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.