The
tfvAion County News
McCoonellsburg, Pa.
AMERICA AND IRRIGATION.
Oura Is tbe foremost country Id tbe
world In tbe reclamation of Ita arid
land. To the untravoled easterner
ithe extent of the Irrigation of west-U't-n
lands under direct government su
OienrUIon Is unknown. The work of
Qudlvldual and corporate concerns
raises the actual reclamation of urld
4od In the west to an enormous to
41 acreage. Most of this work has
ibeen accomplished wit bin the past
4!cade, wbllo each year the plans for
still further pushing the conquests of
artificial Irrigation are extended, nays
tba lltlsburg OazetteTlmes. That
the prestige In this Important depart
ment of home building belongs to the
Vnlted States Is further demonstrated
toy a request recently submitted to
the atato department by the Austra
lian government. Australia has sev
eral -wide extended areas of arid
-)an4. The reclamation of much of
tblt ban been undertaken, but the first
difficulty that confronted the govern
aoent was a lack of expert knowledge
of the actual work to bo done and of
tba moans used to secure the largest
and surest returns on the money In
vested. In this dilemma Australia
turned to the United States, where Ir
rigation on the broadest lines has
fceen ably demonstrated uuder gov
ernment control.
Workmen In demolishing an ancient
too situated in the Hue de Stras
bourg, opposite the old Mont de Plete
t Nantes, have made an Interesting
fltacovery which Is likely to attract
considerable attention, since the find
waa at once dispersed by the men. It
consisted of a number of gold and sll-
coins of different epochs. The
Interesting bore the efllgy of Al-
jAonso VIII., king of Gallcla and Cas
411. who reigned from 1126 to 1158.
They bear on the exergue an Inscrip
tion In Arable In these terms: "The
3Unlr of tbe Catholics Is aided by
.Allah, and Allah protects them." Tbe
draft1 Is Interesting In more ways than
ma, and It Is likely that economic
-writers will not fall to make use of
bs coins to show the trade rela
tions of Nantes about the period of
h Hundred Years War.
The defendant In a case before
Undge Bacon, who objected to being
described as a gentleman, may be
commended on bis refusal, to be
Sabelad with a term which even Sir
James Murray Is shy of denning, says
the London Chronicle. There Is the
ol4 legal definition, "all above the
irank of a yeoman," and there Is Sir
"William niackstone's description of a
(gentleman as "one who can live Idly
anfl without labor." There Is also the
Atotoric definition given by a witness
tat the trial of Thurtell for the mur
der of Mr. Weare as "one who drives
- ifg." And the cabman probably ex-Un-eases
the average opinion as to
what constitutes a man, a gentleman
"wbea be says: "You're a gentleman,
tr." to the spendthrift who does not
ak change for half a crown on a
i shilling fare.
Two of the rare dollars of 1804 have
een found. It Is affirmed that only
Hour of these coins are In existence,
and numlsmatologlsts attach great
"raliM to them. The last coin sold
.Ttronght $J,000. Hut of course If they
-continue to be found In this fashion
the discoveries are likely to "bear"
tlfce market.
Radium has also come down among
Una other necessaries of life, a grain
of It baring recently sold for $72,000.
Still, at that rate, the time Is not
tlearly In sight when families can af
rjcrfi to lay In an entire winter's sup
3ly with reduced prices for cash.
A veterinarian on Long Island re
Jjneed to take an anaesthetic for an
tiaeratlon because he wished to watch
Ht that be might get surgical points.
.A man like this Is Just the kind not
2!kely to Inflict needless pain on
actners.
Tba meanest man baa been found In
frJw Jersey. In a quarrel with his
jwU ba took the false teeth from her
mouth and kept them, saying he had
U14 for them. Naturally, In court
tab made a biting charge against him.
- Tashlon decrees that men must
apropos on their knees hereafter,"
ays as esteemed contemporary. Fash
la "dame," all right or Is she a
tfamselT
Prof. Garner says his female chim
ftanxee baa a vague moral sense. And
that la toe sort that aome folks In
jblgn aodetee bave.
- It baa been a banner bunting sea
awn In northern Michigan, the re
turns abowlng 6,000 deer and 20 hunt
ers killed.
