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EVENING RECORD No. 2681. GREENVILLE. PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912.

ESTABLISHED AMERICAN CAPTIVE SHOT FROM AMBUSH BY MEXICAN REBELS Albert Fountain Killed on Flimsy Pretext, by Insurrectos SON OF HEW MEXICO LAWYER Fountain Was in Command of Federal Machine Gun at Parral When Rebels Fountain" Is Cry of Americans, Who Warn Mexican Rebels That They Will Regret the Shooting. El Paso, April Fountain of Las Cruces, N. son of a noted lawyer of that state, was executed by Mexican rebels at Parral. He was killed for having operated a machine gun against them while they were attacking the town. Details were sent to El Paso by a courier.

He was given a chance to "escape" and shot by guards planted for the purpose. Fountain who had been working in the mines around Parral as a shift foreman was thrown out of work a i'ew weeks ago when the mines were to close, down. Pancho Villa, commanding the federal garrison, offered Fountain the job of working a machine gun. Fountain was in com- mand of a gun throughout the three days' battle before the rebels beat Villa back out of the city. When the rebels captured the town Fountain hid part of the gun and took refuge in a drug store, where the rebels later found him.

fountain was taken to the headquarters of General Salazar, commander of the rebels and after a gruelling, led his captors to the hiding place of the gun handle. He said he believed he was "in for it" when he was allowed the freedom of the city, which he thought was to induce him to attempt to escape that they might Imply the ley fuga (law of flight) and kill him as he fled. James I. Long, the American consular agent, had taken up the matter with Washington and every possible pressure was being brought to bear upon General Saiazar to refrain from inflicting the death penalty. "As we talked," said the field correspondent, "Fountain was called for by two junior officers, who led him away and that was the last time he was seen by me alive." The Americans of Parral declare that as "Remember the Maine" was a famous war cry in 1909 "Remember Fountain" is going to be a cry that will make the Mexican rebels wish they had never committed the heinous offense of murdering an American without a trial.

ALLEGED TO HAVE STRUCK BUS DRIVER Charged with assault and battery, J. R. Simpson, of Greenville, was arraigned Wednesday night before 'Squire Miller on the complaint of P. Arnold, a negro bus driver. Both parties, through their attorneys, declared for a jury trial and the squire accordingly held Simpson on his own recognizance for the trial which was set for April 19.

The charges of Arnold grew out of an alleged encounter with Siimpson last Tuesday night at the Pennsylvania station. Arnold, in his testimony, asserted that Simpson had struck him without provocation Simpson refused to discuss the charges and demanded a jury trial. BUTLER MEN TO DISCUSS GOOD ROADS OPERATORS IN FRIENDLY MOOD Offer to Arbitrate Wild Anthracite Miners STRIKE SURE TO BE AVERTED Conferences Continue in Philadelphia With Utmost Good Feeling on Each Commission May Be Called Upon to Settle Difficulty If No Other Way Is Found Agreeable. Pleasing Turn of Affairs. Philadelphia, April settlement of the diflisulties between the miners and the operators seems assured as the result of the conference held In this city.

The coal operators let down the bars of their absolute relusal to consider the demands made by the United Mine-workers and offered sub-' mit the entire dlfliculties to the anthracite strike commission for arbitration. The matter was held in abeyance. This committee will again meet an.l carefully go over the demands made by the miners with a view of reaching an agreement without recourse to the strike commission. If an agreement is reached the operators and miners will again meet and consider their findings. In event of a failure to reach a satisfactory agreement tho question of the strike commission will be further discussed.

Both miners and operators expressed their satisfaction at the turn of conditions and voiced the expression that a strike may be averted. Butler, April E. Marshall, chairman of the good roads committee of the Butler Chamber of Commerce, has announced that the second good roads convention will be held in this city on April 30. Arrangements are being made to have speakers of state and national reputation, and an opportunity will be given to discuss the question on every slide. The committee will endeavor to have William C.

