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RECORD No. 2700. MANY TOWNS ARE SUBMERGED FLOOD SWEEPING Impossible to Patch Broken Levee in Louisiana 115,000 PERSONS HOMELESS People in Sugar Growing Country Fleeing For Their Lives Before Mad Rush of Morgan Levee, Highest in America, Threatened With Damage Enormous, New Orleans, May scores of prosperous town's and ric.i plantations the combined waters of the Mississippi and the Red rivers, at the highest flood stage in their history, are sweeping southward from the great Torras -crevasse and are and desolation in their leaving ruin wake. Government engineers announced that an attempt to close the break is worse than useless and the forces or workmen withdrawn. The federal engineers say without doubt it was craw fish holes in the great dyke that caused it to fall.

One hundred and fifteen thousand persons are homeless and in the course of the next few days a quarter of a million persons will be the number. Crops valued at $10,000,000 will have been wiped out. The floods are coursing through the low lying sugar plantations at a much more rapid rate than the waters in the northern part of the state and there seems be nothing to check them between Torras, which is practically the junction of the Red and the Mississippi rivers and the Gulf, of Mexico. At any time an even more serious break is expected to increase enormously the volume of water. The great Morgan sea levee has been pronounced inefficient.

The levee is the highest in America and with the exception of two Holland dykes is the highest earth dam in the world. Throughout the "sugar bowl of America," the secfion now being inundated, people are fleeing for their lives. Many attempted to save live stock, but hundreds of horses and car- tie already have been drowned their carcasses, together with the bodies of hundreds of deer, are mingled with the debris of ruined homes and farms. Kar to the south, even along the Gulf coast, where the waters will not arrive for some days yet. the are preparing to abandon their possessions and llee.

WEATHER EVERYWHERE. Observations of United States weather bureau taken at 8 p. m. yesterday follow: Temp. Pittsbtirg New York G6 Boston 52 Buffalo 54 St.

Louis 80 New 72 70 Weather. Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear The Weather Pair tonight; showers Saturday or Saturday night. NO RECOGNITION; PACTJEJECTED Miners' Committee Won't Accept Proposed Agreement 5 PER CENT WAGE INCREASE I Work of Subcommittees of Both Sides i to Anthracite Dispute Gees For Nothing When Miners' Full Confer! ence Committee Turns Down Tenta- i tive Plan of ers Pleased at Action Taken. New York, May full conference committee of the anthracite mlnevvorkcrs turned down the tenta- tive agreement accepted by their own subcommittee and the subcommittee of the anthracite operators. I The indirect recognition of the union in the appointment of a grievance comml'tee for every mine, as set forth In the tentative agreement, was not enough for the committee.

Its members wanted full recognition of the union. John P. White, president or the United Mine.vorkers, was ill and his claimed the attention of Commission- place was taken by former State Seu- ers Beatty and McGrath on Wednes- ator William Green of Ohio, statU- ciay. The people of that place insist tician of the union, upon a- sidewalk, claiming that they The operators' committee held NEW BRIDGES CLAIM GREENVILLE, PA. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1912.

Snapshot of First Astor on Reaching New York ATTENTION Tile new bridge at Jamestown 1912, by American Press Association. Kilby's Have Run Post off ice in Maine Town 112 Years. had an agreement, with the former meeting before the joint conference board of commissioners that the side- and passed a resolution accepting the walk was to be built, and that the agreement by ratifying the action of bill county was pay the bill, but the pesent board cannot see it that way, and the borough authorities have nothing in writing to show that the former board made this agreement. Work on the bridge was stopped the subcommittee. Mr.

