The Fulton County News
MoConnellsburg, Pa.
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MODERN SCHOOL OF MARINERS.
The old Baying that there Is no loss
without noma guln In borne out by the
change which bin been wrought n
the country's shipping. There has
been much lament over the decadence
of the famous Yankee seamanship,
but after the passing of the clipper
and whaling fleets at last has como
to the high seas a new breed ftf Amer
toans who are the equals If not the
superiors of the old. The mechan
ical genius of the nation has sent
many young men to the steamships
Of the navy and the merchant marine,
says the Cleveland Leader. Ninety
per cent, of the sailor-mechanics of
the United States navy are American
born. Twenty years ago, the propor
tion of Americans on merchant ves
sels was otily about 30 per cent.. In
1910 the proportion wok 49 per cent.,
the natives heavily predominating
ever the nuturallzod. The showing
for this year will be even better, as
the movement of American to the
sea has been steadily Increasing for
several years. In many ways the ma
riners of the new school are better
than the old shellbacks that heaved
at the cup's! an bar and lay out on the
end of the yardarni. The demands
of s!eam and electrical machinery re
quire a different kind of skill and
more Intelligence. The constnut ad
vance of mechanics and electrical
science makes It necessary for them
to keep mentally fresh and alert.
They know more and are more pro
gressive than the old-time snllor and
In their habits they are cleaner.
A strong movement Is to be started
In England to limit the reading of
trashy novels, w hich . are perverting
the emotions ami lowering the thought
of the youth. Some of the most In
fluential men In England have Joined
the movement. As a general thing,
parents do not realize the harm the
Indiscriminate reading of novels is
doing their children. The constant
reading of novels, even of good ones,
weakens the mind. It has about the
same effect on the mind that loung
ing in a hammock or floating down
stream hns on the muscles. The mind,
to appreciate truth, has to deal with
truth, and encounter and overcome ob
stacles that are In its way. Lacking
this exercise It grows weak and flab
by. The parent might as well, from
the very start, give up his child, so
far as worth and noble destiny in this
world Is concerned, who is a constant
reader of novels.
A variation of the Enoch Arden
story comes from a New York town,
where a man who had deserted his
wife had the uncomfortable experi
ence of having her unexpectedly walk
In on him and have him arrested. If
this variation could only replnce the
crlginal practice, it would be much
better for the community In general
and have the effect of reducing the
number of these wanderers from their
own firesides, who have formed a dis
tinct class of public nuisances.
A Michigan lawyer has found a new
way to break a will. One of his cli
ents spoke his will Into the trumpet of
a phonograph and bad the record put
away. His lawyer, by dropping the
record, smashed it into a thousand
pieces. It seems to be impossible to
make a will that some lawyer can't
break, somehow.
Blind psychic Impulse leads beau
tiful women to the selection of ugly
men, according to a Canadian obser
ver, who adds that It not Infrequently
leads to a fat bank account. Blind!
no; psychic? relatively; Impulse?
hardly.
David Starr Jordan would abolish
college baseball because of the
"scientific muckeriBm" in Joshing the
players. In professional baseball the
muckerlsm is for mors scientific but
less classical.
The Krupps have a monoroly In a
projectile which will hit a balloon. It
Is likely that two or three men will
have a monopoly In being In the bal
loon.
The Wisconsin boyB who save them
elves labor by having a p'lonograph
call the cows out of the pisture are
perfectly willing to rely upon humun
lungs for the dinner announcement.
People who have nothing else of im
portance to do nre arguing the ques
tion, "Hoes the robin sing or does he
merely chirp?" It Is almost as exciting
as playing chess.
"All the epidemic and local diseases
thrive upon the family cat," asserts an
authority. This may explain why the
animal Is endowed wlih nine lives.
A rope manufacturer has Just been
made a director in a cigar company
Almost anybody could say something
about the fitness of things here.
A tunnel nine miles long through
the Alps has Just been completed. It
had to hurry up to get finished before
the airship made It a back numbtr.
Thieves in Brooklyn stole a ton of
coal from a citizen's cellar.whlch.
shows that the simple life canffOt be
. entirely extinct.
Washington has a club of girl avia
tors. Women refuse to stay down In
these days of change and reform.
SECRETARYOFWAR
DICKINSON 0U1
He Resigns as the Secretary
of War.
H.LSTIMSON HIS SUCCESSOR
In Hie Letter to the President Mr.
