The Centre Reporter
CENTRE HALL PA
ALLAYING A SCARE.
It takes precious little, sometimes.
to start a serious “scare.” The merest
irresponsible rumor may result in a
run on & bank, and a hint of fire
may precipitate a disastrous panic
in fact, It might be difficult to dis
prove a statement, if made, that we
mortals thoroughly enjoy being
which this end mar be accomplished.
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Manchester Union The treasury de
bundreds of inquiries from all sec
tions of the country, on the strength
with
bas occasioned banks and business
wen much inconvenience. As a mat
ter of fact, there are 30,000,000 nick:
els of 1910 in circulation, and, so far
a8 the treasury department knows, all
are genuine. Some of them were dis
colored In the minting, by fumes of
sulphuric acid, which gives them an
unusual appearance. This fact may
the “counterfeit” report, which is ft
self bogus. The nickels are good for
five cents each, and there is no oe
casion for shying at them.
His incorrigible activity in various
parts of the globe has given the war
god much to answer for during the
last few months; but with gods as
with men it can perhaps be said that
there is some good in the worst of
the species. In bekaif of Mars, for
example, It may not be amiss to put
forth the extenuating circumstance
that his restlessness has at least
added mightily to the geographical
erudition of mortal men, says the Bos
ton Herald Take Agadir, for In
stance. Every one knows where it Is
pow. But three months ago only a
daring intellect would have vouched
for its location on the Atlantic rather
than upon the Mediterranean. Amoy,
likewise, has been located for us, far
to the south of Shanghai, where in
our ignorance we least expected to
find it. By the same token, we have
been Introduced to millions of our
liberty-loving friends in the provinces
of Hunan, Hupeh and Hu-knows where
else
Increasing frequency of deaths by
poison compels the conclugion that it
would be better for the community if
deadly drugs were less easily ob
tained. Nearly every day's news car
ries its story of murder or suicide by
poison. In many cases the crimes are
made possible by the sale of drugs
that under no circumstances should
be sold indiscriminately. - Evidence ia
that the criminals purchased the
death potion with the same ease and
lack of restriction that would attend
the sale of a bar of soap, saye the
Chicago Journal More rigid regula
tion of the sale of deadly poisons
but It certainly would make them
more difficult. At the least legis
latures would do well to prohibit the
sale of sudden death In the shape of
cyanide of potassium, and other
similar drugs, except to physicians and
those who are known to have a legitl
tate use for them.
sane diplomacy
call the histrionics
#& year ago, the hysterical demand for
a tariff war with Germany, the Im
passioned denunciation of Germany
a final settlement,
factory to all concevned,
cablegram from Berlin.
feal Association warns against the
use of thyroid as an obesity cure. It
is dangerous because it reduces pro
tein as well as fat, and has been
known to bring on serlous {liness
Most cases of undue weight are due
to overeating, or lack of sufficient ex:
ercise, or both. The safest treatment
for obesity 1s abstefiiousness combin-
ed with exercise—not ton violent, for
that might injure the heart.
Glad tidings from Washington. The
bureau of engraving and printing will
put on an extra force of workmen in
“small bills We (lke the small bills
‘because they are so democratic.
A wireless message lias beaten all
records by going a distance of 4.000
miles. Modern magie has gained |
MUCH SHIFTING
IN NATIONALITY
Our Alien Population is Grow-
ing Fast.
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FEWER FROM NORTH EUROPE
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in Southern
Europe and Russia On In.
crease—Preliminary Re-
port Issued.
Washington.—A preliminary stage
ment giving the distribution of the
foreign-born white population of Con-
tinental United States according to
country of birth, as shown by the re
turng of the census of 1910,
been issued by Director Durand.
The statement covers only the prin.
eral,
of 1810 upward of 100,000 persons were
reported—and the figures for 1910 are
given in round numbers, being subject
to possible revision as the
tabulations. All the statistics
relate to white persons only,
From 1821 to 1870 natives of Ger
many, Great Britain, Ireland, Scandi-
ed substantially ninetenths of all the |
immigrants to this country, but since
ber has steadily declined.
1880 to three-fourths for 1551-18%0,
about two-fifths for 1881-1808, and
only a little more than one-fifth
1801-1810
Immigrants from
Italy and Russia, on the other hand,
constituted less than 1 per cent. of all
the immigrants from 1821 to 1876, but
thereafter their proportion has stead
fly increased-—from about onesix-
teenth for 1871-1880 to one-sixth for
1581-1880, one-half for 1881-1900, and
very nearly two-thirds for 1801.1810
At the census of 1510 out of an ap-
proximate total for Continental Unit-
ed States of 13.342.500 foreign-born
whites, the persons born in Germany
numbered 2.480.200 and constituted
18.7 per cent, as compared with 2.
