4 The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama " By ARTHUR B. REEVE ~ The Well-Known Novelist and the Creator of the "Craig Kennedy" Starlet Presented in Collaboration With the Pathc Players and the Eclectic Film Company Copyright, 1014. by the Star Company All Foreign Rights Referred CONTINUED ( SYNOPSIS. The Now York police nre mystified by a peries of murders of prominent men. The principal clue lo the murderer is thu warri fliK letter which is sent the victims, sinned with ft "clutching hand." The latest vic tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge, the insurance president. His daughter. Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy, the famous scientific directive, to try to 1 Unravel the mystery. What Kennedy ac complishes is told by his friend. Jameson, , a newspaper man. THIRD EPISODE The Vanishing Jewels. Banging away at my typewriter the j text day, in Kennedy's laboratory, I was startled by tho sudden, insistent ringing of the telephone near me. "Hello," I answered, for Craig was •t work at his table, trying still to ex tract tome clue from the slender evi dence thus far elicited In the Dodge mystery. "Oh. Mr. Kennedy," I heard an ex cited voice over the wire reply, "my friend, Susie Martin, is here. Her fa ther has just received a message from that Clutching Hand and —" ""Just a moment, Miss Dodge," I in terrupted. "This is Mr. Jameson." "ph!" came back the voice, breath less and disappointed. "Let ine have Mr. Kennedy—quick." * I had already passed the telephone to Craig and was watching him keen- ] jy as he listened over it. He motioned to me for a pad and pencil that 'lay near me. "Please read the letter again, slow- j er, Miss Dodge," he asked, adding, j ''there Isn't time for me to see it— | Just yet. Hut I want it exactly. You 1 Say it Is made up of separate words and type cut from newspapers anil pasted on note paper?" I handed him paper and pencil. "All right, now, Miss Dodge, gc : ahead." As he wrote he indicated to me by . bis eyes that he wanted me to read 1 did so: Sturtevnnt Martin. Jeweler, . No. 739V4 Fifth Avenue, New York City. ' ■ Sir—As you have failed to the (10,000, I shall rob your main diamond pasc at exactly noon today. "Thank you, Miss Dodge," continued Kennedy, laying down the pencil. "Yes, I understand perfectly—signed by that same Clutching Hand. Let me see," he pondered, looking at his j Hatch. "It is now half-past eleven. I'ery well. I shall meet you and Miss , ' i A Remarkable Scene Greeted Us. larttn at Mr. Martin's store directly." It lacked live minutes of when ennedy end I dashed up before Mar n's and dismissed our taxicab A remarkable scene greeted us as e entered the famous, jewelry shop, lvoluntarily I drew back. Squarely i front of us a man had suddenly Ur.ed a revolver and leveled it at us. , "Don't!" cried a familiar voice. That is Mr. Kennedy!" .lust then, from a little knot of peo- ■ ie, Elaine Dodge sprang forward 1 ith a cry and seized the gun. Kennedy turned to her, apparently ot half so much concerned about the litomatic that yawned at him as bout the anxiety of the pretty girl ho had intervened. The too eager loin-clothes man lowered the gun neepishly. Sturtevant Martin was a typical so- ; lety business man, quietly but richly ; ressed In the excitement 1 glanced about arriedly. Directly In front of me was a sign icked up on a pillar, which read: j I'his store will be closed at noon to ly. Martin & Co." All the customers were gone. See " Exploits of ElaineThird Episode, In Motion Pictures, Victoria Theatre, Saturday, March 6 [— READ THE. STORY IN THE STAR-INDEPENDENT EVERY WEEK Martin himself was evidently very nervous and very much alarmed. In deed, no one could blame him for that. Merely to have been singled out by this amazing master criminal was enough to cause panic. Already he had engaged detectives, prepared foi whatever might happen, and they ha'i advised him to leave the diamonds in the counter, clear the store and let the crooks try anything, if they dared. Just back of us, and around the cor ner, as we came in, we had noticed a limousine which had driven up. Three faultlessly attired dandies had entered a doorway down the street, as we learned afterward, apparently going to a fashionable tailor's which occupied