The
Centre Reporter
Cenire Ha I, Fa.
THE BOY AND THE GUN,
the
the
boys
sea.
game or fad for
and winter are
pastimes,
The autumn
great deal, says the Omaha Bee
should be the time, then, for the reit-
accident
their
*I.didn't-know-it-was-loaded”
Boys should be careful with
whether they are loaded or not. Two
boys were shooting a few days
ago and thinking was
empty, aimed {it the and
pulled the trigger
dead. “1 didn't know it
wailed the one who killed him,
out
his gun
other
one,
at
was loaded,”
been as criminally
No boy
a firearm at
he
had at sometime
negligent as himself
bas a right alm
other person,
whether harm
should be made
done something he should not
ents can well afford to deny guns and
pistols to their boys until they
reached such ages as will make them
capable of realizing their dangers. If
they must have guns, they should be
cautioned against careless use
them It sometimes seems trite
speak of warning boys against such
things, but if they were warned often
enough such distressing accidents
would be fewer
an
when it,
of it or not, he
that he has
Par
to
and does
comes
to feel
{to
Pittsburg is growing at a fairly
rapid rate, but wants to increase still
swiftly. That smoky town has
reach the 1.000000
bending
more
an ambition
mark in population,
every effort in that For
thing, Pittsburg is the
project for a ship canal from that city
to Lake Erle, by which it is hoped t«
increase still further the already great
industrial of that
Other schemes include a
transit system
ments, bringing
easier reach; educational
expansion, and
ments designed
tractiveness
city and
seems to
to
and is
direction
one plishing
district
big
subway
activity
rapid
with
attach
various points Int
and other
improve
the
of
numerous
10
convenience
And Pittsburg
public spirit
at
the
increase
and
its environs
have sufficient
to carry out the great work suggested
The census figures continue to give
interesting results. Mention
made of the fact that there are now in
the United States
population of 100,000
able gain in ten years, as
but 38 such
census
has been
50 cities with a
a not
there were
NOW
compiled the
or more
citles in 1800 the
bureau, having
returns, announces that there are
popu
250.000. In
“ed
included
this country 19 cities with a
tion reaching or exceeding
1900 there
in that
that,
gain
the
Among
size,
were 15 towns
this it
been
class From
while there
appears
has
in many cities, large and small
proportion has been greatest
municipalities of moderate
Also they do some things better in
Germany. A
killed an American woman
ran into a crowd of theatergoers has
been sent
months
reckless chauffeur who
when he
15
to the penitentiary for
It is sald that one of the prominent
female colleges is going to insist
proficiency in spelling and writing in
the students This looks as if the
higher education were meditating a
return to the simple life
Some New York undertakers are
said in league with preachers
and sextons It might be worse,
there is no evidence offered that
to be
as
un
dertakers are in league with doctors
revival of poetry in England
winter there may be a chance
some of them, after all
of $10,000 provided he does not enter
the ministry. Isn't that an awful pros
pect for the average small boy to con
template?
The Massachusetts man who saws
wood daily at the age of 100 finds that
he doesn't need any gymnasium ex
ercise.
That Chicago philosopher who ad-
vocates the eating of four meals a day
provides a long-awaited antidote to
Brother Fletcher.
ses —————
A man in Maryland wants a divorce
because he Is adfrald of his wife. Ap
parently he considers his condition
unique.
A Frenchman, having taken the
world’s altitude record away from
America, that nation is entitled to
the honor of being the flightier,
| Poverty does nearly everything to
# man except to take away his ap
petite.
HURRIES TROOPS
TO MEXICAN LINE
Will Prevent Insurrectos From
Crossing Border.
10 ENFORCE STRICT NEUTRALITY,
States for Permission to Send
Mexican Federal I'roops Over
American
will
Border of Texas
Cavalrymen Now Patrol
Juarez Is Deserted by Nearly
Its Cltizens.
