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CONNBLLSVILLE, TUESDAY. EV SNING, JANUARY 12, 1926. SIXTEEN PAGES, TEN DEAD, 20 MISSING AFTER FIRE DESTROYS TWO LOUISIANA HOTELS Twenty Otiiers Bcmored to Hospital Suffering Bnrns and Other Injuries Sustained In Escaping Flames Early Action by Legislature in Strike Expected By t'nltcd Preia. HARUISBURfi, Jan. consideration 1 of Governor Pincho't'a proposal to regulate anthracite mining In the program he has prepared to submit to the special session ot the Legislature convening hero tomorrow was virtually assured today.

Some action was expected at tho outset of the session. Tho bill embodying the Governor's plan of State control over tho industry was whlpix cl into shape today to be submitted at once. It has become apparent to the Governor that settlement of the caal strike before the Legislature get.i down to business tiardly can be expected. Members of the legislature gathering today showed greater alarm over the coal situation than any other question which they have been called upon to consider. Governor Pinchot planned to deliver a broadside at "elcc- -oc'eiufs destroyed a jewelry store, grocery, TM uds "Is opening message, cafe meat market, tailor shop and following this i a message on coal two small residences.

legislation the following week when the members have had a chance to study the provisions of his bill. Failure of tie miners and operators to agree upon a plan of settlement nt their conferences In New York has brought tbe extra session taco to face i the task of debating whether to make coal a public utility and therefore subject to State It had been hoped that between the time of the call and the opening of the special session tioth sides in the hard coai strike woul have composed their $45,000 FIRE AT MONONGAHELA By United Preaa. FBRRIDAY. Jan. least 10 persons were burned to death and a score are as yet unaccounted for in a flre which destroyed the Johnson and Van Noy hotels here early today.

Twenty guests ot tho hostelries were removed to hospitals to be treated for burns and other injuries suffered whilo escaping from the buildings. The hotels were adjoining. So sudden was the outbreak at the lire and so rapidly did it spread Us origin has not boon ascertained. The properly loss is $100,000. Six bodies were recovered from the ruins.

The blaze was discovered first in the Johnson Hotel by a telegraph operator of the Missouri Pacific Railroad who jrave the alarm. It swept immediately into the Van Xoy Hotel. Besides Iho two hotels tho flre Andrew Rusinko Killed In Fight With Bandits; Former Casey Ball ayei Keets End While Serving us Member of Police Force at Detroit BRINGING THE BODY HOME Andrew Rusinko, a former well- known young mun of Dunbar township, serving as a member ol' Lho a fight with baudlts yesterday, according to a telegram received hwe. No details of the death were given. The young man went to Detroit about last May or June, where be was employed in the automobile business.

Lvcter 'ho became an officer and according to reports was assigned to traffic duty. Police here this Vanderbilt Man Placed on Trial On Arson Charge Aaron J. Falrciilld of Vanderhllt was placed on trial before Judge D. W. Henderson In court room No.

2 yesterday on the charges which included felonious arson and an attempt to defraud and illegally collect insurance. In the trial ot tho case the com- momvealth is depending upon clrcum- pencd. The Legislature finds itself embarassed by the problem but anxious to public reaction to any steps that may be taken toward evidence based 'upon tho a i out tlu a of tho Oover- statements of a dozen or more i over i HBBMS ivlio told ot having oil- jilace. He was known as a basketba. player of ability.

He ha 1 a remark able physique, and Jumpi center on the Casey basketb ill team in seasons. Followern oC the spor knew him well and only -ecently hai been expressing regret i hat he not in this vicinity to ie available Cor the Learn this year. When residing at ring he wa omployed In the mines there. Ilia parents reside at that pi cc ami one police forco in Detroit, was i in Joe, Is also at hoi ie. A brother, "Bunny" Ruslnkf and a si.i ter, Mrs.

Mike Pnrdo, live in Letroit. Thc officer mat his home with One other A a lives in Plttaburg. ATH ther Bister at home, survives The body wai ship-perl i "om Detroit to i place and i arri tomorrow morning. will le ta cen to the home by Funeral Dirpcto French Durst. Xo arrangements have Ireen mado for Ihf a said Kirsinko had been desirous of becom- ihfr employed as a patrolman at tills Council to Ask for Viewers On Arch Street Widening as Preliminary to Condemnation Bond Issue for Streets Proposed At Mt.

