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VOL. XLV. NO. 28.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1912.
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. BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. J. 0. Dunn.
Justice ofthb react O. A. Randall. D
W. Clark.
Cbuncutnen. J.W. landers, J. T. Dale,
O, H. Kobltiaon, Wm, Bmearbaugh,
k. J. uopKiua, u. r. Wat8on, A. H.
Kelly.
Constable li. L. Zuver.
Collector W. H. Wood.
School Director W. 0. Imel, J. K.
Clark, H. M. Henry, Q. JainleHon, D. II.
Itluui.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress P. M. Hpeer.
Member of Senate J. IC. P. Hail.
Assembly W. J. Campbell,
Prttident Judge W. I). Hinckley.
Associate Judge Samuel Aul, Joseph
M. Morgan.
Prothonotary , Register A Recorder, te.
-H. K. Maxwell.
tfAenT-Wm. H. Hood.
Veoaurer W, H. Brar.ee.
CbmmiMfonem Wm. H. Harrison, J.
C. Hcowden, II. II. MoClellan.
District Attorney M. A. Carrlnger.
Jury Commissioners J, 11. Eden, A.M.
Moore.
(kroner Dr. M. 0 Kerr.
County Auditors George H. Warden,
A. C. Uregg and 8. V. Hhlelda.
County Purveyor Roy 8. Mradeo,
County Superintendent i . 0. Carson.
ItraiiUr Teraia f Vmmn.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Commis
sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of month.
Charch mni Mabbath Mohaal.
Preabyterlan Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
m. t M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m.
Preaching In M. E. Church every Sab
bath even In if by Rev. W.S. Hurton.
Preaching In the F. M. Church every
Rabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
(i. A. Uarrett, Pastor.
Preaching in the Presbyterian church
every Sabbath at 11:00 a. in. and 7:30 p.
in. Rev. U. A. Hailey, Pantor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
U. are held at the hindquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdaya of each
month.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274
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137, W. R, C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
TF. RITCHEY,
. ATTORJJEY-AT-LAW.
Tloneata, Pa.
MA. CARRINGER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Office over Forest County National
Bank Building, TIONE3TA, PA.
CURTIS M. SHAWKEY.
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Practice in Forest Co.
AO BROWN,
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and Bridge Sta., Tionesla, Pa.
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DR. K. J. BOVARD,
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TIONESTA, PA.
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HOTEL WEAVER,
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located hotel in the place, and has all the
modorn improvements. . No pains will
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place for the traveling public
pHIL. EMERT
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Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery store
on Kim street. Is prepared to do all
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the coarsest and guarantees bis work to
?;ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
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GENERAL
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All work pertaining to Machinery, En
gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit
tings and General Blacksinithing prompt
ly done at Low Kates. Repairing. Mill
Machinery given special attention, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop In rear of am just west of the
Shaw House, Tikra.
Your patronage soliciv id.
FRED. GRETTENBKRGER
THE TIONESTA
Racket Store
Can supply your wants in such Btaple
lines as llaml Painted China, Japan
ese Cbina, Decorated Glassware, and
Plain aud Fancy Dishes, Candy, as
well as other lines too numerous to
mention.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO TIU9 CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL, OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVLU OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nino, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
mllllonB of dollars for the improve
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth, Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senute and IIouBe of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same is hereby, pro
posed, In aevcordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof:
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel Invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deflclency In rev
enue shall never exceed, In the aggre
gate at any one time, one million ot
dollars," be amended bo as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies or rev
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, In the aggregate
at any one time, one million of dol
lars: provided, however, '.that the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of Improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary ot the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
Beven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor. .
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In General Assembly met, That the
following Is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven,
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special Jaw
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing ot liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
"Changing the names of persons or
places:
"Changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or publlo grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-Beats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties ot officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion ot school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
6UCC6&BIOU '
"Regulating the practice or Juris
diction or, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any Judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen.
Justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
ot Judgments, or prescribing the effect
of Judicial sales of real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the , management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing of Bchool houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest: 1
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in Interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: "Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneyB legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, asso.
elation or individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or immunity, or to
any corporation, association or Indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track.
"Nor shall the Oeneral Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts mar be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where the
courts have Jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for."
