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VOL. XV. NO. 45
DOGS FOOD OF
STARVING CHINA
Million Natives Will Die Unless
Help Comes at Cnce.
ARE PRAYING FCR FOOD
Missionary Says Crops In Famine Dis- '
trict Will Not Be Ready For Har
vest Until June.
Pathetic details of the sufferings
from famine in Anwhei and other
provinces of China reach the mission
boards in New York in every mail.
A letter came to the board of for
eign missions of the Presbyteiian
church from Rev. Thomas Carter, a
missionary stationed at Hwai Yuen, In
Anwhei province.
"I never really Knew what the j
Lord's Prayer meant until today,", he
writes. "We came to a village where
some Christians gathered for worship.
To hear that company of men say
'Give us this day our daily bread' had
a strange sound when we knew that
not one of them had so much as seen
bread for many a day, unless you call
pressed sweet potato vines bread.
Somehow that prayer must be an- .
swered. We cannot let these people I
starve."
A million persons in the region just
north of his station, Mr. Carter says,
are to die of starvation before sum- j
mer unless help comes from outside.
He writes of the scene, as it im
pressed him, in the following terms:
"It would be hard to draw a picture
of the famine district that would not
be altogether misleading. The conn- j
try looks much the same as any j
stretch of country looks anywhere in [
China. Long stretches of good ricn !
fields are just beginning to be green j
with winter wheat.
"It is only as we look closely and J
ask questions that we find out the
real state of affairs. We look at the
fields that looked so prosperous with
the winter wheat, and we realize that
those fields were all under water last ,
summer, the fields of ovef 2,000,1)00 of
people, and that the wheat that we
see will not be ready until June, and
before that time, unless help comes,
the larger part of the people that
planted the wheal will be beyond us
ing it.
"And now we look again at the peo
ple who have come down to meet us
with their rice bowls; in the bowls
there is no rice. The bowls contain
chiefly hot water and some weeds
gathered from the fields, mixed with a
few grains of precious wheat bought
with the relief money just given by
the government, relief that amounts to
about three cents gold given only to
the very poorest, that is to about half
of the population.
"This is something of what famine
means now. What it is going to mean
soon we scarcely dare to think, for it
is still five months before wheat har
vest. Already in many places the bark
is taken from the trees and eaten.
"The country is perfectly peaceful,
more so than usual it seems to the
stranger, for there are no dogs to bark
at the passers-by. They aer all starved
or eaten, or both. The same is true of
all the animals."
Boy Frozen Aiong Road.
Marshall, a nine-year-old son of J.
Frank Vanbuskirk, was frozen to
death near Lewistown, Pa.
The boy had accompanied his father
in moving household goods from Lew
istown Junction to Alfarata, when a
spring broke on the wagon. The boy
was left with the wagon while the |
father proceeded to Alfarata with a
borrowed wagon.
returning he found the boy un
coifSt'teus from cold. The boy died
shortly after reaching Alfarata.
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SLASH SON TO DEATH
Insane Metier Horribly Giit Lad
Alter Using Hands and Feet.
Only recently returned to Potts
ville, Pa., from a private hospital a>
Lebanon, Mrs. Benjamin J. Granger
aged thirty years, a close reader oil
the Albany child murder case, went'
suddenly insane ai d killed her only |
son, John Edward Granger, aged seven:
years.
The woman was discharged from'
the hospital apparently cured of her (
mental trouble, but her sister has kepi j
close watch upon her. The mothei
took advantage of the temporary ah
sence of her sister to carry out the
crime.
The unfortunate boy, a bright lad
had been at school. After the midday
meal the mother took her boy out tc
an isolated section known as "The
Pines." There she tied his hands ami |
feet and stuffed a handkerchief down
his throat to stop his cries.
Using a razor, while he lay help
less, she cut his throat from ear tc
ear. The sharp blade was then useu |
to slice the child from the neck dowr :
his chest to bis abdomen.
The boy made a vain fight for his j
life. In his struggles he wrenched one J
hand loose from the ropes, with which j
it was pinioned.
Just as the police and hospital au
thorities arrived the mother was ap
prehended in the vicinity of a public
school house. Her face and clothing
were covered with blood. The woman
shrieked and screamed. She proved a
terrifying spectacle to several hundred
children as she ran up and down the
street.
Riders Renew Raids; Burn Barn.
The night riders, who struck ter
ror to the hearts of tobacco growers
during the big tobacco war four years
ago, -have reappeared near i J aris, Ky.,
i burning a big tobacco barn and de
stroying in, ooo pounds of tobacco.
The victim of their visit was J. C.
Keller, a wealthy farmer, who has op
posed the movement for an elimina
tion of the white hurley crop this year.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1910.
TROOPS WONT
CS3SS BOSDER
Mobiiizstiun in Texas a Pre
cautionary Movent.
EEACY FOR ANY EMERGENCY
Will Be There In April, and If Inva
sion of Mexico Takes Place It Musi
Be at Will of Congress.
