Spa
Centre Reporter
Centre Hall, Pa.
THE DANGEROUS HOUL TY FLY.
The city department of public health
gives a timely and needed warning to
those leaving the city for their vaca-
tions to avold places where there are
many flies. Those who follow this ad
vice will avoid places which are un
cleanly, which allow food and garbage
to be #0 exposed as to attract and feed
the flies, says the Philiadelphia Press.
They will avoid places where stables
and dwellings are in near vicinity, as
the manure the choice
breeding place of thousands and even
millions of flies. In other words, to
avoid disease-conveying filles avold
places where they permit flies
breed and feed. Formerly the condi-
tions which multiply flies and the
flies themselves were considered ob
jectionable but endurable. Now the
patient toleration of flies is known to
be a heedless trifling with the health
and life of human beings. Disease
germs are for the most part innocuous
to man, until through some convenient
exposed is
to
medium they are conveyed to his sys-
tem. This purveyor of disease is the
fly. His guilt has been proved to a
demonstration. His capacity for car-
rying on his feet from foul and putres-
cent sources the bacteria of
has been recorded by gelatin plates on
which he has been made to alight and
have proven his guilt
disease
The raisin growers of Fresno coun
ty, California, are trying to promote
the consumption of raising by estab
lishing “raisin day,” on which
patriots who believe in patronizing
home enterprise and consuming home
productions are expected to indulge in
raisin cakes raisin
bread,
fall in and
the best consumers of things sweet,
would to be good
awaken the enthusiasm of young eat.
ers. Porents striving
to get enough of things more staple
than raisins,
generally if they
take the place of meat, eggs and other
products. Moreover, it
that if all were to do as raisin
growers desire there would be a boom
in the price as a result of the boom In
the demand
all
and
The bors
for this,
puddings,
and girls will
as they are
it
to
ete.
line
seem policy
are now busy
which would be adopted
could be made to
is suspected
tha
Bmokers who are going to France
should know that now the French
ties on tobacco and cigars have been
increased, France
are allowed to bring int country
free of duty only
du-
travelers entering
the
ten cigars, 20 clgar
ettes, or ounces of tobacco, and
der seal
Lazare
amined
very s
The British commercial attache at
Yokohama reports that there has been
a sudden development at Tokyo and
Yokohama in the use of solid rubber
tires for jinrikishas, and the adoption
ceivable purpose is so rapidly swell
ing the demand that there will have
‘of the annual
bound
crop or
to prohibitory
prices
heights. The
that of the genuine article,
pelin concern. ‘Hard upon the recent
chines come the explosions
works at Friedrichshafen, resulting in
serious damage to property and the
death of one man and the injury of a
number of others.
and it is quite likely that there will
where will be min-
imized.
present perils
A man and his wife are demanding
$150,000 because they were ejected
from a New York hotel. People who
have so often been told when apply.
fing for accommodations at New York
hotels that there were no rooms left
will extend sympathy to the ejected
pair.
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The city of Cleveland has just cele
brated {t= one hundred and fourteenth
birthday. People who remember when
there wasn't anything but a echool
house and a grocery store there are
becoming scarce,
A movement is on foot wt Atlantie
City to prohibit people from maintain
ing poultry yards inside the city lim.
fts. We have always been laclined to
believe that cities were not intended
for the purpose of stock ralsing.
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WEEK'S BIG NEWS
STORIES RETOLD
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WASHINGTON.
Col. Sylvester R. Burch of Kansas,
chief clerk of the department of agri-
culture, is dead. He was born March
1, 1842, near Dresden, Ohio.
According to the census bureau the
population of Mobile, Ala., Is 651,521,
an increase of 13,052, or 33.9 per
Kalamazoo, Mich.,
has 39.437, an increase of 15,033, or
61.6 per cent.
It was announced that all the mem-
cabinet would meet the
President in Washington at the time
House,
The forest supervisor
of his employes
ished in the western flames
Inadequate means of protecting the
forests and unusually dangerons con-
announces
have per-
ester Potter for the fires in the north.
west,
Senator Warner of Missouri an-
nounced in Washington that on ac-
count of ill health he would not seek
re-election.
Five American
the Isle of
citizens in jail on
ines, Cuba, cabled to
Washington they had been unjustly
arrested and that they are being
treated shamefully,
PERSONAL.
Mayor Gaynor of New York walked
about his room in the hospital at Ho.
boken, N. J. All diet restrictions
have been removed,
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to enthu-
silastic audiences in Buffalo, Cleve-
land, Chicago and other cities
Beverly reports that President Taft
only awaits a real! demand from the
business interests of the country to
decide him to call an extra senate ses-
sion for the confirmation of new Su-
preme court justices
WwW. A C
Larned, by defeating T
tennis championship of America
Wilkinson Call aged
United States senator from
from 1878 to 1887. died at bh
ington home from apoplexy
In her will Mrs. Harriet Coles
Glen Cove. 1... 1., leaves the bulk
her million-dollar estate to revert
the Female Guardian society
Mrs. Jack Cudahy, whose husband
slashed Banker Lillis, was granted a
divorce in Kansas City. She alleged
cruelty.
