The Centre Reporter —— _ CENTRE HALL, PA. RADIUM IN HUMAN BODY? tivity of the organs of he human body, Dr. Albert Caan of Heidelberg has examined 41 organs from 13 dif- ferent persons, and every one of them contained some substance that made the alr electrically conductive, as shown by the Bercker emanometer. It was concluded that this substance must be radioactive, though possibly not radium itself. The brain, and also the lungs, proved very active; but the heart and liver were less so, and the kidneys and spleen showed only slight activity. The radioactive sud- stance seemed to Increase with age and In Little effect was Bhown from such conditions as social position, occupation or manner of liv- ing, and even locality of living was unimportant. Radioactive substances the effect of which on the vital ac- tivity of the body cells remains to be learned-—might come from food and drink, or from the alr. The test- ing emanometer includes a receptacle for the ashes of aBout 100 grains of the organ under test, and this is con- nected by ele wires and a rubber tube to a electrometer—with a the disease, ctric wire microscope circuit of a for fine readings—In sior age battery The new sm at be thrown open to wom en, decided, the reason broader ground icy that courses, Pulltzer School l f Journal- university Is not to it has been given Is the of the university pol women to n the narrow prin. ine unfitness for the vo- cation 'm question, says the Philadel. phia Ledger. Some men have bril- llantly succeeded therers; a in cons persistency unit ed to the quality of human sympathy has enabled them to find th way where a man might prove a mere im- patient tresps Both in this coun- there have Columbia but does not admit rather tha ciple of femint wo As newsga ts baw’ cer lentious elr i88er, try and abroad Inine editors been fem- who have neither sought h nor required Indulgence because they were not the ed- reportorial ca- to the ate suscep ut women as reporters and men un the whole, adapted of deli refinement. ld ¥ +h have suagceeded both as edit At meeting of the Lin v af yo ety of Prof, ing, nean soci presid- Herr Paul ollows: “For hundreds have nested on the Vathedral., They increased so much that many attempts them, few years Martilag ’ th Poulton a letter was read from of years spire of ext! ring the a sudden and rpate iast th " f He number of agnhalting AspDlalling the cathedral. Between ston sets of the eons pavement the were ble to pick rie Pig up food In ronsequence of dally watering places in the as and the imme birds have A Harvard professor says that ev- ery man Is responsible for his own face, as It reflects the qualities most in control of the individual. Here Is a scientific indorsement of the meth. od, generally condemned as superfl. cial, of taking every one on his face value, ————————— The Paris police have ruled that pugilists must hurt each other. Judging by the French duel, this is the only way boxing will ever be made popular in France not ————— The Georgia observer who says he faw a flock of robins that had been made drunk ®™y eating berries failed to mention whether they were yellow or blue and pink te¥s us that it on less than Millions of our oftizens the cemetery and don't A college professor is Impossible $1,100 year. belong in know it to live The hobble skirt is to glve way toa wider garment, making the sales of cloth heavier. Useful reforms have a certainty of costing somebody some- thing. The Wright brothers have succeeded gravity-proof ameroplane seems to be the kind that is most wanted. - the ancient charms. Massachusetts proposes to license ita cats, That's all righs, providing the license prohibits musle after 10 o'clock. Rochester, N. Y., bas a citizen who is the proud possessor of two hearts. And this Is leap year, tog} FOLKE E. BRANDT AGAIN IN TOMBS May Have To Serve Out Twenty Years’ Sentence. GERARD DECISION REVERSED York Supreme Court Reserves the Habeas Corpus - Declgion, New York.