WOULD KtSiRICT MARRiAG -Pennsylvania Legislator Wants Health of Parties Certified. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. . —A bill to codify the marriage laws of Pennsyl vania was introduced in the house by John M. Leighner of Butler. The code would repeal liiteen laws and require a license which must sc.. forth that neither party is insane, a drunkard, habitual criminal, epiiepi. or of unsound mind, that neither of the parents of either party is any ol the above; that neither party has tuberculosis in an advanced stage or •Any transmissable disease and tha the male is physically able to support -a family, the parties being required to bring certificates of freedom of disease. SQUIRc FiGHTS PRISONER Pennsylvania Justice Gives Wife Beater Taste of Own Medicine. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. '.■ —John Kotch, aged forty, who believed that American mws gave him the right to boss his wife by beating her, has a different knowledge of the law today, for Justice of the Peace Henry M.ller of Swoyersville treated Kotch to a dose of his own medicine. Kotch appeared before the squire proud of his ability to beat his wife And said "The laws of this country let me boss women." Squire Miller told him to get his coat off and then began one of the hardest fights Miller has ever fought. Falling Up Out of a Balloon. If a man falls out of a rising aero plane or balloon be will not go toward the eartb. but will continue rising Into the air for an appreciable time. If the air machine were stopped in its ascent at the time it could catch the man as he came down, if the airship were ascending at the rate of thirty two feet a second the man would rise sixteen feet before beginning to fall toward the earth Thus, by reducing the speed of its ascent, the vessel might keep by the side of the man and rescue him. The reason why the man rises is the same as the reason for a bullet's rising when shot from a gun into the air both the man and tue bullet are given a velocity upward, aud it takes some time tor gravity to negative tbut velocity.—Glasgow News. His Definition. A Liverpool teacher asked her class to write an essay on London. Later she was surprised to read the following in one attempt: "The people of London are noted for* their stupidity." The young author was asked how ho got that idea. "Please, miss." was the reply, "it eays in the textbook. 'The population of London is very dense!' "—London An ew ers. London's Old Cathedral. St. Paul's cathedral of London has had a strange association with tire. The tirst editice ou the present site was erected in GlO by Etbelbert, king of Kent, but in 1087 this was destroyed by fire. Finally in HMJU. when the great fire devastated most of London. St Paul's was wrecked, this being its fifth fire. In 1075 the present church was built by Charles 11. at a cost of more than $7,500,000. "Corpse Coins." coins" are treasured in (he north of England. They are the coins that have lain over the eyes of their dead. By this means infection has been spread, but superstition causes the custom to continue. A poor collier or peasant would never think of doing anything imjnirtant unless lie had on bis person coins that have lieeu upon the eyes of his dead relatives.—West minster Gazette. Russia's Fisheries. Russia ranks third among the fish and deep sea food producing countries of the world. The total yield of fish Is well over $8,000,000 worth a year, but even this great supply is not equal to the needs of the population. FIGHTING TOPS OF THE WYOMING. ■ ■. • *;>:>: /J /r ■ ™ \l\ MBL 1 llf - " - • i C Ml* by American Press Association. bnii i. - - \>i< ULOv NUP Not Know.i w.ncmer Torpedo or Mine Destroyed English Vessel. London, rtu. .... —The BritisL steamer Dulwich, which has been ply ing between Rouen and Hull, was blown up off Antiter, on the French coast. There were two explosions, out it is not known whether tney were ol mines or torpedoes discharged by sub marines. Seven members of the crew who have arrived at Fecamp say no body was hurt by the explosions and the entire crew escaped in boats. Short $10,000; Gets 15 Months. Pittsburgh, Feb. 17.—James M. War field, pay.i.uoter lor tae Cemeiß irom 1508 to Decern her, 1912, pleaded no de.en. c •:harge of embezzlement in criminal court and vas sentenced to tiuee months in the workhouse. It was testified that a shortage of over slu, 000 was found in Warfield's accounts. Pittsburgh Physician Threatened. Pittsburgh, Feb. 17.—Threatened with death un.ess he accedes to th demands of the Black Hand societ} and places $l,OOO in a spot named, D. W. J. Langfitt, a prominent Northside physician and politician and staff phy sician of the St. John's hospital, lia* turned a Black Hand letter over tc the police. nulled. Founder Died a Pauper. Among the witnesses summoned in London were Edward George Faire holm, chief secretary to the Royal So ciety For the Prevention of Cruelty t<- Animals; Miss Elizabeth Clegg, a clost friend of Miss Kate Cording, who e* tablisbed the Animal Refuge leagur and Mrs. Zoe Constance Morgan, win was interested In cat rescue work. Mr. Faireholm told how his societj had taken over the Cording Cat home and said that the organization, backed by the king and queen of England, re ceived as high as $280,000 a year in donations. Then he related that Miss Cording had died a pauper on April 7, 1013, in an anti-vivisection hospital at Battersea. Everything she owned had been devoted to cats. From the stories of Mrs. Morgan and Miss Clegg it developed that in ISOS Miss Cording, a woman with a small