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News From Our Neighbors
PINE GLEN
Harry and Raymond Conoway of
Winburne spent Sunday with their
parents at this place.
John Bowes returned home from
West Virginia on Saturday. Glad to
see you again, John.
Mrs. William Hipple suffered a frac
ture of her left arm by falling on the
ice on last Thursday.
Harry Beates departed on Wednes-
day to purchase a pair of “steppers”
to replace those sold to Benjamin
Gentzel, last week.
The latest—Pine Glen is to have a
public hall. Ground was broken on
Thursday for the building.
Mrs, Vallimont is not improving
any at this writing.
Edward Cramer, while working at
Cherry Run, was so unfortunate as to
step on a nail, which necessitated his
lying in a few days.
The festival held on Friday evening
was a decided success. Quite a nice
sum was realized. Everybody present
seemed to enjoy the evening. Do you
like waffles, Frank?
Carrie Beates returned from Belle-
fonte on (Saturday, where jhe has
spent some time with her sister, Mrs.
" C. Y. Wagner.
Silas Dixon, until recently a .resi-
dent of this place, died at the home
of his son near Bellefonte on Friday
morning, March 11th, aged 79 years.
Interment in Askey’s cemetery on
Monday.
HOWARD
Miss Mary Moore has returned
from an extended visit in Philadel
phia.
Mrs. Taylor, wife of Rev. R. S. Tay-
lor, fell from a buggy hurting and
bruising her right arm. Mrs. Taylor
is fortunate with her misfortune, ow-
ing to her narfow escape from being
stepped upon by the horse.
Messrs. Samuel Bowers and James
Leathers were Lock Haven visitors
one day of the past week.
Mrs. Clara Hicks is spending the
week with her parents here, during
Rev. Hicks’ absence, attending the M.
E. conference at York.
A number of young folks gave May
Dietz a surprise on Tuesday evening
of last week and helped celebrate in
honor of the fourteenth anniversary
of her natal day.
Miss Lula Schenck of C. S. N. S,
came home to spend Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Dunkle, acting as host
ess, entertained the Rebekah lodge at
her home last Wednesday evening.
It is gratifying to note the improve-
ment at and around the P. R. R. sta-
tion.
Mrs. C. P. Long of Spring Mills, and
Mrs. Cameron Burnside of Bellefonte,
were visitors in Howard during the
week.
The Senior Class—1910, of Howard
High school, held a reception on FTi-
day evening. The musical and liter-
ary program was highly appreciated,
and none the less the refreshments
served later in the evening.
NEW ORLEANS WANTS
EXPOSITION IN 1915.
Crescent City Citizens Would Cele-
brate Opening of Panama
Canal. 3
Washington—Urging New Orleans
as the best place in the country in
which to hold the proposed exposition
in 1915, in celebration of the comple-
tion of the Panama canal, a delegation
of business men from the Crescent
City called upon President Taft, after
which they went to the capitol. They
did not see Vice President Sherman,
as he was out of the city, but saw
Speaker Cannon, whom they invited
to New Orleans to the proposed expo-
sition, as also the house committee on
expositions. With a number of the
members of the house delegation from
Louisina, they were entertained at the
National Press club.
The president encouraged the visi-
tors by telling them that if being on
the ground early and the city’s well-
known hospitality counted for any-
thing it should stand ,an excellent
chance of landing the prize.
TWO ROADS INDICTED
Reading and Lehigh Valley Are
Charged With Rebating to
Schwab’s Company.
Philadelphia—Indictments charging
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
and the Reading Railway Company
with violating the Elkins act by grant-
ing concessions in the transportation
of property were returned by a United
States grand jury here.
The companies are charged with
cancelling demurrage charges that.
should have been paid by the Bethle-
ham Steel Company.
SPORTING PROMOTERS
MUST 60 TO PRISON
Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty Against
Mabray and Thirteen Associates.
SWINCZLE IS FAR-REACHING
Gang Said to Have Cleared Up $5,111,
000 in Ten Years—Victims
in Many States.
Council Bluffs, Ia.—John C. Mabray
and 13 of his associates were found
guilty in the United States district
court of illegal use of the mails to
promote fixed sporting events. The
jurors disagreed as to Robert E. L.
Goodard of San Antonio.
