The Centre Reporter
CENTRE HALL PA
FIGHTING MACH!NES,
Ss
Monitor was launched, We have just
armament which st the time seemed
to promise a permanent change In
theory and practice. What
Monitor did for us in the crisis which
the salvation of our navy. But what
elapsed! The Monitor type has gone
to the scrap heap, and the massive,
towering, stupendous dreadnought has
taken its place. Torpedoboats bave
come in, followed by torpedo de
stroyers. And the range of naval op
eration: bas been extended. Every
maritime nation has equipped Itself
with submarines, and the very latest
is a submarine that can fight above
the water and descend with safety
after delivering the fire of its battery.
Under the water and above the land
in the air the power of! destruction 1s
extending. What is the end of this
development of the means of devasta-
tion? Logically, 1s it not the estab
Hshment of universal peace as an in-
ternational duty?
Wherever the Romans lived In the
days of the empire they carried luxury
and art. They occupied for centuries
a large part of the northern coast of
Africa. It 1s not surprising therefore
to learn by a dispatch from Tripoll
that a body of [talian troops dIggIDE
trenches near the Oasis of Sclara, on
the spot formerly occupied by Roman
imperial gardens, has unearthed an
ancient Greek Venus of remarkable
beauty, The head and arms are miss.
ing, but the torso is In excellent
preservation and reminds beholders of
the famous Capitoline Venus. The
statue has been sent to Rome, where
ft will be in the National
museum. In nearly every spot where
soldiers have tapped the ground to
throw up defensive works they have
uncovered traces of the ancient Ho
man occupation of Tripoll, Including
tombs, mosaics and ruins of splendid
placed
There is a New York statute against
the revelation by physicians of the se
crets of the consultation room; but a
New York judge has de~ided that It
does not prevent a doctor from
scribing the which be
performed when he finds it necessary
in
de
services has
to sue for the collection of his fee
that the the phy-
siclan may proceed with his action
leging anything and everything that is
necessary, without
indirectly becoming
tion of the law The decision would
seem is
to pay a
case, judge rules,
al
oa
or
either directly
liable for viola
to be reasonable It A mean
man why will refuse fair fee
t« his doctor.
A Creeley,
have perfected a seedless watermelon
and is now experimenting with pea-
nuts crossed with sweet peas He ex
pects to get blossoms and peanuts
from the same vines, the peanuts
growing above ground instead of In
the earth. He has hopes of producing
a succotash plant by crossing corn and
beans, and boks forward to growing a
breakfast food which will Include the
qualities of coffee. In the meantime,
where's Luther Barbank?
Colorado, man claims to
A Dutch prisoner, who was taking
walking exercise In the courtyard of
the Conclergerie Prison at Paris, sud-
denly made a running jump at the
wall, which is 14 feet high and topped
with iron spikes, mounted it like at
cat, to the amazement of the jailers.
jumped down on the other side, climb
ed 20 feet up a wire ladder, dropped
by accomplices from an open window,
and got away He must be a real fiy-
fog Dutchman.
Girls In a Massachusetts college
have rejected the cap and gown as
graduation gard In favor of the white
dress, on the ground that the latter is
proof to the skeptical that higher edu
cation for women is a rank fallure.
tuvalid that his days are numbered,
main. That might Le also sald with
perfect truth of the healthiest man in
the land
a
at New Haven, Conn.
200000 It Is
with a etinp
By hurling a custard ple into the
face of a would-be robber a waitress in
a Denver restaurant half-blinded him
and saved the money in the cash box,
As a weapon of defense the custard
ple deserves the highest encomiums
—— s————————————————— A A I
SOFT COAL MINERS
WILL NOT STRIKE
Satisfactory Agreement
Wage Question Reached.
on
ANTHRACITE WORK TO STOP
The
celve An Increase In Pay and
All Other Demands Are
Walved.
Bituminous Miners Are To Re-
Cleveland, O.- Peake, by agreement,
was declared in the bituminous coal
fields Friday. Immediately afterward
an order was issued by the anthracite
strike committee that the 173,00
miners in those fields suspend work
this week. It can be authoritatively
stated, however, that negotiations will
begin within a week for a settlement
in the anthracite fields.
There will be a short suspension in
the bituminous flelds to permit the
operators and miners of the different
states to settle their internal differ.
ences, hut, according to the agreement
made in the joint conference, no
influence the cost of
the agreement
made that will
mining
here or keep the miners irom
over
as much as they can.