There are 800 varieties of chrysan
themums, but no one seems to know
hy there are so many.
Pittsburg Is 152 years old. The fact
'iconBtltutea another argument to tho
ffect that smoking promotes long
mwlty. Some of the dresses the women nro
ow wearing resemble the wrapper of
a thin cigar. They lit Juht us tight,
too.
Maine hunters killed very Tew moose
this year, but doubtle-s the moose con
sider It a successful season.
RI3HES TO FIND
MOREWORU'S
Carnegie Gives $10,000,000
More For Seicntilic-Work.
Facet lonely Objects To Being Inter
rupted and A-k Scientist (Mil Ol
a Hoom, But Hands er Big Dna
lion With the Hope '''" ,l vl11
"Interest" taller I'ntil Carnegie
lias Time To See Him IroninaM
UT Enjoys Incident. .
Has Given Nearly $l!O0,OO(UHO.
Andrew Carnegie on Decem
ber 14 established a $10,000,000
fund to encourage world-wide
peace.
At that time it was estimated
that tho Ironmaster's benefac
tions aggregated $187,000,000.
Among the most notable gifts
had been the following: Car
negie Institution, of Washing
ton, $15,000,000; Carnegio
Foundation, $15,000,000; li
braries In the L'nited States,
$41,500,000; libraries in for
eign lands, $10,000,000; Car
negie Institute, IMttsburg, $16,
000,000; Scotch universities,
$10,000,000; hero funds, $5,
000,000; Carnegie Steel Com
pany employes, $5,000,000, and
Dunfermline endowment, $0,
000,000. Others were these: Polytech
nic schools, Pittsburg, $5,500,
000; Peace Temple at Hague,
$1,760,000; Allied Engineers'
Societies, $1,500,000, and
Ilureau of American Republics,
$750,000.
New York (Special). Tho dona
tion of an additional endowment of
$10,000,000 to the Carnegie Institu
tion of Washington by Andrew Car
negie, the founder, was announced
Friday. This brings Mr. Carnegie's
gifts to the institution up to a total
of $25,000,000.
Coupled with the formal announce
ment was a declaration by Mr. Car
negie that the work of the Institu
tion had cleared from blame the cap
tain of a British ship who ran his ves
sel upon tbe rocks by proving that
the Hrltlsh Admiralty charts, by
which the captain was guided, were
2 degrees or 3 degrees astray.
(SO, (M0 New Worlds Discovered.
The discovery of 60,000 no
worlds by Professor Hale at the ob
servatory on Mount Wilson, Califor
nia, also was announced. The ob
servatory was established by the In
stitution, and its operations and dis
coveries afford Mr. Carnegie more de
light, perhaps, than any other work
ings of the Institution.
Mr. Carnegie also announced that
a far more powerful telescope than
man has ever made is now under con
struction for the Mount Wilson Ob
servatory. With It he hopes to make
possible the discovery of still more
celestial bodies.
In confirming a report of the en
dowment, Mr. Carnegie said:
"The report is correct. They had
a large endowment before and $10,
000,000 makes the total of their en
dowment $25,000,000, but the insti
tution has already scored successes
to justify even that sum. I believe
that the Institution In research will
pay tenfold In service to the world."
WOltKKD IIF.K FARM AT 0:1.
Oldest Native Resident Of Pittsyl
vania County, Va., Dead.
Danville, Va. (Special). Mrs.
Judith Coleman Anderson, the oldest
native resident of Pittsylvania coun
ty, who was born In May, 93 years
ago, died at her home near Danville
Friday. She was twice married, but
both husbands preceded her to the
jrave many years ago.
Mrs. Anderson lived on her farm,
Mis Jane Reld, an aged friend, being
her only companion. She was con
fined to her bed only two days, and
up to her recent Illness attended to
her own household duties and man
aged the farm. She leaves no direct
descendants.
YOl'TSKY DENIED PAIIDOX.
Governor Wlllson Believes Hint
Guilty Of Murder Of Goebel.
Frankfort, Ky. (Special). Gover
nor Wlllson has refused a pardon to
Henry E. Youtsey, convicted of the
murder of Governor William Goebel.