Sprolil, author of the Sproul road bill, and D. Ward King, the inventor of the King road drag, present at the convention and deliver addresses. JULIA SEEKS DIVORCE Actress Wishes to Sever Nuptial Knot With Jockey Tod Sloan. New York, April Sanderson, the actress, filed suit for a divorce from James F. Sloan, better known as Tod Sloan, the former jockey, and obtained permission to serve her husband by public action at a hotel in France on the ground that Sloan never intends to return to this country.

in her complaint Miss Sanderson alleges misconduct with Mabel Robinson on a train between New York and Saratoga in August, 1908, and with women unknown to her in 1908 and 1909 at various hotels. IN DANCER NEED NOT HOLLER FOR COP Jamestown, N. April tauqua is nearly five feet above its normal level today and the outlet, which flows through Jamestown, has inundated the entire valley. Residents along Gifford, Taylor and Jones avenues were rescued from the upper stories of their homes by firemen in boats. The auditorium at Celoron is under water and the greater part of the grounds of that summer resort are inundated.

Cottages along the lake are in danger of destruction by huge cakes of ice, driven by a a high wind. All factories along Chadakoin Creek, the outlet to the lake, are closed, causing a daiily loss of thousands of dollars to Jamestown. $30,000,000 A YEAR That's What Panama Canal Will Cost to Operate, Says Professor. Washington, April ol Uncle Sam's cash on the Panama canal when the great waterway is in operation will be over $30.000,000 a. year, accordJt, 1 to a statement made before the naaafe committee by Emery R.

Johnson, special commissioner on Panama traffic and tolls by appointment of President Taft. The items are: Expenses attending operation oi' canal, interest on investment, military establishment canal $15,000,000. Johnson said the question of tolls should be handled by the president, that it would be an administrative matter and not one to be restricted by a rigid law. He expressed hope that the complicated question of relations between steainship lines and railroads should be considered apart from the bill fixing tolls and providing for government of the zone. MAY BRING NEW INDUSTRY HERE Board of Negotiating With American Stamping Go.

SUBMITS "PLANT SITES A special meeting of the Greenville board of trade was held Wednesday night for the purpose of submitting sites to the American Stamping company, of Irwin, which is considering a plan to establish a plant here. A large proportion of the members of the board were in attendance and much enthusiasm was manifested over the proposed addition to Greenville's industries. Many sites were submitted to Messrs. Hays and Williams, the representatives of the American Stamping company and their decision is expected within a day or two. Four new members were received into the board at.

the close of the meeting. They were W. G. Curry, P. S.

Beistel, E. S. Shuff, N. W. Harter.

WITNESSES FOR STATEJ1BABBED Beach's Attorneys Anger Prosecutor at Alksc, S. MILLIONAIRES 60 OH BOND McCONKEY'S SUCCESSOR ON TICKET NAMED Sharon, April Prohibition. ists have selected Dr. E. J.

Fithian of Grove City as candidate for Congress in this district, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Attorney C. E. McConkey of Grove City. Dr. Fithian is well and favorably known throughout Mercer county.

Attorney McConkey was also a delegate to the National convention, and it will be now necessary for the Hro- 'hibitionists to write the name of their choice for the place on the lot at tlie primaries next Saturday. W. H. Cover, county chairman, is mailing notices of the selection of Dr. Fithian throughout the USES GOATS TO CLEAR HIS APPLE LAND SPEEDING UP ON CANAL 2,803,013 Cubic Yards of Earth Removed During March.

Washington, April and workmen engaged in building the Panama canal are now making a race against time in order to fulfill the promise of Colonel Goethals, the chief engineer, that ships will be enabled to pass through the canal by the end of next year, although the official opening of the canal has been set for Jan. 1, 1915. According to a cablegram received from the chief engineer the total amount of excavation for March was cubic yard's, as compared with 2.643,410 cubic yards excavated in February. Philadelphia Woman Given Authority to Make Arrest. Philadelphia, April rude men accost her, if burglars hide under the bed or intruders pry open her home, Mrs.