Baer for the operators held that as the subcommittees appointed to carefully consider the matter had agreed on a proposition it was the duty of the committee of the minelast: fall on account of the bad wea- workers to use every effort to get Outlier, the bridge now having a 13-foot full committee of the mineworkers to Plank driveway with a five-foot plank accept it. The subcommittee of the space on each side for foot, passen- operators was under a similar obliga- gers. tion The commisioners want to concrete the entire roadway or will raise a portion of it on one side, making it. Workers Pleased at Action. May is a BATTLESHIPJiEPORTED SUNK Re Umberto Driven on Rocks Near Zuara, on the Tripoli Coast.

higher than the balance of the floor, expressed much joy over the refusal but this is not to the liking of the of the trl-district board to sanction people. They claim that aa the eem- the agreement with the operators. etery is on the other side of the bridge, and the new milk -factory located on that side, they need sidewalk, and insist that they it. A petition signed by more one hundred residents of Greene township has been presented to the commisisoners, requesting the con- time is now ripe to fight the question creting of the entire width of the of recognition of the union and that bridge floor, believing that this will conditions fill the bill all right. Commissioners Beatty and McGrath were in West Middlesex, Friday.

They were disappointed at the tentative plans of settlement reached because the sliding scale was abol- have Ished and a flat per cent in wages than allowed, which practically netted them a raise of a little over 5 per cent. The feeling is that tho NAVAL OFFICER KILLED Lieutenant McDonald Thrown Against Elevated Railroad Pillar. New York, May Ray S. McDonald, U. S.

when boarding a street car in Brooklyn, slipped and was thrown against one of the pillars of the elevated, sustaining fractures and contusions of the skull which caused his death later at the Brooklyn hospital. i Lieutenant McDonald married Katherine Hellner, daughter of the late 'Rear Admiral Hellner, one month ago in Washington. SHOOTING UP OF COURTROOM IS TOLD Floyd Allen Alleged to Have Made Threat LUTHERAN SYNOD MEETS IN JUNi Constantinople, May unconfirmed dispatch has been received from Tunis saying that the Italian battleship Re Umberto has been driven by a storm on the rocks mid sunk at a on the coast near Zuara. The battleship Tie Vmberto has been convoying landing expeditions of Italian troops to Tripoli. Built in 1SS7, the Re Umberto carried a complement, of something over 700 men.

She was -400 feet Ions. 77 feet wide and drew 2S feet of water. She harl an armament that included four twolve-Jnch suns. Znnra Is on the northwest coast of Tripoli near the Tunisian bonier. The coast is danserojB in that vicinity.

The annual session of the Pittsburgh Synod of the- Evangelical Lutheran church will be held in Youngs(own from 5 to 10, inclusive. The synod embraces the territory of Kas'ern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Northwestern Virginia. About ministers from the three states are expected to be? present. are now more favorable they might be in later years. Miners do not believe this move I means a strike, but they do expect i that a 1.0 per cent increase with th-i continuance of the sliding scale can be brought, about and that a better i form of recognition agreed upon.

The tentative agreement which had been reached with the operators, besides the abolishment of. the sliding le and the granting of a fiat 10 v.i cent raise, provided that, the terms of the anthracite coal commission lie continued for four years ending March SI. except in a few instances. 1 On the question of recognition the agreement contained a clause saying that all the mines in the anthracite districts affected by the agreement are to remain "open" with no prejudices whatever for or against union men. William, the First One, Held Post for Twenty-Five Years, Then (n Straight Succession, Came His Son and Grandson.

Bangor, P. Kilby, acting postmaster at Dennysvllle, Washington county, will take a civil service examination, and if he passes he will succeed H. Howard Kilby, who had been postmaster since June 30, 1SU7. The office has been in the Kilby family for 112 years, -with the exception of two brief intervals. If there is another such, Kepresenta tive Frank Guernsey of the Fourth district, who has just recommended Horace P.

Kilby for the place, would like to know it. The Dennysvllle postofilce was established February 24, 180U, with William Kilby as postmaster. Ho held on for twenty-live years, according to the records In the postofilce department, and then, on December 1825, presumably about the time William Kilby was gathered to his fathers, John Kilby, presumably his son, quali- lied remained postmaster tor twenty-seven years. August 20, 1852, Cyrus H. Kilby be- 'came postmaster.