the second floor of the old-fashioned building, the first floor having been renovated and made ready for renting Had we been there a moment sooner we might have seen, I suppose, that one of them nodded to a taxicab driv er, who was standing at a public hack stand a few feet up the block. The driver nodded unostentatiously at the man. In spite of the excittement, Kennedy quietly examined the showcase, which was, indeed, a veritable treasure store of brilliants. Slowly the hands of the clock carao Rearer together at noon. gathered about the showcase, with its glittering hoard of wealth, forming a circle at a respectable dis tance. In deep-lunged tones the clock played the chords written, I believe, by Handel. Then it began striding. Nothing had happened. We all breathed a sigh of relief. "Well, it Is still there!" exclaimed Martin, pointing at the showcase with a forced laugh. Suddenly came a rending and crash ing sound. It seemed as if the very floor on which we stood was giving way. The showcase, with all its priceless contents, went smashing Into the cel lar below. The . flooring beneath the case had been cut through! All crowded forward, gazing at the black, yawning cavern. Down below, three men, covered with smocks and their faces hidden by masks, had knocked the props away from the ceiling of the cellar, which they had sawed almost through at their leisure, and the showcase had landed eight or ten feet below, shiv ered into a thousand bits. A volley of shots whizzed past us, and another. While one crook was hastily stuffing the untold wealth of jewels into a burlap bag the others had drawn revolvers and wero firing up through the hole In the floor des perately. "Look out!" cried someone behind us before we could recover from our first surprise and return t)ie flre. One of the desperadoes had taken a bomb from under his smock, lighted It and thrown it up through the hole in the floor. It nailed up over our heads and land ed near our little group, on the floor, the fuse sputtering aminously. I heard an exclamation of fear from Elaine. Kennedy had pushed his way past us and picked up the deadly infernal machine in his bare hands. I watched him, fascinated. As near as he dared, he approached the hole in the floor, still holding the thing off at arm's length. Would-he never throw it? He was coolly holding it, allowing the fuse to burn down closer to the explosion point. It was now within less than an inch of sure death. Suddenly he raised It &nd hurled the deadly thing down through the hole. We could hear the Imprecaticns of the crooks as it struck the cellar floor, near them. "Leave the store—quick!" rang out Kennedy's voice. Down below the crooks were beat ing a hasty retreat through r. secret entrance which they had effected. "The bag! The bag!" we could near one of them bellow. "The bomb—run!" cried anothei voice gruffly. The explosion that followed us fairly off our feet. As the smoke from the explosion cleared away,, Kennedy could b' seen, the first tQ_run forward. Meanwhile Martin's detectives had ! rushed down a flight of back stairs • that led into a coal cellar. With coal [ shovels and bars, anything they could I lay hands on, they attacked the doot | that opened forward from the coal eel lar into the front basement where the robbers had been. A moment Kennedy and Bennett paused on the brink of the abyss which the bomb had made, waiting foi the smoke to decrease. Then the> began to climb down cautiourly ovei the piled-up wreckage. The explosion had set the basement afire, but the fin had not gained much headway by the time they reached the basement. Quickly Kennedy ran to I the door into the coal cellar and 1 opened it. ' ■ —■ m • - - - '• ~r ■ ■ 1 v i t , x '< \ V 4 ' "/ ••* v ' ~ ;'. .."''b'"'" v ' ' • t ' ,t. ; \ "'* ' ' - 1 .. ' ' ".