The Fulton County News McConncllsburg, Pa. HUNTING AND FOOTBALL. Thirteen men were killed while on limiting excursions In thin stale In the brief open season. Thut Is the num fber of young men killed In football lu the whole country thin year, or as many Peniisylvanlans as have died inmi this cause In a century. These tflgures ure offered not to prove that (loot hull Is without a certain amount of 4lsk, but to bIiow that all human oc cupations are occotupunled by some dangers, says the Philadelphia Inqulr r. The law of averages In a remark ble one. It Indicates that about a curtain number of persona die each year from fortuitous causes and If. one class Is lacking the other supplies the deficiency. Parent b who are afraid their boys will be Injured or killed playing football may be encour aged by the fact that It Is proved to be one of the most Innocuous of sports. The danger from death or severe In Jury In any college sport Is not any thing like so great as that of being run down by an automobile or trolley tar. Human life Is precious and must be conserved. Science lias done much for those who err In certain directions, but It has nothing to offer those who uffer from pure accident. All of which means thut what Is needed by young and old Is simply a modicum of common guise. It Is not to be foi got ten that the mother who kept her boy home from school because he dream ed he bad died was an actual mourner a few hutirs later because be fell off the roof. Let us all act sensibly, with courage, faith and proper caution. Those who take the most pains to es cape accidents are apt to be the worst sufferers, but It Is certain that boyish sports are not dangerous compared with the most ordinary avocations of 'adults. A New York chauffeur, 17 years old, convicted of manslaughter In the sec ond degree while on a Joy ride, ha been sentenced to spend 15 years In the Elmlra reformatory. The Judge "emarked that the next Joy rider brought before him would be sentenced to Sing Sing, adding: "You are only 17 years old, and It seems to me that tbe state of New York Is guilty It self In permitting such a youth as ou to drive an automobile on our pub He thoroughfares." The Judge was right both In inflicting the penalty and In bis comment on the recklessness lhat permits children to handle these powerful machines, says the Indian apolis Star. It Is not until adequate punishment Is measured out to care less automobile drivers that their dis regard for public rights will be check ed. At the same time It Is worth while to remember that not all the many ac cidents by any means occur when young drivers are In charge. . There la the Anderson case for example, re ported the other day, where a business man of mature years turned to look back while driving his machine, and at that moment ran down and killed a child. Canada has custom house troubles also. It seems some of the fair dam sels and matrons of the Dominion have the habit of coming over to "the State," getting new gowns and wear lag them back across the border, with out going through the form of paying duty, says the Troy Times. And It Is more than hinted that the ladles not Infrequently indulge In smuggling In other ways. So. the Canadian collect ors have taken a leaf from the book of Collector Loeb of New York and at the more Important lines of travel to and from the Dominion have estab lished extra vigilant guards, assisted by women searchers. The reiult has "been some clever captures and a con siderable addition to the Canadian revenue. From all of which It will be seen that trying to, cheat the govern ment Is a practice confined to no one clime or country. Proportionately, It Is said, the num ber of Insane people In this country is Increasing faster than the population Is growing, taking asylum statistics for 1l Even at that, t..ere Is scarcely a fellow but will declare that the asy lutna don't get them all, either. A feminine scientist wants a moth ers' course established in colleges. Still, the old-fashioned mother appar ently understood her business very well, and probably present day scien tific infanta are not so happy as ber cuddled and petted babies. A prisoner who stole 15 cents was discharged by the Judge. That Is a great disappointment