&/ THE BULLETIN. FLORIN, PA. J, E SGHROLL, - Editor and Publisher, SUBSCRIPTION: Fifty Cents Per Annum, strictly in advance. Six Months, . . 3 Single Copies, - . - Sample Copies Free. 25 Cents. 2 Cents. Special Rates to Yearly Advertisers. Address all communications to— THE BULLETIN, = Florin, Pa. Entered at the Postoffice at Florin as second-class mail matter. When it comes {o safety in traveling possibly the modern steamship gives the greatest possible assurance. In evidence of this fact, it is of record that:not a single man of that 250,000 sent by England to South Africa, has been killed or injured while on ship: ; board. Another official report has reached Washington concerning the alarming mortality amdng the natives of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The dis- eases which have afflicted them are principally those imported along with the advent of civilized man, proving again that contact with civilization is dangerous to the savage. The avérage annual income of pro- fessional criminals is estimated at .odout $1160. This means that the community pays them a yearly salary of $400,000,000. After this is spent for their maintenance we pay .nnually $200,000,000 for their detection, convic- tion and support under national, state, county and city auspices. There was a time when the efforts of people to escape compulsory vaccin- ation would have been less unreason- able than they are now. When phy- sicians used humanized lymph (from the arms of children who may have . been the victims of constitutional dis- eases) there was supposed to be dan- ger of developing incidental disorders. As a matter of fact, however, most of the charges of the transmission of disease through vaccination were groundless. In this day the virus is prepared with the utmost care, and is fully protected from all possibility of germ infection. Only the bovine virus is used, and the animals from which it is obtained are always in per- fect health. No one need fear any- thing worse than the effects of the harmless virus, observes the Phila- delphia Record. JPolitical and social conditions will ain, for man artant DOUBLE MURDER BY REJECTED SUITOR Man Kills Husband of His Former Sweet- heart and Attacks Woman, SHOT HIMSELF THROUGH THE HEART Frederick Bankert Had Served Time in Prison for Former Attempt on Woman's Life—Mrs. Green Was Shot in the Left Shoulder and the Top of Her Head Was Cut Open With a liatchet—Plans Well Carried Out. Amsterdam, N. Y. (Special).—Fred- erick Bankert, who six months ago was released from Dannemora prison, where he served five years for attempting to kill his sweetheart, Cora Harrison, by shoot- ing her, killed William Green, who, while Bankert was in prison, married Miss Harrison, and also shot himself. He also shot Mrs. Green, and she will die. The murder tgpk place at the home of the Greens. The Greens lived on the second floor of a dwelling, the first floor of which is Jecupled by James Whitncy and his fam- ily. At 1.30 o'clock a. m. Whitney was awakened by noises in the Green apart- ments, but they ceased almost immedi- ately and he paid no more attention to the matter at the time. About 2.15 o'clock Whitney's daughter returned home from a social party in company with Philip Cady. Whitney was stil! awake and he decided to go upstairs and investigate. So, in company with Philip Cady, he went to the Greens’ rooms. Being unable to arouse anyone they went to the bedroom occupied by the Greens. There they saw a sight that staggered them. Lying on the outer edge of the bed, with his body partly on | the floor, was Green. His head had been | crushed in with a hatchet in the hands | of Bankert, who was lying on the other side of the bed, next to the wall, fully! clad with the exception of his shoes. He | was dead, with a builet wound through | the heart. Lying between the two men was Mrs. Green, who was still alive, but uncon- scious. Cady hastened to police headquarters and informed the officers of what had happened. When the police arrived at] the house Mrs. Green was still breathing. | She had Leen shot in the left shoulder | and the top of her head was cut cpen with a hatchet. Efforts were made by | physicians to resuscitate her, but in vain. | Green had heen shot in the neck and his head was cut open in several places with | the hatchet. From the position in which | ie was found it could be seen that he Rad struggled hard for life. Bankert had taken his own life by shooting himself in the heart. He had | no doubt been con-idering the matter for | some time, for his plans were well car- ried out. PAN-AMERICAN LIGHTS OUT. The Impressive Closing Scene at Midnight | as “Taps'' Sounded. Juffalo, N. Y. (Special).—-The Pan- | American . Exposition ended at 12] o'clock Saturday night. At midnight | President John G. Milburn pressed an electric button and the lights in the | famous electric tower grew dim for the last time. Slowly, one by one, the lights on post and pinnacle and tower faded away. A corps of buglers stand- | ihg in the tower sounded ‘‘taps,” and | one of the greatest glories of the Ex- | i be electrical illumination— HS ny [and West Virginia will be invited. | leased, Pte SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. Nicaragua has given notice of the ter- mination of the Treaty of 1867, granting the United States authority to build a canal across that country; also, the Treaty of 1870. Lieut. William C. Marlee, U. 8. M. C,, was severely reprimanded for thrashing a Filipino boy who did not want to carry his gripsack. Philippine Commissioner Luke LE. Wright was appoiaited vice governor of the Philippines, «0 act in the absence of Governor Tait! District Attorney Holmes, of Barnsta- ble county, Massachusetts, who ordered the arrest of Miss Jane Tappan on the charge of poisoning, says there have been 11 suspicious cases of