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Assembly W. J. Campbell.
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. K. Maxwell.
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Moore.
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VOL. XLV. NO. 31.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO TUB CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVHI OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the 'Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
Issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the improve
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth.
8ectlon 1. Be It resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In Oeneral Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constitu-
tlon 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 (hall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply "Tal deficiencies of
revenue, repel jaslon, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt: and the debt
created to supply deficiency in rev
enue shall never exceed, In the aggre
grate at any one time, one million of
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 ona time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'mat 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 or
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint .Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A, JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, 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 law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of Hens:
"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
lng, 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 public grounds not of the State:
'Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locatinr changing county-seats,
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 of bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing tne
powers and duties of officers In coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion of school districts:
Changing the law of descent or
succession:
'Regulating the practice or Juris
diction or, or changing the rules of
evidence In, any judlcIaKproceeding
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
of 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 school bouses and the raising
of money for 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:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, asB0
ST"
TIONESTA,
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 General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acta may be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
Where tho 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 liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughB, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons oi
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal caseB:
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, graveyards,
or public grounds not of 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 ol
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 of officers In coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
Mon 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
of Judgments,, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating tlje fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lic schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the, raising of
money for 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 labcr,
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 of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be It resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (If the
Senate concur), That tho following is
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of tho 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 bo elected at
either a general or. municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
tho elections for judges of the courts
for tho several judicial diHtricts, 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
tho electors of the State at large may
be elected at cither a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for Judges ot
tho courtH for the several Judicial dis
tricts, and for county,' city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, for regu-
PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1912.
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-numbered
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
ing office at the present time, whoso
terms of office may end in an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the first Monday of
Janudry 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 Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
State and House of Representatives
of. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That tho
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:
Section 2. Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class ot subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing 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 of purely public charity," so asw
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of 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 of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. i.
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 of 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 court
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 of article nine of tho
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 1b 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
Ghall 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 Baid 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 taxiiblo
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 bo provided by law.
A truo copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of tho Commonwealth.
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Photo by American Press Association.
JI'DGR ALFRED B. BEERS.
WARNS OF MASSACRE
Mexican Rebel Leader Zapata Send
Message to American People.
In a statement to a New York pajer
lorwarded from his camp in Yautepec,
Morelos, .Mex., General Emil.'ano
Zapata, the rebel chieftain, gives his
reasons for his uprising against Presl
dent Madero.
The statnient declares that Madero
has failed to keep his promises es
pecially in regard to raising the taxes
on largestates so that the owners
would have to cut them up and thus
give the poor man a chance to buy i
little farm. The statement continues
"I do not want the presidency, but
I do demand an honpst election, in
which I will agree not to be a candi
date. Immediately after the election
the laws must be revised from top to
bottom so as to give the poor man
chance.
"I have IS, 000 men under arms In
eighteen states of Mexico, while Pas
cua Orozco, with whom I have no
connection, has control of two states
making twenty states under arms. If
I am victorious I shall drive Orozco
from the country."
Accompanying the statement Is tho
following declaration regarding the
rumors of ponding Intervention by the
United States In Mexico:
"If intervention comes I will kill
every American In Mexico. Then
will enter Mexico City, but it will be
to Join the federal army to fight the
northern Invader."
BIGGEST BATTLE OF WAR
More Than 803 Arabs Killed by Ital
ians, Who Lose 61.
The most sanguinary engagement of
the war in Tripoli was fought near
Derna, a town 140 miles north
east of Bengani. The Italians lost 61
men and 113 wounded. The Turks and
Arabs loft more than 800 dead on the
field. Forty-one prisoners, including
an Arab chief, fell Into the hands ol
the Italians.
General Iteisoli, commander of tho
Italian army in Tripoli, in his report
to the war office estimates that the
Turks and Arabs must have lost 1,000
men killed, including those who were
carried off, and that more than 1,000
others were wounded.
CAMBRIA OFFICIALS QUIT
Chairman Morris and President Price
Out Higher Pig Iron Predicted.
The most important announcement
In the steel world in years Is the with
drawal of Chairman K. B. Morris and
President C. S. Price, both of the
Cambria Steel company. The former
suggested as his successor William 11.
Douner, identified with the Frlclt inter
ests. A leading marker predicts that
southern pig iron will sell at $15 for
the second quarter and has refused to
sell 10,000 tons at $14."i0 for delivery
during that period.
KILLS GIRL AND HIMSELF
Unrequited Love Causes Butcher to
Commit Crime.
Miss Margaret Kresge, aged nine
teen, daughter of Benjamin Kresgo, a
wealthy fanner, who lives about four
miles from White Haven, Pa., was
brutally murdered by a butcher name. I
John Savage, who also tried to kill the
girl's brother, Harry Kresge, and later
killed himself.
Savage had for some time been pay
lng attention to Miss Kre:w, but she
Is said to have repulsed his advance;!.