Whether he was a of the first postmaster and the son of the second Is not clear. He held on for less than two years, and April IS, 1854, Benjamin Kilby became postmaster and held the olllce for twenty-two years. December 21, 1876, Howard H. Kilby became postmaster at Dennysville and held the place until February 27, 1886, when Herbert Hallo-well, a member of Kilby family, became postmaster. He remained postmaster until the Democrats elected a president.

It required a few months tor the pleas of some of the good Democrats of Dennysvllle tp move Washington, but on June 18, 1S87, Edwin H. Smith was appointed to the place. Presumably he was a Democrat. June 1, 1889, Howard H. Kilby came back into his own and served through the remainder of ths Harrison administration and until July 1, 1893, when Willlnm P.

Fenderson got the office during the second Cleveland administration. Again, however, a Kilby was recognized, and June 30, 1897, H. Howard Kilby was commissioned as postmaster and he served until early In February last. The office Is a small and the Wythevllle, May 'kill Bill Foster before the sun goes down tomorrow night, if I'm -convicted." Floyd Allen, the first of the 0U1C411 WUtrf ClUU LUO ville courthouse assassins now-on trfal enioliiments have" beeti small" for his life, was charged with now pays about a year making this remark before the shoot- Once Horace P. gets well seated In nig March 14 according to the testi- the und the se many ol 1.

B. Weddell ot Montgomery. lce rules it will not 1 one 01' the first witnesses lor the him. So no one can prosecution. KUby regime wlll endf On crosH-exauiinatioii Weddell stuck to his story though he admitted no other persons were present during his "LOGO" QUITS THE SERVICE conversation with Alien.

D. W. Bolen, a lawyer who was dp- fending Allen in the court where the eagy t(J ENGINEERS' EXAMPLE IS FOLLOWED TRAP SHOOTING DEMAND EVENT A SUCCESS The first trap-shooting meet of he season was hold Thursday after- non between two and six o'clock. Distinction was added to tho meet by the presence of the. following out-of- I town guests: Messrs.

Thomas Wallis of Wallis Cat-ley; Charles Wiltsie of Fruit-Ohl Warivn Taylor of Taylor Urns. Lumber and Mr. Gamely, all of Sharon. The gentlemen made (lie trip from Sharon In an auto; al.so Messrs. Charles and Kdward Wilson, both of Hartstown.

Fifteen bird events were the chief attraction of the meet, the Sharon men covering themselves with the usual amount of glory. Mr. Wallis of Sharon had the honor of having the highest score. The visitors from Sharon were later entertained at the Elks' club, returning to Sharon at about 11 o'clock having been delayed on account, of an accident to the steering gear of their machine. LADIES AUXILIARY GRATIFIED The following letter was received by Mrs.

Charles D. Blasell, secretary of tlic Ladies' Auxiliary to the Board of trade: My Dear Mrs. Bissell: Your application for membership in the State Federation has just been received and forwarded to the committee on membership. Personally 1 am exceedingly glad to have the pleasant prospect of welcoming a club from Greenville. I am also much Interested to find a woman's organization auxiliary to the Board of Trade.

That is a comparatively new departure in club work in Penusyl- vania. Yours very Truly; a year from this Helen Merrick Semple. Mrs. Scruple, who lives in Titus- villo. president of the State Federation of Pennslyvanla women and it is very encouraging to all the ladies connected with this organization to know that their club will no doubt he recognized in this large fedora- i tion.

INCREASED PAY Also Want Assistants on fteighl Locomotives RAILROADS HAOJXPECTEO IT Managers Figure That $30,000,000 Annually Would Be Added to penses If Demands Were Granted. Arbitration Will Likely Be Resorted to, as in Case of Engineers' De-v' Engines Affected. New York, May firemen employed on the eastern have followed the example of the en-? gincers and made a demand for an In- crease in pay. This is what the rail- road managers expected would happen. As the railroad managers flgured it out hastily the demands of the firemen, if granted, would mean a yearly increase of between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 to the expenses of the roads Tho engineers asked for about $8,000,000.