>" • V | * ' HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1915. From tlje other side Martin, fol lowed by the police and tho detec tives, burst In. "Fire!" cried one of the policemen, leaping back to turn In an alarm from the special apparatus upstairs. All except Martin began beating out the flames, using such weapons as they already held in their hands to batter down the door. To Martin there was one thing para mount—the jewels. In the midst of the confusion, Elaine, closely followed by her friend, Susie, made her way fearlessly into the stifle of smoke down the stairj. "There are your jewels, Mr. Martin," cried Kennedy, kicking the precious burlap bag with his foot as If It had been so much ordtpary merchandise, and turning toward what was in his mind the most important thing at stake —the direction taken by the agents of the Clutching Hand. "Thank heaven!" ejaculated Martin, fairly pouncing on the bag and tearing it open. "They didn't get awc.y with tlieni—after all!'' he exclaimed, exam ining the contents with satisfaction. • « » ♦ • • • were moving rapidly. The limousine had been standing in nocently enough at the curb near the corner, with the taxlcab close be hind it. Less than ten minutes after they had entered, three well-dressed men came out of the vacant shop, appar ently from the tailor's above, and climbed leisurely Into their xar. As the last one entered,' he half turned to the taxicab driver, hiding from passers-by the sign of the Clutch ing Hand, which the taxicab driver re turned in the same manner. Then the big car whirled up the avenue. All this we learned later from a street sweeper who was at work near by. • •••••• Down below, while the police and detectives were putting out the fire, Kennedy was examining the wall of the cellar, looking for the spot where the crooks had escaped. "A secret door!" he exclaimed, as he pansed after lapping alonb' the wall to determine its character. "You can see how the force of the explosion has loosened it." Sure enough, when he pointed it out to us, it was plainly visible. One of the detectives picked up a crowbar and others, still with the hastily selected implements they had seized to fight the fire, started in to pry it open. As It yielded Kennedy rusjied his way through; Elaine, always utterly fearless, follcfwed. Then the rest of us went through. Thera seemed to be nothing, how ever, that would help us in the cellar next door, and Kennedy mounted the steps of a stairway In the rear. The stairway led to a sort of store room, full of barrels and boxes, but otherwise characterless. When I ar rived Kennedy was gingerly holding up the smocks which the crooks had svorn. "We're on the right trail," comment ed Elalre as he showed them to her, 'but. where do you suppose the own ers are?" Craig shrugged his shoulders and gave a quick look about. "Evidently they came in from and went away by the street," he observed, hurrying to the door, followed by Elaine. On the sidewalk he gazed up the avenue, then catching sight of the street cleaner, called to him. "Yes, sor," replied the man, stolidly, looking up from his work. "I see three gintlemen come out an.] get into h\i automobile." "Which way did they go?" asked Kennedy. For answer the man jerked his thumb over his shoulder in the jeneral direction uptown. With keen glance, fCennedy strained his eyes. Far up the avenue he could descry <he car threading Its way in and ouL among the others, just about disappearing. A moment later Craig caught sight of the vacant taxicab and .rooked his finger at the driver, who answered pronptly by cranking his engine "You saw that limousine standing here?", asked Craig. "Yes," nodded the chauffeur, with a show of alertness. "Well, follow it," ordered Kennedy, jumping into the cab. "Yes, sir." Craig was just about to close the door when a slight figure flashed past us and a dainty foot was placed on the step. "Please, Mr. Kennedy," pleaded Elaine, "let me go. They may lead to my father's slayer." She said it so earnestly that Craig could scarcely have resisted if he had wanted to do so. .Tust as Elaine and Kennedy were moving off I came out of the vacant store, with Bennett and the detectives. "Craig!" 1 cried. "Where are you going?" Kennedy stuck his head out of the window, and I am quite sure that he was not altogether displeased that I was not with him. "Chasing that limousine," he shout ed A moment later he and Elaine were gone. Bennett and I looked about. "There are a coupleof cabs —down there." I pointed ortfaT the other end of the block. "I'll take one, you take the othy." Who, besides Bennett, went in the other car I don't know, but it made no difference, for we soon lost them. Our driver, however, was a really clevei fellow. Far ahead now we could see the limousine drive around a corner, making a dangerous swerve. Ken nedy's cab followed, skidding danger ously near a pole. But the taxicab was no match for OPEN NOSTRILS! END A COLD OR CATARRH Row To Get Relief When Read and Nose are Stuffed Up. Count fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos trils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling,- hawking, mucous discharge, dryness or headache; no,struggling for breath at night. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply a little of this fragrant antiseptic cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air passage of the head, soothing and healing the swollen or Inflamed mucous membrane, giving you instant relief. Head colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed-up and miserable. Relief is sure. —Adv. the powerful limousine. On uptown they went, the only thing preventing the limousine from escaping being the fear of pursuit by traffic police if the driver let out speed. They were con tent to manage to keep just far enough ahead to be out of danger of having Kenrftedy overhaul them. As for us, we followed as best we could, on up town, past the city line, and out into the country. There Kennedy lost sight alto gether of the car he was trailing. Worse than that, we lost sight of Kennedy. Still we kept on blindly, trusting to luck and common sense In picking the road. I was peering .ahead over the driver's shoulder, the window down, trying to direct him, when we ap proached a fork in the road. Here was a dilemma which must be decided at once, rightly or wrongly. As we neared the crossroad I gave an involuntary exclamation. Beside the ttiad, almost on it, lay the figure of a man. Our driver pulled up with a jerk and I was out of the car In an In stant. There lay Kennedy! Someone had blackjacked him. He was groaning and just beginning to show signs of consciousness as I bent over. "What's the matter, old man?" I asked, helping him to his feet. He looked about dazed a moment, then seeing me and comprehending, he pointed excitedly, but vaguely. "Elaine!" he cried. "They've kid naped Elaine!" •••«••• What had really happened, as we learned later from Elaine and others, was that when the crossroads was reached the three crooks in the limou sine had stopped long enough to speak to an accomplice stationed there, ac cording to their plan for a getaway. He was a tough-looking individual who might have been hoboing it to the citv. To Be Continued A TRAINLOADfF WOUNDED GEEIBANS HOMEWARD BOUND Geneva. Via Paris, March 3, 10.15 A. M.—Tho first trainload of maimed German prisoners of war who ate to be exchanged for wounded French soldiers arrived here from Lyons, homeward bound, at I). 15 o'clock last night. The special glidded slowly into the station between lanes of Swiss troops. The cars were immediately boarded by Ued Cross nurses in their uniforms of white who distributed gifts of oranges, choco late and other delicacies among the suf ferers, relieving their French co-work ers ot' the responsibility of caring for the passengers. _ .Swiss government physicians went rapidly through the train but found that none of the 241) Germans aboard required medical attention. All of them seemed cheerful and contented. They accepted gratefully the gifts showered upon them. There was no demonstra tion as the public was excluded from the station while the special was there. Most of the Germans had been crip ; pled by the loss of a leg or an arm and ! many of them had lost two limbs. They j>paid tribute to the kind treatment they | had received in French hospitals but ail | declared they would be glad to reach j home. After a long stop the train left I for Schafihausen, at the northernmost j pcint in Switzerland, where it will pass j thp train carrying incapacitated French j prisoners on their way home. IT PAYS TO USE STAR INDEPENDENT WANT ADS Sunday School Class to Give Play " How a Girl Keeps a Secret" is the title of a play to be given by the Sun day school class taught by 'Mrs. ißricker, at the •('urtin Heights Methodist PJ'pis co,al church, to-morrow night at 8 o 'clock. Admission will bp by ticket, which will be on sale ut the door for ten cents. Sportsmen Seeking Charter The Log House (lame Association formed by local sportsmen for the pro tection and propagation of game birds, animals and fish, and the acquiring of land for that purpose, has filed an ap plication t'or a perpetual charter in the office of Prothonotary Holler. The of ficers are Harvey E. Knupp, president; Edward Ci. Nisiev, of Penbrook, vice president; Alfred Johnson, secretary, and Joseph (Shisler, treasurer. Nevada Easy Divorce Law to Stand Ifeno, Nev., March 3.