The Centre Reporter
———
CENTRE HALL PA
DOCTORS IN UNITED STATES.
To one who observes the consider
able number of physicians signs in
the average city or large town the
report of the last census that there
are In the United states only 130,000
physicians, Including osteopaths, psy-
chopaths, hydropaths and doctors of
every description, may come as a rev-
elation and a surprise.
al Information, afforded by the cen-
doctor to every 650 of its population
wonderment until he reflects that a
physician to every 650 people 1s, after
all, a fairly liberal safeguard to the
public health, says the Manchester
Union. The figures, of course, repre
sent the average the country over,
some sections of communities having
population and some having more.
Manchester, for instance, on the basis
of the census figures, would have 107
or 108 physicians. The city directory
gives 98. The census report on the
matter is not incredible, yet a person
traveling along the streets of almost
any New England city and remarking
the numerous doctors’ “shingles”
would have been almost certain to
estimate the percentage of doctors
higher than that given by the census.
Surprise is frequently expressed be
cause there are so many school chil
dren who are bad spellers, but there
is a substantial reason for it In
Kansas very few of a short list of
words were spelled correctly by 112
school and college students. Now
these pupils are not taught the way
their fathers and mothers were, says
the Boston Globe. Under the old pub-
He school system there were spelling
bees in the schools and the purils
took pride in excelling. Under the
spelling bee system children between
the ages of eight and twelve can ac
quire quite a large vacabulary by the
practice of spelling words of several
sylables. The rising generation is full
of poor spellers, but ft is not their
fault, for little attention is paid to
that accomplishment. It would be well
for all teachers to put their pupiis
through a course of spelling every few
days, and also to teach them to read
aloud. Reading writing and spelling
should go hand In hand. Those lack-
ing these accomplishments are not far
removed from the illiterate class
+ George Wehler, director of physical
education at the UnMersity of Wiscon-
sin, has instituted rest classes for
fidgety girls whose nervous systems
“80 to pieces” under the fatigue fol
lowing undue exertion. In a report
to the United States Bureau of Educa.
tion he says: We do not go on the
theory that the gymnasium is good for
every one, and, therefore, every one
must take gymnastics. The purpose
of these classes in rest Is to teach
girls who are restless from the per-
formance of tasks that ought not to
produce fatigue how to acquire con-
trol over their own nervous systems
Putting every one—girls as well as
boys—through a stiff regimen of gym-
masium work has had bad results In
many instances, and is a thing to be
avoided. If the director of physical
culture in the University of Wiscon.
sin makes allowance for constitutional
differences students not bullt to en
dure overstrain will have reason to
thank the good fortune which made
bim arbiter of their physical destinies
8an Francisco custom house offi.
clals have just made the first arrest
ever recorded at that port for the of-
fense of smuggling diamonds —and the
diamonds in the case were valved at
only $477.50 When the New York
custom house looks at the San Fran-
clseo custom house It will have to
laugh,
The assertion that caviare has sup-
planted the oyster as the appetizing
opening of banquet menus may be pre
mature. Hotel managers may prefer
the Russian delicacy, bat It will be
well to hear from “the general” be.
fore taking everything for granted
American blue points on the half shell
are very good.
A poultry paper tells us that hens
stop laying In cold weather because
they cannot lay eggs and grow feath.
ers at the same time As yet no In-
experiment of fitting out his hens In
the fall with warm red flannel over.
coats
ran when a man proposed to her on
the street. Perhaps she merely want.
eG him held until the Mussachusetis
spinsters could get out a requisition
for him.
Instances are multiplying In which
costly fatal fires have been traced to
rarelessness with lighted cigarettes or
matches It should be made a minor
degvee of arson for the careless toss.
ing away of fire In this manner
IGLATS GRE
WAR FOR WAGE
| Premier Rejects Miners’ Amend-
| ment to Bill.
|
| CHECK ON THE NEGOTIATIONS
| Funds Of the Trade Unions Running
Low and Demands Being Made
Upon the Government To Re-
lieve the Distress.
