WE DO FINE BOOK and JOB PRINTING TRY US! VOLUME IV — No. 2 MODEL MURDER MYSTERY MAY NEVER BE CLEARED AS RESULT OF SUICIDE OF PITTSBURGH MAN POLICE DECLARE LEWIS WAS SOUGHT AS GIRL'S SLAYER NOW CONSIDER CASE CLOSED. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. s.—With the suicide of Bernard W. Lewis, wealthy Pittsburgh friend of Grace Roberts, the police today considered the murder of the pretty model a closed incident. While admitting that the shot which ended Lewis' life also probably ended the chance of the murder ever being conclusively cleared up, they said the hand of circumstance pointed to Lewis as the man who knew more about the girl's death than anyone else. Lewis Man Sought. "Every bit of evidence we have," said Captain Tate today, "points to Lewis as the man for whom we were searching." Captain Tate today explained why the police department has settled upon Lewis as the slayer. "No other deduction is possible," he said. "There was no other reason for his suicide. He was the man driven to the Wil ton apartments by Elwood Powell, the chauffeur. Despite the fact he was credited with having considerable money, he was practical ly broke. We found in his pockets in Atlantic City just $6 and some small change. "We believe that Lewis, having no money with which to pay for his ride with the Kyle girls, and wishing to keep up appear ances, called upon Mrs. Roberts, or Miss Colbert, and demanded that she return to him the $4OO diamond ring he had given her. "In the quarrel that followed, he attempted to take the ring by force. She was a powerful woman, and a fierce struggle ensued. In this struggle he first stunned, then killed her. Of this we are certain." $B,OOO DEATH AWARD IS AFFIRMED PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4. The award of $B,OOO to Mrs. Stella Glas against the Pennsyl vania railroad for the death of her husband, under the employ es' liability act, allowed by the Western district court, was af firmed in the United States cir cuit of appeals here today. The fatal accident occurred at Wet morej Pa. NEW MINING PLANTS IN INDIANA COUNTY Two new coal operations are being started in this county. Watt Kinter of Chambersville, who has been engaged for some time in opening a coal mine on the Shannon farm at that place, expects to be able to make shipments of coal within a short time. The mine adjoins the operation of the Seneca Coal company and the coal will be shipped oyer the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad. Dr. J. H. Peterman of Cherrytree, and his brotner, Dr. H. E. Peterman of Baltimore, are among those who recently engaged in the mining of coal in the county. They have opened a mine on the Peterman homestead farm, near Chambersville, and shipped their first coal to market this week. The mine is located near the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad, and a siding is being built to the opening, and it is planned to build a tipple and con struct a modern mining plant. PUNXSUTAWNEY COAL COMPANY ACTIVE MARION CENTER, Jan. 4. — The Punxsutawney Coal Co. expects to be shipping coal from its new mine at this place within two weeks. The grading for the spur of almost a mile of track including the yard and the tipple, has been completed and Fore man H. C. Kerr with his crew has the track laid up to the tipple. The ballast, however, must be placed yet. The coal company is rushing its part of the work to be ready for shipping as soon as the track is ready. They have many thousands of bushels of coal piled outside the mine ready to be loaded in cars. The great demand for coal at a record price makes them anxious to begin shipping as soon as possible. Every effort is also being put forth to supply houses for more miners expected in as soon as living quarters can be furnished them. N. S. White, who has been superintendent of the mines, has resigned to take charge of the new mine he and four others are opening at Juneau. E. H. Shaffer, who has been mine foreman here, has been promoted to the superintendency. FIRE IN FRUIT STORE Sunday night about 9 o'clock fire was discovered in the room in the rear of the fruit store of Frank Ross, in the Mitchell build ing, on Philadelphia street. Soon after the arrival of the firemen the blaze was extinguished. A couch and a rug were burned and a wall damaged somewhat. The stock of fruit is pretty badly damaged by heat and smoke. The photo stock of Douglass, the photographer, over the fruit store, and J.D. Johnston, adjoining, were badly smoked. The loss sustained by Ross is covered by in surance. PAPERS