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WHEN THE PETS SUFFER.
A largo gray cat leaped to death
jfrom a 13story window of a New
"York hotel, and a telegram give the
texplanatlou that the animal committed
tulclde In this way because It mis
tress had sailed for Europe, leaving It
liehlnd, says the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph. Whether the cat commit
ted suicide or not la Immaterial, but
the Incident does serve a purpose in
calling attention to a pathetic Hide of
the vacation season. In thousands of
koines all over the country tliere are
fcouaehold pels, audi as dogs and cats
and birds, and as many of these homes
are closed during ibe summer, or at
least for several weeks, the pets are
In most Instances left to shift for
themselves. For the Bake of the song
Ihere are neighbors who will tuke
barge of the canaries during the ab
sence of their owners, but for the dogs
nd the cats there are, as a rule, only
J; argli words and tuffetlngi from the
neighbors, and sticks and Btones
from the urchins of the community,
and the poor creatures, homeless,
friendless, and abused, are Indeed ob
jects of pity. It would be much more
humane for the owners of these pets
to put them to deuth before going
way on their vacutlon trips, Instend
of leaving them to their fate, but the
practice of deserting them goes on
jrear after year.
A bulletin recently Issued by the
census department shows that the
United States leads the world In man
ufacturing silk, with the possible ex
ception of China, from which no flg
ures are obtainable. We took first
jilace from France In 1905, and have
maintained our lead. We not only are
the greatest manufacturers of silk
goods, but the greatest consumers. Al
though we manufactured In 1909 silk
-worth $196,425,000, we exported less
than one per cent, of tbe goods we
made. Our silk Industry In 1869
amounted to J12.210.000. It was more
than $41,000,000 ten years later. It bad
more than doubled again In 1SS9, when
3t was $87,298,000. It was $107,256,
O00 In 1909 and more than $133,000,000
live years later.
The Instruction of school children
on the danger of railroad trespassing;
Is a good thing to take up. Much of
the danger Is Incurred through child
ish thoughtlessness and failure of re
quisite attention of parents and ln
f tructors to the matter. The fact that
cars and trains have the right of way
on railway tracks cannot be too strong
ly Impressed on the youthful mind. In
Jact, It might with advantage be
brought to some adult attention. At
the same time, much danger, particu
larly to the young and to the aged and
.feeble, might be lessened by more at
tention on tbe part of car and train
rrews to the laws governing the rate
of speed In cities, particularly the
ordinances applying to the street
crossings.
Surgeon B. M. Brown, U. S. N., has
discovered a method of treating at
mospheric air so that It shall sustain
life for us as much as a week In an
enclosure of moderate size even
though no fresh air Is Introduced. If
the Bcbeme really works, we shall
tear of public men and fushlonablo
women seeking the rest cure by a
week's vacation In a submarine Im
mersed say a hundred miles off shore.
Somebody who claims to have con
ducted a scientific Investigation an
nounces that music will quench a
mans' thirst for strong liquor. If
this is the case tba bands that have
been maintained by some of the
fashionable cafes are likely to be
compelled to look elsewhere for en
gagements. Another comet has been sighted. If
Jt creates all the commotion as
ribed In this sphere to Halley's corn
et, its discoverer ought to be Jailed on
the charge of disorderly conduct, so
that other seekers after these mis
chief breeding celestial vagrants may
fee discouraged from breaking tho pub
lie's peace of mind.
Now a scientist announces that the
lalo is a real thing, and that a faint
glow can actually come from the
train, the result of radium stored
there. This explanation, however, will
destroy the value of halos, as some
brains radiate nothing but faint
glows.
Confectioners say the bonbon has
passed and that young women's appe
tites must be figured upon In candy
making. Time was when an oyster
tew, at least, was a certain and addi
tional obligation.
As you step up to the marble topped
counter In the drug store and call for
7our favorite fizz, ask the young man
If he mixes saccharin with bis soda
.water, and watch his face as he ans
wers. When the weather man climbs to the
100 mark on the thermometer It does
not mean thut he has achieved a lofty
place in tbe hearts of his countrymen.
lAnd yet the misguided Individual Is
carrying on like a steeple Jack.
President EmerltuB Eliot of Har
vard says no American city of 100,000
Inhabitants or over Is anywhere near
as clean as It might be. Many small
er towns In this country might be
icleaner than they are-
TO STAY PANIC
10 1
Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany Deal.