London.—Premier Asquith in the
House of Commons refused to accept
| the miner's amendment to the mini
| mum wage bill providing a minimum
of $1.26 and 50 cents the daily
wage for men and boys, respectiy ely
Eboch Edwards, labor rmember of
Parliament, and president of the
Miners’ Federation of Britain,
immediately announced that the
Premier's rejection of the miners
amendment closed the to an im
mediate settiement of the He
moved an amendment for the lon
of the miners’ schedule, but, Mr
MacDonald's to waive de
mand, there was not m }
debate, Mr. Edwards
defeated, 367
The
as
Great
Goor
girike
inclu
after
offer this
vim in the
amendment a
to 65
the
sh coal own
BEovernment renewed
the |
miners I
peace
negotiations with
ers and the
trying to
to agree to pay
minimum
that the men
promise of the employers without
Inclusion of any
mum wage bill
In the meantime
the industrial population of the
try in the The of
trades unions are running low, and in
some places this
out-of-work benefit
At Burslem,
the centers the potteries district
40,000 meals have been served by the
vicar of the parish in the last 11 days
for which a small charge
made. Now the people of the distric:
are unable to bear the burden of pas
ing even a penny for a meal and are
compelled to fall back on charity
In Wales and Scotland and in the
industrial districts England
works have been started and rOUup
kitchens established. There {8 scarce
ly a mining village In Scotland where
the children are not being fed by the
public authorities. In the English coal
irit
re
er
Asquith
is induce the coal
owners
Tv < y 3
aaily and is
Wages,
will be content with
the
figures the mini
in
coun
face funds the
week's payment of
will be the last
of
been
has
of relief
trades union funds are richer and will
last much longer
It Is estimated that the miners thus
far have lost in wages $26. 408 850. he
sides the depletion of the union funds
SHOWS HIS HMEROISM,
Engineer, Scalded, Succeeds In Stop
ping Train.
Ind
lower, a
Hammond,
ed, Baviess
Rallroad engineer,
tender of his
runaway train by
connecting the
car. The accident urred just
of Warsaw A steam pipe leading
from the boiler broke, filling the cab
with steam. The engineer was dr ven
from his post before he
brakes
Frightfully
Pennsvivanis
climbed over
and
cutting
engine #topped his
the air hose
engine with the first
oct eRut
could set the
ROOSEVELT, JR. LEAVES.
Give Him
3anquet,
Ban Francisco Comrades
Farewell
San Francisco Theodore
velt, Jr, and his wife and baby
for New York Fridays Mr. Roosevelt
was given a farewell banquet by
comrades Sixty of them met in
Informal gathering and told him
much had endeared
them. Roosevelt made speech in
which said that proof of
friendship was one of the great experi
ences of his life
Roose
left
his
an
how
he himself to
a
he this
UNIONS OFFER REWARD.
Will Pay $5000 For Detection Of
Author Of Explosion.
Galveston, Tex.— The various labor
unions operating on the Southern Pa
cific have offered $5000 reward for
the identification of the author of the
resulted in the death of 26 people and
the injury of 40 more
, STEAL POSTAL DEPOSITS.
| Yeggs Dynamite Safe In Postoffice Of
Ohio Town.
Yeggmen robbed
postoMice at Hudson, 20 miles south
of here, dynamiting the safe and
escaping with all the postal bank de
pvouits and a large amount of other
cash and stamps. Posses are gearch
{Ing for the thieves.
Cleveland
CANADA COUNTING COST.
Ottawa. The taking of testimony by
the Senate committee appointed to re
port on the loss sustained by the
Westorn Grain Growers’ Association
through the defeat of reciprocity last
MADERD HEARS PEACE NEWS
| Railroads Resuming in Torreon Dis
| trict—Bitter Attack Upon Con.
duct Of
In Newspaper,
{
i President Made
a :
Mexico City In spite of rumors of
| revolut SUCCesses tne govern
Lic i
demon
lonary
reports are most
that
oplimis
peace
being held in supposedly
The g«
reCeIving a
tions are
{ disaffected provinces IVern-
ment reports that
of telegrams from dif-
pledging
i large number
ferent bands fealty to the
federal cause
A reassuring report 3
received from the municipal
the
and
presi
dent of Torreon. who save rail
r
3
road line Torreon
between
NEO Is now open and that the line
! San Pedro will be running at
date that
situation
The report continues
n the district is notably
proved, that the bandits
ariven or and
that
out brought to
ers,
ail minor depredations are being
energetically pursued. The entire city
IS supporting the government
confidenc -
In a few sections the d
Eight
on on
perfect
sorders con
bandits en
the Isthmus
demanded money
ob
unabated
tered Medina Stat
rallroad line and
and arms. They
tain either. A recent
dits near & railroad
Cruz was more successful
| men held up a train and
| pesos from an express car
A bitter attack on
President Madero has
the newspape!
tinue
unable to
aitack by ban
station in Vera
Twenty
took 1.400
were
of
conduct
been made by
la Frenia
the
morning
Asked Madero To Resign.