Dickinson 3ys He Is Compel
led to Retire, Owing to
Pressing Business.
Washington, D. C Secretary of
War Dickinson has resigned and Mr.
Henry L.' Stlmsou, Colonel Roose
velt's candidate for the governorship
of New York last fall, has been ap
pointed to succeed him.
President Taft seemed to enjoy
thoroughly the surprise with which
Ike announcement of Mr. Dickinson's
retirement was greeted. To antici
pate the gossip that would ascribe
other reasons for Mr. Dickinson's
withdrawal from the Cabinet at a
time when the Secretary of War ap
pears to he the most important mem
ber of the President's advisers. It
was frankly stated at the White
House that Mr.' Dickinson felt he
as compelled to resign because of I
personal reasons and stress was laid
on the statement that Mr. Dickinson
would not return to the practice of .
his profession, but would devote him-1
elf entirely to his business Interests
In Tennessee
Mr. Dickinson and family are very '
heavily Interested In a coal mine In I
Tennesseo, which has for some time
past proved a losing venture and has, , nmn nedg The regUlali0I1g here
Indeed, been placed In the hands of a ! ,ofore goverlllng the appointment of
receiver. It Is Inferred from what I ,.. ,...-,, . Iha Armv haVe
was said that Mr. Dickinson feels
himself compelled to assume per- I
onal management at once of his i
properties and that he feels he can-,
not afford to remain longer In Wash
lngton. Although one of the lead
ers In his profession of the law, and
for many years In the enjoyment of
a large salary as chief counsel of the
Illinois Central Railroad, Mr. Dickin
son Is not a wealthy man, and It was
reported not long ago that he had
sold a splendid stock farm In which
he had taken the deepest pride.
Iff' Vtf.r7
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JACOB M. DICKINSON
Secretary of War.
It Is not usually regarded In Wash,
lngton as either fitting or necessary
to state so frankly the reasons for a
public official's retirement to private
life. If the usual course has been t
departed from to so unusual a de
gree In Mr. Dickinson's case, it is
probably because of the rumors that
have been current here for some time
of friction In the cabinet between
Secretaries Dickinson and Knox. It'
has been gossiped that Mr. Knox
strongly resented the fact that the ;
great military movement of several
weeks ago, when 20,000 troops were
ruBhed within rifle shot of Mexico,
was entirely planned and executed
without his knowledge. Indeed,
within the past fortnight It was found
necessary to issue an official denial at
the White House of the persistent !
report that Secretary Knox would
shortly resign, because he felt that
he was not being given the considera
tion due his office In the affairs of
this country In the Mexican matter.
The announcement of Mr. Dickin
son's resignation might easily have ,
been construed as the result of an ,
uHlmatunTfrom the Secretary of I
State that the further presence of i
Mr. Dickinson and of himself In the
Cabinet would prove uncongenial.
The extreme candor of the official ex
planation of Mr. Dickinson's resigna
tion puts an effective and final stop
to all such malicious gossip.
Kossuth's Niece Sees Ta t
Washington. D. C. Madame Am
hrosvltz, of Vienna, niece of the Hun -
garlan patriot Louis Kossuth, was
received at the White House by
President Taft.
Pensions for P esidenta' Widows.
Washington, D. C Pensions of
$6,000 a year each for Frances F.
Cleveland, widow of President Cleve
land, and Mary Lord Harrison, widow
of President Harrison, are provided
for in a bill Introduced In the Sen
ate by Senator Root, of New York.
To Insure French Aviators.
Paris. An Insurance office to
make a specialty of aviation, was
opened next door to the only aero
plane ticket office in the city.
Spanish Steamer Sunk
Dover, England. The British
steamer Westmoreland collided with
the Spanish steamer Debayo, from
Huelva for Rotterdam, off Goodwin
Bands. The impact was so terrific
that the Spaniard sank two minutes
later. Her captain, chief officer and
three sailors were drowned.
Ch'nese to Cbssrve Sunday.
Peking. An Imperial edict de--reelag
that Chinese shall observe
Sunday as a day of rest, has been
romulsated.
In
COURTING THE
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THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
TIONAL ANTHEM. NEW8 ITEM.
OPENING TO MILITARY GLORY
Civilians May Now Win Army Com
missions New General
Order Issued.
