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Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—Items of Busi
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The Sanitary Company of America
has started rebuilding ita burned
plant at Linfield.
The Lancaster Court has refused
a parole to Edward K. Mozart, serv-
ing six months for marital Infidelity.
Mrs. Frederick Christman, 97, Mil
ton’s oldest woman, suffered a broken
hip when she fell less than three feet.
$100 to the Blanche Burpee Public
Playgrounds Association.
Arthur Goedeke hag
Hazleton a 400-pound
shot in Pike county.
at
he
exhibited
bear that
Pen Arygl's new industry, a shoe
factory, is expected soon te be com-
pleted and in operation.
The treasurer of Blair County has
been legally advised to pay bounties
on the scalps of noxious animals.
W. M. Frantz, of Berwick, died of
blood poisoning, the result of step-
ping on sharp iron in October.
Of 332 teachers, members of the
ennual Institute of Columbia County,
at Bloomsburg, only two are absent,
ill
Attempting to eject a shell from a
ehotgun, Guy Warner, of Seven Val-
leys, York County, blew his right
hand off.
Mrs, Clara Rose, of Montrose, con-
victed of dynamiting her husband, has
been refused a new trial and sent to
the penitentiary.
Paul Klees, Robert Trate and Har
ley Jones, Milton youths, who pleaded
guilty to six burglaries, escaped jail
by paying $350 to their victims.
Most Columbia
have brown eyes,
County Treasurer Nagle,
tered them.
declares
who
Deputy
regis-
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Former Congressman G. A. Schne-
belli, of Nazareth, has a valuable
horse which has been cured of lock
Jaw, a rare occurrence.
Charles Bachman, of Pen Argyl, a
brakeman on the Lehigh & New Eng-
land Raliroad, slipped on a freight
car and fractured his jaw.
The Federal Steel Foundry, of
Chester, has received large orders for
ment.
Israel Wisor, of
Clearfield County, who will soon csle-
brate his 68th birthday, during his
lifetime has killed 45 deer.
Jacob Saxe, who resides four miles
from Bear Creek, is 74 years of age
and walks to Wilkes-Barre and back
to his home. He never attempts to
ride. He Is a civil war veteran.
John A. Fenstermacher, a con-
ville Railroad, fell
stepped inside his door on his return
from a hard day's work.
land, Mrs. W. A. Grier, on the pave-
ment below, caught him, saving his
life, but she is seriously hurt.
of the Harrisburg diocese.
Miss Emma Tomol,
and weighing less
was married at Mt, Carmel to Ga-
briel Priest, 26, and tipping the scales
at more than 200 pounds.
14 years old,
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train on the Pennsylvania Railroad a
ceiving Injuries that resulted in his
death,
A woolen coverlet made in 1842,
and as serviceable as ever, was sold
at a public vendue, held at Landis
ville, Lancaster County, recently, by
the executor of Susan Wertz, for
$6.40,
At Kittanning the Pennsylvania
Rallroad has closed a deal for the
Cralg property for & new depot. The
wurchase price is sald to be $44,000.
The new sith will eliminate all grade
crossings in the borough and wil
shorten the route of the rallroad
through the borough two miles,
HUERTA'S MESSAGE
10 HIS CONGRESS
and Imposes New Tax.
REPRESENTED
All Of the Various Types Dominating
Factors In the Success Of Future
Campaigns—How They Can
Be Utilized.
St. Louis, Mo.—"In my opinion the
will
not only tend to limit the duratich
and scope of ‘hostile operations, but
also aid in the control of the seas, one
of the elements contributing material
ly to the power and prosperity of a
nation.”
Secretary Daniels made this state-
ment here in the course of a public
address upon aeronautics, in which he
discussed the conquest of the air by
the United States Army and Navy
and the part aerial navigation will
take In future wars.
“The potentialities of the aeroplane,
when applied to the art of war, are
extremely great and its proper use
will undoubtedly be a dominating fac
tor in the success of future cam-
paigns.”
be for scouting and
work and for offensive destructive
operations against hostile fleets and
fortifications. Rash indeed will be the
commander of an opposing fleet who
would head his vessels against the
fleet or coast of an enemy possessing
a number of these vicious wasps of
war, and unfortunate indeed would be
a commander who did not have ready
at his call this means
supremacy in the air.
“A torpedo costs $5.000,
reconnoissance
and
flection in direction that makes it im-
possible to follow it from the crows
nest of a ship. But an aerial scout
ly by watching it from above.
price of one torpedo will pay for sev-
eral flying machines. Experts
mines are easily ‘picked up’
cated by aerial scouts. One
ship.
small
safety.
sum, would mean the
The dirigible balloon,
naval warfare as the aeroplane, and
naval strategy and tactics”
Will Receive Kentucky.-Bred Bird
From Bouth Trimble.
