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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.
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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
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INDIANA, PA. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1916
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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
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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.
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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.
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