— THE NEWS ToLD IN PARAGRAPHS Latest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the State. ing—Berwick Masonic Club Elects New Officers—Tries To Blow Up His Home. During a sermon at the Brethren Church, at Bamuel Kulp was stricken with heart disease and died almost instantly. have refused to pay bounty for the kill- ing of obnoxious animals and birds, About $500 in claims is filed. John Cooper, of Columbia, it is blowing up his home. It plode and he is in jail. The commencement exercises of the thigh school at Hallam, were held when a class of seven girls was graduated. Miss ProL J. F. Carrie Wolf, salutatorian. Krebs delivered an address. John J. Monaghan, of Norristown, a brakeman on a passenger train on the Schuylkill divielon of the Pennsyl. vania, was caught between his train and a caboose while shifting at Read: dng, and was crushed to death Stanley G. Breneiser, an artist of Reading, will be married April 30, to Miss Elizabeth C. Day end Mrs. T. Day, of Washington. The honeymoon will be in the art centers of England, France and Italy, spent Surgeons &t the State Hospital at Ashland, operating on Michael Foley, of Mahanoy City, for found a bent pin in the boy's appendix. Young Foley had no swallowing a pin. He appendicitis, recollection will recover. The Alliance Coal Company, con trolled by the L., C. & N. Co., is plan- ning to open the Kaska William Col liery, in the Valley, near Middleport. months Schuylkill Mary M. Goff took poison while be Ing taken from Hanover to Baltimore, by W. W. Smeak, chief of police, of Hanover. She is charged with forgery by a Baltimore firm. She was taken to Aa hospital there Professor Thomas 8. Cole, of Ches ter, superintendent of public #chools, has received the silver loving be awarded to the School for winning country run the cup which is to Larkin Gra: the recent cr Second Ward Yacht Club, of has elected the following offi Edward Pike; vice yard The Or Chester Prealdent Hil tary. John E Upton. CBrs president ummings: secre. treasurer, Harry School in Leipe The House, on the rville, was de The old Lelper Fairview Road siroyed by fire. building was ebandoned as & school a year ago, and has been occupled by Antonio Regerio and family, who fled from the fire over & roof Berwick Lodge of Odd Fellows has elected the following officers: Noble rand, 'W. E. Bond; vicegrand., T. R Fairman; financial secretary, A. OG. Birt; representative to Grand Lodge, H. BE. Walton The third annual commencement exercises of the Warwick High School, were held ated, Jacob B. Garber was valedic torian, and Mildred Yeager. saluta torian. Rev. George B. Raezer, of the Reformed Chureh, spoke. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eves, of Mill ville, who were married by the Friends’ ceremony In 1864, celebrated their golden wedding. Twenty persons who pigned the original wedding certificate were present. The couple daughter, Mrs. H. 8. Christian, of Mill. wille elected the following officers: dent, Moss 1. Elder: vice presidents, Alexander C. Mokson and J. J. Kosten- bauder; secretary, Fred Walton; treas- rer, Taylor Evans: members Board of Governors, Harry Straub and |. J. Kirkendall. Chester's new budget of appropria- tions follows: Department of Publie Affairs, $18,675; Department of Ao counts and Finance, $114,725: Depart. ment of Public Safety, $23,180: Depart. ment of Btreets and Public Improve. ments, $15,625; Department of Parks end Public Property, $28,000. H. V. White, president of the White Milling Company, of Bloomsburg, State milling and cereal expert, has been dl. rocted by the Department of Labor and Industry, to appoint a committees and prepare a code of rules and regulations governing protection for the machines and equipment of mill, elevator and warehouse bulldings In the State, CLEARS FRANK ——————— Detective Says He Knows Who Killed Mary Phagan. DECLARES FRANK NORMAL That Convicted Man Is Not Factory Employe's Slayer, Chicago, Ill.— William J. Burns, the who murdered Mary Phagan, the At someone else, In his opinion, Burns would not say, but he intimated that thelr results with the results of the attack on the girl alleged to have pre ceded her murder, Burns, on his arrival from City, related this of his investigation He said his attention had first been called to the case by a young man from who was on steamer on which return ing from Europe. The young man ex pressed his regret that Burns had not | become interested in the the arrest and conviction of Through him Burns read in pers of the trial and concluded, from the accounts he saw, that guilty. Later, while he Key West, three citizens of Atlanta includ Ing two personal friends of Frank the detective and asked him to under | take an Kansas a Burns passepger Aa Was before Frank newspa CHS was in | Eaw ! investigation of the case { Frank