Pleasant mm PROBLEM Solicitor Kirk nner Instructed to Take cessriry nt One Special to Tho i MOUNT PLEASANT, Jan. a special meeting of i a i it was decided to a tho differences In a peace plan that a stem for tho coralng year. Tho preclude the for adoption of finance committee was to pr Pinchot's plan. This has not a at the next a meeting soaked shavings In the vicinity of tho YORK. Jan.

building-which was burned. The flre. looking for some rncouragement for broke out about 1 o'clock on the i i hopes anthracite c-oal morning October 2G last, threatened strike might i hn settled and a to destroy a frame apartment house break iu tho nt'erfnce might be owned by Kalrchlld on the road be-1 avoided found only when tho VanderbUt and Dickerson Run. two sides gathered for the i Four families wore living in the build- 'session, ing at time. "There la no change in the situa- The flre started in apartment No.

2 tion over bos," remarked which, waa unoccupied and in Lewis, i ol' the United i Fairchild two months previous had Workers to the tewspaper reporters, placed a load ot shavings. Thc com- znoxrwealth alleges that the shin-ings scattered in a trail from the second floor of tho apartment to the attic and that a part ol the shavings saturated with kerosene. Morgan Colbert testified that he had broken into the burning building and aided in extinguishing the flames which were stifled before they communicated with adjoining apartments. Unlike other witnesses. Colbert refused to say that the shavings were detailed report of thu 8suim.

i'erhaps leading question up for the discussion was a of Liu- li- condition of the borough, and the fact thiit, Washington sired to be improved, 113 well u- all oilier sm-cts in town. To do ami run the business ol tho properly fur another ycAi was agrocd will i mean bond issip at a special elocLion, or the raisins of the 1 mxcs, possibly flve mi lib. ft-It. by the, council me a that the reasonably i to do is to votu a bond thbim, and this will take care oL the Improvements without the raising oC Urn mlllagc; that should i nut bo doue, tho people i be called upon to nay tin- project, the i a LOCAL PYTHIANS ASSIST IN FORMING NEW ORGANIZATION Past Chancellor Commanders C'. L.

KcDonald, 'R. MeCorrnlck and Alfred. Chapman of Fayette Lodgo No. 23 Knights uf Pythias of Co-nnellbville, soaked with Kalrchild was participated In tl organization of the Association of (Chancellor C'om- manders of So'ithwester-n Pennsyl- Jn the advice of Sur -'rintenclcnt B. L.

Borg of thi Depr of Strecti, City Council Mo 1 day niglu authorized Solicitor J. Kir! Rentier to i a i ot in the matter of the improvement nf Arch Condemnation proceedings, Mr. Berg told Couns in tho hi ving been adopted at lln- a tnce'ing of the eld Council on 4. Ii waa deemed wise to r. ivp view of the proposed i rovemp it before it 11 a as wll after iho is completed.

The a i nt TH will bo II.i i i i a -n co demnation piocM'edinfri iha' be i i i i i tu i the wult i of the beginning at thr? itersection i a i the grea er part erf (ho session 'o diiciiha on of Uio bLdget for H'20, in an effi rt to have tho amoiim come tl revr-nueR in i The i a revenues by Ku-pcirlmcndfnt ANTHRACITE CONFERENCE BREAKS; EACH SIDE BLAMES THE OTHER AFTER ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE CAPPER-JOHNSON UNIVERSAL DRAFT BILL TO BE URGED For Definite Action by Congress The American Legion Behind It. TO MAKE WAR UNPOPULAR B) DAVID LAWRENCE CopyrlrJit, J020, by I Daily Courier. WASHINGTON. Jan. war so unattractive and unpopular the people of.

all classes in the Jnlted States will hesitate a long time )eforo permitting themselves to bo plunged by Congress Into hostilities with a foregin country, la the avowed purpose of tie universal draft law about which a controversy Is gather- ng. The American Legion, i of ho fact that its members went to war on J30 a month while day laborers aad others drew excellent wages much in excess of a week, Is determined that Congress shall enact iomo law now covering the universal iraft of war time so that ail laborers workers of all kinds may be con- crlpted and paid military wages If necessary, and so that all manufac- uring plants and other resources may ie taken over by the government and ompcnuated for within the govern- oent discretion. President Coolidge received a hundering ovation in Omaha at the ji'glon convention when he he principle behind the universal raft. Leading Democrats as well as iepublicans aro favorable to the icasure. Senator Capper of Kansas, Republican, and Representative Royal ohnson, Republican, are sponsoring he bill.