STORY CF A PLOT IS DENIED.
Brother of Mark Hanni Telia the
House Investigating Commu
tes That the Iranjaoti jn
Saved the Day.
New York. No ulterior motives
lurked behind tho taking over of the
Tennessee Coul und Iron Company by
the I'nlted States Sl'eel Corporation
during the financial panic of Ian",
In the opinion of L. C. llunna, of
Cleveland, one of the syud.caie own
ers of trie lennesBue concern beloiu
the merger, who spent the day on the
witness-stand before the Steel Truat
Investigating Committee of ttie
House of Representatives. Tnui
surreptitious motives had been sug
gested, -Mr. Ituuna, who is a bro
ther of the late benator Mark iiunna,
admitted, but he never had credited
the reports. He believed the trans
action wuu neeesuary to avert the
failure of the New ork banking and
brokerage firm of Moore Ac Schley,
who held too much Tennessee Coal
and Iron stock as collateral for loans,
and to avert wild spreading of threat
ening business disaster.
In answer to a series of questions
by Representative Beall, of Texas,
Mr. Hanna said he thought the Con
gressman believed a plot had been
framed whereby the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company would be gobbled
up by the steel interests, but he had
no knowledge of such a plot, and did
not credit such an Idea.
"Before the threatened failure of
Moore & Schley," asked Representa
tive Beall, "had not its United States
Treasury poured $50,000,000 into
New York to stop the panic?"
"I think so," Mr. Hanna replied.
"Also before that time," Mr. Beall
continued, "had not Mr. J. Plerpont
Morgan and his associates advanced
$60,000,000 to relieve the financial
situation?"
"I heard It so stated," said Mr.
Hanna.
"After all that the panic was not
averted," Mr. Beall resumed, "and
can you tell me why the taking up of
only $6,000,000 in loans on the
Tennessee Coal and Iron collateral of
Moore & Schley affected that restora
tion of confidence In the business
world which the I'nlted States Treas
ury and the Morgan millions had
been unable to do?"
"The only explanation," Mr. Hanna
replied, after some hesitation, "Is
that the panic up to that time had
not reached that character of busi
ness houses which were Involved In
this transaction. I think from your
line of questions that you believe the
sale of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company was a plot. I never thought
so. I still wish I could have held on
to my stock, but it seemed absolutely
necessary to sell It to avert serious
trouble."
BUTTED TO DEATH BY RAM
Mrs. AntionMte Zoil Found Dead In
Hsr Cowshed.
Muskegon, Mich. That Mrs.
Antoinette Zoll, of Conklin, who was
found dead In a cowshed in the rear
of her farm home wbb not murdered,
but came to her death by being
butted by a ram, Is the conclusion
practically arrived at by ofllcers In
vestigating the case.
Tho sheep was found In the fields,
its hornB bloody and a large patch of
blood on the back of Its nock. The
theory is that the ram attacked Mrs.
Zoll as she ran around the house In
teror and finally knocked her down.
When It left her. It is thought she
managed to drag herself Into the
shed, where she died.
Fright Cures Cripple.
Harrisonburg, Va. A cripple from
birth, Joseph Summers Friday threw
away his crutches and, crazed with
fright after accidentally shooting a
small girl, ran In his bare feet Into
the country. He fled bo rapidly that
he has not yet been overtaken. The
child, Ruth Enswller, five years old,
may die. The shooting occurred
while Summers was cleaning a re
volver, which was discharged.
Fell Dead at Card Table.
Paris. Naoum Pucha, Turkish
ambassador to France, fell dead at
the Union Diplomats' Club. Naoum
had taken a place at a card table and
was In the act of taking up a hand
when he fell backward. Death was
due to congestion of the brain, caused
by the Intense heat.
Historic Sh p Snved.
Washington. Tho oil sailing na
val vessel Portsmouth, now used as
a quarantine ship nt Norfolk, Va.,
will not be dismantled or disturbed
In any way until Congress passes
upon the proposition to fit her out
In condition to sail around to San
Francisco to be preserved there as
a relic. The Portsmouth raised the
American flag at Buena Yerba, now
Ban Francisco, In the war with Mex
ico. It Is estimated tho repairs will
oot $25,000.
Female Guards Pur Men Out.
New York. When 5,000 fancy
leather goods workers, mostly girls,
went on strike the employers hired
a group of husky women guards to
offset the strikers' pickets. Four of
these guards put a man picket out of
business.
