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CENTRE HALL, PA.
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FIRE PREVENTION.
Recently New York had a
vention day.” Officials aad insurance
companies co-operated to give demon-
gtrations of the various methods of
safeguarding property and particular
of the laws and the exercise of care
on the part of those in charge of prop
erty. This
be continued
without interruption.
truth that fire i8 a
and {if every one is
careful there is no occasion whatever
for these visitations. In the case of
wires and pipes causing the ignition
of woodwork, the blame is to be
placed upon those who are responsible
for the construction or the main-
tenance of the building. It is possible
now to protect all electric wires so
that they cannot cause the heating of
adjacent materials and all forms of
heating apparatus can be similarly
covered so that they are innocuous. By
keeping matches stored in tin boxes
and out of the reach of children they
are eliminated as a possible cause
for fire. The fire loss in any city
would be materially reduced if every
person were careful in throwing away
a match after igniting it or in casting
aside burning cigar or cigarette
stumps, says the Washington Star.
Careful attention to greasy waste will
prevent spontaneous combustion Com-
mon sense in the kitchen elim-
inate danger of gasoline or oll
explosions,
the people the
needless waste
will
the
The
made very int
history.
Palestine exploration fund has
eresting contributions to
A press dispatch states that
Messrs. Mackensece McAllister,
working under the auspices of this or
ganization, have unearthed the ancient
city of Bethshemesh about 30 miles
from Jerusalem, which was th of
the tribe of Judah and allotted to the
priests. Bethshemesh figured in early
Jewish history in connection with the
calamity that befell its inhabitants
account of their irreverent handling
of the ark
and
city
on
The number of deaths among avia
tors is larger than it was because the
number of aviators and the number
of tripe are larger. Really the
of mortality in aviation 1s undergoing
steady reduction. European statist}
clans assert that last year's deaths
averaged
indred
rate
of aviators
each one hi
air fiigh
for each
as recently
only one
theusand miles
whereas the rate was
i
les of
Years
one thousand m
as three age
Half a centu
amazed by th
ry ago the world was
a disc overy of spectrum
which
opporiunity to
analysis, gave astronc
determine 1
Pro te s80T
of
discov Fed
composition of
Wood of the
mental physics,
a new aid to
character
distant stars
department
has just
investigations of this
exper
taken
light invigible t«
ultra-violet ray,
photographs
means of rays of
human
infra-red
by
the
La
eye—the the
A cadet has been dropped from
West Point and a student from Yale
for getting married before graduation.
The marrying instinct prevails some
times over the higher education. But
poseibly the young benedicts will not
be so strong for the conpublal ten-
dency after a few years’ experience of
marriage before
pleted
education is com-
in Maine who
killed a in mistake for a
deer has been ordered to pay $500 as
a fine
After
complaining
An amateur hunter
companion
to the orphans son of his victim.
a while amateur hunters will be
of the prohibitive fines
which will put the chance of making
such mistakes out of the reach of the
deserving poor among hunters.
Decpite reports of the continued
Lilling of hunters and guides, under
the impression that they were deer,
an official statement from ‘he Adiron-
dacks [72 that 2.650 deer were killed
in that region, and not a single gulde
or fellow hunter, Deduce as suits your
taste whether this implies better alm
or worse,
A college professor now declares
that love of
suit college professors, but both have
been In use long before college pro
fessors were thought of, and possibly
ories of love have changed fashion.
successfully courted and landed
jail. Probably he will have a chance
now to compare the bars of the jail
with thoge of a gridiron.
When Mr. Bdison produces that
talking moving picture will not most
of the gllent charm of the movies dis
appear? How many have wished that
“ranters” were compelled to appear
only in the movies?
EXPLOSION BL
Curtis Bay, Md.
26 DEAD, 20 MISSING, 60 HURT.
New Collier Jason
Vandyke and Mate Diggs, Of the
Atlantic, Give Their Lives
For Others.
Baitimore.—At least
killed, 20 are missing, and
60 were Injured in an explo:
tons of dynamite, following a fire on
board the British tramp steamer Alum
Chine, In the harbor off Fort Carroll.
The 20 missing are thought to have
gone down ith the Alum Chine.
Many of the stevedores were
only by numbers, and it is
thelr names er be kno
There were also a num
negroes who were believed to
been around the Alum (
barges looking for who
lleved to been
=0 persons were
more than
fon of 350
wi
Known
will ney wn
ber of
have
aine anda
be
the
work
caught
are
have by
The disaster caused a
which is estimated at $15
New Collier Jason Ride] ed By Debris.