President Taft, it was announced
in Beverly, is in favor of a further
revision of the tariff: he has written
a letter to Congressman McKinley
for publication in the Republican
textbook giving his views
gseveniv-six
Florida
is Wash-
of
of
10
in detall,
Senator La Follette is directing his
fight for renomination from his farm,
three miles from Madison, Wis. His
campaign managers and stenograph-
ers go over to the farm daily and re-
ceive his directions.
Rev. Dr. Willlam Vall Wilson Da-
rig, pastor of the First Congregational
hurch of Pittsfield, Mass., and father
William Stearns Davis, th
was killed by falling over a
Bash Bish Falls, one mile
New York state line
he author
ledge at
from the
GENERAL NEWS.
Minor Helr paced a new record of
2:00 in a race at Galesburg, Il
The forest fire situation in Moen-
tana is brighter than at any time for
a week, and unless heavy winds set
in and again fan the dying embers
into flames and spread these into new
districts it is thought that ne new
property will be destroyed.
Timothy L. Woodruff issued a state-
ment blaming Griscom for “spring-
ing” Roosevelt's name without con-
He adde that Taft is “In no
way involved in this matter.”
A fresh revelation in regard to rub-
averaged $4 a pair here at retail were
The board of health of New York
City decided that infantile paralysis
must be placed on the list of diseases
It is said that Thomas F. Ryan will
enter the private banking fleld to
compete with the biggest firms, espe-
cially J. P. Morgan & Co.
Six Pullman passengers were hurt,
five others were injured and eight
escaped unhurt in a rear-end collision
In the final round for the national
lawn tennis championship Beals C
Wright lost to Thomas C. Bundy of
Joseph C. “Sibley, following his
the race for con-
gress in the Twenty-eighth Pennsyl-
with “conspiracy to debauch voters.”
More than a score of persons were
injured, crops in the surrounding dis.
trict were destroyed and damage
which may amount to $1.000,000 was
wrought in a storm which swept Chi-
cago and suburbs. At Ludlington.
Mich., damage estimated at a million
dollars was done by a tornado.
Theodore Roosevelt, at the estate
of Douglas Robinson, at Mohawk, N.
Y., declared that the ‘old guard”
would have all the fight they wanted.
The Republican county convention
of Orleans county, N, Y. instructed
delegates to the state convention to
favor Theodore Roosevelt for tempo-
rary chairman,
With more than fifty persons
known to be dead. more than one
hundred missing, 200 injured, balf of
Wallace burned, and two or three vil.
lages obliterated, forest fires spread
death and destruction over a large
territory in nerthern Idaho, eastern
Washington and western Montana.
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He Conspired Against Vene-
zuela’s President.
The Government Publishes a Full
Statement of the Facts In Which
Is Shown That the Exiled Former
President Was the Guiding Spirit
In the Move to Seize President
Gomez-—Intercepted Letters Foiled
Plots,
Caracas
The
miblished a full statement concerning the
g
(Special) .- government
recent conspiracy against President
in which it is stated that
Cipriano Castro, the former president of
Venezuela,, who now in exile in Eu
rope, was the instigator of the plot.
On July 26, the statement Gen
eral Uribe informed governor of
Caracas that he had been approached by
Carlos Gafaro, a who
him to join a plot
President Gomes,
Vicente Gomez,
jn
BAYS,
the
Colombian, asked
for the of
The plan was for the
seizur take place at Senor Gomez's
farm in the suburbs of the capital, and
the conspirators, armed with poignards
in order to overcame any resistance
capture
re to
Were
to compel Senor Gomez to telephone of
the governor and to
f
Galavis to surrender the
ders to Inspector
General
at Card
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Jd at Cipriano Castre Vill
Gen, Benjamin
ding statement meetis
Ruiz, a Colombian
the leader from
doren t
have
Nieve s Parra, &
ana tatement de
ed B30. 006 to the
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0M
20 1% are said
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FORE Hers
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atlement
ay fami!
SHOOTS WIFE TO DEATH.
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(LLED SIX PEOPLE
Locomotive Ploughs Through
Puliman Sleeper.
VICTIMS ARE UNABLE 10 ESCAPE.
Collision Took Place Near Durand,
Mich.,, Between Second and First
Sections of the Boston and Mon-
treal Express—The Sleeper “Ne-
braska” Is Set On Fire From Fire-
box of Engine and Burned--Five
Passengers Were Injured and Eight
Escaped.
