CENTRE HALL PA
A
. FAITHLESS CORN.
!
Corn has decided to do without the
respect and admiration of the people.
The promise of the crop at the period
following early seeding was unex-
celled, and every eater of meat and
eggs in the land could eongratulate
himself that this promise was equal
to the realization of last year. The
immense crop of 1910 had cheapened
one this year would have had a ten-
dency to settle prices for a couple
of years or more, provided no real
shortage occurred in the crops of
those years, says the Providence Jour-
nal But the current stock of informa-
tion about the 1911 crop makes the
prospects for such a substantial ar
rangement for trade
wherever dependent on the crop any-
thing but bright. Beef and hogs, with
them, and of the possible maximum
charge once more for eggs and fresh
fowls. Three months ago the promise
under which these all have been sold
since last fall brought a large supply
of cheap corn into the market. Today
the indications are of a rise to the
sible that the warm weather and
drought conditions have not seriously
hurt the crop and that the quotations
for corn will fall off correspondingly
when the real facts are shown to be
more propitious.
coming from the shoemakers of Bos
tion to the effect that women's feet
are growing larger. The shoemakers
do not like this, as more leather is
thus required for every pair of shoes
turned out. Chicago, having heard the
word from Boston, has explanations
ready. A large retaller of woman's
footgear in the Windy City admits
that women's feet are growing larger,
but says this is due to outings and
athletics. For several years, he de-
clares, women have been taking more
exercise, dolag more walking, playing
more games.
Last year there died In the United
States of pulmonary tuberculosis
about 180,000 people! Multiply this
number by three and a fraction—the
ratio of India’s population to our own
—and you will find that these terrible
figures covering the loss of life from
the plague in India, when analyzed,
show that out of a thousand men,
women and children in the United
States, practically as many dle of
consumption in the ordinary year as
died of the plague in India during the
past six months of epidemic. It real
1y seems as if civilized America ought
to be able to do a little better than
that!
A practical joker at Atlantic City
wanted to scare the crowd with an
imitation of a drowning man. It took
an bour to restore him after the scare
had become a real one. The water is
an element which does not lend itself
kindly to this peculiar form of humor.
The highest pald woman in govern-
ment service is announced, though
somewhat needlessly, to be engaged
in the ocupation of making money.
She is In actual charge of making
coins at the mint.
A rich woman from New York an-
a Los Angeles hotel when she was in-
formed that her doggie would not be
permitted to receive massage treat-
ments in the barber shop.
some hotel keepers Independent!
After she had jabbed her hatpin
into a man’s eye & Ban Francisco
his eye where it interfered with her
bhatpin. We feel almost sure that she
belongs to the class of women who
regard all men as brutes
The chicken, as well as the dog, has
had its day. A St Louls hen bumped
into a motor car and wrecked it. Pos
sibly this is the solution of the eid
conundrum: “Why does a chicken
cross the road?”
A New York woman says she hangs
her head In shame because America
is not producing more great poets
Poets are born, but we can't expect
them at the rate of one a minute.
A Pennsylvania minister has quit
his pulpit to become a carpenter.
Hate to think what he'll say when he
hits his thumb instead of the nail
One of the biggest elephants in cap
tivity is sald to Lave broken its leg.
Evidently he tried to stop a freight
train,
Society women who take up avia
tion will get a comprehensive view of
the ne styles in hats
DARING FLIGHT
OF NAVY AIRMAN
Trip From Annapolis to
Washington.
VOLAPLANED TO THE
MALL
Lieut. John Rogers Unannounced
Started on the First Ambitious
Filght Made by an Army or
Navy Aviator.
Washington.— Lieut. John Rogers,
of the Navy, son of Rear Admiral
Rogers, retired, of Havre de Grace,
Md. flew in a Wright aeroplane from
Annapolis, Md., to Washington, paid
his machine for the night.
The flight was the most successful
vet made by an
Between Annapolis and College
while salling along at
by the winds for. 20 minutes It was
all the officer could do to keep from
being thrown from the seat of the
that he kept a ccol head
As It was, the machine at times
stood at an agle of nearly 60 degrees,
and farmers who witnessed the per-
formance marveled When the wind
ceased the machine righted Itself
from what might have
the trough of the air and
onward The aviator passed
College Park and the army men
tioned there were at a loss
plain the strange aeroplane
The trip to Washington was made
in one hour and twenty minutes
Lieutenant Rogers arrived over
city when the streets Were
with shoppers and government
clerks, just released from thelr
fices All traffic was stopped as the
aviator salled overhead He circled
the downtown section of the city sev-
been called
then sped
over
gta
10 ex-
and
the
crowded
of-
descent known as the spiral dip. The
crowd the streets held its breath
and at the exhibition
Finally the sky pilot came down to
about 500 feet above the ground and
then he circled the Washington
Monument, flew out over Pennsyl-
vania avenue and then back t
Mall, where he alighted
The flight was the first ever made
from the new school of aviation
this city, and in fact it is first
flight ever made by a naval offi
amount to anything
in
wondered
0 the
to
the
— -
FREE NEWSPAPERS A FAILURE.