Those found guilty were John C.|
Mabray, Leon Loser, Tom §S. Robin-
son, Willard Powell, Clarence Class,
Edward Leach, Edward K. Morris
(negro), Clarence and Harry Forbes,
Frank Scott, Ed McCoy, Winford S.
Harris. The two Forbeses are prize
fighters and Marsh is a wrestler.
Judge Smith McPherson announced
that the prisoners would be sentenced
on Monday. The defendants accept-
ed the verdict without show of feel-
ing, and Mabray shook hands with sev-
eral of the jurors. Mrs. Mabray
broke down when the verdict was
read. Two years’ imprisonment and
a fine of $10,000 is the maximum pen-
alty that may be inflicted by the
court.
Robert Goddard is under indict
ment in the Nebraska district of the
Federal court, and will be tried again
when other defendants are brought in-
—--| to that court.
‘With the conviction of these de-
| fendants the government believes it
| has broken up the most monumental
swindling combination which has ever
operated in the country. Statistics
have been gathered which show the|
receipts of the combination since its
organization, about 10 years ago, to
have exceeded $5,000,000.
The success of the government in
bringing the defendants to trial was
due largely to the capture, when Ma-
bray was arrested, of a trunk found in
his home which it was later ascertain-
ed contained a complete documentary
record of the transaction of the com-
bination for a period of four years. A
loose-leaf pocket ledger was one of
the documents thus secured. It con-
tained the names and addresses of
over 200 persons who had acted as a
go-between in various transactions.
They lived in nearly every state.
There were fourteen branches in
various parts of the country, all oper-
ated from one city. The headquar-
ters was moved from time to time, as
the leaders came under survillance by
the authorities.
Foot-racing, wrestling, prize fight-
ing, horse racing and wire-tapping
were the specialties offered victims on
which usually was first approached by
an actual friend who had been previ-
ously solicited by a regular “steerer”
as he was known. :
MINISTER KNOWLES ATTACKED
Uncle Sam’s Representative in Santo
~ Domingo Assaulted.
Washington—Horace G. Knowles, of
Delaware, the minister of the United
States to the republic of San Domin-
go, was assaulted while riding in ga
vehicle in the public highways of
Santo Domingo City last Sunday. The
incident, wag reported by the Ameri
can legation to the state department.
The assailant was a man named
Castilo, a brother of the governor of
the province. The . Dominican gov-
ernment has expressed to Minister
Knowles its regreat at the incident.
While the officials connected with
the United States legation are of the
opinion that the incident is without
political significance, it is reported
in some quarters that there is some
unrest in the republic. ;
The Kentuckian Launched.
Baltimore, Md.—Christened with
water that came from springs on the
old farms of Jefferson Davis and Abra-
ham Lincoln, in Kentucky, the big
steamship Kentuckian was launched
Saturday at Sparrows Point. Miss
Nancy Johnson, daughter of Congress-
man Johnsen, of Kentucky, was the
sponsor for the vessel, which is the
first of three ships to be built for the
American-Hawaiian line,
Father John Unfrocked.
Moscow—The two priests, Father
| John and Father Demetrius, were un-
frocked and anathematized by a de-
cree of the holy synod, the decree be-
ing read in all the churches. Father
John was the most popular preacher
and temperance advocate among the
masses in Russia.
Mexican Army Gets Red Cross.
Mexico—The recent decree of Presi-
dent Diaz providing for the organiza-
tion of a Mexican Red Cross society |.
in connection with the federal army is
being carried out. It is announced
that the members of the society will
be well-trained and that the best pos-
sible equipment will be provided them.
Eight Hundred Fishermen Lost.
Tokio—Many fishing boats have
been lost in the recent storm along
the coast. It is reported that not
less than fifty of these craft have
been sunk and 800 fishermen drowned.
FIGHT IN LOWER HOUSE
Republicans Repeatedly Outvoted on
Motion to Adjcurn.
