WE DO FINE BOOK and JOB PRINTING TRY US! VOLUME III —No. 27 Thousands Are Pleased With Indiana's Celebration of One-Hundreth Birthday The Parades, Held During the Week, Were a Credit to "Old Indiana" and the Various Committees of the Centennial —Music Was Furnished by Four Bands. The Centennial Celebration was a great success. Thousands of persons, who visited the one century town were delighted with its parades, music and var ious amusements. Four bands furnished excel lent music on Friday, one our local Military band and three Italian bands, namely; that of the Copping Carnival, that of Chambersville and that of Iselin, also known as the "Red Coats Band". The parade of Friday was the best Indiana has ever seen, on another place of this paper you will see a photograph of one of the parades which was held Thursday as it marched on Main Street. Modern methods of safety and care for the injured in the bituminous coal mines of west ern Pennsylvania, as demonstr ated here Friday at the big first aid meet in connection with Indiana's celebration were a rev elation to thousands of persons who watched the various events on the athletic field of the Nor mal School. Scores of prominent coal of ficials and safety-first men from all sections of the state attended the meet and watched 36 ef ficient first-aid teams in a re markable exhibition of skill. It was one of the largest and most successful meets ever held in the bituminous district. Towns having teams entered in the meet were Portrage, Win burne, Clymer, Dixonville, Wal ston, Sagamore, Iselin, Adrian, Sample Run and Luciusboro. The big events of the meet were the full-team contests and in them the teams from the Sny der mine of the Brush Creek Coal Mining Company, and from the Iselin mines of the Pittsburg Italy's New Premier Declares That the Allies Will Now Wage Offensive War Maiden Speech of Boselli Emphasizes Determination to In tensify War "Until the Final and Decisive Victory;" —French Troops Take Offensive in Champagne, Germans Repulse British Attacks. fjjfw THEjJL (J) FOUftrg THE PA TRIOT Gas Coal Company tied with a clean record. The winners drew lots and the Brush Creek boys won, getting the first cash prize of $5O and a medal presented by the National Safety Council, which was represntd at the meet by H. M. Wilson, of Pittsburg, chief director of the department of Inspection and Safety of the Associated Casualties Company. Besides the First Aid meet there was a relay race from Punxsutawney to Indiana by the Y. M. C. A. teams of the two towns. Punxsutawney won. The industrial parade in which many distoric and modern things were exhibited was the feature of the afternoon. Among the articles of special interest shown in the procession was the diamond drill which tested the first coal lands in this county and revealed a hidden wealth that has made Indiana one of the coal centers of the country; the complete operation of mining coal by elec tricity was shown in a series of machine floats; railroad deve lopment was shown by floats of the Pennsylvania and Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Rail way Companies, while the old flail and modern roller process showed the progress in agricul ture and milling. Beautiful floats by local busi nessmen typified the spirit of progressiveness in the old town which enters her second century with colors flying. Magnificent were the histor ic pageant given by the public school children. The fireworks display on Fri day night was the best ever seen here and was witnessed by thousands of persons, who filled the Normal athletic field and viewed the exhibition from var ious points throughout town. LONDON, June 29 Rome dispatches today reporting the maiden speech of the new Italian Prime Minister Paolo Boselli, be fore the Chamber of Deputies, emphasized the determination of the Allies to wage an offensive war from now on. Suggesting great significance in the present Italian offensive Premier Boselli said, amid cheers: "Italy intends to continue the same policy pursued by her Al lies. We intend from now on to intensify the war until the final and decisive victory." On practically every front ex cept Verdun and a small sector in Volhynia, Allied armies are now on the offensive. The Brit ish War Office gives few details of activities along tne line from Laßassee to the Somme but dis patches from British correspon dents at the front report no in terruption in the systematic bombardment of German tren ches. "The object of this artillery fire is a simple and terrible one, reported the correspondent at the front to the "Chronicle." It is to kill Germans in large numb ers and save British man power Continued on page 4 Published Weekly by the Rat riot Publishing Company INDIANA, PA. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1916 l** 1 " J F&W'M r&ti'''//£&&• '' v OSfIF S? XpQ ; Y. \\\ THIS STATUE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE WORK OF KARL BITTER, ADORNS THE FRONT OF THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE IN CLEVELAND, 0. IT IS CONSIDERED A WORK OF EXCEPTIONAL VIGOR AND FINE MODELING. IATE in the afternoon of the Fourth of July, 1776, the old bell in f the statehouse at Philadelphia rang out a joyous peal. A few moments before, exhausted by the great heat and vexed to desperation by a multitude of flies, the fathers of this country's liberties had unanimous ly adopted the Declaration which sev ered the thirteen colonies from Great Britain and made the United States of America forever free and independent. To a certain tall, lanky, sandy hair ed delegate from Virginia, who had sat silent while his colleagues wran gled over the form and phraseology of the document, the action of the con gress was a great relief, for in those days he had listened to much acri monious criticism of the paper and had even_J?