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VOL. XLVII. NO. 21.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 19U.
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
THE FOREST REPUBLICAN.
ST
ICAN.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. S. D. Irwin.
Justices of the Peace C. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
Cuunmmen.J. W. Landers, O. B. Rob
inson, R. J. Hopkins, U. F. Watson, O.
W. Holemsn,3. U. Mate, Charles Clark,
Oonslable L. L. Zuver.
Collector W. il. Hood.
School Directors Vf . C. Iuiel, J. R.
Clark, S. M. Henry, Q. Jamleson, D. H.
Blum.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICER. S.
Member of Congress V) '. J. Rulings.
Member of Senate J. 1C. P. Hall.
Assembly A. R. Meohllng.
President Judge W. D. U inckley.
Associate Jwlgesti&muel Aul, Joseph
M. Morgan.
Pr othonotary, Register & Recorder, 'f.
-8. R. Maxwell.
Uheriff Wm. H. Hood.
Treasurer Yf. H. Brar.ee.
Commissioners Wm. H. Harrison, J.
C. Hoowden, II. II. MoClellan.
District Kttorney M. A. Oarringer.
Jury Commissioners J. B. Eden, A.M.
. Moore.
Coroner Dr. M. 0 Kerr.
Countv Auditor George H. Warden,
A. C. Gregg and H. V. Shields.
County iShirvejor Roy S. Braden.
Count Superintendeni-i.O. Carson.
Regular Term of Caurt.
Third Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Third Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Commis
sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of month.
Church and Mabbath Heboel.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
m. t M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m.
Preaching in M. K. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. H. L. Dunlavey.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the UHual hour. Rev.
M. E. Woleott, Pastor.
Preaching in the Presbyterian church
every Sabbath at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p.
m. Rev. H. A. Bailey, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
D. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
month.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TI'.NESTA LODGE, No. 369, 1. 0.O.F.
Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No.274
O. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after
noon of eauli month at 3 o'clock.
CAPT. GEORGE 8TOW CORPS, No.
137, W. R. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
T.
F. RITCHEY,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Tlonesta, Pa.
MA. CARRINGER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Office over Forest County National
Bauk Building, TIONESTA, PA.
CURTIS M. SHAWKEY,
ATTORN EY-AT- LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice m Forest Co.
AO BROWN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office In Arnor Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tlonesta, fa.
FRANK S. HUNTER, D. D. S.
Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank,
TIONESTA, PA.
DR. F. J. BOVARD,
Physician A Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted.
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S. E. PIERCE, Proprietor,
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R. A. FULTON, Proprietor.
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cede Him Out of Country j
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HUERTA WOULD SAVE NATION
Flight Planned to Avert Further,
Bloodshed and Bring Revolt to Endl
Carbajal Slated to Succeed Dictator
Robert Esteva-Ruiz, Mexican bu!I
secretary of foreign affairs in the cabj
iuet of General Huerta, is the latest
high official of the present govern!
nient to reach Vera Cruz on his way
abroad.
Esteva-Ruiz said that Huerta In
tends to. resign the provisional presl.
demy and leave Mexico and thus;
save the country from any more oil
the horrors of civil war. The capture
id possible sacking of Mexico City,
Is believed, would be prevented by
Hucrta's moving out.
Huerta, he said, will surrender tha
government to Francisco Carbajal, tin
new minister of foreign, affairs, who,
In turn, will step aside, when tlui
time conies, for some other provisional
president wholly acceptable to the
Constitutionalists. j
Just when the change will coma
Esteva-Ruiz said he did not know,
"The president did not make me his
confidant," 'ie declared.
He was convinced, however, that
Huerta would lay down his power this
week and it would not surprise hir.i,
he said, if his resignation were an
nounced today.
Carbajal, he added, was suggested
as provisional president by the Ameri
can delegation at the Niagara Falls
mediation conference a.nd agreed to
by Huerta's delegates and the South
American mediators, while the Consti
tutionalists Indirectly had conveyed
the idea that he would be acceptable
to Carranza.
