-
The
Centre Reporter
Centre Hall, Pa.
THE NEWS
Domestic
The name of John Mitchell, former
esident of the United Mineworkers o
merica, was mentioned to Colone
Roosevelt as a possible candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor of
New York, but he would not express an
opinion further than to state that he
holds Mr. Mitchell very highly.
Three railroad men were killed
about a locomotive in a wreck on the
Erie Railroad, at Middletown, N. Y.
Fifty gix railroad cars were wreeked
a
\
ern Railroad train ran away down
mountain side at Stroudsburg, Pa.
The Riker and Hegeman Company, rep
resenting a of New York drug
interests, will operate in Baltimore,
Hugo Breul, a portrait painter
"Providence, R. I, committed suicide
inhaling gas in his studio
Seven
smoke
house at Jamaic
J. Edward Sim
banker, died suddenly at M
President
nois Mine Workers, ha
Judge Wright f
fering with the operati
Saline county,
Capt. John
Arcadia,
derrick on that
in Port Art}
Buffalo.
Enraged
for divoree, Joh
Chadwick, 111.
and himself,
Henry Yamagachi
charged with
and his wife
their son.
Suit has been brought
timore and Ohio
mitting employes to work more
hours,
John D.
summaons 10
brought again
pany
Charles A. Hopper, an
spandent because he could not get work
hanged himself Paterson, N. J
rthur F alleged
the Navy, escaped
traveling from New
James B. Watt, t}
in the service of the
dead at Nashv ,
Erwin J. Wider, the defaulting
York cashier, having
of the money he stol
Seven offic ie United Wireless
Telegraph Comps \ indicted 1
Federal grand jury of New York, on tw
charges of conspiracy in connection witl
sales of stock of the company,
Mrs. C. A. Muens. the
reevaled the
Wendling, alleged &!
ner, of Louisville
fered by the pol
Rev. W. R
man, of Alamo
of shooting Je
tain feud
But ts
mounted
succeeded passing the
Erwin J. Wi ler, cashier of the Russe
Chinese Rank, of New York. ple
guilty to robbing the hank of £3500.000
Dr. H Walden, i
dropped 50 feet while trying a new mone
plane at Garden City, L. 1
B. R. Peale, a §
of Pennsy
falling on
Mrs
rope,
Curzon or
Robinson
burg since
ness
merger
of
by
foreigners suffocated
Were
by
while th lon lesed y
iis Lhe) sien a lodging
York
enjoined DY
rom inter
mines in
White
was Killed
ur,
becan
murder
and
against th
in Pittsburg
was served
in damags
5
wndard Oil
Rocke
#x-Convicet,
deserter from
om his emptor wl
Orleans 8 Norfolk
e oldest telegrapher
Associated Press, u
1
ille
New
denies “salted” any
a
ials of
Any were
’Y
wide whe
whereabouts of Josep
of Alma Kell
the reward of
he Ww
aver
cinims
n of 300 applicants
of Pennsvivania
examination
comstabuiary
in
a ced
An amateur aviator
rmer State Senator
John Jacob
denies
anv
Brothers,
I, haw
#1
man.
IRE
Foreign
government 3
Ihe
I an oo wi
rushing
yr : an, where {
clericals are det ined. contrary to
government's to -
stration on
Secretary Root «
before The Ha
foundiand fis
The J Apanese
to buy n
for the army
H. H. Bryn
wegion ministe;
A
Barcelona between the lista
Republicans
The Pan
Ayres voted
neg
Bir George William Buekanan
pointed British ambassador at St, Peters
burg.
Root
Hague
Cane,
Alexander Suchkopf. president
Duma, began a prison term for dueling.
Sunday
mine
gue tribun
ETFs
gover
Has arranged
number aeroplanes
Ner
Minted
nited Stat
th §
collision wtroets o
and the
t Bue
Atidrew Car
10s
American Cor
ald iat ¢
a gold medal to
reat a
-
Was ap
The
continued h e171 1
in the fis
gerions losses in Formosa,
Ambassador and Mrs, Whitelaw Reid
gave a reception in London to the Ameri
Law Conference,
The wife of Major Harry L. Haw
smbassy at Tokio, died at their summer
residence,
Chavez, the French aviator, made an
unsuccessful attempt at Blackpool, Eng
Nand, to beat Brookins’ altitude record.
© Serious bush fires are burning al
[through the Crows Nest -Pass region from
Frank to Fernie in Manitoba,
| “The Berlin chief of police has forbid
‘den the admission of children to movi
i pleture shows, "
{ American delegates are attending th
international Hygienic Congress in Paria
Ten thousand cotton operatives were
locked out at Enschede, Holland. '
! The Chinese have again declared a boy
oott on American goods,
i “Linley Sawhourne, chief eartoonist of
inch, died in London.
