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VOLUME IV —No. 11
GERMAN AGENTS STIRRING
VILLA TO ATTACK 11. S.
LAREDO, Texas, March 8.
Germany is playing Villa
against Carranza. Great sums
of German money are pouring
into the bandit leader's hands,
inviting him to activity against
the United States and against
Carranza, while at the same
time German agents work thru
officials of the Carranza gov
ernment seeking to align that
side against the United States.
Just back from a trip into the
interior of Mexico, I can state
these facts on the highest au
thority :
Agents of the German gov
ernment in Mexico approached
Francisco Villa at his headquar
ters at Bustillo's ranch, about
February 12, with a proposition
to renew his raids on the bord
er in case of a declaration of war
between the United States and
Germany. Two German agents
reached the bandit leader. The
conference extended over two
days.
At first Villa demurred against
any attack on the border in force
under any circumstances. At
length an agreement was reach
ed that in case of war Villa
would send small bands as unat
tached bandits to operate at
widely separated points along
the International line and to
make sporadic forays to harrass
American troops.
Under the terms of agreement |
the German agents promised to
pay Villa 500,000 pesos ($250,-
000) in gold at once to seal the!
compact. He refused to enter
into the plot until the first pay
ment was handed over. They
agreed to pay a large amount
each month thereafter in case of
war to enable Villa to pay his
BLACKLICK GIRL BRIDE OF CLEARFIELD MAN
A marriage license has been granted here to Walter Rial Rook
of Clearfield and Miss Daisy Helen Houston of Blacklick. Mr.
Rook is in the employ of the state highway department and form
erly was superintendent of the Indiana county field. Miss Hous
ton is the daughter of Squire and Mrs. Houston of Blacklick.
LARGE MORTGAGE THT COVERS CAMBRIA LANDS
RECORDED
A mortgage from the Inland Coal Co. to the Commercial
Trust Company of Greensburg, setting forth the immense sum
of $2,000,000 has been recorded here. It was made through the
sale of a large tract of land in Green and nearby townships, Indi
ana county, and for lands in adjoining sections in Cambria coun
ty. Tne Commercial Trust Co. is acting as trustee.
MAN CARRYING BAG OF POWDER AND LIGHTED LAMP
FELL AND WAS SERIOUSLY BURNED
BY EXPLOSION
Carrying a lighted miner's light and a bag of powder on the
trolley trestle at Josephine, Sam Morena stumbled and fell as he
ran to escape an approaching car. Morena was blown from the
trestle and fell a distance of 20 feet. He was found unconscious
with his clothes ablaze a few moments later by the crew and pas
sengers of the trolley car, and was brought to the Indiana hospital.
He was badly burned about the face. As both eyes are swollen
shut it is impossible to tell whether his sight has been impaired.
The flames of the explosion leaped 20 feet into the air and for a
time it was thought Morena was attempting to blow up the
trestle.
LIGHTNING BOLT CURES RHEUMATICS WHEN IT STRIKES
MAN'S HOUSE
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A sufferer from rheumatism each winter for the past 15
years, Walter Loring of Rayne township, believes that he was per
manently cured of the disease by a stroke of lightning last Aug
ust. While sitting in his home during a severe electrical storm
last summer the house was struck by lightning. Mr. Loring and
his wife were rendered unconscious and were revived with diffi
culty. Early each winter for the past 15 years Mr. Loring has
been attacked with rheumatism and suffered from it constantly
during the cold weather. While in Indiana recently he declared
that lie has had no trace of the old trouble this winter and be
lieves that the rheumatics were burned out of his system by the
electric fluid.
THE PA TRIOT
men, secure ammunition and al
so to build up his shattered forc
es.
After orders from Foreign
Secretary Zimmermann reached
Mexico City for an attempt to
arrange an alliance with Mexico
and Japan, the Villa scheme was
one of the first moves. One sec
ret agent was sent north from
the capital to Lan Luis Potosi,
where he met another. From
Parral, both travelled by .horse
back to Bustillo's ranch, about
40 miles west of Chihuahua
City. At this point Villa was
making his headquarters at that
time.