Like Porfiro Diaz, who (led from hla
country in the hope that his going
might avert a long and costly civil
war, Huerta, according to Esteva-Ruiz,
has decided to yield to superior num
bers. Ho l Huerta and General
Blanquet, Hs minister of war, knew
that longer resistance was futile.
He expected Blanquet would leave
Mexico City, perhaps when Huerta
lied, but not before.
The sub-secretary of foreign affairs
professed still to maintain his connee
tion with the Government. He had
been named, he said, special ambas
sador to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
to convey to those countries tlio
thanks of the Mexican republic for
their efforts toward mediation.
Esteva-Ruiz did not explain why an
had chosen a journey from Mexico
City to the coast through the Ameri
can lines rather than to Puerto Mex
ico, except to say that the Vera Cruz
route was shorter and offered a bet
ter opportunity to catch his boat.
De La Lama, the finance minister,
said that the reason he chose the
Vera Cruz route was the insistence of
Huerta, wiio told hira that by going
through the American lines openly
and frankly he would show the world
tflat the agreement reached at Niagara
Falls was not a farce so far as Huer
ta and the United Stales were con
cerned, and that relations between the
two countries were again friendly.
This knowledge has given rise to
the suggestion that Huerta himself,
once he decides to leave his capital,
also may pass through General Fu:i-
Eton's lines and out beneath the guns
of Rear Admiral Badger's ships.
SENDS COMPANY NICKEL
Woman Missed First Ride In Fifteen
Years; Thinks She's Cheating.
Believing she had cheated the Pitts
burgh Rallrays company out of five
cents because she had omitted, for the
first time in fifteen yeurs, to ride on
a street car, an unidentified woman
dispatched a note to Inspector Flan-
nigan with five cents enclosed. The
note follows:
"My Dear Sir I have been riding
on your cars for the last fifteen years
and in that time I do not think there
was one day when I did not ride at
least once. Yesterday I failed. Since
then I have been feeling rather queer
Enclosed ycu will find the nickel I
fear you were cheated of."
World's End Set For Oct. 20.
The end of the world has been set
for Oct. 20, according to the Millennia
Dawn sect, which held a meeting In
Sharon, Pa., and decided to make ar
rangements for the finish. One mem
ber of the cult, Mrs. Elizabeth Robin
son, an enthusiastic believer, later dis
posed of her property for $2,500. Sim
says she will retain $500 to keep hr
from need until the fatal day and the
remainder she will distribute to tha
poor.
Mine Foreman's Home Dynamited
The home of Henry Sweinsberg,
mine foreman at Largo, Ta., was dyna
mited and the house was wrecked.
Sweinsberg, his wife and child were
the only occupants ot the house and
they were not injured. Some time ago
there was a strike at the Large mine.
Cherries Drug on Market.
For the first time in a number cf
years cherries are a drug on the mar
ket In Altojna. Pa. The crop is tho
heaviest in a decade.
Dr. Edwin Carman and
Wife
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CONGRESS
Wilson to Fight For Selections.
The senr'e committee on banking
and currency voted, 7 to 4, to report
unfavorably the nomination of Thomas
D. Jones of Chicago for the federal re
serve board. The committee also went
on record i.i favor of holding up the
nomination of Paul M. Warburg unMl
he consents to appear before the com
mittee. This was the answer of the commit
tee to the president's public criticism
of Its methods in holding up the
nomination of meu connected with
"big business."
The Issue between the president and
the committee over the reserve boa
nomination Is thus squarely joined
and a bitter fight is In prospect.
What Did Lind Get?
How much did the Wilson adminis
tration pay John Lind for his services
in Mexico and for acting as adviser
of President Wilson and Secretary of
State Bryan when the relations be
tween the two countries were almost
at the breaking point?
This question is agitating Republi
cans, and it is likely that in a day or
so a resolution will be offered in the
house calling on the secretary of state
to Indicate the amount paid Mr. Lind
and whether he is still on the pay roll
Salem Gets Federal Aid.