The Governor says he believes
Youtsey is guilty of a cruel murder
and therefore refuses to grant the
pardon.
BVBOXIC rijAGt'E IX PEKING.
Disease Slowly Spreading In Man.
rhtirlA and Northern China.
Peking (Special). The first death
In Peking since the outbreak of the
present epidemic of bubonic plague
occurred in a missionary hospital Fri
day. There have been earUr re
ports that the disease had entered
the capital, but not until Friday had
a fatality been directly due to the
plague. In Manchuria and Northern
China the plague is slowly extending.
Young Woman Kills Father.
Gravctte, Arlc. (Special.) Nellie
Allen, the 21-year-old daughter of
John B. Boyer, a wea'thy planter,
ahot and killed her father following
an exchanpo of half a dozen Bhots
with the parent. The father, she al
leges, was advancing with a knifs on
her hur.l;.iml of a few weeks, John
All'. Rushing into th hoiuo, the
young woman secured a revolver, and
just os the father wks In thn act of
stabbing young Allot) she lired.
WIXS LONG FIGHT
Senator From Ma. saclniseKs For
a Fourth Term.
Iloston (Special). Henry Cabot
Lodge won the hardest light In his
political career of nearly 30 years
Thursday and returns to the United
States Senate for a fourth term, with
tho support of 140 out of 279 mem
bers of the Massachusetts Legislature,
or six more than the number neces
sary for a choice In the joint conven
tion. HENRY CABOT LODGE.
U. 6. fmm M Jatachutetts.
Two Democratic Senators, Martin
II. F. Curley and Michael J. Murray,
left their party to vote for hliu, but
their support was not necessary.
Representative James R. Molnerney, i
another Democrat, was In the chain-1
her but did not vote. He did not
care to oppose Senator Lodge, be- i
cause of personal friendship.
gathering or Tin-; leaders.
Harmony Ilauiiiet Of Hie Democrats
n Success.
Baltimore was the scene Tuesday
of the greatest demonstration in the
history of the Democratic party since
its national convention of 1 DOS in
Denver.
It was the Jackson Day National
Democratic celebration which began
at 1 o'clock in the afternoon with a
mass-meeting in the Lyric and whlcn
ended after midnight with the close
of the banquet In the Fifth Regiment
Armory.
The most striking development of
the many during the day and night
was the Inauguration of a movement
for holding :he Democratic National
Convention in Baltimore next year.
II marked the passing of Hon.
William Jennings Dryan as a Demo
cratic party leader and as a possible
fourth-time candidate for the presi
dency, as far as the sentiment of the i
speakers
I
wmKsmm
notably, Senator Bailey, of0f his brother's ill health and sudden
lexas could relegate iilm to the death.
rear. Mr. Bryan himself was not "Paul and I took luncheon to
present, nor would be Indite a letter ; ccther at noon." he -said. "I had
to be read at the gathering.
Still another striking develop
ment was the expression of a decid
ed preference for Governor Judsou
Harmon, of Ohio, as the Democratic
candidate for president next year.
At 1 o'clock the doors of the Lyric
swung open and the waiting crowd
rushed ii. The first sight in the lob
bies which greeted the throng were
the posters urging female suffrage.
The Lyric was beautifully deco
rated. American flags were In evi
dence. Gen. Murray Vandlver,
chairman of the Democratic State'
Central Committee, called the meet
ing to order and Introduced Gov.
Austin L. Crothers, who presided.
The speakers were:
GOV. JL'DSON HARMON, of Ohio.
SENATOR JOSEPH W. BAILEY,
of Texas.
HON. CHAMP CLARK, of Mis
souri, prospective Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
The tenor of all the speeches was
that as a result of tho November elec
tion the Democratic party had been
placed on probation; that the people
would watch its course with great
care, and that it must live up to Its
promises to win continued support.
HESCI E 135 CHILDREN'.
Firemen Drag Little Ones Out
Beds and Down Ladders.
Of
Binghamton, N. Y. (Special).