Chihuahua Practically complete
control of the sit
is held by the
A demand that
Vice-President
made by unsr
legislature,
thusiasm
oO uation this state
revolutionary leaders
President Madero and
Suarez resign was
the
en
tion of
great
mous
Lins
ar
and evoked
Himself President
Emi
insurrectos
Zapata Proclaims
Zapata,
the cen
has pro
provisional president
has designated Petal
1ebla, as his national
Mexico City
leader of the
tral and
claimed
{;:en Ho
in
southern states,
himself
and
cingo, state of P
capital
of Mexico
ROBBING AMERICANS,
Mexican Bandits Stripping Them Of
All Their Possessions.
Del Rio, Tex
arrived here from Mexico, after having
Mexican bandits
possessed. The rob
red flag with “Lib
erty” inscribed upon it {ter strip
ping them everything and taking
their horses and cattle, the Mexicans
warned the Americans never to return
Mexico, It here that
bandits are raiding American prop
in the mountainous region just
of here. Several Del Rio men
with large interests in Mexico are try.
ing get their cattie to American
soil, but are having little success,
A party of Americans
robbed by of
everything they
bers
been
carried a
of
to is reported
erty
went
10
WILL AID RAILROADS.
House Committee Opposes Canal Tolls
For American Ships.
Washington.—That the assessment
| of tolls against American ships which
will use the Panama Canal will aid
the transcontinental railroads is con-
tended by a majority of the House
Commerce, which filed a
against the bill of Chairman Adamson,
ana, and Doremus, of Michigan. Dem.
(ocrats, and Knowland, of California,
and Calder, of New York, Republicans.
{ POISONED BY WILD PARSNIP,
| One Child Dead and Several Others
Seriously Il, «
N. Y.~~Harry Green,
{aged six, Is dead and several other
pr of a district school in Perry are
| seriously ill from wild parsnip root
| poisoning. The Green boy found the
! Rochester,
LIVES LOTT IN
MINE EXPLOSION
Forty-three Americans Among
Those Who Were Killed.
ONLY ELEVEN MEN ESCAPE
Of Gas Or Accumulated
Coal Dust Takes Terrible Toll Of
Life In the San Boise Mine
Near McCurtain.
Explosion
|
Ok
approx
mately correct estimat i the human
the
was
il taken when Min Ni - of
Sans Boils here,
by an losion Of 116 men
are known
ers are
is Ad
to be alive, while
tombed
in
i perte and mine
th ¥:
Of en
debris
opinion of
behind the
the government ex
officials they are dead
The explosion occurred shortly after
# o'clock. Those on the surface heard
a faint and an earth tremor
| When nearest! to the mouth of
the mine's mouth reached the opening
a of dust smoke beiched
forth
rumble
those
cloud and
Then came tense moments of walt
ing for those in the mine to emerge
Frank Fields, a miner, was the first
to stagger out He was walking in an
{entry and heard the explosion, he sald
He jumped into a side room and
explosion passed, and he made his way
the opening Nine
mitiers escaped through another shaft
As soon as possible a rescue party
the mine, but they
proceed no further than the
the
to mine other
went into could
sixth level!
because of the accumulation of debris
Brown stated that
extent of the explosion
only by the remotest
f the entombed
The mine machinery is
3 and there
are three small pumps in different sec
tione of
These pumps ex
haust pure air
It the of the explosion and
flames did not kill all of the men.
there is & remote chance some of them
are being kept alive by these fresh
currents providing the pumps are not
out of commission To this one slim
chance the relatives and friends of
the entombed men cling with pitiful
hope.
The explosion, according to mine ex.
perts, wir from either aceumulated
gas or coal dust The Sans Bois
property is owned by the Fort Smith
and Western Railroad Company
Superintendent
the force and
was such that
possibility could any o
men be alive
operated by compressed air,
the mines
force
BURIAL OF MAINE HEROES.
Five Officers Of the Ship Represent
the Survivers.
Washington. —F officers of the
battleship Maine represented the sur
vivors of the Havana disaster at the
public burial services here Saturday
President Taft, Congress and govern
ment officials did bonor to the men
ive
Rear
who
Admiral
recent operations
Chariea D. Sigsbee,
the Maine; Rear
vessel; Lieut
Boyd, then a cadet:
Lucian G.
surgeon, and the Rey
wick, chaplain.
