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    THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
IS
A TRAIN BANDIT
GETS $20,D
REVIEW OF PENMSYLVAMIA
FOR MEWS READERS
Happenings of the Week In the Capitol Building and Throughout the State Reported for
Our Readers in Fulton County and Elsewhere.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
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Texan Governor Stirred by
Lone Robber Holds Up Exprc
Messenger in Texas.
Latest Mexican Outrage.
AMERICAN KIDNAPPED
HIDDEN IN BAGGAGE U
RANGERS
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CHILDREN SAVE
HISTORIC OAK
Darby Tree That Sheltered
Washington on Fire
UTILITIES MEN
DISCUSS RULES
Public Service Companies Sug
gest Only Minor Changes
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
Cameron County Citizens Appeal To
Thief Had Learned Lumber Compi.
the Governor For Protection
Against Mexican
Marauders.
was bending Money Over
Santa Fe For Pay
Roll Use.
PATRIOTIC GIRLS AND BOYS
Father of His Country Rested on the
Way to Chadd's Ford Where
He Meet the British
in Battle.
Darby. Putrlotic school children,
girls and boys alike, In Darby, made
heroic efforts to Rave the old Blumston
Oak, a 400-year-old tree under which
Washington rested, for the ancient
oak had beon maliciously set on fire
by aeveral boys. Rushing to Darby
creek, SO feet distant, the pupils cap
rled water In their hats, tin cans and
other vessels, and one of them ran
over to the fire house of the Darby
Fire Company No. 1, and gave the
alarm. The firemen extinguished the
blase, but not until the tree was bad
ly damaged. Washington and Lafay
ette rested under the far-spreading
branches of the old tree on a hot
Sunday In August, 1777, while the
former was on his way to meet the
British at Chadd's Ford, where he was
dofeated and Lafayette wounded. His
ragged army of 10,000 Continentals
forded Darby Creek within DO feet of
It
Fights Main Line Cop.
Wayne. An exciting chase of sev
eral 'square s by a policeman after an
escaped prisoner from the Radnor
township police station, ending In a
five-minute tussle In the busiest por
tion of Wayne, enlivened this Main
Line suburb. The prisoner, Kdward
Farley, van arrested, charged with
breach of the peace in an altercation
between him and Thomas Scott, cash
ier of a grocery store Farley was
taken to the station house, before
Captain Mulhall, who ordered him
locked up. On the first floor Farley
leaped for the door and was some
distance away before tlio policeman
realized It. The cop caught the man
rear the Lancaster pike and Wayni
avenue and the pair fought back and
forth across the street for some time,
while a large crowd gathered before
the policeman subdued Farley with th
"blacklock" of the arm across the
back, a bit of jiu-jitsu.
Judge on Evils of Drink.
Wayne. Judge Isaac Johnson, of
Delaware county, denounced the liquor
t radio In an address hero before the
Saturday Club, a woman's organiza
tion. He made an eloquent appeal
for greater participation by women In
Juvenile Court and Its associated
preventive work. "In my experience,"
he said, "I have found that much
crime comes from a certain stratum
not a crlmlnnl class as such but
people whoso homes suffer the great
evils of poverty and Ignorance, and,
I might add, Intemperance. I received
a letter from a woman recently, and
she blamed me for placing this burl
den so positively on tho women, nnd
then, on my part, granting licenses.
I do not find fault with her point of
view; but nevertheless I say that thu
task Is one for the women."
Optimistic View of Steel.
Pottstown. There la a cheering
uplrit of optimism In the view taken
of present nnd future Industrial cou
tiltlons by II. II. McCIintlc, president
of the McCllntlc-Marshall Construc
tion Company, which has largo plants
here and at Pittsburgh. "I do not
think that the tariff will have a
permanent depressing effect In our
eteel business," Mr. McCUutlc declar
ed. "Of course, there may be soma
billots or that grade of steel sold hero
by foreign makers, but I do not look
for any heavy Inroads Last year
our company had a larger output than
any year In Its history, with one ex
ception. December wns the best
similar month we ever experienced."
Pardons a Court Menace.