By a vote of 161 to 66 the house con
furred In the 'senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill appropriating
$200,000 for the relief of the Salem
fire sufferers. Despite the fact that
the appropriation was recommended
by President Wilson, such Democrats
as Underwood, Rainey and Fitzgerald
opposed it.
AUTOISTS DASHED TO DEATH
Two Persons Killed and Two Fatally
Injured West Virginia Disaster,
Two persons were killed and five
injured, two probably fatally, when
an automobile got beyond control of
the chauffeur on a curve In the road
near Morgantown, W. Va., and dashed
into the side of a hill. All the occu
pants were hurled from the car.
Wlnfield F. McKay, aged sixty-five,
of Ravenswood, W. Va., and Winfield
McKay, his grandson, of Fairmont, W.
Va., were killed.
The injured are: Dr. H. C. McKay,
Fairmont, internal injuries, will die;
John White, Fairmont, skull fractured,
will die; Dorothy McKay, elevea.
daughter of Dr. McKay and sister of
Wlnfield, leg broken; R. M. Bailey
and Grim Knox, Fairmont, cuts and
bruises.
DEATH HITS SUPREME BENCH
Heart Disease Vacates Justice Lur
ton's Seat.
Heart disease caused the death of
Associate Justice Horace Harmon
Lurton of tne United States supreme
court at one of the Atlantic City
(N. J.) hotels. Asthma brought oil
the heart trouble.
Not until a few hours before his
death did the justice complain of
being ill and apparently ho was en
joying his usual good health.
His wife and son, Horace H. Lur
ton, Jr., of Nashville, were at the bed
Bide. The body was taken to Clarksburg,
Tenn., for interment. It was at that
city that Justice Lurton began the
practice of law and liver for twenty
years.
Nonunion Men Stoned.
A Rochester (Pa.) mob stoned non
union men intended for the Westing
house shops who started disorder in
the coaches of a passenger train.
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COLORED MAID ,
ONLY HOPE LEFT
Prosecution's Evidence Against
Mrs. Carman Fades Away
GIRL HARASSED BY SLEUTHS
Prosecutor and Detectives Are Hoping
Cella Coleman Will Change Her
Testimony and Accuse Prisoner.
When doubt was thrown on tin
testimony of George Golder and El-
wood Bardes, the two witnesses whose
Btorles at the Inquest at Freeport, N.
Y caused the authorities to arrest
Mrs. Florence Carman, the prosecu
tion's case against the physician's
wife charged with the murder of Mrai
Louise Bailey became so weak that it
is said the prosecutor fears to go bo
fore the grand Jury for an Indictment.1
The doubts of the prosecution as
regards the strength of their case was
expressed by Assistant Attorney
Weeks, who . went so far as to say
that Mrs. Carman might be freed next
Monday If more evidence cannot be
produced.
Golder has made an affidavit practi
cally repudiating his Identification of
the doctor's wife as the woman he saw
on the porch a few minutes before the
murder, and Flora Raynor, a young
woman of this village, says that
Bardes was with her at a time so
close to that of the murder that it
seems impossible, if her story is true,
that he could have seen and heard all
that he testified to.
It is. barely possible that District
Attorney Smith has evidence in re
serve which he intends to produce at
a strategic moment, but as the case
stands superficially nobody in Free-
'port believes that Mrs. Carman could
be Indicted, much less convicted.
Take, for example, the comment of
ex-Judge Wallace of Freeport:
"No testimony connecting Mrs. Car
man with the killing of Mrs. Bailey
has been offered that approaches the
dignity of evidence. Any judge would
be compelled to direct a jury to acquit
the defendant."
District Attorney Smith, disappoint
ed and chagrined by the crumbling of
the foundations of his case, tried to
secure a postponement of the hearing
set for July 13 by Coroner Norton.
