The CENTRE HALL PA THE BUSYBODY. We shun them at every opportunity, those busybodies who pose as our contrary, and who seem to think they are endowed by a special act of Provi- dence with regulating the affairs of their neighbors as well as of those bors. tion and easier still for us to apply as an undue interest It is possible, however, that the cap which we place so unhesitatingly upon the heads of certain persons would prove a better fit for us if we could persuade ourselves to “try It on.” Unquestionably the mere sug- gestion to some of us that we could ever overstep the limit of our friend- ly interest in others is distasteful, and in many cases probably unwar ranted, vet it is true that one of the distinctive characteristics of the pres. ent age, with its freedom of living and its consequent sacrifice of many of those refining and restraining in- fluences that were so vital a part of another and more distant day, is the readiness with which we indulge our curiosity. Not satisfied nowadays with the bestowal of a confidence which is sufficient, perhaps, to pique our interest it is not unusual for some persons to solicit further details and én other ways to evince a too eager concern in the affairs of others. Gustav Frenssen's “Klaus Hinrich Baas" reminds one of “David Copper field” in its long deliberative unwind: ing of a life history up to middle age, and a little, too, in its general plan, with its unhappy marriage fol lowed by a more satisfactory union, gays the London Times. But Frenssen plows deep in the field of moral and gocial problems, and his plot is con vincing—we are not obliged to take the facts on the honor of the narrator The hero is a peasant's son-—-a plece of tough, proud, full-blooded North German humanity. In one moment of bitter disillusionment he asks himself what his too great teachers, School and Church, had done for him except mislead him. They had given him fables, impossible idealisms, “two gos pels, the gospel of the Savior and the gospel of Schiller, but of true genuine knowledge of life not a ves tige.” How he gets this knowledge is the theme of the book; a fine and moving story which ows on in a broad stream of incident and charac ter that gives a singularly powerful impression of the massiveness and variety of life, love New York is protesting against a new danger in the reckless driving of automobiles by boys and girls through the streets and legal means are to be sought to prevent the lives of citi zens being put in danger by children. The automobile, in some way, seems to be associated with disregard of the rights of pedestrians to an extent which has rendered it a menace of civilization, as well as one of its lux- uries. But as far as children are con cerned, they should be legally re gtrained from being allowed in charge of any vehicle. They are too fond of any kind of power and too irresponsi ble in its use—an exceedingly danger ous combination. Now {t is discovered that the fa- mous pirate, Captain Kidd, who, ac- edness he did as he really no pirate at all, but an honest and good-tempered old sailor. But there are some cherished illusions to which the mind will always cling, and it will require more authority than is given to Induce the popular imagina- tion to accept a romantic and pile turesque pirate as an uninteresting and commonplace good honest man. sailed,” was Another rich American girl is to marry an English nobleman. The i age will be as much American as Eng- lah, if these international marriages keep on, and with such an Infusion of conservatism and love of tradition may give way to a startling extent Put the nation seems not to care for this American danger as long as it can assimilate so much of the Amer: fcan colin. A dreadnaught is a formidable ob Jeet, but it affords a shining mark for a little aeroplane flitting hither and yon among the clouds. In a few yeara, perhaps, somebody will build an aeroplane destroyer, From Honey Creek, Ia, comes the story that a bolt of lightning dug a well and found water after a farmer had tried in vain for years. Evi dently Honey Creek is trying to com- pete with Winsted. Conn. INTO THE RIVER Twenty-Five Dead and Sixty Are Injured. G. A. R. MEN IN CRASH. Train of Fourteen Coaches and Two Losomotives Jumps the Track While Approaching Bridge on the Lehigh Valiey Road. Manchester, N. Y.— Speeding east- ward behind time, Lehigh Valley pas- senger train No. 4 ran into a broken rail on a trestle near here Friday ana day coaches from the mid-sec- tion of the train plunged downward 40 feet, striking the east embank- In the awful plunge and crash at least 25 persons were killed and near- ly 60 injured. The injuries of sev- eral are so serious that it is fear they will die. The wreck was the worst in history of the Lehigh Valley State and one of the most disastrous ever recorded on the system Was G A R. Train. Crowded with passengers, many of whom were war veterans and ex- cursionists from the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Roch- ester, the train, made up of 14 cars, drawn by two big mogul engines, was 40 minutes late when it reached Rochester Junction and from there sped eastward to make up time be- fore reaching Geneva The engines and two day coaches the in this “._ |OH DEARIE! YOU'LL C2 BE 30 PLEASED! OVER 149 QUARTS OF THE LOVELIEST Iw @ooseE BERRY JAM! WHAT IN THE WORLD! IS Copyright, 1811) Geneva and Rochester brought physi- clans, nurses supplies Hundreds treatment, the station at Manchester a cider mill