I" The jFulton County News t McConnellsburg, Pa. DO INCHE8 MAKE THE MAN? TJntll tho time of the war between Russia and Japan tho short man was obliged to defend the prowess of his kind by citing Napoleon as nn exam ple of what short persons could do. Itslzae, the great French novelist, whose height was a trifle more than five feet, often half whimsically, often terloiiFly, endeavored to show a con nection between Bliort stature and ex- ellence. It was also a source of con solation to him and to other men who jwere not In the tall class, to read In lilstory that tho Roman conriuerers were short Hut after the ItusHo-Jnpa-Dene war it became evident to all that Stature had nothing to do with the caso, unless, perhaps, tha victory of the little Jap proved that tho short iman was the superior of the tall. But blow come the municipal authorities In our cities, who say that a tall po Jiceman Is better than a short and "that a tad fireman Is the superior ol ja short fireman, says Itoston Globe. Five feet 7 inches to the limit of nhortcess to be tolerated say some, while others lower the standard a quarter of an Inch. Others would low er It half an Inch more. Supersti tions die hard. We are still children, nd, although far from the age of giants, we cling to the notion that inches make tho nmn. Great Iiritaln has Just launched one ol the biggest of the dreadnought bat tleships which the government is steadily adding to the navy. And that lAmerlcnn Ideas are good for some Ithlng In this connection Is shown by the Information which has leaked out, notwithstanding tho careful way In which naval secret;, are guarded, that the guns on the new vessel will be iarranged much like those on t'nlted States battleships of the latest design, so that they can be fired one above an other and concentrate tremendous Striking power at a given point. Build ers of our warships are giving valua ble points to all the world. ' It will be a good day In this city when every boy who goes to the high school can multiply and divide with lunfalllng accuracy, when he knows Ithe rule of three and Is up on frac tions, says Philadelphia Inquirer. If In addition to that he can write legi !bly, read distinctly and spell correctly lie will have a better equipment than has been common of late. In trying to teach children too much we have not trained them to definite ways of thinking. Yet to think clearly about ianything Is the great prerequisite of '.life and ought to be the chief aim of education. Reports of accidents to women wear. Ing hobble skirts begin to come la Of course such accidents are Inevita ble. A woman who deliberately binds her limbs before subletting herself to the dangers of the highway Is doubly handicapped, for even unhampered physically, Bhe likely would lack the Intelligence to dodge a street car. A man In New York was sent to prison for four years for stealing a tflve-cent looking-glass. It served him Irlgbt. A man who makes so little of Ills opportunities In the face of such shining examples ought to be shut off from the rest of society. A bank In Spokane is Issuing anti septic money. Still, while sanitary banknotes may fit In better than the others with the progressive Ideas of the age, as far as the others are con cerned, with all their germs, we love them still. "Id Washington swear?" asked a periodical. Wo don't know, but some enlightenment could be furnished If we knew whether Martha's dresses were buttoned down the back. Some genius has Invented a ma chine for testing operatic voices. It will not help much unless It makes It possible for the operator to go away and leave It after he sets It going. A New York street car Jumped the track and ran Into a saloon. An amaz ing Instance of the power of sugges tion; the car driver was doubtless Very thirsty. Considered as an aerial racer the carrier pigeon may not be quite up to flute, but Its motor seldom If ever gets out of order. , A man has been found starving nlmtelf because he feared the end of the world was at hand. There must be such a thing as the rash bravery of cowardice. a writer sagely remarks that there ill no excuse for drowning. Unfor tunately, apologies are never offered. It's wise man who can guess two times out of three which way tha cat 1a going to Jump. The man In New York who killed jhlmself because be thought himself too small to live was probably a child tin brain as well as In stature. With bubble cups and puper drink ing vessels in the stations and trains, even the old original harvester Ik 'Iko ly to find tho crops falling oT Then, again, most of the smuggling la dona by people who do not need to teal. CLOUDBURST CAUSES DISASTER 1 I. TRAIN Twelve Lives Lost and Eleven Others Injured. BIG STEEL BRIDGE WASHED AWAY. Train Itiinnlng nt High Itnte of Speed