Chief Stone of the engineers Intimated in the early days of. the negotiations with the railroads- that If the engineers went on strike the firemen would The firemen's organization'' roltted Its demands through their, president, W. S. Carter, tb O.v Stuart, chairman of the coiiIef committee of the fifty railroads in district east of Chicago and north-jot'; the Ohio and Potomac rivers. district covers the same territory fected by the engineers' demands.

Among the things the firemen' ask In addition to more pay la that shall be an assistant fireman on burning freight locomotives. "T1S also ask to be relieved ol cleaT' engines. There are 14,600 engines in the freight service faT- 2 affected and the "managers at $2.50 a day for an assistan man on each the sal the railroads -would -jump. murders occurred, testified that ho saw Claude Allen lire the first shut and that, it struck Judge Massie. Court officials returned the fire, he said.

Two of the jurymen who were then Canine Traveler Hss No Further Use for Express With Co.nrade. Woodbury, N. the bulldog that has been traveling with the Adams Express wagon in this city for RECALL OF BRYCE DENIED Within the synod are Thiel college at Greenville, an orphans' and old folks' home at Zelienople, an old folks' homo at Erie, and a homo of epileptics at Rochester, Pa. The Lutheran seminary at Chicago is partly by the synod and tho Inner Mission work in Pittsburgh is under its direction. President's Reciprocity Letter Makes Political Capital In England.

London. May suggestion that Mr. Rry-ce, the British ambassador at Washington, Is about to be recalled in consequence of the statement in President Taft's letter Colonel Roosevelt that reciprocity with Canada would be a'big advance tho United States, which was iu- How to Grow 100 Bishels of Corn an f.erjireted to mean that Hryee ha.l trying Allen testified, one of them that several has given tip his posi- tion along with Driver "Ted" Curtis, 1 who enters another business. Logo probably has more friends in Wood- bury than any other canine. Every boy and girl stops to pet him, or give him some tidbits, and when lie gets hungry between meals the dog will at afiy house he fancies, andI Acre.

allowed himself to be hood winked or CINC! BANKER IN JAIL Galbreath Charged With Embezzle- rrent of f.33 000. Clncltmiui, May Klmer E. hroafh. of the Second 1 1 placed under arrest on a sworn out. by Fert- Oondhai't, who Accounts of successful farm exper- did not keep his government informed, k-nce, where that experience has is undoubtedly without foundation, ac- been attained-in a practical way, are cording to statements by high authori- ahvays worth while.

They are as ties. eral Hun 1 has been the bank for weeks, represent ing the 1'nircd Suites comptroller of currency. Galhreath is churned with having willfully misappropri- valuabl? as the experience is applicable to ordinary conditions. -flow to Grow 500 liushels of Corn an Acre on Worn-Out Soil," is the title of a recent book written by William C. Smith, of Howard county, Ind.

Mr. a ted fiirds of bank for his own use to -mint $33,000. Galbreath said he had expected tho actions o'' the nvi.horitles for. several days and trc.t the step was taken and over with. of the affairs of Smith shows from his own experience how it is possible to attain these re- sulis.

Six years ago he purchased a -worn out" farm in Indiana and began the improvement of the soil. He endeavored to produce enough to pay for all improvements as he went along. He was able to make per cent net on his investment after paying all expenses and to increase the value of the farm from $7. to $150 an acre. Operatlon on Mrs.

Vanderbilt. The sensational reports are simply part of a campaign of the Unionists and Imperialists who taking this opportunity to make political capital. Narrow Escape From Drowning. Butler, May E. Rudert of Saxoubiirg narrowly escaped death by drowning when a traction engine which he was driving dashed I through a bridge.

The engine dropped twelve feet into a creek. Rudert. was caught under the platform of the en- gine, but managed to keep his head above water. His left leg was broken, Decision on Thaw Next Week. White Plains, N.

