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VOLUME III —NOY*^
$lOO,OOO SUIT
FILED AGAINST
A NEWSPAPER
Papers With Summons Returnable
Second Monday of Feb. in
Hands, of Prothonotary
John W. Reed, who recently re
tired as Common Pleas Judge of
Jefferson county, has filed a suit
against Gil. C. R*itz. president and
director; W. N. Conrad, director,
and John C. Dight, managing ed
itor, of the Brookville Republican,
for an alleged libelous article ap
pearing in the Republican of Feb.
11, 1915.
The suit is a civil one and the
damages sought amount to $lOO.-
000. t
The action is based on an arti
cle written by John C. Dight, ed
itor of the Republican, which the
Judge maintains was inspired by
Mr. Reitz and Mr. Conrad. It was
in answer to an article appearing
in the Brockwayville Record of
Feb. 5, 1915. This was immediate
ly following license court, and in
it the editor lauded Judge Reed.
The Republican i%i reply stated
that the "hypocrisy" of the court
would he wiped out at the Novem
ber election so that it would not
longer be visible. This, in addi
tion to other statements in the
same article, is the basis upon
which Judge Reed filed his suit for
damages.
Americans Are
Slain In Mexico
Mining Men Taken from Train;
Lined Up Along Tracks and
Shot to Death.
El Paso, Tex.. Jan. 15. —The 17
persons said to have been killed
by Mexican bandits this week,
were American: mining men, it is
believed. They were stripped of
their clothing and robbed before
being taken from the train and
shot to death.
A report from Chihuahua that
ten Americans and two English
women had been killed at Madera
could not be confirmed here. Nei
ther was there verification for a
rumoi' that three Americans had
been murdered in Cananae district
of Sonora.
Mining company officials ex
pressed apprehension for the safe
ty of foreigners in the Santa Bar
bara and Parral mining districts,
where the Alvaro Mining Com
pany has operated all through the
Mexican turmoil. Reports here in
dicate that bandits were headed
toward these districts.
MORE PRISONERS IN
1915 THAN IN 1914.
There were more prisoners in the
Indiana county jail last year than
in 1914. According to the report
submitted from the office of the
sheriff there were 575 prisoners in
the institution in 1915.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
G. M. McGaughey Indiana
Myrtle Chambers .. .Reynoldsville
Domenik Serbin Lucerne
Pazsa Slecz Carnegie
Lloyd Gorman Wilgus
Ruth Schmittle Wilgus
William Mogle Rossmoyne
Effie McGee Marion Center
John 11. Shank Jeannette
Mary Foley Indiana
THE PA TRIOT
FEAR MORE PLOTS AGAINST WELLAND CANAL.
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Photos by American Press Association. •
Canada has placed a stronger guard on Welland canal since Paul Koenig (on right) and R. E. ion
left) were taken by United States authorities in plot to destroy the twenty-seven mile waterway in Ontario, Ca
ada, and which connects Port Dalbousie, on Lake Ontario, with Port Colborne, on Lake Erie.
Italian Professor
Is Dead; Age 84
Formerly Minister of Public In
struction in Great Italian
City
Rome, Jan. 15. —Dr. G. Vaccelli,
for many years professor of medi
cine in the: University of Rome,
and at one time Minister of Pub
lic Instructions in the Italian cab
inet, died in Rome this week. He
was 84 years old.
ITALYTOTAKE
GRAIN CENSUS
Dispatch Tells of Action Being
Taken to Break Up Menace—
Decree Is Signed by Duke
Rome, Jan. 15.—A decree sign
ed by the Duke of Genoa as lieu
tenant general of King Victor Em
manuel orders that a census of all
grain be taken not later than Jan
uary 25. It is provided that any
person failing to announce the
quantity of grain he possesses or
makes any false statement is pun
ishable by a year's imprisonment
and $lOOO fine.
Another decree establishes rules
for the requisitioning of grain by
the military authorities. Resist
ance to requisition is punishable by
a year's imprisonment and $2OOO
fine, in addition to confiscation of
the cereals.
The census and requisitioning
measures are intended to prevent
speculation in cereals and to in
sure a sufficient supply for the ne
cessities of the army and the pop
ulation and to keep down prices.
The census decree makes it com
pulsory for whoever possesses
more than five quintals of cereals
tc announce the quantity and the
quality of the grain in his posses
sion. Each person may indicate
the quantity necessary for the con
sumption of his own family and
the agricultural laborers until the.
time for harvesting the new crop,
the average being three quintals
during the twelve months. He may
also indicate the quantity needed
for the next sowing and for food
for cattle.
• Information from a diplomatic
source says that an effort is now
being made by Austria and Ger
many to limit purchases of food
stuffs in Switzerland. This is said
to be the main cause for the low
exchange. The only possible rem
edy consists in the wholesale requi
sitioning of foodstuffs in Bulgaria,
the payment for these shipments
being made in paper money.
