrease in the percentage
of deaths from tuberculosis,
The reports of the internal reve-
nue collections for the month of
September shows an Increase over
the collections of the same month
Capt. Cameron MeR. Winslow,
commanding the New Hampshire,
has been transferred to duty as su.
pervisor of the harbor of New York.
A dozen scientists of world-wide
was roughly estimated at 50
kilometers (31 miles) and the height
varied from 200 to 1.300 feet.
Count de Lambert and Mr. and
In an automobile. Dragoons were
obliged to clear a way through the
crowd, among which there were
many enthusiasts who showed a de-
tire to carry the aviator in triumph
on their shoulders.
Juvisy (Special).——Connt de Lam-
bert received a great ovation on re
turning to the aviation fleld here
after his flight to Paris and around
the Eiffel Tower,
a AAO
New York Tribune At A Cent.
New York (Special), — The New
York Tribune, founded by Horace
Greely in 1841, announced that two
radical changes had been made—the
price has been cut from three cents
to one cent, while the familiar six.
column makeup has been changed to
seven columns. The change created
wide comment throughout the .
The Herald and Post
remain the only three-cent
in New York.