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mm f? f in* F v>j A- F-JOHNSON. EDITOR AND HA VOL. XLI. -y - -?* ~~ MhNYNEARDEATH IN AUSTIN RUINS Narrow Escapes When Workman U covers Dynamite. DEATH LIST FLALEO AT 77 The Codies Reoovered Number Fortyseven, While Thirty Persons Are Misting ? Engineers Inspect the Dam. Sores of workmen engaged In cleaning av. ay and destroying the flood wreu.r.ge o; what w?3 the business section of Aus.in, Pa., had a narrow 68cSpe from a terrible de?th. 0 The workmen were digging with pickaxes in the wreckage, when one of teem no Iced thet the point of his pick had Just cleaved what looked like a broken stick, but which had a dark gray interior. Stooping over, he found a dozen more. Curlcmv as to their nature, he took them to the foreman, who started back in alafm. Tiid sticks were dynamite, and the escape of the workmen seemed indeed almost miraculous. Seven construction engineers have arrived to look over the Bayless dam, the bursting of which caused the flood. They denied that they, had come hy ^rearrangement and said their visits had nothing to do with the official Investigation, but It was said on high authority that at least some of them | would-be called In the inquest to testify regarding the condition and con-] struction of the dam. The engineers are: W. J. Douglas, of New York; Thaddeus Merriman, assistant chief engineer of the board of water supply, of New York; Merritt Smith, a department engineer of the _ same board; A. P. Davis, chief engineer of the United States reclamation . service, who said he had been s^nt by the department of the interior especially to learn what the effect of the water had been on the concrete and to obtain information regarding weak points In the structure; Edward Wagman. designer'" of the Croton dam In New York, who was "sent by the Bay^ less . Pulp aud Paper company, presumably to protect It in the Investigation; J. H. Cook, engineer of the Jersey City Water company, and J. F. Witraer, a civil engineer of Buffalo, who was engineer at the construction j of the municipal water works of Aus-1 tin. and was senl'by the Bayless concert: While 1000 men labored right manfully at the task of digging what Is left of Austin from the wreck and ruin which engulfed, it, the Bad-eyed citizens who survived the flood set themselves in earnest to the work of burying their dead. As the remnants of the town began to arise, seemingly from the cloak of wreckage which has enveloped them for days, six of the former residents whose llveX went out"ln the flood were consigned to their final resting places on a bleak and windswept hillside airost wunin signt or tne nive or feverish energy which formerly was the town of Austin. Futile though the efforts seemed to the watchers, they bore their fruit, for seven more bodies 'were recovered on Wednesday and identified ^nd great gaps were torn through the great barriers which had been builded In the main part of the town by the lumber . ladt^ torrent, v The bodies recovered were theme of _ Evelyn <lennlck, whose mother's body had already been found and Identified; - a boy six years old, unidentified; a 'twelve-yearold boy, unidentified; two adults who are so badly mutilated thai the sex cannot be determined, and Joseph McNamara and Mrs. Jacob Hess. . i The bodies recovered now number forty seven, while thirty persons still are reported as missing, making the total list of victims not greater than seventy-seven. One body and part of another were recovered on Thursday. The condition of ' v-m la such that they must be disposed of almost Immediately. Seven bodies or parts" of bodies unclaimed w||! also be disposed of. / _____ Bee Stings Cure Rheumatism. Hopelessly crippled for two years , by rheumatism, William P. Fitzgerald, a wealthy brewer of Ansonla, Conn., Wr ha? been cured by exposing himself i to the attack of the bees. Leaving a hospital a month ago, when all remedies failed, Mr. Fitzgerald tried the bee experiment as a final resort. A friend who had benefited by jiKc treatment suggested It to him. A hive of bees quartered In tho . garret of Mr. Fitzgerald's home dally divided their time between gathering honey and burying their weapons In their owner. At times the bees would - not sting until angered by poking. Their stabs caused severe psln In the v. patient's arms and lags, but he suffered heroically. After three weeks of ' - the treatment ha is able to walk without crutcbas. Medical Journals reoently hays been . c' " ' iv-7 ' r ^ RA> NAGER x * -v* ?BLry''1jjLy ? !