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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.
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INDIANA, PA., SATURDAY, JAN, 6, l\*l7
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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.
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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.
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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."