to the authors of weepy poetry, who naturally ex pected the offender to be sentenced to Imprisonment for life. French aviators fell 800 feet In an aeroplane and were not hurt Fate avors the bold, but then fate Is also notoriously capricious, so experiments need not go on, depending on fate's Xavors. Two Chicago hotel waiters who came to this country pennlloss a few years ago have bought a million-dollar hotel for cash. This may give them a chance to begin over again, penniless once more. The Harvard scientists have been noti fied that a clergyman In England has discovered a new star. This Is one of the happy results of following the excellent advice to "look up and not flown." PLAGUE VICTIMS NEVER RECOVER 1 Half a Mile of Collins on the Frozen Ciouim!. DOZEN DOCTORS CIE OF THE DISEASE. Japanese Have Checked the Spread Of the Pest in Soul li Mukden, Hut Its IdmigcH Continue in the lie-nmindci- of Mniuiiuriu Kepoi t lleceivcd l rom the Aini-ricau Con sul (ienerul -The Home of Kef ugecs Itelng Hurtled Aid From tho Hed Cross, Washington, D. C. That none of the plague-stricken people of China; recovers, the lungs being Infected j followed by death In a few hours, was; reported to the American National: lied Cross lu cablegram juBt received! from American Consul li-eneral Wil-i der, at Shanghai, on the conditions i resulting from t lie pneumonic plague. The Japanese have checked the( plague In South Mukden, but the re-1 malnder of Manchuria is being rav aged by the dlseuse. The pestilence is spreading iu Shantung. A dozen doctors who attended the stricken people are dead. Reports from liar-' bin, Mr. Wilder says, show 250' deaths daily. I The frozen ground makes burial Impossible and half a mile of cotllns are visible. The people have finally consented to the cremation of 4,000 bodies and 1,000 victims have been cremated at Klangchantzu. Whllo there has been some Im provement at the centers of the dis ease, the Consul General says it. is spreading to the villages. The homes of refugees, he adds, are being burned. Roger S. Greene, American con sul at Harbin, reports that up to January 17 433 persons, Including 12 Europeans, had died of plague, whllo at Fushla Tien, a suburb of Harbin, 1,803 have succumbed to the disease. Of the deaths at Harbin 267 had occurred In hospitals and 166 persons had been found dead In the streets and houses. From statistics gathered at points along the Chinese Eastern Railway, the consul said that up to January 17 there have been 777 cases of plague among the Chinese and 25 cases among Europeans, resulting In 766 deaths of Chinese and 23 deaths of Europeans. 05,000 DEAD OF PEST.. Even Inside the Wall of China There Have noon l.OOO. Feklng. The Viceroy of Man churia estimates that the fatalities In Manchuria from the bubonic plague already have reached 65,000, while the Foreign Office believes that Inside the great wall there have been 1,000 more deaths. According to the! general belief, however, the number of fatalities will be nearer double those of the official estimates. The relief committee at Shanghai believes that the minimum number of deaths from famine Is 10,000. The surness which the anti-plague has met has been a surprise and a cause of gratification to the foreign legations and foreigners generally. The Chinese Railway, though it Is losing heavily, continues Its curtail ment of traffic. Many of the people In the famine stricken district of Annul nre em ployed by the government in build ing levees. The financial drain on tho government Is most severe, and It Is expected that it will be forced to negotiate more extensive loans thnn had been contemplated. 