Not Abnormal. At first, Burns said, { the groutd that If Frani his he fe bows 3 " uw wl investigation and nal concl hat effect con fendant, tot { while if tended to show doubt of it might serve to Frank's friends here declar believed he been trial; that he was crime, but that if g Indigsputable evidence of hie Burns i vestigations soon showed h first, that public clamos wave, had r ing extraordi dence tendin that a man was COT had not silty took the then £35 esulted in nary efforts to addy BE to convie second Frank a futics report making of abnormal characte: moniy { tiirough the city £ public opin fon strongly against him. His Inquiries then convinced that Frank a perfectly man the mony of physicians was to that FPhagan puttin Burn On other hand, the i the effect | Mary | fest) the one who tacked al at was abnorn AT WHITE HOUSE FOR 33 YEARS President Wilson Joins In Congratula tions To Warren Young. Washington, D. C The President and Mrs y Wilson joined a host of pub lic officials in extending tions to Warren Young. his thirty-third anniversary as a mem ber of the executive staff at the White House. Mr. Young's office was banked | with flowers, one large bunch of which ! came from the President and Mrs. Wil son. The veteran official went to the | White House under his friend, former President Garfield. and | it was he that the martyred executive called to his when he was shot ses errs Fess congratuia of Ohlo, upon personal bedside YOuR AUNT SARAM AND COUSIN MILTON ARE. VISITIN’ us AnD HERE You ARE WHEN | NEED YOU TO GO To THE STORE ————— —_— . TT : " « (Copyright.) IN 31. AUGUSTINE Swept By Flames. Hostelry Employes Arouse Sleeping Tourists and Murry Them To Safety In Scanty Attire. Augustine, Fla Historie St the oldest city in the i La wae swept by a half Ore that destroyed five fa rg and burned records ng back { to the davs of the sixteenth century I'wo persons were seriously In ured Guests in the hotels fled into the ireets before day, many leaving valu and personal belongings behind cind only in their escaped apparel work the where lieved to by emiploves of fire ved se the De have sa roing through the smoke they quickly aroused sleep and hurried them out the Flor » employes, about 200 guests Fr were Al the » slow In being aroused ladders ng In to jun firemen with persons remaini building were warned not p iremen were unsuccessful {in prevent ng two persons from leaping from the the Florida House Alice £ and W Gid i % # smith, © NOYAR Scotia Quebeq Miss ustained an injured spine and broken One of Mr. Geddings’ ankles was sroken and he rt of Granby was otherwicre hu ROOSEVELT PARTY SAFE. Is Received Direct From Anthony Fiala, York A Brazil, New Manaos, dispatch by Anthony of the Roosevelt exploring forwarding reports thai have reached him of the safety of Colonel gent Fiala, a TARIFF FORECAST CORRECT. May Not Reduce Customs Revenue | Any More Than Expected. Washington, D. C.—The Underwood ; Simmons tariff act went into effect six | any more than was estimated in Con gress at the time of passage. Accord : ing to the Treasury's March statement | customs revetives amounted to about $26,000,000, which is about $1.500.000 less than the Payne-Aldrich law pro- duced In March, 1912. That was & revenues fell over $10,000.000 com- COMMODORE DYER DEAD, Guam’s First Governor. Winter Park, Fla.—Commodore Geo. 1. Dyer, U. 8. N., retired. who com- manded the gunboat Stranger during the war with Spain and later was ap- heart failure at his home here. He PAY FOR INJURIES AND DEATH. House Agrees On Government Work. men's Compensation Bill. Washington, D. C.—A bill for work. men's compensation for employes of the Government, agreed upon by the House Judiciary Committee, provides fixed payments to workmen injured or to families of employes killed in the course of their work. The bill is ex. pected to care for many cases for which Congress has found it necessary to pass gpecial claim bills, Brazil, that and his on thelr way to Manaos “The statements reaching the United by way of Iquitos are un “Manaos here April 1 Colonel Theodore reliable. “ANTHONY FIALA” The Fiala dispatch seems to dispose which told concerning received in city from Iquitos by way of Lima of Mr that alarming rumors STORY BOOK FROM CARNEGIE. Philanthropist Personally Child's Request. Son Antonio, Texas Little Johanna Cojineckl, nine years old, cherishes a book of fairy stories, upon the fly leaf of which is a méssage written by Andrew Carnegie Informing her that this book Is “all her own” A few weeks ago Johanna wrote the' Car negie Library Board protesting that there were not enough falry stories on the local shelves and offering a five. cent donation to the fund for more. Carnegie was told of the incident and sent the book. Grants THE DAILY AERIAL DISASTER, German Army Aviator Killed and His