Mr. Smith wanted a week's delay, but
George M. Levy, counsel for Mrs. Car
man, would not consent. Mr. Levy's
position was that the county author
ities after eight days' investigation put
Mrs. Carman in jail charged with
murder and that it would be unjust to
dilly dally any further.
"If they've got any real evidence,"
said Levy, "let them bring It Into
court. They are afraid. They know 1
can tear to pieces every story they
have set up. They've got nothing in
the world but suspicion of motive
the circumstance of a jealous woman
who used a dictograph to overhear
her husband's conversations with wo
men patients."
The truth is that the prosecution is
concentrating upon a rather fright
ened colored woman, who has sudden
ly become of enormous Importance to
District Attorney Smith and W. J.
Burns. -Cella Coleman, Mrs. Carman's
cook, has suddenly become the im
portant figure in the case.
At the inquest Cella stuck to it that
she was at work In the kitchen from
supper time until the murder an hour
or more and that Mrs. Carman did
not pass through the kitchen or go by
the kitchen door.
Mrs. Carman conducted herself
when they went to take her to jail as
everybody In Freeport felt certain she
would do. She came quietly from her
bedroom and faced the officers with
her head up and her shoulders thrown
back. There were tears In her eyes,
but there was not a quaver in her
voice. She did not tremble or display
the least Indication of a nervou3
breakdown.
Her tears sprang, no doubt, from
grief over her mother's dangerous
condition and from emotion caused by
Dr. Carman's lack of composure a.)
much as from her own plight. The
mother, Mrs. Piatt Conklin, Is so 111 of
heart disease that the doctors feared
the news of Mrs. Carman's arrest
might end her life. Dr. Carman wept
unrestrainedly.
THREE BUBONIC DEATHS
Fourth Plague Case In New Orleans
Results Fatally.
Another death from the bubonic
plague was announced by the public
health service officers, making a total
of four cases and three deaths since
the outbreak of the disease In New
Orleans on June 27. The lust victim
was Leon De Jean, a negro boy.
Dr. W. P. O'Reilly, city health of
ficer, issued an order to undertakers
that no burial permits should be is
sued until an investigation into tho
cause of death had been made by fed
eral health oll'.cers.
Twenty Have Close Call.
Twenty men had narrow escapes
from burning to death when their
lumber camp near Crown, Pa., wag
burned to the ground.
Anti-Trust Program Opposed.
Trade bodies of thirty-six states In
a referendum vote opposed the admin
istration's anti-trust program. 4
Maud Ballington Booth Talk
ing For Suffrage
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1914. by American Press Association.
It is generally conceded In Newport,
R. I that the gathering of notable
women at Marble House is bound to
do much for the suffrage cause, in
which Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont is so
deeply Interested. The picture shows
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, head 'A
the Volunteers of America, making a
spirited suffrage speech.
TWO WOMEN DROWN
Fall From Raft Into Monongahela
River Aid Comes Too Late.
Within sight of the husband and
father of one of them, who were un
able to help them, two women camp
ers of Homevllle fell from a raft in
Peters creek near the Wilson (Pa.)
station on the Monongahela river and
drowned in ten feet of water.
The dead are; Mrs. Lucy Forrester,
aged thirty-eight, wire of William For
rester, and Mrs. Sadie Kearney,
twenty-eight, wife of Charles Kearney.
STREET DANCING FETE
Pittsburgh Stages Unique Event For
Visiting Real Estate Delegates.
An Impromptu street carnival, rival
ling anything of the sort ever given
In Pittsburgh and believed to be the
first where the revellers danced in the
street, brought to a close the enter
tainment program of the convention
of the National Association ot Real
Estate Exchanges, which has been lu
progress for three days at the Hotel
Schenley.
The fete was held on Grant boule
vard between Forbes strcrt and Fifth
avenue and on the adjoining Schenley
lawn. It Is estimated that more than
5,000 persons took part.
IRON AND STEEL TAKE TURN
Trade Shows Betterment and Price
Is Strengthened.
