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The Centre tre Reporter
CENTRE E HALL PA
INJURFD WORKMEN.
FOR
souri gets caught in & machine and
loses an arm, he may sue for dam.
ages, hiring a lawyer on a percentage
basis. In the course of years he may
get a verdict, says the Kansas City
f'ar. The money that finally comes
awarded.
clogged with personal Injury cases.
Harzfeld, president of the public util
{ties commission, points out,
jured workman {is at once paid a
definite sum out of a fund collected
by the state. He needs no lawyer.
He gets all there is coming to him
and he gets it without delay. That is
the result of the Washington work-
men's compensation act, which was
signed last March. Incidentally, it is
refreshing to note the opinlon of the
Vashington supreme court in sustain.
ing the act after the New York court
of appeals had held a somewhat sim-
flar law unconstitutional. The opin-
fon, written by Judge Fullerton, con-
sliders the New York decision and
says: “Notwithstanding the decision
comes from the highest court of the
first state in the Un’on and is sup
ported by most persuasive argu
ment, we have not beeg able to yleld
our the views there tak-
en.
the
consent to
Crusades for a natural flower
fade und depart as regu-
as sweetly as the flowers
the Wherefore we do not
take with great seriousness the
campaign said to have been started
to make the mountain laurel blos
som the official emblem of these
United States. But why, when we are
choosing a national flower, do we not
at least try to find one that has some
familiar connection witk our dally
life? The intain laurel campaign
reminds us of the grocer who came
downtown and aounced tha’ he had
named his Algernon. “Why.”
asked his old salesman, sadly, “why
don’t ye give the poor kid a name
can get work with?
Come,
larly
ErOow,
and
mselves
tco
mon
son
be
A disg
the charges
uf ted poet Is authority for
that if a Milton were liv
ing In Chirago today he would be a
mute, Inglori Magazine ed
tore, this claim . look on poets
as space fillers and not as soul-thrill-
ers, which, be ascribed
to the of
packing center on real poetry
JUS One
poet
perhaps. may
baneful influence a pork.
An English iinister
Philadelphi
ful business
This assertion
as entirely
ecturing In
NO 8UCCess
be honest
denounced
a declared that
man could
is properly
too sweeping, but our Brit
ish cousins are probably judging our
business conditions by what we have
teen saying about our trusts
New York !s worried over the case
of a woman who goes around propos
ing marriage to every man she meets
If she merely had some schetne where
by she could take his money from
every man she met New York would
pot consider her case remarkable
Although the oyster has been
of the typhoid indictment there seems
to be in some circles
whether prefers to
swallowed whole
freed
doubt as to
be chewed
ir
41
or
The traveling
Zbolish the ti
It would
ping by stopping
ly good way
men are trying to
ng evil in the hotels
that stop the tip
the tips is a perfect
seem to
Those Cincinnati girls who, as an
cents a
rprised If they are
proposals of matrimony
swains of an economical turn
experiment, lived
day not be
deluged wit}
from
on seven
need su
The Baroness Molen of Berlin bas
riarted a big.f society Any
more statements that Berlin is the
Chicago of Europe will be regarded as
invidious
foot”
A St. Paul clergyman declares that
8 preacher needs legs, fungs and
Fver. He might bave included bread,
bralus and beefstenk.
The Minneapoils robber who threw
8 ninety-yearold woman downstairs
vwopld make as effective a stone
pounder as a state prison could wish.
Women's umbrellas must match
their costumes 1s the fashion edict
from London. Hut what use is a hob
t ed umbrella?
A woman received $11,000 damages
for injuries incurred while seasick
fome afe willing to die without even
thinking of damages
I'ne Denver dog catcher sAys he's
teen Dittén 2,000 times. That's a vec
ord he's weve to hold
a
WARSHIPS SUNK
IN HOT BATTLE
the Italians.
Turkish Seamen As Their Vessels
Go Down, But a Large Num.
ber Perish,
Rome. The first important
battle In the Turko-Italian
curred in the Red 8
naval
Sea on January 7,
squadron sank seven Turkish gun-
boats after a sharp conflict. A large
number of Turkish seamen went dewn
with their ships, but others
rescued by boats from the Italian war.
ships. A Turkish yacht was captured
and is being brought to Italy. The
fight was just outside Bay of
Kunfida, a small-sized with
garrison and two about
miles north of Aden.