The brand new collier Jason, w
had but
the
0.000
hich
recently been complet d
few days,
ments
from
ing
onred
$1.0
Heavily.
Nace
Sutfers
ta . 1
Aran ne Hosp tal
The
Qu
nt
Por
and
ners
shock
dow in the
doors
ings
iling gla
were x itneasesn
explosic be
a4 TOAar,
heen
death -
were range
BRYAN BEATS WILSON AT EARLY
WORKING.
Secretary Of State Ready To See Call
ers At Work Before 8.10 A. M,
Washington. — Secretary of State
Bryan is President
William J len
better whe
Wilson one
early rising
with the
PONE
n it comes to
skan is up
hotel
The Nebra
sun, breakfasts at his
and by a few minutes after 8 recely
callers. By 8.35 he in
work,
cal
ou
for routine
disposed of personal
coming to the office,
reads
having
lere before
LEVI P. MORTON IS ILL.
Former Vice-President Confined To
Fifth Avenue Residence.
York Announcement was
that Lavi P. Mor
vice-president in the Harrison ad
New
ton,
He is 89 years old.
TO RUN $300,000,000 SUBWAY.
Interborough’s Contract Approved By
New York Commission.
New York --The Public Service
Commission approved the much-op-
posed operating contracts with the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com.
pany for the city's new 9300,000,000
subway system. The vote was three
to two, Chalrman MeCall voting in the
effirmative, :
FORTRESS FALLS
32,000 Turks Surrender to the |
Greeks.
A TERRIFIC ATTACK MADE.
Greek Commanders, a Feint To
Right, Distract
and Then Surprise
Them,
By
the Turks
A Complete Surprise,
*
re
des; i
fF their
bed
mad race
troops fol
to the
cers raily
iments suocum
d in a
Greek
tit almost
The Capitulation.
the defending batteries In
and the Hel
» gates of Janina,
Turk! comman
flag of
tine of
HEREET &
wn Prince
nouncing
and all the troops under his
and
Constan
r
the surrender ol
mn
fall of Janina was announced
he Crown Prince to t Greek War
the following dispatch:
kK headquarters), 6
having occh
of city
Bizanl, and Cas-
g urrounded by our
he
ga (Gree
e Greek
the entire left
and also
arm:
+ front the
of Janina
tritza having been
troop Easaad Pasha has just In.
form od me that his troops surrendered
as prisoners of war,
“1 will send you shortly details of
the great victory of our gallant army.”
Wild enthusiasm reigned in the
streets of Athens on the announce
ment of the news. All the houses
were decorated with flags. Excited
people thronged the thoroughfares
singing the Greek national anthem,
while joyous peals rang out from every |
church steeple In the capital,
EMILIO MADERO SAFE.
| Succeeded After Much Trouble In Get. |
ting into Texas.
San Antonio, Tex.-~Emilio Madero, |
Raoul Madero, brothers of the late |
president of Mexico, after a 600.-mile |
the border, reached San Antonio,
Twice during the journey they were
attacked, |
TOWARD MEXICO
Precautions to Be Taken to
Avoid Friction on Border.
Brigadier General Bliss, Comma.
Bouth,
Make a To
ding
the Department Of the
To
Ordered ur
Of Inspection.
inferred
than
was
rank
became
this §
EEE
Raw
vernn
Mexican pa
the outbreaks
SUFFRAGE GETS SETBACK.
Massachusetts and Maine Turn Down
Proposed Amendment,
Boston The cause of
frage received a setback
England legislatures
After several hearings
participated in by prominent men and
women a committees in the Massachu
setts legisiature voted to report
“leas withdraw” on a& bill provid
ing for a referendum constitu
tional amendment which would elimi
nate the word “male” from the pro
vision defining the qualifications of a
spirited
e to
On a
Six members of the commitiee voted
against suffrage, three for it and two
were not recorded
A similar bill was
Maine House by a vote
after it had been passed
ate,
killed in the
of 88 to 53
by the Ben.
A
MILL BLOWN up.
Nine Men
Hurled 100 Feet In the Air.
Sharon, Pa Three men were, per
haps,
seriously hurt, when a
furnace at the Wilkes Rolling Mill ex.
