ONLY 81-LINGU vi RAFIFIK BETWEEN N WYORK AND CHIC < VOLUME II — No. 6 CARNEY HLLD FOR SHOCT::TD He Was Discovered While in Act of Ransacking He use Mrs. David Shilling, of Wheat field, Buffington township, came to Indiana Wednesday moning and identified Clyde Carney of Center ville, West Wheatfield township, a prisoner in the county jail, as the person who shot her the morning of January 15, when she surprised him in the aet of robbing the Shil ling home. Mrs. Shilling was wounded in the arm and was a pa tient in the Memorial hospital at Johnstown until a few days ago. She arrived in Indiana on the morning train* and was taken di rectly to the county jail. On en tering the jail she became confus ed as the eoridors were dark, and at first she did not recognize Car ney as the alleged thief. He was taken back to the jail later in the day and when brought face to face with' Carney she declared repeat edly, "That is the man." Mrs. Shilling returned to her home that afternoon. Carney had little to say following the woman's visit, but declared he could not under stand why Mrs. Shilling did not recognize him on her first visit to thd jail that morning when she was so confident that he was the guilty man on the second visit. The robbery and shooting oc curred during the absence of Mr. Shilling on the morning of Jan. 15. The husband is employed as a blacksmith at Vintondale and leaves early for his work. Shortly after he left the house on the morning of the crime, Mrs.. Shilling went to the barn to do the milking. On her return to the house she noticed that the door was fastened, but did not think anything of it, as there is a spring lock on the door and she supposed that it had slipped as she closed the door to go to the barn. Entering the house through the cellar she heard al noise upstairs. Just as she got to the head of the stairway she discovered a man ransacking one of the rooms. As soon as the burglar saw Mrs. Shil ling he opened tire with a revol ver. the bullet striking the woman cn the arm. Mrs. Shilling fell and it is alleged that the intruder shot at her as she lay injured upon the floor. The thief secured $3O and a gold watch, but during the excitement following the shooting he over looked $BO which was in a pay envelope. Carney was arrested at his home in Centerville Jan. 18 by Consta ble John E. Blackley. of Buffing ton township, and was brought to the county jail the following day on a charge of being implicated in the robbery. lie was given a hear ing before Justice of the Peace James A. Crossman and was held for trial at the March term. Over 8,0000 Paid in Bounties at Indiana. Since the first week in Decem ber the Indiana county commis sioners have paid out over $BOOO in weasle bounties. The commis sioners are wondering how long it will be before the states makes res tition of this amount and when the slaughter of the weasles will cease Gets Sixth Commission. Blairsville, Feb. 2.—Mrs. Marie M. Healey, of this place, has re ceived her sixth commission as a notary public. Mrs. Healey is said to have been the first woman to have been appointed a notary west of the Allegheny mountains. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS R. L. Philips? to Sadie Phillips, lot in Blairsville, $l. A. E. Longwill to Frank Kring. lot in Indiana, $2,000. M. G. White to Frank Kring. two-thirds of a lot in Indiana, $2,- 000. W. A. Allshouse to A. G. Mc- Gaughey, one acre in South Ma honing, $5OO. C. A. Campbell to E. B. Bower, 104 acres in East Wheatfield, $2,- 100. Joe June to Giovanni Chiraelo. lot in Young, $l,lOO. I). W. Daugherty to J. G. Cunn ingham, lot in Saltsburg, $6OO. J. J. Palmer to Anna E. Rose, lot in Burrell. $lOO. O. V. Barbour to John Stolitz. 5 acres in Green, $7OO. J. A. Wineberg. to W. D. Smith, seven-eighths of five acres in Ca noe. $325. Frank Wymos to Mike Labinish lot in Clymer. $2,100. Emery Miller to Mary E. Pol lock, two acres in Canoe $2OO. E. G. Wilhelm to W. L. Johns ton. 2 acres in Creekside, $lOO. Same to same, two lots in Creek side, $2,800. Cynthia Brady, to W. Mester. lot in Center, $275. (Continued to Page 4) Heavy Tonnage at Colver. During January the mines of the Ebensburg Coal Company worked every day over 1000 men being employed and indications are that February will be a fairly good month. The company is now loading a number of the lighter government colliers at Philadel phia. The dispute as to the load ing of the heavy colliers has not been settled. Produce Company Fined. For the second time within two months the Leechburg Produce Company has been at odds with Scaler of Weights and Measures D. W. Simpson, of Indiana. A fine of $7O and costs was collected by 'Squire Shawfield, of Tunnelton. Some time ago for using condemn ed weights, this company paid a fine of $25 and costs. Many Gas Leases Filed Here. The T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co. of Butler has filed 162 leases, sov ering tracts of land in North, East and West Mahoning, Washington. Ravne, Banks. Canoe and Arm strong townships. In some of these townships there are some paying gas wells, particularly along the extreme western border of Indi ana county. Crushed to Death. Punxsutawney, Feb. 4—John C. Dierman, aged forty-seven, was crushed to death by a small mine engine Tuesday. He is survived by a widow and nine children. He was standing directly in the path of the engine doubled up as if in pain and he seemed unconscious of the engine's approach. Robbers Get 50 Cents. Robbers who with much difficul ty removed panes of glass and se cured entrance to the David Ellis flouring mill and ransacked the of fice of that building, found but 50 cents in money. No flour or other edibles were taken. Cambria County Tax Rate Raised Ebensburg, Pa., Feb. 4—Com missioners of Cambria county to day fixed the tax rate for 1915 at 2 mills on a total valuation of ap proximately $147,000,000. The rate was mills. INDIANA, PA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915 KING AND OUEEN OF ROUMANIA. Quarterly Report of New Indiana Hospital That the new Indiana hospital was necessary is shown by