The Turks were
Italians to
the
town
forts ,
a
believed by
preparing COnvoy a
military expedition which was to cross
Egypt and
Tripoli
During the combat the Turkish gun-
ners displayed utter incompetence,
their small guns being fired wildly
The shells from the
were not directed at
yacht Fauvette, which
the gunboats, and she
unit of Turkish flotilla which was
not destroyed during the fight
The Italian warships which
principal part in the le
cruiser Plemonte the
Garibaldino and
mander-{in-chief
destroy or capt
boats.
AS soon as the Its
noute, and Artigliere en-
countered the Turkish gunboats, a
short distance out of the Bay of Kun.
fida, they ir bows
and cal on them to surrender
Turkish
pil
opened
hail
The Turkis
but did not
Italis n vessels
Al f the Turkish
re
on on fire and
be to
Join the Turkish forces in
Italian ships
Turkish
accompanied
was the only
the
2.
tne
took the
batt were the
and destroyers
Artigliere. The ¢
had received orders to
the Turkish gun
SOI
om
ire
lian warships Ple-
Garibald
gent shots across the
2
led
The
vessels gave no sign of com
and the Italians
terrific fire,
from their
h gunners repl
succeed in striking
immediately
ing in
broadsides
ied feebly,
the
ance
a throw a
of shells
boats
inafew nn
Seven « were
BOC inutes be.
Ean fo rink
Boats
warships which picked
ish seamen, but &
drowned
Turks y posses
of the war 24 gu
Siaages, ranging from
splacement and
guns, ranging down
Krupp guns to 1p
carried machine g
were lowered from the Italian
up many Turk
large nu were
sed nning
boat va
185
at
rious
tons
armed with small
1-inch
all
peed
ranges from 19 to
ANOTHER VERSION OF IT.
The Turkish Flotilla Said To Hava
Been Disarmed.
The Tarkish
Italian warsh
at 8
London vessels de
stroyed by
which
weeks ago,
ips were those
took refuge several
ng to a di
from Rome
Italy
Egyptian
vessels,
107
accord] apateh to
An
dispa
authorities dis
Turkish
obtained
While departing
ertaken by the
a re
tech
Rf News agency
suit
adds,
armed
con
permission
the flotilla
Italian
of protests by the
the
the
mander
in
and the
subsequentls
to leave
was
warships
and sunk
New Postage Bill
Washington, Representative
Follette, of Washington,
La
has introduc.
ed a bill providing for postage of one
cent per ounce or fraction thereof on
first-class mail matter
Taft Gets
Washington confirmat
of the lobert
American Ambassador at Paris, reach.
ed the White House Friday when
President Taft received a personal let.
ter from Mr. Bacon. Mr. Bacon con.
firmed the reports cabled from Paris
that he had resigned for personal rea
pons, His formal resignation will be
sent to the State Department
Letter From Eacon.
Om
resignation
ion
Bacon,
cial
of
Airships After Fugitives.
Los Angeles. Four aviators, sworn
in as deputy sheriffs, flew into the
mountain country around Calabasas
Friday in search of the two men who
wounded a deputy sheriff in a fight at
Ban Fernando Wednesday and escap-
ed. The aviators, Glenn Martin, How.
ard Gill, Phillip Farmalee and Clif-
ford Turpin, agreed to seek the fugl
tives, as automobiles could not follow
Russian To Be Deported. |
Washington. Andre De Gurrowskl,
this country
considerable property near
burg. Va., was ordered by Secretary
of Commerce and Labor Nagel to be
deported from New York, where he is
being held. A recent trip abroad lost
Gurrowskl his American residence.
convicted of a crime involving moral
turpitude.
$
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i
Copyright, 1918)
FIGHTING 0 JOLO ISLAND
Gen. Pershing Has Now Put An End
To the Opposition Of the
Natives Of Jolo To
American Rule,
were
ing to
Manila, Twenty-six Moros
killed while they attempt
ambush a body American tr
the island of Jolo. In the course
the fighting Lieutenant McGee,
Second Cavalry, was shot and
merican soldier was wounded.
