U. 5. OFFICALS
MAKE 1XQUIF
Consul Frost and Attaches Inter-
view Survivors.
OR FISHER BLAMES LINE
Brother Of Former Secretary Qf In.
terior Says Neither Discipline Nor
Precautions Were Up To the
Standard.
Wesley Frost
obtaining
Queenstown, United
States Consul at Cork,
affidavits concerning all the
facts of the torpedoing of the
Kner Lusitania from Miss Jessie
Smith, Beoaceville, Ohio; Dr
ard Fisher, of New York,
Rankin, New York.
These survivors will
State Department at Washin
308 words
Captains
taches
London, arrived
with Consul Frost
No Hope
material
Taft
How
Robert
of
of
of
here
For Missing
BUrvivors
Chere is li
SUTVIVOrsS w
Most
Queenstown
that additional
Representatives of the
ily claimed the body of Dr
gon. They also visited th
searching for
son, who is mi
Mari:
Canard Li
hope that any survivors wo
up at isolated parts along the coast
He believed that the death list would
remain about the same as had been
estimated
The only
identify
morgne The body
had been falsely tage
as that of t}
{No J.
senger list,
rick, of Bos
of the Lus
Injured
are reported
the volunt
more busy
ved after belr
of the
Pear
Ly
the body ef Mrs
SEIng
e Superintendent Dodd of the
ne deelared that he iit
uld to
had
tle Im
problem
of
now
sS80IHe
18 nurs
C. Brodrick
althou
ton
eer di
than
ater three
reec
Fisher Treats
Pr. Fisher fiow
patients Lady Mace)
who is suffe from the res
ing a long time in the
Allan, of Montreal,
collar-bone, and Dr
law, Miss Dorthy Conner,
a cousin of Henry I. Stimso
retary of War of the
Miss Conor was
Lady Mackworth when they 1
into the water @s the ship keeled over
Both women were provided with life
belts and were picked up when at the
point of exhaustion
Dr. Fie? 2 brother of Wal
ter L. Fisher, formerly Secretary of
the Interior of the United States, was
on his way to belgium for Red Cros:
duty. His story follows:
“It i= not true that
were unconcerned over the
of torpedoed i
Hner to save time
case of a floating
have more cha
like everybody
in case of being
would have ample time
beats,
Discipline Below Standard.
‘1 do not know what case {= bein;
made out for the Cunard people, but
I cannot say that either discipline or
precautions were up to the standard.”
injured.
imhberg
kworth, of C
nlt of be
water.
ring
Lads
who has a broker
Fisher's sistor-in
who also is
ox-See
ITnits
tandl
# MAAN
rer, who is
on board
poesibility
took the big
and also beesuse
mine I felt she would
of staying up. But
aboard | fell sure
torpedoed that
to take to the
those
being
in
nee
elae
we
BERLIN PUTS ALL BLAME
ON CUNARD LINE OWNERS.
~The following cial
munication was issued here
“The Cunard Lusitania waa
yesterday torpedoed by a German sud
warine and sunk
“The Lusitania was naturally armed
wih guns, as were recently moet of
the English mercantile steamer:
Moreover, well known here, ghe
had large quantities of war material
in her cargo.
“Her owners, therefore. knew to
what danger the passengers were ex
posed. They alone bear all the re
eponeibility for what has happened.
“Germany, on her part, left nothing
undone to repeatedly warn them. The
imperial Ambassador in Washington
went go far as to make a public warn.
ing, so a8 to draw attention to this
danger. The English press sneered
then at the warning and relied on the
protection of the British fleet to safe
guard Atlantic traffic”
Berlin, off oom
liner
as is
TAFT DEFTRS 10 WILSON.
Confident President Will Follow a
Wise and Patriotic Course.
Milwaukee ~The news of the eink
ing of the Lusitania is most distress
ing,” sald former President Taft on his
arrival here from Madison. “It pre
sents a situation of the most difficult
charactor, properly awakening great
national concern. 1 do not wish to
embarrass the President or the Ad
ministration by a discussion of the
subject at this stage of the informa
tion except to express confidence tha!
patriotic course.”
THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
AMERICAN SHIP BLOWN uP BY GERMANS
Amorican tank steamer Gulflight, which was blown ut
low, at the left is | Alfred Gunter, w!
Chicago, wireless op overbo
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DRIVER of SUFFRAGE AUTOMOBILE COL. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT |
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Mies Virginia Watrous, daughter of Mrs. Antoinetts the
tional American Woman Suffrage association. is drive
orrying saffrage campaigners through New Jersey this
paigners will be her mother, Mra Medill McCormick, Mrs, Winston Charchill
and Mrs. Martha 8. Kimball. Another of the party will be Miss Watrons'
bull terrier, who rejoices in the name of Votes, and is to be seen in this
picture,
A NAA AAPA PAPAIN PATA
SINKING OF THE IRRESISTIBLE
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Enderwent he
Funk of Na
a big antomobile
summer. The cam
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Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt, chairman
of the mayor's committee in charge
of the welcome of New York to the
officers and men of the Atlantic fleet
during the May maneuvers.
Where Religions Flourish.
