————— o_o The Centre Reporter CENTRE HALL PA. rene FRIZNDS OF THE FARMER. the relief of the grosbeak. very come to He is a of being great benefit to the farmer. tin just issued by Secretary Wilson says that seven kinds of the boundaries of the They are easily distinguished other finches by their bright plumage, melodious voices. interest the redbird, the black-headed, the blue and the gray. The bulletin concludes as follows: “Present investigations prove that the services of the gros valuable, Each kind pays especial at checked would cause enormous loss, Few of our birds are to be credited with more good and with fewer evils than the grosbeak, clearly deserves protection by the practical farmer.” The probability is that the farmer would do better to to look with toleration on their indis- criminate slaughter. New York and New Jersey are mak- storage. A bill is pending in congress looking to a reformation of the same evil, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The question is a large one, with many angles. It is not so much talked about as it was a year ago, but still merits the attention of legislative bodies. Cold storage of food products Is a modern necessity. Rightly used, it serves the public by keeping prices steady, by storing in the season of plenty for use in the season of nat- ural shortage. No one argues against cold storage as an institution. It is when food is held back In order to maintain abnormally high prices, when it is kept so long that it be comes poisonous, when cold storage to mankind, that government step in with a restraining hand... The period of storage should be strictly limited, and the sale of stored prod- ucts rigidly regulated. must Long ago the wasp walst, consid ered so fashionable, departed from feminine favor. Now the small foot is following in its wake, which proves that womankind is falling into line in approving safe and sane fashions Occasional freaks like the hobble gkirt may appear, but in the women are deciding In favor of com- mon sense and freedom as opposed to the ridiculous and unbeautiful restric. tions of other days. A woman in Pennsylvania got two licenses simultaneousiy-—one to get married and one to teach. This was 8 wise provision, as In case one failed there was the other to fall back on. A western aviator who flew over three states in an afternoon was em- braced, wept over and kissed by Mme. Bernhardt when he landed. Next time, probably he will keep on flying. A Philadelphia woman says the na- tion's best cooks are farmers’ wives ¢r music than the hotel orchestra. A high-hatted the country or going to Sing Sing. He chose to go abroad, as they do not dress for dinner at Sing Sing. When it becomes necessary to ar rest a man for sobbing too loud at a funeral we begin to suspect that there is something more than sorrow in his system. fle, the proceeds to apply upon a church debt. This is taking commercial ac- count of a wellknown and unromantie estimate of marriage, A monument has been erected in London to William Penn. It is up to Philadelphia to go the Londoners one better and ralse a monument to Con- nie Mack. Another attempt will be made to fly across the Atlantic, this time without an equilibrator, How do they expect to prove an alibi in case of failure? A French aviator has succeeded in fiying 102 miles in an hour. Luckily he didn’t do any of the record break ing coming down. New Jersey has taken to dynamiting mosquitoes. The sclentific crusade for their extermination has apparently wound up in desperation. Some peoples believe implicitly in the prophecies of the katydid who re fuse to believe the weather man. 19 WIPED OUT tence September 1. EDICT OF COURT IN EFFECT. Stock of Subsidiary Companies to Be Distributed Among Stock- holders cf the Parent Organization, New York.