Free Press and Pointer Cause Pub-
lishers Heavy Loss
Oklahoma CC The Oklahoma
City Free Press and the Pointer have
sold to C. B. Edgar.
f the Times The sale
end an unsuccessful
newspaper, which has been go-
ing on in the city for the past three
years
The free papers which h
given away every day by t
sands, it is said, have proven a heavy
financial loss to the publishers
The Pointer and the Free Press as
morning and evening papers,
spectively, started the free newspa-
per idea in the Southwest, and it is
said that their venture proved .a big
until the latter part of last
when the Oklahoman inaugu-
a free edition and then began
ity
been publisher
O the
marks
of test of the
free
ave been
¥
!
1¢ thou-
re-
year,
From that
Soldiers Plagued by Rats
Leavenworth, Kan.-—Plagued
hordes of rats that daily grow holder,
invading the very bunks of the sol-
has reached its wits ends.
vation a year ago by Gen. Frederick
Funston, following an outbreak of
alleged rabies, and since then the rat
population has steadily increased.
Efforts to have the banishment order
rescinded have failed.
Two Tail for Army
Louisville, Ky. — Dempsey G.
inches tall, and physically perfect,
has been denied admission to the
Usiited States Army. The local re-
cruiting office sought permission
from the War Department to enlist
Wren, but the department refused
because his height would prevent
symmetry of ranks.
Lays Two Eggs Daily.
Athol, Mase.-Townspeople chal-
lenged the statement of Albert Ells-
worth, a prominent citizen, that Mary
Hooker, his prize buft Orpington, laid
two eggs every day. To prove it
Ellsworth appeared at the Athol Pair
and placed the hen on some straw at
the feet of the judges. She laid two
eggs, one of them double-yolked,
chirped a triumphant cackle and dis-
dainfully strode away. Hundreds of
visitors to the city applauded the
Orpington’s vindication of her owner.
CALLING
'EM IN
Copyright, 4910)
MILLIONAIRES |
AS SMUGGLERS:
‘Sequel to Jenkins-Allen Jewe!
Case.
INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY
Companions of Mrs. Helen D. Jenkins
Accused of Concenling Valuable
Gems on Returning From a
Motor Tour in Europe
New The
has
Jenkins-Al
York
jewel « which been before th
I)
that
ane,
’
public Helen
yunced last spring
of valuable
the Hotel
10 a
robbed
ing
City,
gems while
at Lorraine, this
came head
United States Attorney
public two indictments
Federal grand jury on Au
gust 23 against Nathan Allen, a
wealthy leather manufacturer, of
Kenosha, Wis., and John R. Collins
president of the Southe
pany, of Memphis,
ments charge both men
gling and with conspiracy with
‘divers other persons’ t
Un States
June 180%, Mrs
ompanied by Allen and (
here from Eu
The
Europe in
Wednesday
Wise
fost s
WOuUnG
when
made
by the
.
rn Coal
The
with
Com-
Tenn indict-
EINUE-
0 defraud the
ited
On
Gr
£5,
Jenkins,
ROL ollins and
a maid, arrived gland
on i
party, which
Mrs
it Was said,
The ugh Lo
has been
the Lusitania
touring
Jenkins’ motor car,
brought 16 trunks
definite Information
ed
had been
obtain
on the point, it has been generally
that or at
part duty, bad been paid on the
of the trunks which
abroad or on certain art
which the indict
found month Allen
Collins with concealing on their
understood no duty, least
only
contents were
icles
ments
bought
of jewelry
last charge and
per-
sons when they reached New York
the indi against
charges that on June 25, 1509,
leather manufacturer "'d
Specifically ctment
Allen
¥
the know
3
y
A
d
wilfully, tly and un-
fraudulent
import”
valued
ingly,
lawfully
necklace,
bracelet in the
valued at $1.500
of these jewels are
ively, $16,000 and
indictment says Allen
necklace and bracelet
and told Acting
Joseph Sulzbach that he had nothing
that was dutiable
OnLie
at $10,
design «
The value
placed, respect-
$2,280 The
the
on his person
Deputy
pearl
and a
a snake,
home
iarge
GO0
’
3
at
concealed
Surveyor
Cynami'e Midden in Navy Yard.