Washington, D. C
revolutionary
northern border of
moved the American
rush twelve additional
alry the frontier to
neutrality of the 1
American
vent not only
lutionary
into Me
feated rebels with arms from seeking
refuge on the ter of the United
rritory
The
situation along the
Mexico
government
f
troops of Cay
to preserve
The
pre-
nited States
military forces will
the movement of
bands from this
fco.but also will prohibit
revo-
States
This action was based upon
from the
the effect
revolutionaries
representations
government armed
bands of
entering
along the
United States Furt
10
that
Mexico at isolated places
’
southern boundary of the
hermore, it was
nw .
declared, the revolutionists
crossed the Mexico
Grande from
entering the United
purpose of making thel:
turbed through A:
and
purpose
ner
then re-ente
of operat
tegic point
of Mexico,
ment has assured
measure w
nrevent
To
¢
Patrol Border,
Jrders for
infor: “me nts
issued by th
day Of
that th
fact
olution
has
this government
MEDALS FOR HEROIC DO(S
Reward Canines That Save Lives
or Rout Buarglars.
vew York {
longer
anine heroism
no pass inrewarded
small animals
York Woman's
of which Mrs
dent,
committee of the
League for A
James Speyer is
that
human lives, drive off burglars,
announced dogs who
thieves or perform other acts of hero-
jsm will hereafter receive official reec-
ognition of their bravery through the
league, and their owners will be pre
sented with medals
COURT IN UPROAR.
Discovers a New
Maryland.
Smith
Crime
Charles
in
New York Charles Smith i
before Judge Fawcett to plead to an
indictment minor offense
the judge addressed him,
‘were you ever convicted of any
crime before?”
“Yes, gir.” the
promptly, “I
Maryland.”
WAR up
for a
“Smith,
answered,
married in
man
once got
store order in the courtroom
Coffee Trust
Washington, D. CC --The existence
of an alleged coffee trust has been
called to the attention of the De-
partment of Justice. It is charged
that the marketing of Brazilian cof-
fee is entirely
mittee which controls the market and
is now planning an advance of four
cents a pound The statement made
to the department declares that the
committee ia preparing to market
8,000,000 pounds of beans at
additional profit of $3.000,000.
Alleged.
To Have American Advisers,
Teheran, Persia. Parliament
ed to engage five American
cial advisers
on
Popular Vote on Suffrage.
Sacramento, Cal.-~ The Constitu-
tional amendment providing for the
submission of the guestion of woman
suffrage to a popular vote was passed
by the Assembly, 65 to 8. The
amendment already has passed the
Sanate.
Tablet Voted for Greeley.
Concord, N. H.—By vote of the
Legislature, the birthplace of Horace
Greeley, In Amherst, will be marked
by a tablet.
DEAD NUMBER SIX HUNDRED
Victims of the Eruption and
Tidal Wave.
ised es
Rev
of those
Mount
tidal
many
are
Manila,
number
eruptions of
ed in the
include
sLINALEes
Killed
Taal, and drown-
places
by
the the
Wave 00 These
#, Al
in tae two
excavated the
Taal Island
iin a
buried
being
Of
bodies were
Thurs
on
Bixty-
trench
north shore
two
day
Washington meet conditions
f
f suffering
| dent
Taal
0 in Philippines
i
to the ei ti of t
voleano, the American
| Re d Cross Soci
{cabled
Forbes of the
ty in Washington has
21.000 to Governor
islands
{ Forbes is
ine
president of
Red
active
the Philip-
I which
h of the
taken
brand
ready
relief
{ros
has Measures
he Governor reports, however,
that unless te Means are
h suffe:
ava have destroved
adequa
adopted there will be muce
mud and |
rops
ing, as
of thousands of families
William C. Rives, of the
ief of the Phil
$Ri37%
the «
Col Army
and assistant ch ine
constabulary, as been placed In
relief work He
affected territory
Additional
constabular:
charge of all nas
divided the
districts
the
into
of
rushed
detachments
being
are
10 the
geene to aid the work
CANCELS LONG TRIP SOUTH.
Decks For
Necessary.
Clears Extra
if
President
Session
President Taft’
FIRED SHOT FROM MUFF.