—The Standard Oll Company, of New Jersey, the cor- poration which has been the storm center of anti-trust agitation the country for years, Thursday passed out of existence, 80 far as its present form and functions concerned. This famous cor- poration will cease officially to carry vast organization, whose activities ex- into almost every part of the world. In obedience to the decree of dissolution of the Supreme Court, it sidiary concerns, and September 1 was the date set for the ending of the old regime. With the end of stock- of list of stock the the containing holders, close, and subsidiaries will be 2>CHOOL HAAS ’ NO, oo IN . ” Vd ’ F- (Copyright, MAN HUNT ENDED AFTER FIVE YEARS Negro and Wife Arrested on Counterfeiting Charge. win) as on record at that time. The work of apportioning the com- ' COINS AND OUTFIT CAPTURED i it cupy at least three months, not be complete prior to ber 1. The New Jersey company, in business holdings tion. conducts a large oil and has extensive property The company, however, has never made a public report and no oppor- tunity has been afforded for gauging the value of business and of its tangible assets An official its of the company says the general effect of reorganization upon the present stockholders lay In the ability the constituent com- panies, operating produce as large a total of profits as has been possible under the present form of management. As to whether this can be done, he said, the future will disclose of ndependently, to ouly PRESIDENT TAFT'S TRIP. Guard of Secret Service Has Started. Beverly, Mass So far have plans for President Taft's Western trip ad- vanced that L. C. Wheeler, the vance guard of the Service, Advance Secret the President's reception Mr. Wheeler will visit all the towns and cities at which the President is to stop on the swing around the cir- cle, make arrangements for the gpeeches, dinners, etc, in which the President will figure, and see that the police are ready to take care of guarding the Chief Executive On the last long trip the President made Mr. Wheeler started out weeks in ad- vance of the presidential party, but was unable to keep the lead, and along toward the homestretch the President was within a few days of his advance guard 69,760 HAVE STOCK. Largest Number in History of Penn- syivania Ralircad. Philadelphia An indication the number of people dependent for the whole or a part of their incomes stock on August 6, gust dividend, which amounts to $6,- 764,610.75. The total outstanding capital stock of the company on that shares. These shares the largest number of stockholders in the history of the company. The average holding of each of these persons was 129.29 shares, of a par value of $6,464.50, Fifteen Men Killed, Saint Moritz, Switzerland.—A rail- road bridge, which was being con- structed across a deep gorge at Brull, in the Upper Engadin, six miles south of this village, collapsed, carrying with it 30 workmen to the depths below. Fifteen of the men were taken out of the wreckage dead and the other 15 are probably fatally hurt, Ate 58 Ears of Corn. Boston, Mass. -—Charles W. Glid- den, of Lawrence, came to this city, and cornered much of the visible supply by stowing 68 ears of the suc- culent cereal somewhere under his belt. It took 1 hour and 655 minutes in an Atlantic avenue restaurant for him to stow the cargo. One Mr. Dugan, of New York, who heretofore has worn blushingly the tasseled wreath of Ceres with a record of 61 ears of corn, now takes his place with Bogus Siiver Dollars Were Most Dangerous in the History of the Government--Caught Near Memphis Washington A wavering rid line, straggling across a street map of the city of Memphis, on the wall service headquarters cords the story a five-years' for a counterfeiter of sliver which reached its climax in Memphis {with the arrest of John G and his For more than lars, which making, have been banks in Memphis and some have reached the subtreasuries. They were accounted among the most dan- geroug counterfeit money the government has had to deal All the resources of the secret service failed to turn up a clue as to their suf at secret here, re of ae negro, wife five years the charged through Payne is with passing even with which | source Three REO, Assistant {Chief W., H. Moran, the government's crack man on difficult cases, sent Bill Nye, also one the flower of the service, Memphis later at a negro emancipation bration at Paducah, picked ithe first information which led to t identification of Payne as 1! man ialleged to have been passing the dan- gerous coins Nye followed Payne back to Memphis, with Moran and the out a campaign Then almost by Inch Nye be- gan picking a trail through the streets of Memphis to Payne's house Every day Moran in Washington with a pen and red ink, recorded the prog ress of Nye's search upon a map of the city Memphis A few days ago the thin red line came to an end in the suburbs of Memphis, eight miles from the heart of the city. It stopped in front of an isolated farm- t house, surrounded by a high board months of to cello up he Nye ho consulted