VOL. XVI. NO. 7
DISASTER IN
STORM'S WAKE
Three Persons Killed In Allen
town; Two In Johnstown.
DAMAGE WAS WIDESPREAD
Trees and Fruit Injured by Hail and
Duildings Struck by Lightning and
Burned.
One of the most severe storms ex
perienced in years passed over Phila
delphia Monday evening. Telegraph
reports indicate that t lie storm area
extended from Washington to New
York.
Locally the storm was characterized
by incessant lightning, a high wind
and heavy rain.
Two severe thunderstorms, with ex
cessive lightning, passed over Phila
delphia, doing great damage to all
kinds of property. Telegraph and trol
ley wires in all parts of the city were
blown down, signs and signboards
were ripped up and on the
streets found it difficult to keep their
footing.
Lightning Fires Residence In Camden.
During the prevalence of a high
wind, rain and electric storm the
house occupied by M. C. Mahon, 305
Warren avenue, Camden, N. J., was
struck by lightning in the rear part
and was set. on fire.
Members of Battery B, Field Artil
lery, who were in the Third Regiment
armory, which is immediately in the
rear of the house, finding that Mr. and
Mrs. Mahon were not at home, sent in
an alarm of lire and then proceeded to
carry every pieec of furniture to the
houses across the street.
The fire caused about SSOO damages
to the building, which is owned hy
Hiram Ilallinger. I.ast week the
porches of the row of houses fell into
the street.
ALLENTOWN HIT HARD
Three Men Killed ar.d Much Property
Damaged.
Three men were killed and damage
was inflicted amounting to hundreds
of thousands of dollars in a cloudburst
that hit Allentown, Pa.
"Chain lightning," that blinded the
onlookers, was accompanied by terri
fying thunder. A gale that rose to
seventy miles an hour blew down trees
by the hundreds in every part of the
city. The trees tore down electric '
light and trolley wires.
The rain was like a cataract. With
in five minutes streets were gutterful
and the water flooded over the side
walks into cellars. Houses were un
roofed in every section of the city.
To add to the damage the storm
brought with i hail whose like was
never seen here. There were hail
stones ranging in size from a hickory
nut to a boy's fist. The hail smashed
window panes on the exposed side of
almost every house in town.
At Tenth and Union streets a light
ning blast smashed a tree, which fell
on a house in which Mrs. Carrie Al
lender conducted a boarding house
One side of the house was built, of cor
rugated iron. A high tension wire
carrying 13,000 volts fell against the
iron side of the house. Two men in
tiie house, Hannibal Dotterer and Ir
vin Cackenbach, were electrocuted
and Mrs. Alleinler shocked into in
sensibility.
John Wagner, a friend of the men
killed, rushed into the house in a
heroic effort to rescue them. As he
touched Dotterer's body he was shock
ed unconscious and lie died as he was
being carried into a house ocross the
street.
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RELICS OF THE MAINE.
Fittings Recovered After Pumps
Lowered Water Around Wreck.
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WORK ON MAINE THURSDAY
Pumping Will Be Resumed In Pres
ence of Bixby.
The pumping of water out of the
cofferdam around the wreck of the hat
tleship Maine in Havana harbor will
be resumed next Thursday. To be pres
ent when the pumping begins Briga
dier General William liixby, chief of
engineers, has left Washington for Ha
vana.
The process of clearing the watei
from around the wreck will take sev
eral days. The pumping will be done
cautiously in order that the great dam
may not become weakened. To avoid
any strain the engineers will make an
examination of the dam alter there
moval of every five feet of water.
STOPS TRAIN AND
SAVES DROWNING BOY
Brakeman Plunges Into Rivei
and Rescues Lad.
Stopping the train when he saw a
small boy drowning in the Susque
hanna river near Wilkes-Barre, l'n.
Frederick Stoker, a Delaware, I.acka
wanna & Western work train brake
man, jumped from the train, plunge-:!
into the river and rescued the boy.
The youngster, a boy of about ten
years, had gone in bathing alone and
the current of the river, which had
been swollen by recent rains, seized
him and swept him away.
Stoker hoard his cries for help an
the train approached him and told the
engineer to put on speed and run to a
point ahead of the boy. There was a
lively race for a minute, and when
some twenty-five yards ahead of the
boy Stoker jumped off and plunged
in and got the boy to sho'-e after a
struggle. The lad was soon revived.
Indo-se Parcels Post.
The Connecticut house of represen
tatives pasred .a resolution request
ing the Connecticut senators and rep
resentatives in congress to favor a
parcels post act in line with the Sul
zer bill.
Four Drowned In Lake.