By
ceive
i
agreement the miners will re
increase of five
for screen
per
work,
an cent
three for
for
five
coal, cents mi
run, 6.5 cent labor and
dead
day
and hours’ work
with
demands are waived
Saturday five hours
the other
There
pay
will be a suspension in
all states
Arkansas,
where the
work
niract
bituminous fields In except
Missouri, Kansas, Texas
aud
I agreement to
Oklahoma,
tiationg for a co
ion me benefits
iy
un L are
far as the
there
Me
antni
concerned
sationai
tress for
GeCiars
a
not ast long
Joh: T Dempse rantor
Thomas Kennedy, o
John Fal of Shamokin ide
the union anthracite districts
telegram to George F. Baer
anc ope
gent
president
rator, proposing the t¢
the mi
tiations The
willing
reply
awaited
upon which ners were
resume neg from
ir. Baer
the
WAR *ager
plan is
necessity oO
1% Loge
iy
pted
’
adc thers
ther
fle rences
Wh
he d
operators
WAR Ro
done
among
pension
much
the miners to
as short
mnaKe
ible
A8 DOSS
YOUNG'S PIER EURNED
Noted Old Structure At Atlantic City
Catches Fire From Electric Wires.
Atlantic C
and an
before midnight
hour after the close of
ity Just
a vaude
ville performance Young's Old Ocean
Pier, first of the great that
Atlantic City has thrust the
took fire, supposedly from
crossed wires in the theater dressing
wharves
out into
oRean,
and was almost
The
room,
#troy
$400,000
Fortunately, at
were discovered
had left the pler
The fire for a
Young's Hotel,
entirely de
ed lose is estimated at
the
ail
flames
people
time the
the show
threatened
the pier, and
time
facing
in its near vicinity. Firemen how
ever, managed to control it
DEAD AT THE AGE OF 104.
Coloradian Was Born Near Where
His Life Ended.
Trinidad, Colo. Antonio Lopez, said
in Las
in Colorado,
For the last
Animas county, if not
hermit in a dugout at Garcia Plaza.
He was born near where he died and
than a few
He was 50
saw the first
miles from his home,
old before he
American settler.
Chicago.-—-Anna De Calvo,
years old, 1064 West Eleventh street
bor. The child attempted to play with
when it suddenly made a viclows at.
tack on the girl
to death. The girl and dog had been
left alone In the kitchen for a few
minutes, and when members of the
family re(urned they found the dead
body on the floor.
DEADLOCKED W TH ROADS
Managers Say That Rallroads Are
Unable Financially To Add a
Burden Of 19 Per Cent.
crease In Expenses.
in
New York
tee of
of
The conference commit
raliroads east
Norfolk
and their
managers of 50
Chicago and
Western
north of the
Railroad loco
engineers arrived at a dead
iock Monday night
vf increase in and
wages. The managers r
cede demands of the
over the question
an standardization
efused to
to the men and
he engineers declined to accept this
ison emands
As
that
and reaffirmed their d
§
i
matiers now stand
the question
placed before the rank and
Brotherhood of Locomotive
fe railroads
tf ths
ia
Brother
uid give it full co
Biggs ie ft toy
mitted 10
nsideration
them
engineers had requested a
f $4.44
$5.21
service and
WAKE | day for
Service
pe r
passenger
freight
creases for ove
per day for
substantial In
They asked
beit-line and
1
rtime also
NCTeREeS :
special engines and pecified that al
manned
TO ABOLISH COMMERCE COURT.
Bill Favorably Reported In House
Minority Report Probable
the House by
ve Sims for the majority
‘om
report,
the
ex
ted in
Foreign (
A minority
contention
inter State and
0
the
Court is
opposing that
Commerce
pensive,
a few
useless
he
and
probably will submit
days
VOTES TO UNSEAT BOWMAN,
Evidence Subsequently Like That In
Stephenson Case.
Washington —The House Commit
on Elections No. 1 voted 4 to 2 to
the unseating
gentative Charles CC. Bowman, Re
publican, of Pittston, Pa. Eleventh
district, on charges of fraud and gross
irregularity of election. The question
of seating Mclean, Democrat, will
eome up later. It is probable that the
seat will be vacated and another elec.
tion ordered.
{ee
recommend of Repre.
Horse Commits Suicide.
