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The
Centre Reporter
Centre Hall, Pa.
GROWING COUNTRIES.
The cénsus department of Canada
mstimates the present population of
khe Dominion to be 7,350,000. The dis
Eribution by sections fis: Maritime
vinces, 1,087,112; Quebec, 3,088,
rip Ontario, 2,619,025; Western prov-
Inces, 1,871,164; unorganised terri
Rories, 58,309. It is not surprising that
Canada, with her many resources and
her healthful climate and varied op
portunities for industrial wealthseek-
ars, should grow all the time, says the
Mexican Herald. A sturdy race which
Increases by the excess of births over
Beaths is continually being reinforced
by immigration, and that of the best
ind. The consuming power of the
population of Canada is very large,
mnd accounts for the heavy importa.
lent support given to home industries.
creasing in wealth, It is interesting
SECOND LARGEST
+ By the Census Returns.
LONDON ONLY METROPOLIS AHEAD.
Figures Given Out By Director Du-
rand Show That Greater New York
Has Increased Since 1900 By 1,329,-
681, or 38.7 Per Cent.—The Borough
of Bronx Bhowed the Greatest In-
crease, With 114.9 Per Cent. More
Residents—Some Comparisons.
Washington, D. C. (Special) —Greater
New York has a population of 4,768,883,
under the thirteenth decennial census, ac
tbe Census Durand. This makes New
York the second largest city in the world,
and as large as any two foreign cities,
excopting London.
Since 1900 the population of the me
tropolis has increased by 1,320681, or
38.7 per cent, as compared with 3,437
Rinues, just as it does in the casa of
Cuba and Argentina. The ancient
fberian motherland still bresds
sturdy race which send its sons to
Tormer colonies.
It used to be “King Cotton.”
Ppremacy.
commerce. There has been an enor
mous increase in the production of
rubber and in {mportations into the
‘United States. This Is due to the rap-
idly augmenting demand, with rubber
‘as an essential for automobile, bicycle
and carriage tires and for other pur
poses. Word comes from Sumatra,
which has been the source of supply
the planters are giving up the “weed”
and are converting their estates (nto
rubber farms. It {8 not believed,
ber production.
(3
mirship and the wireless
still come into play. A wealthy sum- |
mer resident of Newport who went In
his automobile to visit another gentle
man found himself with his touring
car stuck in soft sand from which it
could not be moved unaided. An
obliging farmer of the neighborhood
hitched up his ox team and drew the
suachine out of the predicament into
which the vehicle had plunged. Could |
frony further go? Still, the auto is a
good and useful and has
come to stay, although occasionally, |
in the case of a breakdown, it stays :
too long in one place.
invention
A new compass which may super.
sede the compass now in general use
is under test on the scout cruiser |
Birmingham. It is a combination of |
the conventional compass with the
gyroscope, and is sald to eliminate all
varieties of deviation of the needle
it can also be placed in the interior
of a ship, where it is safe from the |
missiles of an enemy. A compass of
this kind would be extremely valuable |
in naval service, but it would be far |
more valuable to commerce, as the in
fluences which affect the compass on
modern steel ships are puzzling, and |
sufficient In some instances to cause
wrecks through deviations from proper
courses.
The census officials expect to add |
the names of 60 cities in the United |
States to the list of those having a |
population of 25,000 or over which |
was compiled in 1900. Perhaps there |
will be even more than 60. The In |
ted to the rise of the cities.
getting enough money to pay her
trying to divide the estate
you live” theory.
hobble skirt style of bathing suit. It
is absolutely impossible for them to
swign when hobbled, but they prob
ably don’t mind that. if they wished
to go inlo the water they would prob
ably do so in thelr bathrooms.
Now that we get the true story on
‘the life of the fly by the ald of the
microscope we see that it merits noth
ing else no little as kind treatment.
Shirtwaists for men will not do. It
has been decreed that men must wear
coats. Old Grimes Is dead, but his
soul Is marching on.
New York will make policemen out
of farmer boys and Kansas is going to
find It still harder to harvest its crops.
