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TOMPRINS SAYS
HE 1S MURDERER}
Confesses fo 0 Triple Killing of
Humphries Family
RELATES ALL THE DETAILS
Confession of Philadelphian Was Un-
expected—He Blurts Out Truth
* While Talking With Wife.
Following an investigation into the
Bbaflling murder case in Cambria coun-
ty (Pa.) annals. County Detective
Custer formally charged George C.
Tompkins, thirty-eight years old, oi
Philadelphia, with the murder of Ed
mund I. Humphries, coal operator, hii
wife, Mrs. Carrie Humphries, and
their son, Edmund I. Humphries, Jr
fifteen years old, near Carrolltown, Pa
‘ Tompkins, after telling a sensation
al story of the tragedy, Bually cog
fessed. ?
The confession was potally unex:
pected. Tompkins was conversing
with his wife and father inithe office
of the county jail when suddenly
turning around to Warden Knee, who
was also in the room, he said: “I
killed those three people. I killed them
Gi
ail. I killed Humphries in the corm-
field. I bought the gun in Johns-
town.”
As the confessed murderer was talk-
ing, his wife became hysterical and
crying aloud, threw her arms about
her husband's neck. Tompkins’ father
also became excited and rushed to his
son’s side.
"Tompkins did not make a written
confession, although after his state:
ment before the warden and his rela-
tives, he made a complete confession,
the authorities say, to Rev. B. S.
Henry.
In the presence of Attorpey John E.
Evans, his counsel, the prisoner later
made a clean breast of the efitire af-
fair. Jail Warden Knee also heard
the confession.
The accused man {old how he se-
cured the revolver and gave his rea-
sons for the triple murder, but these
have not been divulged by the offi-
cials. It is said Tompkins withheld
nothing.
SHOE THIEVES wn BERLIN
s3otels Can No -Longer Give Shines
at Night. :
The time-honored custom among
hotel guests in Berlin of depositing
one’s footwear in the corridor outside:
the door to have it polished is likely
to come into disuse for the time being.
“The growing demand for shoes, even
castoffs, has encouraged thefts of foet-
wear in hotels.
In order to rescue hotel guests from
their predicament in the case of such
Bosses, the Imperial Clothing bureau
has ordained that purchasing certifi-
cates be issued without the ordinary
restrictions whenever the applicant is
able to prove he has been robbed of
his boots in a hotel.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh, July 24.
Butter—Prints, 43% @44c; Ohio
creamery, 37@37%ic. Eggs—Fresh, 38c.
Cattle—Prime, $12@12.75; good, $11
@11.95; tidy butchers, $10.25@11;
fair, $9@10; common, $7@8; heifers,
$6.50@10; common to good fat bulls, |
$6@10.25; common to good fat cows,
35@9.25; fresh cows and springers,
$40@90. Ai
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10@10.25; good mixed, $9@9.75; fair
mixed, $7.50@8.50; culls and common;
$4.50@6; spring lambs, $10@15; veal
«calves, $1450@15; heavy and thin
«calves, $7T@11.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $15.70@15.75;
heavy mixed and mediums, $15.65@
15.70; heavy Yorkers, P1a.60@15. 70;
Zight Yorkers, $15.25@15.40; > pigs]
$14.75@15; roughs, $13.50@14; stags,
$12@12.75.
’ : Cleveland, July 24.
Cattle—Prime shipping steers,
$11.50@12.50 choice fat steers, 1,150
pounds and upward, $11.26@11.50;
«choice fat steers, 1,000 pounds and
upward, $10@10.50; good to choice
butcher steers, $9.50@10; fair to good,
38@9; common to light steers, $7@
@.b50; choice fat butcher bulls, $7.60@
9; bologna bulls, $6.25@7.25; good to
«hoice fat cows, $7.50@8.60; fair- to
=ood, $6.25@7.25; canners and cutters,
$5@6; milch cows and springers, 360
€@ 90.
Calves—~Choice, $15@15.50;" £064
mixed, $14.50; heavy, $7@14.
Hogs—Choice heavy, $15.50; good
mixed, $15.50; Yorkers, $15.40; .pigs
and lights, $14.50; roughs, $13.85;
sstags, $12.50.
Clipped Sheep and Lambs—Spring
dambs, $14.25@14.75; fair to "good,
$11.50@12.50; good to choice sheep,
3850@9; culls and common, $6@7.
Chicago, July 24.
$14.60@15.50; light,
$14.40@15.60; mixed, $14.25@15.75;
heavy, $14.10@15.75; roughs, $14.10@
4.40; pigs, $11.50@14.60.
@attle—Native beef cattle,
Hogs—Bulk,
$8.40@
73.05; western ste $8.65@11.60;
stockers: and fee $6.35@9.40;
«wows and heifers, 507212; ealves,
310@14.75.