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INDIANA, PA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1916
Mrs. Keepers Dead.
Mrs. Gertrude Hildebrand Keep
ers, aged 52, wife of Dr. Harry S.
Keepers, died at her home here on
Monday. Her husband, a daugh
ter, Helen, a teacher in the Am
bridge schools, and a son, William,
survive.
ITALIAN SENATORS URGED to
VOUCH FOR 3rd WARD LOAN.
Rome, Jan. 15—In a circular let
ter urging all senators and depu
ties to use their influence toward
covering the third Italian war loan
Premier Salandra asks the mem
bers of Parliament to vouch for
"the unshakable solidity of Ital
ian finances the making absolutely
safe capital invested in the loan."
TIME FLIES!
Days pass into weeks, weeks in
to months, months into years.
Only a little less swiftly than the
passing of time the exhausting of
cur supply of up-to-the-minute cal
endars.
That's the reason you should not
delay placing your order for these
beautiful cards at the Patriot of
fice.
You'll need calendars! You
must have them! Why delay?
We have the best line in the city
Let us prove it!
Call at the office, or phone or
write and we shall be glad to
bring samples to you.
GARIBALDI SAYS HE IS
NOT ORGANIZING FORCES
Intimates, However, That Plan
Was at One Time Con
templated
Rome, dan. 15.—Gen. Riccotti
| Garibaldi has denied the report
| that his son, Peppino, was organ
' izing a Garibaldian expedition for
Albania, but intimated that such a
plan had once been contemplated.
The scheme is to have a body of
30.000 "red shirts" strengthened,
the regular army invade the Bal
kans through Albanian land
last June, he said, was supported
by the British and French govern
ments. subject to Italian approval,
but it was approved by Baron So
nnino, the Italian minister of For
eign Affairs.
COMPOSER LEHAR IS
EXCUSED FROM SERVICE
Vienna. Jan. 15. —Freedom from
military service for the duration
of the war has been granted Franz \
Lehar, the composer.
A CORRECTION
The Patriot begs to make the
following correction: We stated
that B. W. Weaver was superin
tendent of the Iselin mines, and
should have said that B. W. War
drop is the superintendent.
Best stores advertise in The
Patriot.
BROTHER OF THE LATE
POPE DEAD IN ROME.
Passes Away After Long Illness in
the Village of Granzi; Was
Postmaster.
Rome, Jan. 15. —Angelo Sarto,
only brother of the late Pope Pius
X, is dead at the age of 79 years.
For years he was the postmaster
of the village of Granzi. He had
been in ill health for many years.
EDUCATION OF
FOREIGNCLASS
How to Assimilatd Foreigners Is
Question Before Meeting at
Philadelphia.
How to assimilate the millions
of foreign-speaking aliens in this
country and bring them up to the
highest standards of American cit
izenship, will be one of the ques
tions discussed at the national con
ference on immigration, at the
Bellevue-Stratford, January 20.
The conference will terminate
with a mass meeting at the Metro
politan Opera House, with Colonel
Roosevelt as the principal speaker.
The conference will be in charge
of the national Americanization
committee. According to a state
ment issued the other day by the
committee, there are in this coun
try upwards of 12,000,000 foreign-
born whites, of whom more than
11,000,000 are more than 21 years
old. In addition there are 12.000.-
000 persons of foreign parentage
in the United States.
"This seems," reads the state
ment, * * that in this country there
is a vast mass of foreign-speaking,
foreign-trained citizens in an un
assimilated or only partially as
simulated condition. Of the 11,-
000.000 foreign-born adults in this
country, only 35,614 were recorded
as attending school. These figures
present a grave problem which the
national Americanization commit
tee is attempting to solve.
•'Night schools are inadequate
for the training of the foreign
born; the children of immigrants
are thrust into overcrowded
schools, and the adult population
is made to depend upon the child's
immature interpretation of Ameri
ca, which is the only one many of
these adults now know.
RUMOR OF REGENCY IS
AGAIN IN CIRCULATION
Rome, Jan. 15.—Swiss sources
this week reported that the Ger
man Crown Prince had been re
called to Berlin, probably to as
sume the regency on account of
the Kaiser's illness. It was stated
that the reports reached Switzer-;
land directly from Berlin. The re
ports, however, were unconfirmed.
Angelo Moraseo Is Slain
In A Carneytown House
Pope Taking
Peace Steps
Seeks to Learn by What Compro
mise Belgium Can Be Re
stored.
Rome, Jan. 15. —According to
reports here Pope Benedict hopes
to take his first practical step to
ward peace in the near future.
Pope Benedict has been con
vinced from the beginning of the
war that the restoration of Belgi
um by Germany was an impera
tive preliminary to any peace pro
posals. He has made this fact
known both to Germany and the
allies.