West Chester. Samuel Hagnns, of
Coatesvlllo, who hnd written to Judge
Duller a letter, threatening him If
he granted any liquor licenses, wns
arrested and brought Into the Court
room. Judge Rutler gave him a
severe lecture, and permitted him to
go without punishment, under the be
lief that tho culprit was temporarily
Insane when he wrote the letter.
Drop Nurses With Doctors.
York. Details of how the Hoard of
Directors of the York Hospital, In
addition to dismissing Drs. E. W.
Melsenhelder and J. II. Bennett from
1he staff for alleged disloyalty, have
punished graduate nurses for testk
mony they gave to the committee of
the Woman's Club of York In Its
Investigation of alleged mismanage
ment at the Institution, leaked out.
Four nurses have been suspended for
varying periods.
Chicken Thieves Plead.
Penbrook. Several hundred people
came from miles around to attend
the hearing of William Latchaw and
Davis Lyter, who had been charged
with stealing chickens from A. E.
Enders, a florist and trucker. A great
deal if interest was taken in the case,
because of the fact that considerable
chicken thieving has been going on In
this vicinity during the winter months.
Justice of the Peace McGarvcy said
it was the biggest crowd that ever
attended any of his hearings. Doth
defendants plead guilty.
INSPECTION OF METERS
Proposed Standardiation of All Tests
For Service of Water, Heating, Gas
and Electric Supplies Is Ap
proved by Representatives.
(Special Ilurrlsburg Correspondence.)
Hurrlsburg. The proposed rules of
the Public Service Commission to
standardize the Installation, Inspec
tion and testing of meters and ser
vice of water, heating, gas and elec
tric companies, were discussed here.
Representatives of a score or more of
the largest public utilities In the State
appeared at the Capitol. Commission
er S. L. Stone presided, with Profes
sors R. II. Fernaild, of the University
of Pennsylvania, and L. II. Harris of
the University of Pittsburgh; W. N.
Trlnkle, chief counsel of the commis
sion, and C. H. Evans, assistant coun
sel, sitting with him. Among those
who were present were J. V. W.
Reynders, Tlce-president of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company; George B.
Tripp, and II. II. Iu, Harrlsburg
Light and Power Company; H. G.
Luuser, Lebanon Steam Company; W.
E. Chick. Steelton Water Commis
sioners; B. H. Lltch, chemist. Steel
ton. The representatives of the var
ious companies had no fault to find
with the rules and regulations pre
scribed in the tentative draft of the
commission, but many suggestions for
minor technical changes were of
fered. Egg Laid In Court.
Whether an egg laid In the court
belongs to the defendant, accused of
stealing the chicken, or to the ac
cuser, both of whom claim ownership
of the fowl, was settled by Justice of
the Peace, John G. Richards, of North
Braddock. Delia Garrlty, of North
Braddock, was accused of having
stolen two chickens. The Information
was made by Michael KHchetech, of
Bell avenue, North Braddock. The
chickens were exhibited In a box. Dur
ing the discussion one of the hens be
gan to cackle. She had laid an egg
and discussion as to the ownership
ensued. "The Court will confiscate
the egg," the Justice announced
sternly. This ended the argument
The woman was released on $300 ball.
The chickens were placed In charge
of a constuble, pending a settlement
of the case.
Flood Warning Sent Out.
No reasons exist for entertaining
fears of a serious flood along any of
the streams In the State, but a warn
ing was Issued to tho Susquehanna
River basin, nevertheless, by the
United Slates Weather Bureau. It Is
not such a bulletin as to arouse alarm.
Colder weather Is forecast, which will
have a tendency to check the run-off
water from the thaw. "It would be
the prudent course for those having
property along the stream subject to
Injury from high water and Ice to
safeguard It," reads tho warning from
the local weather bureau, which lllus
trntes how ticklish the situation Is
and depends entirely on warm rains
holding off at a season when warm
rains aro to be expected.
Extension Ready.
The new Rockville extension of the
Harrlsburg Railways Company has
boen put In operation. The opening
has been delayed several months be
cause of tho frozen condition of the
ground which was encountered after
a change was made in the road bed
necessitated, because tho bed, as
originally placed, was directly over
a warm water pipe of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company. A terminal
station has been placed.
Presents Field House to University.