BO as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of Hens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names ot persons 01
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and other States:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyardB,
or public grounds not ot the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting ot
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township HneB, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers In coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
fton or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession: Regulating the practice or Jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence in, any Judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, Jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
ot Judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
llo schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money tor such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, village, or other civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a special
law; but laws repealing local or spec
lau acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy ot Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT MCAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
Jroposlng an amendment to section
three of article eight ot the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (it the
Senate concur), That the following is
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, In accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof:
Section 2. Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All Judges elected by the electors of
the State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for Judges of the courts
for the several judicial districts, and
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday of No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all
the members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held in an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for judges of
the courts for the several Judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, for regu
lar terms of service, shall be held on
the municipal election day; namely.
the Tuesday following the first Mon
day of November in each odd-number
ed year, but the General Assembly
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such elections shall be held in
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther, That all Judges for the courts
of the several Judicial districts hold'
lng office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end In an odd'
numbered year, shall continue to bold
their offices until the first Monday of
January in the next succeeding even'
numbered year,
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the consa
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
State and House of Representatives
ot the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, In ac
cordance with the provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section one ot
article nine ot the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as IoIIowb:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
lng the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the'
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu
tions ot purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits ot the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subject, of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and institutions ot pure
ly public charity,
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Bo it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives ot the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania In Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, In
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore Issued, or which
may hereafter be Issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide for the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight ot article nine ot the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or of
this amendment, if the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay Interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or if the said obligations shall
be secured by Hens upon the respec
tive properties, and shall Impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties shall issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
Shall have been completed and in op
eration for a period of one year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
of one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may incur indebt
edness In excess of seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, ot
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, If said Increase of
Indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, In such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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TAFT DEFENDS
RECEfJTVETOES
Militant Speech at Columbus
Centennial Celebratior
REFORMS SHOULD BE SLOW
Mentally Deranged Woman With Two
Knives Attemps to Interview Presi
dent; Detectives Nab Her in Time.
President. Taft was the guest at the
Ohio-Columbus centennial celebration
at Columbus, O.
In one of his addresses the presi
dent took occasion to warmly defend
his recent vetoes and to uphold tho
veto principle. Referring to his own
use of the veto the president said:
"I think I have used it moderately,
though some of my friends do not
agree. They have said that if I were
a king and should do what I have done
my head would drop In a basket. But
I am not a king. I am a president
elected by the people and representing
a greater proportion of the people than
any legislator.
"The president, therefore, Is re
sponsible to a greater extent for legis
lation which is passed than any other
single person.
"One trouble with some legislation
Is that some reformers want every
reform put Into effect tomorrow morn'
lng befcre breakfast, it is well to
make progress slowly, but to be sure
we are making it. Chauge is not
progress.
"A good executive must practice in
dividual self-restraint, weigh what he
Is told and to do what he believes is
true. God Is on the side of popular
government and It Is making progress
slowly but surely."
Caroline Beer3, aged forty, of Green
ville, 0., was arrested In the Southern
hotel while awaiting the coming of
President Taft. The woman, who la
said to be mentally deranged, is al
leged to have declared she intended to
punish the president. "I have the
sacred knife for President Taft," she
said.
When searched two knives were
found on her, one a long keen-edged
weapon.
RENEW FIGHT ON SENATORS
Chilton and Watson of West Virginia
Again Attacked.
A demand for an Investigation of the
election of Senators William E. Chilton
and Clarence W. Watson of West Vir
ginia was made in a petition presented
to the senate before adjournment. The
petition called attention to charges
of bribery publicly made in reference
to the election of the two West Vir
ginia senators.
The document was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
Senators Bailey, Bacon and Martin,
all Democrats, declared the petition
had been made for political purposes.
Senator La Follette defended the
petition as furnishing more basis for
investigation than did the original
charges against William Lorimer.
The petition was signed by Gover
nor William E. Glasscock, William
Seymour Edwards, Herschel C. Ogdea,
David B. Smith and Frederick A. Mc
Donald anl made a formal demand for
an investigation.
The charges are similar to the ones
made to the West Virginia legislature
a year ago.
BODY OF COAL MAN IN LAKE
Supposed to Be James Donnelly of
Bradford, Pa.
Mystery attaches to the finding in
Lake .Michigan, near Chicago, of
what Is thought to be the body of
James Donnelly, a wealthy coal
operator of Bradford, Pa.
The body was clad In expensive
clothing and In the pockets of his
coat were found over $2,000 wrapped
with a paper of the First National
bank of Bradford. There also was
a bank book issued by that bank In
which a notation of the withdrawal of
a larger sum was made.