Plunges Into Gup Passen gers Curried Into Knglng Stream With Wreckage and Drowned Iend .ire Xeurly All Members of Crew I'nnseiigeis Going from Kansas City to Deuver. Clayton, Kan. (Special). A dozen persons lost their lives and 11 others suffered injuries In a wreck of a west bound Roek Island passenger train running to Denver from Kan sas City. Tho wreck was the result of a cloudburst, which carried out a steel bridge and turned what Is normally almoHt a dry bed into a torrent many yards wide. The water washed out nearly a thousand feet of track also. The train, running at full speed, plunged Into the Rap. Tho locomo tive and the mall car went Into 20 feet of water. The chair car almost telescoped the smoking car ahead of it. Several passengers In these two cars were killed almost Instantly. Others were tarried Into the raging stream with the wreckage and drown ed, it wns many hours before the Loiiics could be recovered. I'assctigcrs In the Pullman and the other day coaches were hurled from their berths or seats by the shock. Those who were able hurried out Into the storm and gave what assist anco they could to the Injured. It wus impossible for sometime to at tempt to extricate the bodies of the ucua. L'ulnjured passengers hurried to Clayton, two miles away, and sent news of the accident to division head quarters. Within half an hour physicians and nurse3 and a wreck train were hurrying to the scene from Norton, Colby end Uoodland, Kan., and t'hllllpsburg, Neb. It was near ly night, however, before the last body was recovered from the wreck age in the river. Members . of the Topcka baseball team of the Western Leaguo were oc cupants of the Pullman, but all escaped Injury. Nearly all those killed and hurt were in tho smoking car and the day coach next to it. All the slain pass engers lived in Kansas and Colorado. Chicago (Special). A report to General Manager W. S. KiriBman, of the Rock Island, whose office is in this city, says: "Train No. 27 In wreck. Bag gageman, fireman, engineer and con ductor of train and five passengers killed. May be three or four other passengers under cars. Light In jured have been taken to Norton, Kansas." The message wns signed by the division superintendent from the scene of the wreck. KAIL OVKIt THK ALPS. Chavez Badly Hurt Near End of Perilous Flight. Domodossola, Italy (Special). The great feat of crossing the" snow capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy in a bcavlor-than-alr machine was accomplished by George Chavez, the young Peru vian aviator. The plucky hero of the exploit, however, lies in the Domodossola hospital badly injured as the result of an accident that occurred Just as he had completed the rnoBt arduous and nerveracking portion of a task he bad set out to accomplish a flight from Brig, in Switzerland, across the Alps to Milan, In Italy, in all a dist ance of about 75 miles. Both bis legs are broken, his left thigh is fractured and his body Is badly contused, but the physicians In attendance are of the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal and that unless unlooked-for complica tions ensue Chavez will be about in two months. 14 Months for Heart llroker. Chicago (Special). Isaac R. Warns, "broker In hearts," as he styled himself, was sentenced by Judge Landis to serve 14 months in the Federal prison at Fort Leaven worth for using the malls to defraud. Warns confessed that he had used the malls In carrying on the business of htB marriage bureau. His circu lars, depleting the sadness of lonely old age, were read in court. One of his books, Bent to prospective custom ers, was entitled. "The Way to Win a Woman's Heart." It contains the following passage: "You do not know what it is to live alone, uncared for; .unknown when old age over q)M suo situ epmiiog -no.( hojB) horrible agony." Firemen Hewued. Chicago (Special). Fire In the twine plant of the Lieerlng Harvester Works caused $200,000 loss. Mem bers of the two companies of firemen were overcome by smoke In upper stories of the plant, but were rescued by comrades. Colombia-Venezuela Ili-enk. Bogota, Colombia (Special). There has been a rupture between Colombia and Venezuela. Tho Vene zuelan Government telegraphed the members of the Venezuelan legation to lave Bogota and await Instructions at Panama. The nature of the com plication Is not known here. Great uneasiness has been caused by this turn of events. Up to evening the Foreign Offico bad received no ex planation of tho matter, nor had the Venezuelan legation any Information which would throw light on the situation.' Suicide Agreement, tieattle, Wash. (Special). Mrs. Charles M. Froehouse, of Taroma, Wash., committed suicide by taking otrychnlne In a hotel. Kuel. A. Cus ter, a private In Comnany I!, First Infantry, stationed at