May Alien had fired 'in the direction of where he last saw Foster, the commonwealth's attorney who was killed. 1 Other witnesses told of conversations I with Allen in which he had threatened Foster. i Prosecutor Wysor, opening the case, said he would show there was a conspiracy among the Aliens to shoot up the court if Floyd Allen was convicted. Attorney Willis for the defen.se retorted thai reports of the tragedy had been grossly exaggerated and that lie would introduce testimony to show that Bettie Ayres was killed-by a bullet from Clerk Pexter (load's revo- ver and nor. by the Aliens.

The defense would show, he said, thai Fioyd Allen had been wounded before he had taken part in the shooting. i WRECK PROBE IN ENGLAND PROPOSE CRAWFORD FOR BISHOP For Bishop of the Episcopacy of tHo Methodist Epfe-copal Church. iVlfy J. Whiol- Con- York May William K. i on Vanderhiit.

was operated appendicitis nt her hrmie. Th lion was entirply mipxpected, as Mrs. Yanderiiiit had been spending most of her time recently on hur Lake Success pro'-0''tv vith her two'children. Tt is stated t'le patient is resting easily. Our chief criticism of the book is hearing arguments for and against the that the experience recited is too lo- application of Harry K.

Thaw for a i cal, so that the consequent local ap- trial to determine plication has no very wide value. Supreme Court Justice his sanity, Keogh an- The Thiel College Operatic society is holding bi-weekly rehearsals in the opera house for their performance of the comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance" which will be given two nights, May 21 and 22. Many Compliments have been given us on our fine selection of rugs. Our-sales have been beyond our Why? Be- price is A fine 9x12 rufc only S. The new ftir- very true general principles nounced he would render his decision are set down in an Interesting per- next week.

The justice adjourned the original writ of habeas corpus pro- feedings until June 3. Titanic Investigation Likely to sume Month's Time. London, May Cjenernl Isaacs opened the. case today, for British board of trade'at the- invent i- gation by the wrei-k commission into tiie loss of the liner Titanic. Lord Mersey, formerly jud.se of tiie admiralty division of the high court of justice, Is president of the commission.

The proceedings are expected last a month as witnesses to the number of have been summoned to attend. On the right of Lord and his associates a gigantic model of the Titanic was displayed. On the left was a sectional diagram of the Titanic. laying bare its internal arrangements for the purpose of Illustrating the evidence which is to come. generally he gets something.

I don has gone to as head Logo came into the city a few years ot a delegation from western Penn ago, and showed, a liking for the ex- sylvania to attend the quadrennlul press business, and Cvirtis took him in general conference of the Methodist charge. The dog's face is good for a I Episcopal church and incidentally to ride on any railroad train. When he feels like taking a ride he merely boaords the express car, goes as far as he likes, and takes a return train, always getting off here. When Curtis left the company "Logo" remained a few days, but has now forsaken the office and gone to Curtis' home. FIREMEN TURN RAT HUNTERS Odd Situation Develops as Flames Break in Minneapolis Flat After Search tor Rodent.

Minneapolis, a rat boom Dr. William H. Crawford, president of Allegheny collc-ae, for bishop 01' tiie episcopacy. There are now twenty regular ops and it is proposed to increase this number by the election of several tiew bishops. MEMORIAL FOR STRAUSES Jewish Women of Pittsburg Plan Free Dental Clinic.

Pittsburg. May a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Isidoi- Straus, who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, a monument, not of marble or but a uiilkarian bureau for sonal way. The author's style is breezy and attractive, though somewhat didactic.

Persons interested in building up run-down farms, particularly where corn Is a leading crop, will doubtless find (his an interesting and helpfful little volume; 12 Scorns Woman's Job. Cleveland, May extreme cruelty if a woman makes her husband scrub floors and. wash the dishes, ac- silk cloth, 24 full-page illustrations, fording, to Frank Michar, who sued Pubished by the Stewart Kidd company Cincinnati. Price, $1.25. Easy Payments.

Furniture sold on easy j-yments, upholstering and repairing done at the furniture store, 100 Main street, right by the bridge. W. E. Olin. We will be open Saturday evenings.