Brigadier General John J. Pershing,
commander of the Departmént of Min
in the course ny ers
lared that he this
mark the
mm of the
the
Hy
and¥ against
armament of
of Moros
American
ised, h
were
of
of
of the
twice
one ;
of 4
ation
fight
danao,
de
would
helieved
end of the armed
Moros to
Island of Jolo,
in regard to
the order for general
natives The band
in ambush for the
on this OCCasion
the last of re
positic
rule in snd
especia 80 the resist
dis-
the
who
FOODS
Lroops
lay
compr © Bald, the
maining malcontents
T0 SAVE REV. R CHZSIN
Richeson Bought Ring For Avis Lin
nell—Engaged To Other Woman;
Wrote ToOne From Ed-
mand’s Home.
Boston. --A sensation wis sprung
here when it was reported thet counsel
for Richeson go
the tate
$
WO
§
ana
were planning io
ourt of this
ask for a reopening of the
their purpose to fil
supreme «
Case
it is
srror which,
if sustained, » { aside
pas
nd the death senten { Judge
nderson This action will be done
inicss the exed
tan 13
comimnut
ie death
to
5
fn ne
contended at owing
Richeso
nature
Judge
rney Pel
in accepting the
Judge was in error
without having
It will be
Lae ¢
mental condition of
was unable
of his plea
Sanderson and
letier were in
piea and that the
in passing
the case
to comprehend the
and that
Att
of guilty
Listrict
error
gentence
EO to a jury
Bought Ring In Hyannis.
ring in
little jewelry
Hyannis
ber
Richeson bought wedding
December, 190%, at
shop of Mrs
and gave it Avis Linnell
eighteenth birthday in that me
Miss Linnell wore the ring
two stipposing, the
ment offic aver, that she
wife of clergyma
been sentenced in
chair for her murder
Acording to the Mr
Richeson either performed a fake cere
mony himself, or duped the little choir
singer into the belief that she was his
legal wife without mary for
malities demanded and
civil law,
Engaged To Two Others.
is & queer makeup. We
found he engaged to two other
young women: he is supposed to have
been the husband of Miss Linnell and
to have had affairs with many others
He has been engaged for seven years
to a Miss Feltz, of Denver, Col, and
was still engaged to her at the time of
his arrest, notwithstanding his al
lances with Miss Linnell and his ap
proaching marriage to Miss Violet
Edmands.
a
the
Josie Guyer, of
fio
nth
for near
govern
was the
who has
electric
iy years,
ais
the
Young n
to die the
proses ution,
he custo
by the church
Richeson
Was
FATAL SIXANCH FALL.
Kansas City Man Misses Step and
Breaks Neck.
Kansas City~~A fall of only six
inches was fatal to Willam Roy, 69
years old, at Kansas City, Kas. He
missed a step in passing from one
room to another in his boarding-house
and fell in such a position that his
neck was broken.
VETE RANS MADE IL.
“
Ptomaine
Soldiers’ Home.
Leavenworth, Kah-A searching in. |
vestigation is promised at the Nationa)
Soldiers’ Home, near here, following |
the disclosure that hash served to the |
wards of 150 veterans are said to have
to «wsover. =
i
REVEALS SECRETS
OF DYNAMITERS
McManigal Tells of Jobs in
Eastern Cities.
MOST INPORTANT EVIDENCE
Wrecked Opera House In Boston and
Attacked a Viaduct In New York
~Others Besides McNa-
maras In Plot.
Ind. ~The
obtained
#4)
ant evident vel
ernment’'s investigation
bel
the
The
WHE a
compl
mite conspiracy is feved
been presente to Federal grand
' Wednesc points in which
1as
inguiry
pertain t
s of tad were
to o the
other than those alreac
or indicted and to have
raised
questions as to
Who handed Ortie
euveiope ci
E. Manigal an
ntaining rh in Chicago a
days after he had bl 1 up part
of a raliroad bridge at Clinton, la.
February 16, 15087
Who met him
him where to put
partly destroyed
1:
few own
on
in showed
which
house
who sub
Boston and
the dynamit
A new opera
March 27, 190%, and
went with him from
e
ere on
Boston
Me
municipal
where
and
where he
escort
3
eq,
Hoboken,
but failed, to blow
met him in
6, 1910,
which be
Who McManigal in Peoria, 111.
took him about town to show him
some iron in a “ight vard wh
McManigs up?