/' ?.JtiH New. Snapshot. SV ? 01 (he Week ~??i that United States Senator Isaac Step the command of the Duke of the A bra Jr.. was elected president of Mexico, i discussing bees as a cure and stated that their sting neutralized the acid, an excess of which causes rheumatism and gouty affections. The Value of the cure was, however, doubted. Mr. Fitzgerald will soon leave Ansonla for Hot 8prlngs, Va. Cave-In Kills Five Men. Five men were sucked Into an abandoned car shaft at Freeland, Fa., and burled beneath tons of slate and coa' dirt, when the ground on which tbey were working gave way beneath their feet. All bf the men, who were foreigners, were Instantly killed. They fell seventy feet to the bottom of the shaft. ? TU? nnnlJnn' ? -* ?"1 TN_S? iuc ovxiucm uvvm reu ai - lue uniton colliery of the Lcfifgh Valley Coal company. Tile first aid corps of the colliery entered the mine in an effort "to rescue the men. Doctors, priests end undertakers bad be n sent for and were lined up on li e surface around the incuth ol' the o.unng. After sever;! hours of v.or!: the message came: "All are dead; prepare to rerelve the bodies." Mayor Traps Briber In His Office. Mayer Lewis A. aii-lien, of WllkesEaire, Pa., has caused the arrest, as the result of a trap, bt William B. McGuire, a former deputy city treasurer, whom he charges with attempting to bribe him with $4000 in cash and $25,000 in the bonds of the WilkesBarre Light company to sign an ordinance granting the company a seventyfive-year franchise. The trap was set In the private office of the mayor by having City Detective D. C. Schneider and George W. Williams, a newspaper man, being hidden In a closet in the office. There they heard the conversation of the mayor and McGuire, and upon the given signal, when the money and the bonds were placed on the mayor's desk, they sprang but and seized McGuire. A short time ago the Wilkes-Barre Light company secured from city councils an ordinance granting it' a franchise for seventy-five years. This ordinance was sent to the mavnr for Ills signature. A few days ago It became known that the city's chief executive would return It to the common council with a veto. Since then the mayor said he haa been approached In many ways to Influence him, and ho soon saw (hat an effort would be made to brlbe*Eim. He then resolved to lay the trap, and When he had an appointment with MrGulre he'hid Detective Schneider and Williams. A warrant was sworn out, charging McGulre with attempted bribery. He waived a hearing and gave $1600 ball. Prepare to Bury Beattie. It has Just become known that the cemeteries committee of the Richmond, Va., city council. In a secret session a week ago, took a special action to permit the family of Henry C. Beattie, Jr., to bury his body In the Maury cemetery In Richmond If he Is electrocuted on Nov. 24 for the murder of his wife. The Beattie family lives in South Richmond, bnt their burial plot la In the Richmond cemetery, and there is a city ordinance which prohibits the burial of a non-resident there. Fourth Attempt to Bum Scottdale. A Are of Incendiary origin swept through the business section of Scottdale. Pa, and caused a loss of about $126,000. Fifty guests were routed out of the Central hotel before that structure went down, but all escaped unhurt. Two Area were discovered within a abort distance of each other at the same time and the flames Quickly spread to adjoining buildings. This la the fourth attempt to 'burn the town within the past thres months. Coffee Cafes Advanoo Price. Coffee st two cents s cap Is how * thing of the pest In New York city. mmm <KIJ THE COUNTY, THE 8 LOUISBUBG. N. C.. FRI itlng of tbe huge dam of tbe Bayless pap< is were killed, and many more are atlll mlai probable that any attempt to rebuild tbem Santiago of tbe Spanish-American war, dr henaon of Wisconsin obtained bla aeat In t 1*1, wjaa active In tbe taking of Tripoli. Ai and there were rumors that General Reyes Every coffee house and restaurant on tbe East Side and in other quarters of the city where tbe drink Is sold to the poor put the price tip to three cents. The high price of sugar and coffee la the reason for the advance. 