Mabel Baird confidential secretary to George D. Porter, director of public safety, need not shriek for a cop. Instead she can lay a firm hand upon his coat collar and arrest the miscreant in the name of the law. Pinned upon her shirtwaist is a badge giving her the authority of a policeman. VERIFY IT Denies Imprisonment.

Cincinnati, April he- fore the mother superior of the Home of the Good Shepherd, Edith Marshall Loveless of Atlanta. denied the reports of alleged Imprisonment and mistreatment. It is said that Miss Loveless was placed in the convent because her mother opposed her marriage to a prominent young Atlantan. Auto Burglars Get $500. Mt.

Vernon, April burglars ransacked the home of Charles A. Bird while the family was at a concert, getting stuff worth WEATHER EVERYWHERE. '9 Observations of United States weather bureau taken at 8 p. m. yesterday follow: Temp.

Weather. 50. Clear New York 43 Clear Boston 44 Clear 32 Clear Chicago. 52 Clear St. Louis 68 Cloudy New 70 Clear 48 Clear 4 Th? Wwther.

Fair banner tonight; Friday, 'light winds. The Proof is in Greenville, Ajmost at Your Door. The public statement of a Greenville citizen is in itself proof for Gretmvillee people, but confirmation strengthens the evidence. i Here is a Greenville citizen who testified years ago that Doan's Kid, ney Pills relieved weak kidneys and now slates the result was permanent. Can any sufferer from kidney I ills ask better proof? You can investigate.

The case is right at home. Mrs. M. 15. McKalip, 130 S.

Mercer street, Greenville. says: "The I cure Doan's Kidney Pills made in my case two years ago been per- manent and I am glad to again rec- I ommend it. I was in poor health for a long time, and I finally decided that my kidneys were the cause. I was a sufferer from headache and was very much annoyed by the kidney secretions. Hearing Doan's Kidney Pills so highly recommended, 1 was led to procure a supply at Aldenderfer Go's, store and commenced their use.

The contents of the first box did me a great deal of good, and after I had used three boxes, I was free from kidney disease." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Buffalo, New York, 'sole agents for the United States. Remember the take no other. Girl Aged Fifteen Commits Suicide.

Greensburg, April Steiner, aged fifteen, committed sui- i cide by drinking carbolic acid at the 'home of her brother in Grapeville, near Jeannette. She was found dead in bed with an empty via! beside her. An unhappy love affair is thought to have prompted the deed. Spokane, April Angora goats will be used this spring and summer in clearing brush in the Farmington district, south of Spokane, owned by R. .1.

Cox. who will plant a commercial apple orchard on his holding. The animals came from the Bert Howe)! ranch, near Palouse, Wash. Howeil, whose land was partly covered with pine trees and dunderbrush, bought 14 goats as an experiment three years ago in putting the land in con- tution for cultivation. Each goat yielded from four to five pounds of wool the season, and this was sold at prices ranging from to 45 cents a pound.

The goats cleared 35 acres of land, which was planted to corn, half the crop being sold last year for The rest was fed to 60 hogs, which sold at a good figure in local yards. Goats have been used in other parts of the country to clear land, but this is the first time that a band of fifty has been brought together to go at the work" in a systematic way. Sheep are used in some of the irrigated districts in central Washington to keep weeds down. Detective Working on Sensational Case Claims to Have Discovered New Trail Which Will Still Further Entangle Beach, Charged With Attempting to Kill His Relying Alone on Bloody Knife. Aiken, S.

April R. L. Gunter was very much incensed when he learned that nearly all the witnesses for the state who had been bound over in the Beach case had been corralled by the lawyers for the defense, their millionaire employers in some instances having appeared hi person at the magistrate's office and stood their bonds, then openly advised these witnesses to go direct to the ofllce of Mr. Beach's lawyer. "I consider this an unfair advantage," declared Solicitor Guntor, who stated that he had shown Mr.