Washington. — President Wilson,
Becretary Tumulty and the members
turkey for their Thanksgiving dinners
South Trimble, clerk of the House,
on his bluegrass farm. The
President's bird will be a yearling
gobbler, welghing 40 pounds dressed.
nuts and red pepper.
Pistol On Himself,
Pittsburgh. Charles Deitz, an elec-
trician, aged 36 years, shot his wife,
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Mil-
ler, and himself at Braddock, a sub-
urb. The trio
nearest hospital, where physicians
sald Dietz would likely die, but the
women were not dangerously hurt.
LEGLESS WOMAN SUED, *
Miss Gabrille Charged With “Jump-
ing” Her Contract.
New York.--Mies Gabrille, The Leg-
York theater, is alleged to have “jump-
her contract. The charge was
He de-
Melville al-
Miss Gabrille to appear for 26 weeks
at $1560 a week under his manage-
ment. He alleges she failed to keep
the contract.
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KILLS MOTHER AND HIMSELF.
Bald In Note.
Chicago.~—~Albert Zinkie, 44 years
old, shot and killed his mother and
“hard up and better off dead.”
GIRLS GO ON HUNOQER STRIKE,
But Return For Lunch At Coliege
After Missing Meal,
Spartanburg, 8. C.—-Two hundred
young womeh students at Converse
College, who started a hunger strike
at dinner as a protest against the food,
returned for lunch. A dozen had
weakened at breakfast. “Merely the
desire of the young ladies to try some
novel experience,” was the comment
of Dr. Robert P. Pell, president of the
college.
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EDERAL CONTROL
OF WATER
Resolution Adopted By Conser-
vation Congress.
HADASTORMY SESSION
Private Ownership Advocates Make
Vigorous Fight, But Develop
a Hopeless Minority.
Boiters Fall,
Washington. Monopolistic
vation Congress, just adjourned here
The climax of the water power fight
which bad agitated the congress for
the
that
ils
referred divergent reports from
submitted
the matter had been tawen from
general principles Won
the waterways committee
No mention of the majority
to State and Federal control of water
the United States and father of the
minority waterways report in the con-
report a declaration” of
principles on waterways control, simi
iar to the ideas in the minority report
N. Teat, of Oregon.
was adopted by a vote of 317 to 96,
defeated, 878 to 132.
The Pinchot amendment, approved
delegates, declared that monopolistic
control of water power in private
hands was swiftly inereasing in the
power in
was accompanied by
suming agencies, the public service
companies of the country.
66,000 FACTORY WORKERS OUT.
Strike Protest Against Prosecution
For Quitting.
factory hands in St. Petersburg and
throughout Northern Russia started
Wednesday, 65,000 laying down their
tools. The movement is a protest by
the workmen against the trial of some
employes of the Buchow works on a
charge of illegally quitting their work.
SIXTH ARSON RING CONVICTION.
Chicagoan Found Guilty Of Hiring
Confessed Incendiary,
Chicago.-~The sixth conviction in
the “arson ring” prosecution was ob
tained here when Isaac La Bow was
found guilty of hiring John Daniels, a
confessed incendiary, to set fire to La
Bow's furniture store. Joseph Clarke,
a public fire insurance adjuster, tried
with La Bow, was acquitted.
FINED $25 FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
Girl Had Charged Brotherin-Law With
Wronging Mer.
Huntington, W. Va.—Letha Perdue,
the l6yearold Wayne county girl
who shot her brotherindaw, James
Kendrick, dead, alleging that he had
wronged her and who was convicted
of involuntary manslaughter at
Wayne, was fined $26 by Judge Wilk.
inson. Following the Court's action,
the girl was rushed to her home, near
Kellogg, where her aged mother is
dying. X
MOULTHAOP (ED
Ser.sational Career of Man Who
Threatened President.
IS ARRESTED FOR FORGERY
Was a High Flyer On a Modest Salary
and Maintained Three Expensive
Establishments Until He Was
Bent To the Penitentiary.