Lehigh University was tho recipient
of a fine athletic gift and the donor is
Charles L. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, who
Is a trustee of Lehigh and closely as
sociated with mnny of the philanthropic
movements of Andrew Carnegie. The
now building will cost $13,000 or more
and will be named Taylor field house.
This is the Bin-ond gift within the past
12 months that Mr. Taylor has made
to Lehigh, the other being a $175,000
gymnasium, which Is now nearlng
completion. The field house will be
archltec'urally similar to the gymnasi
um. The new building will be com
pleted in time for the football season
next fall.
$100,000 Left to Charity. '
John Y. Boyd, who died recently,
left $100,000 for the promotion of in
stitutional work among men and boys
by the line street PreBbyterian
Church of which he was a member.
Killed at Car Overturns.
Mrs. McLenn Jones, of Camp Hill,
was crushed to death, her husband
and 10 other passengers injured when
a car of the Valley Railways Com
pany jumped the track on a sharp
curve between Earllngton and Shlre
mantown. Others badly injured were
Clayton Wolfe, Shlremanstown; W.
S. SchlldL Mechanlcsburg. and A. B.
Helkes, Mechanlcsburg. The accident
occurred at a point sonio distance
from the towns, and the Injured were
brought to the llarrlaburg Hospital
on a relief car.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects Items of Busi
ness ?nd Pleasure that Interest
Sunbury wll have a $40,000 Y. M.
C A.
Billmyer, Lancaster county, Is quar
antined for smallpox.
J. II. MeGce has been appointed
postmaster at South Bethlehem.
W. C. Sampson has sent In his
resignation is superintendent of Beth
lehem schools.
Falling from a second-story window
at Shnmokln, Violet Doblose, a girl,
was fatally Injured.
Hazleton's commission form of gov
ernment does not Increase the city's
tax rate.
The valuation of real estate in Lan
caster county for taxation is $191,780,
701, an increase of $1,000,000.
-
Court at Sunbury divorced II. W.
Aramerman because his wife insisted
on living in Philadelphia.
The Somerset Board of Trade by a
unanimous vote has requested Council
to pass a curfew ordinance.
Jolted from a freight car at Bowers'
Station, Robert Oswald sustained ser
ious Bcalp lacerations and ugly bruises
of the face.
Mrs. Anna Wise, 84 years old, of
Lancaster, picked a pimple with a pin,
blood poisoning developed and she
died in 24 hours.
Foreigners are leaving the Hazle
ton coal fields for Europe In great
numbers, attracted by the cut in
ocean rates.
Michael Kodeslia suffered punctur
ed lungs when his ribs were broken
by a fall of coal at a Beaver Meadow
mine.
George E. Zerfoss has been- re
elected superintendent of the public
schools in Clearfield for a term ot
threi years.
The Volunteer Firemen's Relief As
sociation of Wellsboro starts with a
fund of $100, the gift of Mrs. Sarah
Williams, of that borough.
A. P. Way, of Buffalo, has received
from Englund a pen of white Wyan
dottes, which are noted Tor their egg
laying. They were shipped February
25 and were 13 days on the Journey.
John Nlssley, of Lancaster, return
ing from a fox chase, broke through
tho Ice on the Susquehanna River
nnd was saved from drowning by his
companion.
A $3,000 pipe organ, one-half of
which amount was donated by An
drew Carnegie, is being Installed in
Bethany United Evangelical Church,
at Tnmaqua.
Tho Executive Board of District 7
of the United Mine Workers has de
cided to place men nt each session
of the examining boards that grant
Inspectors' certificates.
After being closed five years,- th
plant of the Sergeant Glass Company,
at Sergeant, formerly owned by the
Mississippi Glass Company, has Btart
cd operations with 100 men.
Colonel Harry Trexler, of Allen
town, who raises deer, and also has a
fine peach orchard nnd a buffno ranch
has sent a fine dog to City Soillcitor
D. J. .Davis, of Wllkes-Barre, to be
presented to Nay Aug Tark.
Yearning for an education nil his
life, but denied the boon because of
the necessity of entering the mines
to work at an early age, William
C. Jones, 66 years old, of West Scran
ton, has graduated at the "Tech"
High School with 80 per cent In gram
mar, penmanship and spelling, and
will go to High School next term.