There is no intension on the part ol
the administration to order the troops
now ill Texas to cross the Rio Giande
river. President Tal't has nevei
thought of issuing such an order.
Under the constitution he is com j
rnander-in-chief ot' the army and navy j
but under the constitution also it is
the right of congress to declare war
He never suspected, one of iiis close
friends said, that anybody in the i
country would think that he could con 1
template such a step without the au I
thority of congress.
The paramount reason for sending i
the troops to Texas was to be read>
for any emergency which might arise
The entire movement has been pre
cautionary. The president acte.l so!el>
with a view to protecting the lives ol
Americans in Mexico and of Keeping
intact the hundreds of millions of dol
lars worth of property there owned by j
United States citizens.
The troops will be in Texas when i
congress meets in April. If the revolu
tion in Mexico grows and American J
interests are threatened cougress will
have an army of 20,000 men within
easy moving distance of the trouble.
The president believes that he has
done his part. He has gone as far a?
I he could go and hopes that it will not
be necessary togo any further. !t|
later congress feels that the lives andj
property of Americans in Mexico ere
in danger and interference is necesl
sary, the president will follow its will, j
Until congress gives the word, though, I
there will be no movement of troops I
! at the president's direction except 011
the American side of the Kio Grande. I
The president has paid not the j
slightest attention to reports that in
I surgents in congress, and notably in,
the senate, intend to make political
• capital out of this movement of troops.
I He told friends that he cared abso
lutely nothing for any adverse effect
politically which bis action might
have. He thought that American lives
and property might be in danger, and
he acted. If some insurgents in con
gress wish to kick up a row the presi
dent will not seek to call them off. He
told lallers that be merely did what
j he regarded as his duty under his oath
j of office. He has not thought of the
political effect his order might have.
The reports that the troops are to
j be withdrawn from Texas and the bor
j der at the request of Ambassador de
■ la Barra was denied by the president
I in conversation with friends. Senor de
| la Barra, it is said, never requested
: that this government withdraw the
troops. In the eyes of government offi
cials he could noc have ma4e such a
request propeltl\. The troops are in
the United States and for the present
it is intended ti at they shall be used
| in maintaining neutrality.
The statement which has appea ed
| from time to time that Wall street
figured in the sudden dispatch of the
troops to Texas also was discredited
by men close to the president.
REVOLT MAY END SOON
I Limantour Will Surest Compromise
to Diar.
With certain powerful influences
now at work it is believed the civil
war in Mexico will cud this week.
.lose Vyes' Lim'intour, minister of
finance, arrived in Mexico City and
will begin with President Diaz a ser
ies of conferences, which it is expect
ed will result in the announcement
within three or four days of a reor
ganized cabinet.
Minister Limantour will present an
explanation of the demands of the
revolutionists and the- changes in the
official family of President Diaz, as
well as the institution of ce.tain re
forms are confidently expected to ap
pease the insurgents.
In the meantime President Taft will
confer with Ambassador de la Barra,
and there is good ground for the as
sumption that the troops now concen
trated in Texas immediately will bo
gin a series of maneuvers and re urn
soon to their posts. In addition to this,
when conditions are normal in Mexico
a complete statement of things which
actuated the mobilization of the
troops will l)e issued by the White
House.
The hope of peare in Mexico also is
strengthened by the manner in which
the revolutionists have commented on
the magazine article of Ambassador
de la Barra and the significant spirit
of expectancy with which the results
of Senor Limantour's conferences in
Mexico City this week are awaited \)y
organs of insurgent sentiment.
WASHINGTON'S
j ASSAiLANT HELD
Man Who Beat Colored Eflocatoi
Waives Hsarinj.
NO DATE FOR TIM SEI
Head of Tuskegee Makes a Sweeping
Denial of Misconduct —Received Hun
dreds of Messages of Sympathy.
Booker T. Washington, the notea
colored e'ueator, did not take the
stand in tl. 1 trial of Albert Ulrich, a
| white man, accused of attu< king him
1 in the hallway of an apartment hou c
| in West Sixty-third street, New York
Sunday night.
Instead, Ulrich waived examination.
; on advice of counsel, and was held fot
1 trial in the court of special sessions
I at a date not made. The charge ot fe
lonious assault was abatc;l to one ot
simple assanlt, and bail reduced from
! $ 1500 to SSOO.
As Ulrich walked out of the co'irt
after furnishing the SSOO bail, he said:
"I guess nothing will ever come of
this."
Dr. Washington rode away from the
court in a city automobile with the
borough president, McAneny, and Wil
| liam .1 Flynn, deputy commissioner of
! police.
As for the circumstances leading up
! to his West Sixty-third street experi
' ence and the charges that have been
made against him, Dr. Washington
said solemnly:
"As I am a man of honor. 1 spoke
to nobody, either on my way to the
| bouse or in the vestibule. I certainly
| followed no white woman, and I would
1 not know Mrs. Ulrich if 1 saw her. 1
1 do not recall that any one passed me
j in the vestibule. I did not peep in a
I keyhole, as 1 am accused of doing. 1
! did not go into the house at all. I
! think, to do him justice, that the man
j who struck me perhaps thought 1 was
! a burglar. Hut 1 certainly will prose
' cute him."