IN THREE TOWNS ADVANCE THEIR PRICES. The Tribune, Times and Mirror, all of Altoona; the News and Courier, both of Connellsville, and the Homestead Messenger have announced that beginning January the prices will be increased to two cents a copy. STATE'S OUTPUT OF COAL HALF THAT OF NATION • lIARRISBURG, Jan. 4. Figures compiled by the national and state mining bureaus show that of 518,000,000 tons, of coal mined in the country last year, Pennsylvania produced 247,000,- 000 tons, while of 767,554 men employed in the nation's mines there were 365,073 employed in Pennsylvania mines. Published Weekly by the Patriot Publishing Company INDIANA, PA., SATURDAY, JAN, 6, l\*l7 A PRINCE AND HIS LOVELY BRIDE >;• .// ; •- < ■ i i " Jakj i'i f .... . ■ . ......... _1 * Countess Nada Tor by, daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, w'.io has recently bo on e the wife of Prince George of Battenberg, son of Prince Louis, former firsi sea lord of the F.rit : h admiralty. COUNTY AUDITORS AT WORK The county auditors organized on New Year's Day and are now at work on the 1916 accounts of the various departments of the county government. The organization was perfected by the election of Miles C. Young of Indiana, as president and John Adamson of Marion Center, secretary. Mr. Robert J. Hood of New Florence is the other member of the board. It will be remembered that last year this same board sur charged the out-going commissioners, Messrs. Bennett, Wake field and Ansley, in the amount of $330, for salary, which the audi tors claimed the Commissioners were not entitled to. Mr. Wake field refunded his but Messrs. Ansley and Bennett refused to pay their's. The present board of Commissioners brought suit and on last Saturday Judge Langham handed down an opinion that they were entitled to the increase. It is expected that Mr. Wake field will now apply for the amount he refunded. The controversy was based on the question of an increase in their salary, accord ing to an act passed by the Legislature during their term of office. DUELS ARE UNPATRIOTIC IN FRANCE IN WAR TIME PARIS, Jan. 4.—A duel be tween Frenchmen in war times would be a real offense against patriotism. Such was the for mal declaration signed today by the seconds of Deputy Adrien Veber and Capt. Charles Tis seyre, and the proposed encoun ter was abandoned. The two men had engaged in an argument in which a blow was said to have been struck, a shallenge following. BRENNAN IS OPPOSING HIGHER POSTAL RATE WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —An exemption of publications issued by fraternal organizations from the proposed new postage rate on second-class matter is sought by W. J. Brennan of Pittsburgh who was here yesterday confer ring with members of Congress. In company with Representa tive John M. Morin of Pitts burgh, Mr. Brennan visited most of the members of the rules committee to explain that the proposed zone rate, which would increase the postage on maga zines but would not materially affect the rates on newspapers, should not apply to the publi cations of the fraternal orders and not intended for profit. JEFFERSON COUNTY I AUDITORS ORGANIZE PUNXSUTAWNEY, Jan. 4. The county board of auditors or ganized today by electing Wil liam Campbell of Punxsutawney president, Frank Glenn of Reyn oldsville secretary, J. Van Reed of Reynoldsville was appointed as clerk. THOMPSON COAL LAND MAY BE TRANSFERRED CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 4.—Rumors of another gigantic coal deal place the Consolidated Coal Company in the role of probable purchasers of the en tire West Virginia holdings of Josiah V. Thompson, of Union town, amounting to about 84,000 acres. Basing the value on the average for West Virginia coal —slso an acre—the Consolidat ed Coal Company's deal would amount to $12,000,000 and would be the largest in the his tory of the coal industry. One subject of the effort to dispose of the Thompson hold ings in West Virginia in bulk is said to be the desire to save it from being thro™ on the mark et in small acreages to satisfy individual claims against Mr. Thompson. Subscribe for The Patriot, $1.50 a year in advance. SEVEN NEW APPLICANTS FOR LIQUOR LICENSE IN THE INDIANA COURT LIST Twenty-one applications for li quor licenses, four less than last year ,have been filed with Pro thonotary Walter H. Ayers for hearing by Judge J. N. Langham Monday afternoon, Jan. 22. The list contains 20 applicants for retail license and one for brew ers' license, the Indiana Brewing Company, of this place. There are now 15 retail