Nutmeg B' rlegroonn Stlnpv
Middletown, Conn. Because bride
grooms are growing more stingy as
to clergymen's fees, Rev. J. A. Court
right asks that the ministers be given
25 cvnts of the marriage license fee.
SO
RUST
STOP!
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Sill II HOTEL
Wm. H. Jackson Dead on Bed
room Floor.
BELLBOY IS UNDER ARREST.
Jackson, Aroused by Attempts to
Chloroform H m, Makes a Brave
Fight for Lite First Stun,
ned by a Blow.
New York. Paul Geldel, a 17 year
old boy of Hartford, Conn., who was
employed as a bellboy at the Hotel
Iroquois, was arrested in connection
with the murder of William Henry
I Jackson, an aged and well-to-do
. Wall street broker, who was found
strangled to death In his room at
the hotel.
Geldel was taken to police head
quarters, where, according to Deputy
Police Commissioner Dougherty, he
will be charged with the murder.
Four other persons, three men and
a woman, who It Is believed can shed
some light on the tragedy, were also
taken to police headquarters.
It was declared at headquarters
that Paul Geldel confessed to Dep
uty Commissioner Dougherty and
District Attorney Whitman that he
chloroformed and robbed Jackson.
Mr. Jackson was murdered In the
midst of the hotel and club district,
where the night life is almost as ac
tive as the day. ,
In some manner which the police
do not attempt to explain the man
effected an entrance to Mr. Jack
son's room on the Tenth floor of the
Hotel Iroquois, at 49 West Forty
fourth street. While he was rising
the apartment the broker evidently
awoke and attacked him. The strug
gle must, have been a short one, for
the evidence Is that the thief was a
powerful man and Mr. Jackson was
not only feeble, but had been In bad
health for some time.
I nree lerrinc oiows over me nenu,
; which left ugl gashes, evidently
; flooded the old man. Not content
with this, the murderer then stuffed
; t washcloth half way down Mr. Jack
I son's thoat and with his bare hands
i throttled the littlo remaining life
j out of him.
I The price of this crime wns about
$30 In money, a watch that, was an
heirloom In Jackson's family and a
few small trinkets, Buch as Bcarfplns,
cuff buttons and shirt studs.
While Mr. Jackson was not a rich
j man, he was generally reputed to be
! wealthy. Connected with the Wall
street firm of Van Schnlck & Co., a
member of the New York Yacht and
other exclusive clubs, and much given
to extreme liberality in his tips to the
employes of the hotel, he gained the
reputation of being a man of means.
1 MORE MONEY FOR THE MAINE
Whole Vesiel May Havi to be Re
moved Piecemeal.
Washington. Congress is to be
Asked by the War Department to ap
propriate more money for the re
moval of the Maine.
Though the exuet amount to be
asked for Is not known. It is under
stood thnt it will be more than $200,
000. Thus far, more than $400,000
has been expended on the task.
It was said that ler.st three months
more will be required for the work.
Practically the whole vessel will have
to be removed piecemeal.
Stlmon In Po-to Rlci.
San Juan, Porto Rico. Henry I,.
Stimson, the American Secretary of
War, who, with Brigadier General
Clarence R. Kdward, chief of the
BureaiTof Insular Affairs, and others,
arrived here Friday, spent a portion
of the day interviewing business and
professional men of Porto Rico. The
Secretary was accorded ovations In
all tho towns along the automobile
route from Ponce to San Juan. Citi
zenship was the keyuote of all the
welcoming speeches.
Wellman Gives It Up
Cheyenne, Wyo. Information
that Walter Wellman hns given up
the project of maklug a second at
tempt to cross tho Atlantic In a
dirigible balloon, transferring the
management to Melvln Vnnlmnn,
chief engineer of the Inst expedition,
was obtained here through a per
sonal letter from Mr. Vnnlmnn to J.
Lovott Rockwell. Mr. Vnnlmnn
wrote thnt he has a dirigible well on
the way to completion nt Atlantic
City, nnd believes the expedition will
be successful.
BANKER
PRESIDENT TAFT
REBUKES DEFAMERS
Controller Bay Message to the
Point.
MUCH HARM DONE ALASKA.
Says There Is No Danger of the
Controller Railway and Navi
gation Company Monopo
lizing th Field.
Scorn for Scandalmongers.