Fire In the basement of the main
building of the Susquehanna Valley
Home Imperiled the lives of 155
children and tbe 18 attendants and
officers of the institution, and but for
the bravery of the teachers, the fire
men and, in instances, the children
themselves, grave loss of life must
have resulted.
Train Hits Cow; iio Hurt.
Fort Smith, Ark. (Special). Thir
ty persons were Injured, four prob
ably fatally, between Hartford, Ark.,
and Monroe, Okla., when a Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train
struck a cow.
FEWER AND BETTER LAWS.
Gov,
Colquitt. Of Texas, Wants
Conservative Government.
Austin, Texas (Special). The In
auguration of Governor Colquitt and
1 Lieutenant-Governor Davidson Tues-
(day was witnessed by one of the larg-
est gatherings on record in this!
I State. Governor Colquitt made his'
inaugural speech along lines of con
servative government, fewer and hot
ter laws, and safer and saner legisla
tion. Curnegie Hero Medals.
Pittsburg (Special). Twenty-six
awards In recognition or acts of hero
ism have just been mado by tho Car
neglo Hero Fund Commission, Ifi
bronzo and 10 silver medals, besides
cash awards being authorized. Nine
teen of the awards were mndo in
rescues or attempted rescues from
drowning, threo from fire, two from
Fuft'ocation In wells, 'md one each
from train wrecks and shooting. In
nine Instances the heroes lost their
lives nml the awp.nl is mftdo to a
member of the family.
I PAUL MORTON
DIES SUDDENLY
Stricken With Hemorrhage
New York Hotel.
in
WAS UNCONSCIOUS 10 IHE END.
President Of Hie Equitable Lire As
surance Society Had Been Kiiffer
lug Willi a Fatal Illness, Hut He
Did Not Know His Life Was In
Danger Was Secretary Of Hie
Xavy I'nder Roosevelt Wife
Reaches Side After Death Was
An Authority On Railroads. ,
Life Sketched In Brief.
Horn In Detroit, Mich, May 22,
1S57.
Taken to Nebraska City when
six months old.
dot a position with the Bur
lington Railroad in 1872 at $1G
a month.
Became assistant general
freight agent on the Burlington
at 21.
Promoted to general passen
ger and general freight agent.
Engaged In the coal and iron
business In 1 8 DO.
Vice-president of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company and
president of the Whltebread
Fuel Company, 18 30 to 18'Jti.
Became third vice-president of
the Sante Fe In 18!'li.
Was made second vice-president
of the Sante Fe in 180S.
Appointed Secretary of the
Navy In 1!)04.
Resigned to become president
of the Metropolitan Street Rail
way In 1905.
Elerted president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany in 1905.
New York (Special). Paul Mor
ton, president of the Kqtiitable Life
Assurance Society and Sei retary of
the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt,
died or a cerebral hemorrhage in the
Hotel Seymour here Thursday night.
His wife and his elder brother, Joy,
w ere at his side 15 minutes after he ,
was stricken, but he never regained j vanla, In a speech declared that he
consciousness and at 6.45 o'clock, an ; would gladly vote for Clark for presl
hour after he was stricken, he died. ' dent.
There will be no autopsy. I About 210 Democrats were present.
Mr. Morton himself had no Idea Mr. Hay, of Virginia, presided, and
that his life was in danger, but his Mr. Ashbrook, of Ohio, was secre-
family, his physicians and a few dose
friends knew that his condition was
precarious and that if he did not take
care of himself grave results would
follow.
Joy A. Morton gave a full account
Just come on here from Chicago, and
Paul met me at the station
We went
to tho Equitable building together,
vvhere, at Paul's request, I attended
a meeting of the board of directors at
which he presided. Then we had
luncheon together In the building,
and sat together talking until per
haps 2.30 o'clock.
"I had other huslneFs and so had
lie. 'See you at the house at C or a
little before,' I said, and we parted.
I never saw him alive again."
Mr. Morton was to have started on
a vacation trip to Europe February !
22. I
Coroner's Physician O'Hanlnn said
that from the antecedent history and;
the symptoms there was no doubt in
his mind that death was due to
arterial sclerosis, a hardening qf the
walls of the arteries, terminating In a
cerebral leBlon.