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Washington. D. C. Bright young
, ambitious to wear the
unlform an(J Ule g10ui,.r girap 0f
thg government will be given an op-
uortunitv to win , heir commissions,
ni1 ,, ... t llag lut
,gued gellural ordPr glvng Jn UJ.
, th ,nformatlon that every young
nio,iined hv President Taft so
M t0 conform t0 pregcDt condtlons.
A offlMri mugt enter the KryltM
ag gecond lleut,nauti. Keoond ,lcu.
tenancies are filled by appointment
' by the President, first, by cadets who
' have graduated from the West Point
I .Military Academy; second, by en
listed men in the ranks who have
, passed competitive examinations,
and third, by civilians between the
ages of 21 and 27 years.
The War Department designates a
I large number of young men from all
J over the country who are subjected,
after a rigid physical test, to a se
vere oompetltlve mental examination.
No young man who Is married Is
designated for these examinations,
nor will any cadet at West Point or
midshipman at the Naval Academy
be permitted to enter these examina
tions until after the classes of which
they have been members while at
: West Point or at Annapolis have
' graduated.
) Preference Is given among the
I civilian candidates to honor gradu
ates from those schools and colleges
at w hlch Army professors are detail
jed as professors of military science,
1 and at which the students have
i shown a degree of proficiency which
has entitled the schools to be
designated as "distinguished insti
tutions." Next In order of choice
are members of the organized militia
who have served not less than three
years creditably.
The general orders of the War De
partment give full Information as to
i the subjects on which the mental ex
aminations will be based. No candi
date falling to obtain a general aver
age of 76 points will be appointed as
second lieutenant. Candidates whose
general average in a competitive
mental examination Is 85 or more
will be graded separately and select
ed to fill existing vacancies In the
order of their merit, and the remain
ing vacancies, if any, will be dis
tributed among the candidates whose
average Is less than 85 but not be
low 75.
AGUA PRIETA CHANGES HANCS
Federals Abandon It and Rebels Take
Posssss on.
Douglas, Ariz. With Agua Prleta,
the town about which a desperate
battle raged two weeks ago, thrown
back on their hands by Its abandon
ment by the federals, the members
of the rebel Junta in this city are at
a loss what to do with It.
The town is deserted. Tho town
of Naco also fell Into retn-l hands,
its volunteer garrison withdrawing.
With the port of Naco closed all
provisions and other supplies for
Cananea and intervening points on
the Naco Railroad must pass through
Nogales.
Got Wife Bv Prayer.
Spartanburg, S. C. Madly In love
with a woman whom he had known
only two days, the Rev. Allen Fort
' a Baptist preacher of Chattanooga,
I says he prayed for advice and was
told by the Lord to propose. He did
an and was accented.
c Playhouse Burned
Wilmington, Del. Fire wrecked
the Lyric Theatre and damaged ad
joining properties, entailing a loss of
about $75,000. The theater was a
vaudeville and moving picture house
and" did a big business. Mrs. Wll-
1 Ham Benner, wife of the lessee of the
theater, and Gertrude Ward, house
keeper for the Benners, were carried
down ladders by firemen from the
third Btory windows. John and Dan
iel Mullln, actors, were assisted down
the same ladders to the street.
Chloago Wants G. O. P. In 1912.
Chicago. First steps in a move
ment to bring the Republican Nat
ional Convention to Chicago In 1912
were taken by the board of directors
of the Republican County Central
Committee at Its annual meeting.
Resolutions were passed requesting
the Republican National Committee
to pick Chicago as the next conven
tion city and urging the national
committeeman from Illinois, Frank
O. Lowden, to use his Influence to
that end.
PATRIOTIC MUSE
AWARDED FOR THE BEST NA-
ESTABLISHED FACT
Dr. Gomez Minister of Foreign
Relations.
THE CITY IN GOOD ORDER.
Provisional Government Becomes a
Fact With the Captured
City of Jaurez as the
Capital.
Juarez, Mexico. Mexico's provi
sional Government, composed of In
surrectionists, became an established
fact with the naming of a cabinet by
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., provisional
president, and with the establish
ment of a capital in the captured city
of Juarez, where General Navarro
and his Federal troops are held
prisoners.
The Cabinet follows:
Minister of Foreign Relations
Dr. Vasquez Gomez.
Finance Gustavo A. Madero.
War Venulstano Carrauza.
Interior F. Gonzales Garza.
Justice JoBe M. Pino Suarez.