Dun's Review of Trade says this
week:
"Irregularity still characterizes the
business Bi'uation. Favorable reports
predominate and general conditions
afford encouragement, although the
volume, of new business is of moderate
proportions.
"Indlciitl- is of Improvement are
noted In Iron and Bteel, where a turn
for the better Is at lust apparent. The
betterment Is accompanied by some
strengthening of price and few manu
facturers are disposed to book future
contracts at present figures."
M. E. Ingalls Dies.
M. E. Ingalls, former head of the
Big Four railroad, died following treat
ment of ulcerated tooth.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Chicago, July 14.
Hogs Receipts, 28,000. Light, $8.60
9; mixed, $8.50(f9; heavy, $8.:i.r,ifi)
9; rough, $8.30&8.45; pigs, $7.80(fi 8.80.
Cattle Receipts, 15,000. BeeveB,
$5.70(19.85; cows and hellers, $8.90(ij)
9.15.
Sheep Receipts, 22,000. Sheep,
$5.30(&6.10; yearlings, $5.907.35.
Wheat July, 77.
Corn July, 69.
Oats July, 38.
Pittsburgh, July 14.
Cattle Choice, $8.25(?i 9.60; prime,
$8.80 9.25; good, $8.50ffi 8.80; com
mon, $6f&7; common to good fat bulls,
5.50(&7; common to good fat cows,
$3.507.26; fresh cows and springers,
I40(i7S.
Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers,
$6fj6.25; good mixed, $5.50(5.90; fair
mixed, $5(5.40; culls and common,
$2(1:1.50; spring lumhs, $U(!i9; veal
calves, $10.50ill; heavy and thin
calves, $70 8.
Hogs Prime heavy hogs, $9.20
9.25; heavy mixed, $9.25(19.30; medi
ums, heavy Yorkers, light Yorkers,
$9.40; pigs, $9.45(i9.50; roughs, $7.'.o
1(8; stags, $7(fi7.25.
Butter Prints, 30. Eggs Fresh,
24. Poultry Live hens, 17(1 18.
Cleveland, July 14.
Calves Good to choice, $ll(fi 11.50;
lair to good, $10(ill; heavy and com
mon, $6(9.
Cuttle Choice Tut steers, $8.351
8.5( good to choice, $S(iS.50; milch
ers :uul springers, $50(i80.
II Yorkers, $9.15; mlx-d, $9.16;
pijrs, $9.15; stags, $6.75.
MAGAZINE MEN SUED
War Department Alleges Military
Secrets Were Printed.
Warrants for the arrest of Charles
K. Field, editor of the Somerset maga
zine, and former president of the Bo
hemian club; Riley A. Scott, a writer;
Robert J. Fowler, aviator, and Ray
S. Duhem, a photographer, were is
sued at the request of John W. Pres
ton, United States attorney in San
Francisco.
The charge against all three Is the
disclosure of military secrets and the
penalty is ten years' Imprisonment cr
a $10,000 fine for such disclosure if
made abroad and one year or a $1,0J0
fine If made in the United States.
In April Sunset published an articla
entitled "Can the Panama Canal Be
Destroyed From the Air?" Reproduc
tions of photographs taken from en
aeroplane and showing some of tbi
fortifications of the canal zone and of
the San Francisco Presidio accom
panied the text.
MEAT PRICES TO SOAR
Big Grain Crop Will Not Afford Any
Relief, Say Packers.
Meat prices will rise above the rec
ord figures of recent years despite
the huge grain crop, Chicago packing
house representatives asserted. Thev
Bay that the present scarcity ot cattle
and the effect of dry weather on
grazing lands will more than offset
the enormous grain yield.
A beef price of 16 (nts to tho
butcher was predicted as an early pos
sibility and it was pointed out by on
of the packing house men that cattle
even now are higher than for Bonio
time. Scarcity of grass-fed cattle was
referred to as one cause for the pre
dicted advance.
The dry summer In the west last
year Is the chief cause of the prese-.t
scanty supply on the hoof. Another
factor Is that the demand for meat
exceeds the supply.