The death was reported to the cor -
oner
office in the usual stereotyped
form.
Few, If any, of the directors of the
Equitable h'ad news of the death until
they were Informed by the newspa
pers. E. W. Bloomingdale. Robert
De Forest and Frank S. Wltherbee,
tho last named also of the executive
committee, were all deeply shocked.
Denounces I he Press.
Columbia. S. C. (Snecial).-
Weak
from Illness, Coleman Livingston ' raised $ 1 5,000 Tor the American Red
Blease, of Newberry, was Inaugurated Cro88- lle has replied to William W.
Governor Tuesday. Lleutenant-Gov- Morrow, chairman of tbe endowment
crnor Charles A. Smith, of Timmons-1 fund' a8 fHow: "I congratulate
ville, was also sworn In. Governor ' "ou on the contribution to Red Cross'
Blease devoted nearly halt of hlslfrom San Francisco of $75,000. It
inaugural address to a denunciation
of tbe press.
Kaiser Kicks Against Tax.
Berlin (Special). The Reichstag
debated the second reading of the
government's unearned increment tax
bill Friday and adopted an amend
ment subjecting the German sov
ereign houses to the tax. The gov
ernment Is strongly opposed to this
innovation In German constitutional
ism. Need More Funds.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Re
questing that Congress provide addi
tional funds for continuing the work
of raising the battleship Maine In
Havana Harbor, Secretary of War
Dickinson has written a letter to Sen
ator Hale, chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, calling at
tention to the fact that the appro
priation of $300,000 made at the last
session of Congress will bo exhausted
in about six weeks.
Irish He-Elect ICedniond.
Dublin (Special). At a private
meeting Tuesday tho Irish Parlia
mentary party re-elected John E.
Redmond chairman. The other offi
cers were also re-elected and the
resolutions governing tho party were
reaffirmed.
Cook Will Get His Notebook.
Copenhagen (Special). Tho ifnl
versity committee decided to accede
to the request of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, mnile through Walter Lons-
ICLARK IS NAMED SPEAKER
Also Gets Ovation as Presiden
tial Candidate.
Washington, D. C. (Special. )
Representative Champ Clark, of Mis
souri, the Democratic leader of the
House and receptive candidate for tho
Democratic nomination for tho presi
dency, was nominated by acclamation
Thursday night for Speaker or the
House in tho Sixty-second Congress.
This, with tho selection of a commit
teo on ways and means to make an
early preparation of tariff legislation
for submission to Congress Imme
diately upon tho beginning of the
next session in December, when tho
House becomes Democratic, was one
of the features of a caucus of the
Democrats the old and new mem
bers of tho next Congresn held In
the hall of the House at the capltol.
CHAMP CLARK
Congrestman From Ninth District of
Missouri.
Representative Oscar W. I'nder
wood, of Alabama, was unanimously
nominated for chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee. His name was
proposed by Representative Champ
Clark.
The caucus- adopted the Foster
resolution clothing the Ways and
Means Committee with the power of
naming the standing committees of
the House, subject to caucus ratifica
tion. A great ovation, was given Champ
Clark when Mr. Wilson, of Pennsyl-
tary.
ATLANTA JOIKXAL INDICTED
Said To Hove Violated Postal Laws
' In' Mailing Sample Copies,
j Atlanta, Ga. (Special). On the
'charge that sample copies of the
'semi-weekly Atlanta Journal were
mailed on several days In 1908 as
though they were eoples for sub
scribers, a Federal grand Jury Wed
nesday Indicted the Atlanta Journal
Company, James R. Gray, president
of (he company, and John D. Slm-
moiis, C. II. Babb and V. P. Har;:cr,
I employes. The indictment in no way
involves the daily or tho Sunday
Journal. The amount Involved Is
said to be $700 postage charges.
STK.KL HEAD (JETS ljt.-(,00O.
Salary Of 1'nncll Only Half That Of
Schwab anil Corey.
New York (Special.) Although
Charles M. Schwab and William F.
Corey, as president of the United
i states icei v orporanon, receivea
, $100,000 a year, James A. Farrell,
1 11,0 llew lirc'at,nt. receive only
$50,000.