Jeffergonville, Ind. — Suicide is what
Charles Pangburn, a veterinary sur
geon, pronounced it when he saw a
into
swollen current of
sink to
Dr. Pangburn had been treat:
ing the animal for a severe ailment
with which it had suffered several
days. He was driving away when he
saw the sick horse gallop furiously to
ward the stream and watched it un.
hesitatingly plunge in and end its
pearance of a struggle,
Seidel n Exoncrated,
Milwaukee, Wis At a session last
until long after midnight, Emil
Seidel, the Socialist mayor, was
formation on which taxes should have
been higher against favored taxpay-
The charge was investigated by
five Socialists, and none of the opposi-
tion and the Socialist council con.
firmed the report of the committee.
i
i
oAM MAY
iN MEXIGANS
Must Live Up to Government's
Constitution.
THE FEDERAL FORCES WEAK
Down the Same
Mexico That Was
Cuba
Nicaragua.
Likely to
Principle To
Lay
Done In and
The rebel ceesses have shal
mfidence of some of the Washi
fgmnh o
mph
The
Cuba,
other Centr: i
Amer
pring
republ
ndian
ment has laid down the
having
ous dist
iple
lar constitutions, the vari
feat
irb those
live
ements in
to
vernment
will of
coun
up to
must be
the ma-
expressed
no
ng «
be
the £0
representative of the
jority of the people
and that there should
created despotism
tries obliged
them: that
freely
be self
The problem may soon be presented
whether some such representa
tions may not have to be made to the
ambitious aspirant for executive pow
in Mexico in the event of Madero's
Even in such case, how-
confidently believed here
be no necessity for an In
Mexico or for the exercise
of anything more than moral suasion
#uch as has been potent in the case
of other disturbed Latin-American re
publies
fo
»
1
ever, it
there will
vasion of
is
RIDICULES IDEA OF PLOT.
On Rumor To Dynamite His
Train In Nicaragua.
Knox
Santo Domingo.
had no information in any way sub
stantiating ‘he rumor of a plot in
Nicaragua to dynamite his train. Ac
cording to a Managua dispatch, pub-
lished here,
sulted in the sentencing to death of |
40 opponents of the government. An
adherents. Mr. Knox ridicules
idea of a plot, and believes the report
has been circulated to discredit
mission,
Appeals To Taft.
Washington.— Rev. Charles 8.
Farland, secretary of the Federal
America, presented a petition to Presi
dent Taft urging him to take meas
mines of the nation. The petition ex.
presses the belief that “where Igter
ests are involved which so seriously
concerned.”
| STEPHENSON RETAINS SEAT |
Both Haryland Senators Voted With |
Majority-—28 Republicans and |
12 Democrats Favored
Westerner.
Washington. Senator Stephenson,
of Wisconsin, octogenarian million-
aire, banker and lumber man, retains
his seat,
By a vote of 40 to 34 the Benate de.
that $107,793, which the
Senator admitted spending in the Wis-
consin had been
charge
primaries, usea cor
Twenty-eight
Democrats
Republicans and 12
voted to hold Senator
election a valid one
Democrats and 16 Republi-
ob
Senator Stephenson declared he felt
was due him
“l never spent a dollar
life,” sald he
66 years of
wrongfully
“In active management
have emploved
three genera
wirike !
any
thousand
and never
used a dollar for a
men
had a
fraud of
kind.”
Senator for
whose vote
greeted by
Lorimer,
Senator Stephenson
n ontburst
alleries,
The came
speechmaking by Senators Pomerene
and Sutherland for Stephenson
Cummins, Lea
and Poindexter against him
Poindexter Senator
WHE Eres
Senn
Was
laughter in the Senate
ig under similar charges
vote end of
of
at the a days
and
Senators O'Gorman
Senator
Btephen
ter th
Lot
that Senator
declared
& alleged offense
against
et
an
that charged
Sen
tor ner
ator Lea lared
Stephenson's workers had violated the
rules of ordinary decency and pro
priety and there was
thing left to violate
wept because
fic
DESERTED, SEEKS DEATH,
Eloping Woman Robbed Of $4,300
TURKS CLAIM VICTORIES.
5,000
Put At
cers and Men.
Italian Losses Over Off
rat sgt nl
Constantinople
Office announced tha
iripoli had
11
March ARE
ian
beer
ital
FOR RECALL OF ARIZONA JUDGES
House Of
other in the Senate.
New State Passes Bill; An
Embezzied $100,000, Charge.