McManigal and his father,
McManigal, of Tiffin,
stores of explosives kept in
readiness be carried wherever a
“job” was to be done, were
grand jury all day
The persons Who met him at various
places, according to McManigal,
others than the McNamara brothers
Much of his testimony has been corrob
orated by who were called
to testify as to having seen him at the
time and at the places he mentioned
James McManigal is said to have con
firmed his son's story about visiting
TiMin to get fresh supplies of ex
plosives The government detectives
assisting United States At
Charlies W. Miller are declared
to have followed this line of inquiry
That many of the 100 or more ex
plosions directed against “open shop”
employers in the five years oc¢-
curred in cities at times when both
James B. and John J. MeNamara were
far distant
That, therefore,
Bli« mipt
up a viaduct? Who
NJ, Jul
viaduct
Jerrey City, ¥
and pointed
pe out a
was to blown up?
met
and
fre ich later
blew
James F
Q., in whose shed
were
io
before the
almost
oO were
oe
witnesses,
who are
torney
iasat
if McManigal had
, assistapce in instances it came
from others than the McNamaras
That without asking for information
locally McManigal could hardly in a
single day visit a city unfamiliar to
him, pick out a “job,” blow _jt up and
escape
| MeManigal in his confession sald he
i did receive nssistance and he did meet
| various men, but the government now
| is seeking corroborative evidence if it
| exists along this line
those
Held Wife For Board.
New York Miss Sarah Furst,
N
|
|
i
!
Mrs. William H. Griflin as a hostage
because Griffin didn’t pay his board.
He had to go to court fo rescue his
| wife. i
1,000 Miles By Dog Team.
San Francisco.
| miles over Alaska snow with hie dog |
‘team, Lieut. B. F. Waugh reported for
| duty at the Presidio Wednesday,
| Lieutenant Waugh was stationed at
[8t. Michael, Alaska, with the Sixtieth
tion of promotion and transfer to the
| Thirtieth. He went overiand to Con
dova, where he boarded the last oul
| bound steamer.
"BURNS HONORED
BY THE COURT
Rendered Service to the Nation
Says Judge.
KIDNAPFING C/SE DROPPED
Judge Anderson, In Dismissing Case
Against the Exposer Of Dynamite
Plots,
Should Apologize.
Indianapolis, Ind. —Complin
the Federal Court for Saving *
a great his
William J. detective,
released from
intimates Someone
ented by
‘render
service to country,”
Burns, the WHE
the charge of having
kidnapped John J. McNamara, the con
victed dynamiter. All the charges in
the indictment against Burns for hav-
ing captured the labor in
Indianapolis last April and taking him
to California for trial were held to be
null and void
“If 1 or this court had anything to
jo awith the arrest of Mr. Burns, in
his instance | should certainly now
tender him an apology,” sald Federal
Judge A. B. Anderson, in dismissing
the indictments brought by the county
grand jury which the detective
had been $10,000 bail. “The
order the court shall enter will
make for any prosecu
tione under the indict
leader
under h
held
which
it
to
in
fers
im
be
possible
brought
ments.”
The
James
Angeles,
a requisition
urns and
of Los
McNamara, on
Governor of
eT.
legally un
tes, and any oon
in the state law with the Federal
which made it possible to bring
was not constitutional
Federal Constitution and Con
the court said, h delegated to
States the power
fugitives
justice, legisla
ture had no right take this
power from the governor and add it to
a county judge The in
ainst Burns and Hoosick
that McNamara was de
extradition in »
court held that when B
Hosick, a detective
Cal, arrested
from the
California and honored by the Gov
nor of Indiana,
der the Federal statu
they acted
flict
law
indictment
The
gress,
the governors of the
of requisition
and Indiana
10
an
ad
& for
honoring
fron
mn the
legal
the duties of
ag
alleged
a right
county court
Judge Anderson
Hoslck, also
tioned for release
be granted
Detec
“Ever sincé my
there was
prosecuting me
asked for a prompt trial
denied by au
tt time 1 as
a
ai ctments
nied to resist
that if
indicted, peti
lease would
indicated
WAS
the
who
re
tive Burns said
arrest |
no justification in
Then 1 repeatedly
but this was
At
an attempt
t Los Ange
this dyna
turn
have con
tended
the county thorities
regarded ft
hamper my activit
I am still working
CONSpiracy
up evidence
everywhere t
ro
itn ies
and 3
assert
hat organ iabor
not be injured by the present pro
for it benefit
labor to have it
political leaders.”
BALTIMORE GETS CONVENTION
June 25 Fixed As Date
bling—Baltimore Got
three Votes and Then
Was Unanimous.
~Washington.—The Democratic Na
tional Committee Tuesday awarded
the national convention, which is to
be held on June 25, to Baltimore. The
{ood :
Baltimore, 23.