Mr. Capper says he has been orrespondlng with men who had Mining Village OfManown Swept By "United Press. MONONGAHELA CITY, Jan. early today swept the mining village of Manown in Forward township, destroying several business establishments, causing loss placed at $45,000. Starting, according to firemen, in the butcher shop of Tony Eauue on the ground floor of a tenement housing live families the flames leaped to the garage and grocery store ot Andy Gondola, destroying both and two automobiles stored in tlie garage.

A stable owned by S. M. Downer ot Monongahela was destroyed and the flames then leaped to new store owned by Frank Oliver, which carried a 515,000 stock. Placing blankets over their heads, Oliver led his wife and two-year-old daughter, Ida May. from the apartment over the store 'o the street.

At this juncture a shift In the wind carried the flames back toward the buildings which had been burned. Tha flre department from Monongahela, across the river, responded to the town's call for aid but found Itself powerless because of lack water. An effort to take water from the Monongahela River failed when It was found the distance was too great Operators Forced Through a Mot.Ion of Their Own, John Ii Lewis Declares In Statement-. OWNERS CHARGE OBSTRUCTION By i Preai. aruch, a i a of the War In- ustrles Board, and they all i tho roblem should be tackled with a view last seen near the building 10 hours before the start of the tire.

The apartment had been padlocked for sometime previous to the a A but Kuircluld was seen about thc Uniontow n. promises the day be-fore the fire, the a says. It is also alleged that Fairchild carried 5G.OOO insurance on thc i i and that It was only worth Mrs. Mnynie Fullmer, one of tlie tenants of the building, testified this morning that sho saw a bucket of coal oil sitting in thc building before the fire. When Fairchild came to the scene tlu- following i Mrti.

Fullmer said he told her he heard the lire whistle but did not suspect fire was on his premises and had not bothered getting out of bod. On cioss examination Fullmer admitted she married but her husband Is serving sentence in prison. v-ania, which took place a evening tlson lodge No. The temporary officers elected folovvs: L. Chorpcnnlng, pres- i ighlcy, secretary, Alfred (ilnipman, C.

W. House and R. W. R-irqiltr were mimed on the iby-Iaws rommlttce: W. A Wright, A Mc- Oregi, II.

M. William FiirrjPetei' Korr, O. C. Wilson, John ns. Alibert Whaley and R.

M. on the iiienfliershl-p J. Molaris was named pub- agont. addition tt, Command-ore jUc- DonMd and Chapman the i pasiJTohancellor (ominanders in atteTidance: i i a Parr and Leroy Riser. Dun'bar Lodge No.

410; H. W. Farquhar and C. W. House, Addlson She a she did not make close Xo A Cunning! am inspection or premises because KlngH ood 7 TM' hTM' nd Ja c5 a r- a of she said.

"1 was a a i they Graft I tnight suspect me. ia(U Anh Thomas Kcighley anti N. S. Colbert. U-niontown The next i i be held in uted and a report of this will be presented at tlie next meeting.

Burgess r. Stevens asked for iin ordinance governing the i of open- lug aud closing i alleys and pcolrooms, and also sei Cms; the revenue that is Lu be den veil rum slnjuki he, was oral en IT a figure. It be i i i.mt a i a i a i i i of fl ianco was i to pay firm of tbs the state law. i a i men was discussed and thu i 1 a Iloo.i A V.m Natt the sum 'it' ilU'll, thc i i i on cui i a i i I 0' (i Tbn i a to i I i a a i irected to to Jo-iOp! .1. Tlu for i i i uc- i a i a snl aHors a i i city i I I cents a i a tl at will be a a i Telephone Company I in East a a estimate i a was von.

The a i bo useij for the Oast Park a i of i Treas trer Fred Roller Jn the sum of 535,00 was ap- oved. A petition for ft i or a special investigation of war rofiteerlng. In answer to tho critics who isay ft-ar legislation should properly be to war times and that a war Is at least. 20 years away anyhow, the proponents of the measure say i a i a a law act as a a deterrent. In other i wealth that conscription of wealth a certain, there be Idttle from that a toward i a war.

There still Is a belief a classes of people a i a I west, a a i of war i or a t' 1 3 a the bn.ird of directors i of American banking ns reduced to live. Contlnuud on Pase Two. and water i i i i a on this at tho i President S. C. a i i Finance--C.

E. Dicksou, Dr. W. A. Marsh and F.

i Streets--E. B. F. S. er and a i Light.

Firo and Water W. A Mariih, A. R. a a and Nixon. Property--Peler i C.

E. Dickin am! E. B. SwarU. Police--F.

S. Dullinger. John Nixon ind Dr. W. A.

Marsh. Ordinance--John Nixoo. Peter Mul- and A. R. Gearhart.