££H- certain oaasages _s trie ken CASEMENT FOUND GUILTY OF TREASON; PENALTY IS DEATH LONDON, June 29—Sir Rog er Casement was today found guilty of high trason in the high court of justice. The jury was out only 50 minutes. The pen alty is death. ERNEST AND FULTON RUN RESUMES OPERATIONS Thursday morning both Ern est and Fulton Run mines re sumed operations. These mines had been closed down by the company on account of some differences excited between the company and the miners but is now satisfactorily adjusted. Maddalena Gets Ten Years in Penitentiary Dominick Madeline was sen tenced Monday morning to serve not less than 10 or more years in the penitentiary for the kill ing of Lolgi Cicero at Heilwood one year ago. He pleaded guilty to murder of the second degree. W. S. Smith, a colored gentle man from Dußois, pleaded guil ty to a charge of forging a check on D. M. Brown, of the Clawson House, and cashing it at the De posit Bank. The Court fined him $5OO and sent him for one year and one day to the peni tentiary. out - entirely, ana Thomas Jefferson could not sit by and see the child of his brain torn and rended with feelings of indifference any more than any oth er man. Yet in spite of the diversity of opinions among his fellow delegates, who suppressed in all some eighteen of the more fiery passages in the docu ment, few other changes or additions were made. A year before, when Thomas Jeffer son, lately elected delegate to the Con tinental congress from Virginia, had gone riding into Philadelphia, he had no premonition that he was to perform the greatest task that could have been assigned to a patriot, the writing of the Declaration of Independence. A member of the Virginia house of bur gesses from 17G9, he had already made himself felt in public life in his own colony,, .But it was not until he found [Continued on page 4] Brutal Murder Near Lockport on Sunday John Reck Slashed from Ear to Ear by Pete Ferro after a Quarrel Resulting from a Drinking Spree. Pete Farro is a prisoner in the county jail charged with the murder of John Reck at Climax mines just opposite Lockport, this county, on Sunday morn ing between the hours of one and four o'clock. The cause of the murder is unknown aside that some trouble arose after an all-night's drinking bout. Farro virtually admits com mitting the crime but says that he does not know much about the circumstances as he had been drinking. The accused told at the inquest that he and the de ceased had been attacked and | robbed by bandits and during the scuffle one of the robbers had knifed Reck. When the body was found, $4O was in one of his pockets and as Farro had $35 in his clothes when he was arrest ed, the robbery theory was dis proved. THREE MORE ITALIAN STEAMSHIPS ARE SUNK MADRID, June 29 Three more Italian steamships have been sunk by submarines, They were the Mongibello, 4,059 tons; the Roma, 3,9500 tons, and the Pino, 1,006 tons. The crews were landed today . YANKEES CLASH ON THE BORDER WITH MEXICANS Outlaws Attack Railroad Bridge in Texas; One Brigande Is Captured While the Others Made Their Escape. MT. GRETNA GETS CALL FOR MEN San Antonio, Tex., Jnne 30 Two wounded United States soldiers were expected to arrive at the base hospital here today with an official account of the attack on the Medina river bridge of the Southern Pacific at Macdona, Tex., last night. Bandits rushed the bridge shortly before midnight and fired into the Yankee guard. One of the bandits was taken prisioner The others fled into the darkness when the U. S. soldiers returned the fire. Mt. Gretna, Pa., June 30 From the office of Major General Wood, commanding the Department of the East, came the request this morning for the early entraining of all the soldiers in camp here. COMPANY F NOW AT MT. GRETNA Company F is in camp at Mt. Gretna, where they have been sworn into the United States service, in response to the call of President Wilson for the Na tional Guard of the country to do military duty along the Mexi can border. Nearly four thousand people gatherd at the P. R. R. station here Friday night to bid the boy s" farewell. They were es corted from the armory to the station by our military band; they marched full of joy under the tune of national emblem. Enthusiam ran high here this BOY IS KILLED BY TRAIN NEAR ERNEST Lawrence Boskin, aged 11 years, of Ernest was hit by the evening passenger train, Friday evening. The boy was taken to the Indiana hospital were he died several hours later. The engineer did not see the lad on the tracks until too close to stop the train. The boy is said to have been asleep on the tracks after having spent some time hunting for his cows. Swindlers and Incendiaries Are Now in the Custody of Sheriff Harry Boggs g Harry Sink and ira Good, of South Mahoning township, were arrested last week on a charge of extorting money from Mrs. Pauline Davis, aged 80 years, who resides near Plumville. It is alleged that they appeared at her home masked last fall and demanded money, which was paid them, and they later put letters into her mail box, threat ening her if she failed to give them certain sums. Abraham Porter % and Sarah McDivitt, who reside in the Por ter settlement in North Mahon ing township, have been arrest ed on a charge of arson, follow ing the burning of the barn on the farm in North Mahoning township, owned by Dr. F. A. Lorentz of Punxsutawney, and Amos Koontz, of Richmond. The couple were held for trial at September court at a hearing before Justice of the Peace J. A. Crossman on Monday. CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL ADVERTISERS week, and the following have enlisted: R. M. Davidson, Clymer. J. C. Mock, Indiana. John De Santis, Indiana Omer Graff, Indiana George Gelis, Indiana Ernest Caldwell, Indiana J. A. Richards, Indiana E. H. Weaver, Indiana S. Cruscisana. Josephine R. E. Means, Josephine B. Quogliero, Josephine M. E. Baliskrina, Josephine S. Shaddle, Homer City A. Harris, Josephine W. T. Mercer, Luzerne A. M. Lockard, Iselin - F. Leydic, Indiana S. M. Alexandre, Altoona BOYS GOING TO WAR OBJECT TO "THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME* For sentimental reasons many of the guardsmen from Indiana, Somerset, and West moreland counties Friday night asked that the regimental bands refrain from playing "The Girl I Left Behind Me." 'lt's hard enough to leave your girl behind you without being reminded of it,' one of the guardsmen remarked. I FIVE CENTS
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