-^—Governor Boyle's final attempt to obtain a ref erendum on the easy divoree law has been rejected by the Legislature, and as a result there can be no change in the measure by a vote of the people within (he next two years. New Amusement Park for Lsbaiicn Lebanon, March 3.—Lebanon coun ty may have a new amusement park this summer. It will be located along ,the Kphrata „an<l Lebanon street railway line, about fifteen miles out of this city. The ]>ark is to be known as Mt. Springs Park and will eompriso thirty six acres. ' Quick Belief for Coughs, Colds ana Hoarseness. Clear the Voice—Fine for Speakers and' Singers. 23c. GORGAS' DRUG STORES 10 N. Third St. Fenna. Station SHE DARKENED HER CRAY HAIR A Kansas City Lady Darkened Her Gray Hair and Stimulated Its Growth by a Simple Home Process She Tells How She Did It A well-known resident, of Kansas City, Mo., who darkened her gray hair by a simple home process, made the following statement: "Any lady or I gentleman can darken their gray or j faded hair, stimulate its growfti and make it soft and glossy with this sim ple recipe, which they can mix at home. To half pint of water add 1 oz. of bay rum, 1 small box of Barbo Com ponnchaml % o z. of glycerine. These ingredients can be purchased at any drug store nt very little cost. Apply to the hair every other day until the gray hair is darkened sufficiently, then every two weeks. This mixture re lieves scalp troubles and is excellent for dandruff and falling hair. It does not stain the scalp, is not sticky or greasy and does not rub off. It will make a gray haiml person look 10 to years younger."-—Adv. KEPT FBOM THEIR LAWYER Los Angeles Murder Defendants Not Allowed to Meet Attorney Los Angeles, March 3.—David Cap lan and M. A. Schmidt, who have been held to answer murder charges in con nection with the destruction of the rimes" building here in 1910, will demand separate trials, according to H. H. Appel, retained as attorney for them by Anton Johannsen, general organizer for the United Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners of America, Ap pel expects to have associated with I him several attorneys familiar with the [trials of the McNamara brothers. • Caplan and Schmidt have not been ] allowed since their arrival here last j week to confer with their attorney or I to talk with each other. VOTES FOR COMMISSION RULE New Brunswick Changes Form of Gov | ernment After Tax Rate Jumps New Brunswick, N. J., March 3. The city of New Brunswick adopted I the commission form of government | yesterday b,y a vote of 2,584 to 1,765. j The total vote was about 80 per cent. lof that cast last November. The pro posal was carried in each of the six wards. A special election to choose the five commissioners will be held on April G. Tliq proposal first came before the voters in 1911 and was beaten by I 1,226 votcsj In 1913 it was beaten j again, but fly only 57 votes. The tax rato lumped twenty points to 2.59 this year, and is credited with having turned the scales. Mummers to Hold Banquet At a meeting of the Mummers' As sociation held at police headquarters last night plans were discussed for a banquet. The date will be decided upon at a meeting April 7. On the finance committee are Clarence O. Baeken stoss, chairman; Thomas J. Keesey, William Orr, Kobert Buck, Sr., and J. Grant Hoffman. The committee for the banquet consists of William Orr, Robert Buck, Sr., and H. M. Brooks. Boy Breaks Leg While playing near his home last night Earl tHeagy. 