Beach every consideration in this matter and had been disposed to accept any reasonable sort of guarantee that Mr. Beach would return in sixty days time in lieu of pressing the matter of his extradition from Europe. "We don't want to cause Mr. Beach any unnecessary humiliation," he continued. "Developments, however, may mean a change in tactics." One of Mr.

Beach's lawyers stated to Mr. Gunter that Mr. Beach would be back in Aiken when he was wanted for trial to which Mr. Gunter significantly remarked: "I am positive of that." Special Agent Baughn stated that lie was at work on a newly discovered trail which promises, he said, to develop additional testimony as strong as the blood found on Mr. Beach's knife but would not say what it was.

Special Agent Baughn said: "Beach knew they had his knife. The circumstances of the knife, his denying first I that he had one and afterward ing it to the mayor and our finding i the 'blood on it is enough of itself to i convict him, but we are by no means relying upon that alone. "There is plenty of other accumulative evidence. There is the fence picket; there is his own story and there are a number of other things which we cannot divulge until the trial comes off." "When 1 first was introduced to Mrs. Beach," he said, "and was left alone with her I told her that I should like to have her co-operation in getting at the facts in the case and she assurtd me that she would assist me.

I told her 1 did not want to ask her any questions that would excite her in any way. She looked straight at me for a moment and replied: 'Excitement doesn't run In my family; ask me anything you After a few unimportant questions asked her if she had ever been married before and quick as a flash she answered that she nad. adding almost in the same breath, 'my first husband was devoted to me. He idolized the ground I walked on and he loved me better than he did his own life. He ended his life over business BOARD OF TRADE TO URGE A BOND ISSUE FOR STREET PAVING Committee of Citizens Named to Agitate in its Favor WILL CIRCULATE PETITION Went Into Ring Once Too Often, He Says Photo by American Press Association.

SKNATOR CULLOM, Beaten in For He- nomination. CULLOM GLAD TO GET OUT Gives Up Flying to Wed. New York, April has clipped the wings of Aviator Lee Hami moml. He announced that he will give up Hying to marry Miss May Andrews of Miueola, L. I.

He will become a banker in Chicago. pix up the old chair by appjylng a coat of Campbell's Varnish Stain. 'You will be'surprised aad delighted with the effect you can produce. The cost Is only a trifle and It is a pleasure to do the wort yourself, Ask W. C.

Johnson tor color card. I 11 i-i Subserve tor tfco Evening Decora. I PITTSBURG MARKETS. tubs, Pennsylvania and Ohio creamery, Poultry prime, good, tidy butchers, fair, common, common to good fat bulls, common to good fat cows, heifers, fresh cows and springers, $25(9)60. Sheep and wethers, good mixed, fair mixed, culls and common, spring i lambs, veal calves, I heavy and thin calves, Hogs heavy and heavy mixed, medium and heavy Yorkers, light Yorkers, I 7.85; pigs and roughs, stags, Chicago Grain Market.

Chicago, April wheat market opened strong Wednesday and continued through the session. There was a decided increase in the volume of trade. New high prices for corn were made. Closing May prices: corn, oats, 57. i Do not allow your kidney and bladder trouble to develop beyond tit; reach of medicine, Take Poley Kidney JPilta.

They give quiok results and stop 'irreg-. wjith MAKES NEW Spokane, April Lazarus, a distributor in the Spokane postotlice, made a perfect score in record time when he distributed 2,082 cards addressed to firms and residents in 41 districts of the city at the rate of 33 a minute. Charles P. Hunt, in the same oflice, distributed the cards at the rate of 47 a minute, but missed casting two in the proper compartments. His work breaks all records in the postoffice department.

Walter P. lOdris. postmaster of Spokane, says that while Hunt made the best speed, the department's grading of accuracy gives Lazarus the title of champion, adding: "These contests show conclusively that it does not pay to shift men from one position to another. The men are experts and their records are the result of long and faithful training. These cards were addressed to firms in 41 districts, the boundaries of which are changed freqquently and firms are moving from one part of the city to anotherr.

