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im. a rm a 3K LXOIAN'A, I SfcPTKMIiKU TWO CKNTrf The Evening Gazette Has Become a Necessity in Nearly Every Home in Indiana. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER STOLEN HORSE RECOVERED IN THE RATKALI CASE LATE ON MONDAY NIGHT Gigantic Sunday School Convention Successfully Held at Blairsville A ESCAPE AT FIVE SONS OF DERBY LI. I KILLED P.RA Next Meeting Will Be Held Here in September, 1912. Mmm Harrow Escape From Many Noted Speaker Were Dcinn Dll al Mrs.

Frances Camptell on SuraJq Received Word Of the Death of the Fifth. It Was Found Wandering Witliout a Driver Near Blairsville That Evening. Present i Jury Was Out From O'clock Monday Night Until Noon Today. VERDICT WAS A GREAT SURPRISE S. W.

GU1HRIE DECLINES A RE-ELEC1 ION. TRAIN KIT TEAM THERE YEAR A60 ANOTHER WAS CRIPPLEO FOR UFE One hundred and forty-two of the When the Pennsylvania 18-hour flyer one hundred and eighty nine schools of the county were represented at Blairsville by 270 registered delegates, con was wrecked on Sunday and firemen. Stewart E. Campbell, of Derry, lost his life by being crushed to death between the tank and the engine. Mrs.

sisting of 35 pastors, 52 superintendents, and 183 delegates teachers and scholars. This large number, increased The dangerous crossing over the Pennslvania Railroad tracks at the J-M. Hileman farm about 100 yards south of Reed station, a crossing that )S considered one of the most dangerous in the state, came near claiming another victim justf before ten o'clock Monday morning. Two wagons, the first drawn by a team of horses and the second by a team of mules and driven by J. M.

brought many helpful suggestions from khort addresses by Rev. D. C. Schnel-by. Dr.

J. W. Cary. of Indiana, Mr. S.

A. Krider. J. C. Moore and others.

Thursday evening's meeting was opened with an inspiring song service led byProf. A. L.Stahl,of Latrobe.who conducted the music of the entire convention in a soul inspirirg manner. Miss Amy J. Porter, of Scottdale.

Pa Elementary Superintendent of Fayette County, delighted everybody with the interesting manner in which by as many more who came to attend the meetings, made a very live time in Francis Campbell, of Derry. had the sad experience of bearing of the death of her fifth son on the railroad, the cruel wheels having deprived her of Blairsville for two days last week. OWNER BROUGHT IT HOME TODAY The horse which was taken from the hitching grounds at the Bethel church on Sunday night has been recovered by Mr. Hileman. Late on Monday evening.

Cribbs, the Blairsville liveryman sent word to the Hileman home that the animal had been found Beveral miles south of Blairsville in Westmoreland county. The horse had been seen going along the road without a driver toward Blairsville and a man seeing it stopped it and notified Liveryman Cribbs. Cribbs went to the place where the horse was quartered and brought it to Blairsville. Mr. Hileman went to that place this morning and brought the horse home.

The good people of Blairsville were equal to the task and warm hospitality greeted everybody. The meetings were that many sturdy sons and mangling a sitxh so that he will be crippled for The jury in the case of Charles Kat-kali, charged with murder, was been out since early Monday evening returned a verdict of manslaughter a few minutes before noon today. The commonwealth had hoped for a more serious verdict Ratkali will be given a penitentiary term at the next sentence court held by Judge S. J. Telford.

Ratkali seems to have much influence among the foreigners but just what the cause of his popularity is cannot be determined. The verdict came as a great surprise to those who had followed the case. The Jury was discharged by Judge Telford and they all seemed very glad the ordeal was over as the jury in the case had been selected on Thursday. she told "Her Experience with Juniors." held in the M. E.

church which was taxed to its capacity at alj meetings. life. The enrollment of delegates, and a The Campbell family has been alto Quiet Hour service conducted by Mr. gether a railroad family, practically all A. O.

Cravenor, occupied the morning Hileman were employed in hauling silo corn for the use of Hileman's fine herd of dairy cows the coming winter. The field is located on the other side ot the railroad fiom the Hileman barn and silo. After making several trips just before ten o'clock both wagons loaded were being driven to the barn and had just reached the dangerous crossing over the P. R. R.

tracks when the C. d'vision train, "the Mountain Goal," was seen approaching The of Thursday. the boys having been railroaa men, and two of the daughters being married to railroad men. It is probable that such The convention proper was opened at The feature of the day. however, was the masterful address of Rev.