The Finance Committee of the
corporation is empowered to fix
salaries, and Mr. Farrell's salary has
been placed at just ono-half of what
his predecessors received.
Money Put In Right Place.
'Washington, D. C. (Special).
President Taft received a telegram In-
1oi'niillS him. that San Francisco had
! i money in the ngnt place.
$2,000,000 For Naval Base.
Washington, D. C. (Special). A
$2,000,000 appropriation for the new
naval home at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, Including not exceeding
$300,000 for a naval hospital, of
which $75,000 Is Immediately appro
priated, was agreed upon for inclu
sion in the naval appropriation bill
by the House Committee on Naval
Affairs.
WALSH ASKS FOR PAROLE.
Banker Xot Eligible Under Law VntU
September 10, 1011.
Leavenworth, Kan. (Special).
John R. Walsh, the former Chicago
banker, Bervlng a sentence In the
Federal prison here, has applied for
a parole.
Under the terms of tho parole act,
approved June 25, 1910, prisoners
must have served one-third of their
sentences to enjoy tho benefits of the
law.
Turned Over To Prohibitionists.
Canton, N. C. (Special). Mayor
Custls, of Canton, has turned the con
trol of tho town over to the prohi
bitionists, asking them to demon
strate how the North Carolina prohi
bition laws can bo enforced. Ho has
cited two ministers and a number of
laymen to appear before him and be
sworn In as special policemen.
John Banyan Is In jail In New
York charged with speeding his automobile.
WOT?
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CHILDREN KILLED
Mexican Troops Fire Into Houses
at (iiLleanen.
SOME HARD FIGHTING DONE THERE.
Tho Revolutionists Attempting to
Take All Towns Along 111 Paso
Bond The Federal Troops In a
Serious Condition At Guerrero mid
OJinnga As At Gnlcuna- General
Navano Cut Olf From Chiliuiiliiin
For Sometime-Gen. Lugoe He
ported Surrounded.
El Paso, Texas (Special). Fight
ing continues at Galeana, south of
Casas Graudes, and runners brought
tho nows to Casas Grandes Sunday
that among tho dead were many wom
en and children, killed in their homes
as the Federals llred on t lie . insurgents
n the houses. Unless these couriers
are greatly excited it promises to be
the bloodiest battle of tho present in
iurrccilon when all losses are totaled.
Reiiorts say that the dead and
wounded will total 300. Casas
Grandes is Hi I II in the hands or the
Federals but the inhabitants arc not
certain how long It will bo held.
It is claimed now that tho rebels
are attempting to take all towns
along the El Pato Northwestern road
south or here and hold the line in
order to uso It to tako supplies to
their troops fro ii El Paso. Juarez,
opposlto El Paso, acordlng to these
statements. Is to be taken, As In
dilating that the Mexican govern
ment places credence In these reports
It sent another hundred cavalrymen
to Juarez from Chihuahua Sunday.
Fiscal guards In Juarez reported
Hunday that 200 revolutionists
t-roBsed the Rio Grande at Guadalupo
?ast of El Paso Saturday going
south. This report was made to
their commander.
Reports from Guerrero and
OJInaga show the Federals In as seri
ous condition there as at Galeana.
Navarro Is completely rut off from
"hihuahua and the rebels boast that
their retreat from Guerrero was to
draw him further away from his base
ot supplies and then annihilate his
command. He has been cut off for
i week and tho rebels are attacking
his commands In all the smaller
towns, around Guerrero and Temo
sachic, asisted in their attacks by the
l'arhuamara Indians.
At OJInaga General Luque has had
:o send out ail the troops bo ran
pare to reinforce the small garrisons
he placed in the smaller towns and
.s now said to be surrounded himself
oy rebels at OJInaga. The loss
Miiong tho Federals around OJInaga
Is known to have been heavy of late.
BOTH DEAD IN BED.
ro Members Of Coast Artillery
Corps Asphyxiated.
Providence, R. I. (Special).
loseph Scott and Chester Pouns,
members of the Ninety-sixth Com
pany, Coast Artillery Corps, station
d at Fort Adams, Newport, were ac
cidentally asphyxiated at a local ho
tel. The men we're on leave of
ibscnro ' and registered late last
light.