10,000 MIXERS DESTITUTE. Output Sninll and Little Work in Coal Fields of Indiana. Indlunapolls. Reports from the Indiana coal fields to the headquar ters of the miners' organization show there Is much distress among the miners. Owing to the fact that work has been so scarce during the winter there are 10,000 miners destitute, and at no time has more than a third of them been employed, a fact due to the unusually mild weather and the consequent small demand -for coal. Arrangements are now making to give relief to many of the miners' families and to arrange so that work may be so distributed that every miner will have at leaBt a share of it. The miners' officers say that thera was never a time In the history of tho state when the winter output of the mines was as small, considering the number of men usually em ployed. Admiral Arthur P. Xnzro. Boston. Rear Admiral Arthur P. Nazro, U. 8. N. (retired), died sud denly of apoplexy at his home in Jamaica Plain. He was born in Wis consin in 1848. Arl.ona Must Walt. Washington, D. C. Statehood for Arizona is Impossible of accomplish ment at this session of Congress for two reasons primarily because the returns of tho election held on Feb ruary 9 cannot be canvassed and eee ttfled under the law In time to reach Washington for action by Congress, and,' secondly, because this Congress Is opposed to the constitution as drawn. Such is the view expressed by Delegate Ralph Cameron, from that territory. $,"00,000 For Lnbor War. Washington, D. C. Samuel Gomp crs, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, has sent to all la bor organizations throughout tho country a circular asking aid In raising a fund of half million dollars to be used In fighting opponents of organized labor at Los Angolea. i Iluy State for Reciprocity. Ronton. Tho resolution favoring reciprocity with i:anada pass'xl by the Houso was adoped in the Senate. POISONERS FOUND GUILTY Dr. Pantchpiiki) and Do Lassy Are Convicted. St, Petersburg. The sensational trial of Count Patrick O'Drlen De Lassy, Dr. Puntclienko and Mine. Muravlcff, charged with the murder of Count VasHlIli Bouturlln, came to an end Thursday night when a ver dict of guilty was rendered by the Jury In the case of De Lassy and Pantehcnko, and not guilty in the case of the woman. De Lassy was sentenced to penal servitude for life and Pantchenko to 15 years' Impris onment. The Jury noted extenuating circumstances In Pantchenko's favor which accounts for the lighter pun ishment meted out to him. The trial aroused enormous Interest and brought out startling testimony. Prior to the beginning of the pro ceedings Pantchenko made a confes sion In which he accused Da Lassy of hiring him to poison Count Vassllll, who was heir to General Houturlin's millions. Do Lassy's wife Is the daughter of General llouturlln, and the removal of Vassllli would natur ally mean that the general's great estate would go to his (laughter. On the witness stand Pantchenko denied the confession and made so many erratic statements that he came to be thought practically Insane. Much evidence was adduced, how ever, to show that he and Do Lassy had very Intimate dealings together. A KKMAItKAHLK CASE. Doctor Inoculated Victims With Cholera Itacilli. The whole of Russia was startled on February 2 last, when Dr. Pantch enko and Count O'Brien de Lassy were arraigned In St. Petersburg for murder, and the revelations at the trial Interested the entire world. The Doctor inoculated his victims with cholera and diphtheria serum and was accused of having started the cholera epidemic in St. Peters burg several years ago. On trial for the murdoiwof a count. Dr. Pantch enko said he was hypnotized and forced to commit the crime. The poison doctor, who was said to be a professional poisoner who killed heirs, rivals In love and cred itors for fees, some tinieB as high as $250,000, according to the police has admitted causing some 4 0 or more deaths. His method was to Inoculate his victim with cl.olera bacilli after he had been called to the bedside In his professional capacity. Ordinarily It was necessary that the Intended victim should be caught while indis posed and by some ruse adopted to bring about Pantchenko's attendance. CHIME IS A DISEASE. tiov. Oslmrn, of Michigan, Relieves in Corporal Punishment. Lansing, Mich. In an interview Indorsing the use of corporol punish ment to maintain discipline In ex treme cases at the state prison at Marquette, Gov. Chase S. Oshorn said: "Crime Is a disease, and with the chronic criminal nothing will hold him but fear of physical suffering, and this fear Is the greatest aid to discipline. If our mothers rould paddle us when we were children, I don't think it is going to hurt a hardened criminal to be touched up." MONKEY OVERTURN'S HEATER. Fire Results and Small Railroad Circus is Destroyed. Pottsvllle, Pa. A