Private Secretary to President
Madero Juan Sanchez Azcona.
Secretary of War Carranza will
have charge of railways and tele
graphs. His first act was to grant
permission for the repair of the
Mexican Northwestern railroad. Men
immediately began repairing the
roadbed south of Juarez.
Gonzales Garza will have charge
of the mail service, and Secretary of
the Treasury Madero will direct the
affairs of the Custom House.
That the insurrecto army is more
than simply an armed mob Is shown
In the absence of general looting and
Intoxication and the quickness with
which the shattered city was cleared
of Its dead and wounded. The
embargo against visitors was re
moved and sightseers In thousands
poured across the bridges from EI
Paso.
Only occasional cases of looting
were reported, and these not by the
Insurrectos themselves, tut by In
satiable curio hunters, one of whom
triumphantly displayed In Kl Paso
two silver candlesticks taken from
the big church In which the Fed
erals made a desperate stand.
While Madero refuses to divulge
his plans for the Immediate future,
Provisional Governor Abram Gon
zales, of Chihuahua, unoftlcially says
that the next step Is to take Chihu
ahua, annihilate Rabngo nnil his
command and then march to Torreon
land on to Mexico City. This Is to
be the slogan of the army of libera
tion, so-called, and the first move
will be made by Orozco, who will go
out to meet Rabago should the Fed
eral General approach near Juarez.
To Abolish the "Mister "
Washington, D. V. Military pro
cedure in calling the roll In the
House of Representatives will lie
adopted, and the prefix "Mister" no
longer will be used In the designa
tion of members, If a resolution In
troduced by Representative Martin,
of Colorado, Is passed by the House.
L'ghtnlng Kills Eight Persons.
Berlin. During thunder storms
that occurred throughout Germany
Thursday lightning killed eight per-
I k"b 811(1 n,'nr Hamburg rekindled a
! natural gas well which had been
! recently capped with the greatest
difficulty.
Ends I ife In Cll.
Philadelphia. Jenn Rochelle, 30
years old, committed suicide in a cell
of a police station here by hanging
himself to the bars, using a necktie
as a noose. A man who had been
arrested for Intoxication was in the
same cell, but slept soundly while
Rocrelle killed himself. Rochelle
and his wife were arrested while
quarreling on the street and the wife
was In a cell nenr her husband when
he ended his life. The couple came
hero from New York two months
ago.
Lost His Lite to Sav- Pets.
Edinburgh. A performing lion,
maddened by burns and in fear of
death, was directly responsible for
the loss of at least eight lives In a
fire that destroyed the Empire Music
Hall. The animal's master, "The
Great Lafayette," two of his assist
ants, Alice Dale and Joe Coates, and
James Balnes and John Whelan,
musicians, are among the victims.
They lost their lives trying to con
trol the terrified animal which had
blocked ihe main exit from the dress
ing room.
MADERO CABINET
SUFFOCATE IN MINE AFIRE
Four Reicue Parties Fight Way Into
Shaft Njked Light
the Cause.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Five lives
were lost by suffocation in the Bos
ton mine of the Delaware and Hud
son Company, at Lnrksvlile,t near
here.
A strike began at the colliery on
Tuesday, and consequently only a
small number of men were at work.
Had the full force been engaged the
loss of life would have been ap
palling. Fire broke out In a section of the
mine where rock miners were em
ployed, but it Is said to have been
gotten under control without diffi
culty. Eleven men were at work in that
section. After midnight the odor of
smoke was detected and another
alarm was sounded. All the em
ployes In the inside workings made
their way from a side vein to the
main gangway, but the smoke had
become so dense that, nearly all were
overcome.
COMBINES BOOM COTTON
$33,000,000 Merger, With 1,000,
000 Spinalis, Poposed--Mor-gan
and Cuke nteretted.
New' York. With the return of
Frank L. I'nderwood to New York
after a long trip through the South,
where, It is understood, he has been
arranging details of the merger of
cotton yarn mills with a total of
1,000,000 spindles, It Is expected that
definite announcement regarding
this, the lateBt of four big cotton
mill corporations, will become
known.