two men laid inch of | Nye to see in the windows. { Moran flashed a message over the {wires to Memphis and a few hours later Nye reported the arrest of { Payne and his wife, as well as his jcapture of several of the counterfeit | coins, the outfit for making them and ithe genuine dollars from which the moulds were made On the counterfeits have been i peculiar little dents and scratches Nye reported that he found them in the genuine coins he took in the raid. Moran says that proves that the moulds from which the counterfeits were made were so perfect that they even reproduced the scratches and nicks of the genuine coins. indians to Get $20,000,000. Muskogee, Okla.— When, by Feb- ‘uary 1, 1912, the Government will ave sold 2,378,000 acres of land be- onging to the Choctaw and Chicka- saw Nations, more than $20,000,000 will bave been realized for the mem- bers of these tribes. This will be the last of their unallotted land. V. M. Locke, principal chief of the Choe- taw Nation, and Gov. DD. J. Johnson, of the Chickasaw Nation, have been in Muskogee for the last few days conferring with Commissioner J. George Wright, and the negotiations were completed. Robbed in State Senate. Austin, Tex.— During an all-night session of the Texas State Senate, held on account of no quorum, while Senator Claude Hudspeth, of El Paso, slept on a cot near a window with his trousers on a nearby chair, a thief climbed to the window and took the Senator's purse, which contained $74. The special session ended by limita. tion Tuesday. The upper branch of the legislature had on its calendar 40 bills already passed by the lower House. ———— spoT, YOU INADERD NAMED FOR PRESIDENCY | Candidate of Progressive Party in Mexico. | i ! 'REVES FOLLOWING 1S STRONG i | Church and State to Be One of the Issues--Genera! Reyes for Post. poning the Election Until Maderists Lay Down Arma. Mexico City Madero by 5 the Constitutional Progressive party Francisco 1 was nominated for the presidency in convention here Not content with the As platform adopted vention of the N 0 Progressive convention tional delegates at the proposed as amendments numerous pledges, the most important of which bind the candidates to the support of the was that to ‘laws of the reform.” which were the measures of church Was during tion of Benito Juarez Made suspicious by given by the Catholic party to Francisco 1. Madero, Jr., the dele {gates are determined to put him on record regarding the old question of church and state Another important posed is the abolishment fice of vice-president Friends of Gen. Bernardo Reves thave made a move for the postpone- iment of the coming presidential elec- tion on the grounds that the country is not yet sufficiently settled and pre- pared for a vote “If th whereby and state administra- ithe separation effec ted the the support plank of the pro- of- e¢ nation is without guar- iantees in October as it is now the elections should be postponed, for not to do so would be a grave offense and { would drama.” degenerate into a bloody declared General Reves erty of the voters is to be restrained jat the time of casting their votes and the liberty of the people is to be rent should be put off.” These, General Reves declared, are {his ideas subject to the principles | proclaimed by the revolution General Reves spoke of the decla- ration made by Mr. Vera Estanol to that the states have not legally divided i [the effect been come a postponement son produced by the opponents of October elections is the fact that many Maderiste still are under arms General Reyes said in referring to the armed Maderists that it was notable that only the revolutionists who have turned away from the main prinel- ples of the revolution to follow Ma- dero personally are the ones for the most part who are still under arms. Another rea- Solder Sta ‘ts Fire. Akron, O.--Hot solder spilled by tinners ignited the roof of the First Methodist ¥piscopal Chureh here, and in an hour the building, which cost $250,000, was desticisd. The steeple, 100 feet in height, fell, en- dangering hundreds of persons, but no one was hurt. Joe Jefferson's Grandson Dead. Buzzards Bay, Mass. —Joseph Jef- ferson's grandson, Joseph Jefferson, third, is dead at his summer home here from epilepsy. Demand $10 000 Ransom. New York.