It hardly seems possible for brain, eyes and hands to move with such clock-like precision as was shown in these tests." THIRTY MORE DROWNED Southern Points on Mississippi Now Hit by Flood. St. Louis, April Mississippi flood is continuing on Its way southward, but indications are that the hack of the flood has been broken and the river will fall rapidly from now on. Greenville, reports a rise of three-tenths of a foot and the situation is critical. A report received at the United States engineers' oflice at Memphis, from a government employe says thirty persons were drowned near Wilson, when a house in which they wore marooned gave way and was swept to pieces by the running waters.

The report has not been continued. Wilson is under eight feet of water and "lOO.OOO additional acres of rich land in the St. Francis basin flooded as the result of a break at. Wilson. The situation at Memphis is somewhat relieved by breaks farther south.

The river fell four-tenths of a foot at Memphis. The flood is becoming serious at New Orleans, Greenville, Nachez and Vicksburg, and other southern points. Armed forces are patrolling the levees at New Orleans. Conditions at Carlo, 111., are greatl; Improved. While the river still re- mains at a dangerous stage no trouble is expected unless heavy rains and storms set In.

(Senator Has No Regrets at Beating by Illinois Voters. Washington, April I am defeated," said Senator Cullom, referring to the primary results in Illinois. "1 am through and I am glad of it. 1 did not want to he a candidate again. 1 'told the boys so, but they seemed to think I owed 'it to them to go in once more.

Well, like Sullivan, 1 went in tiie ring once too often. You see 1 am eighty-two years old. Frankly, a man who has served so long as 1 have In. public life ought to be ing to quit. "I will not "go away back and sit down, as they say in the song.

1 will not have a great many years more to live and 1 can afford to spend them lu rest and retirement." TEDDY PREDICTS VICTORY Publicly Declares He Will Rout Opponents For Nomination. Philadelphia, April the first time in the campaign Colonel Roosevelt here publicly declared his confidence that he would win the nomination. The colonel -said: "If, as I believe we will, we succeed in this fight, I want you to remember that our success must he made to tell for social and industrial justice." Teddy's journey from Pittsburg was an ovation all along the line. This enthusiasm coupled with the Illinois victory put the colonel In fine humor. "We slugged them over the ropes," was his favorite remark at his stopping places.

Teddy Gets Maine. Bangor, April In the liveliest session for years the Republican state con volition here elected ten Roosevelt delegates to the national convention which gives Roosevelt a clean sweep of the state, the First district having already elected two Roosevelt men. The defeat of the Taft ticket is attributed almost entirely to the president's reciprocity policy upon which issue the farmers were almost unanimous in opposition to the president. A bond issue for the purpose of paving a number of the streets in Greenville was suggested Wednesday night at the board ot trade and Theodore C. Whlteman, presl 1 dent of the body, was appointed form a committee of citizens to ehv, culate petitions along the districts Ill- need of street improvements, and to force council to authorize a bond issue sufficient to cover the expense of doing the necessary work.

The streets mentioned as needing repairs Plum, Union, North Mercer, South Mercer, Clintotr, Clarksville, South Main, North Main, Shenango, Race, North High, College avenue, Colombia avenue and Bast avenue. Mr. Whlteman this afternoon announced that the following; men had been appointed to forward the project in their respective neighborhoods Plum and Union B. Smith, chairman, and W. E.

Carter. North Mercer D. Dr. Steele. South Mercer Shakely, F.

P. Deissler. Clinton street to Columbia avenue -C. Keller, F. Dickinson.

College M. Hittle, J. R. Tltzel. Clarksville A.

McKay. South Main E. Hornbeck, R. H. Murray.

lorth Main H. Muntz, R. R. Brodhead. Shenango Harnevlous, Aus Robins.

Race A. Keck. Columbia avenue, East O. Smith, W. T.