Sewer--Charles Springer, A. II. a a and K. B. Sivartz.

A. M. KIMMEL NAMED SUPERINTENDENT OF DAWSON BIBLE SCHOOL i a a 1. the i i report. DR.

JOHN Y. WOODS SUCCEEDS BROWN AS CITY PLANNER JJr Y. Woods WHS "Ipcted Ijy h-ireet a i Torren co a 1 enue was referred to i Jesse A. Cypher of the a of Public Safety. HOSPITAL BENEFIT TO BE HELD TONIGHT Two Injured When Plane Hits Tree Near Ursina SEW YOKK, Jan.

IS The conference which has rwen in swslou here for nwks. uttemntlnff In settle the strike of anthracite coal! miners, adjourned sine die soon aftw noon unable to reach an agreement. The break came after a spirited eei- sion yesterday at which tho operators made what they character-lied their final offer of settlemenl and after it was rejected by the miners with a sharp statement in which they sought to blame for any break which may follow. Arbitration was the main oi tacU an agreement. The operators demanded arbitration of wages and miners refused to accept such abrl- tratlon.

Immediately on adjournment, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, issued a statement ulamlnj the operators for failure to reach an agreement and also forcing adjournment of tbe conference. The mine owners quickly followed Lewis' statement with one of their o-wn in which they passed back responsibility to the miners. The miners went from th-5 Union League Club after adjournment to their hotel and said they would issue an additional statement at 6 P. M.

Operators professed not to have any plans for the future in the strike situation excepting the "Bit tight." One informed source told the United Press that he did not "believe the idea of reopening the mines without a settJement of the strike would occur to single operator." "As predicted In my statement yesterday the operators were determined to break up this conference without agreement," Lewis' statement road. "After a period of fruitless discussion this morning the operators moved nn adjournment without dale and demanded that ihe miners second the motion. "Conscious of our responsibility and still imbued with hope that an agreement might be reached, the mine workers refused to do so. The operators then seconded their own motion, thc chairman put the question aad thc mine workers, realizing that (was impossible through their own efforts to reach an agreement in session with the operators, reluctantly rated for thc motion. "The i workers vgret the action.

The operators have iiaintained throughout the session the me unyielding a i evidenced when negotiations began six months igo at Atlantic City The responsi- i i for a i to agree and con- inunnce of thc strike rests entirely i a a i a i i ests who have arrogantly refused to I make any concessions. The miners Callaghcr. Charles 1). Franks, who are prepared to i negotiations been president, reiigtied from thc i any necessary period." QUENTIN SEALS' ARREST CLEARS MANY ROBBERIES Police today were gathering in loot following a confession by Quentin Seals, a former local young man, now al Washington, to several local rcb'beries after his arrest last evening. burglaries of the homes ot Otto Koohler, Ray Addis, .7.

J. Draper, W. R. Hammer aad J. K.

Corvln were admitted by the following a dual experience i the problem questioning by R. C. Bledsoe, captain tiring thc war, men like Bernard M. I of Baltimore Ohi police, R. II.

'Patterson, chief or polico of South Connellsvillo, anil loral officers. Seals was arrested when police hen equitable distribution of war I rccolvocl a telegram from Washington, 3, Mr. Baruch has contributed Pa asking that he bo held for officers loney to Johns Hopkins i i 0 lllat a cn. H- was found at thc i on Six. Union National Board Reduced To Five Mmbers At the a a meeting of holders of the Union National Bank KHiy was elected to llll the vacancy a death ol Dr.

G. w. MOUNT PLEASANT BURGESS FROWNS ON CHARLESTON" Special to Tho Courier. CONFLUENCE, Jan. Heilly, or the Army Air Service aud Pilot Lauder, were Injured Monday afternoon when their plane collided with a tree near Ursina, following motor trouble.

The lieutenant suffered cuts about thc head face and the pilot and bruises, Neither was seriously hurt. Lieutenant Heilly was on his way from Washington to St. Paul and had been given permission, It waa said, to (ly to Chicago in order to make time. AT RflAlTlPT rki i i i i i a i a LTVO experienced Al MUUNTPLrASANTl mc)lor and wero attempting to make a a i whoa the collision i thc tree came. The impact sheared off the wings on the side and the plane crashed 10 the ground, a I wreck.

Special in Tho ir. Al UNT PI A SA NT. 12 lil very tin'UK is in rcadinos- for ibe id E. C. I-Iigbeo WHS re-electctl a mom- be of the conmiissiori for a term of live years i i a a i l.