The acrimony of spirit and
the intense malice that have
been engendered in respect of
the administration of the gov
ernment In Alaska and in the
consideration of measures pro
posed for her relief and the
wanton recklessness and eager
ness with which attempts have
been made to besmirch the char
acters of high officials having to
do with the Alaskan govern
ment, and even of persons not
In public life, present a condi
tion that calls for condemnation
and requires that the public be
warned of the demoralization
that has been produced by tho
hysterical suspicions of good
people and the unscrupulous and
corrupt nils-representations of
the wicked. The helpless state
to which tho credulity of some
and the malevolent scandal
mongering of others have
brought the people of Alaska
In their struggle for Its de
velopment ought to give the
public pause.
(From the President's Con
troller Bay Message.)
Washington. In terms of bitter
denunciation for those who "In the
Intensity of their desire to besmirch
all who invest" in Alaska, "operate
upon the minds of weak human in
terests" and "prompt fabrications of
false testimony," President Taft
gave the Senate his version of the
circumstances leading up to the entry
of harbor rights on Controller Bay,
Alaska, by Richard S. Ryan, and
repudiated with fierce Invective the
famous "Dick to Dick" letter.
The message was almost Roose
veltian In Its use of the "short and
ugly" word.
That President Taft Ib strongly In
favor of extending Alaskan develop
ment without delay is shown by the
folwlng paragraph:
"The thing which Alaska needs is
development, and where rights and
franchises can be properly granted to
encourage Investment and construc
tion of railroads without conferring
exclusive privileges, I believe It to be
In accordance with good policy to
grant them."
The message accompanied the
documents concerning Controller
Bay, called for by a resolution
adopted in the Senate on June 27
last.
Cook County's Vast Wealth.
Chicago. Cook county's real es
tate is worth more than the personal
property of Its residents, according
to figures given out by the Board
of Assessors. Tho real property In
the county Is valued at $720,000,000,
while the personal property is esti
mated to be worth $052,710,448, or a
total of $1,372,710,448.
Find Watch In A'llqator.
Forsyth, Ga. A gold watch bear
ing the monogram "J. T." was found
In the stomach of a giant alligator
killed near here. Residents believe
this explains the disappearance of
Janet Thornton, 12 years ago.
Cltv's Auto Bill BI-.
New York. The 100 automobiles
of the city cost $220,505.78 and were
repaired laBt year at an expense of
$170,570.91. Joy riding cost the
city a pretty p.-nny.
Postofflcs Appointments.
Washington. Mack T. Roberts
was appointed postmaster at Eggle
ton, Putnam county, V. Va. E. J.
Norfleet was appointed rural carrier
and Josh Brltt substitute on the
route at Holland, Va.
U. e. to Have lr Fiest
New Y'ork. Gen. James Allen,
chief of the United States Signal
Corps, declares that within a year
this country will have a fleet of 20
aerial warships, manned by 40 officers.
THE WIRE TRUST MEN FINED
Thirty-Savon Manufacturer Piead
Guilty---Jolned to Re
strain Trade. ,
New York. Thirty-seven of the
84 wire manufacturers and their em
ployes, who were Indicted by the
1 Krand Jury here on June 29 on the
cnarge of combining In nine pools to
the restraint of trade in the wire
business, entered pleas of nolo con
tendere before Judge Archbald, in
the criminal branch of the United
States Circuit Court here, and each
was fined $1,000 on the initial count
n.rd $100 on every additional count
In the indictment against him. The
total amount of the fines imposed Is
$42,700, and of this sum $21,000 was
paid to Commissioner Shields before
he closed his offlee for the night.
In the case of most of the 37 ap
pearing before Judge Arc.Uba'd the
nolo contendere wnB entered to sup
plant the original plea of not guilty
already made; for a few the nolo
contendere was tho Initial plea. Dis
trict Attorney Wise has heard from
the lawyer representing several
other Indicted wire men that they,
too, will come Into court and enter
the plea of nolo contendere.
Those who pleaded and were sen
teticrd to bo fined, some of them on
as high as six and eight convictions,
represented the following, alleged, by
the government to have participated
in the nlii pooling associations: Lead
Encased RnM-er Ctiblo Association,
Fine Magnet W:re Association, Rubber-covered
Wire os'f latlon, Wire
Rope Association, Weather-proof and
Magnet Wire Association,, Under
ground Power Cable Association,
Telephone Cable Association, Horse
shoe Manufacturers' Association and
Bare Copper Wire Association.