competence, bought a tricycle, attach ed a basket to the rear and mdc dally journeys from her home In Cam den Town to London, where she cap tured cats. locked them in the baske and delivered them to Mrs. Morgan The latter received 20 shillings a yeai for putting them out of their misery. Sometimes she sent the baskets by parcel post. Had to Hire House For Cats. In the latter part of that year Miss Clegg became interested In Jhe char ity and bought a bicycle, to the rear of which she attached a basket. After that the two women made journeys at all times of the day and night and brought back cats. So many animals were captured that It was necessary to hire a house. Yhis was the incep tion of the refuge home, which changed its name many times. When Miss Clegg was asked how many cats had been collected and put out of their misery she replied that from 1898 to the date of Miss Cord lng's death the two had caught 179,- 000. All efforts to get her to reduce the figure failed. She had her note book with her, and in it she had kept a complete record of the work. She asserted that between Jan. 1, 1913, and the date of Miss Cording's death they had taken over 11,000 animala. All these had been lugged, squalling and scratching, to the home, where they were either fed to sleekness and farmed out or put to death with chin roform. Admiration. "Have you told your father that I asked you to marry me?" asked the young man. "Yes," replied the positive young woman. "And how was be affected ?" "He smiled and exclaimed, *Brave toy!' "—Washington Star. THE LIBERTY BELL Photo by American Press Association. The Panama-Pacific wants the famous relic as an exhibit. JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS. || | \ W j Federal judge called upon to decide Important "baseball trust" case. Richter's $lOO,OOO Bothered Him. New York, Feb. i\. —In the $lOO,OOO Aichter will contest, on trial in Newark, Max Rosenweig testified that Samuel Richter said a week before he died: "If I will my estate to relatives they'll want me to die. If I will it to my woman she might put poison in my food, so I'll let them fight it oiO " Baker Quits Baseball. Philadelphia, Feb. * —"Home Baker is out of baseball and the Athletics have lost its greatest clouter. This was announced by Con nie Mack of the Athletics at the an nual dinner of the Philadelphia sport ing writers' here. DYNAMITER AND DYNAMITED BRIDGE. JH yp -v**A^<eeaMimM>MWßiyeseays<fcp^^W^fcmMpoegjß Werner Horn and the International Canadian Pacific bridge across the St Croix river which he tried to destroy. THE r Egotistical. "You sometimes disagree with these scientific experts?" "Not at all." replied the serene ego tist. "Notwithstanding the fact that 1 have thought a mutter out to a sound conclusion they frequently insist on disagreeing with me."— Washington Star. Coming Across. Hampton Dinwiddow told me his family is a very old one. They were one of the first to come across. Rhodes—Not at the grocer's.—Judge. Honors come by diligence, riche? spring from economy.—Davis. L ■ AN , „:N i s *ti V V J UJ* i •: f .* J• Pi i - . J X. i ■ 'Hv Russia 3 Are _ ol Out o La. . :ia - ■ >ce^ jn,,. Go man Victc riea In u .ic.a. They Are o M inor Importance—engagements In West of Little Account. Berlin (By Wire.tos to Sayviile, I. I.), Feb. 1 J. —According to the Buda pest daily newspaper Azest the Aus tro Hungarian troops entered the towi o. i.uauuu in BuKowina so unexpeet edly that all the members of the Rus sian general staff were captured. The commanding Russian general, the newspaper adds, committed sui cide. Vienna reports emphatically deny French reports of rioting and dyna rollings in Prague. The German general staff announ ces that the East Prussian campaign is proceeding satisfactorily and tha' in Poland the Germans are advancing toward Reisence. Berlin is rejoicing at the report of another great victory by Marshal von Hindenburg. It is announced that the Austro-German armies are taking the offensive at every point. The recap ture of part of Galicia and all of Buko wina, with the possible release of Prz emysl, is predicted. Russians Not Menaced. Petrograd, Feb. .j.—Russian staff officers assert that notwithstanding the reoccupation of the crown land oi Bukowina by Austro-German armies it does not constitute a menace to the Russian flank or to the Russian posi tion about the town of Lemberg. Thio ls due to the fact, the Russians main tain, that to the north and south are mountain rangers which render thai section of the country isolated and because the Russian positions in the Beskid range on the south preclude the possibility of a successful attack Russian newspaper comments on ru mors recer ly in circulation that thf Russians contemplated the evacuatior of Lemberg and the publication o. statements that Russian authoritie.