Begton Discovery of three sticks
{of dynamite in a great floating crane
tin the lower end of the United States
officials there to start an investiga- |
ition with Secret Service men. The |
idynamite, enough to have blown the
"heavy crane to tiny bits and wrecked
the whole lower part of the yard.
probably killing several hundred
| workmen, was found, it is said, with-
iin five feet of where laborers were
swinging great sledge hammers.
Poisoned by Mushrooms.
New York. Polsonous mushrooms
caused another death here, making
a total of 10 victims since the first of |
the month. The recent heavy rains!
brought out an immense crop of
mushrooms, both edible and poison-
ous, and both kinds have been sold
extensively by vendors in the Italian |
quarter. Mrs. Marietta Casico, the
latest victim, ate the poisonous vari
ety purchased from a pusheart. Her
husband, who shared the dish, is not
expected to live,
———“— AN
“Human Kissing Bug.”
Trenton, N. J—Charles Tulley, a
youth who recently served 10 days in
jall for causing excitement in a de-
partment store by rushing ih and
kissing and hugging at least a dogen
girls, has been arrested again for
playing a return engagement on the
Delaware and Raritan Canal bank
here. Several women complained to
the police about him. This time Tul-
ley as the "Human Kissing Bug,"
probably will pass some time behind
the bars.
TAFTS TRIP ARRANGED
Covers 13,000 Miles and Takes Him
Through 24 States--Stops
at 100 Cities.
The route along
Taft will
miles was
the
States,
Beverly, Mass
iich President
for 13,060
¥ 3 4
wi thread his
definitely
led
le
WAY
and
24
100 cities are
Tuesday penci
line runs through wh
more redotted to
tarifi,
atch
than
pauses
reciprocity,
Alaska
The President's trip will start from
* South Station, in Be
15 and finish at W
to
show for speeches on
arbitration, consery
and
wien, on S¢ p
gehinglon
Dear 1ne«
States
Taft will head straight
HIChiIgan, stopping only a day or two
in New York and Pennsylvania. F
chigan route
noise and through
Nebraska,
Washington,
South
the leads into
th Missours,
en
ALBAS Colorado,
1 we a
lowa
Wyoming, Utah,
Idaho,
Oregon, California, Montana,
Dakota, Minnesota,
finally to Ct
ington
no Stops
Wisconsin and
Pittsburgh and
he
HICAEO,
in
Was?
make
The
KR
1
i
five Slates will
longest jum on the
trip Is
to Balt
Pp
Log Angeles
President will
20 or 30 nw
- or J miles
rd either
« miles, from
lL.ake ( while the
5
seldom more than
RO
EIGPDInE LO say
i or
without a wi
at some from the rear
i
is car
ENVOY WEDS BY PROXY
Dr.
platform of
Forros in Washington, Bride In
Costa Rice--Groom Coule
Not Get Home.
Bel
ninister from Panama to
Washington Dir Por.
Ww ”
a
BATIO
TAs,
81
fo: of row
IBtON, Was married in Ban Jose,
week dr. Porras
he
Washingi« n
was taken bj
responded iz
the n lage
ring oa the bride's
afterward signed the na
of in the marriage regis-
ter in other words, the
medieval ceremony of a “'n
proxy’ was observed Ser
will in Washington next
her husband, and
ence to modern thought there =
another marriage ceremony in
city The second ceremony, how-
ever, ig unnecessary, because the mar-
riage ceremony performed in San
Jose ig wholly legal and is recognized
as legal and binding by both the state
and the church
Costa Rica, last
Was not present at t ceremony, be-
ing now in His place
at the altar usted
a ir
’ i %
irienc. wiht
the questions in
mony,
his name to
re
cere.
ced the
pia
finger and
f Dir. Porras
me
almost
arriage by
ora Porras
be October
to in defer
i be
this
meet
THIRTY. TWO WERE DROWNED
the Chilian
Tucape! Near Quilca.
Lima, Peru -—A telegram received |
bere from the purser of the Chilian |
steamer Tucapel, which was wrecked
near Quilca, says that the total num- |
ber of persons drowned was 32.
Ninety others were saved.