—Folke E. Brandt, merly valet to Mortimer L. Schiff, was released from Dannemora Prison corpus decision of Jus in the Supreme Court, is Tombs and may be re io for: who on & habeas tice Gerard, again in the turned to prison years to he Justice serve out the 30 was sentenced five Roealsky in the Segglons In which by Ceneral Appellate reversed the liberating Years ago Court of oision the Division of Supreme Court of Justice Gerard prisoner, cage caused early deci whose nuch this Governor Year when he Dix for terest plied to clemenoy If the decis which was execu fon of the Appellate Di vision unanimous, {8 ap to the for Brandt wv valet 3 Bagel will n ball After the ate Divi Judge f General Sessions Warr for Brandt's pealed assert it will remain counsel action O'8ulli a beach ant and he without ball issued arrest Tombs The Court's View. After re Tris Case opl rarden dressing re jewelry, and He Pleaded Guliity. Brandt the case interest ught Justice Gerard corpus WAS CHOKED TO DEATH. Harry McCabe Did Not Die Of Fright At Robbery. Waynesboro, Pa teat mony was given at the hearing of Her bert Lewis and Sherman Jackson, the young negroes arrested in Philadel phia and brought here charged w robbing lhe summer home of Mrs Harry McCabe, of Baltimore, at Pen Mar, near on April 20. Jackson testified that Lewis had confessed to aim that he had choked Mrs. McCabe to death. Mrs. McCabe, who was an invalid, was found dead in bed after the robbery, she died of fright Mrs. Startling 1 v ners Thanks From Salvador. Washington The minister, Don Federico Mejia, ypon President Taft In the capacity of government to thank the President for the cordial visit to Balvador of Secretary Knox. an autographed letter from President Araujo on the same subjdet, "Big Battle In Mexico. El Paso, Tex.—The Mexican Fed. vance guard of General Orozco, and sharp skirmishes are now in progress preliminary to what is expected to be the most decisive battle of the revolu- tion. Nearly 15,000 men are engaged on both sides, and the objective point of the rebels las Torreon, the railroad gatdbway of, Northern Mexico: The Federals are protecting tho city from all sided. o, .. ~~ REUNION OF GRAY AND BLUE Commander-in-Chief Trimble Sends Fervid Invitation To Confederate Veterans To Participate In the Semi-Centennial Celebration, Ga At United Conf Macon, 1 4 iglter cordial the gray l-annual cel Battle The £1 sem mvention epted MRS. KNOX ROBBED. Marine Aboard Cruiser Maryland le Under Arrest. A marine aboard under arrest, yn received ing yhhed Mra Ph la nile ns y wife of the sonds valued were during the and party in Secretary « at more than gems the America of the diamonds were re covered from a pawnshop. They will be sent to Mare Island to be used as evidence the marine is brought tour of Secretary Central Several when to trial Capt. J. M. Ellic commanding the cruiser Marviand, ref to dis cuss the alleged robbery WwW. L Coombe, secretary to Mr. Knox, when asked to confirm the theft of Mrs. Knox's jewels, that their value had been exaggerated » OLD CLERKS SPARED. ott. used Ineligible. Washington. ~The House, in Leglalative, Executive clerks over 65 old ineligible for reappointment abandonment of this feature of the bill was agreed to without debate. MORE CAREFUL NOW, Every Lifeboat Was Tested Before the Oceanic Sailed. Southampton, England. The White Star liner Oceanic sailed for Cher bourg and New York at half past twelve, Every lifeboat was lowered into the water and tested before the veagel's departure, Madame Navratil the mother of the two French walfa from the Titanic, now being looked after in New York, is to join the liner at Cherbourg. — isto 16 PERGONG KILLED bY EARTHQUAKE Half Destroyed. Boulde in First For Cen Lava and ruption tury. OMAMA'S NEW GOVERNMENT Newspaper Man Heads Department Of Public Safety been much John J. Ryder, man Oma an EMINENT MINISTER DIES Was Pastor Of Quincy's Stone Church. Quing Mase ~~Rev, E ing Butler, for many First Stone Church of Mr Cooperstown, llery Chan his died Was a the Unitarian Church, the this Butler N.Y toric at his home native of time he was pastor of the Ui Church at Fairhaven, and later Beverly, preaching for 22 church where President ring the past city, here went two mers Child Killed By Cough Drop. New York.