TOT KILLS SELF WITH PISTOL
Finds Revolver, Touches Trigger, Re
ceives Bullet in Heart.
Alice Bowman, aged nine, shot her
self with a revolver at her home In
Touoyne township, l'erry county, Pa.,
and dieil almost Inxtantly.
The hild was watching l;er moth"r
clean house and while playing picked
up a revolver which hail been taken
from a trunk. She touched the trigger
and shot herself through the heart.
Wrong Bottle Fatal.
Mistaking a bottle of poison for
medicine Mrs. Kiiuna Sutton of Mo
Kccsport, Pa , took a fatal draught at d
died.
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TROOPS PREPARE
FOR LONG SIEGE
Prospact of Settlement in W.
Va, Strike Zone Vanishes
GOVERNOR FRAMING NEW LAW
Remedy For Guard System Found by
Glasscock, Who Would Make Em
ployment of Armed Men Unlawful
Immediately following the failure tc
solve the coal strike In the Paint and
Cabin creek districts in Kanawha
county in the state conference at
Charleston, W. Va., the state militia
tightened its lines lu the troubled
zone.
State officials from Governor Glas
cock down apparently are prepared for
a long siege. The national guard has
thorough command of the situation.
A trip through the district dis
closed a state of armed peace. The
militia has scoured the territory for
weapons of all kinds and a car half
filled with firearms of every conceiv
able character Is Btocked ready for
movement to the arsenal here. Alto
gether more than .1,000 stands ofarmn
have been confiscated, the last ship
ment being obtained In tho extended
martial law zone.
Governor Glasscock made known
Btart on his plans for remedial legisla
tion to guard against labor wars in
the state. One of the greatest griev
ances of the miners Is the mine guard
system previously maintained by the
operators.
I he governor has prepared an
amendment to existing laws which has
the extinction of the mine guard sys.
tern as an object. Ills plan, which will
be submitted to the legislature, would
make It unlawful for any corporation,
company, firm or person to employ any
armed person to perform police or pa
trol duty of any sort In the state with
certain stipulations.
One provision Is that the firms may
apply to the governor to appoint oltl
zens of the state of good character to
be special police, leaving it to the dis
cretion of the governor to so appoint.
The circuit court only 1b authorized to
grant licenses to carry deadly
weapons. Companies whose applica
tions for guards are granted must file
heavy bond to cover any Injury or
damage done through such guards.
National miners' union leaders say
the governor's proposed legislation
ought to prove effective.
BIG OIL FIELD NEAR CANAL
Immense Quantities Found in Colom
bian Territory.
That an immense oil field exists
within a very short distance of tho
Panama canAone and that the oil
Is so plentifulid of such good grade
as to make It of untold value com
mercially Is the Information received
from several authoritative sources.
Gerard Hamilton, editor of the Kng
Ush section of the Panama City Star
and Herald, is one of those who
vouches for tho discovery. He says
that the oil fields are In Colombian
territory not more than a day's voy
age frqm the canal zone and that It
Is so rich in oil that the petroleum
conies out of the earth and rurs down
into the sea.
The field was discovered by a Ger
man through gaining the friendship of
Indians. This man developed an oil
spring by digging a large hole In the
earth at the point where the pe
troleum Is percolating through the
soil. This well filled up constantly
replenishing Itself In a few days.
HARVESTER PROFITS SMALL
$100,000,000 Business Last Year; Com
pany Made $150,000.
Althougn It sold $100,000,000 worth
of farm Implements 'the International
Harvester Company of America last
year made only $1"0,000 In profits, or
fifteen hundredths of 1 per cent, ac
cording to It. C. Ilasklns, the presi
dent, who testified before a special ex
aminer at-Chicago in the government's
suit to dissolve the corporation under
the Sherman anti trust law.
The witness said the company sold
to agents with a .1 per cent discount
for cash and tho the agent, by adding
his profit, determined the price tho
farmer was to pay. One reason, Mr.
Ilasklns explained, why the sales com
pany made only $4o,00l) while It sold
$100,0110,000 worth of Implements was
that It was constantly expanding its
business and expending large sums for
dvertlsing.
PUTS BLAME ON CIGARETS
Curran, Charged With Bigamy, De
clares He Didn't Know.
'It is all on account of clgarcls. 1
didn't know what I wa:i doing. I
smoked so many clgirets 1 didn't
know. What is to become oi' my baby
and my wile? I'm so sorry.'' So cried
George C. Curran, aged twenly two,
when arraigned before Alderman Mc-
Maslers lu Pittsburg on the charge of
bigamy.
The alderman held the boy to tho
grand jury uml set the hall at $2,000.
Curran was remanded to the count '
Jail.
Fourth Man Involved.
William II. Ilice, a quarry owner, Is
the fourth man to lie arrested in con
nection with the alleged planting of
dynamite at Lawrence. Mass
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CAN'T BE HONEST AND PREACH
So
Asserts Rev. White In Farewell
Sermon at Connellsville, Pa.