Lpcated flee. Milk Paula Michar for divorce. Homer Davenport Dies. New York, M-ay Davenport, the cartoonist, died at his apartments 'in this city. Mr.

Davenpcjrt had been 111 only flve days from monla. RUSSIAN GOLD MINERS QUIT 54,000 Protest Against Killing of 107 Comrades. St. Petersburg, May thousand workmen In the Lena gold fields have struck as a protest against the shooting down of 107 miners by soldiers on April 17. The mjnistor commerce stated in the dunia that the' government would conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the deplorable affair and try to clear'up the part taken in it by the officials concerned.

holt; and a match entered into a com- binatlon which caused a fire in a Hat building here and which also turned work, will be established in Pittsburg by the Council of Jewish Women. It will be a free dental clinic llremen culled to extinguish the flre wi )ook after the health of the temporarily to rat hunters. The flre started when Mrs. Ray Oliver, who had been frightened by a rat's daily parade about her home, decided to close the rat's nest with a piece of tin. The curiosity part came In when she lighted a match to peep into the rat- hole to see just what it leaked like, and the naming head of the mutch falling, set flre to paper scraps.

The flre followed, also the firemen, who extinguished the flames easily, and then were asked by Mrs. Oliver to hunt the flat over for tie rat. not found. It was Steak Saves Man's Life. Youngstown, piece of meat on a fork probably saved the life of 131u Solger of East Youngstown.

A fellow boarder got Into an argument with him at their boarding house and made a Jab at him with removing a piece of steak which he had on the eating utensil. The. meat stopped the forU from penetrating far'Jnto tho neck of the man assailed. will fjnd npth- 58' Stewart avenue, children in the public schools. The movement to make this possible was fostered by Mrs.

Enoch Kanh, president of the organization. It Is likely that the I refuse to grant the firemen and probably the same taken with the engineers will lowed eventually resulting Iri of arbitration being appointed. TRACTION CARS IN CRAi Twenty Persons Hurt, ly, Near Wlndberv twenty injure'br 'severai7 of them very seriously, When heavy cars of the JohnsfowBLjTraGtlonl' company on; the head-on and were practically redufi 'a miles fronvWindber. It is declared that the ao 'aused by forgetfulnesa, of he crew of the which had" been ordered, take a switch. A thoiough ui-viektitatidSi pf the accident Is under AGED WOMAN SEARCHED FOR BY POSSE "Prince of Tramps' Wects.

Erie, M. Seaton, who styles himself the "Prince of Tramps," after tramping 35,000 miles was married to Miss Amelia Gorka by- Stern. In token of his appreciation Seaton presented the mayor with an account of his travels through Australia, countries. India and other foreign 1 Flagged Train With Shirt. Tearing his shirt from his back, an Ohio man flagged a train and it from a wreck, but H.

T. Alston, of Raleigh, once prevented a wreck with Electric Bitters'. "I'was in a terrible plight when 1 began to use them," he "my stomach, head, back and kidneys were all ly affected and my liver'was 'in Wei condition, but four- bottlea Bitters madevme feei lilce Two hundred men of Crawford county gathered from the vicinity of French town, engaged in all-day search for Mrs Achllle Poux, who disappeared from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leon Courtney, of Frenchtowu, early Wedensday morning. The search today, which was a continuation of that of yesterday, was equally devoid of success.

There was not. the least clrue gained of tile was not the least clue gained of the who is 83 years of age, childish from her infirmities and unable to express herself in the English The posse of 200 men worked in the most systematic manner. Form- ing in line only a few rods apart they i beat all the country within a few miles of Frenchtown. Theie are 010 streams or ponds nearby and the country is comparatively settled. On a part, of the old homestead which she disappeared theie is a sec- 1 tion of rather swampy land and this? will be explored, foot by foot, row.

The members of. the family reward of $100 tor the recovery her body, If dead, or for her return, to them if alive. The Thiel College Operatic is taking careful work to perfect fancy damce' istejjg 0 companies tp.