—Vincenzo Sabella, an Italian merchant, announced that his seven-year-old son, Vincenzo, had been missing from home since Au- gust 7, and that he has since receiv. ed six letters, signed with a skull and crossbones, and demanding $10,000 ransom. for the boy's return. The police have been notified of the case. The first letter demanding a ransom came the day after the boy disap peared, and the others followed at in- tervals. DON'T WANT PATCHED UP MEX { | Eurgeons Wants War Department to | Dismiss Them--Govern- ment Loses. — | Washington .— Army jurging the War Department i with greater promptness in discharg- {ing soldiers for physical disability in- {stead of trying to patch up worthless {men for duty which they properly perform. The chie. surgeon of the Depart- iment of the East has called attention to some specific instances where sol- | diers transferred to recruiting depots with a view to their discharge had Ibeen held under observation and [treatment for several months "One case,” he says, ‘diagnosed ‘neuritis’ remained 218 days; an- |other, ‘ununited fracture,’ 161 days, still another ‘hammer toes,” 128 days {When it {8 recalled that these men were probably on sick report at their | posts an average of 80 days before | being recommended for discharge, ft {18 reasonable to estimate that the | Eovernment lost by the present plan | with these cases alone the equivalent jot the services of an effective soldier for more than an entire enlistment “The is neither an mosynary institution nor a place for the physically inefficient and such should not be kept in it to the exclu- sion of fit soldiers Four {should ordinarily be the period for keeping men on reports, diers’ oceurs BUTrReOns to are act cannot army elee- months maximum the sick the sol- imately then discharge and If recovery ult question of nome » is ¥ ¥ the re-enlistment (can be considered on its merits NEW CENTRE OF POPULATION, Moved 39 Miles Bioomington, Ind. agion Has i East Washi of The center of popu Just {lation the by Durand, in the Cit f Ble unty, United States an nounced Director of the Census the Western part je of oO NM ¥ womingdale, Onros Indiana west fet This is eight mil farther nounced, i Durand than the July 1 location ar 7 when director placed and on« . quarter miles south of Unionville, in the same county a ihe exact of population degrees thirty-tw onds is eighty 0 minutes west, & eight 8X and twelve sec- difference of nine the the Be pre Bloomingdale Ten onds, or miles from vious announcement g in ago miles southeast Southern Indiana years the of Columbus, thirty-nine miles east of its new tion 10Ca- GET $5,000,000 SCHOOL Southern Bureau Get it ot Raglandviile. Nashville get the dustrial school f i which to Southern Bureau funds to be given, D Rockefeller, the { Foundation, Mrs. E. H and others This was decided at a meeting in Nashville of the board of directors of the bureau Ragland five iacres for the site, 200 lots water power and other tions. The location is about 40 miles from Birmingham Tenn Ragland, will five million dollar or white chil¢ is be established of Education J Russell Sage offered 21 in town Mother's Quick Wit | Plerre, 8 D Myrtle nine-year-old girl, of Olson, a Lantry, was hurried to her home | elsion with salt and waited for a { physician. the worse for the experience Togo Thanks Winthrop. Washington Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop received the fol- lowing wireless message from Ad- miral Togo on board the steamer Tamba Marr in the Pacific returning to Japan: “Permit me to express to you my high appreciation of the special honor you have kindly done me in giving me an escort of the squadron upon my departure from the port of Seattle.” To F.y Across Atlantic. Akron, O. Melvin Vaniman's balloon, with which he and five oth- ers will attempt to fiy across the At. lantic Ocean October 22, was shipped from Akron to Atlantie City, having just been completed in a local rub- ber factory. The ballcon will be christened the Akron. The airship is 268 feet long and has a gross lift- ing power of 26,000 pounds. It is made of 2,000 pieces of tough fabric. The gas bag is of the cigar shape, with an extreme diameter of 45 feet. American Dollars Sent to China. Washington. ~- Treasury officials who have been making a study of ex. portation of money to China bave concluded that no less than $7,000, 000 in gold is sent home by Chinese in this country every year. That sum does not include the amounts carried there by returning natives, With the further development of the postal bank system officials predict not only these particular