—After a cough drop become lodged in the throat of his two-year-old nephew, Marco Sibilio took the child in his arms and started in search of a physician. When he ronched Sydenham Hospital 15 pronounced had the child dead. GIRL, AGED 12, A SUICIDE. Grief Over Having No Mother the Cause Assigned. Louisville, Ky-Aline House, 12 years old, committed suicide by shoot ing herself with a revolver at a house a few miles from this city, where she had been making her home Grief because she had no mother like the other children is supposed to be the cause. Her mother died when she was 2 years old, and her father mar ried again. | Englishman and His Wife Objected To the Men Going To the Rescue Of Victims In the Water Cry- ing For Ald. London. — Evidence doors four been opened after havipg b from the bridge British the loss of Titanic. This Thomas order that the that the watertight bulkheads had loged at een introduced wae wreck ission’s comm into the was done, ac Dillion of the the engl pumps watertight from steainer to crew sald compartments the bridge the men to go might reach that the had chief engineer through to reach To obliged to after been closed ordered four boller. the CArry pumps in No. § this men out ler-room the doors boi were open ght bul left the of four water-t} and having done sc open conduct heads, they the doors The of J managing director of th fle Marine, afte tie sd for ioneq 101 TAFT TO BE THERE Drafting Of the U. 8. Constitu Be Celebrated © fh ou 05 Ly £ 4% aral e { onst ‘nited States he ann CTEAT at Indeper dence Hall f ithe 1° Court, will lace ns ustice White, o States Supreme MOSLEMS PLAN HOLY WAR. After Tribe Country Being Fired. Tribe in Mohammedan Paris.—The call for all Moslems to a holy war, which was Turko the econ Tunie nd mov tribe In the start of the is according to the Italian War respondent of Temps in all Islam tribe to country steadily from Mohammedan ing TURKS CLAIM VICTORY. feated At Rhodes, London The Governor Turkish Island of Rhodes Italian troops landed a few telegraphs: and have captured 1.000 Italians.” ac cording to a special news dispateh dated May 8, from Pera, Turkey. NEW TRIBUNAL IN DISFAVOR. of the where dave ago Abolish the Commerce Court. Washington, to 49° to abolish the United States Court of Commerce, many Republi cans voting with the Democrats Cases now pending before the court under the abolition provision contain ed In the Legislative, Executive Judiciary Appropriation Bill could be transferred to the various district courts having competent jurisdiction, Notes That Are of Interest to Pennsylvanians. East Mauch Chunk —The B of East Mauch ( sewer the town, at Bouth Bethlehem is in Bt. Luke's Hospital with fractured skull dale when he fell hunk has ded a cost of $3 Qfgpnb ¥ slephen received fifty fee Hereford. —B8ur for the roadbed for the proposed Stale oad and Potts. town tart 3 eff wor eyors sitar between { 4 ace East Mauch Chunk.—Tt Avie Cl Las offered twenty-fis defraying the expenses of clean-up week ub ard general owas Allentown —Henry glove Was an explosion of ring SOME CODD dering some copper store Allentown ed here Yersligatio! bed i : a his pocketbook cused Ira Schaffer, a motorma aving taken it. Schaffer proved his nnocerce to a policeman, and now Simon bas a lawsuit on his hands for ise accusation Béthlehem — Miss Floren Reading, a sevent who arrix od at the h Harrison Keck, at Hecktown, to spend several weeks, was taken suddenly il the day of her arrival, and by night. fall died of congestion of the lungs Reading — William B. Rauvensahn, eighty-one years old, died here of hic esoughs. He had been sick five weeks He had been subject to hiccoughs for the last nine years, but the last spell lasted longer than any previous at tack Reading —8amuel Gauger, fifty-one years old, a barber, while dozing in one of his chairs, was attacked and beaten so badly that he is In a se rious condition at the Homeopathic hospital. Samuel Burket, twenty.two years old, his alleged assailant. is in Jail in default of ball awaiting the ce Keek, o een -yoar girl, of her uncle, old ome St. Lawrence-—Thieves entered the Union, and blew open his safe. They were greatly their work, as Adams had nothing in the safe but Wernersville Appraisers fixed the damage for the loss incurred through the death of eleven head of cattle of Samuel Schaeffer and four head of cattle of Garson Bickel, which were killed on orders from the State Live Stock Department. Each will receive forly dollars a cow.
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