The borough of Bronx showed the great
The borough of Bronx showed the
increase in the greater city,
Brooklyn, Richmond and Man
hattan following next in
figures for these boroughs, 1
the increases, are as follows
Bronx, 430,980, an
or 114.9 per cent.
Queens, 284.041,
042. or 85.8 per o¢
Brooklyn, 1,634,351, an
467,769, or 40.1 per cent
Richmond borough, 85.968, an incre
of 18.948 or 28.3 per cent
i 2.331.542,
r 26 per cent.
order
gether with
increase of 230.473,
an increase of 131
IRCTeRRG
§ 88
Manhattan borou
crease of 481,449,
A Comparison.
York ¢ 164,640
fewer peopl cambined 14 eit
of more than 200,000, the population of
which already has been announced. name
ly: Pittsburg, St. Louis, Detroit, l
Cincinnati, Newark, Mil
ington, Indianapolis, Jersey Cit
Provide , Nt. Paul
egate population «
ax 493] 53:
ty of New York,
prior to the act of consol
1808, had a
1515301, as
an in-
New mtains only
ity of
e thas
108
Wansee,
ver. The
aggr
as con
dation
population
compared
1800 of
increase of 1021 126.8
for the greater
Ihe ypulation of Ch
was 16808575: Philade
St. Louis, 575,238; Boston
timore, 508 057 These were the
six citi ‘nit
& population ov
801, or per cent
City.
" of cago 1800
ia, 1.203.607;
560 802: Bal
mly
that had
p in
States
e810 the t
S500 06000,
Third.
the Census Bu
London
was 008]
1900
or
Paris Is
According to figu
rean, the popuiation of (sreaater
in 1801, at the officia int,
372. The patie todd plat
is 7.420740
Paris in 1908, by an official
a population of
in 1909,
in 1605
Yoni
19
& at
for
count, had
Petersburg
Berlis
¥
. i
2.740.300
2.040, 148,
Wyo
estim a
609
iH
HOPE FOR MILLION.
Tuberculosis Societies to Unite In
Selling Seals for Letters.
New York
for ti
seals for
{ Special)
Hed
1610 were ann
Arrangements
we sale of Cross Christmas
minced in a bul
letin just issued by the National Associa
for the Study and Prevent
Tuberculosis and the American
“A million for tuberculosis”
be the slogan of the 1910 campa
Two features of the sale ¢
unique and will bring considerable capi
tal the fighters T he
American National Red Cross is to issue
the stamps as in former years, but thi
organization will work in close eo
with National Association
Study and Prevention of
eulosis, which body will ahare In the pro
ceeds of the
associations
stamps has
per cent. to 12%
mean at
tion m
Cross
ign
i118 Vear are
to tuberculosis
a
Opera
for
Tt boa
i Boer
tion the
the
snles,
for
been
The charge to
of
local
the use the national
per cent, which will
least 850,000 more for tube:
States,
The stamps are to be designated as
“Red Cross Seals” this vear and are fo
be placed on the backs of letters.
The National Conference of Tuberculo
sis Secretaries through its president
John A. Kingsbury, of New York, has
issued a letter calling upon all State
sad local anti-tuberculosis associations
to unite with the National Association
ctilosis and the Red Cross Society, in the
gale of Christmas seals
It in expected that over 430 anti-tu
Union will unite in the sale of Christ
mas seals.
Drinking But Removed.
Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). ~The law
against public drinking cups on railroad
trains and at public fountains went into
effect Wednesday, and in accordance with
instructions the trainmen on all trains
coming into Wisconsin from adjoining
Btates carefully removed the drinking
cups before reaching the State lise and
kept them locked up until the train’ had
passed beyond the line into another State.
Drowned In Freezer.
St. Louis (Special) ~Drowned in an
fco-crenm freezer while neighbors were
searching for him and while his mother
was at work four miles away, the body
of Tiasry -Kramree, two years old, was
found in the rear of tha Destrehan Phar-
macy. le had climbed wpon a box be
side the freezsr and loaned over the ledge
and lost his balance. It is believed the
child was seeking the fragments of ioe
remained, ;
OVER-WATER FLIGHTS
Cartiss Averages Speed of Forty-
Five Miles An Hour.