Those who lost their lives were the
of Steamer
second officers, 20 members of the
i
The Tucapel during a heavy fog!
rocks 20 miles north of Quilca, which
lies several hundred miles south of
Lima.
Paul Geide! Gets Twenty Years.
New York. —Paul Geidel, the bell-
Crain in General Sessions Court to
serve not less than 20 years in
State's Prison.
Arrested Under New Law.
New York. --Alleged possession of
@ pistol, manifested by the accidental
shooting of a friend, landed William
Ruhl, of East Orange, N. J, in a
cell under the first arrest of its kind
in this city, on a charge of violating
the new law, making unlawful the
ownership of such a firearm with.
out a permit. Louls Merz, the
wounded man, is not badly hurt. The
accident occurred in a Wall street
broker's office, where the pistol is
gaid to have lain long in a desk
drawer.
HI
REE
BY PERSEVERANCE
Burgess Finally Swims the
English Channel.
BATTLE WITH THE TIDE
It Was His Sixteenth Attempt and He
Wen Out Oniy After 8 Desperate
Eftor.-- Was Twenty-two
Hours in the Water.
Deal, England After a lapse of
36 years Capt. Matthew Webb's feat
T
by birth
| uaturalized Frenchman
jurgess’ sixteenth attempt,
egsayed the task in
jurgess started from
Dover, at 11.15
morning He
uatelet, little
Burgess,
and a
It was
he having
1504
South Fore-
o'clock Tues
landed at Le
a village two miles
ieast of Cape Gris Nez, at 9.50 o'clock
Wednesday morning,
the 22 hours and 35 min-
utes A motor boat accompanied the
Ewimmer, and it is estimated that
Burgess, owing to the zig-zag course
he take
the covered
SO0n
man
[day
accomplishing
passage in
was compelled
baffling
after the start a
down
to because of
60 miles
dense fog set-
and no
further tidings of his Progress were
received until
mde that he had successfully accom-
plished task and the
tides,
tied over the channel,
the announcement was
the A
the landed on
rrench side
throughout the trip B
sea, but
i Be
UTrEeER Was
NE
train
past
fie Was
fous 3 . -
iavoreq by A calm a Biro
Vere
10 Eel
One of the Cangers of Long Distance
Target Practice-- Lost
Target
A
naval men has bees
Washington
for
experts
lesson
drawn by the
report ti the
Delaware, through m
valu
from the
ught
fired
iat
dreadno in-
take, at the repair ship Panther
instead of t baitleship San
in the ordnance
in Chesapeake Bay a days
The fact that the Delaware
target and pointed its gun at
sel anch 1.5 yards
Marcos demonstrates, it
he oid
we
MArcos, @ experiments
RED
its
few
lost
R&R Ves-
from the
is claim-
dius © jeql
Upon any
enemy at
any f
ored O40
San
eq 100 ia
= § £5
81iieq ug ‘po
par-
the
uture
16.004
center its fire
ticular vessel of
¥
at
be
the
which
waged
carefully
Ereat range
will BAY
yards However a
mander may draw his plans they may
go awry if endeavors match
ehip to ship of the opposing forces
Whenever an enemy's fleet appears
horizon, some experts con-
warships must
upon any and all of them
The reported mistake of the Dela-
ware has served to increase the ap-
prehension which invariably pervades
the Navy Department during target
period--that some serious
mishap may mar the exercises. While
there have been many narrow escapes
in the past, there has never been an
accident to a naval or merchant ves-
through lack of precaution or
misdirected fire The Atlantic fleet
is now off the Chesapeake Capes de-
molishing targets Extraordinary
care is being taken to see that mer.
chant steamers are kept out of range
TRUSTS WILL OWN THEM
com-
he
to
upon the
tent, the open fire
practice
sel
Co-operate snd Conserve
Their Efforts.
Shawnee, OK.—That the farmers
opening of the National Farmers’
Union meeting here,
Brooks said that the farmers must
immediately change their business
methods and assist one another, or
they will soon be the playthings of
“the interests.” Brooks pointed out
that the farmers are losing a billion
dollars annually in the value of their
holdings, while the trusts on the
other hand are gaining a like sum.
United States Senator T. P. Gore,
who followed Brooks, took up the
cudgel for co-operation, and his
speech was confined mostly to ampii-
fying the statements of Brooks.
Dashed Down 1400 Feet.