Sheep and Lambs -Wethers, $7.78
@10.90; lambs, $10@16.
arket Close.
Corn.
Chicago Grain
Wheat
Oats.
: 77%
1.6334 58% |
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QUARRELS WITH GOETHALS
“OVER SHIPBUILDING PLAN
‘Photo by American Press Association.
- WILLIAM DENMAN.
LLOYD GEORGE ANSWERS
"CHANCELLOR MICHAELIS
Great Britain Will Never Make Peace
With an Autocratic Germany,
Says Prime Minister.
The British prime minister, David
Lloyd George,s peaking at a great dem-
onstration in London in commemora-
tion of Belgian independence day,
characterized the speech of the Ger-
man chancellor, Dr. Georg Michaelis,
as a mere sham, facing all ways, and
declared that he did not want the
Germans “to harbor any delusions that
they are going to put Great Britain
out of this fight until liberty has becn
re-established throughout the world.”
Dr. Michaelis in his long-awaited
speech in the reichstag showed that
he supports the military group. He
said Germany is ready to make an
honorable peace at any time. Russia
was to blame for the war. America’s
part in the conflict the changellor
passed over lightly, saying that our
army and navy never could aid in the
decision. The whole hope of Ger-
many dis in its submarines, which
would bring a speedy, victory.
Great Britain could make peace
with a free Germany, but with a Ger-
many dominated by .autecracy, de-
clared Lloyd George, there never
could be peace. :
The Germans, said the ‘premier,
were making the same mistake in un-
derestimating America’s efforts in the
war as they had made about Great
Britain in the beginning.
“They said that we wouldn’t fight,”
continued Mr. Lloyd George, “and if
we did we couldn't. We had no army
and . we, couldn’t raise ome, and they
ncedn’t worry about Britain. I think
they have discovered their mistake
about us, and now they are just going
through the same process with Amer-
ica.
“I -want to puf: this: to''them: ‘If
Great Britain, not a very large coun-
try, while she is . maintaining and
equipping and even building up equip-
ment for an army of millions afield
and in reserve in full fighting array,
while she is maintaining the largest
navy in the world, can organize in the
third year .of an exhausting war to
turn out millions of tons of new ship-
lation of this country, with endless
natural resources going to be beaten
merely because she puts forth no ef-
fort? The man who talks like that
knows not America. Otherwise he
would not say it.”
Carson Quits the Admiralty.
__ Sir Edward Carson has relinquished
‘his post as first lord of the admiralty
and joined the war cabinet without
portfolio, according to an official an-
nouncement of new ministerial ~ap-
pointments.
Sir Edward will be succeeded by
1 Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, who has
been director general of munitions
Winston Spencer Churchill succeeds
Dr. Christopher Addison as minister
.of munitions, Dr. Addison becoming a
minister without portfolio in charge
‘of reconstruction.
Baron Montague of Beaulieu is
made secretary for India.
Three Resign In Russian Cabinet.
Three members of the Russian cabi-
net have resigned and a special ses-
sion of the council of minsters has
crisis. Their names are A. I. Singar-
off, minister of finance; Professor
Manuiloff, minister of education, and
Prince Shakovsky, head of the depart.
ment of public aid.
The resignations of the ministers
followed a sharp disagreement over
questions involving the Ukarine, an
extensive region in’ Russia embracing
‘part of the territories of the old king-
dom of Poland.”
Draft Causes Two Deaths.
John D. Hossman, a farmer of
near New Brunswick, N. J, returned
from New York to his farm and missed
his wife, Mary G. Hossman, and son,
Jacob Hossman, aged twenty-nine. He
found his son had ended his life by
hanging himself in the hay loft and
his wife had ended her life by the
same method in another building.
Hossman says he believes worry over
the draft caused the two to end their
lives.
EE SR SS SET TT ge
ter.
cost you a handful of dollars to
Morning hour and children’s
Talk About Value!
+ From the standpoint of educational entertain=""1"
ident, getting a ‘Chautauqua season ticket for $2 is
like going to market with a two dollar bill and com-
ing home with" enough flour, potatoes, sugar and
other physical necessities to last through a hard win-
The head must be fed as well as the stomach.
On the world’s counters of worth while entertainment it would
the 1917 Chautauqua, but for the price of a single night reserva-
tion in a city theater you may hear right at home:
The Killarney Girls, in Irish costumes.
Edwin M. Whitney, in “Turn to the Right!”
The Regniers, music and impersonations.
Ida C. B. Allen, household efficiency expert.
Dr. Ng Poon Chew, “the Chinese Mark Twain.”
Montague Company, s sketches from familiar operas.
* Opie Read, novelist, in humorous philosophy.