Vancouver Bar racks, was arretted. He admitted having entered Into a suicide agree ment with the woman. Custer oald the woman deserted bur fcusbaud and young son in Tacoma. ,A commission hns beensppninted to revise the nimx of th brrrsu of Monte video. TO PREVENT RATE INCREASE An Organized Fight Against the Rail roads Truthis Wanted. Tnpcka, Kiin. (Special). Organized opposition to tlie promised increases in railway freight rates was begun here at a conference of more than 1.10 representa tives of commercial and public organiza tion of Middle Western States. V.ic light against tha promised rates is to he carried on principally liefore the Interstate Commerce Commission. The resolutions adopted declare for an equitable increase in rates if the rail roads ran show that present rates arc nn remunerative; demand a decrease in rates if investigation shows the present rates are too high; ask a restriction of the proposed advance if present rates arc found remunerative; call for a mandatory Federal law. leaking it. the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to make a physical valuation nf railroad property, and demand n rigid enforce ment of anti trust laws. The meeting was opened with an ad dress by Governor Stulihs, of Kansas. Governor Stulihs reviewed the situation and ended by declaring "my hope is that this meeting will demand from the rail roads the nuked truth a ho lit their prop erties. Miinlo MacKcrixie, president of t he American Live Stock Association, was made chairnmn of the meeting. Hi! gave figures which he said showed that rail road earnings were not reported correct ly by the road. H is planned to hold other meetings of the conference later. Committees were appointed to organize the work begun. I he resolutions conclude: "We urge the Interstate Commerce, Commission thoroughly to investigate the oiieraling expenses of railroads, to find what Is'tteriiieiits are added thereby to piojicrty, and all the conditions mid val uations of railroad properties, regardless of the time that may lie consumed, in order to obtain an intelligent basis for tho consideration of the proposed ad vance in rates. "We declare it to be the duty of Con gress to enact a mandatory law. making it the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to make a searching investi gation into the actual physical valuation of all the railroad lines in the United Stutes." Chairman McKen.ie was appointed head of a special committee of seven to present to 1'resident latt the declara tion of the conference. AND COMMITS SUICIDE Joy Hide Ends In a Tragedy at Cleveland, Ohio. YAIES HANGS HIMSELF IN A CELL Burton W. Vates, Detroit Million aire, Ends Career With Pocket Handkerchief Quarrel Started in Wineroom Mrs. Fred Singer, of Cleveland, the Victim Suicide Told Marshal Two of Five Shots Were Aimed at Self. I'HKKKIt SOLDIERING. Itasebull Player and Iteporter Are Among Those Who Enlist. Atlanta, Ga. (Special. "I read what Soldier Johns said about Uncle i-nm taking better care of his sol diers than baseball managers take of star pitchers, and I want to enlist." With this declaration Edney Ridge, a reporter on the Greensboro (N. C.) Telegram, approached Lieut. John Symington, the local United States recruiting officer. Ridge was prompt ly enlisted for the cavalry. Tho erstwhilo reporter Is only one cf a dozen recruits who Joined the army here In the last two days be cause Soldier Johns, formerly of tho Seventeenth United States Infantry, and pitcher for Southern League and Southeastern League teams for the senson Just ended Tuesday, re-enlisted because he thought soldiering an easier life than ballplaylng. A MOTHER'S LONG CHASE. Traveled 15,000 Miles to Find Her Kidnapped Daughter, Kvansville, Iml. (Special). .Miss Dot tie Barrows, aged 15, who it is alleged was kidnapped at Houston, Tex., August 17; !)"!, by Dr. Gordon Martin, an itinerant dentist, was found here by her mother. Mrs. Kloise Harrows, after a chase of 1.",0(I0 miles over the United States and Mexico. The mother spent over $5,000 in the search and finally lo cated her daughter in this city, and broke into her room at the Wellington Hotel while the girl was asleep. The meeting was dramatic. The girl said she went to Dr. Martin's olllce in Houston to have a tooth pulled, and that he doped her. It is said that Martin lias lied into Canada. THIEVES ARE CAPTURED. Three of the Feur Who Stole Coun try Fair Receipts. lliddcford, Me. (Special). Three of the four men who stole a box containing the day's receipts at the Cumber land County Agricultural Society's fair at Corhani were captured near here. 1' mil teen hundred dollars of the money was found upon them. One of the men threw away WOO when lie realized that bis arrest was imminent, but later told the. nHicern where thev might find it. The men gave their names as John Mor gan, James K. . Miller and George A. King. The whereabouts of the fourth man is not known. LIGHTNING KILLS FOUR. Storm Wreaks Death in a Town in Colorado. Colorado Springs, Col. (. Social ). Lightning killed four persons during a storm in the vicinity of Kastonville and Klbert, 2" miles northeast of here. The dead are: Mrs. Gils Klutz, of El lert, Col.