Though several who paid up today
were listed under scattering Indict
ments ns representatives of the Bare
Copper Wire Association, William
I'uin.er, the president of the Ameri
can Steel and Wire Company, whose
name headed the list under the Bare
Copper Wire Association, and who
was indicted seven times, was not one
of those to appear.
MERELY ADMC NISHMENT
Wilson Doe Not Ask for Condign
Punishment for Wiley.
Washington. It Is known here
that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
In a report to President Taft, has
recommended that Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley, the pure food expert, be ad
monished, but not dismissed. Sec
retary Wilson, It is understood, de
clares leniency must be shown Dr.
Wiley because of his valued services
o the government in the past and
his usefulness for the future. For
this reason he apparently does not
believe that "condign punishment"
should be meted out In the case.
I'nder the recommendation the
President will be able to retain Dr.
Wiley in his position, aB It has been
believed nil the time he would do,
without seeming to Ignore the advice
of his attorney general. Thus an
embarrassing situation will be
avoided. '
IN AIR OVER FOUR HOURS
Johnstone Break Ail Amor can En
durance Reco-ds
Hempstead, L. I. St. Croix John
stone, in a monoplane, broke all
American endurance records for both
biplane and monoplane on the Hemp
stead Plains.
Mr. Johnstone remained continu
ously in the air for four hours one
minute and a fraction. In this time
his machine flew more than 195
miles. H1b ofllcial time was
4.01.53 4-5. He had planned to fly
for seven hours, but a leak In one
of the three gasoline tanks caused
much of the fluid to be lost, and this
compelled the aviator to descend af
ter he had made 39 laps of the fi ve
nule course.
Tidal Wave Kills Forty.
Tokio. Forty persons are known
to bo dead in the Province of Toklo,
part of which was overwhelmed by
a tidal wave following in the wake
of a devastating typhoon which had
raged for 24 hours. Part of the em
bankment in the Fukngawa district
was washed away. The Suzuki quar
ter was Inundated and scores of
houses demolished. The damage Is
estimated at $1,000,000.
Lives With a Broken Neck.
Minneapolis. Sixteen - yenr - old
Martin Gray is at a hospital In
Minneapolis with a broken neck nnd
the father, Fred L. Gray, president
of the Fred L. Gray Company, Is
plowing through seas on a fast liner
toward the bedside of his Injured son.
The boy struck a dredge heap head
first while diving at .Lake Calhoun.
Ills case Is proving a puzzle to sur
geons, i
More Germs Than Ice-cream.
BoBton. Announcement that 55,
000,000 bacteria had been found In
a half spoonful of Ice-cream by the
Boston health authorities caused the
declaration by Prof. James O. Jordan,
of the ''oard of Health, that he would
ask the Legislature to pubs an emerg
ency measure providing that the
frozen delicacy niUBt hereafter be
sold nnd served only In original
Packages. The snmplo was purchas
ed In the North End tenement dis
trlet.
Insane Asylum Burns.
Hutchinson, Kas. The State
Asylum for the Insane at Wlnfield
was destroyed by fire during the
night, and the. 1,000 Inmates are
housed at Bluffs, two miles south of
Wlnfield, until the Btnto can make
provisions for them. They will prob
ably he kept in tents until other
buildings can be secured. No one
was Injured in the Are, which is sup
posed to have resulted from defect
) wiring.
THE CANADIANS
0
RECIPO
Now the Issue Before the Peo
ple of That Country. .
CAMPAIGN WILL BE BITTER.
Premier Laurler Carrie Out Hi
Threat, Dissolve the Parlia
ment and Appea to
the Country.
Ottawa, Ont. The eleventh Par
liament of Canada passed out of ex
istence Saturday, and upon the polit
ical complexion of a new one to bo
elected September 21 will depend tho
fate of the reciprocity agreement be
tween tho United States and Canada.
Premier Laurler decided to ask for
an Immediate dissolution at a meet
ing of'hlB cabinet Saturday after
noon, and at once notified Earl Grey,
the Kovernor general. A short tlmo
later a special issua of the Ofllcial
Gazette was printed containing the
formni announcement and giving
legal effect to the edict. ,
As the HoiiBe does not sit on Sat
urdays there were only a few mem
bers at the Parliament buildings
when the action was announced. In
both Liberal and opposition rooms
the news was received with cheers
and the members hurried away to
telegraph their political workers that
the campaign was on.