death in houses at which Miss Tappan was employed as a nurse. Edward S. Stokes, who, on January 6, 1872, shot and killed Jim Fisk in the Grand Central Hotel, New York, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. McNutt, in that city. Rev. Jeremiah Crowley, who was ex- communicated and expelled from the Catholic Church, sued Ref. F. J. Barry, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago, for $50,000. The International Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association re-elected Mrs. William S. Stewart, of Philadelphia, president. The experts who examined Czolgosz during his life submitted a report declar- ing that he was a product of anarchy, but sanc and responsible. : Ed Simpson and Francis Wiles, who blew up a place near Roanoke, Va., died from the injuries they sustained. Gus and John Hall, brothers, were seriously injured in a football game at Rock Island, Ill. Samuel Oliver was arrested in New- port News, Va., on the charge of smug- gling tobacco. Mme. Nordica, the singer, arrived on | the St. Louis, at New York. The Methodist Bishops, in session at | Cincinnati, decided to hold the next semi-annual conference at Chattanooga, | at which closer relations and the final | union of the Churches North and South | will be considered. The West Virginia State Miners’ | Convention, at Huntington, adjourned | | after issuing a call for a meeting Nov. | | The Mouth of October Was Mild and Drier 27, to which the operators of Virginia Henry Wiseman, who was pardoned | for the balance of the term he was serv- ing for theft in Jackson, Mich., was re- | and then rearrested on the charge of murdering Mrs. Ellen Huss. Patrick S. Murphy was arrested in Torrington, Conn., on the charge of | having attempted to wreck a passenger | train on the New York, New Haven | and Hartford Railroad. | At Beechgrove, Ky., Marshal Hardin, 18 years old, kicked the crutch from Everett Bohannan, a school teacher, who was whipping him, and fatally stabbed the teacher. A writ of mandamus has been served on Warden Haddox, of the West Vir- ginia penitentiary, to require him to exe- cute George Carter, a convicted mur- derer. Thomas Gibbons, of Fred A. Hold and Mrs. Gero were ar- | { | Bangor, Me, | rested for the murder of the woman's | | husband, Thomas Gero, at Chesuncook, i Maine. Mrs. John Chartrand is under arrest for shooting and killing her husband at the skating rink in Hoboken, N. J. She says the shooting was accidental. A heavy coil of telegraph wire was re- moved from the Northern Central track near York, where #® had prada dios placed to } | the attack, as already cabled, but he | showing the weather conditions for the | past month threughout the country. That THE BOER LOSS WAS VERY HEAVY Casualties in Recent Engagement Were Over 300. ATTACK MADE DURING HEAVY MIST. A Terrific Engagement Near Bethel in Which Col, Benson, Commanding the British Force, Is Morfally Wounded—Other Prominent Officers Among Those Who Feil—Boers Re- ported to Have Been a Thousand Strong. Pretoria, Nev. 3.—Further details have been received regarding the at- tack by the Beers ander Commandant General Louis Betha last week upon Colonel Benson's column, near Braken- laagte, Eastern Transvaal. It appears that General Botha, who had been joined by another big com- mando aggregating a thousand men, attacked Colenel Benson's rear guard October 30 on the march, and eaptured two guns, but was unable te retain them. Colonel Benson fo mertally wound- ed early in the fight. Major Wools-Sampson took cem- mand, collected the convoy and. took up a position for defense about 500 yards from the entrenchments prepared by the Boers. The captured guns were so situated that neither side could touch them. The Boers made desperate efforts to overwhelm the whole British force, charging repeatedly right ap to the Brit- ish lines and being driven back each time with heavy loss. The defense was stubbornly and successfully maintained through the whole of the following day and the succeeding night, until Colonel Barter, who had marched all night from Bushman’s Kop, brought relief in the morning of November 1. The Boers then retired. Their losses are cstimated at between 300 and 400. Colonel Benson did not long survive. | Not only did General Botha direct | CROPS AND THE WEATHER. personally shared in the fighting. Than Usual. Washington, ®. C. (Special).—The Weather Bureau just issued a bulletin | part of the bulletin relating particularly to crops follows: ’ “The month has been very mild, and | for the most part direr than usual, the | weather conditions being generally fav- orable for farming operations. Rain is very generally needed, however, over the Middle and South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Districts and also in the central valleys and middle Rocky Mountain re- gion, drought being very severe in west- ern ‘Fexas and in the upper Ohio Valley. Very little damage by frost has occurred. On the Pacific Coast the month has been favorable except in California, where rains caused some damage. “The conditions have been very favor- able for gathering corn and husking has made favorable progress. “In Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa Fall grain has made vigorous growth, but necds rain over limited areas in the two | last-named States. In Missouri, Illi- nois, Ohio and Kentucky “germination fT-sown grain has been e of moisture. In In- n the condition of the. ising. hole month has been DAY OF THANKSGIVING President Theodore Roosevelt Fixes Thurs- day, November 28. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Presi- dent Roosevelt Saturday issued his proclamation fixing Thursday, Novem- ber 28, as a day of national thanksgiv- ing. It follows: “A PROCLAMATION. “The season is nigh when, according to the time-hallowed custom of our peo- ple, the President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise and thanks- giving to God. “This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We mourn President McKinley because we so loved and honored him, and the manner | of his death should awaken in the breasts of our people a keen anxiety resolute purpose not to be driven by any calamity from the path of strong, or- derly, popular liberty, which, as a na- tion, we have thus far safely trod. _ “Yet, in spite of this great disaster, it is nevertheless true that no people on earth have such abundant cause for thanksgiving as we have. The past year in particular has been one of peace and | plenty. We have prospered in things material and have been able to work for our own uplifting in things intellec- tual and spiritual. Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. We can best prove our thank- fulness to the Almighty by the way in which on this earth and at this time each of us does his duty te his fellow- men. “Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose- velt, President of the United States, de hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the 28th of this present November, and do recommend that througheut the land the people cease from their wonted occupations and at their several homes and places ol worship reverently thank the Giver of | all good for the cmuntless blessings ol | our national life. “In witness whereof I have hereunta set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “Done at the City of Washingten this second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred | | and one and ef the independence of the | Uited States the one hundred and twen. ty-sixth. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “By the President, “JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.” KILLED BY INFECTED SERUM. Eleven Children Dead After Using Diph theria Antitoxin. St. Louis (Special).—The list of deaths attributed to lockjaw as a result of the administration of diphtheria anti toxin manufactured by the city chemist now numbers 11, two more deaths hav: ing been reported. Eleven other children are reported to the Health Department as suffering with lockjaw, with slight chances for recov: ery. The cause of lockjaw in each case is said to be poisoning from the city’s diphtheria antitoxin. . The Health Department has now be- gun the free distribution of tetanus an- titoxin for injection into the blood of diphtheria patiesits who have been inoc- ulated with the injected serum and thus exposed to lockjaw. The Health Department has announc- ed that no more diphtheria anatitoxin will be manufactured by the city of St. Louis. The investigation ordered by the city coroner to determine positively the cause of the deaths of who are alleged to h alla + oA. 2 { hearing. CIOLGOSL SANE BEYOND A DOUBT Wental Specialists, After Thorough Ex amination, Forever Settle Questicn. WAS GRADUALLY DEGENERATED. ' Physicians Give a History of His Case, Declar- ing as a Result of Their Investigation That the President's Assassin Was a Product of Anarchy, But Sane and Responsible—He Had No Delusions. ‘ Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Drs. Fow- ter, Crego and Putnam, the specialists who were requested by District Attorney Penney to examine into the mental ¢con-, joo . for the country and at the same time a dition of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, have made public [ their report, in which they state as the . result of frequent examinations of Czol- | gosz, of the reports of his watchers and i of his behavior in court, that they have i “concluded that he was sane at the time he planned the murder, when he shot the President and when he was on trial.” His first examination was only a few hours after the commission of the crime and while he was still uninformed of the fate of the victim. During the first three examinations Czolzosz answered ques- tions unhesitatingly. After that, how- | ever, he became less communicative. He | had a common-school education, the re- port says, and read and wrote well. Dur- ing the first day’s examination he said he planned killing the Presdent three or four days after he (Czelgosz) came t® Buffalo. The sanity of Ceolgosz was held, the report says, “from the history of his life as it came from him. He had been sober, industrious and law-abiding; till he was 21 years of age he was, as others of his class, a believer in the government of his country and of the religion of his father: After he cast his first vote he made the acquaintance of anarchistic leaders, who invited him to their meetings. adopted their theories. tent im his adherence to anarchism. He did not believe in government, therefore he refused to vote. He did not believe in marriage ‘because he did not believe in law. ¢ Killed the President because he was a ruled, and Czolgosz believed, as he was taught, that all rulers were ty- rants. He reflised to have a lawyer be- cause he did not believe in law. “We come to the conclusion,” the re- port goes on, “that in the holding ef these views Crzolgosz was sane, because these opinions were formed gradual under the influence of anarchistic lead- ers and propagandists. In Czolgosz they found a willing and intelligent tool. The most careful questioning failed t» | discover any hallucination of sight or He had received no special command; he did not believe he had been especially chosen to do the deed. He always spoke of his motives for the crime as duty; he always referred to the anarchist’s belief that the killing of rul- ers was a duty. He never claimed the idea of killing the President was orig- inal with him, but the method of ac- complishing his purpose was his, and that he did it alone. “These facts all tend to prove that the man had an unimpaired mind. 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