Pour men were drowned when the
sand carrier .1. W. Marshall was over
turned by wind in Michigan, off
Gary, Ind.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911.
DIRECT VOTE
PASSESJENATE
Provides For Election of Sena
tors by the People.
THE VOTE WAS 64 TO 24
If House Concurs In Amendment Res.
olution Will Goto ths States Fot
Ratification.
The United States senate passed the
resolution proposing an amendment tc
the federal constitution providing i'oi
the election of senators by direct vote
The action of the senate marked the
successful culmination of an effort
that has extended over more than a
quarter of a century to bring this
question before the state legislatures
The resolution was passed by the sen
ate by a voie of G4 to 24, two-thirds of
those present, of 59, being necessary
to carry the proposition.
The resolution as adopted, however,
carried with it the so-called Bristow
amendment, which will necessitate its
return to the house of representatives,
which had already passed it. If the
house acts favorably upon the resolu
ion in its amended form, which seems
likely, it will goto the states for iati
fication as an amendment to the Unit
ed States constitution.
The Bristow amendment retains tc
the federal government power ovet
the manner, time and place of holding
elections for United States senators
The southerners opposed the amend
ment on the ground that it would give
the federal government power to in
terfere with tho so-called grandfath
ers' clauses of the constitution of the
southern states. The vote on the Bris
tow amendment was a tie, 44 to 44
and Vice President Sherman cast the
vote which tacked the amendment to
the resolution.
Upon the vice president may event
ually rest the responsibility for the
failure of the resolution, for southern
senators declared that it would never
be adopted in its present form by the
legislatures of southern states.
These are the senators who voted
against the resolution on the final pas
sage: Bacon, Bankhead, Brandegee,
Burnham, Crane, Dillingham, Fletch
er, Foster, Gallinger, Heyburn, John
ston, I.ippitt, Lodge, Ivorimer, Oliver
Page, Penrose, Percy, Richardson,
Boot, Sinoot, Terrell, Williams and
Wetmore.
COMMENCEMENT AT LEHIGH
Highest Honor Prize Is Won by a
Chinaman.
The commencement day exercises
at Lehigh university were held in the
Packer Memorial church in Betlile
hem, Pa.
Eighty-two young men received di
plomas and degrees, mostly in tech
nical pursuits, at the hands of the in
stitution's president, Dr. 11. S. Drink
er, who is this year celebrating his
fortieth year of graduation from Le
high.
To a Chinaman has fallen tho high
est honor prize of the year. The Ce
lestial, Chimin Chu Full, of Nnn
Ziang Kiang Su, China, is a sopho
more, and lie captured the Wilbur S2OC
scholarship.
The annual alumni graduation ad
dress was delivered by Dr. Talmadgc,
of Salt Lake City.
SUES TOBACCO TRUST
Seeks to Recover $1,200,000 Damages
Under Anti-Trust Law.
The hearing in the federal court be
fore Judge H. G. Conlor of the case of
the Ware-Kramer Tobacco company,
of Norfolk, Va., against the American
Tobacco company and others, for sl,-
20(1,000 damages, under the Sherman
anti-trust law, was begun in Halelgh,
N. C.
The Waro-Kramer company was
forced into bankruptcy two years ago
and charges that this was caused by
illegal methods in restraint of trade
by tho American Tobacco company.
"Affinities" Preacher's Undoing.
Rev. Dr. Walter E. Price, pastor of
the exclusive and fashionable McKeos
port, Pa., First Presbyteran church,
was ousted from his charge by orders
of the Red Stone Presbytery. Dr.
Price, who was one of the most promi
nent ministers in western Pennsylva
nia, was reported to have had "affini
ties" among the young society girls oi
his congregation. He is married and
bas a family.
"White Slaver" Fined S3OO.
Judge Cross, in the United States
district court in Trenton, N. J., im
posed a fine of S3OO upon Giovanni
Albertalli, who had been found guilty
of violating the federal white slave
law. Albertalli applied last week for a
new trial, which was refused.
MEXICO CITY
ROCKEDBYQUAKE
Capital Thrown Into Panic and
63 Are Killed.
SCORES WERE WOUNDED
Many Soldiers Are Among the Dead.
Buildings Collapsed and National
Palace Is Damaged.
A violent earthquake shock, the
most severe which has visited Mexico
City In ten years, shook the city.
Many buildings were wrecked by
the earth tremor, which lasted for six
minutes, and at least sixty-three per
sons were killed, seventy-five wounded
and property worth SIOO,OOO wrecked.