S. Baer. North P. Kearns. The following letter was sent to each of the above named men: Dear Sirs: Under resolution, of the board of trade Wednesday night, It was decided to increase" the paving committee and take to council a sufficient number of petitions to pave streets to force the issue of bands for paving in order that the thing may be dis-.

posed of one way or the other. In response to that resolution, are appointed as committee. The first meeting will be held at the board of trade rooms, Monday, April 10, at 8 o'clock. Please be there promptly. With the size of the committee appointed, the work will be well distributed and it will not mean much labor on tire-part of any one person.

Yours respectfully, THEO. C. WHITEMAN, President Board of Trade. Greenville, April 11, 1912. Mr.

Wliiteman said that the proposed bond issue would not interfere with council's present plans for paving Mercer street, but would provide additional funds to pave the other thoroughfares throughout the borough. Mr. Whlteman stated that as the Mercer street paving would exhaust the funds at the disposal of council, it would be impossible to get any of the other streets paved except by a bond issue. Questioned as to the amount of bonds he thought necessary Mr. Whlteman said he was unable to name it at present but said that the necessary estimates would be made within a week.

A petition is to be circulated by tlie various members of the committee through their respective districts and if a majority of signers is obtained it is expected that the issuance of sullicient bonds will be authorized by council. See Dickey Hardware Co. in regard to your roofing, spouting and furnace work. experience Proves. Time tells which is best and most reliable.

For 70 years Perry Davis' Painkiller ban been driving away pain and bringing a remedy (or sprains, bums, rheumatic, neuralgia! cramps, bowfei cowpkifc-t. Home Dynamited. New Castle, April home of Nicholas Lavianco, an Italian, at Hlllsville, was dynamited. Although the house was wrecked Lavianco, his wife and four children escaped uninjured. It was reported that the dynamiting was done by quarry strikers.

Sleeping Man Assassinated. Greensburg, April Salvatore, an Italian, aged tftirty-flve, was murdered while he slept In bed at his home in an alley In the rear of West Otterman street. The 'bullet came through a window. Come In and see our dandy curtain stretchers, only 90 cents, at W. E.

100 Main street. a9-3t McKinley Expedition Unsuccessful. Ashcroft, B. April Mt. McKinley expedition which left Fairbanks, Alaska, on Feb.

4, has returned, having been unsuccessful in the attempt to scale the mountain. The party succeeded in attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet on the noith side of the mountain, east of Peter Glacier. FuVther progress was barred by precipitous Ice cliffs and lack of Services at Salem Lutheran church Sunday, April 14, at 10:30 a. mi'and at St. John's at 2:30 p.

m. How's Thi's? We offer One Hundred Jat'jtsn cue ot Catarrh that caaaol be cured by Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENfiY Toledo.

We, the undersigned, bare known F. J. Cheney the but it yeara, aad believe him perfectly orablo In all biulneM traoiwi-Uous aiid' SnanclallT rtle to carry out any obligations made by WALOIM0, KlMMAN ttiiUBV4N, QruirgtBiih Catarrh Cure ft taken, Internally," acting liwjtly wxm the blopd and muooiw ot FIRST JAPANESE IN AMERICA The first, Japanese who ever came to- America was Manjiro Nakahama, a 14-year-old fisherman, who with companions was stranded on a desert island in the northern Pacific ocean, in 1841. After being there three months they were picked up by an American vessel. His companions were left In Hawaii, but Manjiro, who became a great favorite with the captain, was brought to America, and educated in New England.

He afterwards was the Interpreter for Commodore Perry In his Japanese negotiations. WORLD'S SMALLEST A little island in the Mediterranean, known as Tavolara, a short Cram Sardinia, has this Little more than a mile In length, has a population of 55 souls, sovereignty of the island was accoV ed in 1836 by King Charles Albert'; the Bartfljeoni family. 'Up, Paul 1. reigned peacefully little Island kingdom, but the Islanders proclaimed By the constitution of the.