~The Centre Reporter Centre Hall, Pa. J ——————— Sai——— ELIMINATING SPACE. Of devices for the elimination of space there is no end. There can be fone, until the people stop progress Ing. Occasionally project is pro- ain———— i“ which the striving for now particular prize mercial world is trade of South ~leveland Plain Dealer, fea and of it this been pean rope distance object of her commercial ifs figured that enough to t goods to South To establish such a schedule Involves en- gineering and inancial difficulties which may, of course, finally its impossibility By reliable parties the “Ibero-Afro-American rallway is proposed, Spain to Gibraltar, will transport trains to the African cost; thence Bathhurst, the nearest point to South America. From Bath- hurst to Pernambuco, Brazil, is but a three-day run for fast steamers. The cost of carrying this project, daring as it would be but a mere the United States alone is paying for the Pana ma And half Euro pean nations be it. It seems by no means impossible. is the America, says the North Amer- the bulk The natural advantage which Europe each want has so far by now continent possesses han bala aggressiveness need Euro And two more t Ew the tims proposes to cut in the it long that separates her from longing five days are ansport European American consumers. prove first, to cross where ferry boats run to out seems, ¢ fraction of what dozen benefited canal. a would by peculiar damage suit in New York fire chief for the loss An unusually has just been by which the has been awarded $25,000 of his life in a furniture ment fire. The chief fell through an open well hole in the building into a cellar half filled with was drowned before The open well of a city its large phasize t such ord vent just such accel regard of them leads to criminal and clvic is There kind fatal into enforcement decided widow of a establish. water and be rescued hole was in This sult, damages, help to e highly important fact that he.could violation with em ordinance will I inances re are intended to p lents, and that dis lost of the until a life liability when a are ordinances held accident many lightly in regard shocks the authorities ided the Since it bh lish municipal at Coney island, ambitious plans for its improvement have been formuls Thes a continuous walk and the five front, and a new bulkhead line, has been authorized engineers A contract for a at its top, surmounted This will those periodic lantic which to estab Hon as be i0rT mii and ever more e include drive along entire miles of its water which by government has been let forty thick twenty feet at the by a concrete walk the island from by the At frequently been quite destructive All of which expected to a higher average of patronage than the resort has hith- erto enjoyed rip-rap wall feet base and protect invasions have is attract The barbers of Annapolis have ap- pealed secretary of the navy to compel the musicians in the Acad emy band opened barber shops to abandon com. petition with tonsorial artists From the consumer's point of view there may be poor expectation of get- ting na shave from the hand that the drum, al though this is offset by the prospect of an expert massage from the nim- ble-fingered flutist Possibly the bar bers, per se, may force the issue by carrying the war into Africa, form a band of their own and serenade the commandant at unwonted tours. to the who have “on the side” local velvet hammers bass Alfred Giraudet, professor of oper- atic expression at the Paris Conserva- tolre, sa¥s that he knows there must be good voices somewhere in the of the Americans who apply for in- struction in singing are handicapped by never having studied plano playing. resentment of folks who door, unmarried sisters. tattooed for every marriage, some of our soclety queens would resemble picture galleries, A 26-cent plece was recently taken from the foot of an elephant In the New York Zoo, where it had been se. curely hidden till the creature's dis comfort over its ill-gotten wealth be came apparent. The animals must be catching graft from the humans. TAFT WARNS DIAZ INTERVENTION NAF Must Cease Jeopardizing the Lives of Americans. SITUATION GROWING SERIOUS Commanders of the American Forces at the Several Places Instructed to See That American Cities Are Not Endangered. sof D.C ined tha Wasl 8 determ Mexican mn on, shall not He