The Villa plan was to be used
chiefly in the event of failure to
induce Carranza to enter into an
intrigue against the United
States and as a possible means
of bringing pressure to bear on
Carranza. It was hoped to in
volve the de facto government
and the United States in new,
serious complications, making
the retention of a large part of
the army along the border neces
sary.
That friction between Carran
za and the United States would
tend to weaken the de facto pow
er was pointed out to Villa by
the German agents.
Already the German cabal in
the Mexican capital had set ac
tive underground influences to
work upon the First Chief and
his advisers to induce them to
consent to an alliance. The fam
ous note sent by Carranza to the
neutral powers, asking them to
unite in refusing to furnish sup
plies to belligerent countries was
engineered by the German pro
pagandists.
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INDIANA, PA., SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917
FRENCH PILE UP SHELLS BEHIND VERDUN
Photo by American Press Association.
COURT • NEWS
Monday was the opening of
the March term of court. It was
featured by the hearing of the
quarterly returns of the consta
bles of the county and the de
livery of an important and
lengthy charge by Judge J. N.
Langham to the grand jury, de
tailing the general and special
duties of this body called to pass
on the various matters of public
interest as well as to consider
the bills of indictment.
In the course of his address
Judge Langham gave many
helpful suggestions which if re
ligiously followed, will tend to
make the Grand Jury a more
efficient body and will facilitate
the work in hand. The Court
again calls attention to the con
gested and unsatisfactory con
dition of the county jail, and re
commends the remodeling and
enlargement to provide a proper
classification of the prisoners.
The charge of the court is pub
lished in detail on page 2 of this
j issue.
OPERATORS BELIEVE
TIPPLE DESTROYERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRE
PUNXSUTAWNEY, March 7.
The tipple of the Pardus Coal
Mining company was destroyed
by fire thought to have been of
incendiary origin today with a
loss of $22,000. The tipple had
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a capacity of 1,800 tons daily
and 250 men were thrown out of
employment by its destruction.
According to officials of the com
pany the fire originated in much
the same manner as the fire that
destroyed the tipple of the J. &
C. Coal and Iron company last
Saturday. Coal mine operators
believe that a group of tipple de
stroyers is at work in the dis
trict.
With the arrival here today
of Carmino Cataleno, aged 35,
who was arrested in Philadel
phia yesterday, authorities be
lieve they have captured the
man who dynamited the tipple
of the Anita Coal Mining Co.,
at Horatio in October, 1915. Sub
sequent to the blowing up of
the tipple an attempt is alleged
to have been made to assassinate
officials of the company.
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MAN IS INDICTED ON A CHARGE OF MURDER
The grand jury yesterday returned a true bill against Matt
Pulich of Lucerne Mines against whom the commonwealth had
lodged a charge of murder. This grew out of the fatal wounding
of John Horwatt the morning of Dec. 16 last. The trouble arose
after an all-night drinking bout, when Pulich is alleged to have
struck Horwatt over the head with a beer bottle. The injured
man died shortly after being admitted to the Indiana hospital.
Pulich was arrested at his boarding house shortly after the trouble
and admitted that he w r as the one who had struck Horwatt.
INDIANA COUNTY CHILD KILLED BY STRYCHNINE
A four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Muir, of
Cokeville, was fatally poisoned on Thursday as the result of having
swallowed several strychnine tablets which had been prescribed
for an eight-year-old sister. The child's death occurred a short
time after taking the poison.
LEAVES FOR FRANCE TO DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE
Kirby Gile, one of the prominent students and of the
Normal school left yesterday afternoon for New York city. From
that port he will sail aboard the French liner LaTouraine, for
Bordeaux, France. Upon his arrival he will be placed in charge as
driver of one of the automobiles in the service of the American
Ambulance Corps.
COGSWELL DIRECTS LARGE ORCHESTRA
Washington, D. C. newspapers highly praise the concert re
cently given in that city by the Washington Community Sym
phony Orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Hamlin E. Cogswell,
the former principal of the Indiana Normal Conservatory of Mu
sic.