"A man can't be honest In the min
istry and hold his job," declared Rev.
B. Frank White preaching his fare
well sermon before tho First Unl'ed
Presbyterian church at Connellsville,
Pa. "I've had a warm time of it,"
he added, "hut I've got the clearest
conscience in the world."
Mr. White's resignation follows a
factional fight resulting from an al
leged attempt at one-man rule. Many
Bided with the preacher in his refusal
to allow wealth and Influence to dic
tate his church policy and the char
acter of his sermons.
Mr. White will leave this week for
Princeton to take post graduate work
and will remain in the ministry, but
will not return to this presbytery.
SMALLPOX BEING BESTED
Pittsburg Health Officer Says Epi
demic Is Abating.
The number of smallpox cases In
Pittsburg since Aug. 4 is ninety-four.
There have been twenty-two deaths.
The comprehensive campaign of vac
cination waged by the authorities has
been very effective and it is thought
that within several weeks most of the
residents of Pittsburg will have been
vaccinated. Dr. .1. F. Kdwards, who
has been directing the fight against
the spread of the disease, declares
that the epidemic is abating.
William T.' Davlet Dead.
William T. Pa vies, former lieutenant
governor of Pennsylvania, died Satur
day at his home In Towanda, Pa.
Mr. Davlea was born Pec. 20, 18:11. He
was a member of the state senato
from 1877 to 1884 and was lieutenant
governor from 1SS7 to 1801, having
been elected to that office at the same
time .lames A. Beaver was chosen gov
ernor. Steelworkers' Wages Advanced.
The Kastern Steel company an
nounced an Increase of 15 per cent in
wages of all Its employes In the rolling
mills at Pottsville, Pa. Several hun
dred men will receive from $20 to
$2.i per month Increase. It was
learned that the company Intends in
creasing salaries of ail Its 1,."i00 em
ployes. Explosion in Non-gaseous Mine.
After mine experts had declared tho
mine non gaseous, one man was killed
and two others were Iniiired seriously
by an explosion of a gas pocket In a
mine of tho Wharton Coal company
in Coral, Pa. Frank Scheelt of Indiana
was killed. The injured are: Harry
Walker of Gracetou and Adam Claw
son of Graceton.
Try Out Woman Conductors.
Tho Philadelphia street railroad
company is experimenting with wo
man conductors on Its new pay as-you-enter
cars. On the new cars the con
ductor Is merely a cashier. She sits
behind a desk, receives the fare,
makes change and records the re
ceipts.
Mrs. Grace Seeks Divorce.
Mrs. Palsy Ulrich Opie Grace, who
recently was acquitted in Atlanta,
On., of the charge of shooting her hus
band, Kugene Grace, Instituted pro
ceedings In common pleas court In
Philadelphia for a divorce. Sha
charges cruel and barbarous treat
ment. Walking Honeymoon.
Walter I,. Miles of N'orristown, Pa.,
and his bride have started on their
honeymoon, which is to be a walking
trip across the continent. The couplo
expect to make Iho trip to San Fran
cisco in about 200 days.
Four Furnace Victims Dead.
Four men died victims of an ex
plosion of molten metal In No. 8 blast
furaacn of the Cambria Steel company
at Johnstown, Pa., when twenty were
Injured. Five others are dying at the
Cambria hospital.
8,000 Miners on Strike.
Fight thousand men employed by
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation com
pany at Pottsville, Pa., went on strike
because several men employed at tho
.'esquehonlng colliery refused to wear
union buttons.
Davis Acquitted of Graft Charge.
County Commissioner T. Stanton
Pnvls, accused of misdemeanor In of
fice and corrupt solicitation, was de
clared not guilty when the Jury re
ported In court at Kbensburg, Pa.
Mrs. Mulr Declared Not Guilty.
Mrs. Mary Mulr, the seventeen-year-old
girl wife or Pittsburg, charged
with murdering her father, John Hex-key,
was declared not guilly by the
Jury which heard the case.
Lad Drowns.
George Keves, aged eight, was
drowned In the Youghio'vlieny river nt
Connellsville, Pa. The boy was swim
ming and is believed to have been
overcome by crnmpi.
Former Mayor Hays Dead.
William B. Hays, mayor of PltM
burg from 1 !:! to lliiiii, died lu tho
Allegheny General hospital. He had
been taken there suffering from pneu
monia. Minister's Wife Commits Suicide.
Mrs. II. ('. Stone, wife of Hev. II. C.
Stnno, curate of Holy Trinity Me
morial chapel, Philadelphia, ended
her Hie In her apartments by taking
poison. '
Green Grapes Cause Death of Child.
Itolierl Geltins, aged three, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Itobert Gettins of Irwin,
I'll . died from eating grapes that had
not ripened.