BIG RAIL ORDER PLACED
Pennsylvania Awards 100,000 Tons
r-ei" This Year's Needs.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
awarded contracts for 100,000 tons of
Bteel rails to cover the requirements
of the system for 1914.
The orders were placed with the
following companies: United States
Steel corporation, 44,000 tons; Penn
sylvania Steel company, 22,000; Cam
bria Steel company, 22,000; Lacka
wanna Steel company, 6,000; Bethle
hem Steel company, 6,000.
All these rails will be 100 pounds
except 15,000 tons of 120 pounds. The
latter will be used on tho main line.
Escaped Prisoners Captured.
Earl Hess, "Joe" Sterling and "Joe"
Williams, three prisoners who mado
a dash for liberty as they were being
tken back to the Crawford county
(Pa.) jail after being sentenced to the
reform school, are again bchiad bars.
Curran't Mistake.
It was dilliciilt to subdue the high
spirits of John I'hllpot Currun, the
Irish lawyer and wit Indeed, many
of Ills most liillllimt witticisms were
tittered In the stnid nnd somewhat
musty iismosplieie of the courtroom.
On one occiislou when Curran was
making tin elaborate argument In chan
cery Lord Clnre brought u largo New
foundland dog upon the bench with
him, nnd during tho progress of the nr
giiineiit ho iiill niiicli more attention
to the dog than to the barrister. Grad
ually tlm chancellor lost nil regard for
even ordinary courtesy. In tho most
Important part of the case ho turned
himself quite aside and began to fon
dle tho nulinal. Curran stopped nt
once.
"Go on, Mr. Curran; go on," snld
Lord Clare.
"I beg n thousand pardons, my lord,"
replied tho wit. "I took It for grunted
that your lordship wus employed In
consultation."
Physical Energy.
Study of the blood furnished tho
clew to Julius Robert Mayer for his
discovery of that fundamental law of
physics, the law of conservation of en
ergy. Mayer observed, while travel
ing as a ship's surgeon in the tropica
Hint tlio venous blood of his patients
(In the days wlien blood letting was
still in general vogue) was appreciably
brighter In color tlinn In ordinary
practice In the tempera to zone. From
this ho concluded there was n defi
nite relation between (he chemical
action going on In tho blood and the
amount of work or heat furnished by
the body, nnd thus, following up his
nrgiiinctit point by point, he was finally
led to the conclusion that the total
nmoiint of energy of n given system Is
constant, that enemy can neither lie
created nor destroyed, but only con
verted from one form into another.
Japan Censors Books.
In Japan the i-cnsui'shlp of novels Is
not exercised by the libraries, but by
u government olllclal who is empower
ed to prosecute offending authors as
well as forbid tho sale of their books.
Not long ago tho author of u Japanese
novel culled "The (livat Cily" was
brought before the conns for giving
too realistic a description of life In To
kyo. Ills counsel used the old argu
ments about the Indefensible rights of
literature nnd the ennobling of every
thing by art. But tho case was given
HUM I list tin- author, l:en some of
Mollero's works havo been forbidden
to circulate In Japan, tlio ground of
offense being the lack of respect shown
by wives toward their husbands and
by sons toward their fathers.
STORM TAKES THREE LIVES
Scranton, Pa., Visited by Cloudburst
Streams Overrun Banks.
With three believed dead, hundreds
homeless, thousands of dollars' worth
of property damaged, Scranton, Pa.,
and vicinity was visited by a cloud
burst that tied up most of the traffic
on the railroads for three days. Scores
were rescued from their homes by the
police reserves.
The storm was accompanied by
terrific thunder aud lightning. Driven
by a stiff wind the streets were booh
Hooded. The storm continued un
abated for two hours.
An hour after it had ceased Roaring
brook and the Lackawanna river be
gan to rise with such rapidity that tha
water soon reached the front porches
of the houses.