8nake Chokes GhrU Choked Into Insensibility by a flvefoot blacksnake, Lillian Porcher, eight years old, .Is in a serious condition at "her home at Port Washington, near New Philadelphia, O. The child was [ playing in 'he schoolhouse when, the j snake dr-" ed from the rafters upon j her hen Hillary Beaehey Falls 200 Feet. Hillary Beaehey, the aviator, fell 200 feet In an aeroplane at St. Lsiuls, j Mo.,- and landed on a- brick pavement. | He was unconscious When taken to a hospital. Tho machine was wrecked. Aviator Falls to Death. Cromwell DIxoq, who flew across the Rocky mountains last Saturday, I ! fell 100 feet at the Interstate Fair [ ! grounds at-Spokane, Wash., and rei reived Injuries which caused his death, African Bishop Dead. Bishop James A. Handy, of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Is ! dead In Baltimore, aged eighty-five years. 3ENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA ? FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $3.40? 3.80; city mills, fancy, 35.85&6.2B. RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel, (5? 5.25. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, 93'A? 9454c. CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, 7754078c. OATS steady; No. 2 white. 62? 52 54c.; lower grades, 51c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 13? 1 14c.; old roosters, 1054011c. Dressed I firm; choice fowls, 17c.; old roosters, I 10 He. I BUTTER steady; extra cramery, 82c. per lb. EGOS steady; selected, 30 @ 32c.; 1 hearbv, 26c.\ western, 26c. POTATOES firm, at 80? 90c. bushel, Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards' ? ! CATTLE Steady; choice, |7@7.65; prime, J6.75@7. SHEEP steady/ prime wethers, $4 @4.15; culls and common, 51.5002; lambs, 83@6.50; veal calves, 58.50? 10. _ HOGS lower; prime heavies, 86,95 @7; mediums, 36.95 0 7; heavy Yorkers, |6.95@7; light Yorkers, 16.50? 6.75; pigs, |6@6.79; roughs, 35.76? 125. 8ulphur Ball Crushes Miners. Two foreigners were crushed to death and James Gallagher, a school director, was fatally injured, when a large sulphur ball weighing many thousand pounds dronced from the roof In No. 11 slope of the Beaver , Brook Coal company, at Beaver Brook, ( hear Hazleton, Pa. --?"', Peculiarly Poisoned. I Having first handled a mesh bag | and then squeezed a fever blister with | the same hand. Miss Beatrice McCon- 1 nolly, of Trenton, N. J., has sustained < septic poisoning. She has been In a f serious condition the past week, but < la now Improved. ' ' < Pointed ParagraphsNo woman is as truthful as her mir- 1 ror. 1 The football hero will i soon olimb back on hie pedestal. It'a .% surprise party Hf vpvqrybody 1 there hps a good time. Occasionally a man prevea his wisdom t by acting foolish. An onnce of flattery is better than a 1 ton of tombstone obituary. He is a wise mpn who never argues j with people he is fond of. " , Life Is bat a fleeting show?yet It is 1 the bast show a man has on earth. 1 It la sometimes better to have loved , and lost than to be the other lb How. , f*' . ? I N T TATE, THE UNION. DAY OCTOBER 13. 1911. r mill at Austin, Pa., wiped out the tow ing. The wreck has devastated tbe t< will be'made. Rear Admiral Wlnfleld opped dead In a New York street In? int body by the Improper use of mone Imiral Borea d'Olma was made goverti would start an Insurrection. FL03D SCENE IN AUSTIN. 8howing Houses Piled Together In Center of Devastated Town. |S?< X . ' -vV. V. f T & . ' 2 -Saii .1 ? 1911, by American Press Association. Oust McCabe In Pure Food Fight. In a sudden succession of orders, Em Initial move in the expected reorganization of the department of agriculture at Washington, Solicitor George P. McCabe was retired from the pure food and drug board; Asso-1 siate Chemist F. L. Dunlap, closely I Identified with McCabe, was allowed a leave of absence until the president's I return, and Chemist Harvey W. Wiley j was left apparently in supreme com- j mand of the board. Dr. R. E. Doollttle, I pf New York, was temporarily appointed to the board to succeed McCabe. I These changes were announced by j Secretary Wilson, following a conference with Dr. Wiley, who har been on i. long vacation. They were deemed inevitable in view of the official and personal antagonism alrod before a congressional committee the past sum mer ana Lir. Wiley's exoneration. by President Taft, after Attorney General Wickersham, with views aligned with those of Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, had recommended Dr. Wiley's removal from office as head if the chemistry bureau because of a technical Irregularity in appointive methods, the responsibility for which tie denied. The pure food and drup board is the agency