813.413 in 1500, or 27.5 per cent. of
the total at that census. This is a
loss in the number of natives of Ger
many during the decade of 314.213, or
11.2 per cent.
At the census of 1910 there were re
ported 1.351.400 persons born in Ire
land, constituting 10.1 per cent. of the
entire foreign-born white population,
232 persons so
born, or 15.8 per cent. of the total, a
the preceding census, a loss from 1800
to 1910 of 263.832, or 16.3 per cent
During the decade 1500-1510 there
Was an increase in the number of na
tives of Great Britain from 1,166,862 to
1.221.400, or 4.7 per cent; an increase
in the number of natives of Canada
and Newfoundland from 1,172,746 to
1,198,000 or 2.2 per cent, and an in
crease in the number of natives of
Norway, Sweden and Denmark from
1,062,124 to 1,250,500, or 17.7 per cent
Natives of each of these groups of
countries, as well as of Germany and
Ireland, constituted a considerably less
total foreign-born
white population in 1910 than in 1500
of the
per cent.
together were 58.4 per cent.
total in 19810, as against 76.6
in 1806.
BONUS to STEEL TRUST MEN,
A Fund Of $1,450,000 Distributed
Among Employes.
New York.—The United States Steel
tribution to employes under its bonus
years. The amount
this year is $1,450,000.
The corporation also will offer to
basis of the plan which has been in
the
the basis of 70 for the common and
114 for the preferred stock.
CREW LASHED TO RIGGING.
Men Are Saved.
Block Island, R. 1.-—The four-masted
schooner Mary Adelaide Randall, of
Port Jefferson, N. Y., coalladen, was
hurled upon the ledges west of Block
Island by a terrific northwesterly gale,
and four hours and a half later her
crew of 10 men was rescued by the
Block Island life-saving crew.
The rescue was spectacular, and
was accomplished only after the life
savers had tried repeatedly to reach
the stranded craft. The Randall
was bound from Norfolk, Va, for New
London, Conn.
Union Depot, $40,000,000,
Cineinnatl, Ohio, ~~ An ordinance
granting a franchise to the Cincinnati
Uniot Depot and Terminal Company
to erect a new central railway depot
here to cost $40,000,000, was passed by
the city counell. The new depot 5
give the nine railroad and int
terminus. It is expected that work
4nd that the entire yrofect
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‘Diplomats Urge Their Claim to
Concession,
SLOW ACTING OF COURTS
Quandary In Which the Government
Finds Itself On Account Of its
Arrangement With Canada
Not Easily Disposed.
Washington. — American and
print paper manufacturers bring-
ing pressure to bear upon President
Taft to induce him to refuse to yield
the demand of certgin European
governments for the free admission of
their pulp and print paper on terms of
equality i the Canadian product
The disposition of the administration
has been to let this matter be deter
mined by the courts but this in.
voives long delay the diplomatic pro-
testants are by no means satisfied and
are adopting measures to show their
resentiggent
Cowl’ Von Bernstorff, the German
Ambassador, has informed the State
Department that Germany would not
accord to American exporters the re
duced duties om tool steel and hard
rubber accorded to Swedish and
Japanese exporters under their special
treaties because America did not admit
German pulp and print paper
free of duty
The Ambassador was re
the German exporters
fer by the delay {if
just, because they had paid the duties
into American Treasury under
protest, which gives them the right to
recover in case the Court of Customs
Appeals she ide in their favor,
as ls expected
It was thought at first that this ex
planation ufficient, but it now
appears Ambassador's statement
is virtually a renewed protest against
the failure of the administration to ad-
pulp
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Secrets Of the Barons Revealed By
Attorney For Swift & Co. Called
At Trial in Chicago—FPlans To
Control Beef Industry.
Detal is of the plan for a
merger of the Armour,
by
Chicago
$500,000 000
country, were revealed Tuesday
in the trial of the 10 Chicago packers
before United States District Judge
A. Carpenter.
The contract, which was dated May
31, 1502, was read to the jury and of-
fered in evidenco by counsel for the
government. The original agreement
rt by Albert H
Veeder, attorney for Swift & Co., who
was called by the government ss its
first witness,
Attorney
plans for the merger were abandon
and that in March, 1803,
Packing Co. was organized to operate
certain packing com
panies purchased with a view of In
cluding them in the big company. Un
der the terms of the agreement, the
three large packing corporations and
their subsidiary companies, together
with recently acquired independent
companies, were (0 be merged Into one
concern. Armour, Swift and Morris
were to receive bonds and preferred
stock of the new company in payment
for the value of their tangible prop
erty in addition to this the promot
ers were to receive $25.060.000 worth
of the new company’s stock for in
tangible property and a large block of
common stock for their good wi i, thie
amount to be fixed by the earn
the different plants during the
year of the new merger
Packers Not in Secret.