Metropolitan Artists, well known Chicago musicians.
SRE Dr. Charles E. Barker, physical adviser to President Taft.
+... Light Opera “Dorothy,” by the Murray-Lane Company.
Christine Giles Company, flute, violin, voice and piano.
Dr. E. T. Hagerman, on “The Man With One Window.”
Ralph Bingham, America’s chief funmaker.
- Walton Pyre, presenting “The Spinner In the Sun.”
White Hussars, Ralph Dunbar’s Singing Band:
“How's That For a Big Two Dollars’
. Worth ?
SEASON TICKETS ARE ON SALE
see and hear all of the stars of
features as usual.
©
Salisbury, September 2 - 8, 1917
ping, is America, with twice the popu- !
quarantine. The white lag is uuiver-
sally used as 1 Lay of trace. The black
flag was formerly the symbel of piracy,
+ or upside down.
been convened in an effort to avert a:
{bleeding and for persons usually des-
, ind a fruit eater who is a pessimist.—
' Tos Angeles Times.
Billy Sunday Hits Beefsteak Trail;
Home Economics Expert Responsible
R three successive years Mrs. Ida
C. Bailey Allen, who is to give her
Spbepnretiices in the home” talk here
on the second afternoon of the Chau-
tauqua, gave lectures and demonstra-
tions at Columbus under the direction
of the Ohio State Journal. Ls
During Mrs. Allen’s first visit to Co-
lumbus the Billy Sunday campaign was
under way, and Mr. Sunday accepted
an invitation for himself and party to
partake of a luncheon, the items of
which ‘were selected by himsel: and.
prepared by Mrs. Allen, The mea was
prepared and eaten on the stage of
Memorial Hall. The food which Mr.
Sunday requested consisted of beef-
steak, baked potatoes and celery salad,
In other words, Billy hit Mrs. Aliens
beefsteak trail.
Colonel B, 8. Wilson, whose dally edi-
torials in the State Journal are a source
of interest to thousands, was particu-
larly impressed by Mrs. Allen’s lectures.
At various times he commented ‘edito-
rially, saying on one occasion: “It is a
treat to hear Mrs. Allen, for she is as
bright as she is instroctive.. She knows ||
all about her subject and to hear ber is 13
like listening to a melody.” ;
On the occasion of her last visit to
Columbus Mrs. Allen was presented to
her Memorial Hall audience by Mayor
George J. Karb., Later in the week the
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture attended one of the sessions and
took occasion to say: “I feel that there
is a divoree case ahead for the girl who
cannot ¢ocok ou 11! or bake.a loaf of
bread. , I think every man in Ohio will
support a law compelling you to cut an
apple pie into forr pieces instead of
six. Mrs” Alien cnn fell you how. Geod
cookin: n= a lit ro do avith' health.
Yoo enn ras
t+ complexion out of
IDA C. BAILEY ALLEN:
good cooking than you can out of a box
of medicine or paste. A good dinner
is the weapon of the politician and the «|
lobbyist when they want to put some-
thing through. We give a great deal of
attention to the balanced ration for the {fF
hog and the cow. I think we ought io;
give more attention to the balanced i
tion for the man.”
Mrs, Allen’s Chautauqua Tachare
“Mrs. Uncle Sam Wades In, ' wil ap-
peal to the men of the city as well as -
to the women.
Flag Language. 4
There is iio international language
of flags established br: law, but by
common consent flags of a certain color
are used for certain purposes. All over
the ‘world a yedow flag is a signal of
contagious dises«=. A ship hoists it to
denote that there are some on board
suffering fron, such disease, and it re-
mains hoisted until she has reached
and‘ now. in some countries it is town
after an execution is pwrformed tc in-
dicate that the requirements of the law
have been carried out. Other features
of flag language are that a flag-flying
at half mast is a universal sign sof
mourning, and when a ship has to
make a sign of distress she does it by
raising the national ensign reversed
Even this can be em:
phasized by knotting the flag in the
middle to indicate great distress and
imminent danger.
ne
a
: Fruit Diet as a Cure.
The fruit diet is a sure and positive
cure for what is popularly known as
ignated as bleeders, persons who can-
not stop the flow of blood once itiis
started from a wound or other cause.
The fruit diet will supply the blood
with fibrin. Fibrin is the substance
out of which nature fabricates flesh
and ‘muscle. A person on the fruit
diet hardly bleeds at all when he cuts
himself accidentally with a knife or
when, for proper reasons, a dentist
is forced to draw one of his teeth. The
blood coagulates almost instantane-
ously. If you believe none of this, just
try it. The experience is safe and |
sane. The fruit diet is cheaper and
better than the meat diet, and it will do
more for you. You will feel fine and
chirrupy and optimistic. You never
INDIANA GIRL WINS
SHUBERT COMMENDATION
She Appears In Title Role of Ga era
“Dorothy” at Local Chautauqua.