William Starin, a Chicago
committed suicide in Paris,
? The British Parliament adjourned un
November 15.
A cablegram was received by Dr, Chip
pen, in prison in Quebec, saying that his
wondon friends had secured a solicitor to
def ind him.
lawyer,
MES CUT OFF EXT
SEVEN PEOPLE ROASTE
Suffocated By Smoke in Their
Beds.
The Owner and His Family, Who Oc-
cupied Rooms on the Ground Floor,
Escaped By Climbing Through the
Windows to the Street—Two Vic-
tims Women.
New York (Special).
lost in a fire which destroyed a three
story
tion of Jamaica, L. 1.
~Seven lives were
lodging-house in the foreign sec
The blaze started
#0 rapidly that few of the inmates had
any opportunity to escape.
The lodging -house was occupied
the most part by poor workmen employed
in the neighborhood. The owner,
Dunbek, and his family, who «
rooms on the ground floor, es
Aimbing through
{3007
the windows
men and two we
They
all
I'he dead—five
were all foreigners,
the time and
as they
FIN
were asleey
were su i¥o alo
property loss will
wo A
Nig phen Marcus
jumped from the
persons
:
third
1 sufferi
pital
tha
from
CONCISR]
raal inj
laborer, was badly
uffocated by smoke
passerby who
in the
ho {
turned giarm
man, w ound the ha
wall of flame In the hy
Dunbek,
SHAFT TO PILGRIMS.
Thousands Throng the Old Bay State
Town to Attend the Ceremonies.
Provincetown, Mass
granite shaft
memory of the
ated at noon by
of the
if i.
6437
tone mument
mu
President
the monument was
bronze tablet over th
Was given
WwW. El
which
Emeritus Charles
The
the Mayflower,
town clock
around the
of
ame
the end Long
tweet
Mavflower
i from
wed by
th
21
President
ye e
LT rs
IPRCTID
piigrimg® at
which drove them
Bees Go Th
Waterbury N
rough Hat.
1 Special
vaunted reputation of
on against
King aver
Cotton Crop Report,
Washingt D { i
aop-repbriing Waar
of the
ulture estimates fr
n Siw
af jon Department
the repos
orrespondents and agents that
of the colt
Was § 3.0
dition on ero
yn §
wry a
mal
1810:
1910, per cent. « fhe
80.7 June
“30 on
on
1600 -
as compared with
71.8 July 25
75.0 on July 25. 1907. and
average of the last 10 years on
Fuly « 1DO8
0.4,
Tuly 25.
25
the
Gaynor in Night Court.
New York Another hard
blow at the “tyranny” of the police in
trivial
{ Special) -
making arrests for CAUSOE Was
the direct result of his visit to the night
this week when he found
prisoners arraigned without cause. Here
after charges are to he filed against offi.
cera who make unwarranted arrests or
use unnecessay foree, and their dismissal
will be sought,
Woman Aviator Hurt,
London (Special) ~~Mme, Franck, a
French woman, who recently planned to
fiy across the English Channel, but who
was stopped by the weather, was severely
hurt while flying at Sunderland, in a
Farman biplane. The machine collided
with a flagpole and dropped 25 feet,
landed on a sight-seeing motor car, erush-
ing and killing a boy. A number of per.
pons were injured. Mme. Franck's leg
was broken and her throat was badly
cut by coming in contact with the wire
vrages of the biplane,
Madriz May Flee.
Blueflelds, Nicaragua (Special) ~A
dispatch received here says that Es
trada’s army is at the gates ¢f Managua,
and that mt Madriz has a ship
standing off the const ready to fles to
Mexico.
SLUMP IN THE AUTO BUSI.
NESS.
Bottom Seems to Have Dropped Out
Notwithstanding Boosting Efforts
of Manufacturers,
New York, Indications point to the
fallen of t auto
The manufacturers, it
is reported in trade circles, are making
bottom having out he
mobile business,
| strenuous efforts to keep up a show of
{continued prosperity, but it is also said
{that they are not selling their product,
{but are
vent the public realizing the true condi:
tions of the market.
Several large concerns are laying off
men and giving all sorts of reasons for =o
{doing except the statement that are
| overstocked. Two or three of the largest
{factories recently closed entirely
they
Ost
ens
but the workmen
{definite
i for
ith
were
which
not given any
time at to report
work, and it not that
ese factories will again be in operation
again
is expected
this Vear
A
City
well-known automobile
said vesterday
undoubtedly
50 per nt
agent of this
would
Hey
that all cars
i
t § »
selling a rom »
g I 2
cent, to fess thar
i
THE GRAND TRUNK
STRIKE 1S SETTLED
An Advance of 18 to 30 Per
Cent. is Granted.