At the recent papal consistory
Cardinal Ilartmann, of Cologne, is
reported to have submitted to his
holiness the terms upon which Ger
many will consent to evacuate Bel
gium territory. The pontiff's next
step was to learn the views of the
Belgians themselves and Germany
consented to a visit to Rome by
the Belgian prelates.
Having learned Belgium's terms
the Pope plans to submit them to
Germany, hoping through these
negotiations to begin the series of
compromises necessary for peace.
ANGELOWILL BE
HANGED IF HE IS
CONVICTED HERE
If D'Amico Angelo, of Lucerne,
is found guilty of the charge of
having killed Mike Meno. he will
he hanged instead of electrocuted.
The alleged crime was committed
before the act providing for elec
trocution was passed.
FATALLY HURT WHEN
CRUSHED BY A MOTOR.
Charles Bruno, aged 39 years, an
Italian was crushed to death when
he was struck by a motor in the
Ileilwood mine Sunday. He was
A alking along the tracks when the
motor shifted back, crushing him
against the wall.
Bruno was rushed to the Ileil
wood hospital, where he died in
a short time. He is survived by
his wife. The funeral services were
held Monday.
Saltsburg Man
Was Arrested
Amos Brewer, farmer living
near Saltsburg, has been arrested
on the charge of a crime against
morality. The warrant was issued
from the office of Justice of the
Peace J. E. Elrick.
List of Letters
Remaining uncalled for in the In
diana office January 8, 1915:
Mrs. Lou Altimus, Angle Dile
j Computing Scale Co., Mrs. H. B.
Beck, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dinling
er. Miss Katherine Fiscus, Mary
Garsick, George K. Garman, Miss
Carrie A. Hensel, Zelda Kerr, W.
G. Lewis, Mrs. Frank Myers. Dr.
Virgil 11. Moon, Mr. Alexander
Monteith, Mrs. Albert Pounds.
James Ralston, Jr., Miss Carrie
Rowland, Mr. Charles C. Smith,
parents of Helen Taylor, J. W.
Winsheimer, Joseph Kasprowicz,
Jan Piecronka.
When inquiring for letters in
this list please state that they were
advertised, giving date.
HARRY W. FEE, P. M.
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Joe Strippare, Charged With Hav
ing Shot Him to Death, Is a
Prisoner in the Indiana
County Jail.
During the week another mur
der was committed in Indiana
county, Angelo Moraseo having
been shot to death and Joe Strip
pale charged with the murder in
carcerated in the county jail.
Strippare is said to have run,
hut he was later captured, brought
to Indiana and placed in charge of
Sheriff Hhrry A. Boggs,
Constable Kunkle, of Ernest,
had summoned the State Police at
Indiana, but the prisoner was iu
the county jail before the officers
arrived.
Strippare is only 23 years old.
He eats but little, talks only when
spoken to and spends most of his
time seated on his bunk with his
face buried in his hands or pacing
the floor of his cell.
An unconfirmed report is that
Strippare was jealous of the at
tentions Moraseo was paying at
tention to a pretty Italian girl at
Carneytown.
Strippare made frantic efforts
to gain his release after he was
placed in jail. He offered to pay
all the funeral expenses if given
his freedom. ,
Coroner 11. B. Buterbaugh was
notified of the tragedy and con
ducted an investigation. He found
that Moraseo came to his death
from a bullet wound in his abdo
men.
Gen. Huerta
Passes Away
El Paso, Texts, Jan. 13— Gen.
Victoriana Huerta, former provi
sional president of Mexico, died
here tonight after several weeks'
illness.
General Huerta died or cirrhosis
of the liver. He was surrounded
by his family when the end came.
His death was not unexpected. Fu
neral arrangements are to be made
tomorrow. Effort will be made to
arrange for his burial in Mexico.
Huerta was a prisoner of the
United States and under military
guard at the time of his death. On
Wednesday, with other Mexicans,
he was indicted at San Antonio for
conspiring to violate the United
States neutrality laws. He has
been a Federal prisoner for
months past.
Arrillery Action Is Reported
Progressing in Gorizia Region
Rome, Jan. 16. —The war office
announces that an intense artillery
action is in progress along the Go
rizia sector. At all other points on
the Italian front the conditions are
relatively calm.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
E. B. Smith to 11. A. Rairigh, 27
acres in Montgomery ; $7OO.
H. 11. Pennington to Maggie
Pennington, lot in Glan Campbell;
$5OO.
Jessie Mash to Frank Morano,
lot in Glen Campbell; $75
Albert Dean Brady to Roy G.
Brady, 60 acres in East Mahoning;
$859.45.
Daniel C. Strong to Indiana Co.
Street Railways Company, .039
acres in Cherryhill; $llO.
Katie Lucas to Indiana County
Street Railways Co., right of way
in White township; $5O.
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