and an Icehouse were used to give temporary shelter treatment to the sufferers It was to chop bottom of the day the work of moved with and medical awaited railroad and and NECesSAry through sides and coach at removing painful slowness Death had a large number of having had their skulls crushed in when they were thrown against the car projections the the bottom and the victims swiftly to come many, the dead The mortality was high among the older pasengers, most of whom veterans of the Civil War and were their had just passed the centre of a 40-| foot trestle over Canandaigua Out- | let, 1560 yards east of the station at Manchester, at 12.35 o'clock, when the Pullman car Austin, the third of a long train, left the rails It dragged the dining and two day mans, in this Ran on Ties, All bumped over the short | distance when the coupling between | day coach No, 237 and the of the diner broke The forward train dragged the deralled Pullman Austin | and the diner safely, after which both plunged down the south embankment and The free end high Valley day coach, in most of the victims riding, shoved out gulf and, fol- lowed by a Grand Trunk day coach, stripped the rear guard off the south side of the trestle and plunged to the shallow river bed, more than 40 feet below | The end of the first day coach that went over struck the east embank- ment of solid masonry and, with the other 60-foot car behind it, both shot against the wall with terriffic force. car with ft coaches and two Pull-| order, follow ed. ties a rear end end of the over rolled over of an which | were over the Passengers Buried. Both cars were filled with passen- gers, in a few moments the cars lav, a mass of crumbled wood, metal and glass, under which a hundred men, women and children, many of whom killed instantly, buried ‘he greatest destruction occurréd i the coach No. 237 and a dozen persons were taken later, dead, from the second coach, after following first trestle, snapped its rear coupling and thus saved the rest of the train from being dragged along The second day the and stood end up, rear end projecting a few above the top of the trestle All of the passengers in piled in a tangled broken seats at the car were were day day which, the over the coach struck on bottom the ¢ feet this car mass of bottom of the Help Long Coming. Indescrible pandemonium followed. The Pullman car Emelyn, which re- mained on the bridge with one end projecting over the gulch, and sev- eral cars behind it derailed and in immediate danger of going over on the mass of wreckage below, were who, alded by gangs of railroad em- ployes from the big freight yards at aid. It was several minutes, however, ! before anybody reached the cars at! the bottom to help the victims. The cars did not catch fire Axes were secured and body after body was removed and carried by the rescuers, knee deep in the creek bed, to the bank on the wes! side of the trestle. There the dead and Injured were Trains Bring Doctors. It was moré than an hour before | many of. the Injured could be re. moved and special trains from both I io Y. MC. A Membership, New York.—More than half a mil. lon young men are now members of the Young Men's Christian Associa- | tion—<636,037 to be exact, a gain of cording to the association’s year book of North America, just received. Of these 167,850 are Industrial workers and more than half take physical training In 648 gymnasiums. The net property gain for the year was $7,162,000, bringing the grand total up to $67,539,000. Throughout the continent the association employs B.361 ofMcers. wives Twenty-Three in Morjue The dead removed from the wreck o y 1 and brought to 8 morgue at Shorts ill here, num ville, near bered 23 their inju Se with probably the mortal hospitals at HARRY K. THAW NOT INSANE Declares In Answer to His Wife's Petition. Pa An Harry K. Thaw former Qovergor Wil- to the of his petition wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in which Davis was asked to ap take ome of Thaw in this and provide for the support of is said to point a lunacy commission to State the wife Thaw's be $60,000 a year Thaw claims that the verdict of the jury in New York State was a'finding that he was insane and that the decree confining him in Matteawan was a statutory only and not a pro- ceeding as to the lunacy of Thaw He claims that the fact that he ig still confined in the Matteawan Hospital, under the order of court, does not judicially or in any way establish his present insanity that income not alleges urt to do to do part of the The answer the petition asks the co what it has no authority In the second Thaw states "Your at present in- gane He is quite capable of attend. ing to his own affairs, and tend to his own affairs. He transacts If there was ever any derangement mentally the afant has entirely recovered from it, and is now In f all his mental ALEwWer affiant is not does at- his own business possession of " faculties JOKE ENDS IN TRAGEDY. Boy Tied to Cow By Playmates Is Dragged to Death, Utica, N. Y Falling from a cow to which he had been tiéd by his playmates, Lewis Burns, the 7 old son of Mr. and Mrs “YOar- Matthew ed animal around a field until he was dead, according to word just receiv- ed here from Pulaski Lewis, went out to the pasture to take turns riding a cow that It was a sport the youngsters had enjoyed frequent. He had not gone far The This frightened the cow. It dashed off on a wild circuit of the pasture, dragging the boy along the ground. His skull was fractured, right arm and jaw broken and nearly all his clothing torn off. He was dead when picked up. Miss Cleveland Engaged. Tamsworth, N. H.