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The Centre Reporter
CENTRE HALL PA
ENGLISH SPEECH POR CHINA,
-—
ly the number of inhabitants
by the peoples of the different
vinces.
sumber at “over a hundred.”
pro-
practically distinct languages.
darize these languages into one com-
mon speech for the whole
would be a work of many years and of
immense difficulties. In fact, it would
seem to be an undertaking involving
greater difficulties than the introduce
tion of a complete new tongue. And
it must be remembered that
ficla! and educated classes are familiar
already with English. The language
is taught in the universities and many
of the schools.
other governments. At the same time,
the leaders of the new movement are
enthusiastic friends of our country. If
the republican movement shall sue
ceed, that success may be followed by
the transformation of the Chinese into
an English-speaking people
It. was noted in these columns re
cently that the price of platinum In
the New York market had risen to the
highest figure ever reached —over sev-
eu hundred dollars a pound. All over
the world the demand fo: platinum
arising from the use of the metal in
electrical appliances has made it high-
1, prized. In connection with this sub
Ject a curious story comes from Paris.
It Is sald that a number of twenty-
franc gold pleces forged In the reign
of Napoleon 111, have been found to
be worth at least double thelr face
value. This Is due to the fact that
in the alloy of which these forged
coins were made platinum was used
At that time platinum was cheap. A
pound weight of it could be bought for
a few sovereigns The spurious twen-
ty-franc pieces contain about six
grammes of platinum each, and today
these sii grammes are worth azbout
A crusade on “fads and frills” in the
public schools of the city is to be start.
od in New York, with more thorough
ness and less experimentation as its
slogan. Everywhere there seems atir-
ring this revolt against the excessive
system of experiment to which the
schools have been subjected. with cor
responding loss of thorough grounding
in essentals. The educational tbe
orles of the present seem to share the
prominent American craze for speed
more or less regardless of the risks
i#volved in attaining It. The agitation,
which appears to be gemeral, win
doubtless result in restoring the pen-
dulum in
both of conservatism and
progress, to its noraal swaying
which has swung too far
directions
It's well to be clean, but if you wash
your rugs with gasoline, be careful
A Springfield, Mass, merchant, who
fs fastidious, bad bis office rugs
scrubbed with gasoline and then gone
over with a vacuum cleaner operated
by electricity. The cleaner collected
gasoline fumes which were ignited by
an electric spark, whereupon there was
an explosion and a blaze necessitating
a call on the fire department
That collision between a steamship
fn the merchant service and a United
States armored cruiser in the harbor
of Honolulu, in which the cruiser was
80 badly damaged as to necessitate fon
nediate retirement for repairs, whie
tte merchant ship steamed off apps
rently uninjured, might be cited as i)
lustrating Kipling’'s agsertion to the
effect that the "weaker vessel” is the
deadlier of the two.
dience that In order tc obtain pictures
of what happened when a drop of wa-
ter fell into a vessel containing water
tric spark of the duration of
millionths of a second. Some
perhaps, Prof. Worthington will
three
day,
store soda-fountain wink
One of the baseball umpires
much while umpiring. It lsn't what
It Is proposed in Spokane to make
no policeman out of applicants whose
valsts are greater than their chests.
However, rotundity will come with po.
lice service, as of old.
A Chicago man says ragtime is as
dangerous as whisky. And just as dis
agreeable to take.
The debt of New York is larger than
thet of the nation. But then New
York has all our money.
MINERS REFUSE
10° GOMPROMISE
Are Off.
WHITE EXPECTS A WALKOUT
Operators Regard Demands
sible Of Concession—No Formal
Strike Will Be Declared
Until After March 285.
impos
New York. —"All negotiations with
the anthracite coal operators are off,”
at the adjournment of the meeting
between the miners and operators, in
§
tors’ counter proposition.
work on April 1,” he added.
What They Demand.
Reiterating demands for a recogni
of
per cent. in wages, a shorter working
day and other changes, the Mine
osition offered them by the
cite coal operators.
The operators’ proposition
clined,
The meeting between the miners
and the operators was brief Mr.
White read to the operators the min.
ers’ reply to their rejection of
minereg’ demands. It was received
without comment, and the meeting
adjourned without delay.
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Motion To Quash the Indictments ls
Overruled By Judge Anderson—
Thirty: Days Granted To De-
fense To File Exceptions.
Indianapolis, Ind —"Not guilty” was
Federal Court here on indictments
lo talk.
Reply Of Miners.