A chambermaid found both dead
M bed with the gas rock wido open.
The supposition is that one of the
men humped Into the gas cock in
the dark and turned it on. Scott en
listed in 1900, giving his home as
Caution, Ky. Pouns, who had been
lu the service since 1908, came from
I'owu Creek, N. C.
Stabbed And Killed.
Plttsfield, Mass. (Special). Dur- I
lug a quarrel over a trivial matter
Sunday, James MrKeever, a youth of
14 years, Is alleged to have stabbed
tnd Instantly killed Francis Donovan,
t playmate of the same age, while
;hey were on their way home from
:hurch. McKeever, It Is charged, ac
"uaed Donovan of some slight remark
tnd drew a small pocket knifo and
itabbed him in the neck.
Young Girl a Suicide.
Hattiesburg, Miss. (Special). Miss
Maud Hlxon, a pretty 18-year-old
girl, despondent because of ill health
and the thought of being separated
rrom her sweetheart, telephoned
good-by to tho latter, George Bony,
Saturday night and immediately
drank an ounce of carbolic acid. She
died Sunday at noon. Her father
had come here to take the girl to
their homo at Red Level, Ala.
Nursery In Cliurrh.
Fort Wayne, Ind. (Special). To
enable tho parents of babies to at
tend church services Rev. H. B. Mas
ter, of the First Presbyterian Church,
Sunday announced that a nursery, In
charge of three kindergarten teach
ers, would be conducted in one of the
church social rooms during the hour
of service.
Three lloys Drowned.
Lowell, Mass. (Special). Three
Bkatcrs who ventured on thin Ice
were drowned near here Sunday.
William Hancock, aged 12, lost his
life in a pond at Methuen, and
Nicholas G. McNulty, aged 10, and
Patrick H. McCue, 11 years old, were
drowned In the Concord River. Mc
Nulty and McCue, who were playing
hockey, broke through the leo to
gether. In a vain effort to rescue
them William H. Carey, aged 18
years, and a man who declined to
give his name.
Train Kills Woman.
New York (Special). A subway
train running south on tho north
bound tracks beeauso of a block
struck Miss Violet D'Arcy, a stenog
rapher, as sho was leaning over the
edge of tho Twentty-thlrd Street Sta
tion Sunday In an effort to see If a
northbound train was coming. Her
head was crushed in and she was in
stantly killed. Her body was burled
Into the crowd on tho platform, bowl
ing over several people like tenpins.
THE NEWS 0?
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Butler. The Pittsburg nml K,a,,
mut Railway lino will bo built (r01
Nickelson's Run on the AII(-(i,tJ
River to North Butler, where it -iV
connect with the Bessemer ami I.ai,
Eiio Railroad. The lino v. ii ,
up 50,0110 acres of coal, ami a ,,,,,,,,
ber of towns will be built, ii,,. ,,
important collieries have be n ,4'
ttl. Tbe line will give tin- t ... aj
outlet to Lake Erie, and Hi Si.j,.
mut will gain an entrance Into ;
burg over t lie Bessemer line.
Altooua. Following out the iv1E.
sylvanla Railroad's plan of cin , .,,.,.
lug Its employees to study ;,- lh ,
Df their n spectho ilepaittiK ty
Mountain City Traffic Club h. y.j
Drganlzed here by young n.i ,i ,1,
;ialllc department, I .t-:-,
Mattas as prcsldeirt, A. M. ;.
secretary and Howard Nogj'.ii ;t ti.
urer. The club will meet mh 4
month to discuss tiaflle proM n s a;;
im to listen to talks by exi r i
Icwistovn. Chief Burgi-M V.
liu til Ryau died Tnursday fro ::i iuh;,
monla after an Illness of six u, t,
lie was C3 years old, and I .ad s
ed as Sheriff, County Trta.eirr s:j
school director. Ills adniliiisr.iti(,n
was known as the golden rule imi;,
lit he made it a rule to SiMl v.i i i
of Intoxication and other petty 0;.
fenses to their homes rather thua ta
the borough prison.