15 years old,, 436 i-touth Cameron street, fell and broke his letf leg. The youth was taken to the Harrisburg hospieal, where the frac ture was treated. / \ That Gough Cancelled If a cough or cold has made an j engagement with you, you had bet | ter cancel it quickly. There is no room or even a tem- I porarv welcome for any cough or I cold —when you use Tar, Tolu and White Pftie Cough Syrup 25tf Forney's Drug Store <l2<» MARKET STREET RICHARD BENNETTS CO-WORKERS TO PRESENT "DAMAGED GOODS" ifflKL r jUKf'wKLm The attraction at the Majestic Satur day, matinee and night, will be "Dam aged Goods," the most widely discussed drama which has been produced on the American stage in two decades, not only on account of the sensational feat-1 ures attending its first production in I C. V. NEWS DESERTED HIS WIFE THEM SOUGHT jOiyORCE HER Cumberland County Court Made Short Work of Alleged False Charges as Set Up by Samuel M. Handshew— Case Dismissed i _ Carlisle. March 3. —Alleging that after he had left her and her two chil dren, —one only two months old, at mid nig'ht without a word (if warning, and after contracting debts that took practically every cent of his property he had begun a divorce proceeding charging her with desertion and had failed to prwe his claims, John M. Rliey, attorney for Mrs. Jennie M. Handshew, of Middlesex, asked that the proceedings in, the matter be set aside. Following an argument. Judge Sad ler dismissed tile case and placed the costs on the libellant, Samuel M. Handshew, who is now in the West. .-V number of divorces were granted an t other matters taken up at the regular session of argument court held, yester day. CONFESS TO THEFT CHARGES Five Boys at Preliminary Hearing Ad mit Entering Drug Store Carlisle, March 3.—Each one having entered a plea of guilty, the five Har riaburg boys who were arrested last week by Detective H. J. Bentley, charged with having robbed the drug store of 11. C. at Camp Hill, yesterday were held for court by Jus tice of the Peace, Warren G. Hughes, following a hearing at the county jail, Two of the boys, Howard Wilt awl George Furman, gave bail for appear ance and the other three, Charles Breach, Arthur Brown and Charles Sheaffer, were held at the county prison, having been unable to secure bail. BRIBE CONVICTION STANDS City Officials of Cumberland, Md., Must Go to Jail Cumberland, Md., .March 3.—The Court of Appeals yesterday handed down an opinion against City Commis sioners T. A. K. Hummelshime v and Ward M. Eichelberger and ex-City At torney H. Bruce- Hummelshime, son of the Commissioner, convicted af con spiracy in attempt to secure a bribe. The sentence is that the two Commis sioners pay S2OO fine and he confined three months in jail and Bruce Hummel shime pass two months in jail and nav SIOO fine. • Th e th ree men sought to be paid SBOO to secure favorable action on a claim of about SS,OOO held against the city by a contractor. Grip Leads to Death Gettysburg, March 3.—Mrs! Jacob Kennedy died yesterday morning about 6 o'clock at her home near York Spriugs aged 73 years, 10 months and 14 days. Mrs. Kennedy had been ill for about five days, and her condition was serious for only a very short time before her death. Grip, with complications, was given as the cause. She was the widow of the late Jacob Kennedy and before marriage she was Miss Rachel Rebecca Kinter, a daughter of Jacob and Eliza beth Kinter. She was the last member of her family. Dr. Thomas E. E. Miller Dies Hagerstown, Md., March 3. —Dr. Thomas E. R. Miller, 71 years old, for mer member of the Maryland Legisla ture and extensive land owner in Fred erick county, dropped dead in his office at Lewistown. During the Civil war he served in hospitals of the Eighth Army Corps under General Wallace. He was a Republican and served as Pension Ex aminer under President Harrison. For three years h e was County Health Offi cer. He was one of the promoters of the Washington, Frederick and Gettys burg Railroad, which was absorbed by the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway. Lake Over Central Hotel Waynesboro, March 3. —Messrs. Mor •ds and Peyton V. Harbaugh, well khown men of this plaee, will become proprietors of the Central Hotel, Pub lic Square, March 15. They have secured a lease of the ho tel property through John McCarney, the present proprietor, and will make application at once for the transfer of New York City but also on account of the startling frankness with which it discusses a subject that has been tabbo in the theatre for centuries. The very frankness of the dramatist, however, iiisarms the criticism of those who cus tomarily attack the stage 04 account of the suggestivenoss with which sex j CAN'T FIND DANDRUFF j Every bit of dandruff disappears after one or two applications of Dandcriue rubbed well into the scalp with the fin ger tips. Get a 25-cent bottle of Dan ilerine at any drug store and save your hair. After n few applications you can't find a particle of dandruff or any falling hair, and the scalp will never itch.