monkey over turning an oil heater In the winter quarters of a small railroad circus at Orwlgsburg, Pa., caused the de struction of all the circus parapher nalia, Including a cage of monkeys, trained apes, a pack of trained dogs, a den of snakes and several horses. One horse was the only thing taken out alive. Tho owner was In Wilkes-Barre arranging for new additions to his show preparatory to getting into shape to start South. Recluse Shot to Deuth. Panama City, Fin. The body of Richard Hancock, an aged recluse, was found at his home near here with three bullet wounds In the back. Richard McNeill, a negro, was ar rested, and confessed to having com mitted the murder. Hancock was re puted to have been wealthy and Is said to havei kept large sums of money in the house. Gives $10,000 for Library. New York. Mrs. Russell Sage has donated $10,000 for library pur poses for the members of the New York Fire Department. Notice to that effect was received by Rev. Ed ward M. H. Knapp, chaplain of the department, who Is designated as librarian. Plague Sufferers Fight, Vladivostok. The effort to en force sanitary regulations against the plague resulted In a fight between Russian soldiers and Chinese resi dents, during which six persons were killed and twenty others wounded. Vote on Prohibit ion. Augista, Me. The Maine Senate voted 23 to 7 to resubmit to the peo ple tho existing amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the manu facture and sale , of intoxicating liquor. Burglars Itrenk Into Jail. Wllkes-Rarre, Pa. Two masked burglars broke into tho town Jail at Warrior Run, Pa., near here, and bursting open the door of tho cell In which Stanley Jandus, the only prisoner, was confined, rohhed him at the point of a revolver of $29. The burglars then escaped, and Jan dus, who was being hold on a trivial charge, finding himself free, went out and notified the police. Like nenrly all such places In small towns, the lall was not guarded NEAR CLASSI WITH CHINA Russia Will Make Military De monstration on Frontier. ASSERTS THE TREATY IS VIOLATED. Free Truilo in Mongolia, Extra Ter ritorial Kight of Russians in China and Establishment of a Rus sian Consulate ut Kohdo tho Vital Points Involved Russian Press Characterizes It as "t'liiiia'si Per sistent Flouting of the Treaty Stip ulations." ' London. Tho rclntlons of Russia and China are strained to tho break ing point. Russia notified tho gov ernments of Great llritian, France and Germany of her Intention to make a military demonstration on the Russo-Chlnese frontier owing to China's persistent violation of the St. Petersburg treaty of 1881. Russiun troops will bo sent forth with to the district of 111. The extent of the demonstration, It is added In tho diplomatic note, will depend entirely upon the atti tudo assumed by China. The vital questions Involved nre free trade In Mongolia, tho extra-territorial rights of Russians In China, and the estab lishment of a Russian consulate at Kobdo, Mongolia. The greatest curiosity Is manifest ed In diplomatic circles as to the role which Japan will play In tho present crlBls, and also respecting the atti tude the United States is likely to adopt, should Russia carry out her threats. It is believed, however, that President Taft's cabinet will not go beyond gentle Intervention. DEMANDS OF RUSSIA. Threatens to Sever Friendly Rela tions With China. j St. Petersburg The strained re lations between Russia and China have finally resulted in decisive ac tion by the Russian government. Ac cording to Instructions, M. Koroto-i vltz, the Russian minister to China, has presented to that government a note bearing on the treaty of 1881, which China has seemed disposed to abrogate. The note contains six j points and Russia Insists upon com-' pllance on pain of complete cessation , of friendly relations. SURPRISE TO DIPLOMATS. China Likely to Make an Appeal to United States. Washington. Notice of Russia's Intention regarding China reached the State Department Thursday through the American Embassy at St. Petersburg. It appears that the Russian government, wearied of what It regards as persistent disregard by China of her treaty obligations to ward Russia, Is about to bring pres sure to bear to enforce her