Besides several local concerns,
headed by the Morgans, it 1b reported
that J. B. Duke Is also Interested In
tho proposed consolidation. It Is
understood that the plan proposed by
the promoters is a merger of 1,000,
000 spindles on which bonds will be
Issued to the amount of $10,000,000,
half for the purchase of tho proper
ties and the other half, for working
capital. There will also be Issued
$12,500,000 in common and $12,
500,000 In preferred stock, amount
ing to $35 a spindle. The mills en
tering the merger are to get 20 per
cent, cash for their properties, 4 0
por cent, in preferred and 40 ier
cent. In common stock In the cor
poration. The promoters will retain
10 per cent, of each stock for their
services.
The mills entering the merger are
to have their properties assessed by
Lockwood, Green & Co., of Boston,
and J. K. Sirrine, of Greenville, S. C.
SHIPS IN MIDNIGHT CRASH
Ward Liner Merlda Sunk, but 319
Persons Rescued.
Norfolk, Vn. A near-tragedy ot
the sea, filled with many thrilling
narratives of human rescue and
escape, occurred off this coast, when
the Ward Line steamer Merlda,
bound from Havana, Cuba, for New
York, with 819 souls on hoard, sank
In 36 fathoms of water 55 miles
northeast of Cape Charles, after she
had been rammed by the fruit
steamer Admiral Farragut, bound
from Philadelphia for Port Antonio.
Every person aboard the Merlda
was rescued, and but one was seri
ously Injured the wife of A. Peon,
a land proprietor of Progresse, Mex
ico, who, with his entire family, was
bound for Paris, to await the end of
Mexican troubles. Mrs. Peon, oc
cupying a room Immediately next to
where the Farragut struck the
Merlda, was Injured, probably In
ternally. Says G-r' Sto'e Him.
Chicago. Joe Blakeslee. very
blond and very small, wants a divorce
and wants It badly. He declares his
wife, the daughter of Fire Captain
Shaughnessy, literally kidnapped
him, took him to St. Joe, Mich., and
there married him. The bride, a
year older than her 18-year-old hus
band, laughingly denied that she had
done the kidnapping. The court
took the case under advisement.
Pouiht Ten of Prunos
Cheyenne, Wyo Relatives of
Joseph H. Klngham, former assistant
postmaster, sentenced to eight years
for embezzlement of $23,300 of gov
ernment funds, will ask a rehearing
of the case. Among the grounds
upon which this rehearing is sought
Is evidence that Klngham once
j bought a ton of prunes for his family
and at another time purchased 40
pairs of trousers for himself.
Preparing to Greet American Fleo'i
St. Petersburg. The naval au
thorities at Reval are making exten
sive preparations -for tho visit of the
second division of the I'nited States
Atlantic fleet. The battleships will
be In thnt port from June 11 to June
18.
Ohio Voters Disfranchised.
Portsmouth, Ohio.. Fourteen resi
dents of the Second ward of thla
city, who were charged with selling
their votes, were disfranchised for
five years by Judge A. Z. Blair.
Workhouse sentences of six months
and fines of $25 and costs which had
been imposed were suspended pend
ing good behavior. All are labor
ers and It Is charged they Bold their
votes for prices ranging from $1 to
$3 each.
Stlmson Is Gratified
Huntington, L. I. "I am very
much gratified by the mark of con
fidence In me which President Taft
has displayed," said Henry L. Stlm
son, the nowly-appo'.nted Secretary of
War. Mr. Stlmson would not com
ment further on his appointment.
He said he expected to assume his
new duties as Boon as he could ad
Just his private affairs. How soon
that would be he did not Indicate.
It Is said that apples are an anti
dote for liquor and tobacco.
OUTBREAK IN
HDERiRi ARMY
Orozco, One of His Own Gener
als, Orders His Arrest.
DARES MEN TO SHOOT HIM.
Insurrecto Leaders Declare Outbreak
the Result of a Plot to Break
Up the Revolutionary
Organization.
A Day's Events In Mexico.
Oencral Madero, the provi
sional President, turned what
was evidently Intended as a coup
of malcontents to disrupt the
Insurrecto organization Into a
triumph for himself.
Fearing that an attempt might
be made on the life of General
Navarro, the Federal comman
der who surrendered at Juarez,
Madero spirited hliu away to the
Rio Grande and enabled him to
reach United States territory.
The Mexican capital Is virtual
ly in a stage of slego and ma
chine guns have been mounted
to protect the palace.
Juarez, Mexico. The supreme test,
the clash between the military and
political authorities, was experienced
by the Provisional Government ol
Mexico and Provisional President
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., Is compleU
master of the situation.