“We regret the positive position
you have taken,” the miners’ reply
reads, "ag we had hoped that as the
representatives of the anthracite coal
operators you would consider the
great change in conditions existing
now as compared with those of 1802,
upon which the Coal Strike Commis
glon gave its award; and would, there
reasonableness of
anthracite mine
such concessions
market conditions
living unquestion-
of the
make
the demands
workers and
as induetrial and
and conditions of
ably now warrant
“Your proposal to renew pres
ent agreement does not appeal to us,
nor will it appeal to the people we
represent. The award of the
Strike Commission was not intended
to continue in effect for all time
thereafter, regardiess of how ma
terially Industrial and other condi
tions might change, and does not
adequately meet changed conditions
now in effect’
The reply says in conclusion
“Now, firmly believing that as pub
lic-spirited citizens we have done more
our full duty during «li!
years when anthracite operators
joyed unprecedented
that the
follow
gattiement
the
Coal
than these
en
prosperity, we
which
8 =at's
at
feel responsibility
might
re
ia
failure to reach
clory of the gu
bv
1
e placed
egtions
weighed a diseri
cannot t
mine-workers or
issue, when
ing public,
Rr the
reseniatl
minat
up the
acite their rep
ves
DR. WILEY RESIGNS,
Food Expert Says He Mas No State
ment To Make Now.
WwW. Wiley.
Uncle S8am’s chief chemist and father
Washington. — Harvey
of the Pure . ood Law, ended his long
and gOV-
ernment Friday, tendering his resigna-
tion Wil
son
“There is no statement I can make
now,” was his declaration
“Dr. Wiley has resigned; that is all
I can say now,” was the comment of
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Dr. Wiley's resignation caused no
great surprise, following numerous
reports that he would sever his con
nection with the government because
of constant conflict in his department
honorable service with the
to Secretary of Agriculture
spiracy unlawfully to transport dyna-
mite from state to state. Judge A. B
Anderson overruled all demurrers of
but granted 30 days for
the filing of exceptions to his ruling.
A motion to consolidate the
by United States District
Miller, was
the defense,
made At
toruey Charles W
tained,
attorneys for the defense if they
cide to trials
petition for separate
1}
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the defend
of
The trial was set for
The court instructed at
Anis appear when presentation the
matier is made.
October 1
When
he
4
fendants,
announced
0
Anderson
demwurrers
to the
had been
Judge
overrule
indictments, he
for
would the
turned de
whom seals
and said
u know the
of the cuLrges against you?
“We do,” came in
Then one by
present or
tiers
ao ¥¢
AITALEYCQ In
"Geatliewmen, nalure
& heavy chorus
men
ials from
and
president
the indicted
one
+ wining
forwner union offic
sections of
the country,
M. Ryan,
luternational Association
Structural lronworkers,
names were by
responded: “Not
any
headed Frank
of the
Bridge
Brose
the «
gu
by
LF
and
as their called
k
ie] anda
Ly
Altarke
made
the
tin
and
angles
Charging
aiding and abet
and John J
trans
portation on passenger
with being principals with Me
id the Namaras in the i}
acts and with having conspir
from many
the indictments
were
n
fendants with
£00
McM
up
ae
Ortie }
James }
tut
K anigal
Mchamara in the
dynamite
trains,
Manigal = Mc¢
legal
¥
to violate th taiules |
E ed
rohibiting such
transportation
That
run
gf }
the statute of limitations had
the offense of conspiracy
did
it
had
explosives
carried on
were the two princh
for the de
Patrick
Bail,
Harding,
against
alieged and that the indictment
er violation of law because
the defendants
kages of
as
not
not
get out
pa
alleged
WAR
mislabeled
they were toc have
PARssenEer (ra’ns,
pal contentions of counsel
Elijah Coline and
O'Donnell, of Chicago, Walter
of Muncie, Ind. and W. N
of
fense,
this city
has been beset with storms. It is un
tor of a publication
2.000
Battle.
Italians Lost in Eleven.
Hour
the
of
Edhem Pasha,
in the district
Consgtantinopie
Turkish commander
Ministry
success at
He gave
driven out
treated
which lasted 11 hours
the Italian
an important
Tobruk
that the Italians were
of their positions and re
to their ships after a battle
Edhem Pasha
casualties at
ment of Agriculture, Dr. Wiley has
a terror to food adulterators. So great
that, when recently President
Taft was asked to depose him for in-
subordination, thousands of petitions
poured into the White House from all
his services be retained at
all cost
Dr.
any and
Wiley was appointed chief
ana to accept the post.
FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH.
Atlantic City Episcopalians Loge Their
Beautiful Edifice.