L. W. Stanton, Frank A. Butler, Ray
Ellis and Frank Durkin were standing
on the bank of Roaring brook when
the water washed the ground from
under their feet and they were swept
into midstream. They clung to a tree
that was floating downstream.
Ellis was rescued three miles
further down, but tho others are be
lieved to have perished.
Cats Guard Corpse.
With two large black cats sitting on
her body and eight other felines
curled up around It, Miss Sarah Starr,
an eccentric recluse, seventy-nine
years old, was found dead in her home
In Philadelphia. When patrolmen en
tered the room where the body of the
woman was lying the cats sprang upon
them as if to protect their mistress
and a lively battle ensued. An officer
drew his revolver and shot live cats.
Cow Attacks Little Girl.
While playing in a field near her
home, Mary, the eight-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Fahren
bach of Windfall, near Kane, Ta.,
probably was Injured fatally when Bhe
was attacked by a cow owned by her
father. The animal hooked Its horn
In her mouth tearing away the side
of her face and part of her nose. The
child was rescued from the cow by a
neighbor.
Hunt Guns and Find Much Silk.
Michael Querlerrl, aged thirty-five,
chief packer at the Altoona (Pa.) silk
mill, was arraigned for larceny. Game
wardens, In searching his home near
Hollldaysburg for arms, found thou
sands of dollars' worth of silks packed
up and ready to be shipped to a
"feuce." Querlerrl Is Bald to have cut
from ten to twenty yards Irom pieces
of silk delivered to him to pack.
Aged Minister Takes Young Wife.
At Huntington, W. Va., a romance
culminated when Rev. C. H. Lakln,
aged seventy-six, one of the veteran
ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was married to Miss Nora
Quinn, who is thirty-six years hla
junior. Miss Quinn, It is said, after
listening to one of ills sermons sought
an Introduction to the minister.
Man Thought Dead Returns.
Sheridan Temple, aged forty-five,
who disappeared from Beaver, Pa.,
four years ago, is back in town. A
body found In the Ohio river six
months after Temple left town was
buried as that of Temple, although no
definite identification was made.
Temple Bald lie has been wandering
over the country.
Prospective Bridegroom Robbed.
Joseph L. Bogu., a Polish barber
who recently went to live in Washing
ton, Pa., withdrew about $750 from
a Pittsburgh bank, intending to marry.
He was waylaid, knocked unconscious
and robbed of $731. He was able to
give little information about the hold
up as he did not Bee the man who
attacked.
Woman, 101, Answer Call.
Mrs. Ma.-tha Crise, aged 101, tho
oldest inhabitant of Somerset county
Pa., died in her home in Mlddlecreek
township. She celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday last May
15. Although Mrs. Crise passed the
century mark she was a cripplo from
infancy.
Buttons Start Fire.
Two metal buttons rubbing together,
causing a spark in a benzine washer
at the dyeing establishment In Al
toona, Pu., of A. Freedman, are be
lieved to luivo caused a tire which do
Btroyed tlie plant and the possibly
fatal burning of Freedman.
Deserted Baby Along Driveway.
A three-month-old baby was found
abandoned In a driveway in a wooded
district ubove the old Magee home
stead In Forbes street, Pittsburgh.
Two men mero attracted by cries and
discovered the baby wrapped in
woolen garments.
Big Melon Is Cut.
In order to avoid subscribing for
stock In the regional reserve bank,
under tho new currency system, In
excess of Its own capital stock, tho
First National Bank of Uliiontown,
I'll., declared a dividend of 700 per
cent.
Crowbar Through Thigh.
Michael Yurecskl, Croightou, is In
Allegheny Valley hospital, Tarentuui,
Pu., us I he result of an odd in cident
In a mine at Creiditon. Ho was hold
ing a crowbar when a freight car hit
tho bar. driving It through Iii3 thigh.
Pittsburgh Bank Looted.
Herman F. Iton hers and George Y.
lloiinelster, employes of the Colonial
Trust company ot Pittsburgh, said to
have confessed robbing the vault ot
$S.",,U00, were placed in jail in default
of boud.
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