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