which passes upon many mportant cases arising under the enforcement of the pure food law. Dr. Wiley declared that he was usually outvoted and-qjfcde -a-Amnber qt sensational statements in the investigation of the controversy. Smarting unler the frequent overruling of his rtews, wherein hcr44Uld 'food products ieleterious to health, he told a congressional committee that he regarded lis associate. Dr. Dunlap, as his superior officer. Stoll Acquitted In Lynching Case. George Stoll, Bixteen years old, who vaB charged with murder In the ynchlng of Zack Walker, at Coateerllle, Pa., was acquitted In West Cheser. Y.,v ? As the verdict was announced by -"Yank Young, foreman of the Jury, a nurmur of applause swept through he court room, only to be stilled by fudge Hemphill. As the Judge stepped down from he bench and startod for his chain era the Coatesvllle friends of Stoll, rho had been waiting in the court oom for over an hour, swept forward, tome of them even vaulting thw w MK s JJj^^ .V V <>-.*' -j ? wl us of Austin and Costello. A number >wns to such an extent tbnt It Is not 8cott 8chley, retired, the hero of the estlgatlon was begun Into the charge y. The Italian torpedo flotilla, under or of the town. Francisco I. Madero, closure rail, and grasped the acquitted -lad by the hand. Then, as court adjourned, the commotion began. While they were In the court room the friends of Stoll remained completely quiet, bul Sheriff Colder guided the youth to the corridor and the crowd went wild. As they reached the entrance of the court houso the sheriff patted the lad on the back and ushered him forth into the open. I Chester Bostick. Clyde Woodward, Charles Wbitely and Raymond Day, four of Stall's closest friends, and all witnesses called against him by the cuiumuuiyc ami, mien HI HI 10 CDCIT I shoulders as ho reached Market I street. For over a block they bore | him aloft, while from store doors and dwellings rcopls rushed forth and cheered. Three Subpoena Carvers Killed. ! Trying1 to'subpoena witnesses wanted in a murder trial at Gibson Station, Va.t two sous of Juries Collins were "killed and tbe lather fatally wounded. The Fubpocnoos were to have been served on women whose n^mea have not been learned. The officers ir.H resistance, and when they attemp..e<l to force their way into the homes of the women they were shot Bear Season Cper.s. The bear reason in Pennsylvania has opened officially, and the shooting of Bruin will be legal until Jan. 1. Un| der the new state law no traps may be I used. The season for woodcock is also open and will run until Dec. 1. Not more than ten may be shot in a day. I Rodgers' Aeroplane Falls In Indiana. Caught In a sudden gust of wind, C. I P. Rodgers' aeroplane dived to eirth just after he had started from Huntington, Ind., toward Chicago. The machine was wrecked and Rodgers painCully bruisod An East Indian Amulet. In India n variety of gems and j stones are used as amulets. Tbe most common is tbe salagrama. a stone about as large as a billiard ball and which Is perforated with black. Tills Is supposed to be found only in Gaudaki, a river in Nepaul. Tbe person who possesses one of these stones Is esteemed highly fortunate. Be preserves it in a clean cloth, from whence It is sometimes taken to be bathed and perfumed. He believes that the water In which it is washed, if drunk, has tbe power to preserve from sin. Holding if In hla hnnrl tha o*. pires in pence. . The Recipe. "Your novel is pretty good," said the publisher to Seribley, "but, after all, it needs just a little more thrill. Can't you put something stirring in it?" "Why,- 1 might." snWJ Scrtbley, "though just how to stir things up I don't know." "Well." smiled the publisher, "suppose you try just a little more spooning. Nothing like a good spoon for stirring, you know "?Harper's. He Didn't Tell. "Gee! Now tell me as man to man what you wouM do if you were married to that woman." , "You tell me what you would do. 1 am married to her."?Houston Post. Considerate. She?Why did you ask Belle to go with us? He?1 saw she was going anyhow, and I didn't wish her to feel mean over It?Smart Set A Fault Finder. 