Washington. — The United States
grand jury indicted Henry Moulthrop,
discharged secretary of Senator
Lewis, of lllinols, on the of
forgery of 2 $240 check and theft of a
valuable diamond ring Moulthrop,
who was arrested in New York is the
man whom Lewis charged
| with having written the Lewis-Pindell
| letter, offering Henry M. Pindell, of
Peoria, lll, the ambassadorship to
Russia for a year.
charge
Senator
New York.-—Sidney Moulthrop, the
stenographer arrested on A
charge of forgery made by Senator J
Hamilton Lewis, of lllinols, waived
extradition proceedings at his exami
nation and asserted that he wanted to
! return to Washington without delay to
stand trial He was turned over to
United States Marshal Henkel for
| conveyarce to the national capital
here
Philadviphia. — Sidney Moulthrop,
former stenographer for United States
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who
was arrested In New York after he
had sent letters to President Wilson
threatefing to “expose” the Chief
| Executlye, and one of the most re
markable careers of any person living
{ in Philadelphia prior to his arrest on
a charge of embezzling $60.000 from
| George Wood, the local millionaire.
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TEXAS READY TO FIGHT.
if Mexicans Start Trouble, Bays
Colquitt,
Austin, Texas —"In the event Mexi.
| cans start any trouble we will protect
| our citizens and not wait for Wash-
t ington to act,” declared Gov. O. B.
i Colquitt after a conference with Adjut-
{ ant-General Hutchings.
While no official statement
{ given out, it is known that the Texas
| National’ Guard is in readiness to
‘answer quickly any call which might
| be made.
| The conference was the outcome of
$
Governor Colquitt did not apprise
Washington,
| recent outbreak along the Mexican
border Federal troops did not act until
the Texas Rangers had been called
out.
GUNS DISPLACE POWDER PUFFS.
Popular Belief Regarding Chicago
Police Women Dispelled.
of powder puffe in the handbags car-
ried by Chicago's 10 policewomen. It
had been generally supposed that the
police women were unarmed, when
Officer Clara Olsen was discovered
carefully oiling her firearm. “I guess
we might as well tell the truth,” she
sald. "The revolvers form the pow.
der puff that might be supposed to be
in the bags which we carry in our
left hands.” ,
COST TAMMANY $200,000.
its Unsuccessful Mayoralty Campaign
Was Very Expensive,
Albany, N. Y.--It cost the Demo
cratic committee of New York county
more than $200,000 to wage its une
successful mayoralty campaign, ac
cording to the statement of election
receipts and expenditures of Philip ¥.
Donohue, the treasurer, filed with the
Secretary of State. Receipts totaled
over $150,000. Among them are list.
ed two “loans” made by Charles ¥.
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall,
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AINTION'S PART
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Secretary Daniels on Impor- |
tance of Flying Machines. |
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CONTRIBUTE TO PROSPERITY.
Also Orders Issue Of Small Bills,
His Effusiveness To O’'Shaugh-
nessy Excites General
Comment,
Mexico City.—1His face showing
whim i
sical which
Presi
Humor
Characlerizes hin,
Hew
Congres and read his 1g
nie
Few Mexican J
Lt the formal
‘residents Lavy
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confined them: ly to cne
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for
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which are
used of sedition
no extranecus
of his motives
lissolving the Congres
most
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members of now in the
penitentiary, ace
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and the
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called elections
The
resident men conve
into lawmake
bore
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al Huerta
ils essence an
message Genes
The incident he related them
nu of the previous
by which it
it be guided in
gressmen
tion. to
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mated they mi
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was int
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slated in the fore
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review of the po
» October 10 last: a
the
for
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ton of diciatorial powers
tion of Congress and
% tha A # fa %
of the Deputies;
intter for
tha {my
Lae itn
enunciation
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alleged harboring
a de nd for g
at the hand
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new Congress and ratification of hi
Of
sonable designs:
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plete vindication
acts, and a rather bombastic an
ed protestation
Huerta promptly get
fication seemed to beyond
The forecast was correct
Quoting of
The reply
Tamariz,
Eressmen were
Huerta, who evening
clothes, was applauded only upon his
arrival and depart when the mem
bers of Congress and spectators
rose to thelr feet and added “Vivas”
to the handclapping.
The only country not represented in
the gallery reserved for diplomats was
toe United States. Nelson O'Shaugh
nessy, the Charge d’Affaires, acting
under instructions, was from
the session.
sf viet vy
2AT30USIN
of Fer
would the rati
A ye
doubt
the
be
even to
Napoleon.
of the Speaker, Eduardo
was brief. Not all the
present
Con-
appeared In
ire,
the
absent
25 ENTOMBED IN MINE.
Men Trapped By Explosion in Colliery
At Acton, Ala.
Acton, Ala An explosion in No. 2
mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron
Company entombed between 25 and
40 miners, according to estimates of
Of the victims some are white and
fOme are negroes, as the mine em-
ployed laborers of both races. The
normal quota of employes ig 70 men,
and some did not report for work.
The first rescue parties who entered
the mine, searching for any who might
be alive, reported that they had pass
ed several dead bodies lying beside
the tramway of the sloping entrance
shaft.