Announced Time Consumed In the
Passage One Hour and Eighteen
Minutes—Forty Thousand People
Cheer as He Soars and Sweeps
Out Over Lake-—Breeze and Rain
Cause Him to Postpone His Return
Flight,
Cleveland (Special) —Glewn H, Cur
tiss, of Hammondsport, N. Y., establish
ed a new record for over-water flights by
traveling dver Lake Erie from Euclid
Beach, nine miles east of this city, to
Cedar Point, Olio, approximately 60
miles distant,
The time of passage was 1 hour and 18
minutes. His average time was 45 miles
an hour, although one stretch of 20 miles
was covered at a rate of a mile a minute.
Curtiss used the eight evlinder B50
horsepower biplane of his own construe.
-
o'clock when
the
had been
from
and
It was shortly after 12
was taken from
At 1.03 P. M., after it
ascertained that the 12-mile
the northeast prevailed in Cleveland
Cedar Point alike, the
At 1086 P. M.,
ped pie
point
Rero
breeze
was started
f 40.000!
motor
wit A Cheers O
who had gathered starting |
ringing in
over the
atl the
ears, the aviator
Ht it }
pt out
SS weer
WILL PUT IT UP
10 COL. ROOSEVELT
The Miners to Submit Their
Troubles to Him.
LITIGATION VIEWED WITH ANXIETY.
When the Colonel Visits Pittsburg on
September 10 the Legal and In-
dustrial Entanglements of the Min-
ers and Operators In the Irwin-
Westmoreland Fields Will Be
Placed Before Him,
Pittsburg (Special) ~The
of
Irwin
legal and
the
and
industrial miners
West
submitted
entanglement
operators in the
moreland flelds will
Theodore Roosevelt
city on September 10. This
nounced by District President Franci
Feehan, of the United Mingworkers o
America, after he had been arrested with
five other loeal officers, in connection with
and
be 10
this
Was an
when he visits
the actions brought in the county courts
against 87 miners and offic by
operating companies in the affected dis-
ricts
Feehan further
velt
or
Rate the ft
Irwin fie
als REVET
said that
visited the anthracite
more he was
in Lh
at
gmey
ago reques
suble
and ti
14d
wi
¢
of 200 feet th
tu west At
it had eland
re 104 OM
al ng the
and t
mist
m extremity
er front
1.286 P. M.,
Euclid Beach,
vd off Dover Bay
1.46 it passed
d directly
iree
the tw
UKs
Loraine,
Vermillion
at Cedar Point
it glided onto the
Breakers Hotel
10,000 persons gathered on |
land
the aviator, |
and carried
lers to his hotel
over
beact
1 went wild when Curtiss
hrong rushed down on
from
on {ts shoul
lifted him the machine
him
Had the aviator been able to maint
the speed at started
all
however, |
which he out
would have broken i
West of Dover i
he encountered air currents that materifl. |
i
his Progress
probably
records ay,
fed
impeded
FALL FROM TREE FATAL.
Injured.
He others we
arms and
Prisoner Removed to the Hospital
Ward of the Jail
Dr, H
ointly accused with Ethel Clara
Lon
fon Special) Hawley
ppen, j
he murder of his wife, has
re
Solicitor Newton that his elient |
has given him an explanation of the fare
well message found among the prisoner's |
eWorta Inspector Dew, which will
throw a different light the matter |
when it ade public. The message |
read in court at the arraignment of
fave
by
y on
is
was
the steamer |
:
that the writer contemplated suicide dur
to Canada on
Montrose, :
i
TORNADO KILLS TWO.
dations and Wrecked.
Heaton, N, D. (Special) .—H. 0. Thor
wrecked this
seriously hurt
which nearly
Hubert was
town
and
[he
property loss will exceed §100,000 |
Smith Center, Kan. (Special) A |
tornado, necompanied by a terrific hail
laid waste an area a mile wide |
10 miles long north of here. |
nado
A. R
foundations, outbuildings were wrecked |
and trees were shore of their foliage and!