Atlantie City, N. J -8t James’
Protestant Episcopal Church, on Pa
cific avenue in this city, was burned
Friday. The church had been pre
pared for confirmation services. Bish.
t& Scarborough, of the New Jersey
diocese, was in the rectory at the time
and alded in saving some of the
church property. The loss is est)
mated at $60 000,
The Turkish losses were also very
heavy, including many Arab women
who were carrying supplies of am-
munition to the Turkish troops in the
MISTRIAL IN BATHTUB CASE.
Jury Seven For Acquittal and Five For
Conviction.
Detroit, Mich ~The jury which has
been trying the case of the govern:
ment against the so-called Bathtub
Trust in the Federal court here failed
to reach an agreement and was dis
charged by Judge Angell. The jury
was reported to have stood seven for
acquittal and five for conviction.
JEFFERSON HIGHWAY,
Bill Provides For One Fram Char
fcttesville To Monticello,
Washington A hundred thousand
dollar roadway and memorial arch for
the home of Thomas Jefferson is pro
posed in a bill introduced in the House
by Representative Flood, of Virginia
Mr. Flood wants $60,000 appropriated
to buiid a highway from Main street
Charlottesville, Va., to Monticello, A
the gate to Monticello he would have
erected an wehway to cost $50,000
KING OF ITALY
ESCAPES BULLETS
Anarchist Fires Several Shots
at Him in Carriage.
OFFICER OF GUARD WOUNDED
o—
King On His Way To the Pantheon To
Memorial Services For the Late
King Humbert, Who Was
Assassinated.
attempt to as
Emmanuel of
Anarchist in
chose
Rome. ~
| sassinate
aly
! Rome
A dastardly
King Victor
Was made an
The would-be regic
for his attempt the anniversary of the
birthday of the late King Humbert, the
father of the King, who died
the gesasein’s blow
1800 King Victor
enough to
from a
num
& very short
of his
who was
by
ge
present
victim of an at
Menza on 9,
Emmanuel
$ he
sYalver
July
fortunate
fired at
were several in
Was
CECA De shots him
They
were aimed from
The
bodyguard, however
imediate vicinity of the King,
was dangerously
The King. in
Helena, was going
the Pantheon, to take part
ter anc
distance commander
wounded
with
the
Queen
palace to
in the an
memorial service ir honor of the
King The car
was followed
COmpany
from
nual
inte Humbert royal
and by
of Culraseiers
P
riage preceded
an escort
At the
was sul
station the anarchist
jected to a keen interrogators
that his name Antonio
at he was 21 years of sage and
A stone He de
an "individualist
he had made
as 2
protest against : FrEanization of
lice
He said
Dialba
that h
Was
th
# Was mason
scribed Bb
anarchist
the
ingel! as
and said th
King's life
atterupt on
GLASS WORKERS GET BIG RAISE.
Per Cent.
Branches.
the
Increase Of 35 in
All
Pittsburgh
Average
sand hand
window giges workmen emploved in
throughout Kansas, Indiana.
nsyivania and W 3
West Virginia
received notice that their
Five
factories
Ohio. Pen
Vednesday
wages will
35 per cent, branches of
dustry being affected
This decirion was reached at a con-
between the wage
of National Window
ers and a committee representing the
manufacturers, held in Cleveland,
March 6 and It will remain in ef-
fect until May 29 when another ad
justment ir expected
all ihe
in
ference commitiee
the Glass Work
NO VISIT TO GERMANY,
Why King George Will Take No Trips
To Foreiges Courts.
London
King
foreign
for this
All the projected vigites of
George and Queen Mary to
courts have been abandoned
year. The change in the
: to the coal sirike, but in all probability
{and the possibility of the occurrence
| of unpleasant incidents
and Queen appeared in Berlin have
more to do with it than the labor
trouble in the British Isles
Boy Scalded To Death,
Amherst, O-—Mre. Angelo Miagali-
otta, 32, was arrested nere on an afi.
davit sworn to by Mre Anthony
Caltalfe, Mrs. Caltalfe charges that the
two-year-old boy, Philip, was killed by
being thrown into a kettle of scalding
water by Mrs. Miragliotta on Feliru-
ary 28. Mrs. Miragliotta is in the
county jali at Elyria
MINER BLOWN TO PIECES.
He Put Electric Batteries and Ex.
plosives In Same Bag.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-—John Gaddis, a
miner, was blown to pieces in a
peculiar accident at New Derry, Pa.,
near here. When he quit work Gad.