Came aa a Surprla-.
The announcement of dissolution
came somewhat as a surprise, as few
persons expected It before next week
at the earliest. The absoluto refusal
of the Conservative minority In the
House to close the debate on the gov
ernment's reciprocity resolution and
permit a vote upon It, which would
mean Its adoption, and the im
probability of a change in their at
titude, resulted In the government'
decision that It was- uneless to keep
Parliament sitting another day.
This is the first time a session of
the Dominion Parliament has been
closed without the appearance of the
governor general in military state at
the Sennte chamber to give formal
prorogation. As the Senate was
not due to reassemble until August 9,
and as prorogation could not take
place without both houses being
present, dissolution was resorted to.
The Sole Niue
It Is generally agreed that the two
months' campaign before tho coun
try will be vigorous nnd even bitter.
Reciprocity probably will be the solo
Issue, although the Conservatives In
Quebec may seek to Inject the naval
issue Into the contest. The anti
annexation cry already has been
raised by the Conservatives in all
parts of the country.
Sir Wilfrid Laurler and his minis
ters will take the stump and conduct
platform campaigns in all provinces.
The prime minister will confine his
attention to tho central provinces
and Quebec, while Mr. Fielding,
minister of finnnce, who helped to
draft the reciprocity agreement, will
devote hlB attention to the maritime
provinces. .
TRAINS CRSH IN STORM
Eight Lives Crushed Cut at Grind
stone Station.
Grindstone, Me. Eight were kill
ed and 14 injured when an excursion
train and a regular passenger train
on the Bangor and Aroostook Rail
road met head-on at this station.
Five passengers of the excursion
train were killed. The engineer of
the excursion train and two firemen
were also among the killed.
Tho collision Is believed to have
been due to a misunderstanding in
orders and was made possible by onn
of the most violent midsummer
storms that has swept this part of
the country In years. The passenger
train was bound from Van Buren to
Bangor. The excursion trnln was
returning from Kidder's Point, near
Searsport, on Penobscot Bay, to
Presque Isle and was running a
minute late.
Grindstone hns just 43 inhabitants
and, of course, no physicians or
medical facilities, but the villagers
did everything In their power for the
injured until help came from other
towns.
Uncle Sam Save Mullen.
Washington. Thnt the War De
partment because of administrative
methods just Installed, will be able
to save a million 'dollars In the cost
of keeping up the "military estali
llshment" wns stated by Quartermas
ter General J. B. Aleshire to the
House Committee on Expenditures in
the War Department.
Wise Move In Chicago.
Chicago. It Is reported that the
publishers of all the big Chicago
dallies have entered into an agree
ment to drop all premium giving,
popularity contests, etc., and sub
stitute therefore "legitimate business
methods." It Is also reported thnt
Chicago Sunday papers will be raised
to sell at six cents, and publishers
of morning papers are In agreement
to raise prices to two cents, begin
ning September 1.
Bones From the Maine.
Havana. The bones recovered
from the wreck of tho Maine, which
represent 16 bodies, were transfer
red without ceremony to Cabanas
fortress and deposited In the case
mate, over which has been placed a
guard of honor. The remains of
two additional bodies were recover
ed on tho berth deck, near the
quarters of the warrant ofllcers.
These remains, like the others, pre
sent no possibility of identification.
THE NEWS OF
PEIHISYLVAXIA
Nesquehonlng. Tho Lehigh Coal
& Navigation Company, which own
all the land throughout the Panther
Creek Valley, through which runs
one of the richest anthracite coal
veins in the entire world has an
nounced that it will construct one of
the largest coal breakers In the
world a short distance from thia
place, one that .will cost several mil
lions of dollars and having an an
nual output of a million tons of coal.
The plan of the company Is to drive
a tunnel from the top of NeBquehon
Ing Mountain down to a level of sev
eral hundred feet below the surface
of the main valley, where another
shaft will be erected at the breaker
and the two shafts will be connected
by a tunnel through which coal will
be conveyed from great distances.
The breaker will be erected midway
between this place and Lansford,
where for a distance of five miles
and a width of several miles no coal
hns yet been mined, but where It
exists in exhauBtlcss quantities. All
plans and arrangements have been
completed by the company, which ex
pects to have this mammoth colliery
In operation in two years.