There were no apparent marks of
violence, but the suicide theory is con
sidered to be the least likely true of
all because of lack of motive.
BOY DROPS 2,000 FEET
Balloon Rope Grips Lad and Whirls
Him to Death From Lofty Height.
At Flint, Mich., fourteen-year-old
Chester Betts, son of Burt N. Betts
of Flint, was accidentally caught by
Kie guy rope of a balloon and carried
np 2,000 feet In the air before the rope
untangled and hurled him to his (loath.
He crashed against the roof of a barn
and was still alive when spectators
reached him. but he soon expired.
Many at first thought the youth
dangling at the end of a rope was a
dummy.
Titanic Woman Sue Company.
Mrs. Elizabeth Faunthrope, widow
of a Titanic victim and herself a sur
vivor, has sued the White Star com
pany for $10,000 in the federal court
in Philadelphia for the loss of her
husband.
Chicago's Population 2,450,000.
Chicago's new directory gives the
city an estimated population of 2,
450,000. Witnesses Get Away.
Three witnesses for the state in the
Rosenthal case are missing.
Wealthy Washingtonian
Called Tax Dodger
if $4
UP -1 9-Avki'
- PERRY BELMONT.
Washington Is aroused over the
charge that some of its wealthiest
and most prominent residents have
been undervaluing their fine houses
in the northwest section of the city
in order to dodge their fair share of
taxes. Among those accused is Perry
Belmont, former New Yorker, whose
fine house, built on a triangular plot,
is always pointed out to sightseers.
PARCELS POST JAN. 1
Postmaster General Hitchcock Work
ing Out Details.
Announcement was made by Post
master General Hitchcock that the
postoflice department would be in
readiness .Jan. 1, 191.1, to put Into gen
eral operation the recently authorized
parcels post system.
The postal express business, which,
must be organized within the next
four months, will extend over mori
than a million miles of rural delivery
and the star routes and will cover, in
its various ramifications, all systems
of transportation of parcels now
utilized by private express companies.
In order to take up personally and
Immediately the work of organization
of the new service .Mr. Hitchcock has
cancelled engagements he bad for his
vacation and will remain in Washing
ton to direct the organization.
OPTIMISM REIGNS
Period of Prosperity at Hand Dun's
Review.
Dun's Review of Trade says this
week:
"Advices from leading cities, both
east and west, with scarcely an excep
tion, speak of a bigger volnnie of trade,
larger advance orders, better employ
ment of labor and a growing confi
dence that the now practically as
sured crops make the future secure.
"In every part of the country busi
ness optimism Is the rule and all other
considerations are practically Ignored
In the light of the conviction that a
period of national prosperity has set
in which only some great and Im
probable calamity could stop."
WOMEN TOOK TO THE ROOF
Imagined Burglars Were in House.
Rescued by Cop.
Mrs. W. I. Whltehouse, a seventeen-year-old
bride, and Lavlnia Adams
were rescued by a policeman from the
roof of the former's home at Louis
ville, Ky., where they had marooned
themselves to escapo supposed bur
glars.
The two were Btartled by noises In
the bouse and climbed out of a window
onto a slanting roof, whore they slood
In tho rain until tlielr cries attracted
a neighbor, who no! Hied the police.
TEMPTS FATE AND LOSES
After Being Rescued Stri ley Goes Back
on River and Drowns. .
A few minutes after he had been
rescued from drowning In the Alle
gheny river at Montrose, near Pitts
burg, Edward A. Striley, aged eighteen,
Ventured hack upon the stream in an
effort to recover n ramie which had
been abandoned In the llrst mishap.
Siriley attain fell Into tho water,
drowning before assistance could
reach him.
Pennsy Telegraphers Vcte on Strike.
A strike ballot Is being taken
among the tc1oKraiirrs employed on
the Pennsylvania Railroad lines east
of Pittsburg. Three thousand men ars
Involved.
Storm Scares Boy to Death,
Evidently frightened by a severe
electrical storm Frank C. lloelzle,
aged llfteen, of Sharon, who was visit
ing at llniontown, Fa., died suddenly
in bed.
Prod For Uncle Sam.
Protection for foreign interests In
Nicaragua may be made on the l' nl lei
States by England, Germany and
France.
"MY SKIRTS ARE
GLEANT T. R.
Makes Sweeping Denial ot Pen-rose-Archbold
Allegations
SIVES OUT LETTER TO CLAPP
Penrose Compared to Grafting Cop,
Colonel Promises Full Publicity of
His Spring Primary Contributions.