Mr. Jones was born in Glamorgan
shire, Wnles. He went to work in the
mines at airearly age and In 1870 he
came to America, locating In Scran
ton and securing a Job as a miner In
the Diamond mine of the Lackawanna
Company. He worked himself up to
be fire boss of the mine, retiring four
years ago. His wife died two years
ago.
St. Clair was the scene of a gala
rollglous ceremonial In the breaking
of ground for a new $30,000 parochial
school.
i
The editor of The Brookvllle Repub
lican has taken another look at the
town fountain and makes this caustic
comment. "Not knlcklng, of course,
but merely reiterating, we rise to re
mark that the town fountain, Harriett
Amelia, is still wearing her glass bon
net at a Jag angle possibly as a deli
cate affirmation that the county Is still
wot." t
Austin, Tex. Reports of new dls
orders along the Mexican border, In
eluding the attempted kidnapping of an
American citizens by five Mexicans,
I caused Governor O. B. Colquitt to order
the ranger force recruited with "men
who caa shoot,"
"I have Instructed Captain HugheB
to look for more men suited for the
ranger service. My instructlo'ns to
him are to get men who can shoot and
will shoot when necessary," said Gov
ernor Colquitt.
Captain Hughes commands the
ranger force, which has headquarters
at RaymondvIIle, Cameron county, in
the extreme southeastern section of
the State. Brownsville, opposite Mata
mores, Mexico, is the county seat
Cameron county citizens asked the
Governor for protection. Several fili
bustering expeditions have been re
ported this week operating along that
part of the Texas border.
Two telegrams formed the basis of
the Governor's action in ordering the
Ranger force increased. The first re
ported the kidnapping of an Ameri
can, Charles Ballard, by Ave Mexicans,
near Carrizo Springs. Tho second was
the petition from Cameron county citi
zens. Ballard was tied by the Mexicans
and hustled to the border, according to
the report made to the Governor, but
while the party was crossing the Rio
Grande, ho cut the rope which held
him and escaped by diving. Dullard's
captors shot at him without effect sev
eral times and then made good their
escape. Sheriff Gardner, of Dlmmltt
county, went in pursuit with a posse,
and the rangers and United States
Army border patrol also began a search
for the men, but they were thought to
have escaped into Mexico.
The Cameron county petition de
clared "murder and robbery are being
committed freely," and appealed for
Ranger protection. The killing of two
men, in both instances wealthy Mexi
cans, was cited.
The kidnapping was reported by W.
T. Kardner, sheriff of Dimmit county,
of which Cariizo Springs is the county
seat. The town is about 35 miles from
the border.
SECRETARY BRYAN FIFTY-FOUR.
Guests Drink Grape Juice To His
Health.
Washington, D. C. Secretary
Bryan's guests drank his health in
grape Juice at the reception Thursday
afternoon In honor of his fifty-fourth
birthday. The guests of honor were
Mr. Bryan's associates in the State De
partment. Mrs. Bryan and Secretary
Bryan received alone. Mrs. John E.
Osborne, wife of the assistant secretary
of state, presided at the tea table, and
the wives of the officials of the de
partment assisted In the dining-room.
Secretary Bryan celebrated his birth
day anniversary, receiving congratula
tions of colleagues and friends, lie
had expected to celebrate the event by
signing peace treaties with Brazil,
Argentina and Chili, but the conven
tions were not prepared In time.
SHE DISGUISED HERSELF TO ROB.
Woman In Man's Attire Caught Thiev
ing In Freight Car.
Fairmont, W. Va. Mrs. Ethel Gra
ham, dressed in man'a clothing, accom
panied by J. B. Albnugh, was caught
robbing a Baltimore and Ohio freight
car in the local yards. Officer Gibson,
of the company, caught them In the
act. They were brought to the county
Jail, where they, await a hearing. Al
baugh's home was searched and large
quantities of goods were found. The
railroad company has been losing
much stuff of late and it is believed
that the culprits who have been taking
the goods are now under arrest.
CANDIDATE BY ELIMINATION.
William E. Lee, Republican, For Gov
ernor Of Minnesota.