Washington, D. C.—The turmoll in
the House of Representatives on the
afternoon and night of the 17th over
the proposed Norris amendment of the
rules providing for the election of the
rules committee by the house was rat-
ed by veterans of the house as the
most significant and alarming legisla-
tive situation since the “Czar” Reed
crisis of 20 years ago. Speaker Can-
non, whose authority it was proposed
to curtail, appeared disposed to give
members free rein in debate and await
reports from Head Whip Dwight as to
the available voting strength of the
party organization. When the lead-
ers found they did not possess a con-
trolling vote against the insurgent
and Democratic combination a sum-
mons to absent members was direct-
ed. :
By a vote of 147 to 132 the insur-
gent Republicans and Democrats at
7 o’clock p. m. defeated the motion of
Representative Tawney (Minn.) to ad-
journ. The fight on the motion to
oust Speaker Cannon from the com-
mittee on rules then was resumed.
Two subsequent motions to adjourn
were defeated and the house was in
session all night.
SPEAKER SHORN OF POWER
House Fight Ends in Changing Com-
mittee on Rules, but Refuses tc
Depose Speaker Cannon.
Washington — The titanic struggle
over the speakership 'of the house of
representatives, reached its climax Sat-
urday in the destruction of the speak-
er’s power in the committee on rules
and the determination by the house to
reconstruct that committee. :
A motion from the Democratic side
to depose Speaker Cannon was lost,
some of the Republicans who voted
to reconstruct the commiteee on rules
voted to retain the speaker. The
vote stood 191 to 155.
LOCOMOTIVES FOR P. R. R.
Lines West of Pittsburg Place Orders
for Ninety Engines.
The Pennsylvania Lines West of
Pittsburg have placed an order with
the American Locomotive Company
for 90 locomotives. This is the larg-
est single order for locomotive equip-
ment reported in many months, repre-
senting an expenditure of $1,800,000.
The American Locomotive Compa-
ny has received orders for six locomo-
tives from the New York Central, 10
from the Boston & Maine and two
from the Canadian Pacific.
The American Car and Foundry
Company has received the following
orders: One thousand: freight cars
from the Soo line, 1,000 from the
Chesapeake & Ohio, 50 from the Den-
ver, Laramie & Northwestern and 10
American Express cars.
The Standard Steel Car Company
has received an order for 1,000 freight
cars from the Chesapeake & Ohio, and
the Barney & Smith Car Company has
received an order for 25 freight cars
from the Vera Cruz railway.
PRESIDENT AT CHICAGO
Chief Executive Delivers Addresses
: on St. Patrick's Day.
Chicago—St. Patrick was notably
remembered in Chicago but the brunt
of it fell upon President Taft and he
was a thoroughly tired man when train
left at night for Rochester, N. Y.
During the day he spoke to members
of the Chicago Newspapermen’s club,
the Traffic club, to a mass meeting,
to members and guests of the Hamil
ton club and twice at functions pro-
vided by the Irish Fellowship club,
which was his host for the day.
In these speeches the president
touched on ‘statesmen correspon-
dents,” who colored facts to suit their
views. To railway men of the Traf-
fic club he expressed his trust in the
sense of justice of the American peo-
ple. He averred that he had learned
more in the first year of his adminis-
tration than he could hope to assimi-
late in the next three.
AGED. WOMAN “POKER FIEND”
Washington Woman of 77 Confesses
to Running a Game.
Washington—The oldest poker play-
er in the world is probably Mrs. Jose-
phine Dennis of 1007 E street, North-
west, who was arrested here Sunday
morning by the precinct detectives
for playing poker and running a
“game” in her residence regardless of
the Sunday law. She is 77 years old.
Mrs. Dennis has every appearance
of respectability and her neighbors
are said to have been shocked by the
disclosures made by the police. It
ig said that Mrs. Dennis confesses an |
overwhelming “interest. in the great
American game and claims to have
played it for 45 years. :
BOTTLE HOLDS PEARY’'S LETTER
Reaches Ireland's Coast After Being
Put Adrift Off Greenland.
London—A bottle which was thrown
overboard from Commander Peary’s
arctic ship Roosevelt, off Greenland,
September 2, 1909, was picked up off
Kinsale, Ireland, on the 16th.
A letter inclosed in the bottle and
addressed to E. Millan of Frankfort-on-
the-Main, says that the bottle was
set adrift with the object of ascertain-
ing the rate of the current on the Lab-
rador coast. :
COLONEL RODGEVELT
(AT END OF THE TRAIL
an
Bids Farewell to Companions of Hunt-
ing Expedition in Africa.