George G. Kerr, of Canonaburg. Pa. "The Value of a Boy and How to Get the Worth of Him." Rev. Kerr will receive a warm welcome any time he may return to Indiana County.

Friday mornin? saw many new faces among the delegates, especially pri mar and junior teachers who came io a frightful death toll has never been exacted from another family as the It is thought that the person who took the horse had driven it to Blairs 1 :30 Thursday afternoon by Rev. J. T. Pender. D.

pastor of the Blairsville M. E. cnurch, who in a very fitting address, welcomed the delegates. Pennsylvania Railroad has exacted from the Campbell family. ville or Blairsville Intersection and had James Campbell was the first mem abandoned it as the horse would never have traveled that distance without a Piesident of the County Association, h-sL tcarn cleared the tracks and the ber of the famih to be killed on the dtiver as it would have beer seen by piu1" stai-' to ctoss in spite of Mr Points on People 'some person along th loao.

Mr. S. W. Guthrie, reiewed bnefij atte the elomentarj Co ference csn-the work of the past year whicn has ducted Miss Porter been so full o' cco i cement to all Missions in bath School Work' ergafcej in tLc He tu'u the subject assigned to A. its great progress ha Liten made dunrg i Ei'ubctn Crawford, of Ii.d.

ana ami i. m.n, Y7U jumped to the ground aiid L-om over the bank, the I J. L. Fiood, ot wao anion, ice lnJu.iic visitor on fcundJ Musning mm as he did so. t-eroons witnessed the near ac 'decent ijeains.

Mrs. Julia Ann Mclntyre. the year Last year, there wa on.y one district, Ciymer No. '6, which hal M. Cutter, ana children, of cident and sa that only Mr.

Hileman's prompt action prevented the train hit- Mrs R. Heilwocd, Indiana. are spending the week in Mis. Julia Ann Mclntyre, wife of t'ng the team and wagon. Several years ago at this same cross J'-hn Mclntyre, died on Thursday railroad, he having fallen off an engine upon wnich he was riding, on the "dinkey" railroad running from Millwood shaft to iii wood.

On April SO, 1S94, John M. Campbell was waiting af Johnstown to gct a train home, when the "goat," a passenger train running east of Johnstown, backed over him. On August 31, 1896, William the third mem ber of the family to meet death on the rail, got on an engine to go to Millwood, at which point the family was then living. The engine failed to stop at Millwood and while stepping-from one car to another at Hillside, while the train was being made up, young Campbell fell between the cars, and received injuries which caused his September 14, after an illness of 11 months duration. Interment was made on Saturday, September 16, in mg the same train hit a team of mules driven by one of the Hileman boys and one mule was killed while the boy had the Blairsville cemetery.

Rev. J. a very narrow escape from death. Pender and Rev. Richards conducted The crossing is just north of the cut the services.

Mrs. Mclntyre was aged at Reed station while the road on each side of the track turns in such a way 72 years and is survived by five child ren follows: Mrs. Gertie Harrold, that it is impossible to see the ap proach of a train. couid not have been presented in 1 mcie pleasing manner, the intense! earnestness of the speaker showed how i much her heart was in the work. Rev.

John B. Worrall, o1 Cherrytree, handled the subject "opportunities and Obligations Created by the Sabbath School" and gave one of the most instructive addresses of the convention. Friday afternoon was all too short for the many good things in store Mr. B. C.

Forsythe, State Field Worker, conducted a Conference on the Home Department, and Prof. J. N. K. Hickman, of Grove City, pleased his many Indiana county friends with a talk on Teacher Training.

Prof. Hickman had been the teacher of a large class in the Indiana Zion "Lutheran School while he was at I-diana Normal, ard a number of his class were present to greet him. Te very important subject, "fhe Saobath School as a Soul Winner," was most ably handled by Rev. reached a "Front Line" position. This year, that district has not only maintained its position, but has added Front Line schools, while the following districts have all qualified for Front Line this year: Mahoning No.

1, Cherrytree No. 2. Blairsville No. 5 and Indiana No. 7, making five of the seven districts of the county in Front Line.

The county will go up to the State Convention at New Castle, a Front Line County, with a good margin to spare. Mr. Guthrie especially gave praise ti Districts No. 2 and No. 3 for the splendid increase in the enrollment of new scholars.