Minneapolis, Minn. William E. Lee,
of Long Prairie, was chosen as the Re
publican candidate for governor to be
supported by those opposed to the
present state administration, at the
"elimination" conference. Mr. Lee
was chosen on the first ballot, receiv
ing. 561 votes of the 976 cast Ho
was declared the unanimous candidate
of the convention.
PERFUME FOR FAIR VOTERS.
To Take Place Of Cigars At Campaign
Meeting.
Chicago. In an effort to get women
voters to attend a campaign meeting,
members of the Twenty-fifth Ward
Democratic Club announced that bot
tles of perfume will be distributed as
souvenirs instead or the customary
campaign cigars. They also announced
that lace curtains will adorn the win
dows in the club rooms as a special
mark of courtesy to tho women.
COL. GOETHALS STARTS BACK.
To Sail For Canal Zone From New
York Governor April 1.
Washington, D. C Col. George W.
Goethals left Washington and will sail
from New York for Colon, where, on
April 1, he will assume his new title
and office of governor of the Panama
Canal. Before leaving Col. Goethals
had a conference with Secretary Gar
rison and received the lalter's approval
of the persons Belected to bead the
various branches of the permanent gov
ernment on the isthmus.
(Copyright)
THE BULGARIAN
Eleonora's Visitto United States
Set for May.
WILL HAVE A LARGE PARTY
She Will Be the First Reigning
Sovereign Ever To Come To This
Country Likely To Embark
On the Imperator.
Sofia. It has been definitely decided
that Queen Eleonora of Bulgaria, ac
companied by an extensive suite, will
visit the United States next May. The
trip will probably be begun about the
middle of May and it will last six or
eight weeks. Details of the longth of
the stay of the Queen and her en
tourage in America and the Itinerary
of the trip are now being worked out
During her stay in the United States
the Queen hopes to deliver a series of
lectures In the principal cities with the
object of placing before the American
public the real position of Bulgaria re
garding the late war. She will also
make an appeal for help in behalf of
the thousands of refugees now starr
ing in Bulgaria. A representative of
the Queen will leave for New York
within the next few days to arrange
details.
The visit is the result of the deep in
terest In the United States which King
Ferdinand and Queen Eleonora have
long held and which has been strength
ened by the close association of the
King and Queen with the American
surgeons who were in charge of the
Bulgarian hospitals during the recent
war.
It was at first reported that King
Ferdinand himself proposed to visit
the United States in 1915, but the
Queen's Intense desire to make the
trip, coupled with the fact that her
visit will relieve the United States of
the diplomatic embarrassments of a
state visit' from an actual reigning
monarch, resulted in ber wish being
grunted.
It is probable that Queen Eleonora
111 proceed from Sofia to Hamburg as
a German princess. There Bhe will
embark, If her arrangements will fit in,
on the steamship Imperator. The suite
of Queen Eleonora will Include, In ad
dition to some diplomatists, aides-de-camp
from the smartest guard regi
ments and ladies In waiting, who will
wear their picturesque native cos
tumes. Queen Eleonora will be the first
reigning sovereign of Europe to visit
the United States.
A B. & O. ENGINE HITS STATION.
One Man Killed and Four Probably
Fatally Injured.
Washington, Pa. Oiub trainman was
killed and four others were hurt, prob
ably fatally, when a freight engine on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Jumped the track and crashed Into the
West Washington Station, near here.
The Injured are hurt so badly that it
is not believed they will live.
LITTLE BOY KILLED BY FRIGHT.
Flock Of Geese Scare 10-Year-Old Lad
To Death.
Racine, Wis. A physician said that
Frank Chumik, 10 years old, was
scared to death by the honking of a
flock of geese, which appeared sudden
ly while he was playing at his home.
The boy, who had a weak heart, died
shortly after the geese had frightened
him into convulsions.
USE COTTON AS ARMOR PLATE.
Colonel Thornton Presents a New
Scheme To Daniels.
Washington, D. C Cotton as bnttle
ship armor plate is the dream of Col.
M. L. Thornton, who called upon Sec
retary Daniels at the Navy Depart
ment, nnd laid the scheme before him.
The Colonel says he has a secret pro
cess for flattening out cotton bales so
they will resist any gun fire. He
hopes the Navy Department will in
vestigate his plan.
THE TANGO CAUSE OF IT ALL.
Naval Officer To Suffer For Beating
Wife's Partner.