-<It is under- that the marriage of Miss Esther Cleveland, oldest daughter of the late ex-FPresident, whose engage- ment to Randolph D. West, of New York, was announced Wednesday, will take place in October. The fam- fly say nothing about the affiar. Miss Cleveland is devoted to athletics, be- ing an enthusiastic tennis player and motorist. Mr. West is the son of a Princeton professor and has heen at- tentive to Miss Cleveland for some time. ARSON TO HIDE TERRIBLE CRIME Farmer, Wife and Son Are Slain and Burned. A SON IS PLACED IN JAIL Mr. and Mr, Lee Killed With Ham- mer and Young Son Shot While They Stept--Doors Bolted and House Set Afire. Ind nmitted in Boonville, Boonville and his wife and son, Clarence, Dede wit! was y'elock time firemen all sides they that all the locked fire fnre- doors and windows Were Breaking down the doors, the men found the incinerated bodies of Lee, his wife and his boy of the bodies result- that the skul mother Examination ed in the discovery is of the and had been with & lying in 17-year-old boy had Robbery, it is motive It is known father hammer, while bed asleep The been shot crushed in they were believed, the that family, consisting of the mother and two children, property the m Was the Lee father and had solid a small plece of Newburg and divided up tha them oney between The mother and father and you er boy took their back to their home in older years old, remained in returned to Boonville family had gone William and Boonville money son, William lee, who Newburg then after to bed the the mem- arrested county Lee was Warrick of murdering the sheriff of charge bers of the family William Lee, it home at the the fire, fully dressed and spread the alarm He claimed at the time of his arrest that he was awakened by the biaze and barely escaped with his life, not having had parents and other 6 is said, ran out time of time to rescue his brother Information also came out that quently matters Wil- liam, the son who is now in the War- rick county jail, was engaged to wed Miss Myna Taylor, of daughter of a wealthy farmer, nuptials were to have taken place Thursday. Insurance policies amounting to $5,000 wete found on the lives of Richard l.ee, the father, (and his son, Clarence, both victims tof the tragedy over money and the | » “ - — a DYING FROM BLOW, Schoolboy Received Blow Last Month in Abdomen. Edwardsville, [Ill.-—-Gilbert Jen- kins, a 15-year-old schoolboy, who { fought for the entertainment of a | dozen women and several hundred {men on the steamer Keystone State last month is lying at his home here of injuries received in the bout. His life is despaired of by two physicians who are attending him. Young Jen- kins went on with Bobbie Brendle in a curtain-raiser. He was knocked down in the second round with a blow {on the left side of the abdomen. He fell limp to the floor, and while con- scious, was unable to regain his feet, $400,000 in Old Postage. Chicago. ~~Three hundred members of the American Philatelic Boclety opened their twenty-fifth annual cone vention here. The private stamp col lections of the members are said to be valued at $3,000,000. The larg- est individual collection is that of George H., Worthington, of Cleve land, O., valued at $500,000, An eox- hibit of canceled stamps valued at $400,000 is displayed at the Art In stitute. F. N. Cornwall, of St. Louis, was chosen president of the society at the annual election of officers. | Gen. Madero Issues Jojutia--Guilty Wil Be Punished. Cuautla, Morelos, given just one day to return stolen property; that faflure to do so would | probable death sentence | In Jojutla Madero investigated the | work of the mobs whose members are said to have been bandits rather | than Zapatistas Most of the larger {stores have been looted Madero as- i sured the citizens that the guilty ones | would be severely punished. General | Hernandez, a former revolutionary {officer, is in command of the local garrison After conferring with | Modero Hernandez announced that | drastic measures would be instituted 1 One looter caught in the act was shot A number are imprisoned At Ixtla Madero conferred with General Ambrosio Figueroa, who de- parted in pursuit of the bandits. 1 | 1 MADERO VERSUS REYES. Minister cused of Treachery. El Paso It is to be {finish Francisco 1. Madero Gen. Bernardo Reyes, according to friends of Madero. They declare he gave Heves a Mexico Former Mexican War Ac~ war to the between and chance to return to and become a useful Has Friends of Reves declare tizen, traitor. Madero and that Reyes been a that is only jealous of the popularity of the former war minister has thrown the chall Madero to the Gen- accuses him of { planning to have him agsuré the pu the presidential dled enge eral and treachery shot cess of tion tle toy turning from his trip of pac we eve in MOreios, ifica- where he went to 1 Zapatists fthelr Arms, while he cannot asked by . $s 4 ¥ 5 he treachery revolters to lay BAYS produce the ev Madero that “a } igqence Presiden Barra of has enough imself In the ng that if i Lt De La of Reyes, he proof to satisfy bh al the people are sa) Madero 18 elected President CAD Reves again, became will have to leave the country ag was the case when he too Diaz or head a against Madero for self- preservation popular for President revolution i MINERS HAULED THROUGH FIRE Seven ¥illed and Three Mortally