McKeesport. City officials to be
deprived of office the first Monday in
December, by reason of an amend
ment to the law governing cities of
the third-class, will try again for
the places they now hold, with the
exception of Mayor it. S. Arthur, who
Is not permitted that privilege. An
nouncement that the amendment had
been signed by Tenor came as a
thunderbolt to the politicians of Alle
gheny county, after It had been dis
covered by W. S. McClatchey, chief
clerk of the County Commissioners.
It had been passed by the Leglslu
ture the latter part of April and
ilgned by the Governor, June 21,
without attracting general attention.
Pottsville. The tax collectors of
this county In convention decided to
demand an increase in commission
for collecting the school taxes under
the new school code. Instead of two
per cent, commission they demand
Ave per cent., because of the extra
labor entailed by the new law which
compels them to notify every tax
payer of the taxes duo within thirty
days after the duplicate Is opened.
Many of the collectors stated if their
demands are not granted they will po
on strike and refuse to accept re
election. Tyrone. Eight employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
were injured in a head-on collision
between two locomotives here. En
gine No. 620 with Engineer J. 0.
Hull and Conductor H. R. Harshbcr
ger moving west with one car at
tached and a local engine and cabin
with Engineer S. W. Keith and Con
ductor H. H. Miller going east, col
lided near the depot.
Hazleton. Mayor Charles Bnn-h
and the other city officials of Hazle
ton expressed no fear that they come
under the provisions of the "ripper"
features of the new third-class city
law. The Mayor, City Treasurer and
City Comptroller here were olerted
In 1910, and their terms will expire
In 1913. the year of the next mu
nicipal election after that of 1911.
South Bethlehem. More than lo
hundred members of the Clauss fam
ily attended the ninth annual reunion
at Waldhelm Park. The Cla asses,
who came from the Bothlehems.
Philadelphia, Limeport, Saegersville,
East Greenville, Raubsville and vari
ous Lehigh county towns, are de
scendants of Nathan and Daniel
Claims.
Lebanon. Grant, seven-year-old
son of Grant Wagner, of Palmyra,
was perhaps fatally Injured, an : Mrs.
John Lettlch, of near Palmyra, seri
ously hurt, when the team occupied
by them was struck by a J.ciun""
Valley Street Railway car at. Horn-
T onn tun rnllps east 01
Palmyra.
I.niipnRter. Mrs. Samuel Warner.
t family.
u jiinuut-i yj t.
Mimmitisit anlclrlo hv hanging her
self In the attic of her home nt Whit'
un.o Tlor hmlv wns found hv he'
husband. Mrs. Warner has been In
111 health for some time.
whtta tilrkine l'.ui'kel'
k i in h woods. Bernard
Utl I Ito Hi - .
UMo.brt o An.vnnr-Alfl AVt'St MIUl
irnnu, u iv is j . 4
ton boy. was struck by a bolt or HM'
nlng during a short thundei-storro
and instantly killed. Andrew how
alkl, a boy with him, was knorMo
down by the same bolt, but cheapen
Intnrv.
Marietta. A mad dog was klH
on tho Dtirry larin,
. r. u ,1 l.iHon several mh-
town, uuer it mm " -
and gave several men a ennm-
Temple.-Whilo Edwin M J'J
i -t thn Muhlent'"
an empiu.vuo ar
Brewing plant, at Hyde I n k.
here, was working on the tl 1 n
h was stricken with pnrnlf
fell a distance of twenty feet in
... . .,r 10 I"'"
window to me rwi f f
house, sustaining a nnonni
,r of the skull, resulting i
Carlisle. -Contention w
directors of the Shippenshurt,
xs. Mnnnfacturing Compaq -
application to be made for J "
Tho hearing is iu -- . ,0
B. The cnpltal stock is -'
Lower Heidelberg. rtt.
ville grist mill, owned by
baker and tenanted W ' tik
Sterne, was destroyed y rnnC
loss Is partly cove. - ,cry.
. . - n,a Is a 111)81
The origin 01 mo - .j
Readlng.-County Trci sl)(ti
Instituted thirty .1n,,'lT
against merchants m t ' tlK.t
county who have failed i ' ear
mercantile tax for the ens tin fc
Reading. Ignatius Sn",,e;.,iaBt o
War veteran and retired m o)
his city, died of a co'P' . ye:ir.
diseases in hi. s0venty-socoi .