Washington, D. C For assaulting a
resident of Newport News, Va., who
was tangoing with his wife in a man
ner he did not approvo, Lieutenant
Commander Charles T. Huff, United
States Navy, has been ordered reduced
five numbers in rank and is to be ptib
llcly reprimanded by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, according to the report
of a court-martial which Just reached
Secretary Daniels.
QUEEN
COMING
M
SUFFRAGE
L05E5 IN SENATE
But Test Vote Shows a Majority
of One.
TWO-THIRDS VOTE REQUIRED
Only Senator Martine Declares Op
position To Movement On
Principle Negro Issue
Comes Up.
Washington, D. C. Woman suffrage
advocates lost their fight In the United
States Senate for a resolution pro
posing an amendment to the Federal
Constitution giving women the ballot.
The vote was 35 for the measure to
34 against it, a two-thirds affirmative
vote being required for passage, and
when it was all over suffragist leaders
Jubilantly po!n,d to .the majority of
one as conclusive proof that their
cause bad scored a triumph in defeat,
and was immeasurably stronger than
its opponents bad ever been willing to
concede.
Following weeks of debate on (he
floor of the Senate during which many
leaders in the suffrage movement
pleaded for postponement of the final
vote, marked the climax of a spirited
campaign launched here tbe day be
fore the Inauguration of President Wil
son.
Immediately after the vote Senator
Shafroth, of Colorado, sought to intro
duce a new resolution for a constitu
tional amendment requiring each
State to vote on granting suffrage to
women upon petition from 5 per cent,
of its voters.
South In Opposition.
Tbe resolution defeated was the
first introduced in the present Con
gress. It was presented by Senator
Chamberlain, of Oregon, and the Wom
an Suffrage Committee later authorized
Senator Ashurst to report it favorably.
Though otherwise the vote virtually
was nonpartisan, the Southern Sen
ators, all Democrats, lined up almost
solidly against the amendment They
contended it would complicate the
negro question in the States.
Senator Vardaman led a movement
among friends of woman suffrage in
the South to repeal the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution, by
which the States are prohibited from
denying the right to negroes to vote.
With the negro question removed, he
said he favored the granting of suf
frage to women. His proposal was de
feated by 48 to 19, and a proposition by
Senator Williams to give the ballot
to white women only was defeated by
41 to 21.
WIPES OUT HIS WHOLE FAMILY.
Deranged Georgia Farmer Then Com
mlts Suicide.
Oak Park, Ga. J. A. Eubanks, a
farmer living near this pluce, killed his
wife and two daughters as they slept,
set fire to his home and several other
farm buildings, and then fired a bullet
through his forehead. He died several
hours later. Mrs. Eubanks' head was
almost severed from her body with an
ax. The two children, one aged four
years, the other six months old, were
killed with a knife. After slaying his
family and firing the buildings on his
premises Eubanks awakened a neigh
bor, told him what he had done and
then shot himself. Meanwhile the
blaze consumed Eubanks' barn and a
number of tenant houses. His resl
denco was saved. Eubanks was 30
years old.
MAN RUNS AMUCK IN CAPITAL.
Shoots Down Three, One His Wife,
Who May Die.
Washington, D. C Herman Ka
bansky ran amuck here and shot his
mother-in-law, his wife and bis six,-year-old
brother-in-law. The wife, it
is believed, will die. Kabansky gives
as a reason for his crime his wife's
refusal to live with him. He claims he
was neither drunk nor drugged and
committed the crime deliberately. He
formerly lived in New York.
$250,000 TO HER CHAUFFEUR.
Mrs. Foster, Widow, Leaves Him Bulk
Of Estate.
Buffalo, N. Y. It pays to be a
chauffeur in Buffalo. Roy A. Chllson,
who drove the cars of Mrs. Rose A.
Foster, is nearly $250,000 richer
through the will left by that woman.
Mrs. Foster, who died nt the Marie An
toinette Hotel, in New. York, several
days ago, is a widow ot one of the
founders of the Foster-Milburn Com
pany, manufacturers of proprietary
medicines.