exporta- tions but those to all other parts of the world will steadily increase. POSSIBILITIES OF AEROPLANE GUN Experiments That Bode Ill to Military Aviators. AIRSHIPS FOR SCOUTING ONLY Aerc ane Gun Devised by Ordinance Experts Has Great Future Accord- ing to the Observers of the initia! Performance. The of the new Washington encouraging initial performance naval g0os- as aeroplane gun has created wuch slp among officers of the Navy the promising possibilities of the new weapon The consensus of opinion f the naval ordnance experts is that problem of finding a repel an attack by a squadron aeroplanes or to destroy airship is close to American While new from angle in ig the general bel be 90 degrees or in position, {or the shell might return to feck of the naval vessel, probably un- 10 the Lo of a scouting by the means solution Navy. the gun can be fired the half circle, it ief that it will never a per- reason the any simed at pendicular that the exploded, working the destruction in- tended The angles will likely range degrees for an @ 4 f fring, it is said, from 50 to Kb The UOus enemy QO girer efforts which are being made to perfect f f an instrument {01 War capable Of ] demolishing an alr- iship, it was pointed out, ' jed seriousness } | possibilities of the aeroplane ir ¢ demonstrat- the with which the any naval officers still uture conflict is Many American {cling to the belief that its mission in warfare be largely to | scouting purposes this, us import- regarded by Xperts will confined But yf tremendo even {they admit, is ut cruisers, the the utilization of aero- aloft from “A mor ent could ine eir radius by hundreds of the airship attack- “o ves uid be sent crease th Lies rew believe that resolved i wil } wWiili ever De a bai 10 an jing forces With the carriage o perfected, the ordoan engaged jate sighting the that {be solved | now in and i shortly nistically believe NEED MORE MONEY, Plans With Reference to Work the Wrecked Maine As battleship funds will or prepared Havana Harbor, on Washington of as will much Maine the the be removal Was made and then the mam- am surrounding the ying will be refilled with water to an ior appropriation by | Congress to finish the raising opera- tions Congress failed act upon ithe President's request for an addi- tional $250,000 and the War Depart- ment has mapped out its plans for ithe expenditure of the on which probably ex- the time con- wrecked available permit nit, {removed for from it known Tuesday, imoth h cofferd ac i io money be Congress { hand, will hausted by in Because of the lack of funds, even funeral services the recovered {remains of the dead and the erection lin Arlington National Cemetery of the mast of the ill-fated vessel as a monument to them must be post- iponed. The remains and the mast will be sent to the cemetery to be stored there until Congress acts The terribly wrecked forward part of the vessel, or about two-thirds of it, will be cut down to the level al- ready reached by pumpage, then {taken out and dumped Into deep | water outside Havana Harbor. venes December over Labor Day Holiday, Ordors Tate, Beverly, Mass President Taft has issued an executive order direct- ing “that all per diem employes and other day laborers in the Federal public service wherever employed, and whose employment extends through and beyond that day, shall be excused from work on that day." Chicago Population 2,204,418 Chicago.~—Chicago’'s population is now 2,264,184, according to an an- nouncement made by the publishers of the new city directory. These figures show an increase of 78.801 over the Federal census made a year ago, which gave the city's population as 2,185,284. sn — Foss for Vice-President Providence, R. 1. - "Governor Foss. of Massachusetts, for Vice President of the United States in 1912” was the slogan of the Khode island Democratic love feast at Rocky Point. Former Congressman John R. Thayer, of Worcester, Mass. launched the Foss boom. Charles G. Gates to Marry, Minneapolis.—The marriage of Miss Florence Hopgood, of Min. neapolis, to Charles G. Gates, son of the late John W. Gates, will take place in Minneapolis early in the fall, This was the statement made by Miss Hopgood., who, with Mrs, Hopgood, arrived here from Parle. The an- nouncement of the engagement was made recently. Prior to the wedding Mr. Gates will be occupied with busi ness affairs in Texas. .
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