When the work of searching the
ruins is completed it is possible that
the list of dead will be increased
somewhat, as hiding hero and there
throughout the city there doubtless
are many wounded, who, with tradi
tional fear of the authorities and gov
ernment hospitals, are anxious to
evade discovery.
Fissures were opened in the street,
several large buildings collapsed and
scores of adobe houses crumbled upon
their occupants.
Several persons were killed through
the collapse of tho building occupied
by the street railway power plant.
The National Palace had one of its
walls cracked and the keystone of one
of the arches was displaced.
The ancient cathedral of Santo Do
mingo was damaged.
The oscillations moved from north
to south. The dead in the adobe
houses cannot be numbered at pres
ent. The shock was most severely felt
in the western part of the city, though
buildings in the central part of tho
capital were rocked. The only for
eigner known to bo dead was a China
man.
Warehouses at the central station
collapsed and an angineer was killed.
A private boarding school building
was wrecked, but none of tho occu
pants was injured.
At Buena Vista the railway tracks
were twisted.
The shock was followed by an ex
plosion of gas at the artillery bar
racks, which added to the horror of
the scene.
The shock lasted six minutes, and
many public buildings, including the
city barracks and the Belem prison,
are in ruins, while pavements were
ripped up in every direction.
All lights were extinguished by tho
shock, and the darkness added to the
terror of the thousands that rushed
to the streets for safety.
Six soldiers are known to have been
killed under the falling walls of the
barracks at Santa Coamo, and the of
ficials of the ruined prison had nar
row escapes from death.
Millionaire Shot by Women.
W. E. D. Stokes, owner of the Ho
tel Ansonia, in New York city, who is
now sixty-five years old and a multi
millionaire, was shot three times by
two young women, who say that he
came to their apartment to get letters
wirtten by him before he was married
last February.
Mr. Stokes is in the Roosevelt hos
pital with injuries described as being
trilling. The girls say that in the
scuffle, which was carried into the
hallway outside their rooms, Mr.
Stokes took a random shot at them,
but he didn't hit anything.
Lillian Graham, who said in the
station house that she was twenty
two years oirt in:l a singer, and Ethel
Conrad, three years her junior, were
the two girls, who had a small apart
ment in the Va: una, at 225 West
Eightieth street. Graham said
that she and her married sister lived
together at the Ansonia four years ago
and that they knew Stokes at that
time. She had some letters which
Stokes had written her and Mr. Stokes
began to phone to her about them. He
didn't like the idea of having Miss
Conrad where she could lay hands on
them, Miss Graham says that Stokos
told her.
Stokes went to the Varuna and they
discussed the question of letters. She
was alone In the sittlngroom with
Stokes and Miss Conrad was In the
adjoining bedroom. She says that she
told him the letters were destroyed,
but that he doubted her word.
Then Stokes came toward her, so
she told the detectives, and tried to
choke her. She had a revolver handy
and she aimed It at his legs and fired.
Miss Conrad came running in from
the other room, and she, too, had a
pistol. Both girls opened up again,
but either they didn't shoot straight
or else they intended to shoot low.
The three bullets that struck Stokes
lodged in his right leg. In the hall
way, he says, three Japaneso servants
In the employ of Pat Casey, the vaude
ville booking agent, appeared. Stokes
told the police that the Japs came to
the door and held him while the girls
fired at him again.
RODMAN WANAMAKER.
Carries Largest Insurance of Any
Person In World.
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Insured For $4 C '"
Although he , the
unique dlsti ,»elng the most
heavily insiu„u person in the woild,
Rodman Wanamaker, son of Joi.n
Wanamake" and vice president of the
Wanamaker establishment In Phi a
delphia, has added another $600,000 to
his list of life policies.
When death removes tho merchant
there will accrue to his family from
life insurance alone the sum of $1,5 >O,
000. The policies embrace almost eveiy
known form of life insurance.
Rodman Wanamaker Is about forty
three years of age. His health is good,
and he works ten, twelve and sixteen
hours a day.
8-Year-Old Girl Confesses Robberies.
Seven silk dresses, a savings bank
with a considerable sum of money in
it, two poc-ketbooks, one containing $3
and the other $1.50; five r.mbrellas,
two white parasols, a red sweater,
three pairs of silk stockings, three
rings, Ave stickpins, a gold-handler!
umbrella and a shirtwaist, the loot of
an alleged eight-vear-old girl thief,
were recovered by Chief of Police Kil
leen, of Luzerne, Pa.
The child is Anna Garry, whom
Chief Killeeu arrested an J who con
fessed after an hour of_ questioning,
that she had robbed six houses durin-'
the last week and had hidden I.e.
plunder under several porches, one at
her own home and the others nearby.