While the gam in the county is over 3,300 in all the districts, these two made two-thirds of the total gam. The two departments of Teachers' Training and Organized Adult Bible Class work received pecial mention. 45 per cent, of the schools of the Dr. W. P.

Emerson, of this place, spent Sunday with Dr. W. O. Davie, of Punxsutawney. Mrs.

Harry Bateman. of Wilkinsburg, is visiting Mrs. G. A. McLain, of Philadelphia street.

Attorney Ernest Stewart, of th't place, left on the noon train for a business trip to Pittsburg. The Misses Ella and Goldie Bowers and Miss Nellie Murdock, who are employed here.spent Sunday with friends at Penn Run. Mrs. D. L.

Sturgeon and daughter, LaRue, of Vanderprift, are visiting Mrs. Rev. J. K. Hifty and family, of Oakland avenue.

Mrs. Cora Newhouse, Mrs. Laura White, Mrs. Jettie King and Elmer Altman. Deceased had been a resident Blairsville for many years and was Dance in Lyric Hall.

I death five days latter. well-known in this place. Harvey Cun Pittsburg by his father ningham. Less than a year ago, on the night of October 12, 1910, James Clark Campbell, a Derry brakeman, was injured so badly that he died a few hours latter, leaving a wife and several smalt children. Early Sunday morning, the fifth son, Stewart was caught and died in a short time.

In addition, a sixth s)n, Emmett had his arm R. J. Hood, of East Wheatiield town ship, for several year? a well-known county auditor, is an Indiana business visitor today. The weekly dance will be held Lyric Hall, on Wednesday night, September 27. A 1 beginners who wish to learn to dance should start now, as this is your chance.

This i3 the opening cf the dancing season. Private lessons will be given by Prof. Hays, the well-known dancing instructor, on Wednesday from 3 30 to and from 7 to 8. Social dancing starts promptly at 9 o'clock. Miller's well-known five-piece orchestra from Kittanmng will furnish the music.

The older jlks will enjoy these dances as well as the young. Two new dances, positively the very latest will be taught at the Dancing Academy in Lyric Hall. Miss Lea Fackender, of Pittsburg, who ha3 been the guest of Miss Bessie H. W. Smitten and family, of of Oatdand avenue, has Ion.

are the guests of friends in Indi- county are now training their teachers a regular systematic course of Bible Presbyterian Church. His ad-study, and there are 120 organise! dress was one of deep earnestness and Bible classes reported this year. Mr. I carned conviction to the hearts of the returned to her home. I ana.

They will a'so visit at Mr. Smit- amputated at the shoulder, and received other serious injuries, while switching in the B. O. yards at Glen-wood, on March 25, 1907. The family is well known in Blairsville and in the southern part of the county and have many relatives in this section.

I ten's former home in Marchand. Paul and Joseph Donnelly, who have been attending the Indiana State Nor-i Mrs. John Patterson and her daugb that there are now 50. iUC 0uiUOi luanans io win that there are now uuthrie said its scholars to tte Master, no matter Front Line Schools in the countv, and mal scuool here, spent Sunday at ter. Miss Wmona.of Scuth street, left i I (T4- j.

i oil Kt nf tho us uigainzauon, iaus to po on the noon train Monda i-ir Pasa their home in Latrobe. jdena, California, where tht will spend Foley's Kidney Remedy (Liquid) some time with The con- Lot of Cards. One supply house in Pittsburg has 'do its work. The closing address of the aftern or. wa3 by Mr.

W. D. Rteen, of niiadel-phia, State Superintendent of Orga-: ,1.. U.ui. Pl nr-i.

t- I I Couny Surr'nlenJent James Chapman, wife and child 'Rill go tO to nif thprp. Tint mflnentlv. sition. The Conference conducted by Mr. D.

J. Price on organization was very helpful, and if the plans suggested bj him and others who spoke are carnei out, the same results can be attain in any district or school the countj Is a great medicine of proven value for both acute and chronic kidney and 1 bisclaer ailments. It is tsDeciallv Mr. he-man'- home near tomorrov where they wilt srcnJ a few wi nuuii, uiuif vori. furnished two million round-corner cand'date's cards, which have gone through the printing presses since the opening of this remarkable campaign.

te had no trouole in proving to the days v. siting rCTmended to elderly people for its A lha windows of Moon.Cad Uros are showing Iirt, Shaft r.er Marx Clothes. More of them ir-ide and all worth seeing. 1. F.

atisf action of eprjbody the great ad-1 Wonderful i i uimi rpnnncrrnnriijo class fn-i Saturday Critic. Mr. W. T. Mabaffej.

of Cherrytree. ot the organized uuiibto jjcl in alien iCUCl cLIJU told in an interesting manner of the effective work and the reason Vvhy it omfort it gives them. For sale by all ruggists. J. Clay Man an, of near Cteekside, left this aiternoon for Pittsburg, where he will resume his studies in the University of Pittsburg.