The promoters planned to borrow
$50,000,000 to finance the corporation
The appraised valuation of Armour,
Swift, Morris and
companies was given at $180,000,000
Each of the three promoters deposit
in cou
the
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National
Yecder testified that
the
independent
iE Of
first
of judicially
In view the peculiar conditions
under which Canadian pulp and paper
got upon the free list, In spite of the
failure of the reciprocity measure,
some consideration is being given to
the propriety of leaving to Congress
the adjustment of the
difficuliles that have arisen
A NEW BEAR STORY.
of
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With His Fists.
Boulder, Colo.
they
hee
an evidence of good faith, but
were compelled to drop the plan
cause of the failure of certain
York capitalists to furnish the funds
needed
Previous to the calling of Veeder to
prior to 1205 on the ground that the
ers when they were indicted seven
years ago should apply to that period.
A WORD costs HER RICHES.
Syracuse, N. Y.,
Smith claims to have
a pair of brass knuckles and swung
on the bear's jaw, knocking him out.
Then he said he beat the bear about
the head and spine until he was dead.
A OAR AALS
RAID POSTOFFICE SAFE.
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Robbers Then Steal Team To Make
Escape.
Newcastle, Pa. Robbers drnamited
the safe in the New Wilmington, Pa.
postoffice, near here, and got away
with $400 in money and stamps. Af
ter robbing the postoffice they stole a
team of horses from a farmer and
made thelr escape. Later the horses
were found grazing by the roadside.
Countess Kidnapped,
the Countess Cahen unoonecious in a
ditch in the woods near Allerton. She
was carried into a nearby house and
when she recovered she related how
she had been kid by & brigand
with the object blackmail, The
Word “Sisters” In His Will,
Cincinnati. - Mrs.
niece of former
share in his $1,600,000 estate, accord.
ing to a decision by Common
Her share was lost to her because
The document provided that
property was to be distributed
among the heirs of brothers, nephews
and nieces,
A Republic Or War.
San Francisco~~The Chinese S8ix
Companies, which is engaged in rais
ing a two-miilion dollar loan for the
Chinese revolutionary government,
sent a cablegram to Wu Ting Fang at
Shanghal asking him to resume hostili-
tiem rather than vield to Yuan Shi
Kai's demands for a limited monarchy.
All Chinese in America, If states, are
firm for a republic. A similar message
wag sent to Tang Shao Yi who repre
sents Premier Yuan at the conference,
asking him also to use his influence in
behalf of a republic.
Maine's Fighting Mast.
Pittsburgh, Pa-~The City Counef)
adopted a resolution asking the Sec:
retary of the Navy to send the fight.
ing mast of the battleship Maine,
in Havana harbor, to Pittsburgh to
form a part of a monument to the late
BL the time of the kidnapping, was
RUSSIA'S TRADE
WAR IN AMERICA
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Prohibitive Tariff Bill in the
Duma.
creased One Hundred Per Cent
Is Aimed At American Agri
cultural Machinery.
St. betersburg A supplementary
legislature proposal of a frankly prohib
itive character was introduced by the
Nationalists into the Duma. It is aim
According to the terms of the pro
the Jewish religion are to be
i
ond place customs duties to be
raised by 100 per cent,
Russian normal schedule ig lower than
the American. In that case a duty
equalling the American duty will be
collected.
The author of the
the last provision is necessary in or
der to deal with the import of Ameri
can agricultural machinery.
Ths remaining points
posed bill correspond in virtually
every particular with the bill intro
duced on December 22 by ex-President
Guchkoff for tariff schedules applic
able to the United Btates at the ex-
piration of the Russo-American com
merce and navigation treaty of 1832
are
the
of
Washington indicating
the extent
the action
abrogating
troduction
Except as
of Russian
of the United States
the treaty of 1832 the
the Duma of the
American ex
with Russia la not regarded wit
concern in o
if the
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the
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in-
bill
trade
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in
ailacking the port
ficial circles here. Ev
should be
would require
measure
Duma it the ap
the Emperor himself to become law
in that case it could not
befolle January 1, 1913, because of
continuance until that date
present treaty, with its
clause
not be
September
a new treaty will
seriously before In the
will have been held and the great
American quadrennial political con-
ventions will have passed into history
Removed from all likelihood of polita-
cal Influence in either country, it is
felt that the negotiations then can be
conducted in a calm and judicial man
ner
WiLL PROVE J A TEST.
the Reyes Case.