'Ton were always a frtvjt finder," -growled the wife 'Tea, dear." responded the husband meekly: "1 found you." It's juut the luok of a man for a girl to go on kissing him from babyhood right up to the time when it would be interesting, i * ' ' * \ ''f M W| y 3--SBS 5. IUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR . , * . ; '" _ 1?:''1-':.', -V/Ji NUMBER 88 READY FOR WAR ON BIG TRUSTS _i . ' v -Ml Government to Start Its Greatest Campaign ot Suits. STEEL TRUST 30MES FIRST ????? * ,;j Not Only Dissolution Suits Are to^Be Brought, But Also Criminal Prosecutions ? Harvester Combine and Others to Follow. Attorney General Wickersham Is now ready to file a suit in eqdity against the United States Steel corporation. This is to be the opening, gun in the greatest war on trusts since th,e Sherman law was enacted. Not only are dissolution suits to be thought,' but criminal prosecutions to land trust creators in prison, and, according to a high official of the department of justice, the next twelve, months promise to be the busleBt in the history of the department. The attorney general has not only carte blanche, but instructions from the president to "go ahead and prosecute." " A1 nn sr with tho /.Amnloto/1 W1 r\f complaint ag&lnst the steel trust Attorney General Wickersham will be given all the material gathered by investigators of the department of justice against the International Harvester company, the harvester trust. This evidence is .so complete that it can in /'V ' a short time be arranged into a bill ' > ; ? of complaint against that corporation. , * The offer of George W. Perkins, the financier and maker of the harvester trust, to dissolve that corporation, will also be placed in the hands of'the attoraey general. ' . ? In the bill of complaint against the t steel trust are two specific charges. First, the violation of that section of the Sherman anti-trust law prohibiting unreasonable combinations in restraint of trade; second, a violation | of the Elkins interstate commerce law. It was stated at the department of justice that there would be criminal prosecution of officials of the steel trust. Who these officials are the department would not say. The federal government charges the steel trust with "unreasonable combination in restraint of trade." Under ^ this caption it is alleged that the i steel trust has a monopoly on the steel industry of the Ui^ited States by holding more than 50 per cent of the' steel ore in the country. It Is alleged that the Elkins interstate commerce act has been violated by the trust receiving rebates from railroads owned or controlled in part by them. These railroads are situated near the ore deposits and have a Working agreement with trunk line railr6ads, according to the government's allegatipns. It was said by Solicitor General Lehman and by the attorney general some time ago, that whether the steel trust was prosecuted or if it voluntarily dissolved, no bar to criminal prosecution would stand. According to some Sources in the uc|ianuicui ui justice. iae suit. against the steel trust will be filed within the next few weeks, and the one against the harvester trust within the next two months, unless those corporations .'J make an offer to dissolve in the only way the department will permit; that is, according to the Standard Oil and American Totfacco company decisions. The department's bill of complaint against the sugar trust Is also com- * - >. plete, but the department Is moving slowly in this case. The officers having the case in charge want to file the criminal suits against the officers and the trust itself before filing a suit In equity. At first It was intended that the suit in equity for dissolution should he filed, but the supreme court's decision In the case of Knight, in which the statute of limitation was defined olearly, in the opinion of the attorney \ , general caused* a halt. This if ^>ne of the knotty problems the attorney general will take up. * . 1 The investigations against the rubber trust, in which Senator Aldrlfch's. family is heavily interested, will be pushed this fall and winter. Already the department has much evidence In hand. The decrees of dissolution in the *v$5j electrical trust, the powder trust and the wholesale grocers' trust will be gone over by Oener&l Wlckersham. . Jgjjj As soon as they are In sbapo the at- '/ h torney general Will submit them to \ * the irourt for approval and filing. That action will give the government a permanent injunction against thee? combinations combining in the future. Matinee performances seem so much better to girls than those in the evening because of the candy. The train bound for the fulfillment of ideals has to stop at too many way stations ever to get there.
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