Wife, Objecting to DHyorce, Wounds
Hushand and Herself,
h Bend, nd Special )
Driven hought
shand, Mrs
Willlam M
ding contractor.
being Aivorce
Alice E. Baker, wife of
Baker. a ]
atte
OW niown it » 8 then
weniths
mpted a crowded
turned
herself and
Baker
on
ide
Robbers Loot Bank,
111. (Special)
Galesburg,
exploding six charges of nitroglycerin
and awakening
band of bank
with
the entire
town, a
robbers escaped In
autom $2,400
Bank of Swan Creek, near here
ut all
ation
an
obile from the
The
ng com-
had A
robbers « wires so that
muni conld be DORse
iB in pursuit
Lyncher is Found Guilty.
McKinley,
guilty of
which heard
connection
last
detective
Newark, © Will
a shopkeeper,
manslaughter
against
iam
found
by
evidence in i
here July of
Thorunington, a
the “dry” element of the community
MeKinley is mob
be
with
Carle for
second
convicted
the of the
leaders to
Clark for
Montgomery,
Claude H. Ball,
Champ Clark's
gress, has just
President.
Mo
who
{ Special)
was
opponent for
returned from a
Con
tour
through
is an uprising in the West for Champ
{Clark for President
“Pennsy” Orders 1000 Cars.
Altoona, Pa. -
cal car shops an order for 1000 open
{gondola ears. The order will keep
the car shopmen busy for several
months.
Thirty Killed in Wreck.
Barcelona, Spain The derailing
of the pasenger train at Valencia was
caused by a washout of the roadbed.
| Thirty persons were Kiled, :
Banker Ends Life.
Aurora, Ill-—-Robert M. Newton,
45 years old, banker and prominent
horseman, committed suicide at Ot.
tawa, 111, by leaping into the Illinois
River from a bridge. Loss of $75,
000 in the failure of a bank at Bill-
ings, Mont, recently, and despond-
ency over the fact that some of his
relatives, whom he had induced to
put mopsy in-the hank, lost all they
had, are believed to bBave beca the
| causes of his suicide, :
FROZEN DYNAMITE
SAVED NEW YORK
Army Ordinance Bureau Experts
Render An Opinion,
THREE INVESTIGATIONS ARE ON.
Disaster Because Twenty Tons of
Dynamite Were Frozen and Was
Dead and Missing Number Thirty-
three—The Destroyed Lighter Not
Licensed to Carry Explosives,
of
some
thousand
exploded
Seventy pounds
dynamite from
unknown cause on a Jersey City
pier,
Two tugs alongside, much of
the pler and about 30 men work-
ing near by were blown to atoms,
The blast
Island
far as
distant.
Estimates
Or
jarred Manhattan
the Jersey
Branch,
and shore
5
as
Long miles
of the dead reach
50 and the wounded
number hundreds, many of them
fatally hurt.
Skyscrapers
rocked,
blown
maore,
York
nlinost
of win-
dows smashed, and panic seized
the crowds in
Many believed an earthquake
had occurred.
The
timated
in New
ferryboats were
over, thousands
many places,
damaged
millions.
properves Is fs.
at
York
thawed ou
Will Never Know Cause,
: vagh
Beg jer
terminal and
had }
HOBBRECERION Ang
signee come with in
take had
seal of
this
and our
the car, as had been done in
case, it was out of our control
responsibility had ceased.’
Was Not
Healing.
Licensed,
t
iATNes gw ner of
Katherine
hes tancs
oved
fitted
had license to
and added
ties knew jt,
lighter,
without he
explosives
that
Carry
that all authori-
When he first
of transporting ex
Ago, said, he
inquired about a license and
never could find that Was re
quired. "Four of my men.” he said
“qualified bandlers of explosives
take licenses, and
the U States Bureau
I never knew, and
handling explosives
ever knew, that
required.”
providing for an
the explosion was
meeting of
Chamber of Commerce
Schify The
the committee
the city
00 went
the
business
four
into
he
plosives
had
VeATSR
one
to out
from nited
nobody else
this harbor
other license
A resolution
vestigation of
at a
Was
in-
in-
New
by
resolution
on harbor
the
upon
suggestions for regulations to
prevent a repetition of the explosion
Bronze Bust of Rockefeller.