Theodore Roosevelt gave out the let
ter which he has sent to Senator Clapp,
chairman of the senate committee In
vestigating campaign contributions,
before which Senator Penrose and
John D. Archbold charged that Mr.
Roosevelt had been party to the solicit
ing and accepting ot Standard Oil
campaign contributions In 1904.
Mr. Roosevelt almost at the opening
gives the lie in these words:
"As regards the statements ot Mr.
Penrose and Mr. Archbold that with
my consent or knowledge Mr. Blins
asked the Standard Oil people for
$100,000 or any other sum, or received
such sum from them, it is an unquali
fied falsehood."
Further on Colonel Roosevelt com
pares Senator Penrose to a grafting
policeman and adds:
"His language is precisely the
language that might be used by a
blackmailing police officer In a big
city in advising the keeper of a law
breaking liquor saloon or a gambling
house to contribute liberally, because
othcr.vl.se he might incur hostility In
certain quarters. If this language
were proved against the policeman
he would be removed from the police
force and as It Is admitted "by the sen
ator be should be removed."
Mr. Roorevelt promises that there
shall bo full publicity of contributions
in his primary campaign last spring.
"I wish to emphasize the fact," be
continues, "that the testimony of Mr.
Archbold and Mr. Penrose In this mat
ter Is an attack on Mr. Bliss, who is
dead, and Is also, unwittingly, the
severest possible reflection on them
selves, but It Is In no sense any attack
on me, except insofar as they assert
that the dead man said that I knew ot
his request for money from them.
"I do not believe that Mr. Bliss said
this any more than I believe their ac
cusation that Mr. Bliss deliberately
tried to hlackmall the Standard Oil.
But plcuse keep In mind that this Is
an assault on Mr. Bliss and not on
me."
After a sweeping denial of know
ledge or consent to any of the steps
in the transactions as set forth by the
two itnc:-se3 he pays' a glowing
tribute to the memory of Mr. Bliss,
but adds that of course he could not
say whether Mr. Bliss had asked for
or had received the money.
Further to prove that his skirts aro
entirely clean In the matter, although
the sklrt3 of others might not be so
clean, Mr. Roosevelt quotes from what
purported to be an Interview with Cor
nelius N. Bliss, published In the New
York Herald of Pec. 24, 1911. in this
Mr. Bliss is quoted as correcting Ed
ward H. Ilarriman's assertion that In
1904 he received word of the desperate
state in Now York from Roosevelt.
Mr. Illlss said that he conveyed that
Information to the railroad man. Ilo
dU-cussed the situation nnd the steps
taken to raise the $200,000. At the
conclusion of the interview this ques
tion was quoled in the Roosevelt let
ter which apparently further Involves
Mr. Bliss:
"Then tho president had nothing o
do with the raising of the money?"
Answer: "Not once In the confer
ence of the committee was there any
suggestion that he was doing It. The
only thing that Mr. Roosevelt had to
do with such matters was to issue
orders that money was not to be ac
cepted from this or that person. His
orders were Ignored, as it was recog
nized that this was something about
which he must not interfere and I
brooked no Interference."
The letter to Senator Clapp, which
Is about 1.1,(100 words long, goes ex
haustively Into his correspondence
with Chairman Corlelyou of Oct. 26
nnd 27. In which it Is ordered that the
$I00,0U0 from the Standard Oil com
pany be returned at once, although
the sum Is not mentioned, all of which
was Just af r the time that Alton B.
Parker had first made his charge that
the Republican nominee and his chair
man were obtaining money from th
great corporations In an unusual way.
The often printed Harrlman corre
spondence Is reprinted In full and
(Iter aunmiiinng Collector I.oeb, then
private secretary, as corroborating
wlih it, icicllon Is made of Senator
.lonnth'in llourne as an intermediary
for the standard Oil at about the time
the Hi' i I a were to lie brought.
Incidentally, a paragraph is injected
to Rive the colonel an opportunity to
praise William 11. Hearst for his pub
lic service of high importance and Mr.
Hearst Is requested to publish every
thing be lias of the Archbold letter
files.
The ln?t part of the letter Is taken
np with third party propaganda and a
tribute to George W. Perkins. The
colonel goes on record as being against
the limitation of contributions to $.100
or $10,000. lie does not think the
amount of money has anything to do
with Improper use or purpose.
"We are anxious to have the help
of honest men of means." sr.ys the
colonel as he draws near the ecd.