lives shall n of President eral Madero tween the Ot be Diaz and Future forces and the the Mexican government must not be rebels fought out so close to the merican line as to put and property of The Mexican ing to the view ment, the loss cans in at Agua Prieta the fi insurrectos will be the federal which the U reparation As the fighting and tained by Americans n received, it be made to the Mexican government, it is said, and in due cour of those injured in jeopardy the lives Amer government, at the icans accord- Depart will be held accountable for i and injury to Ameri Douglas during the No derals inflicted the slate o of fe whether of the $ x matter re of the fe that injury, government d States will or to nite look for BOON aS representations will pe presse he nt oe i nied will BRITISH FORCE LANDS Britain in Foreign intervention. + D.C A force of 1 the Brit- Great Takes Initiative Washington 30 men and a maxim ish man-of- landed at tect that attack ary terialize, and the gun were withdrawn This, the first r > yy ¥ ¥ ” Eun ron war Shearwater ware San tov pro- of Inyses ve * by i Of insur ne tion- m revoiu m t did ne tishers and ovement foreign forces on Mex ada at Ensen cker POLO GROUNDS BURNED National League Park in New York Partly Destroyed. New York grandstand $¢ +) a + 1 Bana ers a unknown } almost double and spreading ther to bleachers a the south and north The grandetand was a crescent In had been enlarged In last two years so that it covered half the circ shape and the umference of the ground and seated about 20,000 persons New Trial For Dr. Hyde. Jefferson City, Mo.— The State 8u- preme Court reversed the verdlet of gree of Dr convicted Thomas Mo trial. B. Clark Hyde, who was of the murder of Col Swope, of Independence, The case was remanded for re- At'ands Own Funeral, Bristol, Tenn posed to be that of James Swecker, and startled the mourners semblance was remarkable. The re- Referendum Bill Loses, rejected two bills proposing amendments to the Constitution, One eligible to seats In the Assembly, J. P. Morgan For President. Detroit, Mich. Joseph C. Clutts, the Wellston (0.) iron magnate, thinks J. Plerpont Morgan would make an ideal president of the United States from a business standpoint. bb— FARM MATERIALS ON FREE LIST Bill to Make Canadian Reciprocity Easier--Both Measures introduced, » ( SOrwerian > ition tares, or any is or fibers { : suitable on and burlaps and b wholly or in par 2 jute her materials suitable ng agricultural into not coated preparation, saddles and finished omposed wholly or in ¢} er, and leather pers or vampa or other forms for into Arness, or in parts, loatl eed HE ihla 5 conversion manu ed articles Bill Against the Negro D.C A bill was dnced In House by Re; Hardwick, of Georgia, provid. ing for the repeal of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. The neasure secka to prevent Congress from limiting the representation the Bouthern States, because of the tisfranchisement of the negro. which curtails the voting population of the “lates, Washinclon, the in- $y re resen- : thtive Editor Burned to Claremont, N. H Hamuel Henry Htory, editor of the Narrative, weekly publication, met a tragie fate today While apparently asleep on a sofa fire from an over-heated stove {rommunicated to the furniture and | burned him to death. Death, $2,435 FROM OLD LOUNGE bR0SS THE BORDER AMERICAN TROOPS Killing and Wounding of Ameri- cans Causes Invasion. AMERICAN TOWN UNDER FIRE. son Mas Been Siain on American Side as the Resu ts of Border Fighting--Many See Battie. ognition as belliz States the Americs OBERT HARRINGTON EDWARDS ded MKO CROW: probabil ! i" DADDY A. R. DI CKSON. shot hie h E. E will die through the i condition serious FOREST RUTHERFORD. at CARLOS LENNON. shot GENEVIEVE COLE. shot arm Ww arm At 3.35 o'clock Capt. J. E. Gaujot, of Troop K, Fifth 8S A. learned of the Agua Prieta and command 40 troopers international line Between the Customs House and the first the Federal bullets and the rebel rifles father and dusted the the United along the SINGLETON. flesh Cavalry, U attack on his ordered of to the monument those from peeked this cavalry, deploving south desert Into rode States line Peace Overtures Fail Chihuahua, Mexico Peace Moye and Dr. F. R Bustillos, 60 miles west Francisco 1. Madero, recto leader, refused peace terms offered. whieh garded as nothing more promise already made the insur. he than re- in Street. : Boston. Coins and crumpled bills Nations Wi't Meet. Paris.