Chicago A life-size bronze bust
of John I. Rockefeller has been
placed on the mantel over the fire-
place in the south wall of Hutchin-
son Hall, at the University of Chi-
CARO The design is the work of
William Couper, of New York.
Chicago's Budget,
Chicago. —« Chicago's budget for
1911, as prepared by the Council
Committee on Finance, amounts to
$40,440,000. Of this amount, $13.
500,000 will go to the Board of Ed-
ucation.
Sn “ a ————
Admiral Sperry Dead.
Washington, D. C.-——Rear-Admiral
Charles 8. Sperry, retired, who sue
cessfully plloted the United States
fleet around the world in 1908-1908,
dled at the Naval Medical School Hop-
| pital here Wednesday of pneumonia.
JOHN MITCHELL FORCED OUT
He Calls Union's Action a Cruel
Injustice.
{)
cadl
Mineworkers
Columbus,
on
i'nited
YOie roll Of
an amendment
tion, providing that members
National Civie Federation
felt
miu
membership in
America
John
iif
ment forces
sreeidoent
president
of the
ganization, eit
tion with the
from
1 he
standing
the miners’
Voile on
vote of taken
in the morning, vored adop-
amend:
Following the completion f
and before
the
an~
a telegram
had been
vite Of the
Pe
Secretary
of my
Minework-
relinguisn
membershis
Federation
While |
uel injustice, lowing, as [1 has,
overwhelming
part of the miners of
by my
American
confidence
cn the the
country, as evidenced elec.
tion as a delegate 10 the
Federation of Labor, and
the
at
labor
ming
fg time when enemies of
Are exeriing Ir every to
have affirmed by the Sup:
he 1 { States the
imprisonm
nis
mths
hecause
miners
the legal
enact
been
ave maae
passing
5
mental
jon
ment A
voted
against it
LIFTED 400 FEET BY KITES.
deatenant On Cruiser
Takes Many
Pennsylvania
Pictures
Barbara, Cal
lifted 4014
WAR
ruiser Pennss
kites
against an eig!
time
breeze
and Rodgers nded
asiern,
SUSE
able, 100 feet
made observations and can ay
ews
for fifteen ninutes
He signaled the
gervations to
T altitude
the
attained
he
eaid
Kites
The officer
train of
WERE CATT
eleven kites
TWELVE MEN DROWANED.
on Bridge Over
River, at Newark.
Newark, N. J
headquarters was notified
several men, probably 1.5, had lost
their lives in the Passaic River be-
tween this city and Harrison
There was an accident of some
sort on the Centre street bridge, a
Pennsvivania Railroad structure. re.
cently acquired by the McAdoo tun-
nel system.
Of late gangs
Accident Passaic
(Special) Police
here that
of workmen had
ing a new draw and it is supposed
that a collapse of part of the strue-
ture threw them into the water
Set Back for Woman Suffrage.
Lansing, Mich (Special) ~The
Michigan legislature by a vote of 55
to 44 defeated the resolution calling
for the submission of the question
of woman suffrage to the people In
| November, 1912 The measure re-
iquired a two-third majority, €7
| votes, to pass.
Carrie Nation Is Recovering.
i Leavenworth, Kan. (Special), —
{ The condition of Carrie Nation, who
iis In a sanitarium for a nervous
| breakdown, is much improved. The
{attending physician says that his pa-
[ tient would be able to leave the san
itarium in less than a month.
Mauled by a Lion.
London (Special. )—-George Gray,
brother of the British foreign min-
ister, was severely mauled by a lion
Sunday near the Athi River, East
Africa. He was stalking lan with
Sir Alfred Pease and others, when
one of the beasts chased and seized
him and worried him as a cat does
a mouse. He was rescued with the
greatest difficulty and is recovering
from his injuries. The accident is
RA AAAI SAN
ascribed to Mr. Gray's rashness.