Butte, Mont Caught in a vortex
of whirling steel drills while being
hoisted to the surface In a mine cage,
five miners met a shocking death in
the shaft of the Black Rock mine of
the Butte-Superior Company. A
sixth miner, James Lee, died a fow
hours later in the hospital from his
injuries. In their anxiety to reach
the surface the workmen jumped on
a cage upon which dull steel was be-
ing taken to the surface.
HENRY C. BEATTIE
FOUND GUILTY
Verdict of Murder Returned
Against Wife-Slayer.
To DIE IN CHAIR NOV. 24
The Defense Will Fig Petition For
Weit Of Error To Supremes Court
Of Appeais-- Receives Ver.
dict Unmoved.
Chesterfield Courthouse Va.
Twelve Virginia farmers kneit at
dusk Friday night in the obscurity of
tthe small jury-room of Chesterfield
Courthouse, praying fervently that
they might pass judgment aright on
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for
Grimly de-
a moment later
a
the murder of his wife
| termined ATOR
and
(DANIMOUs
they
one by one, recorded
guilty.’
contemplation
gilently,
verdict of
Pausing in solemn
bE weighing carefully
decision and
bended knees beseech-
might
for minutes,
the
ti of their
Meaning
once more on
ing Divine assistance that they
not err, filed hushed
stillness of a crowded and
with startling suddenness 12 voices
instead of tne usual one of the fore-
man, spoke the singie .
It was almost a shout
The spectre of death, which
Midlothian turnpike «
¥ 4 ’ M
the iile Ol TE
they into the
courtroom
word “"gullly
»
ed
I&[L, wnen
Beattie was taken away
ngle
hard at the
Owens
report of a shotgun
the s
To Court of Appeals.
The Co of Appeals, to be
asked to grant
trial Young Beattie,
spt
iT
will be a writ of error
and a
cognizant
his disposal, did not sur: :
gtead d his broken-down
father, and wrin
as he
father
been the
Lew
of the legal WEeRADONE vel
Tre “1
he CONsoie
white-haired
and comforted him whispereg
‘I haven't lost yet,
Unusual as has
and the gruesome slage
19 furvmen
is JUurymen
tragedy
where
did
ii
a
it oc-
hesi-
that
curred, the not
tate friends
they stood in judgment not only over
his
to admit to their
the cold-blooded
fd
ua
murder but upon
marital as well
It perhaps was the dramatic climax
of Virginia justice the last
half ury has sent to
death such famous murderers
| Cluverius, Phillips and MeCu«
At the close of a powerful address
tv 1. OO. WN denburg
i Ven
assistant of the C«
infidelity
which Ir
cent swiftly
ae
the voluntary
case, the suspense was
but
of people
in the courtroom
where thousands
the outcome
BOY TRIES TO ROB BANK
Cashier's Shots Save Cash of Laurel,
Md.) Institution.
Md John R
years old, of Fincastle, Va., made
boid Friday morning
the National Bank
Laurel
The attempt failed and the would-
be bandit was captured hiding in the
town about an hour and a half later
When first arrested he gave the name
of Henry Jackson and said he was
from Arizona He was committed to
the Marlboro jail by Justice George
P. McCeney to await the action of the
jury at the next term of the Prince
George's County Court
That Morgan did not succeed in
getting the bank's cash was not due
to any lack of nerve, but rather to
the crudeness of his methods. Those
were only worthy a boy of his years
In many respects the attempt to
17
4
Morgan,
Laurel,
attempt to rob
Citizens’ of
broad daylight reads like the thrill
ing narrative to be found between
yellow-
Morgan had been seen loitering
near the bank before ite doors open
He had on a long linen duster,
such as is used by automobilists, and
He stood on a corner
apparently reading a paper, with a
bundle wrapped in newspapers under
his arm. No one heeded him as he
seemed harmless.
ys
Still Has Money To Give
Chicago. —Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the
aged philanthropist, who a month
ago, it was announced, had given
away his entire fortune, “dug up”
another $50,000 Friday. He gent a
check for that amount to the Chicago
City Missionary Society. Diring the
last seven years he has given $150,
000 to the society.
Gems Stolen In Dining Car
Cleveland — Lake Shore and Michi.
gan Bouthern Railroad detectives re-
ported that a woman giving her name
as Mrs. A. A. McCormick, of Chicago,
was robbed of a handbag containing
$2,200 worth of jewels in the dining
oar of a Lake Bhore and Michigan
Southern passenger train somewhere
between Toledo and Cleveland. De
tectives are looking for a young man
who sat opposite Mrs. McCormick
and engaged her in conversation.