-, Mrs. Julius Klotz, of Kiowa, Col. j .lames Miami, of 1'lattshurg, Col., ami William LoU-nma, of Kastonville, Col. Groom 78 and Hit Bride 30. Louisville, Ky. (Special). Dr. Herrick Johnson, formerly of the McCnrmick Theological Seminarv, of Chicago, was married tonight to Mitt Margaret Dun ran, of Louisville. Kev, J. S. Lyon, of Westminster Presbyterian Church, per formed the ceremony. Dr. Johnson is 78 yeurs old and his bride is 3(1. The pair will live in rimaaeipnia. Independent Meet October 5. Xew York (Special ). The State Con vention of the Independence League party lias lcen railed to meet in New York on October 5. Ollie James for Senate. Frankfort, Ky. (Special). Congress man Ollie James formally announced himself a candidate for United States Senator to succeed Thomas II. I'synter. Ha sayt lis will not tie a candidate for Speaker of the House, but is fur Cbauin Clark. Accused of Drowning Ilia Wift. Fox Lake, Wis. (Special), Justice 1'arkinton, nf this village, Issued a war rant fur tlte arrest of Dr. William Heck er, of Watseka, 111., on the charge of murdering hit wife by drowning m Fox Lake, August VV. Cleveland, O. (Special). A man be lieved to be Burton W. Yates, a Detroit business man. committed suicide by hang ing in the county jail here, an hour afte' he had lieen lodged there for shooting a woman identified as Mrs. Kred. Singer, I t leveland. formerlv of Detroit, in a roadhouse at Rockv liiver. I.eft alone in the "bullpen" of the iai! while commitment paars were made out, Yates hurried into the washroom, tied his handkerchief around his neck, attached it to an iron bar and strangled himself. When the guards returned they found him dead. The womnn was taken to a hospital in a taxicab which the man thought to lie atcs summoned to the roadhouse. She will live, barring complications. Dragged from Phone Booth. Tlie rliooting followed a day of auto mobile rides. Tlie couple arrived at the madhouse shorty after midnight. At 3 in tlie morning, shortly after the man had ordered the taxicab, a quarrel started which ended in the woman rush ing out of the roadhouse and across the street to the telephone booth of a rival establishment. The man followed closely. The, woman had entered the telephone bnotii by tlie time the man arrived. He tore open the door, dragged her out. and asked her to return with him. There wus a brief argument, when he drew a gun mid tired live shots. Two took effect, one in the woman's back anil one in her leg., hmploycs of the roadhouse overpower ed tlie mail ami summoned Marshal Hoy Martin, of Hockv liiver. wiio brought him to the jail. There the man gave his name as H. W. Yates. Mis. Singer was identified through her attorney, Frank Hillmiin, who stated that she had come to Cleveland from Detroit' two weeks ago in order to escape Y'ates. All adinis-ion to Mrs. Singer's room at tiie hospital has Ix-en denied. Until she is able to talk, the causes that led to the shooting will remain a mystery. Marshal Martin says the man told him that two of the live shots he tired were aimed at himself, but that he was so nervous he missed. Mrs. Singer is the wife of Fred. Singer, a traveling salesman of this city. Jacob Singer, an attorney, is her brother-in-law, and Louis Singer, a dry goods deal er, her father-in-law. Slie Is said to have married Singer in Detroit. They arc not living together. Since her return to Cleveland, two weeks ago, she has la-en stopping at a hotel. Complete mystery surrounds the rela tions of the man and woman, who have been acquainted, it is admitted, for some time. She has la-en estranged from her husband for months. Her condition U reported at the hospital as serious, hut it is added that she will recover. Sly was unable to make a statement, it was announced. COLLISION OF TROLLEY CARS Forty-Two Persons Ki.lcd and Seven Hurt. Fort Wayne, Ind. (Special). Forty two persons were killed and seven were seriously Injured in a head-on collision between two inter-urban cars on the Fort Wayne and KlulTton division of the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley line. The wreck occurred seven miles north of Itluirton at a sharp curve. The cars in collision were a northbound local car crowded to the steps and a southbound "extra" car from Fort Wayne. They met while both were running at high speed. The collision is said to have been caused by misunderstanding