Tufts
widow of
28 Angeles, Cal Graham
former
Worth,
jail here awaiting arraign
the charge of having em
approximately $100.000 of the
£1.000,000 estate of his wife. Tufte is
alleged to be a hypnotist and occult
adept and founder of a cult called The
Church of God He said also to
be the head of the American Hymalén
Christian Colony Association
husband of the
A. R. Roe, of Fort
the county
ment on
bezzled
Tex., is in
is
Credit Association.
To
himself
For Farmers’
farmer
intrench against possible
loss by making financial arrangements
for holding his crops and protecting
his credit, Representative Norris, of
Nebraska, introduced a bill to create
farmers
to ascertain the rracticablility and de
girability of organizing a farmers’ na
tional co-operative credit association
Washington equip the
to
Michigan For Suftrage.
Lansing, Mich.--The House, by a
75 to 19, passed the bill pro
viding for a vote at the fall election on
The bill now goes
the Governor for his signature
Ocborn recommended the |
| Passage of the bill
to
John Arbuckle Dead.
New York-John Arbuckle,
well-known coffee man, died at hie
home in Brooklyn. He was 74 years |
Death was due to a general col |
the |
wh sia—
Salisbury Gets Women's College.
Greensboro, N. C.-—-The committee
ARS SA AS
Wife and Child See Aviator Killed.
Dusseldorf, Germany The German
PENN SYLVANIA
STATE NEWS
Newsy Items Gathered From
All Parts of the State.
York.—The Dover Farmers’ Co
Operative Association hag been organ
ized and will file articles associa
tion with Recorder Sonneman
of
Mauch Chunk. W. (
State Health Department,
the prevention and cure
culogis Asa Packer
Bchool.
Miller, of the
lectured on
titer
Public
of
in the
Oley Prof. Irwin W
resigned as teacher of the
ship High
position at the
School
Ziegler
Oley
accept
Mata
has
Town
mar
High
School to a si
NOris
Stroudsburg William Kresge, an
undertaker of Brodeadsville, died
while making arrangements for a uo
neral in the Kunkletown
being due to
Cemetery,
death heart disease
Anto
second-glory w»
demented,
Norristown Ir
Bethlehem Terek,
out of a
South
jumped
while temporarily
10
who
INGOw
WAR re
moved the IBET
Asylum
Bethlehem —A
from
heavy rod that
the top of a stone quarr:
Martin's
rick,
(Creek Joseph Tem
who was
head,
Reading Jacob R. Ritter
Bey
on a
nstantly kill
sitting bench, on
ng him
geventy
€Nn Year retired cabinet maker
coffin six
Joseph's
& old
}
h
who made # OWD Year
died in =1
it Hil The
the
Pennsylvania
gitended hy
send
The
i costs
Jack mon three
Flor
vears old, of Coplas
if Rittersy and
Gable. fi
were peri
Both chi
glepe In
they tripped and fell
ching and
tongues
ence Ye
sly in
dren
jured in similar
weye playing
their houses
landing on
severing
WAVE
stone
when
their
their
aon
front of
nearly
Carlisle. Russel
three years old, died at his home here
from the result of & gunshot wound
received eleven vears ago while em
ployed in a Perry county saw mill
Sweger was accidentally shot by a
gun held in the hands of one of his
brothers and was paralyzed from the
waist down.
Allentown Word has been received
here of the death at Chicago of Mrs
Mina A. Miller, wife of Cassius A. Mil
ler, and daughter of the late Robert
E. Wright, 8r. Rhe was a sister of
Robert E. Wright, Jr, and the late
J. Marshall Wright, of Allentown. both
former chairmen of the Democratic
State Central Committee
Kutztown
Sweger, twenty
B. Ketner
arrested a
band of gypsies, consisting of four
men, two women and two children
for cruelty to animals. Justice of the
them $15 and
costs. Their eleven horses had no
ehelter for three days and hardly any
Constables U
York-—A warrant, charging him
was served upon J K.
loan company here. He ‘3 alleged to
have written fictitious names and ad.
used in negotiating a loan from the
company, and then to have appro.
Lancaster. The Pennsvivania Rai)
road Company has rewarded Charles
Spence, of Marietta, with 325 each for
preventing a passenger wreck near
that town when they discovered a
boulder on the tracks.
Lancaster. — Jefferson Eckman, &
farmer in the southern part of the
county, committed suicide at his resi
dence near Buck. Upon the preisnse
hat he intended to kill a cat, Eckman
ook a revolver from the house and
vent to his barn, where his body was
‘ound an hour later by his son.