Helen Guen-
ther, wha has
the title role in
the light opera
. “Dorothy,” ‘one
.of the big fea-
tures of Chau-
tauqua week, is
a little Indiana
girl whe has
sprung into
the limelight
through a com-
bination of « tal-
ent and energy.
Although scarce-
ly twenty years
of age, she has
been featured. by
| the famous Shu-
berts of New
York, not in
out of the way
places, but in
such musical and theatrical centers as
Boston,- Philadelphia and New York.
Miss Guenther went to college for
two and a half years on a scholarship
which she secured through brilliant
work in the classroom. During the re-
mainder of her course her tuition and
living were earned through personal
effort, particularly along musical lines.
When she is seen here as Dorothy
she will play with J. K. Murray, the
famous light opera star and screen fa-
vorite. Incidentally Mr. Murray was
engaged in motion picture work until
a few weeks before the opening of the
Chautauqua season, appearing with
Marguerite Clark and others of note in
some of the masterpieces of the Fa-
mous Players Film Corporation.
HELEN @' GUEN-
THER.
& §
Next to Life itself, Sight is the most valuable thing
you possess.
To do the most efficient work, to get the most enjoy-
- ment out of life, you need your Eyes in the best possible
condition.
The First Indications of eye trouble should have
your immediate attention.
thorough methods to determine your trouble.
Girly CALL IN AND SEE US.
COO
NL” Optometrist
“Eye Sig.t Specialist
We use the latest and most
Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business June 20th, 1917
"RESOURCES ;
Loans and Investments.......................... $829,301.57
Banking House. .......... seis as uneniesnes 30,200.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents............. 305,999, 1
Capital Stock>................ sila
Total... $1,354,329,
LIABILITIES
Surplusand Profits. ...... ...... dde casi vid,
Circulation .. ........... ..
Bl
. ... $ 65,000.00
143.741.41
64, 00
400.
Deposits yl ee 1.051, 188.59
June 30th, 1916 ..... ......
Tota
OUR GROWTH THE PAST oo
.... $1,354,329.80
cos neagns, $1,023,628.01
December 27th, 1916 rrr an 1,143,436.97
June 20th, 1917
SHOWS GAIN OF —
$120,000.00. June to Gecember, 1916
211,000.00 December, 1916, to June, 1917
331,000.90 Gain in the past 12 months.
eee ene 1,354,320.80
The Citizens National Bank
*“The Bank With The Clock With The Million”
—,
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We will continue our
the rest of this month
If you want to get the bene-
fit of our cut price goods eall
on us and you will be con-
vinced with our low prices.
Don’t Miss It
Welnstein’s
Next to Postoffice, Meyersdale, Pa.
Low Price Store
is sold.
EAT A PLATE OF /c£ CREAM EVERY DAY!
That pleasant little suggestion
greets you wherever
It’s worth trying because
it means a bright spot in
every day.
Get our
Miss Ann
visiting frie
Mrs. Kate
spending a
Ellsworth
visited frien
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from a weel
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business in
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turned fron
Md.
Dr. E. F.
wood busi
evening.
Mrs. Roy
visiting he
Michaels.
Mrs. Joh
visited relat
of last weel
J. W. De
was a pleas
Saturday e
A. SS. Gl
spent -a few
friends in t{
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last Saturd
Route 1 of
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the he ‘01
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from an ex
ing absent
Mr. and
Rev. Burnbh:
ing for an
Mr. and
daughter El
few days vi
Miss: Man
week with
Weimer of
Misses Je
were visitin
Bittner, ha
Miss Cla
is spending
parents, Mx
Mr. and |
son, Claren
spending a
David Ms
is visiting 1}
of Centre
here.
Miss Eli
been visitir
Ruth Comn
well.
Mr. and
family and
turned fror
day.
Rev. Ear!
pulpit of R
an church
evening.
Regis St:
on Sunday
his grandpsz
Stacer.
Thomas .
and his br
of Mt. Ss
Uniontown.
Mr. and
have retur
mont, W.
Pittsburgh,
P. D. Ch
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are in Ne
goods for t
Mrs. J. (
ren of Pit
former’s
George H.
Mr. jand
Harry, an
Mrs. Georg
home of C.
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troit, Mich.
with his pe
iel Dahl on
Miss Mas
Meyersdale
Lydia Mas
visitors in
Mrs. Ida
left today
Ellsworth,
Mankamye:
Miss Ru
Pa, and 1
8 Connellsvill
Mrs. Georg
Jd. W. S
} was a visi
day and wil
the Comme
Mrs. J.
daughter,
Miss Minn:
are the gu
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