The a school of the Kirst a tist church Dawson a i the year by i the i cen: i A. i assistant. Karl i secretary, MeCliiuock; a Luchey; i a i i brarians. KhoJa Cobbi-U and Mario i i boys tt a 1 McManus, a Nyc and i street wero a i to thc i ot a George Black, three a i ott 1 iI maklnB tho charies once Brower to serve its deacon. The Chief ot Police Spocia 1 to The i 1'LEASANT, Jan Black Sent to Jail a i general a i a Dress rehearsal has been I 3ld in the theatre and the entertainrm nt promises to be one of Itest tha has ever been presented here.

The Weather moaning H'sh School here, tho John a i Josopn c.imo residnce cud Hebb storo in South I I i cloudy i i and U'adncsday; 1 tern- Is ie noon Wc-Me Pcnn- TiMnperaflire Jtecord board prior to the i and nobody was elected to take i place. Tho directors named J. .1. Dougherty. A C.

Edwards, J. Donald Porter, J. Espy Sherrard and P. J. Torimiy.

A president othor officials were to be elected at a meeting liner this afternoon. Elections banks resulted as follows: r'irst National, bert. Xorria. J. Kendall, E.

C. I-HK- beo, E. T. N'orton, D. McGinnis, 0.

W. Stauffer. S. J. Harry.

F. AV. W. V. Soisson.

J. Angle. Second National. I'onndlsvllle-- Worth i a Dr P. McCor- mlck, a Dull, Dai id Werthcimer, Thomas B.

Ecliard. William .1. Davidson and John A. Arms rong. Colonial 'aUonnl, L.

F. i E. K. Harry 0. Corr'ado, 11.

Horton, J. J. Dotiuhcrty. r. U.

A. C. Sliprbondy, Philip Gal anil, Dr. J. C.

Pixon and I I E. Hrsl 'ationiil, Jr. B. a A. C.

a John M. Core. I I T. Cochran. Ti.

D. and Mrs Sarah B. Cochran. The uioetinKs of the stockholders of "After a days of conferences Both wero treated at Franlz Wos- tho a i a Bank of the pilal. i a i left this i by rail tor St.

Paul. The pilot remained to salvage the plane. we find i here is no change whatever in Mr Lewis' a i the statement of thc i "He abso- to consider a constructive i in a few words his policy is that he will rule or i "lie has informed us in no uncertain terms that he cares nothing for opinion of the i or i officials, chambers of eomnieicc, religions organizations or the prras. "He will have his own way or nothing. "The operators' proposals, the Liizerne legislators' plan, the Markle plan, the engine-ens' aud economists' plan all were discussed at length, only to ba summarily rejected by the miners' spokesman because they 'smellcd of "While the operators wero pressing- for practical measures to end the strike and put the I on a llrmer basis, Mr.

i dragged la i i a proposals for price and wage Using. Such proposals are neither workable nor practicable did not dis- and while i form a basis for any serious cussion. "The i have had but in vl view--maintaining prodnc- Eight Rebels Who Held Up Mexican Train Killed Vougli Trus: a were to bo a fair Wage at a a i prices held late this a The '-This requires some By i Tress CITY, a of re'bels a a a C'ity express at re i a a office a a a of tho 1 sion of the of Ihe Title and Trust a is slated to a place a a Directors ol the i a i a a a a i were i I i I as ,1. Black, Robert N'orris, E. T.

A. C. C. i A and W. A.

Cosgrovo. a of avoidin- ileadlocks and a ottered to open the i pay Ule ol.l wages und i i is going on admit every issue in disputi- lo arbitration The utmost effort hap been mad to meet The i a F.rs, a a Mr. Lewis' view- but he would cons to no settlement on a basis on whi -h the i conlil reasonably be ex- a at P-erryopoiiH Jay, i i being i a M. i a M. K.

Slrawn, a a i a Townsenrl and 6 0 11 11 a Adiirns has beon Ap- a 11 a is the a a Oavldsoa. in express a i i named a a i Eilpnr (Jillii-rt, I i a advice's here, aud i i of lite 1-irst a i a Udgar i of Johnston i i i based on reason and i Mr. Lewis I i a force a shall i i i changes discussion is useless. ilu-se i i of I irsl a ,1 who has been i lo his home for a i was staged by a a C. i a past 10 davs i ,7, i i '2(1 of a i i C.

i S. a F. J. aid i i a 37 disguise aboard tho I a a aad Ray G. Holsing.

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