of orders in regard to the southbound "extra" car taking a switch near Kingsland, so that the northbound car could past it. There were two physicians on the cart at the time of the wreck. One of them escaped serious injury and, with the otiier, who was painfully hurt, rendered assistance to those who survived the shock of the collision, ltelief cars were hurried from this city and doctors went from Illuffton in automobiles. Many of the dead had already been removed from the debris of the splintered cars and the prewsome work of taking out the mangled remains of those in the farther recesses of the wreckage was taken up by the company's wrecking crews. .Most of the people on the northbound car were on the way to the fair at Fort n ayne. Iteln from ncarbv residences was ren dered to such as could be removed from the wreckage. The niotormen of the two cars did not have time to set brakes when thev siehted each other. Conductor Spillcr, of the southbound car. was unhurt, and ran back toward Kingsland and flagged a ear, which wa approching the wreck at full speed, and would nave plunged into it. JOURNALISTS IN DANGER. Attempt to Wreck Their Train in Mexico. Torreon, Mexico (Special). It has just leaked out here that an attempt was made to wreck the special train bearing in American and Canadian journalists at tlie station at Gnadalotipc, South Zeatecas, lust week, on their way to the Citv of Mexico. Xcarini? a switch, the engineer discovered a pile of rocks on the track, and upon further investigation it was found that the switch had been "cocked." the atlair was kept from the member of the party and was at once renorted to the police at Zacatceas. who are. working on the case. TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH. MORE ALASKAN FRAUDS. Ballinger Said to Have Unearthed Big Land Scheme. Spokane, Wash. (Special) The Chronicle says: "An investigation of usiccted Alaskan land frauds, which may exceed in scope and startling developments the famous Cunningham cases, is believed to be in progress by Federal officers in the North west. "This investigation, which is said to involve an entirely new group of claims in charges similar to those brought agiinst the Cunningham entries, is be lieved to have been instituted and act ively pushed by Secretary of the Interior llallinger. "The list of entrymen involved is said to include many men of prominence in Spokane and its vicinity, as well as others of national importance. "Secretary Iiallinger's reecnt visit to Spokane, according to the rumors atloat here, was made in furtherance of the in vestigation now in progress by officials of the Land Office and the Department of Justice." Aged Woman Killed and 25 Persons Injured. Lima, Ohio (Special). Chicago and Erie railroad fast train Xo. 4, eastbnund, was wrecked near Con a nt, nine miles west of here. An aged woman was killed and 2.1 persons were injured. The smoker, day coach and two Pull man cars left the track and were over turned in a ditch 20 feet deep. A Mrs. Strailer. nf Brooklyn, X. Y., was instantly killed, while her son, seated by her side, escaped injury, DIES FROM POISON. TROLLEY KILLS MINISTER. Rev. Cyrus Pickett, of Connecticut, Struck Down by Car. Cheshire, Conn. (Secial). The Rev. Cyrus Pickett, jmstor of the First Con gregational Church, but recently retired, was struck and instantly killed by a trolley car bound from Xew Haven to Watcrbiiry. Kev. Mr. Pickett bad spent the evening at the home of George Clark, and on leaving went to the roadway and signaled an approaching trolley ear. Whether the motorman of th car failed to tee Mr. Pickett or wat unable to stop his car, which was poing rapidly, is not known. Mr. Pickett, wtio stood near the tracks, wat ttruck on the head by the car, thrown several feet and his skull flaetured. Medical Examiner Ifennison said that death wat probably instantaneous. Kev. Mr. Pickett was 65 years old and leaves a widow, five daughters and two sons. Earnings Increase. Minneapolis, Minn. (Special). Sub stantial increases in earnings are shown by the annual report of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste, Marie Railroad, presented at the stockholders' meeting. The gross earnings for the entire system, including the old Wisconsin Central Rail road, now the Chicago division of the Minneapolis. St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, are 24,3:)n.4ii:t.(lH. The operating expenses were $14,014,. 21111. HI, leaving net earnings ut 110,32!, 134. 