— Adv. the liquor license from Mr. McCarney to themselves. The new proprietors of Central are experienced hotel men. Together they conducted the Franklin House, Hagers town, for twent.v-two months, disposing of their interest three in October last. LEGISLATION ON MEDICINE Dr. B. F. Royer Tells County Medical Society Preventive Methods An illustrated lecture on preventive medicine in Pennsylvania was deliv ered by Dr. B. F. Royer, chief medical inspector of the «tate Department ot Health, before the Dauphin County -Me,Heal (Society last night. Dr. Hover said that Pennsylvania was flip first state of the thirteen col onies to pass legislation on medicine. This occurred in 1-700 following an outbreak of dysentery in Philadelphia. The law was made more drastic in 1774 and has been on the statute books eVer since. Nearly all legislation has been passed after serious outbreaks of dis- v, eases, sfeid'Dr. Boyer. Boys Learn New Song "The Plea for Voters" was the sub ject of a new song learned by the Boys' Bible Class of the Pennsylvania Hail road Young Men's Christian Associ ation last night. The song will be sung for the support of the Governor at the passing of the local option bill. In the absence at their teacher, Ira P. Dean, an illustrated lecture on "Winter" was delivered to them. There was an at tendance of 165 boys between 10 and 16 years of age. „ MANY EXECUTED AT SINGAPORE Indian Mutiny Continues Serious, Trav elers Report ■Manila, March 3.—Further reports of the mutiny v in Singapore, brought here by passengers on tilu> steamer St. Egbert, show that the affair continues to be serious and that hundreds of mutineers who belonged to the Indian troops arc still at large. The passen gers also say that executions are taking place every day in the public squares of Singapore. The latest information is that fif teen Germans, instead of the seven orig inally stated, joined the mutineers, leaving the detection camp. Ten of these have been recaptured and sen- ** tenced to long terms i<i prison. Part of Singapore is still unsafe for foreign ers, and sailors from the warships are still on duty Jokes on Way to Death House Kocco Tassone, the Lancaster county foreigner who is to he electrocuted as the penalty for murdering Tony Col lata, has ben removed to the Bellefonte penitentiary. The Governor has direct ed the electrocution to take place One day next week. A. B* Landis, a former sheriff of Lancaster county, accompa nied Tassone. The condemned man freely conversed with other passengers on the train, joked and laughed and appeared more like on who is bound for a social function. Mrs. Gorner Buried at Marietta Marietta, March 3. —The body of Mrs. George F. Gorner, who died in Lancaster, was brought here for burial yesterday, services being conducted by the Rev. E. Elmer Sensenig, of the Re formed church. Mrs. Gorner was about 00 years of age and is survived by her husband and several children. She was a native of Marietta. Former Burgess Celebrates Birthday Marietta, March 3. —Ex-Chief Burg ess John Kugle, yesterday celebrated his 69th birthday anniversary. He is enjoying good health. Mr. Kugle served in the Civil war with distinction, and is one of the few guards left of the body of Jefferson Davis, when he lay in State, being attached to Dupont's battery. He is the father of a lange family, and twenty-three grandchildren are in the clan. People Ask Us 1 What is the best laxative? Years of experience in selling all kinds leads us to always recommend tde*Ciea> as the safest, surest and most satisfac tory. bold only by us, 10 cents. George A. Gorgaa. ' problems are usually discussed. In . "Damaged Goods," the author, Eugene 1 Brieux, one of the forty immortal of the French Academy, takes up the weapons of truth against the shame of innuendo and against the great con spiracy of silence concerning the fumla ; J mental facts of life. —Adv.*
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