So far as known no
was injured,
person i
American Girl Killed,
Munich, Bavaria (Special). ~~ Miss
Rose Buckingham, of San Francisco, was
killed and Mies Agnes Roos, of the same
city, was severely injured by a runaway
automobile as they were leaving the
Prins Regentin Theatre. The driver had
lost control of the ear as it approached
the main entrance to the plavhouse, and
swerving suddenly, it plunged into the
crowd on the sidewalk,
“Bumper” Crops.
New Haven, Conn. (Special). Two
“bumiper” crops are being harvested in
Connectiont. The peach orchards will
yield in the aggregate hall a million
bushels of luscious fruit. One grower
will ship 90000 bushels from his
A statement
ners A
LAST CENT FOR POISON.
Suicide Pawned Trousers to
Carbolic Acid.
Buy
After
} pur
HITS SECRET SOCIETIES.
Wells Condemns School
College Fraternities.
ins
Amer
Prof, and
i pe
the
immoral
he features
Bey
ference on moral and religious train
§ Prof. Amo: RB. Wells
secrbtary of
fil Dodirs Were res
And a Yigorous condemnation were
%
t
societies in high schools were
of the session of the Sagamore
ig
ing of (he young
of B
{nite
editorial
for Christian Endeavor
who denounced secret
high schools,
wim 1h
Kowiety
the
WRN speaker
soCiel jos
in
ENGINEERS GET INCREASE.
Ann Arbor Men Also Get Shorter
Working Hours,
Toledo. OO, | Npecial Beginn ng t« day
I engineers employed by the Ann Arbor
115,
will
al
R re
ailroad, numbering about
reduc
The new scale of wages, which is not
was decided upon at a8 con
ference at which the railroad was re pre
sented by Mr. Holliday and K. A. Gober
superintendent of the road at
Owosso, Mich, and J. B. Hurst, A, Me
Kerring and Frank Amos, who were pres
ent for the engineers,
ont.
i
REED STATUE UNVEILED.
In Portland, Me,
Portland, Me. (Speecial).—A bronge
Representatives at Washington, was un- :
veiled in his home city, on the western |
promenade overlooking Caseo Bay. !
The statue is eight feet high and rep. |
resents the former Speaker in an attitude :
of repose with a seroll in his left hand, |
The pedestal is of Maine granite, nine
feet high. The statue is the work of
Burr C. Miller, of New York and Paris,
son of Warner Miller. who was an
ntimate friend of Mr. Reed,
The cost was about 835,000,
Fortune In Blast
Portland, Me. (Special) Forest L.
Heavy, of Lewiston, will net, it is said,
from $50,000 to $060,000 from a single
blast of dynamite that uncovered the
greatest find of tourmalines ever un.
earthed in this Btate. In one pocket
alone no loss than 0,000 carats of the
gems was taken out. Already the farm.
are digging in all directions, hoping to
COTONS BIG ADVANCE
Failure to Cover Until Last
Moment is Costly.
The High Price Is Looked Upon as
the Culminating Point of the Bull
Movement Which Has Been in
Progress for the Last 8ix Months.
No Attempt to Figure the Profits
of Bull Leaders Who Handled 800..
000 Bales Valued at $65,000,000.
i
from speculative shorts who
i poned covering until the last
{ in the hope that the increasing new ere
movement in the Southwest might brea
i the control of the bull leaders
Ihis price, the highest reached by
| ton for any delivery
| and exceeding by
{ pound the highest
famous bull vear of 10903.1004
now, had stood as a
omparison was regarded bn
of
had
post
the Civil
214
since
nearly ees
figure reached
until standare
Himinating point
in progress here f{«
REASON which,
SUICIDE ON INCREASE,
However, On Decline
Washington,
Dt
Homicide,
Spree
oY L
Cand 4
vear ending
18 murders
the total
Groner
Year which was
the flseal year of 1908
suicides pposed to 91 for
just ended
automobile
Hetween secydents,
dental poisoning,
wher cas to
murder and suicide
the
work
which notlioe
t called. the of that
ereased exactly 100 per cent
OPIUM INVADES ARMY.