There is a church for evéry thou.
sand inhabitants in the large cities of
the anthracite region of Pennsylva-
nia, and nearly the same proportion
in the rural communities. Scranton,
with ita 129867 citizens, has 120
churches, representing 22 different ro
liglons. + Wilkes-Barre, with its 67,106
citizens, has 66 churches of 14 de
nominations. In Hazleton, with 25.
452 Inhabitants, there are 33 churches
of nine different denominations,
Among the 175,000 mine workers there
are Russians, Austrians, Irishmen,
Germans, Italians, Welshmen, English.
men, Hungarian, Scotchmen, Swiss,
Canadians, Swedes, Turks, French.
men, Greeks, Roumanians, Danes,
Norwegians, Dutchmen, Belgians,
the British warship Irresistible as ft
Finos and a dozen minor races,
striking a Turkish mine.
This remarkable photograph shows
was sinking in the Dardanelles after
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where sre
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STATE
LAW MAKERS
Attorney's Lien
The
House
Court
ahai. be deter
3 length of serv
as a member of the court. The
rovides that the court mays
tion designate two of the
opinions during the
embers shal
uired to sit at hearings and
mandswory provision tha
eet atl least once a
hia, Pittsburg®, Har
apd Williamsport
the place of sittings
with the court. An
i= that compensation
of protoonotaries shall be authorize
by the Act of 190%
Regulations for insurance in Penn.
sylvania on the Lloyds plan are pro
vided in the bill approved by Gover.
nor Brumbaugh it places the contro
of associations or individuals engaged
in such business under controd of the
Insurance Commissioner, who is
quired to ask bonds to be filed with
his department The Governor also
signed bill providing
insurance or annuities
ont for the benefit of or assigned
to wif olaer relative sae
pe exempt from all slaims of creditors
The Governor also signed these Sen
ate bills
eRgulating
with coflee
Regulating method of practicing
veterinary medicine and issuance of li
censes for ita various branches,
Senate bill providing a chief book
keeper for the Auditor General's De.
partment, at a salary of §2.0500; an as
sistant chief bookkeeper, at $3.000:
two bookkeepers and an additional
traveling auditor, at $1,800 each.
Senate bill supplementing Act eof
1906 by providing that debt of
municipalities consolidated shall be
paid by the consolidated city and for
the levying of a uniform tax to pay it.
These House bills were approved:
Fixing salaries of Associate Judges
aot learned in the law at $6 per day, em.
ployed, $600 a year being established
as the minimum.
Establishing method of registration
of master plumbers in firstclass eities
where plumbers failed to register ua-
der Act of 1911.
Providing for schools for education
of female children under jurisdiction
of Juvenile Courts of Allsgheny
county.
Requiring County Cemmissioners to
furnish first-class townehips duplicates
of adjuoted valur ‘ons for taxation.
House bill authorising payment from
State funds of cost of transferring in.
sane persons on orders of the State
Board of Charities or Committee on
Lanacy.
Fenion Udges
OUR
oe"
® {0 wiles
not be
removes Lhe
the court must
vear in Philadelp
risburg.
req
Seranton
that
be optional
provision
Te
the Senals
taken
idren or
sale of ohicory mixed
fy 1
Dunt'ey Pneumat
Combination Sweep
§
1915 SPECIAL
The Dur -ble,
able Sweep r
NEw easy running mu
nozz A tremerdn
improvement originated
by D ntley. 7 his : wee P
er withis strorg suction
and elliciert brush will
clean vour rugs and car-
pets all the way thrrugh
and thoroughly. It’scasy
and the dirt you get will
surprise you.
Diop us a card
information,
AGENTS WANTED
DUNTLEY PNEUMATIC
SWEEPER COMPANY
6501 So State treet
Chicago; 11}
with
for full |
House bill making any person,
or corporation liable for cost of
tinguishing fires which may occur
second-class cities through their
criminal intent willful neglirence
or where they have not complied with
any ordinance or regulation.
firm
ex-
in
or
Carrespandents Dine Governor.
ie semi-annual dinner given by the
Corresponds
Association Governor Brum
baugh was beld Thursday night The
guests of honor in addition to the Gow
were Lieutenant-Governor Mo
Speaker Ambler and James 8.
Hiatt, secretary to the Governor
The Senate passed finally the follow.
ing bills:
Appropriating $250,000
provement of the port
Philadelphia.
Providing that mercantile corpora
tions that pay a mercantile tax shail
pay only one mill on the dollar on their
capital stock instead of five milis.
House bill authorizing the Depart.
ment of Health to accept private dona.
tions for the erection of union chapels
at tuberculosis Sanatoria No. 2 and
No. 3, located at Creshion and Ham
burg.
Giving power to cemetery companies
to improve cemeteries and to assess &
pro rata share of the oost to lot
holders.
House bill increasing the salaries of
clerks, tellers and employes in the
County Treasurer's Office, Philadel
phi
House hill providing for the report.
Ing, quarantining and control of oee-
tain communicable diseases.
Authorizing county commissions te
use funds collected from bleycle W-
ocense taxes In constructing and re
pairing public roads.
House bill to permit farmers to ped.
dle their products in any bervugt with.
out a license,
A bill was Intapduiced by Senator
Crow, Fayette, amending the Publie
Service Company law so that permis.
slon shall not be necessary where
io
for the im
facilities of