rights, even to the extent of a military dem onstration In the Province of 111, the Beat of the present trouble. The Russian government promises the American Embassy to acquaint It with particulars of the Indictment against China. The whole Incident comes as a great surprise to the dip lomatic Bervlce In Washington, for although It was known that sharp issues had arisen between Russia and China over conflicting claims of juris diction In Manchuria and In connec tion with commercial privileges in Mongolia, tho situation was not re garded as critical and It generally was believed that In view of the de plorable conditions existing In China as a result of the famine and the ravages of tho plngue, Russia would generously defer pressing her claims to the extreme at this time. SIGN'S EXPOSITION" RILL. President Tuft Uses CuM Pen Made For Purpose. Washington, D. C. President Taft signed the bill designating San Fran cisco as the city In which will be held In 1915 the exposition signaliz ing the completion of the Panama Ca nal. With a gold pen made of pre cious metal mined in the State of California, and in the presence of tho two United States senators and a number of the representatives from that state, the President atttached his signature to the engrossed bill. Mr. Taft presented the pen to one of the members of the party, and it will be placed on exhibition at the exposition. Kelaya Men Taken. Washington, D. C. Owing to a rumor that tho explosion at Mana gua, Nicaragua, was the result of a plot, the Government authorities there have arrested several sympa thizers of former President Zelaya. Salary Increase For Judges. Washington, D. C. The House voted to increase the salary of the Chief Justice of the United StateB from $13,500 to $15,000 a year and the salaries of associate justices from $12,500 to $14,000. Utah Feels Quakes. Salt Lake City, Utah. Four earth quake shocks were felt Wednesday night at Intervals of about 15 min utes. No damage was done here. Thirty-five Professors Resign. St. Petersburg. Thirty-live profes sors of tho University of Moscow re signed in consequence of the dismis sal of Rector Manuiloff, who was re moved by the minlstrv of education as a result of tho student rebellion. Pass Ref(rei'eiidiiin Rill, Sacramento, Cal. Senator Gates' resolution for tho submission to the people of a constitutional amend ment providing for the Initiative and reft rendum, was passed by tho Assembly. PASSED BY THE SENATE Forest Reserves For tie K: st Now Assnred. Washington, D. C. After many years of delay, the bill looking to tho creation of national forest re serves In tho White Mountains and tho Southern Appalachians, passed tho Senate, the vote standing 67 to 9. The negative vote was cast by Senators Uristow, Iiurton, Clark, of Wyoming; Cullom, Groutia and Mc Cumber, Republicans, and Senators Davis, Paynter and Shlvely, Demo crats. Tho bill passed the house of Representatives last session, and ail It was accepted by tho Senate with out change, it larks only tho signa ture of the President to elevate It into a statute. Tho entire day was given to the subject by the Senate. Senators Brandegne, of, Connecticut, and Gal- ! linger, of New Hampshire, stood as ; the special sponsors of the measure. Mr. ilrundrgee made a brief speech ' In tho Interest of an early vote. Sen , ators Simmons, of North Carolina, j and New lands, ofNevada, spoke in i support of the bill, and Senators Bur ton, of Ohio, and lleyburn, of Idaho, in apposition. The supporters of the measure resisted all efforts at amend ment on the theory that any change would Imperil the bill In the House. While It Is understood on all sides that the purpose of the bill is the acquisition of lands in the White , Mountains of New England and of the Appalachians, in the Southern Slates, for the creation of forest re serves, it contains no specific men tion of such purpose. The author ity for this proceeding is found In the general powers conferred by the bill. The carrying into effect of the pro , visions of the bill Is placed In tho I hands of a commission, to be com posed of tho Secretary of War, the j Secretary of the Interior, the Secre I tary of Agriculture, two senators and , two members of the House of Rep ; resentatlves. ' The purchase of land Is placed In ; the hands of the Secretary of Agri culture and Is confined to such areas as may affect the head waters of navigable streams. No purchase Is to be authorized until passed upon by the Geological Survey. The land once acquired, It is to be cut up Into forest reserves, as may seem best for administrative purposes. Authority for co-operation with different states is given and $2,000, 000 a year Is appropriated until 1915. DEATH FOR TRIPLE CRIME. N'egro Who Wiped Out Sanders Family Is Electrocuted. Raleigh, N. C. In the death cham ber at the state prison here Nathan Montague, the negro slayer, paid the death penalty In the electric chair. The negro's life was forfeited for a group of crimes committed in De cember laBt In Granville county. He not only committed a triple murder, but to this was added an assault on one of the victims, a highly respect ed young woman. His victims were J. L. Sanders, Miss Mnttle Sanders, daughter of the murdered man, and his little granddaughter, Irene Over ton. COAL CJAS KILLS COUPLE. Murder Mystery at Cumberland, Maryland, Solved. Cumberland, Md. That Charles E. Twlgg and Grace Elosser, the young couple found dead In the par lor of tho Elosser home on December 31 last, the eve of their wedding dny, camo to their end from carbon mon oxide (coal gas) poisoning, was the conclusion of the Washington and Baltimore chemists who tested the blood of the two victims. Heretofore tho .authorities have maintained that tho pair met their (loath by cyanide of potassium, the Coroner's jury returning a verdict to that effect. Daisy Drake. Des Moines, la. A cablegram an nouncing the death of DalBy Drake, accounted the most famous mission ary ever sent out from Drake Univer sity, reached here from India. She was a resident of Hampton before en tering mission work, fourteen years ago. Train Kills Threo Men. Donora, Pa. Three miners were killed at Dlalrs Station, near here, when they were struck by a passen ger train on the Mononganela divi sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The three started across the tracks to the company store and did not see the fast train approaching, owing to a sharp curve. Maine May End Prohibition, v Augusta, Maine. The Maine Sen ate voted 23 to 7 to re-submlt to the people the existing amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the manu facture and sale of Intoxicating liquor. The vote was, on strictly party lines, except that Senator Chandler, of Washington county, Re publican, voted with the Democrats, who are In the majority. The re submission resolution will go before the House tomorrow. Pul. Ushers Favor Reciprocity. Milwaukee, Wis. The Milwaukeo Publishers' Association, comprising all the dally newspapers of the city, unanimously adopted resolutions fa voring the ratification by Congress of the proposed reciprocity agreement between tho United States and Can ada. Iowa (Jets Oregon Plan Primary. Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Sen ate prssed the Oregon plnn primary bill, 31 to 16. It had passed the House last week SEVEN PERSONS PERISH BY FIRE Father Only Survivor in Blaze in West Virginia. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE CUT OFF Wife of J. D. Hardin Jumps I'roiq Window mid Dies a Short Timfl Afterward Tlio Six Children Are Incinerated In (lie House The. Cat nst ropho Caused by Natural Gas Fire Man's Life Saved by Being Thrown Through a Dool From tho SI airs. Charleston, W, Va. The entlr family of J. D. Hardin lost their lives, In a Ore which destroyed their home in the town of Sutton, Braxton coun ty, early Sunday morning, Hardin alone escaping. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Hard in awoke to find her room filled with smoke. She awoke her husband who, upon going to the head of the stairs, found the entire first floor wrapped In flames. Seizing his two eldest chil dren he made a dash for the stair way, which collapsed, It being almost consumed by tho fire. Wife .Jumps Fi-ikii Window. Hardin lost his hold on both chil dren, but rolled toward the door and escaped. Mrs. Hardin, seeing thq stairway collapse, jumped from a second-story window and, owing to he? delicate condition, received injurlei which resulted in her death less than an hour afterward. Though stunned by his awful ex perience, Hardin gave the alarm and tried to enter the building In an at tempt to save his children, but tht flames had made such progress that all efforts to rescue them were In vain. The bodies of the six children1 were Incinerated. In his efforts to spread the alarm, Hardin camo upon his wife whero she had fallen and she wan able to recognize him before death came. Ada Green was an orphan and had been given a home with the Hardlns. Due to a (ins Fire. The house was heated and lighted by natural gns and the fire is sup posed to have originated from a gai fire. The fire spread to the home ol State Senator Jake Fisher, but wai extinguished without much damage. Hardin is a member of the firm ol Waggy Hardin Lumber Compnny, op erating large lumber mills in Brax ton county. He Is a son of 'Squlr C. F. Hardin, an attache of the State Senate at the present session of the legislature. FAST MAIL HELD I P. Robber Dynamite Safe and Dis appear. Gainesville, Ga. Southern Rail way train No. 3(1, the United Statei Fast Mall, bound from New Orleans to New York,1 was held up by five masked men at White Sulphur Springs, four miles from here, at 3.15 o'clock A. M. The express car safe was dynamited and the content stolen. First reports said more than $100,000 was taken, but Southern Railway officials declare the amount was $700. None of the passenger! were molested. The robbers escaped in an auto mobile and are now thought to be In Hall county, probably bound for North Georgia, where pursuit, would be difficult. A posse Is on the trail. The robbers broke down the doors of the railroad station at White Sul phur, bound the night agent, and set tho signal for th train to stop. As the locomotive slowed up, one of the men entered the cab and ordered the engineer to proceed to Lulu, a small station several miles awny. After a stop was mnde, members of the gang entered the express car and while one held tho conductor and express mes senger at the point of a gun, the others blew open the door of the safe. Agent Terrlll, of the Southern Express Company; Deputy United States Mnrshnl Landers, Detective Haule, of the Southern Railway; Deputy Sheriff Little are with the posse with bloodhounds In pursuit Miss Hunt Wins IHr Verdict. St. Augustine, Fla. Miss Helen Hunt, who was expelled from Stet son University three years ago, wai awarded $15,000 by a Jury at De land in her suit against President Lincoln Hulley, of the school. The trial of the case lasted seven days. Given 1,12.1 Rank Accounts. Middlesboro, Ky. Rank accounts for every school child In Middlesboro were started Saturday by J. H. Bart lett, of this city, who deposited a small sum to t,he credit of each of the children enrolled In the school here, in the recently established pos tal savings bank. Hanged Himself With Shoestrings. Dayton, O. John Domokos, 28, a prisoner at the county jail, held for killing Mrs. Mary Hies on June 24 because she refused to elope with him, committed Buiclde In the county Jail by hanging himself with his shoe strings. It was his third attempt. Powder Explodes; Two Dead. Unlontown, Pa. Two men were killed and a third probably fatally Injured when an explosion wrecked the rorning department of the Du pont Powder Company, at Ollphant, Rrenkfnst Food For Horses. Washington, D. C. A new angle of the high rost of living problem has come to light. It Is the Increased cost of grain for horse feed, and as a substitute for oats the Bureau of Animal Industry has developed a sort of equine breakfast food composed o' cocoanut and peanut meals. A Rockefeller Dies at 00. South Bend. Ind. Joseph D Rockefeller, cousin of John D. Rock efeller, died at his home here at tl'f age of 90 years. live smri: CAPITAL Notes That Are of n!,.ri I'ennsylvaninris. Erief Mention ofM?tl as The Occur at Harm burg, Official and 0th,, wise. llarrlshurg Correspond, m . XEW SCHOOL ( (,M Tho Houso Commute ,, Hon, which Iihs before j; , aelwwit fin.ln lu extra sessionsIn order n, ,r, ' with its work. A new co .,,,',,," ceduro has been adopted, ,;,' eliminate some or the i.hj.., :',V features and thereby i;.,'u, 7'-,' longed fight on the Horn w !,,.? codo conies before tin. i j V new course Is to Intervi. a all .' members of the leglslai m .. ;u, , "' what tho objection of , ; ', '"' and receive suggestion ;ls ,nV Improvement might be n,.i i, . v,'i,! the school code was iii!u;...,.,'', tho last legislature, all r Hons were hurlod at It . Its appearance In the ..c.