Washington.—The
accorded Gen.
that be has surrendered,
to prove a conclusive test of
stability of the Madero government
punishment prescribed for rebellion is
death, but State Department officials
here are inclined to believe that such
& sentence will not be imposed,
It is believed the military commis
sion which will try General Reyes will
will
Presi
the only
Madero himself is
believed, will
degree of confidence he feels in his |
GUARDING AGAINST TYPHOID.
Marine Corps.
Washington.-~Ag a supplementary
| the Navy and Marine Corps, the com-
and enlistad men of
of the service under 45 years of age
has been ordered by Secretary of the
Navy Meyer. Al recruits will be |
subjected to the treatment, and all
those applying for reenlistment also |
will take the treatment if they have
not undergone it within two years
previously or had a case of the fever.
in case of doubt the order provides
that it shall be administered.
OB ENS
Two Dead Under Slide Of Clay,
New York.—Two men, Thomas Wil
fiams and Herbert Cole, a negro, were
caught today in a slide of ¢lay and
sand in the Fourth avenue subway
now being excavated in Brooklyn, and
crushed to death. The slide was 80
feet below the surface of ihe street.
ot
Firemen Fight Snakes.
HOLIDAY MEAL
BROUGHT DEATH
Thirty-Six Inmates of Berlin
Shelter Poisoned.
40 OTHERS SERIOUSLY ILL
Officials Startled By Groans From the
Dormitories During the Night—
The Shelter Housed Thou
sands Of inmates.
of tba
for the
lerlin— Eighteen inmates
Berlin Municipal Shelter
Homeless died during the night from
poisoning, and 18 more died during
the day, bringing the total number of
deaths up to 36. Not less than 10
others are seriously ill from the same
cause,
i The number of
| took refuge in the institution
| day night was 4.414. Bome
brought with them scraps extra
food in order to give a Christmas
{ touch to the frugal meal of bread and
| Boup served out to them by the aw
| thorities. This extra delicacy consist
ed In many cases of spoiled smoked
' herring, of which a large number par
| took. Bhortly after midnight groans
were heard coming from the dormi-
tories, of which there are about 486,
| and the officials on making an investi
| gation found several men dying and
| others in convulsions
The physicians attached in-
stitution at once administered emetics
i and telephoned for help from the city
hospitals, but gtate of many of
the men was hopeless, and 18 of them
died in a short time.
The cause of
announced, but
that
men who
Wednes
of them
destitute
4
4
to the
the
has not yet been
orities are
fish are re
The part completed
substant! this
to have par
such
death
auth
rid
the
confident the put
sponsible iy
autopsies appear to gle
All those
taken of the oes
known
are dead or in
#8 to be unable throw
e subject. It is eved,
of the victims found
A Tear-
ARINCLE
{ view
condition to
ight on bell
{ however,
fish in the garbage pile of
market and divided them
| his comrades
&
th
that one
the
1 by
4
al Night Shelter of Ber
tion which provides
a meal
is forced
The municip
lin Is an inst
sleeping acco
to any destity
AION Bang
te person who
to take refuge there at night in the
course of the last 12 months it has
given shelter to over 1,000,000 persons
who were entirely without means of
{ subsistence. In the winter months
| the number of inmates amount nightly
| to between 4,000 and 5000 men, be
sides a large number of women, and
| the cost of providing for them is met
by an appropriation out of the city
| funds.
PREFERS THE HELMET.
General Futision. Says it is Better
Than the Campaign Hat
Washington. —Head covering has a
good deal to do with making a sol
dier, in the opinion of Brigadier Gen
{eral Funston. Based on his experi
ence as commander of the Department
of Luzon, he strongly favors the hel
met as against the campaign bat
pointing to the fact that British sol
(diers, who have had much experience
lin the tropics, still stick to the helmet
{and can drill and fight without knock.
ing it off. American soldiers, General
| Funston remarks, use the campaign
thats as pillows foo often, and conse
| quently press an untidy appearance,
DOGS BETTER BRED.
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West Virginian's Opinion Of Neighbor
Who Kills Them.
Elkins, W. Va—John T. Davis in
| sorted an advertisement in a local pa
iper to let some of his fellow-towns-
i men know what he thinks of them.
{ This is the advertisement: “1 here
{ by offer $500 reward for the arrest and
{ conviction, or information leading to
ithe arrest and conviction, of the
| dastardly cur who is destroying bet
| ter-bred dogs than himself”
BEGGED TO BE HANGED.
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| But Court Imposes a Life Sentence
} On Wife Slayer.
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sentence death instead. He pleaded
guilty, and told the judge his sentence
should have been the heaviest impos
ed by law,
Honored By Emperor Of Germany.
Berlin--The Emperor has conferred
upon Her Von Kiderien- Waechter,
Secretary of Foreign affairs the brik
fiants and oak leaves of the Order of
the Red Eegle of the first class. The
secretary already possessed the order.
Two Men Shocked To Death,