Acton Mine No. 2, which lies in
Shelby county, on a branch of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, has
been considered one of the best equip
track slope and uses an 18foot fan.
So far as
ascertained, the mine workings were
PREMONITION BORNE OUT.
Sallor Swept Overboard To Death In
Heavy Gc'-
Boston.-~How a sailor's premonition
of death was borne out was told by
Capt. John Duffoe, of the schooner
Frances V. Sawyer, in from Charles.
ton, 8. C. John Johnson, a seaman.
tried to desert the schooner just be-
fore she left Charleston, fashioning a
raft from lumber carried as cargo. He
had nearly reached shore when
caught. After being returned to the
vessel he told the captain that he
knew he was going to die if he made
the trip. Three days later he was
ewept overboard to his death in a
heavy gale.
NECK BROKEN 2 YEARS; DIES
Recovered From injury, But Stomach
Trouble Is Fatal,
New Rochelle, N. Y.—While ina fair
way to make good his promise to “fool
the surgeons” made more than two.
years ago, when his neck was broken
as the result of diving Into shallow
water, Waldorf Miller, 1# years old,
died from stomach trouble. He had
#0 far recovered from his injury that
three weeks ago he was permitted to
leave his wheelchair and walk a few
steps. :
TYPHOID GERMS
IN MUSHROOMS
New Way of Getting Fever Into
Tewn Once Stricken
INFECTION
SAME IN MILK
Night 8oil a Menace to Coatesville,
as It Has Been to Other
ities—State Expert Arrives
to Assist Investigation.
Local
Countess raw mush
d close to where
from Coa been
lie Eating
room fiel
night soll
fromm a
tegviiie had
hanled caused
V. Pratt, 3
be
Pratt, his
HOw ¢«¢
of B«
stricken wit
wife
are
aay,
The
gathered in
them raw,
phoid
phe id
becom alarming.
case in th
LVal«
a
ang
rey
fever ine
fever recently
"
diseased mush
oard
theory
far
that
into milk
which wie
walter,
Buspicion directed
supply of at
milk dealers
be
two dairies
supply bereabout
tested at
Coatesvill
covered f
two years ago,
taken from
sewage
s supply
aA race nic
emptied when
was short.
Five Deer Shot.
New Germantov
Toboyne to
Center
since the opened. R
of Ch irg, who is
Ranger Koontz, shot
Gibb .
is
Schoolhouse
Reason
ambersin init
, and George
1, a boy about
near Union
The t from the
Smith boy's gun knocked off part of
horns, bringing 1
ground, but the next
through his neck. On the same
B. F. Smith 2 ntirely
through i ]
get it.
ng and Clyde Smi
years old, shot one
first sh
the deers {o the
went
day
Only Library of its Class.
The
given
only Carnegie library thus far
to an educational institution
its class was dedicated at Perkiomen
Seminary, and Dr. O. 8 the
principal, is being congratulated upon
the beauty and utility of the build-
ing. Addresses were delivered by
Hibben, of Princeton Uni-
versity, and former Governor 8. W.
Pennypacker, with responses and
greetings by Bayard Henry and Dr.
J. M. Anders, of Philadelphia; Edwin
K. Schultz, Boyertown; Maxwell H.
Kratz and the Rev. George W. Lutz,
Pennsburg.
Kriebel,
Hot Metal Entwines Boy.
Johnstown. —A white-hot bar jump-
ed the “run” in the Gautier depart.
ment of the Cambria Steel Company,
and writhing like a snake, entered
itself about the
R.
boy
and
Thomas
the
the embrace of the bar,
boy.
in a serious condition.
Hawk's Talons Tear Him.
Sharon.~John Nolan, proprietor of
the Sharon Hotel, had a desperate
battle with a large chicken hawk,
The hawk crashed through a plate
glass window and when Nolan at-
tempted to capture it the bird ate
tacked him. The big hawk was gel
ting the better of the battle when
guests at the hotel came to Nolan's
rescue. Nolan's face and neck were
out fo ribbons.
Claims on Suicide’s Funds.
West Chester Before R. 8. Gaw-
thorp, auditor in the estate of Col.
Gibbons Gray Cornwell, of this bor
ough, who, in August, 1812, committed
suicide while under arrest for embes-
glement, creditors’ claims were pre-
sented aggregating many thousands
of dollars. The firm of Thomas A.
Biddle & Company, of Philadelphia,
demanded $9,146.24; the J. W. Sparks
Company, of Philadelphia, $6,783, and
other claims wsmounted to about
$9,000. Another meeting of creditors
was Oxed.