HAMPTON'S RETRAC"S CHARGE
MADE AGAINST STANDARD
OIL COMPANY.
DID NOT SELL IMPURE CANDY
Magazine Publisher and Writer of Ale
leged Libeicus Article, Because of
Which Brought Suit,
Declare They Were Mistaken,
Corporation
w York
gulls
matter the
the Standard Oil
000 damages against
Magazine and for $100,000
land Moffett,
her, the lat.
in the Feb-
which de
onpection
the
bY
In
brought
for $25
plton’'s
damages
the former
ter the
FUuary
of
14%
ibe
HEainst fieve
the publi and
writer of ap article
issue of the magazine
famed the
with
Ph
have
Company in
glucose and candy in
the following retractions
Bigned In office of
Shearman & Standard
Oil the case,
and have cCOMm-
pany's Broad-
way:
¢
the gale of
adelphia
been the
Bterling, the
company s lawyers in
been igsued from the
GiLioen
al No 26
66 West
"Hampion’s
Thirty -fift}
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A York
“Jan. 31, 1
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11.
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slandard Oil Company
New York
Dear Sirs BRUG
was
en DY me,
the Food Pols
referred to
In the February
,
of Hampton's Magazine there
published an article writs
entitied, ‘Cassidy and
oners in
ha articie
the investigation of
resnert $4
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the manufac
4 vr
of img
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made the siatement
ifactyred
hich went
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material w
gies and that when
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and fined, at
Cassidy, your
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greatly that
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Maga-
sccurate and fair in all
ur March number ve will
ielter and the foregoing
letter of Mr Moffett Yours truly,
Benj. B. Hampton, | Rroad-
way Magazine
company “ regret
these errors Have Deen
It Is the desire of Hampton's
resident
:
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LORIMER LASHED BY BROWN
Nebraskan Threatens to Hold Up Ape
propriation Bills If Vote on Scan.
dal is Not Ordered.
Washington Senator Norris
of Nebraska in a speech
ate charged that
imer of Illinois m
hig e
noi
Hrown
before the sen-
Senator William Lor
have known that
I-
ure Was acc slished by
He that Sena
iors Holstlaw and Broderick and Rep
resentatives Lee O'Neil Browne,
White, Link, Beckemerer and Wilson
had been bought to elect Lorimer sen-
ator; that owne and Speaker E4d-
ward D. Shurtleff of the lllinois house
of representatives were the political
Mr. lorimer in accomplish-
election, and that it was not
possible for the election to have been
brought about under the conditions
then existing except by corrupt prac-
Mr. Brown devoled most of his
remarks 10 an analysis of the testi
mony which involved directly the relia.
tions of Lorimer, Shurtleff and
Browne and the relations of Browne
with his thirty minority followers. Mr.
Brown issued a challenge to obstruc
tionists that he would hold up appro.
priation bills unless the senate votes
at this session on the Lorimer case,
the resolution pertaining to the elec.
tion of senators by the people, the bill
to create a permanent tariff board and
a general service pension bill
ist
ection to the
legisiat
corrupt
the senate by
practice held
agents of
his
{yo
fee
tices
Socialistic Editor Convicted of Mis
using the Mails Mas Sentence
Commuted by President.
—
Washington. President Taft Wed.
nesday commuted the sentence of Fred
D. Warren, the Socialistic editor who
was recently sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment and $1,600 fine,
by striking out the imprisonment and
reducing the fine to $100, to be col
lected by civil process only. Warren
was convicted in the federal court of
a technical misuse of the mails,
Increased Tariffs Are Held Up.
Washington. Increases In freight
rates on fruits and vegetables from
Chicago and Milwaukee to various des.
tinations in other states, filed with the
interstate commerce commission and
made effective Wednesday, were sus.
pended by the commission until June
1, 1911. The tariffs were filed by the
Chicago & Northwestern and the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rallways.
The commission is of the opinion that
the advances are too radical and will
make an Investigation of thelr res
a ou ok a
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