the first quarterly report of Miss Sarah Morgart, superintendent. A total of 127 patients were treated since November 1. There were 71 ma jor operations since the opening of the new institution and 11 deaths. At this time there are 35 patients in the hospital. A com mittee of prominent men was nam ed to go to Harrisburg in the in terest of a state appropriation for the new institution. Sick Woman Wanders From Home; Found Dead. While seriously ill Mrs. Carine la Talla .aged thirty-three years, who had been in America but a short time, wandered away from her home at Ernest on Wednesday evening and despite posses that searched for her continuously was not seen alive again. Friday even ing her body, covered with snow and frozen, was found above Creekside. The sick woman wan dered through the woods for long distance and had evidently crawl ed some distance on her hands and knees before she succumbed to the cold. Indiana County to Have a Farm Bureau. Efforts to have a farm bureau organized for Indiana county will be made at a meeting to be held in the court house February 13. The principal speaker of the meeting Avill be E. K. Hibshman of Penn sylvania State College. It is plan ned to take such action at the Feb ruary meeting as to be ready to ask the Indiana county commis sioners for the appropriation for the hiring of an expert. Dissolution of Partnership. The business heretofore conduct ed under the firm name of Bia monte & Zamboni has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The business will hereafter be conducted by Emilio Zamboni, to whom all accounts should be ren dered. JOSEPH BIAMONTE, EMILIO ZAMBONI. Creekside, Pa., Feb. 2, 1915* Indiana Branch to Have a Double Track The Indiana branch of the Penn sylvania is to be double tracked from Blacklick to Blairsville. Work has been started on the fill north of Smith station. The 'hump' at the Smith and Turner coal mine will be lowered and the cut made wide enough for two tracks. The traffic on the branch since the op ening of the new spurs along the Indiana and Blacklick branches has .caused a tonnage too heavy be low Blacklick for the single track line, it is claimed. Pastor Wilson Hears His Friends Are Safe. The Rev. Samuel G. Wilson, a | returned missionary from Tabriz. Persia, has received word from I the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions that all of his friends in the mission field in Tabriz are safe An appeal is sent out by the mis sionaries to the Red Cross and to friends to telegraph money so that aid can be given to thousands of refugees. Tabriz was first occu pied by the Turks after being ev acuated by the Russians, who are again in control of that city. Employment for 300 Men About March 1. Blairsville, Feb. 4—Announce ment has been made by the mem bers of the firm of Bollinger-An drews Company of Verona that their new foundry adjoining the plant of the Josephine Furnace & Iron Company will be put in ope ration about March 1. Employ ment will be given to upwards of 300 men at the start, which num ber will be greatly increased after the plant is in operation Woman Gives Six Ounces of Her Blood to Husband York. Pa.. Feb. 4 —ln a final ef fort to prolong the life of her hus band, who has undergon two sur gical operations, Mrs. G. Elmer Hoover, of this city, consented to the transfusion of six ounces of, her blood in his body. The additional blood has consid erably strengthened Hoover. . The best stores advertise in "The Patriot M IC'§,ooo German Troops Move Against Warsaw Britain To Sweep Sea For Submarine Kaiser Rushes 50,000 Fresh Troops to Eastern Line—Snowy Fields Crimson RUSSIANS REPULSED IN THE CARPATHIANS Petrograd, Feb. s—One hundred jhousand Germans are hurling themselves in headlong rushes igainst the Russian earth works, s west of Warsaw, it was officially announced today. One of the greatest battles of the war is developing. Seven divisions jof Germans, comprising the flow er of Von Ilindenburg's armies, i are making impetuous frontal at -1 tacks upon the Russians between the Bzura and Rawka. Behind them 100 German batte ries are playing shells upon tlie czar's trenches The snowy fields west of the Polish capital are crim son with blood. 50,000 Fresh Troops Fifty thousand fresh German j troops were rushed into the firing line early yesterday as reinforee -1 ments. They filled huge gaps in 'the German lines, torn by Russian shells and Russian infantry charg es. Their arrival was a signal for the renewal of the onslaught. For 24 hours Mackenscn's divi sions have surged toward the Rus sian lines. The battle has become a gigantic death grapple with thousands of men stabbing with j their bayonets, fighting with club bed rifles and dealing death on ' the frozen fields. in the Carpathians the Russians have been forced to withdraw from the Beskid passes where a superior force of Germans and Austrians were encountered it was officially admitted. In this region I however tin 1 Russians have taken I 2,000 prisoners. Slavs Act Brilliantl. The Russians are performing brilliantly in Poland, official dis patches reported today.! Between Bollmow and the Bzura they have crushed German frontal attacks upon the center of the Russian ar j my by blocking the road to War saw. Following up their success i es at Wola Szydlowska annonunc jed last night, the czar's armies have forced the Germans out of 11lie village of Huinin, captured by the enemy on Tuesday. But the German onslaughts con tinue. it was officially admitted, ir, the face of enormous losses. Maek ensen has returned to the massed attack. Advancing in 2 compact formations the Germans are at tempting to break through to War saw by sheer force of numbers. I COL. BILL LOST. Irwin Simpson Named as Postmas ter at Punxsutawney. Washington. D. C., February 2., —Among the postoffice nomina tions sent to the Senate today was that of Irwin Simpson for the of fice at Punxsutawney. The nomination, settles one of the most interesting postoffice eon-1 tests in the state, that is Punxsu tawney. There were ten candi-1 dates for the place, among them being Col. "Bill" Fairman. an