ADVICE TO ARMY OFFICERS
Ex-President Tells Egyptians to
Drop Politics as Long as
They Are Soldiers.
Khartum—Colonel Theodore Roose:
velt on March .17 gathered the remain-
ing members of his African expedition
around him at a lunch before fare-
wells were said. The guests includ-
ed Sir Alfred Pease, who was Colonel
Roosevelt’s first host in Africa, Clay-
ton Bey of the sirdar’s staff, and Cap-
tain Meredith of the steamer Dal, on
which the party voyaged from Gondo-
koro.
The ex-president tried to make the
affair as lively as possible, but he was
considerably moved when it came to
shaking hands with those whom he is
not likely to see again for a long
time. He expressed the greatest ad-
miration for Captain Cunningham’s
strenuous and unremitting labors, and
those of the naturalists, by reason of
which the expedition has been -such
a marked success, and he dwelt upon
the complete harmony which had ex-
isted from first to last. No one re-
gretted more than he, said the ex-pres-
ident, that the hunting party which
HIS WIFE APPROVED
SCRIBBLER'S ARTICLE.
She Picked Out Story In Paper
Which Fitted Him, But He Fails
to Read It.
Scribbler had come from the office
in the evening quite “played out” be-
cause of the output of his pen and
brain that day, says the Chicago
Record-Herald. He was lying on the
couch in the sitting room after sup~
per, when Mrs. Scribbler, who had
been reading a magazine, said:
“See here, George Scribbler, here
is something that fits you to a T, and
I want you to read it.”
“What is it about?” :
“It is about that funn, kind of
men who must have everything just
so in their homes, no matter how
hard it makes it for others. You
know that you are one of the fun-
niest men alive. Every rug and chair
and a little dust sets you to scolding.
You must have a clean napkin every
meal, and you cannot eat if there is
a tiny spot on the table cloth, and
everything must be served just exact-
ly so, or you get grumpy. Now, is
not that true?”
“A man likes to see things in order
in his own house,” said Scribbler.
“Of course he does, and I try te
keep things in order, but I defy any
woman to maintain the degree of or-
i der you expect with four or five chil-
i dren in the house. Now, this article
refers to just such unreasonable, fus-
Sy men as you are, and it is not one
bit too severe even when i: says that
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had covered so many trails was now to | they are small spirited and lacking
split up.
Former President at Reception.
After an inspection of the missions !
under the guidance of Bishop Gwyn-
ne, Colonel Roosevelt attended a re-
ception at the Grand hotel,. where he
again met the officials of Khartum,
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss [Ethel were
engaged most of the day in packing
preparatory to leaving for Cairo, and
were unable to attend the functions
which, however, were graced by the
presence of many ladies.
In a speech at the Egyptian Officers’
club, Colonel Roosevelt advised the
officers to drop politics while they
were soldiers. He was a soldier him-
self, he said, and a politician, but he
never lets them intermix.
from him in politics, but that made no
difference in his or their position.
“As soldier,” said the ex-president,
“always remember that a soldier who
mixes politics with soldiering becomes
a bad soldier.”
Non-Political Attitude Safest.
He told the Egyptian officers to re-
member also that a non-political atti-
tude was the safest, as they were
sworn to the service of their country.
His address was received with much
enthusiasm, and, as he departed in
company with Slatin Pacha for the
palace he was warmly cheered.
Shortly before 9 o’clock Colonel and
Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermit and Miss Ethel
proceeded in carriages to the station,
where they boarded a special train
for the trip to Cairo.
PEACE MESSAGE FROM JAPAN
Former Vice President Fairbanks
- Declares Mikado’s Nation
Wants No Quarrel.
New York—Charles © Warren Fair-
banks, of Indianapolis, former vice
president of the United States, came
back home March 17 with a message
of peace. After an absence of nearly
a year on a tour of the world, he ar-
rived in New York harbor on the
steamer Mauretania.