The mill was partially
The cause of the explosion
EL. A —
Miss Ethel Will Become Dr. Derby's
Bride April 4,
Oyster Bay, N. Y.~The date of the
wedding of Miss Ethel Carow Roose
velt, daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, to Dr. Richard
Derby, of this city, has been fixed as
Friday, April 4. The wedding will be
in the Episcopal Church here and a
reception will follow at the Roosevelt |
residence on Sagamore Hill,
ANOTHER MEXICAN
REVOLT 15 ON
State of Sonora Declares Its
Independence.
| FLEEINGACROSS THE BORDER
| Huerta's Provisional Government Offi
Made To Resist the
Federal! Troops.
tions
commot in preparatic
general campaign to make
tate an independent republic
Private ts
from M
CETRINS received
exico Cit
ted Man
Bay
|appoin
visional governo ) Sonora, with
‘orders pre jermosillo and
subdue the uprising there Messnges
jeneral
from Hermosi ay hat «
regan comman
ousted
ALLIANCE AGAINST CASTRO
Do
urn.
South American Not
Want
Republics
Him To Ret
bia and N!
erica
beer
Bove
ul genera
governm
] patr
had
Ung
been
INAUGURATION COST $73,000
Sum Spent By Citizens and Congres
sional Committees.
3 hington Wie
Pre
approxi matels
ires of the
Wilson's
ssident of the
r $73.
izens
$48
e receipts from all sources
gnnroxin £34.10 The
deficit of $14,000 will be made up fron
the guarantee fund of §88.000 which
was subscribed In Washington. The
Joint Congressional Inaugural Com
mittee spent $25,00 ppro
odrow
ina
IDRUE
ration as
United States cost
The
Inaugur
000, while th
000
exper dit :
ftee were about
1
ai Comm)
were italy
about
priated by Congress
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SAVED $8,000,000.
Has Proud Record To Look
Back Upon.
MacVeagh
Washington —The Treasury Depart
ment’'s Committee on Efficlency and
Economy reported to Franklin Mace
Veagh that he had saved $8,000,000 for
the government during his four-year
(term ag Secretary of the Treasury
The committee, in a detalled report of
the reforms instituted, sald: “The
report shows the present annua! rate
| of saving to be nearly $3,500,000 and
ithe aggregate saving during your
| term to be nearly $8,000,000."
PLUNGES 5,000 FEET TO DEATH.
British Air-Man Falls While Demon
strating Machine.
Salisbury Plain, England. Geoffrey
England, a British airman, fell 5.000
feet from his monoplane while mak
ing a flight on the army flying ground
‘here and was instantly killed. He
had been fiving for an hour when the
accident occurred.
WOULD LIMIT EXTRA SESSION.
Leaders Want Only Tariff and Appro-
priations Acted On.
Washington. —President Wilson was
strongly urged by House leaders to
use his influence for and agree to a
plan which would confine Congress al
the special session called for April 1
to the enactment of “tariff legislation
(and the passage of the two sppro-
priation bills which falled in the clos
| ing dave of the last Congress.
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CKOPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality—
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Bush
nees and Pleasure that Interest.
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Bowers
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as ordinance al
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ta SAL
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with the
many
fed
ion for
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ted his
secre.
J. Aukern has comple
4
» +
thirty-firet year of service as
A ia Rail
oldest
point of
tary of the Altoona Pennsvivar
road Y. M. C. A He is the
Y. M. C. A. secretary in
service on the Pennsylvania lines
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.
daught Miss Florence
Williamsport. have gone San Fran-
at which place Miss Jaggard
will wed A. G. Faneuf, of Manila, Phil
ppine Islands, who arrives this week
Jaggard and
er, Jagrard, of
eleco,
Captain Eugene V. Calvert of
Williamsport Police Deg
ed a crusade against a rat and placed
a trap in the cellar The following
morning a large rodent nibbled at a
dainty plece of cheese and wag caught
in the trap. A few hours later the
captain was surprised to find that, In-
stead of one rat in the cage, there
were nine. The rodent gave birth to
eight after being eanght
the
artment start
The domestic sclonce and manaal
part of the Connellsville school sys-
tem recently, are running smoothly,
In the domestic seclence department
Oatmeal, rice and cream of
Each pupil is allowed to
The boye In the manual
training department are making a
forced by Columbia County Com.
missioners to raise tax valuations
$631,683, Willlam Croft, of West Ber
wick, wouldn't swear to hi: assess
ments,
The faculty of the Chambersburg
High School suggested that in the
future the commencement exercises
should consist of a salutatory and a
valedictory by members of the class,
and an address by some educator of
note, the lecturer to be selected by
tha board. The suggestion was cone
HANES foro)