In speaking of the assault Ulrich
' says:
| "About nine o'clock Sunday night
my wife took one of our dogs into the j
street We live on the ground floor ot ]
the house, 11 Vn West Sixty-third
street. When she returned she said,
that she had seen a colored man in
the hall and that he spoke to her
Mr. and Mrs. Ravette and Mrs.
Knowles, friends of ours, were in the
house at the time I went out and \
saw a man in the hall The man went,
out of the vestibule door ahead of
me when 1 came out."
Ulrich said he saw the man re-!
enter the hallway and later saw him
"bending down at my door peering
through the keyhole." Ulrich said!
that the colored man swung a blow at
his jaw when lie asked him what he
was doing and that then he went after
the man, who fell twice in his efforts
to escape.
Dr. Washington said he has received
hundreds of letters and telegrams from
prominent persons from all parts of
the country expressing sympathy The
communications, he said, wore from
financiers, politicians, philanthropists
and others.
Among those who called in person
were Jacob H. Schiff, W. J. Srhleffe
lin, Borough President McAneny, Rev.
Leighton Parks, Bishop Derrick (eel ■
ored), Alfred T. White, the Brooklyn
philanthropist, and Isaac Seligman.
Andrew Carnegie called up on the,
'phone later and called and spent half
an hour in conversation.
BABY SICK SHE SHOUTS FIRE
Woman Sends In Alarm to Get Aid
For Choking Infant.
When baby becomes suddenly ill
Bend in a fire alarm.
This was effectively tried in Chi
cago by Mrs. Mary Rothschild when
her baby had a severe coughing spell.
She rushed into the street shouting
"Fire!" and the neighbors sent in fire
alarms.
Two companies responded. When a
battalion chief asked where the blaze
was, the reply of the bother was:
"Never mind the fire! Baby's chok
ing! Don't stand there doing noth
' ing; help me!"
The fireman called a doctor and
baby was soon himself again.
Sings as He Is Hung.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 22. —Singing
the hymn of his childhood as he walk
ed between two guards through the
corridors of the Allegheny county jail,
Steve Rusic was hung for the mudrer
of Mrs. Beta Domboy, whom he shot
' Jan. 15, 1910, as she lay beside her
' sleeping husband and babe, because
! she refused to accept his attentions.
The strong full notes of the song con
tinned during the march to the gal
s lows and while the noose was being
' adjusted and weer only stopped when
the trap was sprung.
| BOOKER T. WASHINGTON^
j j!
i Noted Negrc Educator Was jj
Assaulted In New York. >j
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Steel Business Shows Increase.
The annual report of the United
States Steel corporation for the year
ended Dec. 31, 1910, shows a volume
of business done by all the subsidiary
companies during that period of $703,-
091,414, as compared with $ti4'i,352,251
in 1909.
Expenditures bv the corporation for
its main subsidiaries included about
$10,000,000 lor the Gary plant, about
$3,900,000 for the Tennessee Coal and
Iron properties, and for all other prop
erties a tot ot $33,000,000, making a
grand total of expenditures for addi
tional property, extensions, construc
tion and development work at mines
oi approximately $53,000,000.
The average number of employes in
the service of the corporation and
subsidiaries during 1910 was 218,435,
an increase compared with the pre
vious year of 22,935 The aggregate
amount of payrolls for the year was
$174,955,139, an increase of $23,291,-
745, or 15.3 per tent over the previous
year.
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Murder Suspect Arrested.
Frank E. Heidemann, a German,
i twenty-seven years of age, was ar
j rested on an Atlantic City express
i just before it pulled into the Ked
j Bank station, charged with the mur
j der of Marie Smith, the ten-year-old
j school girl, who disappeared on Nov.
| 9 last, and whose mutilated body was
| found four days later in the woods
along Deal lake.
Heidemann was taken from the
| train, placed in an automobile and
I hurried to Freehold, where he was
i placed in a cell in the county jail.
| In a confession alleged to have been
| made by the young German, he de-
I clqres tl'.e murder was deliberate, and
that his employer, .Max Kruschka, had
absolutely nothing to do with the
crime. It is understood that Heide
mann says the crime was co.nmiited
where the body was found. Deta is
of the confession haven't yet been
made public.
Toll of Death In Mines.
It cost the lives of 1125 men to
mine 231,906,070 tons of coal in the
3tate of Pennsylvania last year, ac
cording to the report of the chief ot
i the state department of mines, which
j gives the following statistics:
I Bituminous coal produced, 148,696,-
| 776 tons; persons employed, 187,711;
i killed, 527.
1 Anthracite coal produced, 83,269,294
tons; persons employed, 107,927;
killed, 598.
Loss of life in the bituminous dis
tricts for every 1,000,000 tons produced
was 3.54; in the anthracite districts,
, 7 18
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