The former vice president talked
freely. Peace with Japan was the
burden of his interview, and by a
strange coincidence he reached New
York in time to be an honor guest
with President Taft at a dinner of the
American Peace and Arbitration league
at the Hotel Astor. ;
“President Roosevelt’s adminis-
tration,” said Mr. Fairbanks, ‘‘great-
ly strengthenened the ties of good feel-
ing between us and other powers and
President Taft is understood abroad
as in favor of a policy of international
peace. There is, therefore, no evi-
dence of any lurking fear of our abso-
luae good faith, and so long as that
prevails there is no danger of serious
collision between the United States
and any other nation.
“There is not the slightest ground,
in my opinion, for the suggestion
which now and then obtain currency
to the effect that there is danger of
war between the United States and
Japan, or with any other power.
Peary Forced to Quit Talking.
New York—Commander Robert E.
Peary has cut short his lecture tour
in the South. The refusal of Gover-
nor Brown of Georgia, to introduce
him to an Atlanta audience, his ref-
erence to the comander in an inter-
view as a “faker” and the small crowd
that extended the lecture, brought
forth an announcement from the Civic
Forum, in New York under whose aus-
pices Peary ih lecturing, that his
plans have been changed.
~~ Killed Over 50 Cents.
Spartainburg, S. C. — In a dispute
over 50 cents, R. W. Graham, an engi-
neer of Valley Falls, 10 miles west
of here, was struck on the head by a
rock thrown by Emery Bishop, an em-
rloye at the mills, and died.
In the
Spanish war many of his men differed |
in true manliness. I do wish that you
would read the article.”
“I don’t need to,” replied Scribbler,
sitting up to stretch and groan.
“I'd like to know why you do not
' need to read it, George Scribbler?”
“Because—well, the fact is, my
dear, I wrote that article myself.”
Night Skies as Inspiration.
The suns and constellations of the
glorious galaxy sparkle and seintil-
late gloriously upon us. The domain
of this glorious galaxy is situated at
present in the south and southeast
and extends from brilliant Capella,
near the zenith, to more brilliant
Sirius, toward the horizon. Queen
Capella sparkles near the top of the
constellation Auriga, while below her
twinkle the inseparable Twins in
Gemini, gleams the ruddy eye of
Aldebaran in Taurus and glimmers
the hazy group of the Pleiades. Be-
low Gemini and Taurus glows the
wavering sun Betelgeux and sparkles
brilliant Rigel in the famous and
ancient constellation of Orion, and
between Betelgeux and Rigel twinkle
the three “belt stars.”
Eastward of Orion glitters the lone-
ly gem Procyon in Canis Minor, and,
lowest of all, scintillates that incom-
parable jewel, King Sirius, in Canis
Major. Six suns and six constella-
tions—and the greatest of these are
Sirius and Orion,- Sirius like a living,
fiery sky diamond, Orion sparkling
in the firmament like a gigantic frag-
ment of sidereal jewelry.—Communi-
cation in New York Tribune.
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Smugglers’ Ruse. $
An ingenious method of smuggling
sacchrin has been detected at Bre-
genz, Austria, where seven men were
arrested for importing large quanti-
ties of contraband. When the Geneva-
Munich express arrived at Bregenz
the station master had a coach eon-
taining seven travelers uncoupled
from the express and detained for ex-
amination. He had been warned by
telegraph from Zurich that seven
smugglers of Geneva were in the train
with a large quantity of sacchrin. Af-
ter an exhaustive search the officials
failed to find any contraband and
were about to apologize to the seven
a hot water pipe in a first class com-
partment and the secret was revealed.
All the hot water pipes in the ecar-
riage were in duplicate, differing in
no detail as to length, breadth and
color, but one set was of metal and
the other set made of papier mache
containing sacchrin, which is about
nine times as expensive in Austria as
in Switzerland. — London Evening
Standard.
School of Forestry.
China's first school of forestry will
shortly be opened at Mukden. The
Chinese empire is usually pointed out
as the worst example, among modern
nations, of forest destruction. The
floods which are periodically poured
down from the denuded mountains
are destructive beyond comparison
with any other country and the want
of forests is assigned as the chief
cause. Wood is ccarcer in China
than in almost any other region im
well adapted to the growing of trees.
The wife of a farm laborer near
Exeter has given birth to her twenty-
second child. All the family are alive
and well.
Stiff collars should enable men te
hold their heads up in the world,
and book must be exactly i: its place,
travelers for their detention when one
customs inspector accidentally kicked
the world, although the country is |