Pittsburg. Charles Bantian lai
been released from tho Sewnkiti
Jail because tho print of the tiiu:;b
did not agree with that found mi :U
dresser In the residence of .-v. a.
C. Howell, whoso house was rollKj
recently. Bastlan was sus. i led of
the crime, which involved (i;au,ot;Ji
to the amount of $2500.
Scranton. Matteo Gervi'zzi ill
lie from wounds received, it all-j :,
at the hands of Alfonso Tentm-:;),
who Is now In tho county jail. An
speratlon showed that the hn.'.m
fired into Gervnzzi's body pa??J
through the general vertebra of tit
plne. The men quarreled ovr i
load of coal.
Media. Ray Showers, of Ni"an?,
a student at Williamson School.
struck by a train on the P. 11. & W.
R. R. near Elwyn, and probably It-
tally Injured. His skull was fratir-
d. He and a half dozen companion
stepped rrom the eastbound Irak
to the westbound to oscape a train,
when the westbound train boredom
and all Jumped except Showers.
Pottsvillc. Andrew Grand.-, ol
Grandy, or Brier City, a candidal
lor the Legislature last Fall.
crushed to death at Pine Hill lollitrr
Thursday, several tons of ti !
falling on him. Companion.-' tnM
.'randy's bruised body to the Pji's
rllle Hospital, but be lived only a !n
liou.s.
Altooua. Falling to hear le ap
proach ot a train at llollidaH mi i,
jertram Cessna, aged ;!7, .-on o!
Professor John Cessna, a noted "la
?ator, was run down and proi'jMf
fatally Injured. His skull ;n f"f
lured for the second time in l.n hie.
The first time was when as a hoy he
was kicked by a horse.
South Iiethlohem. Andiew Cvi
da, a three-year-old boy, amae'eitf
bon tire wuich boys had h'.iiii 10
keep warm while playing, was I.i.a:i
kurnod. His clothing took tire,
when a stiff breeze suddenly s at'ir
ed the embers, blowing them ncainst
bis clothing.
Wllllamsport. Fire totally it-
troyed the plant of the Willia:.
port Packing Company entailins
loss of $15,000. John Smith.
years old, watchman, w is l'1"1'-'
burned by an explosion of an a
monla tank, and is In a serious eon
d It Ion.
Pine Grove. Jonathan Freeman
a retired farmer, died at his lio-meU
Wayne Township of dropsy, agfJ
"5 years. He was a Civil War vet
eran, having served In tit"
Pennsylvania Regiment.
Shenandoah. M. J. Warms
Alexander Lechenk, Enoch Ji"rt
and Andrew Houscheck, miners, vtn
seriously Injured by falls of re al '
Packer No. 5, William Penn and tl
langowan collieries. Warrush mJ
die.
Chester. Tho Chester Police De
partment has commenced a rami1''
to clean out alleged gambling housn
which are said to be In operation
here. Chief McCarey had J
Bayard, 24 years old, arrested ont
charge of keeping a gambling noil
At a hearing In City Hall a
number of witnesses tcstilicd tM-
lhn hart phot, "rrnn" and IndulRfd H
other games of chance In Hayfdj
house. The defendant was held K
court under $400 ball.
Chester. Two years ago, Allff
Taylor, a young man of this cltS'
went to the office of tho rroftw
League, and asked that his child w
allowed to remain for a short tint'"
he was going to look after some busi
ness. Taylor never returned
nothing was learned of him
Thursday when a police oi,1c('r.,
rosted him and took him before W
istrate Elliott, who ordered i
lile:
to pay the sum of $1.60 per wei
- J V i VJ DU VS. V.V I ,
the child's board while at the w
tutlon, and also directed that w "
$1 a week for the two years pa
Carlisle. Miss Nora Smith, of Cjjj
lisle, while eating oysters at 10
restaurant bit Into a large I'J
which upon Investigation Vui '
bo worth $150. '
Editor Mistaken For
London, (Special). Dr. Cha
lain, of Kansas City, Mo., vW1
of the Agricultural Journal. ,,!
jnlstakon for a spy at tluerns"1) (
day, and arrested. Ho was soon1'
forward released.