Passenger Injured. Munich, Bavaria--Lieutenant Lank. meyer, a German army aviator, was killed and Lieutenant Ruchti, whom he carried as a passenger, was seriously injured in an aeroplane accident. The propeller broke while they were flying at a low altitude over the aergdrome. Pleces of thd propeller snapped the rigging and the machine collapsed. ON IGE FLOES i Death Traveled in a Terrific Blizzard. i ‘OVER 1,000 MEN ESCAPE Fur Away Hunters Of New Foundland Miles When Storm Survivors From Vessel Struck Them Reached Just In Time. St. Johns A gale that about Os ie t £4 by and the Florizel f land los rescued the st {0 search Great Southern which men Bi nce she passed Ca but which it i bu was less messages, i« Newfoundland I' ips killing with i¢ men lost Were wt seals blinding snow, ipon the: They 48 hou ‘in that time many suc The fleet were re before assistance cumbed Newfoundiand was of 15 ships, « scattered asrpnong Belle lele floe Arrving - isin) ' Boes i CIewa were men near on the OLD PAPERS MERGE | The New Orleans Times.Democrat and The Picayune, New Orleans, la The Times Dem local and The Picayune, two of the old esl Morning newspapers in the according When the | merger will be made was not said. The consolidated papers probably will States, will be consolidated fo announcement here TWELVE RESERVE Baltimore Placed in the Rich- mond District. First Decisive Step Toward the Estab. Of the tem — The Cities lishment New Sys Chosen, Washington D. C. — After } of consideration the Reserve Organization that it ha United iricits er three months Bank nounced Commitice an divided the Con nental into 312 ban) 12 banks are States ing d4dis and selected cities where Federal be located under the Currency cigive if the Baltimore lost its figh bank and was placed in Richmond, district I'he regional bank citie be the Federal reserve centres fos Bostor Cleveland “t ity 10 and de reserve new Banking This is toward gEvatem law the first step the establishment new which York, Phila Richmond, Atlanta Dal Minneapolis and Sar isco “Rion, are New lelphia Louis Fran SPUR TRACK RATES HALTED. i Which Been Heard Are Granted Delay. Only Those Railroads Have Washington, Interstate railroads ndustrial been lowed g them he Interstate n's order ngs, but no #el and, as it before hear expected to suspend the farifis { before the present sxtension MEDAL FOR BRAKEMAN To Confer Honor On Man Who Saved Life Of Child. President ington. D. « mm of the President will confer for bravery on A. C a Mis Railway Smithville, Texa | and Texas risk of his own life hild from While a running backward stood In the middle of the track paralyzed with fear. Wer rear car, picked the brakeman the Wer saved # death near Smith tof box cars ner b-yearold ville string 3 was the eh iq apparently ner climbed from the up the child track just as and the jumped clear of passed Car | Picayune has been published continu ously for 87 years. It has been in the hands of the Nicholson family for al | most a half-century. WOMAN COPS IN PITTSBURGH. Appointed To Look Out For Girls and Women, Pittsburgh, Pa —C, H. Hubbard. ai {rector of Public Bafety, announced the | appointment of four police women, the | first in Pittsburgh. They are attached to the Secret Service division, and {their names are known to none but the directors and the officers to whom | they will report. They will look after {young girls coming to the city and in { vestigate violations of the law in cafes { where liquor ls served to women and in other ways look after women Four TWO ARE KILLED BY FREIGHT. | View Of Fight Too Much For Aged Man and Woman. i i Worcester, Mass — Patrick Eagleton, {70 years old, and Mrs. Dennis Arsen laut 60 years old, of Spencer, Mass, { dropped dead from fright in the street there as they witnessed a three-corner. led fight between Martin Niederberger, ia chauffeur, and Stanley Orutt and | Charles Bannon, employes of a cereal company, who were distributing sam- ples in the town. Deputy Sheriff Geo. H. Ramer and Constable John M. Nor. ton arrested the three men, TOOK 9 PASSENGERS 5280 FEET, Mh“ French Aviator Establishes New Rec. ord-—Remaining Up 54 Minutes. Chartres, France~<Aviator Garaix establish another passengercarry- ing aeroplane altitude record when he ascended to a height of 5,280 feet with nine passengers, Saturday QGaralx sailed a mile in the air with eight pas. sengers in his biplane, but repeated with an additional passenger. Garalx and his passengers were in the air 54 minutes, ’ —— [BIG PROFIT MADE ON HARD COAL. | New Jersey Legisiative Report Says About Forty Men Control Supply. Trenton, N. J leading | roads, or about 40 men, control 87 pe: cent. of the total anthracite coal mined per cent compahies 1 Seven rail profit and technically evade Federal laws, declared the coal investigating committee of the New Jersey As sembly in its report to the House. That combinations among retail coal deal ers to fix prices are conspicuous, was also charged. 