Admiral Dewey headed the naval
officers in attendance. The ceremonies
were held on the lawn south of the
State, War and Navy Building, near
The bodies of the
in Arlington Na
John P. Chad.
{the White House
| men, were interred
| tional Cemetery.
| Crazed By Spiritualism,
Toronto, Ont. ~~Crazed through con
| stant study of spiritualism, Mrs. Emily
| Orr, aged 63, killed herself and her
three children, aged, respectively,
, elght, six and four years. During the
| night she closed and fastened their
bedroom doer, gtulfed the cracks and
| keyhotes and turned on the gas. The
Heelf In the future.
was given by two physicians
son.
ARREST IN BG
~ DAMOND THEFT
Callahan Taken in St. Louis
for Robbing Postoffice.
| JEWELS WORTH OVER $120,000
| Callahan Will Be Held As Leader
Of Gang That Stole $120,000 From
Mrs. Drummond's Stateroom
On the Liner Amerika.
| Louis, Mo.—Daniel Callahan was
i arrested here by postoffice inspectors,
| who say he is wanted for compileity
{ in three diamond robberies. aggregat-
| ing $120,000 and in the robbery of a
| postoffice substation in louis and
| other points
| Postoffice
{ made the arrest,
| ing held
| which
851
ae
whe
is be
tor Bunsen,
eays Callahan
leader of the
$120.4 worth of
Mrs
stateroom on
Inspec
as the gang
dia
Drum-
glole 100
from Maldwin
the
1811,
mien
from
CREO in
monds
|
mond’'s tes
mond Bleamship
and
and
merika in February, who
ind and gagged two stole
$10. 000
Alberti's
1611
away
The
rom
4
i
worth of jewels
Ch
Edward
store in April
and killed ‘a man
ond jewels
the steamship
Mrs Drummond
February, 1611
but withou
aboard
which
passenger
clues were follow ed.
Drummond
:
following description
i Mrs
gave to
© the of the
jewels One necklace of wh
matched
t¢ and
perfectly pearie, cons
of 283 pearis arranged in
strands and at $55.000
| black pear! ring, the pear! surrounded
by d
sting
tliree
valued One
and each
white
& half
iamonds perfectly
a karat and valued
we
at
ghing
$6. 000,
* large white pearl set in a
by
and a ha)
surrounded
weighing
19
$12
diamonds
A karat f
GOO
pear
yt
Lt alternately rge and
per
ectly white diamonds of about two
with a large
Valued at §:
black pearl earrings sur
rounded by large diamonds, white and
matched, valued at $12.00
$120 000
each, black
pendant
ho
Iwo
Karats peail
oo. ii
pe riectls
Total,
NINE PERSONS KILLED.
Gas Explosion In Pennsylvania Mine
Wipes Out Whole Family.
Scranton, Pa-—In a gas explosion
caused, it is thought, by mine settlings,
bine persons were killed and two in
jured in Dunmore, near here. Two
families, comprising two women and
seven children, were either blown to
pieces in the explosion or burned in
the fire that followed and destroyed
three houses
More than dwellings
scene of the explosion badly
damaged by the concussion and the
fying timbers, and scores of persons
were ‘hrown of their beds and
20 near the
were
out
brulsed
During
in the
the past week mine settlings
reighborhood of Cavella
home have caused alarm Only a few
days ago the cellar dropped out of a
house on the opposite of the
street and several miners climbed to
tie surface on ladders let down by the
women the house
the
side
of
TO TEST THE FILIPINOS.
Proposed Bill To Give Them Pro.
bationary Independence.
Washington Representative Jones,
of Virginia, chairman the House
Committee on Insular Affairs, pro-
posed “probationary independence”
for the Philippine Islands from July
4, 1913, to July 4, 1821, in a bill intro
duced Thursday
During “qualified independence the
archipelago would operate under a
system identical with that of the
United States, the President of the
United States having the right of veto
over Philippine Island laws”
The right to vote would be given
to those in the Philippines who held
{it prior to the war in 1898 and to
those who own any, pay taxes on 500
pesos worth of property,
they can read and write
would prohibit polygamy.
of
The bill
GUN FOR AERIAL WAR.
| Looks Like Telescope and Weighs
Only 100 Pounds.