-.-. rn. result thai there was so i,,,,,;, fusion no ono fully m ,.i,r, ;Mty the scope of the code, i , r. J plan Is to have every pn.-.-iliii- , J lion that muy be raised V, present code aired before th.. t,',, mlttee, so that when li r.i.nliy ; ported out, most of the i,b, ,., -i( features will bo elimin m,.,. there will bo more likelihood of(.;i success. Would Itar Poor PiMiiiI. The commission appoint. ( ,v .-, last session of tho vm :i investigate the Independent mi houses of Philadelphia iiuh! ps port. Tho conclusions of the mission, briefly stated, ate: your commission reroinnien,!! it, passage of an act repealini: nit'n legislation lor the care of the -K or iiristoi, Uermantow, Lower Dublin and Roxlioi.nmh, a: the transfer of all the I'mii. rty o' theso poorhouses to the city of lj adelphla. In order that there may be am niodatlons for the Inmates of i'rh poorhouses, your commission ni gesta that the act be not .aw until tho Director of Health wti fles that there is room in the !! pital for the Indigent to provide ! such persons with accommodatio:! equally comfortable as at pres-nt The poorhouses themselves eon!! be used admirably by the ci'y lot the care of indigent children ami lot the treatment of certain diseas It may also be suggested, al:!:oj! vestlgation, that an act lie nrt making it unlawful for an aeewyo! the State to extend Its revenues fa the purpose of defeating or 8"rur!:i the passage of legislation r : ifi to such agency. Good Roads Itill. Senator William C. Sunn!, ol Delaware County, introduced in ft Senato two bills In which he alius t( provide a comprehensive plan W new highways throughout the S'w With the bills he introduced a w olutlon for amendment to the Court! tutlon to authorize a s:,o,iH")" bond Issue promptly to carry oa: the construction of the system o! State highways. Tho bills would create a W Highway Commissioner at a saim of $8,000 a year: first deputy at" 000; second deputy at f .ri.0'0; (W. engineer, at $4,000; assists! glneer, at $3,800; fifty livil n;i ncers to be known as siiperinter.ii. of highways, at $1,500 each a year. six civil engineers to act a' ants to the chief engineer, a; $-1 each a year; chief clrnulitsn.a:t, H $2400. and eight assistants drua- men, at $1800 each; chief li-rk $2400: two clerks and to - irrnnlinra $1 200 each: two l'i keepers, at ' $ 1200 each Approves Mine Fire I'reln'. Governor Tener announced hls'i nrnval nf the leclslllt Ive resolution authorizing tho appoint iu-tit of committee of three members of W ,House and two members of w SlD nt to investicate the mine fire W inir under the citv of Carbon Lackawanna County, and to repot to the present General Assembly no later than March 15 tho result ol their Investigation, with a re mendatlon as to what, if a-itv. W the State should take In the prennifs Tho nnvnrnnr nlsn antiroved hill nmUlnir an Rnnronriation of 000 to the Pittsburg Sister s of Chari ty, this appropriation having been' toed last session by mistake. The resolution favoring the Sullo way pension bill, now in Cotipr"' was also approved. I'lirlil Kmmnire Suits, Dairy and Food Commit011'' Foust directed that eight suits brought for the sale of sausac" on.l ii.olni. anil verV U (itlulllK iiuui auu nmn .. . tie meat. .The actions were onc brought In Bevkos, Schuylkill Chester Counties. Abolish February Klection "j, Governor Tener approved tin? J" abolishing the former February tlon day as a holiday and ( Columbus Day, October 12, a 1,1 holiday. " Heni lug of Water Complii!"' . Attorney General Pell gave a ''a Ing on ari application of Laura 0 0 nor Keller for a quo warring against the Johnstown Water C; pany. The claim Is mtido that- t company Is exceeding'' Its 'llar' rights In supplying water. Will Quarantine Church. The battle over the qua r:int"r tho Jonestown Church, wblf'1 fused to allow the town Don'" ' Health to quarantine tho bu!l ' because cf diphtheria.
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