Mich
the Grand Tr
Durand {Special Superinten
dent Ehrke, of unk, gave out
a statement that six passengers were kill
five were injured and eight escaped
without
end
injury in the Grand Trunk rear
collisi n Lira in s 2 31 ere,
when the Pullman
Lian
n fire hy
In Wait.
N. Y
of Nanunt,
a shotgun and he was arrested
{Special}
shot and killed
the day and held for the grand
A Charge
of Pearl River
ere married 25 years
IS,
of murder by Justice
Wegner and his
ago,
one son.
home had bgen unhappy becan
ner's hard drinking
For the last few mont}
have been separated Mra
f Wen
of Weg
her son living together
visited the farm. evidently
j f killing his wife. He
self bel a small building
ouse, and
y ford the chick
and fred The wom:
feet from the }
came
his gun
CHILD HACKED TO PIECES.
Was Kidnapped.
Kingston, N pecial eter, tl
mil seyrd f Kin
# i ¢ os
ow i t
lay last. Hundreds of Ital
boy until! Wedne 3
when his body was found cut to
an ad
ians
searched for the day
morning
pie “8
joining neighbors’ property
ald . £34} $ df sy
fe an outhouss on
SMITH BY 3476.
Hoke Has 230 Votes to Gov. Brown's
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JERSEY JAIL ROBBED.
Thieves Steal Breakfast Intended for
Prisoners.
and consulted a fortune teller, and
he returned Monday night the father said
had told him that
the boy would return within three days
The opinion now prevails that the boy
was Kidnapped, and when the kidnapper
of what the fortune teller had
told the father he killed the child
placed the body where it was found.
CURE WAS ALMOST FATAL.
the fortune teller
Man Uses Chloroform to Relieve
Neuralgia and Escapes Death,
New York (Special) ~~Henry B
the Hotel Knickerbocker, applied chloro.
form to his face in an effort to cure nen
ralgia and narrowly escaped being killed
by the fumes. He was found lying on
the bed unconscious
him to consciousness, He will recover,
ters at Dallas,
Wanted: A Xylotomist,
Washington, Db. C
government is hunting for a xylotomiat
officials to be a rarity and to find just
one, capable of making
country October 6. The position pays
£1,100 per annum.
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Went to Bed Smoking.
Pittsburg (Special) ~A guest at a
large downtown hotel went to bed with
a lighted cigar in his mouth. In a few
moments his bed was afire. An dlarm
was turned in calling out all the down:
town fire fighting apparatus, Guests in
the hotel fled panic stricken into the
streets, scantily clad. Frightened women
narrowly escaped being run down by the
fire horses,
Gaynor’s Wound Healed.
New York (Special)i~The bullet
wound in Mayor Gaynor's neck has healed
on the outside, and the irritation of the
throat caused by granulation on the in.
side has consed. The Mayor eats heartily,
and will go back to his regular diet of
three meals a day. No bulletins are now
jsened, and only the hospital physicians
are in attendance. There will be a con.
sultation of physicians toward the end of
this week to fix a date at which it will
be wise to allow the Mayor to leave,
nirance
ment
DROWNED RESCUING GIRL.
Grabs Man About Neck When Boat
Capsizes On Pond.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
winaom
{Special we
containing a of eight
capsized on Pinks Pond, 17
miles from this city, and two of
party, Irving G. Paulding, an electrical
engineer of New York, and Miss Bessie
wmrty
drowned
All of the young women in the boat,
aught hold of the overturned boat
Drake went down and Paulding swam to
her rescue, The young woman grabbed
Paulding about the neck and both sank.
YOUNG GIRL A BURGLAR.
a Heroine.
Newark, N. J. «Alice Me:
Laughlin, 14 vears old, unable to resist a
desire to become a heroine. has confessed
{Special ) ~
lives,
ran
whom she
week
While her aunt, with
last she
encountered a burglar, whom she drove
away with a parasol.
aunt
drama and told the same story.
severe questioning by the police she
confessed all.
Twelve-Year-Old Confesses to Detec.
tive Who Arrested Him.
Nelson, Neb. (Special). ~~A government
agent arrested William Moody, aged 12,
charging him with robbing the mails. The
bov broke down and confessed, after
which he took the officer to a cave where
te had secreted nearly a bushel of letters)
£2,000 in cash and several hundred dol.
lars in drafts
Oil Well Shooter Dies,
Butler, Pa. (Special). = Frederick
Emerson Hinman, 82 years old, an oil
well shooter for forty years, died at
Petrolia. In forty years he shot 5,500
wells, the wells requiring from 2 to 333
quarts apiece, and he manufactured and
handled more than 2,500,000 pounds of
nitroglycerine. In the early days of the
industry he was leader the “moon.
lighters,” so called because they were
compelled to shoot wells at might His
daughter, Fanchion, for years helped him
shoot wells,
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teported That Forest Fires Are
Not So Violent,
State That
Two American Choppers
ing.