London.-—A rapid-fire gun that looks
the armament firm of Vickers’ Sons
|& Maxim. The first offer will prob-
| ably be made to the British govern
{der way with the War Office.
| gun weighs only 100 pounds, but fires
| ® heavy projectile.
Married Women's Property Rights.
ried women in rights acquired to pub.
lic lands before marriage passed the
Senate. The measure wiz championed
by Senator Jones, of Washington.
A A HO SRS
Woman Suffrage Defeated.
Boston.—~Woman suffrage and the
election of United States senators by
direct vote were defeated in the Sen.
ate by close votes. The vote against
suffrage was 17 to 14 and that against
direct votes for senators 19 to 14.
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE NEWS
Newsy Items Cathered From
All Parts of {he Stata.
Allentown
CIning
Summit
appointed Dr. W
surgeon of the Me
Pine
letina in
subsided and only tl
Mauch Chunk The
Club is making efforts
park
Catasauqua eck
fa ditch while taking a spring ramble
and suffered a broken collar bone
Reserve (
Grove he epidemic of scar
the neighborhood of Rock has
irTee Capes remain
Women's Civic
to esl:
inion
George fell
Diefenderfer was
Coplay. Stanley
caught in a conveyor at the Coplay c¢
ment mill and one of his legs was so
badly crushed that it cannot be saved
Reading —As
ming a corn, Mrs
of West Reading
gangrene in
the result
Herman
this coun
her geventy-second
Allentown Ilda, wife o
Sterner, the youngest bride in
the Allentown
of fift
cou died at
ARs
of Hellertown
Works,
places
fractur
Lewistown
ducks a
and
wild nd
inland
geese
River ponds
dreds. They itherly
u Course
Just after dayl
Albu:
been caught
f muskrats
ft rR BIDET
appers
tis Hundred «
have and
schoolboys
s their t
the recent
» of his
relatives
th. who disappeared
Fairview
have
from hi in West
in
1862, are taking
legally declared dead
gleps to
Richland At
of the Church of the Brethren
the annual Church
Council}
for the
WES
rangemen
and at
Church Dstrict
make ar
chiwyches bere
Tulpehocken
deemed advisable to
is build
Schaefferstown
i
tes
Weissport hicken thieves
robbed
and
have
dozens of henneries at Weiss
port vicinity, but the gui} per
pons are still at large Smoke houses
and buildings
looted of their
other have also beer
contents
Mauch Chunk Twenty-five foreign
a
Carbon County
ers of Lansfc for natural
tion
Prothonotary's office the
red
14 3
applied
papers st the
largest ny
One {ime it
act
ry
ber that
der
ever applied at
the new naturalization
ir
Allentown More
sand dol
Covered
tip
the
ars voarth
Diy
the
fron elev
bove plavi
and officers
loot
robbed during the week
Hamburg — Caught n
while grinding
Windsor township
barn floor and suffered a badly
tured leg and thumb
precarious
x
Adams, of
the
frac
feed, Trw
wag thrown fo
His condition is
Palmerton R Steidl of Fast
Mauch Chunk, a brakeman on the
New Jersey Central Railroad. was
struck by a trolley bridge at Lansford
and is now at the Palmerton Hospital
in & serious condition
Reading louis Cabatz
years old, fell from a
on the
fortyten
passenger train
Reading Railway
here,
a short dis
tance below a om.
bankment, fracturing his skull and Ir
Juring himself internally ina
critical condition
South Bethlehem
for some groceries, four-vearold Ratie
Tazkas was killed by a Reading pas
senger train at the Cherry street
crossing, and one of her two oom.
panions, annie Kaldi, was thrown
down steep
He is
Sent to the ptore
Scranton. The, People's Coal Com
it was announced unofficially,
offer to their men
similar to that made by the Pine Hil
Company, at Minersville. At the com
was stated that an
offer would be made, but they were
not ready to divnige what it is to be
The People's Company operates
the Oxford colliery, the only one that
worked during the last strike. The
made as high as eighteen
dollars a ton on coal and cleared up
a million, it is said, during the six
It is stil}
Coplay. —His mind unbalanced hy
an enghteen-yvearold youth, chased his
mother with a butcher knife, and had
dug a hole through his cell in the lock.
up when detected. He was removed
to the Norristown Asylum.
Mauveh Chunk. Joseph Tonets, of
East Mauch Chunk, a loader employed
at the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company's tunnel, at Nesquebonink,
was smothered to death. He was up
In a chute loading coal when the
*oal suddenly rushed, burying him
peneath it. :