He is a Junior in the Medical Department. Harry Rowe and wife, of Baltimore, visited with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Rowe, of South Seventh street, on Monday. They made the trip overland in Mr.

Rowe's automobile. A large line to colors and sizes at Moorhead Bros. select from. All reasonable prices. T.

T. F. Great San Francisco Convention and appealed to men. During this session pleased the audience by singing at the iin appeal for funds to aid in the close of his remarks the "Pennsyl- county work was responded to and in a vania Song" as sung by the delegates very few minutes S100 was contributed of the State ih attendance at the Con-' to carry on the work, vention which numbered 136 from i Tne Committee on Nomination of Pennsylvania. Officers reported that, at the earnest The Superintendents' Congress Continued on Third Page.

Will Open Branch Store. Levy, of the Pittsburg Furniture Exchange, will go to Clymcr tomorrow to arrange his branch store for the opening on October 2. The Pittsburg Furniture Exchange is an up-to-date furniture store and the branch store at Ciymer should meet with success. Pay Your Taxes. The undersigned will be at the Court house on Friday and Saturday, Sept.

29 and 30, 1911, to receive Road and Special Tax, of White township. After the above date five per cent, will be added to all taxes unpaid. Elmer Carney, Treas. Linoleums, Carpets, Rugs and Mattings of all kinds at Buchheit Bros. William C.

McKee. for a number of 1 During this wet weather, you would find a rain coat or English slip-on just the thing for comfort and looks. You can get them at Moorhead Bros. T. T.

F. Life Beyond Death. If we can saj Saneca "This life is only a prelud to termty." tnen we need not worry so much over the fitting1? and furnistings of this ante-room, and more than that, it will jive dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know that they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation Minot J. Savage. years an instructor in the Indiana schools, left on the noon train today for Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he will complete his course the Law Department of the University.

Dwight Gal breath and Harry Sutter, left this morning to resume their studies in the University of Michigan. The former ia a Becond year dentistry student while the latter is a second year student in the Literary-Law Night School. Night-school will open at Leech's Actual Business College, Wednesday, evening, Sept 27th, at 7 o'clock. 11-7L Satisfaction considered, the cheapest hat a man can buy is the Stetson. AH the new shapes at Moorhead Bros.

T. T. F. REDEEM RED STAMPS The Merchants' Association of Indiana hereby notifiy the people of Indiana and vicinity that All Red Coupons will be redeemed in Merchandise, whether or not books are full, or whether or not Coupons are pasted, up to and including SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1911. After that date none will be redeemed.

Each Coupon has a value of One-Half Cent. MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION OF INDIANA. Will Paj Fair Premuims. Sweaters aid Jerseys. The best sweater is "The We have them all grades from to $8.

Moorhead Bros. T. T. Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing; Goods called for and delivered. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Call or 243R. Room 4, Marshall Bldg. tt Mr. A. W.

Mabon, Treasurer of the Fair Association, will be ready to pay premiums on Thursday. 2t. -i You will tako no rlnnces if you buy Paul Cunningham will leave tomorrow morning for Pittsburg, where he will spend a day vtating Irenes and relatives. On Thursday morning he will leave fcr Ann Arbor, Mich, where he vull cmoll in the University of Mich. lie win accompanied 'o Manhattan 1 Cluctt shirts in the fall pattern at Moorhua 1 dros.

T. T. F. ME WLTHEBFO-L'Jtii Unsettled InndJcoolerJtonight; rlurt, than r.er Marx clothes at Moorhca 1 Bros. '1 hey are lai antce J.

T. T. F. See the Color f.xst mattings in Buch heit Bros win-low. Wc guarantee these not to fado from the effect of the sun or water.

One Precious Posresslon. The gods may rob us of everything except the heart to endure. Oeorge Meredith. QAkt Hours ol Or. imVL to 6 and from 0.30 to 7.90.

nesday, probablyf air. w3.

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