and one brewer's license in the coun ty, and all the present holders are applicants. In addition to these there is an application from John O'Hare of the Com mercial Hotel, Homer City; W. C. Nicewonger, Starford! H. E. Sterner, Dixonville; P. J. Mc •Cartney, Dilltown, and Charles McGinley, Heilwood. Mr. McGin ley was granted a license last year at the Cherrytree Inn, which is now conducted by Chas. Boyer Lavely, who is among the applicants for hostelries holding license at the present time. There are now four retail licen ses and one brewers' license at Indiana, the county seat. The new list of applicants does not j increase this number. The list of applicants follows : Brewers. Indian Brewing Company, 4th ward, Indiana. Retailers Grant Snyder, Glen Campbell, $22.11 A MINUTE TO OPERATE 8., R. & P. RY. It costs $22.11 a minute, day and night, to operate the Buf falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway for the last fiscal year, ac cording to figures given out by that company. The cost of operating the road's 587 miles of track \i $30,200 pei day, enclusive of the amount spent for permanent improve ments, which amounts to $1,6035 daily. For the fiscal year ending next June it is expected that the costs will gieatly exceed this year's figures, owing to the higher prices paid for material, labor, etc. * CORAL MEN ARE HELD FOR COURT ON CHARGES OF VIOLATING MINING LAWS Richard Maize, James Garsick, and Gus Pechergo of Coral, charged with violating mining laws by carrying matches into high ly gaseous mines, were arrested on information made before Squire P. M. Hodge of Blairsville by C. H. Crocker, mine inspector, for the Thirtieth Bituminous district. The hearing was given the defendants before Squire Hodge-Tuesday. Maize was held in $2OO bond for court, his father going his bond. The others were held on their own recognizance in $lOO each for court. The three are to appear before Judge J. N. Langham in sentence court next Monday. 1916 AUTO TAGS GOOD UN TIL JANUARY 15, 1917. HARRISBURG, Jan. 4.—The 1916* Pennsylvania automobile license plates will be recognized until January 15, 1917, State Highway Commissioner F. B. Black today issued a statement to the police authorities of the various cities in the state that owing to the non-delivery of li cense plates by the prison labor commission, which has the con tract for their manufacture, it would be impossible to send 1917 plates from this date onward as rapidly as the applications were received. At the close of business, Dec. 27 the total amount received for 1917 motor vehicle licenses was $876,400. On Wednesday, Dec. 27, all records were broken in the amount of money received, the amount being $97,501.00. SAYS 1,000,000 MORE TEU TON TROOPS TO BE CALLED PARIS, Jan. 4.—Germany and CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN TO ALL ADVERTISERS FTYE CENTS Hotel Snyder. C. M. Wortman, 4th ward, Indiana, The Moore. Edward Dwyer, Clymer, Cly mer hotel. W. F. Neeley, Clymer, Hotel Neeley. C. F. Nollenberger, Second ward, Indiana, Central hotel. D. M. Brown, First ward, In diana, Clawson house. W. A. Swift, Creekside, Com mercial hotel. J. E. Ober, Giqsy, Montgom ery township, Gipsy hotel. P. J. McCartney, Dill town, Buffington township, Dill town hotel. 0. C. Lonsberry, Arcadia. Ho tel Arcadia. W. C. Nicewonger, Starford, St. Charles hotel. H. E. Sterner, Dixonville, hotel. John O'Hare, Homer City, Commercial hotel. M. S. Murray, Rossiter, Bran don hotel. Charles Boyer Lavely, Cherry tree, Cherrytree inn. Edwin Empfield, second ward, Indiana, Hotel Indiana. Amandus A. Link and An thony P. Blum, Rossiter, Rossi ter hotel. B. A. Murray, Wehrum, Blacklick inn. John A. Donnelly, Iselin, Hotel Iselin. Charles McGinley, Heilwood, Heilwood inn. 1916 ACCIDENTS IN STATE TOTAL 251,488 HARRISBURG, Jan. 4.—Over a quarter of a million industrial accidents occurred in Pennsyl vania during 1916, according to figures compiled by the State de partment of labor and industry from the reports of the employ es, who are required under the state laws to send information on all accidents to the capitoL The figures show that 2,587 killed and injured, the departs ment calculating that there was a monthly average of 215 killed out of 20,957 killed and injured. October had the largest number of fatalities, showing 287, while March had the largest total of killed and injured. Austria are calling 1,000,000 fresh troops to the colors for a supreme effort, according to Gustave Herve in the newspaper "La Victore."
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