BODY OF MURDERED MAN SENT TO HOME IN
SOUTH
The body of Jack Corton, the Josephine negro who was fatal
ly injured bj Ernest Phillips in a fight developing from a card
game at Josephine last Friday, has been shipped to his former
home in Bennetsville, S. C. Phillips was given a preliminary
hearing before Justice James A. Crossman, yesterday morning
and held for court.
The arrest of Phillips, which was made after a chase through
the woods near Josephine, was accomplished by Constable Harry
McGaughey of Josephine and the murderer was brought to the
Indiana county jail by Deputy Sheriff Elmer Borland, who had
gone to Josephine on other business the morning of the murder.
ROSSITER CHURCH DAMAGED BY FIRE
Damage amounting to several thousand dollars was done to
the Catholic church at Rossiter on Saturday night.
BLAIRSVILLE 100 YEARS OLD IN OCTOBER
Blairsville, the mteropolis of the southern end of the county j
will celebrate her 100 th birthday next October.
Newspaper Plant Is Sold At A Public
Sale For $14,700
JOHNSTOWN LEADER GOES TO HOWARD COOK, PRESUM
ED TO REPRESENT W. H. SUNSHINE AND OTHERS.
JOHNSTOW T N, PA., March B.—The plant and equipment of
the Leader Printing & Publishing Company was sold at public sale
this afternoon for $14,700. The book accounts went for $3,025.
Howard Cook, local real estate agent, was the successful bidder in
both cases. He stated that publication of the "Leader" will be
continued.
"I have nothing to say," Mr. Cook said, when asked for a
statement following the sale, "except that the "Leader" will be
continued as an evening newspaper, and we will try to make it a
bigger and a better paper."
Asked whether he had made the purchase for himself or for
others, he refused to say anything.
While no statement could be obtained, it is generally pre
sumed that Mr. Cook represented William H. Sunshine and other
large interests. Just after the sale, Mr. Cook and Mr. Sunshine
left the scene together.
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CUBAN REBEL CHIEF
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HAVANA, March 8. The
revolution in Cuba is apparently
ended. Capture of Ex-President
Jose Gomez and his entire staff,
leaders of the insurrectos, was
expected today to be followed by
sentence of death on these con
spirators.
At the same time there were
reports current here today that
f the remnants of the rebels in
Camaguey had been forced to
capitulate.
Havana gave itself over to ju
bilation today at the coup. All
last night the city rang with
gayety, celebrating the Govern
ment's battle by which Gomez
was captured, officially stated to
have been one of the biggest in
the history of Cuba.
CREDITORS MAY ATTACH
MINES OF THOMPSON*
WASHINGTON, March 9.
Creditors of Josiah V. Thomp
son, wealthy mine operator, of
Uniontown, Pa., by a Supreme
Court ruling today may proceed
to attach his extensive West
Virginia coal lands for their
debts.
The court refused to review
dismissal of a suit brought by
Jacob S. Hayden of Wheeling,
W. Va., to appoint a receiver for
Thompson's West Virginia prop
erty and to prevent its attach
ment and forced sale. Thomp
son's holdings are estimated to
be worth $70,000,000 and his ob
ligations $22,000,000.
Many West Virginia, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, and
Michigan banks and individuals
are creditors.
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NO REMONSTRANCES
FILED IN ARMSTRONG
Cambria Grants 285; Craw
ford Stays Dry
Kittanning, Pa., March 9.
The liquor license applicants of
Armstrong county were heard
Monday before Judge J. W.
King. Fifty-seven applicants,.
13 for wholesale, two "for brew
ery, and 42 for retail license, ap
peared. There were no remon
strances entered against any of
the applicants.
After finishing the hearings
the court announced that deci
sions would be handed down lat
i
i er.
Ebensburg, Pa., March 9
Judges M. B. Stephens and F. J.
O'Connor of the Cambria county
license court handed down their
decisions yesterday. The court
granted 285 licenses, refused 18
and held over 14. There were
324 applications made and seven
applications were withdrawn.
Three hundred licenses were
granted last year.
Meadville, Pa., March 9. —By
refusing 10 applications for li
quor license yestei-day, Judge
Thomas J. Prather continues
Crawford county dry another
year. All applications were re
fused last year.