{is put his electric batteries and ex-
plosives used in blasting coal in a bag
and swung it over his shouider. The
atteries, jarring together, short eir.
euited, causing a spark, which ignited
hie explosives.
BANDITS FOILED BY MESSENGER
and Forced Engineer To Bring
It To a Stop in a Lonely
Btr..ch Cf Prairie.
Ban Antonio, Texas —Employing
the gimplest sort of ruse, a Wells
Fargo Express messenger, with perve
' aplenty, who knew how to deliver a
swift, terrible blow,
bery of a Southern Pacifie train
killing two of the highwaymen
by
The
|
the eastern edge of the
country of Texes. For
through the lope stretches of
prairie only scattered ranch
| houses relieve the landscape's
monotony, The point where
, train, No. 9, westbound, was halted is
several miles east of Banderson, in
Terrel county David A. Trousdale,
An express messenger, recently pro
moted to his run from the San An-
tonio offices of the express company,
prevented the robbery. One of the
robbers who held up Trousdale at the
point of a rifle in a corner was ran
| sacking the express car
“I'm not going to scrap with
| all” remarked Trousdale as he
| versed with the bandit “I'm
getting fighting wages.”
“Oh, all right,” replied
“then you fellows will have to
us get this stuff across the
Grande.”
“Why don’t you pick up that pack
age?” casually inquired Trousdale, as
he kicked at a small box on the floor
of the car. “It's worth more than al
the stuff you've got
The robber stooped,
the ruse, to pick up the package
Trousdale grasped a heavy mallet and
struck. The bandit received the blow
full on the head. He over dead
There was no alarming outery
Trousdale picked up the dead
ber's gun
waited
Meanwhile
dite had been working the
ahead. When he completed his
he hurried back to the express car
“Frank, There was no
answer
The robber swung himself aboard
the car. As his form loomed in the
doorway the express messenger fired
The bandit the ground
dead. The bodies of the robbers were
put into a baggage car and the train
proceeded
The bandits boarded the
after midnight
¢ engine they covered the
with guns and ordered
to proceed till they told him
Ten miles west of Dryden they
gave the signal for halt. The con
ductor of the express alarmed by the
frequent stops, sent & negro porter
ahead inquire about the trouble
The negro was promptly covered with
a rifle. Then the conductor crept up
to the engine. Immediately be took
in the situation. Before the robbers
could fire upon him he hastened back
and down the track. Walking sev
eral miles he stopped a freight train
and wires to
Sanderson robbers
border
| “Big
miles
rolling
on
Bend”
you
con-
not
the bandit,
help
Rio
deceived by
i
fell
rob
and
of the ban
car
job
the second
on
he called
tumbled to
express at
Dryden soon Bwing
ing onto th
driver, Erosh
him to
stop
a
fo
gave the alarm over the
Meanwhile
were putting their plans for ransack
express mail cars
the
Ing the and into
execution
The sheriff
searching for a
bind supposed
near the holdup
Near the point train was
stopped tracks of Lorses were found
leading to the border. It is presumed
the robbers, had they succeeded,
would have made for Mexico
The of the bandits have no!
They are Americans
of NE
the
Terrell county
member of
been
with
the
third
to have posted
scene horses
where
bodies
been identified
$16,100 FOR PAINTING.
Vaughan Portrait Of Washington
Brings Record Price.
Philadelphia —The Gilbert Stuart
bead Washington, known as the
Vaughan portrait, the feature of the
sale of the art collection of the Iate
Joseph H. Harrison, Jr, was sold at
auction here to Thomas B. Clarke, of
New York, after a lively competition,
for $16,100. This is a record price for
the painting and brought the sale to
a close, enough money being realized
to pay the bequests in the will of Mrs
Sarah Harrison, whose executors con
ducted the sale. It was announced
that the remainder of the collection,
including the portraite of Washing.
ton and Franklin by Rembrandt Peale,
will be presented to the Pemusylvania
Academy of Fine Arts
of
MAINE WRECY
5 “AT REST"
Ceremony Attends Burial of
Historic Hull
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE
“Dynamite Acts As the
Maine's Last Pllot—Procession To
Bea a Silent One, No Salutes
Johnny"
Being Fired By Convoy.