ALL STRIKERS T0 BE TAKEN BACK
Successful Outcome of Peace Nego-
tiations Due Chiefly to Mackenzie
King, Minister Labor — Both
Sides Express Themselves as Fully
Satisfied.
of
on January
ad
and
Railway
bid
mn framn
svand Trur
wd the rules y
Lf Teement n th
of the Canadian
Fort William.”
the Central Vermant
applies with th
standardir
iio TE
ation %«
Railwat., a road
and not that of
which » i only
svetem
mm. of the (
of the T
apply
} 1; rink
President
«, and President
h declare that they are satisfied with
terms of the
(iarrels
Lowe rainmen
Fob
he settlement,
Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells Will Patrol
Los Angeles,
Los Angels, Cal.
lof “policewoman,”
which was created by
(bv the police commission. Mrs. Aljes
Stebbins Wells, formerly of Chicago,
whose earnest anad persistent
backed by ministers and elubwomen ‘of
Los Angeles, caused the creation of the
{ office. will receive the appointment. She
{will be the first woman to hold a posi
ition of this kind in Southern California,
| Mrs. Wells discussed her plans for fill
ing the position. “My field of work will
be chiefly wherever young people gather
for entertainment in parks, penny
arcades, moving picture shows and dance
halls,” she said. “1 will deal chiefly with
the Jroprietors »f such places, secing that
all laws are obeyed and that the places
are kept clean and moral. In the dance
halls T may find it necessary to talk to
some of the young people personally.”
Nine Burned By Acid.
Philadelphia (Special) —~S8even girls,
a boy and a man were terribly burned
the bursting of several earboys con:
taining vitrol for use in chemical fire
engines, The serio occurred he Ridge
avenue, w a supply wagon
to the fire department broke own See
children were being given a ride by the
driver, Richard Grear, who was serving
the vitrol to the various firehouses when
the axle of the wagon broke. The glass
earboys contal the acid were hurled
ugon the bodies of the riders.
cur
IDR. CRIPPEN WILL
FIGHT FOR HS
| He Will Make No Resistance to
| Extradition,
| The Prisoner Declares, However,
That a Sturdy Defense Will Be Put
Up When His Case Comes to Trial
Search for Evidence to Convict Him
~Case of the Crown for Extradi-
tion Completed—Very Significant
Omission.
Quebec Dr
Arthur
licitor's
H
of
tes
{ Special ) Hawley
Crippen cabled to Newton
London, accepting the s« offer
defend kh
I'he
im of murder
message
Women
Mice fear. anno
extreme ners
Ibe
IPT OReY
seed hy
ing
ithorities
4%
erate treatment
THE CHARLTON CASE.
Italy's Demand for Extradition Re-
ferred to Jersey Justice.
Special
formal
naving x
gastie hint fam
reached the Stats
CADW In A Packet
They
Nee retary
Mass
n knew
$18 om
Accompany
tak
Ay
af the n fo
Department was
Wiles = ibmitting that
New
and that papers bearing upon it
tae
Teas
on by the
a note from
the case lav with the Jersey court,
.
& leis ied
befor
he
presented to magistrate
s Whom the cas
Not
t
cours
wae pending
until action has been taken by the
of Charlton reach the
State Department, when Secretary Knox
may be led upon to pass on the ques
tion of extradition
will the cas
cal
Killed His Benefactor,
Oakland, Cal we Despond
ent because he believed he was about to
{ Special.)
be turned out of the house of friends
with whom he had lived for some time,
| William Cooper, formerly of New York,
ishot and killed Mre. Hurley Buss, dan
{gerously wounded her husband and
{fatally wounded himself. Cooper slept
jon a mattress in the kitchen. When Mrs.
| Buss came into the room to
i her head,
a bullet in his neck, and the murderer
fired the last shot in his weapon into his
own head.
Kills Babies and Self.
Davenport, Ia. (Special). After care
fully arranging the burial robes for all
three, Mrs. Nick Nehlsen, wife of a
farmer living eight miles from this city,
administered fatal doses of strychnine t
herself and her two daughters, aged two
and four years. The eclopment of a
Sanightet with a man
senior greatly preyed
the mother. pon
*
w Uncle Sam Well Off.
ashingte vr, nD. O, {Special ps
total of cash in the ia of $1739.
gu3 S08 a total fiance in the fuimtal
fund $02,356,224, a :
in the officer of $30,502 and
a Stereats of 136 in the ie debt
during Ju
Lisasury
way the
>
NOT ABSA
SSINATED.