1 7. The total income wns $11,242, 417.A1. A reduction of fixed charges, taxes, etc., left a surplus cf $6,237ISMU.U2. Lightning Strikes Statue. Iexington, Ky. (Special). Lightning struck the statue of Henry Clay, in the Lexington Cemetery, shattering an arm and leg of the figure. Tlie memorial wat unveiled in July, and took the place of a similar monument which was ttruck by lightning in July, 11103. Part of tbs cost of $12,000 was defrayed by a legis lature appropriation. The storm was one of the heaviest ever known here, and it total iliuiuigu is estimated at fc.'iO.uUO. F.very firs alarm box in the city was put out of commission, and telegraph and lephom communication was damaged. y Cvt inc'ies ol rain ; I Utlepho srly Frank Reiger, Former New York Clo thier, Succumbs in Chicago. Chicago (Special). Frank Reiger, formerly a Xew York clothier and once reputed to la? worth $125,000, died from the effects of poison which he swallowed here Tuesday. Reiger, who was 00 years old, had become eiiiiiless. Kaiser's Daughter to Wed. Herlin (Sjiecial). It is reported In connection with the Kaiser's present visit to Vienna that the engagement is being arranged for the Kaiser's only daughter, Victoria Louise, to the 'Arch duke Karl Fran., eldest son of the late Archduke Otto. Archduke Karl would be Kmperor of Austria failing tho suc cession of Fran. Ferdinand. There are religious difficulties ill the way, as the Archduke Karl is a Roman Catholic. Cliarbon Stumped Out. Daton Rouge, La. (Special). Charbon, which tins caused the death of hundreds of cattle In Southwest ern Louisiana, has been stamped out, according to an announcement made litre by the Louisiana Sanitary Live Stock Board. Quarantine against the movement of cattle from that sec tion will be lifted September 25, It was said. 'Tia False; Pauline la Safe. Martinette, Wis. (Special). A report from Washington that Pauline Wayne, the cow given by Senator Stephenson to President Taft, had been lost is incor rect. Pauline is in the Senator's stablrt at Kenosha, where she lias been for three months. The cow will be sent to Wash ington in October. Adulterated Eggs. Washington, D. C. (Special). For selling adulterated eggs to dealers iu the city market Charles W. Cornwell, local manager for Armour 4 Co., of Chicago, was lined $200 in Police Court. Color ing mutter and preservative! were used in the eggs, which were stripped of their shells and packed in hulk. Government food inspectors say other cases of viola tion of the Pure Food Law in this city are to tie prosecuted. Gould Denies Report. Xew York (Special). Frank J. ftttuld tailing for Luropc with hit bride, form erly Kdith Kelly, the actrett, indignantly denied reports that he would expatriate himself and become a French citizen. "The Idea of becoming a French ritiren," taid Mr. Gould on the Mauretanis, "has never entered my head. I am an Anicrl man, full fledged, and intend to remain such." Mr. Gould was delighted with the success of hit racing stable in France, ay ing he had won since March (llt.OOU francs. Physician Murdered. Atlanta, Go. (Special). Dr. J. R. Scwell, a well-known physician of this city, wat shot and killed in his office by s man named Cox, who then shot him-r-lf and is said to be dying. Dr. Jewell's assailant later was identified as W, M. Cox, a son of Stevs Cox, a prominent farmer near Austell, Ca. Cox vat known around Austell, Ga,, it It said, at a "rather puculiar" man and lately hat been despondent over privala affairs. No motive fur the shooting is known. SIX DEAD IN A TROLLEY WRECK Passenger Was on Way to Bo Married. ORDERS WERE DISOBEYED BY CREW. Twelve Others Herloualy Injured When Freight and Limited Collide Head-On Motorman Did Xot Fol low Orders Freight Car Tele scoped Passenger Motorman Haves Life Ity Jumping. Tipton, Ind. (Special). Disobedi ence to orders by the crew of a freight car Is said to have been the cause of the second lnterurban trac tion wreck within three days In Indi ana. This disaster cost the lives of six persons, the serious Injury of six more and severe hurts to a score. A southbound freight car crashed head-on into a northbound passenger car on the Indianapolis and Peru di vision of the Indiana Union Traction Company shortly after noon, two miles north of this city. The freight car was In charge of Motorman Lacy and Conductor Scbree. The freight car, It is said, had or ders to stop at the first switch north of Ressler's Crossing, but tried to make the first switch south. A clump of trees hid the limited, and the crew of the freight barely had time to Jump to save their lives. The front end of the limited was shat tered .and all passengers In the smok ing compartment were killed. Farmers living In the vicinity of Ressler's Crossing heard the crash, and after telephoning into Tipton for physicians, went to the aid of the in jured. Nearby homes were thrown open and the seriously injured were made as comfortable as possible until the arrival of the physicians In auto mobiles. The traction company sent out special cars from Tipton, equip ped with cots, and