Havana Under lowering skies and
nats
afier 14
nar nor,
in & heavy tumbling sea the old
Maine, resurrected
years’ burial in Havana
plunged, with her colors fiving, to her
600
the sapphire waters of the Gulf
sinking of the hulk was
precisely as planned, marking the end
of the great work begun more
half ago
impressive ceremonies
everlasting rest fathoms deep in
The
carried out
than a
year and a
After
morning,
in the
which ended with the formal
the
Mavor
bodies
of
Brig.-
Engi
represen
transfer of of
of the
the custody
by
Cardenas
heroic
Julio
H
pe, 1
dead
de
Bixby, chief of
B.A, as the
tative of the United States, the coffins
ihe
Havana, to
Ww
neer Lor
Gen the
were taken aboard the armored cruiser
North
posited
pletely
floral tri
composed
were fired by
the
batteries of Cabanas fortress
ships
Carolina, where they
deck
were oe
tha 0
‘
on
covered by a
jarter Com
great mound of
butes
under a guard of honor,
¥ 1
marines Mir
North Care
oO
the
scout cruiser Birmingham and
until td
cleared the harbor
The Voyage Seaward.
oclock
Soon after 2
aboard
the navy tug
of were the
ster, Arthur XN
Beaupre, and the staff of the legatic
Osceola, which
United States Min
rai William
Patrick
con
Brigadier Gene
M. Black, Lieut. -Cok
and Major Harley
gltituting
H
the Maine commission,
glern
wreck, and
ng tugs attac
either end of the bulkhead, which then
part
the purpose of steadyin
her
Her
Tighe
pas
ed lines to the end of the wedge
shaped
Two flank
gliaried seawnro
hed lines to
of the hulk, for
1S LE
became the after
ana slecr
decks
and
ensign
where
the
BE
covered deep w» th fiow
ers palms and Americar
fioating
the mainyg
Maine put
a Freat
from the jury mast
ast formerly stood
io sea on her last voy
John O'Brien,
ekip
sleamers
RCLIDg
Aw the
squadron
3
te Johnns
ilibustering
Friends
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pilot
wreck passed the American
the crews manned the rails the
the riet
rierdeck
marines presented
coated bandsmen
played th
minutes
Passing out «
were fired, the
Maine
at half
aif
north wat
Armes,
the qi
SCR
on ia
anther
& requien
¢ national wile
guns boomed
yf the harbor no salutes
flotilla, headed the
HER
vas almost
}
t
proceeding in silence with £
mast Th OUrse
keep the wreck
Beas
aue
head-on to and i1hus
avoid the danger of falling into the
trough
at § o'clock the
oper
O'Brien jum
which steamed
Then all
fixed on
Precisely crew In
threw end
IE
a Jittle
eves in
the wreck
lining
for the wash
stantly the valves
Captain ped aboard a
aslongside,
distance away
great fleet were
the crews the
rails. All was silence b
of the heavy seas
For change was
visible in the trim of the great, rust)
battered hulk, which pitched heavily
as the huge rollers struck her. Then
ghe was seen to sinking at the
bulkhead end. Soon the waves began
to wash her deck. As she re
mained pitching and wallowing each
moment, settling deeper and deeper,
the stern was seen fo rise. In a few
geconds the hulk was almost vertical
showing first the propellers and then
the full keel. The next moment there
was a flash of blue as the great en-
sign flying from the mast riruck the
waves and disappeared Simultane
the
of warships the
1s
fen minutes no
be
over
a Baker For Damages.
New York
! Supreme Court by Mrs. Ida Seligman,
| She has sued a local bread company
! for injuries that she claims resulted
{from her discovery. Mrs Seligman
says that the sight
aches.
A ———
WAR IN THE AIR.
The European Situation Reaching An
Acute Crisis.
London. The Daily Telegraph, in a
paragraph under the head of “The
Peace of Rurope,” says: “In diplo
| matie eircles the European situation
| is giving rise to considerable anxiety
(It is understood there is the possi
{ bility that an acute crisis already is
{engaging the attention of more thar
j one of the great powers,
with incredible
plunged down,
pressure, and
velocity the Maine
on the surface of the sea.
Precisely 20 minutes elapsed frem
the opening of the valves until the
Hold-Up On Tenement Roof.
New York —Guiesseppe Dulaca, ap
Italian diamond merchant, was held
robbery the man was badly beaten up
Four men were involved in the hold
up, and ‘one of them has been cap
tured.
Strikers Fight Police.
Boston.—-The scene of the serious
textile strike trouble In Massachusetis
shifted from Lawrence to Barre Ip
n clash between strikers and the police
and deputies three policeman were
shot, two others injured with stones
and a score or more of the strikers
were clubbed so that It was necessary
to call physicians to attend them
Cnly me arrest was made. Botweer
16 and 20 shots were fwed Women
trikers were particularly bitter, urg
ag the men on in thelr attack.