Bousman Believed to Have
Blown Himself Up.
| Mayor
i
}
Roanoke, Va, (Bpecial) —Mayor H. A.
lousman, of Ridgeway, a small town in
Henry county, 60 miles south of Roanoke
jan the Norfolk and Western Railway, who
both
| while i
f
i & i
Nad feo
i legs
his blown off by dynamite
ing under a on the lawn of
his yard Sunday night, July 24, and died
several hours later, was not assassinated
The Mayor killed himseil in attempi
ing to blow off his feet, so that he might
secure 56,000 accident insurance, to save
himself and family from poverty
Detective Joseph Funk, of the Baldwin
Detective Agency, of Roanoke, the chief
{ deteetive working on the case, after fol
lowing numerous clues, decided that
{ Bousman himself off the dynamite
that caused his death, and he so officially
reported to the Town Council of Hidgs
}
OY
tree
wet
way and his report has been accepted
the members of the council and by Bous
man's friends generally
t in
Oe
Bousman was
fe policies,
f Wiese
It has developed tha
volved financially
far RB1.0G00
AWO i}
and another for
unt were also taken out a short time
Bousman giving
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
SENATOR J. P. GORE
SPRINGS A SENSATION
Declares Bribe Was Offered Be-
fore Probe ( ommittee.
VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN MENTIONED,
Oklahoma Senator Before Investigat-
ing Committee — Names Former
Chairman Hammon, of Oklahoma
State Committee as Man Who Of.
fered Bribe and Gave Information—
Congressman McGuire's Connec-
tion,
Muskogee What hap
United
Wash-
pened in 4
Slates denat
ington at noon last formed the
1% olving
erman ;
on
of Kansas; {
of Oklahoma,
before a
Travels Incognito to Study Life
in Coal Fields,
special
4 4 pn
’
The Colonel Takes Up Sociology and
Breezes Into Dickson, Pa.
nounced-Talks to Silk Mill
in Streets—Accompanies Coal
grimed Miner to His Home.
Giris
Be-
time
BUODRT Ane
ved
Bix Weeks age ¢
MALRZIT
these
Articie Tr =
KE ®" ho live f
He
thought that s
fesr nf
i
mh
Ce rity
i heans
egath
amusement when from
dark recesses
hand and
He
lared
Has
He
awn
by him
was ve or liked
E
Roosevelt that hi
ming
bl
I here merely
nothin said that
from this
Falls Five Stories and Lives.
New Yo Don’t do th
re tickling
re {Special at.
you remarked Isadore
TEAL farket
le, of ur Hospital
Ie
little fellow
street. In
oy
1 he
Bloom.
Dr. Eder
Surgeon
to ascertain Lhe extent
reived in a fall from the fireescane land
floor to a court yard He
wins amazed (oo find that had
escaped without even a serateh
was examining the
of the injuries re
ing on a fifth
Trad: TY
the fireeseape when he lost his bal
ance, Clothesline: broke the fall
on
Lightning Causes Explosion.
Ossining, N. Y. (Special) Two men
another made permanently deaf by the
gr 4
-
a
Hora
ww Treasury,
frer at
Bn in i : nw
a # Je - J
Oonihs, aged
:
{
feet below the surface of the earth in the
tunnel for the new Croton aqueduct at
Kitehawan. The charge wae exploded,
presumably by lightning, which struck
the car rails at the opening of the tunnel
a quarter of a mile away during a severe
thunderstorm, and followed the rails into
Drowns Her Four Babies.
Antioch, Cal. (Special) ~<One after an.
other four little children were drowned
in a tub near bere by their mother. The
woman, Mra. Joseph Mello, walked away
from her dead babies quietly and calmly
submitted to arrest. She had become
suddenly demented, The oldest child
was 4 years old.
Killed By Night Riders.
Paducah, Ky. (Special) Night Rid:
ers shot and killed Tom C r, a rela
tive of Milton Oliver, the 's chief
witness in the Night Riders’ case to be
tried this fall. of the alleged as
passing are said to be under
:
Forest fires national forest re
Mont Idaho will resnit
half a million dollars
arrves In and 0
nears
New Orleans is preparing a novel boom
the Panama Exposition by
printing pamphlets in Esperanto.
Canal
The population of Porto Rico as shown
by the census, is 1.118012, an increase of
17.3 per obnt. in 11 years
Hiteheoek
out the
stated
postal
General
Wipe
Postmaster
that he hopes to
deficit by next year.
Services were held throughout the
Revenue Cutler Service commemorating
the ome hundred and fwenticth ann
versary of its establishment.
The President granted a reprieve to
John Wynne, an oiler on the steamer
Rosencrans, who killed Third Assistant
Engineer McKinnon.
Mildew among the grape vines of tha
champ + district in France is causing
the vine growers serious concern. :
President Taft has commuted the
sentence of Arvin B. Todd, who is dying
ia Fremont (Neh), jail, 1
Dr. Salinas cha that Zelaya money
is being used to help Estrada in his fight
against Madris.
The new consus gives Cincinnati a
population of 364,463.
The Virginia Fruit Ex has filed
ey the Interst
sion net the B. & O., which a
on peaches and apples
in