Hurt in Disaster. Ely, Nev Of 10 working at the 1.400-foot level of the partment shaft of the Giroux Consolidated Mines, when night, lie at the death after passing through the flames to the surface The 1.400-foot heard a noise which thought explosion They ehaft in boarded the men who were new five-con t caught fire seven are ¥ vit of point of Wednesday dead and three reach men on the level they was caused by an and They at once looked up the flames cage and started BAW for the surface, but encountered the flames at the 1,200- foot level and stopped Five to walk to the old Alpha shaft through out of the mine men left the ¢ and started through the 1,200-foot level feet away, they oped to which clin i0N he five remaining in the cage gave signal to hoist and were pulled through the blazing shaft One was dead when top reached and the four others were badly burned Rescue of the men remsining in the mine was then attempted through Alpha shaft At the {400-foot level one was found dead; another body was recovered at the 600-foot a third may lay dead bulkhead, but men were found in the burn- the the Was the level: at the two not ing mine This is the same mine in which three and a half years ago two men were Killed and four others entombed for 46 days on the 1,000-foot level iof the Alpha shaft : | $ and are still Willi Exeange Land. Washington The State of Idaho jand the United States {000 acres of land in that state, so that jeach may have its landeg in a more {compact body than at present Act. ing Secretary of Agriculture Hays the state, Thunder Causes Death, New York.-——Mre. Daniel Ferguson, of Atlantic Highlands, N. J, fell un- conscious at a window in her room when a vivid flash of lightning and a Dr. E. E. Falling responded to a hur- ried summons and found that she was dead. Mrs. Ferguson had always dreaded lightning. The first peal of thunder during any storm brought temror to her. a—— Price of Beef Soars. New York.—-The wholesale prices of beef soared to a new high level In New York Tuesday. As announced at various local wholesale centers the price of ribs and loins In the best grade of beef is now 163% cents a pound, as compared with 12 cents on January 1. It is an advance of 1% cents since last week. Best rounds of beef are advanced to 113% cents as compared with 9 cents at the first of the year, and a propor. tional increase is made in second and third grade beef, FIRE PANIG IN PIGTURE THEATRE Injured. FIGHT TO GAIN THE STREET. Trap--Plle of Writhing Bodies~ The Little Ones Are Tramp led on snd Suffocated. Canonsburg, Pa Bons killed and injured Saturday night when a ing picture film exploded in the Can- onsburg Opera House Immediately following the flash of the film some persons shouted “Fire! There was a rush for the exit and in a moment there was a writhing, mass of human- ity, 10 feet in the narrow stair- Twenty-five per- were more than €0 mov- ECreaming high way leading to the entrance of the theatre Most of the were smothered dead A majority of the audience was com posed of women and children in the fierce rush for the exit they were thrown from their feet and trampled by men fighting their w to slreels them, the Laie Others were upon and those at the bottom of the pile When two vol Po vrs 2 x ” ot 4 numan were sufliocated inteer fire ments reached the uo > 4 staggered them Those of ence who had escaped from t} other spectators cal own responded and packed in narrow Pike street, from theatre entrance ap- parently -stricken nd could were per- thie several lice force yugh, operator of the machine, had just series tied "A m,” when ct of the next the asbestos For nums- bering upwards of , Was unaware of the accident, an wae fille flames several moments cabinet totally the operator heroically and ing them his hands burned and ie opened the doo staggered out ning of the door a dense of smoke poured into the audito At this ed "Fire! in their seats, ed 10 their feet awful rush for leading to the stairway At the jammed into probably 200 other per- gongs who were awaiting the end of the performanec to take the places of those who had seen the show Immediately the narrow stairway was packed and jammed 10 feet high with the dead and dying, the ghriek- ing injured and the screaming umn- hurt, while the tow nspeo- and added moment some person The spectators tun saw the smoke, and then started the lone do Darrow, stairway they collid crowds of the scene The list of dead probably would have been greater but for the hero- tem of Miss Mary Craig, pianist at the theatre. When the cries of “fire” ed Miss Craig began playing a slow Over and over she played selection, never faltering, and When the audience from the building Miss Kills Countryman, is Caught, Meunt Holly, N. J -—8alvatore Argona, who shot and instantly kill- ed Guiseppi Materi during a quarrel on a farm near Centreton, was cap tured at Moorestown, Before his arrest Argona gave an armed posse a long chase. The murderer was brought to the county jail. Socialist Victory is Rumor, Washington. —<At the headquarters of the American Federation of la- bog here it is rumored that the elec- tion of William H. Johnson, of Rock Island, Ill, as president of the In- ternational Association of Machinists, and the defeat of James O'Connell who has held that position 18 years, 18 a, victory for the Socialists in the labor organization of the United States who are fighting Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, i
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