3 FEET TALL; WEIGHS 41, LBS. cused From Military Duty. Parie. A French conscript depot he was found to be only three feel in height and weighed only 413% pounds MOB LYNCHES NEGRESS. Oklahoma Woman Is Hanged To Phone Cable For Stabbing Man, Wagoner, Okla--A mob of negress, by hanging her to a telephone cable. She stabbed to death Lemuel Peace, white, Sunday night. OLD SOLDIERS DYING OFF FAST. Ss Over Thirty Thousand Civil War Vet erans Died During Year. Washington, D. C.~~The heavy death rate among the Civil War veterans is shown in the decreased pension ap propriation asked of Congress for their relief, Over 30,000 veterans have died since Congress was last asked to ap propriate money for them. At the present rate it has been calculated that the Civil War pensioners will be exhausted in about 15 or 20 years. BOY KILLED BY GAR MOS AFTER GREW Fred Hause Drives in a Burn- ing Automobile, ‘BOY FALLS INTO STREAM. | Squad Of Police Bave Motorman and Conductor From Injury At the Of An Angry Crowd, Hands Crowd Stones Car Crew. Pittsburgh Only the prompt ay- rival of a squad of police saved a motorman and from injury at the hands of an angry crowd in Bed ford following nning down killing of Samuel Snyder, four years old, by a street car. Motors man Willi Park and A. i.. Habberman chased peveral squares by excited residents who hurled stones missiles, Every window in CAT Was broken had Narrow The po- hurried danger condu« tor avenue the ru and m Conductor were the and other the sireet and several CHECR PER lice arrested three the CAr men zone pasgengers rosy $13 from injury and the men Blreet from Pennsylvania Lines Promotions. Pittsburgh P Pennsylvania romotions the Were an- ed at the general offices here as D Ww Easteren Divisio: Fort Wayne & Ci on Lines West noun { n ar follows Vy ood, superintendent of the be general pids & Ir at fuperintendent of the Division of the Chicago & St Mr. © ntendent of i the with . Mick road, to Grand Ra IADAREr diana Railroad, Grand Rapids, ch.; log- Pittsburgh, louis Rali- K. he Line Falters veceed ood: R Yee sl pe} 4 ns "4 of the Vandalia F v ia, Price Of Coal Falls ie For of the the first time in ite coal reduction and cents a en cents a the latter near collieries, where wortation is needed of sixty-five cents a 3 - . . ws # | and fifty cents a ton anthrac i shared in the general — f cond "ha . price of coal Chestnut stove coal were reduced ten ton and egg coal twenty sev ton, of $3.78 railroad Yelle given ut ton on meking the Towns price iran not On Dut glove coal Woman Stabbed By Boarder. lie Mrs. Paul tie, was probably ies | Was Ketchel r Chas Wan, a Tt w hit stabb ihe the AL *» has taken her siatement, in which she Powan the deed The lat ted to jail without bail as three children, the old- four wOlnar heart, is in a near at rict dying cor 18% of ao years oid Sub-District Chalrmen Assigned. President James Mat- trict 3. U ed Mine America, divided the terri- as Subdistrict No. 1. chairman, George @Ritman, Sliver ‘reek: No. 2 Geguzis, Ma. | hanoy City: Michael J. Me- Grath, Lost No. 4, John Hol {ister Each chairman is a District Executive Shamokin hews Di Workers of of No nit vi tory follows Stiney No. 3, Creek; Shamokin member of the Joard Paid Firemen Opposed. Reading. The Liberty Fire Com- pany at a meeting went on record as the firet of the thirteen volunteer fire companies to sanction the decision of its representatives to Support a refer endum vole on whether a paid fire de- | partment shall be substituted for the present system. Council favors the abolition of the present system and the | volunteers oppose it. Drives In Burning Auto. Pottsville. — An automobile was burned at Mount Carbon and Fred | Hause, the driver, had a narrow escape | from death. Although Hause's ma- | chine was a flaming torch as he sped | along the highway and the gasoline | tank was In danger of exploding, be did not notice his peril until the flames | licked his coat tails. Then he ran the | machine into a bank where it was de- Boy Falls 100 Feet Into Stream. Shamokin. John Augue, thirteen yoars old, while playing with several companions on top of & hill near Edge £00d Park started to run, when his feet slipped. He fell one hundred feet into a creek. Miners on their way from work jumped fnto the stream and paved him from drowning. He was se peversly injured by the fall that he probably will dle. a Postoffice Robbed Of $1,000. Meadville — Thomas Wallace, post. master at Millvillage, near here, dis covered that he had been robbed of $1,000 in money and stamps. Entrance to his house was gained, Wallace thinks, while be and his family were at chureh,
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