Was,
revised tal
Spol ane,
the
the Northwestern
United States fir
Idaho, B6
Montana
Mine, 13.
At Newport, Wash
At Wallace, Ida}
Near Avery idaho prob
47.
At Mullan, Idaho
At Spokane, 1
Big Creel
death K,
Ida
tin
CONTINENTAL UNITED
3sTATES.
Expected to Show 90,000,000 In I
lation.
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MISS ELKINS AND THE DUKE
Dispatches Say the Wedding
Will Take Place Soon
Italian
details of
Queen Mot
Emmane
these Te Fis, given Lael
iding
Washington, D. C. (Special) ~The lat
ext report concerning the romance of Miss
Katherine Elkin: and the Duke of
Abruzzi was read to Senator Elkins
was long-distance telephone
at Elkins, W. Va. He said “I am
going to remain in West Virginia
next six months, and have no inten
tion of going abroad. [I know not}
the Paris report, and don’t want
bothered any more about the matter.”
the
reached by
the
ing of
to he
CLIMBS PIKE'S PEAK.
After Feat.
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Philadelphia, 70
Colorado ’
Mrs. Mary Dowell,
old,
the top of Pike's Peak and back.
ing Mangtou Mrs, Powell.
visiting Manitou, is an experienced
trian
in
Spr
19,
of
VEATS has walked from Manitou fo
return
to who is
pees
returning from her
peak, which many strong
would shun, Mrs. Powell
little tired from my walk.”
oui Wednesday morning,
summit before dark and
mi sonlight.
trip to the
young men
said, “I'm a
She started
reaching the
returned by
Would Drop Old Glory.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special). Asking to
be registered as the candidate of the
“Jesus Christ Party” for governor, a
man from a southwestern county whose
tion to the State Department. In his
platform he declares for the substitution
the prohibition of all religions except the
Christian, prohibition of Jow wages, like
wise of gossip, substituting a flat 5 per
cent. assessment on all possessions for
other forms of taxation, and permitting
women to vote,
Indians Sacrifice $2,000.
Los Angeles, Cal. (Special).~Two
thousand dollars was sacrificed to the
god of fire by poor Indians at the eroma
tion of the body of one of their tribe,
Jose Escalate, in the Yuma district. The
superstitions act was reported to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washing
ton, and the burean sent an order that
the burning of money was forbidden for
the future on the reservation. Escalate,
who was a teacher in the government
rchool at Ou Fort ! Yuma, I anansited
suioide w s love was re a
white girl. \
| Declares Independence of Parlia-
ments and Assemblies,
AGAINST VOTES FOR THE WOMEN
Address By the
{ Emperor at the Provincial Banquet
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Divine Right of Kings Is Sharply
Set Forth By Him—He quotes the
Words of His Grandfather Will
at Koeningsberg — Doctrine of
iam
I, In Regard to the Crown.
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MINISTER FALLS DEATH.
of William
Tumbles Offi Ledge.
Father Stearns
i Davis, the
ledge at Ba
New 3
Davis was f«
land, O., and Wor
Accompanied by
Fannie Stearns Das
William Har
Over a
from the
rmer 13
and
having ar
While
Were a
the
Pr. Davis
horses to
the
stroek
He
n his
listanee away,
undertook
8 CAarriag he As swing
math |
rpesk A pair ol
arriage around ne of the =
him and pushed him over the
fell 20 feet : , striking
bedi
head and bry
Dr. Davis
York, 57 vears age
@ daughter of the late Presi
of Amberst College,
ag
Western New
WAR
Stearns,
died al 1 two years
NEW METHOD OF WARFARE.
Submarine Invented to Pull Battleship
to Bottom of Sea.
Washington (Special) ~In the
inier.
vals between the transaction of such busi-
of his annual est)
mates, writing of his annual report and
supervising relief from the to the
forest fires in the Northwest, Gen. Leon-
{ard Wood, chief of staff of the Army, bas
{had his attention called to a novel
method of naval warfare. An inventor
his office designs of a gigantie
| submarine construction, capable of ap
| proaching a fleet under water, at the
| payehologieal moment flapping a huge
Ness as prepa tion
ar my
ent to
iwing over the unsuspecting batlleship,
| dragging it down to the bottom of the
| ocean and holding the vessel there until
{its crew was “drowned.” General Wood
| has forwarded the plan to the Navy De.
| partment.
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KILLED DURING QUARREL.
Italian Shot Brother Because He An.
noyed His Wife,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Special). —During
a quarrel at their home at Pitiston, near
here, Mattao Pidanto was shot and killed
his brother, Frank. men quar
reled because Frank had been
his brother's wife. The latter inf
ber husband, and when Mattao called
his brother to account Frank drew a res
volver and shot him. The murderer
escaped.