——May has been decided as the month for the International Con- ference on Banitary Questions, the exact dates to be decid~d shortly. Al- ready 26 countries eignified i AvVD eyes of Peter J. Pitts, a toamster, when his horse backed a wagon over | a discarded lounge, which had been thrown out into an East Boston | street, Pitts was loading the refuse when a wheel Mf the wagon broke the lounge and disclosed the money. oh Million From Puzszies New York. 8am Lloyd, who made a million dollars out of puzzles, which he sold to newspapers through out the United States, died at his home, 153 Halsey street, in Brook- lyn, of apoplexy. 1 ‘TOWNS BLOWN OFF THE MAP | i | Tornado’s Wide Sweep Over Kansas and Okiahoma--Many Per- sons Are Killed, A velocity Mo heavy wind the of a some sections, and saceom and lightning, Migsour Kan per txo hundred Kansas City, storm, attaining | tornado in | panied swept and practically injuring aln wrecking rain, wesiern by hall Over i | gas Oklahoma, 13 i Ons, | towns, ons, of bulld- Yr hi ! K hy 6 XT i known to hay L Kanss i Ly Netawn it Mi: Th ¢ started f UNGLE SAM TO MIND BABIES Bill Introduced in House for Bureau to Do All Sorts of Things vernment nitro Henin SIX KILLED IN STORM Property Damage of $3,000,000 in S More Thad Louis uck Jef. 2 o'clock are are is persons geveral damage storm nous Amster electric The GIRLS OFFERED FOR SALE Pitiful Stories of Suffering in Panic. Stricken China Pitiful the fa ine gtories of suf- t in siricken areas of ina reach ity daily Sixty girls were offered for sale at one small town without a purchaser, because food the slaves eat was more valuable than their lives. Only death, therefore, awalts them Heavy rains Rave partly reflooded the famine districts for the Shanghai this ¢ the ly difficult the importation of grain | for the relief of the starving thou- 1 i sands Greely Coronation Envoy. Washington, D. . | Adolphus W. Greely (retired) King George V. This appointment supersedes the original selection of Major-General Frederick Dent Grant, commanding the Department of the East, who, on reconsideration, de- clined the honor. Ambassador Mill Resigns. Washington, D. C.—David Jayne Hill, of Rochester, N. Y., Ambassador of the United States to Germany, has resigned his post. The resignation Neither in Mr. HHl's letter of resignation nor in the President's letter of acceptance is any reason given for the Ambassador's action. The President thanks Mr, Hill for his services at Berlin and says that he i» glad to know that he will remain there until July 1, when the resigna- tion goes into effect. b PROPOSED INGOME TAX 15 IN DOUBT Eighteen States Have Not Rati- fied Income Amendment, SHORT TIME LEFTFOR ACTION End indicates Wii Fall the Present. of Legisiative Meas fhe Approaching Sessions ure For 3 PK The Proposed Amendment. vis A Game Of See-Saw, tes thi smendn SORRY TO PART WITH HILL Views of His Resignation at German Crpitatl he retirement from the itol of Dr. David Jayne ambassa- United States to Germany, July 1, OM between Hill ie felt BT CR if} Caj whose ros } On As of the become effective i at lations the Foreign alge and Dr heen It ¢ here that bout tenure to embasey has of the further QGerman- RAILROAD BRIDGE BLOWN uP Nearby Miners Have Been on Strike a Year, Greensburg, Pa Unknown dynamited a bridge, wrecking abutments, at Harrison on the Manor Valley branch of Pennevivania railroad. for the purpose of preventing coal from mines in this vi- cinity., There has been a miners’ girike on in this section for more per- sons one of the the alleged shipments FIVE DIE IN MOLTEN METAL of Container. hiladelphia Five workmen were killed, 2 were fatally injured Worke, at Wayne when a huge container, molten steel, gave way, liquid pouring or Junction, filled with the fiery eplashing over Would Abolish Senate Washington, D. C.<-Eleven days’ experience as a member of the House has convinced Representative Vietor L. Berger, the only Socialist In the House, who comes from Mik wankee, that the Senate is a useless part of the Government. He may conclude to go even further than that. Mr. Berger will for the present content himeelf with the introduction of a hil which will abolish the Sen ate,
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