She had sneaked into the houses when
the people were out or were occupied
in the front or back.
Killed and Buried Wife.
Marshall Taylor, of Freeman, near
Farmington, Maine, who was ai rest
ed, following the discovery of the body
of his murdered wife buried in a
shallow grave behind the house, con
fessed that he committed the crime.
Taylor said that he killed his wife
on the night of May 12 and buried the
body immediately in a trench he dug
almost on 'he spot where she fell
Taylor said that he had frequent
quarrels with his wife of late and de
termined to get rid of her.
On the night in question lie induced
her to take a walk through the woods
behind the house, taking his shotgun
along. When she stepped in front of
him ho fired one shot at her head from
very close range, killing her instantly.
Then he dug a grave, placed the body
it it, and after filling in tho earth cut
spruce boughs with which he covered
the newly turned earth.
Two Girls Drown While Swimming.
"Wo are going to swim by moon
light," prattled little seven-year-old
Clara Vengel, the daughter of Simon
Vengol, a manufacturer of Rosehayn,
near Vineland, N. J., to some of her
playmates.
By "we" she meant herself and
Ida Wolstein, aged eight years. As
soon as the parents heard of this they
started on a wild run for ivfuddy run
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a qtiarer of a mile away. On the thor».
they found some of the girls' clothing.
Search was immediately instituted,
headed by Postmaster M. E. Darn
hart.
All night long grappling was kept
up without result. Morning dawneil
and the force of workers was supple
mented by' hundreds, who gathered
from every quarter.
About 10 o'clock it was decided to
open the floodgates, with the hope
that the rush of water would stir up
the bodies. Soon the nude body of the
Vengel girl floated through the gates
and the Wolstein girl was found a
short disHaice away.
The parents of the children are
grief-stricken, as is the comn-Cnity,
for the girls were favorites.
Kill Eight Negroes In Ten Minutes.
W. L. Botitlee and George S:ory are
believed to have broken all records for
rapid and deadly revolver shooting,
when at La Branch, La., they shot and
killed eight negroes in ten minutes.
There was one wounded, which puts
Story's score a bit ahead of Doutlee. .
The negroes were members oft
section gang and Boutlee is foreman.
The blacks conceived a hatred for the
"boss" and plotted to kill him. They
engaged in a fight among themselves
and when Boutlee rushed over to stop
the row they turned upon him and
one struck him over the head with a
shovel. Boutlee fell, but sat up, and
before he finished rising to liis feet
had shot four times and killed four
negroes.
George Story, a conductor, heard the
first loud talking among the negroes,
looked at his watch and saw he had
just ten minutes before train time. He
ran down the track and arrived just
as Boutlee finished shooting. Story
then killed four negroes and wounded
one with six shots, then returned and
took his train out on time.
Record Wheat Crop For This Country.
A wheat crop, the like of which has
never been harvested, will be gathered
in the United States this season if
conditions indicated by the govern
ment crop report continue throughout
the growing season.
Agricultural experts estimate the
crop this year will amount to 764,291,-
857 bushels, an increase of 68,848,857
bushels over that gathered last year.
Of winter wheat the indicated yield
is almost 480,000,000 bushels and that
of spring wheat 284,000,000 bushels.
While winter wheat will probal.lv yield
less to the acre this year than the
average for five years, spring wheat
will show an increased yield of two
bushels per acre over 1910 and a
slight increase over the five-year aver
age yield.
Murdered and Robbed.
In a little fringe of woods on tho
edge of Paradise creek, near Nor
folk, Va., a murder was revealed when
a party of searchers out scouring
the country in quest of J. L. Benton,
a merchant, who had been missing
from his home on Deep Creek shell
road since last Friday, found him with
a gaping wound in his face.
Hobbery was undoubtedly the ruling
motive of the crime and a shotgun was
the weapon.
Industrious and possessed of a large
family to care for, Mr. Denton had ac
cumulated considerable money, which
he carried about with him wherever
he went. He had in his pockets when
he left his homo on Friday morning
nearly S9OO. When his pockets were
searched the money was gone.
MAN DEAD, WIFE ARRESTED
Woman Plunged a Fork Into His
Breast.
Mrs. Julia Glucoz is under arrest for
having killed her husband, Joseph
Glucoz, near Dath, Northampton coun
ty, Pa.
The woman and her nineteen-year
old son say that (viucoz attacked her
and knocked her do, vn while she wa
preparing supper, and not until then
did she attempt, to defend herself.
Grabbing a fork from the table, sho
plunged the prongs deep into the
man's breast, puncturing the lung.
Glucoz died ten minutes later.