the dead and in jured were brought to this city as soon as possible. One of the sad features of tho wreck Is that Dr. W. C. HolthouBor, of Brooklyn, N. Y'., who with his brother, Walter H. Kolthouser, was killed, was on his way to Kohomo, 'nd., to be married to Miss Nellie Coxen. The brother was to havo been best man at the wedding. Miss Coxen was prostrated when she heard of the death of her fiancee. "I guess we overran our ordt'V said Motorman Lacy, of the frcig.it car, who, with Conductor Sebree, jumped when he saw the limited bearing down upon them. Just three days ago, almost to the hour, occurred the fatal wreck near Kingsland, Ind., on the Bluffton division of the Wabash Valley Trac tion Company, which caused the death of 41 persons, with 3 more still In the hospitals of Fort Wayne with barely a chance for recovery. FOLK AL'TOISTS DItOW.V. Speed Too Great to Hound Curve In Itnad. New Orleans (Special). All four occupants of a large touring car re turning from ft lake shore resort to New Orleans early today were drown ed when the car, instead of rounding a curve In the West End shell road at a high rate of speed, shot straight ahead and plunged Into the new basin canal. A laborer on his way to work was 'the only witness to the accident. He said the car passed him at such a clip that he was unable to note bow many persons It contained. It was at first reported that the car had even occupants when It left West End, and the canal was dragged for three hours after the four bodies had been found. Late in the afternoon it was definitely established that Boet tler, Freeman and tho two women were the only persons In the car when It went Into the canal. ' Soothing Syrup Kills 11a by. Toledo, Ohio. (Special). A few. minutes after Mrs. John Bullendorf, of 75 Tecumsch street, had given her 17-day-old daughter a dose of sooth ing syrup, the baby becamo unconsci ous and died two hours later while a physician was working In a futile ef fort to revlvo her. After an Investi gation Coroner Charles J. Hensler said death was caused by morphine poisoning. Tenant Kills Planter. Cordele, Ga. (Special). Judge J. B. Scott, a wealthy planter and Con federate veteran, was shot arid In stantly killed on his farm, near here, by J. Hillary Day, a tenant, after a dispute concerning the farm. Judge Bcott cut Day with a knife several times, it Is said, whereupon Day drew a revolver and began to fire. Day Is under arrest. PoBtofhYe Kobner 8 Years Old. Daretown, N. J. (Special). Somo few days ' ago tho Daretown post office was ntcrcd and robbed of $71, but the matter was kept quiet. Tho thief was finally captured and proved to be only 8 years of age. As all but three dollars were returned, and bo cause of bis age, the little fellow was allowed to go without punishment. Womun Killed Purgatory. Mammoth Cave, Ky. (Spoclal). The first fatal accident that has oc curred inside of Mammoth Cavo In years occurred when Mrs. Helen Day, of Wyoming Pa., fell from a preci pice, striking on the granite known aa "purgatory" and fracturing her kull. She died later. Mrs. Day, who was the widow of tho publisher of the Wyoming County Democrat, came here several days ago with a party of , sightseers. Among' her companions was her sister, Mrs. E. U. Day, of Seville, Ohio. rtuccced Congressman Joliusou. Jackson, Ohio (Special). After seven hours of continuous balloting tha Republican Congressional Ccn mlttoe of . the Tenth Ohio rtlsflrt nominated Robert Skltzer, of GallU county, aa tha successor of Congrcts man Adna R. Johnson, resigned, V. ft. Consul Dead, trashlngton (Special).- leronio. Quay, Ameilcan Consul at Florence, Italy, died, aged 72 years, lie vo appointed to the consular service from I ennsylvanla In 16Q5, ForrW firly be tut superintendent of. t'.. . Pennsylvania State Rcfcrmato:y STATE HAPPENING Pottsvllle. A novel courtship . testified In court htro hefor. Judge Bechtcl In a case In which Mrs. Louisa Schultz, a widow, gUPi Hartman Hoffman for breach promises to marry. Mrs. Sehult. said that Hoffman never called her "dearie" or "honey" and she does not believe he loved her, although she said she still loves him. Vhi Mrs. Schultz pressed Hoffman to keep his promise of mnrrlagn u sold bis fine big house and furnltur and Instead built a little one-storr shanty. Mrs. Scnultz alleges that this was done to cool her oaeerness to become Mrs. Hoffninn. The de fendant said that he would have kept his promise to marry Mrs Schultz, but that he had heard that her former husband might mill be living. Mrs. Schultz asked for 1000 damages, but the Jury onlr allowed her $28. Scranton. A premature explosion In Storris No. 1 mine brought death to John Memica, a miner aged 41 years. When his body was removed from the mine and his pockets searched he was found