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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—
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[and West Virginia will be invited.
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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-
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Bangor, Me, |
rested for the murder of the woman's |
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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
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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. He
had false beliefs, the result of false teach-
ing, but not the result of disease is
chically he had not a histo
or of perverted tastes and
was the product of anarchi
responsible.”
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