After a day of thrilling incidents
during which the lives of Madero
and his chiefs were In danger, Gen
eral Orozco, In a moment of passion
ordering the arrest of the little rebel
leader and demanding the resigna
tion of the Provisional Cabinet, thi
capital of the Provisional Govern
ment Is quiet.
General Navarro, the defeated Fed
eral commander, whose life wai
threatened by angry mobs of Insur
rectos, was spirited away by Madero
In person to the American side of th
Rio Grande and is safely ensconBed Id
the homo of friends in El Paso.
Madero Issues) Epl nation.
Senior Madero gave out the loilow
lng explanation of tho day's events:
"Orozco, excited by the victory,
probably from the adulation and bad
advice of persons Interested in caus
ing disunion among us, committed 8
fault which fortunately had no conse
quences. "He complained that the troops die
not have sufficient provisions, and
wanted to lay the fault upon the per
sons designated by me to provlslot
the army, but the truth is that In the
storehouses we have more thar
enough provisions, so that the fault ii
with the provider of his corps, who
has not attended to his duty.
"Ho told me also that he did nol
like the persons whom I had
designated as Cabinet officers, but 1
told him that it was not he whe
should tell mo whom I should ap
point. Clasped Hands and Made-up.
"There being present a consider
able number of soldiers at the plac
where we met, it appeared to me op
portune to address them and explain
to them what was transpiring. Thej
all showed that they were well dis
posed to concord, and In order to ter
minate the small and disagreeable
Incident before them Orozco and I
clasped hands and forgot everything,
as I took Into account that although
It was true that he had Just com
mitted a fault, on the other hand, he
had given good service to the cause."
YEARS EXPORTS $2,012,749,508
Two-Bllllon-Doliar Mark Passed for
the First Time
Washington, D. C. Exports from
the 1'nlted States for the first time In
any 12-nionth period passed the two-blllion-dollar
mark, being $2,012.
749,503 for the year ended with
April, according to figures prepared
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
Exports In April, $158,004,276.
were larger than for any previous
April, while the Imports were nearly
$14,000,000 less than those of April
1910. Of the total Importation
during the month, amounting to
$120,128,122, there entered free of
duty $58,000,000 worth.
The excess of exports over Imports
for April was $37,800,000 and for
the 10 months ended with April
$378,800,000.
20 Belgian Soldiers Drowned
Antwerp. Belgium. A news dis
patch reports the capsizing of two
barges laden with Belgian soldiers,
during a storm, on the Lualaba
river, one of the head streams of the
Congo river, near Lokandu, Belgian
Congo. Thirty lives were lost.
Mr. Dodge Guilty
Guild Hall, Vt. Guilty of man
slaughter was the verdict returned in
the caso of MrB. Florence M. Dodge,
of Lunenburg, who has been ou trial
for the last two weeks for the mur
der of William Heath, of Dalton,
N. H.
For Big Rrlief Fund
Toklo. Prince Katsura, Premier
and Minister of Finance, is leading a
movement to obtain a fund of $10,'
000,000 to be used for the relief of
the sick and poor of Japan.
D'etz Guilty.
Hayward, Wis. John F. Dleti
will spend the remainder of his nat
ural life at hard labor in the State
penitentiary at Waupin by the ver
diet of the Jury for the murder in
the first degree of Deputy Oscar
Harp In the battle of Cameron Dam
on October 8 last.
Indications point to a heavy mor
tality from plague In India this year
Cases and deaths have Increased
each week this year.
ALL OVER THE STATE
TOLD IN
SHORT ORDER
Allentown. Because he manajiail
to grasp the top of an 80-foot high
Jtrlck wall, Frank Gallagher, a string
tural Iron worker on the KltterHvHie
Asylum, escaped certain death. liq
was riding a heavy iron rafter tha
was being elevated for position on
the roor, when it bigan to Blip, liej
low him was a clear space of 80 feot;
bounded by the concrete basement
floor. His refuge lay In Jumping for!
the wall ten feet away. No circus
athlete ever did any more tlirillliiq
stunt than Gallagher as he Jumped;
high In air for the wall. He juuij
managed to grab the edge with ihq
tips of his fingers, where he hung on
with Iron grit until a big crane was
swung around to save him.
Holltdavsburr. The Blair counts
court appointed Herman J. McCaulcij
and J. F. Meek to act as receivers
the Keystone State Savings and I. nan
Association, of Altoona. The ap-i
polntment was made In proceeding
Instituted by stockholders who alJ
lege that the- association had lc eti
wrecked by mismanagement of Wi
officers.