Beaumont, Texas. After bunt;
the messenger, Reb Martin, into
gunny sack, a masked man robbed j.
express car attached to northbot
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe passes
train No. 202 of currency estimate
aggregate between $15,000 and JM.
and escaped from the train at the r
lage of Helblg, 12 miles north of B.
nmnt
Lxpress company officials refused
discuss the robbery. The amount)
talned was estimated by official! c:
Houston lumber concern which i.
made shipments of money aboard;
train to bo used in paying their
ployes at ramps along the road.
The train was bound from Hour.
to Centre Texas nnd It Is believed;
roooer secreted himself, in the eip
rni uciuiu cue train leu noun
Martin said the man, who apparei.
was mlddlo-aged, leaped from boblt;
pile of baggage shortly after the ti
left Beaumont, demanded the t
senger's keys, and when Martin
fused, bound and thrust bim into'.
sack. :
The region through' which the te!
was passing at the time of the r.
bery is heavily wooded and span
settled. When Martin failed to an;''
during the stop at Silsbee, sw
miles north of Helblg, the train cr
forced the express car door, wt
had been locked by the robber. '
THAW AN EXPENSIVE FUGITIt'
Efforts To Get Him Back To H,
teawan Cost $38,400. j
Albany, N. Y. The expense !.
provided by Attorney General (:
mody In connection with the stas
efforts to get Harry K. Thaw lad
Matteawan includes the following N(
to lawyers: (
William T. Jerome, $25,000; Bern.
Jacobs Lancaster, N. , II., $',;
Jacobs, Hall, Conture & Fitch, Y
treal, $5,000; Hectlr Verret. Cos
cook, $1,600; Case Casgraln, Montr.
$1,000; Jacob Nlcol, Sherbrooke, 1!
The fees of Mr. Jerome and L
Jacobs cover "not only past sen:
rendered, but also any future son::
In reference to this case."
FIRST BOYS' COURT OPENED
Social Workers Celebrate Chic:;
Innovation.
Chicago, 111. Chicago's Boya' (V.
said to be the first tribunal of Its !
In the world, was opened as a bra:,
ot tbe municipal Judicial system. T
court will deal with cases of boys:j
tween 17 and 21 years of age. Its?
Ject is to keep the boys from cofi'
with mature criminals a 'id to
their cases sympathetic considers: ?
It is said that nearly three thou
boys will be tried In this court
year. The opening of the court
made the occasion of a celebration f
church, social aud philantbn
workers.
DEMANDS $1,000 FOR BOY.
Letter Mystifies Police Hunting
Carrick.
Philadelphia. rollce activity in
case of Warren McCarrick was
nowed as the result of a letter
celved by Mr. and Mrs. James Jle
rick, his parents, telling them c
safe and well, but demanding J-
ransom for his return. The letter1
received at the McCarrick home
was immediately turned over to
police. Opinions differ as to the
ter. Some of the detectives thin''
tho work of someone who Is tryint
perpetrate a hoax. Others belle'"
genuine.
MAN'S REMAINS BY PARCEL PC
Ashes Shipped To Germany Via I
Mail.
New Rochelle, N. Y. The
of a dead man were shipped from '
city to. Posen, Germany, via p'
post. This is the first time that
a strange package has passed thn
the local postofflco. The romaina
the ashes of the lute Count Ore
von GowmndzlnkI, who filed In
city on February 14. The ashes
collected in a cylindrical-shaded
which weighed five pounds and
consigned to the relatives in
Fatherland.
TO BE NO RIOTING THIS TI"
Sylvester Promises Ample Prottc
For Suffrage Parade.
Washington, D. C Major S)i:
chief of police of Washington.
promised ample protection for u"
frage parade on May 9. He fT
there will be no repetition o'
annoyances from the crowds '
occurred at the last parade, M,fC
1913. The parade will be con
under the auspices of the Congr
al Union for Woman' Suffrage
MAN AND WOMAN
William Gunnoe and Sister'"
Accused Of Murder.
Ph.r1t.ntnn. W. Vn WllllaB1
noe and Miss Ode Mullens, h '
murder in connection with th 1
of Mrs. Nora Gunnoe, who 85
In the kitchen of her bom
Kanawha City. The arrests i"
two-days' invesllgatlon oy
oner's jury. Wneii Mrs. -body
was found the face and '
were burned with acid.