St. Louls, 18.
Denver, 3.
New York, 1
Louisville, 1.
After the vote had
Baltimore, on motion of
member of the committee,
unanimous.
The Convention will be held on June
The gathering will be just a week
later than the Republican Convention
in Chicago
Omer F
Crain, chairman
more
am
zed
readings, will be to
a
purged of corrupt
For Assem
Twenty
it
vote
been counted,
a Michigan
was made
Eo
“be
Robert
Baltimore
a storm of
cheers when he drew from his inside
pocket a certified check for $100,000
and laid it upon the table. The
demonstration continued for a minute
Or more
Baltimore's offer of $100,000 was the
best of all the cities contesting. Den-
ver offered "reasonable expenzes:”
New York, $25. 000; Chicago, “reason-
able expenses” and $40,000 for the
Louie, 275,000.
Hershey spoke for
of the
Two Children Burned To Death.
Toronto, Ont --Two children were
burned to death in a fire which swept
composed of small wooden houses on
DID NOT SPEAK FOR 25 YEARS,
Maysville, Ky. Though he left
much land and other property to his
wife, Louis Roser, who died Sunday,
had not spoken to her until that day
This became known af
ter his will was filed for probate. It
developed that on Sunday morning
Mre. Roser broke the long silence
when she tsked her husband: “Will
you have a cup of coffee? “1 be
minutes he was stricken with heart
disease, and dled.
AUTO UNDER IGE
Machine Plunges Into Frozen
Canal in Darkness,
HAD NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE
Joy Riders Were
From Roadhouse,
N. J,
Sharp Turn In Road.
Speeding Home
Near Trenton
When Driver Overruns
Trenton, N. J. —A “} idin
of five YOUung
young men, drowned n
en A big automobile
from an ¢
ran off
plunged
flume
E parity
nd two
women ai
three
were ear here
in which
vening's visit
the highway
into the
wh they
were returning
to a roadhouse,
iu the
icecovered water-power
darkness and
or canal
at Brookvil
A sixth
Frederick M
driver of the
a well
le
member of
Foster, the wner
car, and a member of
Trenton family, escaped
KDowy
death in an almost miraculous manner,
the thermometer below
Zero,
women
After
several he
remaining
house JUTE,
home weather bel
the 10 f the automobile
the and
glide front cu
went down
se Othe
niagle
TUERI®eC &
it took Foster
anaged
» away, despite the
He was in
assistar
the
give
and others went tc geena
A visit
that
he of the
to greene Boca
shows
taking he sharp
plowed struight forward
water
idence
the
int ihe
3 ’
A COIN
tragedy is
under
J. B
vehicle partment of the
gted one of his depu
an investigation of the accident
if found necessary, to take proper |
NEW HEAD FOR WAR COLLEGE.
Positions Of Gen. Wotherspoon and
Gen. Millis Reversed.
hanges In
f important
Yrnn okt
urougiat
ashington Sweeping «
status of a number «
abo
De
positions were
an order issued from the War
order
Wot bh
is
o
partment Secretary Stimson
The
Gen. Wil
AE presi
Washing
duty
Depart
detaches Brig
erspoon from duty
War Cglliege at
assigning him
1s commander-inchief of
of Gulf at Atlanta, place
ihert 1... Mills, who be
the War Colleg:
Barracks, to
a the
ment the in
of Brig.-Gen
comes resident of
TO PAY FOR TUBERCULOUS
COWS.
Congressman Lewis W'II Offer Bill
Applicable To District.
Washington lewis
will introduce a bill this week to pro-
tect of Marviand
other States against losses caused hy
the killing of cows affected with tuber.
culosis by the Government authorities,
The bill will provide for reimburse
the owners of cows killed by
of Columbia health authori
Representative
cattle owners Ban
of
District
ties,
Vedrines in World Record,
Pau, FPrance.--Jules Vedrines, the
French aviator, beat the world's speed
record by covering a distance of 142
150 metres (about 31.3
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Married Women Depaiitors.
Washington About 16 per cent. of
the depositors in the postal savings
banks are married women over whose
maney there a hoshand has absolutely
no claim. Postal officials say of the
13.869 depositors on June 36, the latest
date for which figures are available,
2.150 were married women and 2.760
foreigners. While no statistios have
been prepared, it is estimated that
there are nw Ao 200,000 deposi
tore. >