Using Drug.
Ran Francis
enemy fae
nvaded the
troops
the
the
the
Opium,
armies of
ranks of
stationed
extent
ih Wich are
2500 men. has been
to erush out what
is declared to be the greatest danger con
fronting the enlisted men at the reserva
tion. An app al has been made to thc
{ Special §
neidious of
has
Kiates
arid,
United
the
at
Presidio
«frong campaign,
volved more than
launched in an effort
to such that
an
in
slopes
Last January company commanders be
gan to make reporis to post head
quarters, and the general hos
a stricken soldier.
that 40 per of
I
the
in esl)
oent
New Director of Mint.
Chicago (Special George E. Rob
erts, of Chicago, announced that be has
He will
go to Washington this week and his fam.
ily will soon follow.
Senator Root On Way Home.
~ Southampton, England (Special).
Senator Elihu Root, who headed the
counsel in the New Foundland fisheries
dispute before The Hague arbitration
tribunal, and Mre. Root, sailed for New
York Wednesday on the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Grosse, $
Thirty Lives In Danger.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special) ~~Wood aleo
hol mixed with beer and whiskey at a
foreign christening almost snuffed out
30 lives while one was being conseeratd,
at Bast Pittsburg. As a result John
Wodoosy, Ste Veroski, Wassil Bavo.
En re I ud So
Son bn goog hg Jind where
: inters ha was
ju he drinkables by some of the iy
ng
locate other pockets that may contain
who
were almost
A MILLOVARE KILLS
HINSELF IN HOTEL
Samuel J, Hirsh ( ats His Throat
With a Razor.
HE WAS FOUND IN THE BATH TUR.
Wealthy Clothing Manufacturer of
Chicago Writes Several Messages
Before He Takes His Life—Blood
Dripped On the Paper as He
Wrote—He Had Returned From
Abroad a Week Ago—Man Was In
Ill Health,
J.
ckwire,
Samuel
Wi
¥
| Hirsh, of
jelothing manufaet at the corner of
iren streets, | Cago,
the
sitting his
by a
RE WY Fag
‘ blood
rash on
could
nd was
committed » in his room at
Eu.
yYery
New
MAN TURNING TO BONE.
Supposed to Be After Effects of Hook-
worm.
M. L
coun
ficatiom
i for
Peaden's due
ch be
pro-
tment
irden
» and
hands, Pi ARE as
rheumatism Ti niinued
wv that he could not move about mueh
CC Walton, } ng the
with electricity, says the
i somewh the
the §
«tiffered
nounced cnr
~ix month
ing of the } feet, lin
ysicians diagnosed the
nardening
who 1% {reat
that
was vieldin
10
at
| treatment
BANDIT IS DESPERATE.
| Kills Man and Wounds Five Members
of Posse.
~After kill
at
ile,
named
{Special
1
Phill
and
Cartersy; {va
| ing man Beasley
i
{ Gap, near this eity
a
wounding five
| pursuers William Fowler, an aged white
| man of this county, escaped to Lhe hills
fand now heavily armed.
Fowler is being pursued by a sheriffs
posse and threats of lynching are being
made,
At the time Fowler killed Phillips he
also shot and wounded James Byers and
Sam Boston,
A se surrounded Fowler in a house
near Beasley Gap and demanded his sur
render. Fowler came out, firing as he
advanced, and Oapt J. W. Pierce. Hardy
Goode and Sem Kilby fell wounded, the
latter being d rously shot. Fowler
then Fre.
to the hills,
Aim to Secure Bodies,
Washington, D. C. (Special). ~A oor
ferdam will be constructed about the
wreek of the battleship Maine, in Havana
harbor, according to preliminary
adepted by the bourd of engineers in
charge of raising the vessel. The
neers decided that it was the intent
Congress to regain the bodies of the dead
and give them decent burial. The work
in view.
je at liberty
3 jv