Reading. Although she denied
wearing a hobble skirt last Dccem-j
ber when she was thrown and Injur.
ed In boarding a trolley car, the jury
In the damage suit of Mrs. Kuru K.
Manger, of New York, against tlm
Reading Transit Company was un
convinced that her tight fittlm; divsq
was not responsible for the accident,
and returned a verdict In favor oj
th company.
Allentown. incensed because
wife had left him on account of li s
thlftlessness and brutality, .lolm
Grentman shot her and himself at
their homo, between ZIonBvllle ani
Trelchlersvllle, when she returned tq
visit her children.
Harrlsburg. Figures collected i,
the State Railroad Com mission show
that In. March 102 eople were killed
and 660 Injured on the railroads ol
the State, a singular coincidence lie
lng that the number of railroad fa.
tallties In March of last year was the
same.
Pottsvllle. Mrs. Benjamin (iranc
er, aged 32 years, who killed nor
seven-year-old son, whose hands sli
tied while she cut his Jugular vein.
was taken to the State Asylum at
Hanisbure. She was a maniac when
she perpetrated the deed, and piivsN
clans say she is hopeessly Inpnne.
Reading. In beoucathing a $2nn..
000 estate the will of Willlnm M,
Stauffcr, a financier and prominent
Methodist, filed here, gives a
building to the local W. C. T. V. It
Is to be occupied by that organic
tion "to educate public sentiment to
the standard of total abstinence and
to promote Interest In reform work.'
Harrlsburg. Mayor Meals issued a
proclamation for a safe and mm
Fourth of July, prohibiting firecrack
ers and other pyrotechnics and urg.
Inir that the Park Commission liava
a fireworks display for the residents
of the city. The proclamation is the
first of the kind ever Issued here
Coopersburg. Miss Marlon On. "8
fhla olaee. who Is 11 years old, H
nrobablv the youngest high sclmol
rraduate in the State. At the gradii-.
atlon exercises of the Center Valley!
High School she was graduated with
high honors. Her father is a puliH
school teacher, as were her maternal
and paternal grandfathers.
Altoona. The first death from In
fantile paralysis to occur In this vl.
rlnltv. carried off Madeline, six-
months-old daughter of Sami Simp.
The child had been 111 several weeks;
Harrlsburg. John Whlsler, Jr.
sired six. died from eating pill foi'"4
In a box in his home. The pills f'
talned strychnine and were prescrib
ed as a tonic for an older member of
the family.
Harrlsburg. Emlllo Rubs, r mem
ber of the famous family of IlitrrU
burg hotelkeepers, was almost kllM
K foiling thrmiirh a skvllgllt at h"
hotel. He fell through the skylit;"
from a distance of fifteen feet ana
struck upon his head.
r-n,ilng. The body of William H
Rlbble, a well-known bookkeeper,
was found In the Schuylkill -'onal-He
left a note addressed to his wife,
stating: "You can find my K"dl
down at the canal." He had recent
ly been in Ill-health.
Harrlsburg. Governor Timer wt
June 22 as the date for the execution
of Charles Hickman, convicted of
murder In Beaver County, Hickman
twice escaped from prison, but
recaptured recently.
Gettysburg. Official announ
ment was made here thnt an annul
Chautauqua will be established "
Gettysburg. The first will be he'"
August 18-27.
York. The York County M101
Society had Andrew C. 'euhart'
wealthy citlm, who is reputed i
be a pow-wow doctor, arrested. "
A. A. Long was-the prosecutor.
hart says the prosecution is the
suit of spite work.
Pittsburg. The Pittsburg &
Erie Railroad Company e,,,l'l!',ted
plea of nolo contendere In the 1 m
8tates District Court to charts
violating the Interstate comnwrce
and Judge Orr imposed a n"uini
fine of $1,000.
Tamaoua. As a result of coll' iWJ
between cars In number font"
of the Ihigh Coal & NJR ,
Company, Wash Prebola and 1
Pollnkl, miners of Lansford.
Instantly killed, and Simon Frc'u-
laborer, has his legs broken.
York. Major David D. s""''
was one of the first defenders
wer to Abraham Lincoln's fa
troops in 1861, died suddenly
home here.
One-third of Britain's tcl,Sr,pl1
operators are women.