to be a trav eling bank. In his pocketB and in an old belt around his body he car ried over $ 1,500 In fifty and twenty dollar bills. Memica's widow was al most paralyzed with astonish ment when the money was handed to her. Her husband had always assured her It puzzled him to make both ends meet. Scranton. One of the most seri ous mine caves In years in this vi cinity took place In Old Forge. Houses owned by John Snyder and Anthony Thomasonie were wrecked. One owned by John Halnsley was damaged. It la said that the dam age to the Snyder home was so great that the structure may have to be rebuilt. Superintendent John Cor-' coran, of the Jermyn Coal Company,! has notified the people of the vicin ity to bo on the look out for fur-1 ther settling. ' Pottsvllle. Joseph Kusko, of at. Clair, was suffocated and John Walsh, of the same place, fatally hurt by a slldo of tons of black dirt1 In a small mine at Broad Mountain. They were working at the base of a big bank, when suddenly the entire side collapsed upon them. It re quired a half hour of the hardest kind of work to get them out and when they were recovered Kusko was dead, Walsh was barely breath ing, but was resuscitated, although It is believed he cannot live. Pittsburg. Miss Edna B. Doc, of Washington, . D. C was instantly killed, Waited J. Wilson, of Glen Os borne, a suburb of Pittsburg, was probably fatally injured, his wife se riously hurt, and Max Feltwell, chauffeur, had three ribs crushed, the result of local passenger train 95S on the Pennsylvania Railroad strik ing the automobile in which the party were returning from Washing ton, D. C, to Sewlckley. Media. The officials of Edgmont Township are negotiating for a loan to make extensive improvements to Edgmont great road which it anticipated, will form a connecting link with the projected main high way from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Commissioners J. Howard Menden hall, John B. Davis and Samuel Pin kerton will be called upon to expend $11,000 for improvements to this highway. Pottstown. Seized with convul sions while out canoeing on the Schuylkill Canal, Monroe Rcitnoucr, a young man, 18 years of age, wm drowned when he fell out of the frail bark. The canoe was partly over turned with the result that his com panions, George Schauersand Wil liam tiarr, narrowly escaped a simi lar fate. Shamokln. Police discovered s hut on Brush Valley Mountain In which they captured a man almost nude, with hair hanging fnr down his back ard whiskers to hlr knees. He was almost starved. He said bit name was Joseph Moleskle nnd that he had gone Into the mountain! some time' ago .having become urea of living with human beings. Shenandoah. While Charles Dougherty, 28 years old, of Lost Creek, was walking on the Reeding tracks he was run down by the Can non Ball Express. He was hurled 25 feet into the laurel bushes. He Is in a critical condition at the State Hospital. A short time ago he met '.vith a similar accident and lost sn arm and barely escaped with his life Huntingdon. A disastrous fire, caused by Incendiaries, destroyed th largo sawmill plant of the Broad Top Lumber Company and 3,000,000 feet of lumber, near Coalmont. The Huntingdon flro department respond ed to a summons for help. The lost la $75,000. Colllngdale. Rev. Walter S. Iui lop, who has been the pastor of tM Colllngdale Baptist Church for two years, haa tendered his reslgnatios In order to resume his studies lot another year at Crozor Seminary, Chester. Chester. Annie McFadden, 'J years old, died from on illness whlf developed from an abscess wblcS formed on a tootn three weeks ago The Inflammation gradually gr worso, Inoculating her entire torn and affecting nor heart. Irrigation In Cuba. Washlngton, D. C. (Special). Ir rigation upon a large scale is to W tried out In certain sections of Cubs which haa suffered a big decrease l tobacco production during the 1' three years through lack of rain, re ports Minister Jackson at Haras Pinar del Rlo, where the droutft Beeins to bavo had disastrous effeV has taken decisive stops toward ob taining an appropriation sufhcteniii large to Irrigate tho whole province. Other provinces are also considers the Irrigation project. I'nderwelgblng Indictment New York ( Special ). The FedertJ. grand Jury handed up to JuMe Hough, In the U. 8. District Court new Indictments against Joseph " Mahon, a former assistant cu810,1: weigher. Frank Guislano, Larlni and Oluseppl Cavallaro, ol whom are Importers. These f" men were Indicted formerly, but i" trial of McMahon resulted In a dj. agreement of tho Jury., The fmPJ' ers bavo not yet been called to in' The three Importers are accused j acting In concert with McMahon i underwelgh cargoes of bean " cbtite.
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