- had placard >d the city with announce ments to that effect have brough; forth denials from the Russian general staff. The northern and northwest slopes Of the entire Carpathian range are claimed to be controlled by Russian forces, thus giving them a key to the situation in eastern Galicia. Military authorities admit the possi bility of an Austro-German attack or the Russian positions around Prz emysl which Austrian fortress recent ly has shown new signs of act { 7ity. In the last few days the garrison has made a number of sorties ap parently aimed at breaking the Rus sian ring to the south, and with form lng a junction with the Austrian main force approaching from the direction of Lupkow and Lutoviska. Thus far the sorties, according to Russian sources, have been unsuccessful and disastrous. Slow In France. Paris, Feb. ]JL —Military operations in France and Flanders continue on a minor scale, the infrequency of im portant fighting surprising the mili tary critics who had expected a resumption of hostilities of a violent nature while the Germans and the Russians were locked in a desperate struggle on the eastern front. The official communiques of the French war office tell of only two op erations of moment, one in Lorraine, near Pont-a-Mousson, where th° enemy occupied the town of Norros again, where strong counter attacks are being sent, and the other in the Champagne district, where the Ger mans have again bombarded Rhefms. In the sector of Rheims the German artillery did excellent work for a time, a number of large shells falling in Rheims itself and increasing the de vastation wrought in the city by previous bombardments. Eventually the French artillery got the range of the German trenches and forced the enemy to slacken his fire. OATS IN GERMANY SEIZED Government'# Food Conservation Policy Being Carried Out. Berlin (Via London), Feb. 15. —The bundesrate decided to expropriate all the domestic stocks of oats, with the exception of seed oats and the grain ; necessary for fodder for horses. The order becomes effective Feb. 16. The bundesrate also raised the maximum price of oats by $12.50 per metric ton. The action of the bundesrate, op fed eral council, is a further step in carry ing out the German government's policy of conserving the food supplies of the country. Jan. 26 the fqjeral council ordered the seizure by F%b. 1 of all stocks of corn, wheat and flour. Kilied by Fall of Slate. Blairsville, Pa., Feb. 16. — ObvM Cello, twenty-two years old, died In his home in Strangford, near bore, from Injuries received when he jras crushed by a fall of slate in-Hhe Strangford mine. Heads Aviation Coips of American Army • >&<" IZFCoi. SMIUEL REBER\ CANADA GIVEN SCARE Aeroplanes Reported Headed For Ottawa—Capital Darkened. Ottawa, OnU Feb. it. —Sir Robert Borden received a telegram from Brockville, Ont., stating that three aeroplanes had passed over Brock ville, sixty miles south, in the direc tion of Ottawa. Colonel Sherwood, chief of the do minion police, was summoned. He ordered all lights out on Parliament hill and the capital was in complete darkness. There was considerable excitement among the members of the house of parliament. While some are Inclined to doubt the possibility of raiders others said that the government had been in possession of information which had led it to take extraordinary precautions. The naval service department of Canada issued notice that circuofc stances have arisen which may neces sitate the prohibition of all entrance to certain ports of the dominion, and mariners are instructed that on ap proaching the shores of Canada that a sharp lookout be kept for signals from patrol vessels, which would indi cate that obstructions may exist. Canadian ports are being heavily mined and prepared for possible raid ers. It is understood that such stepii have been taken on the advice of tha British admiralty. Rideau hall, the residence of the governor general, was also turned into darkness. The royal mint, where all the gold of the dominion and some of the gold of the empire is minted and stored, was in darkness. Searchlights played about the capital. In an interview Colonel Sherwood stated that he had received an official communication from the chief of po lice at Brockville stating that three or four aeroplanes had crossed the St. Lawrence river from New York state near Morristown and had dropped sev eral "light balls" on the Canadian side of the river. They then .leaded In the direction of the capi'.Li at Ottawa. CHINA DEFIES JAPAN Refuses to Acfcede to Demands Made by Mikado's Government. Peking, Feb. —The Chinese min ister at Tokio reported to his govern ment that the Japanese foreign min ister, Baron Takaakl Kato, had de clared that Japan must insist on the acceptance of the total demands recently made in the Japanese note to China. At the Chinese foreign office, how ever, it was said to be the intention of the Peking government to continue in its refusal to acquiesce in the Jap anese demands. Barracks Constructed-. Weihsien, Shantung, China, Feb. m f% —Wooden barracks are being con structed by the Japanese at every rail way station, except the smallest, along the line between Weihsien and Taiwan. Many of the buildings are nearing completion. Tsinan is the capital of the Chins province of Shantung and is connect ed by rail through Weihsien with Tslngtau, the port of the Kiauchau concession recently surrendered by the Germans to the Japanese troops. The distance by rail between Tsing tau and Tsinan is approximately 22* miles. Peter Had Prepared Well. Lambertville, Pa., Feb. I -. —Peter Heath, aged sixty-four, committed sui cide in his office with a revolver, lis had made arrangements for his fu neral services, even to filling in his death certificate for the coroner. He had picked out his undertaker, place of burial, clergyman to officiate, size and number of his casket, number of carriages and cost, also his clothing, even to the slippers. 11l health is said to have been the cause. 7 Firemen Overcome by Smoke. Bellaire, 0., Feb. —A fire due to spontaneous combustion, which caused about $lO,OOO damage to the building and stock of a paint company, proved difficult for the firemen. SLven fire man la the basement were •vercom* by smoke and five were Ossstdau Vims reecued.
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