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THE WZATHEB Forecast for Western Pennsylvania: Local rain warmer In south portion. Wednesday fair In north; rain or snow In north portion. Of HO THE ALL THE LOCAL NEWS ALL THE TIME Eighteenth Year No. 5538 CANONSBURG, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1912 LAST EDITION 4 P. M.

Price One Cent. I I IIMORRIS TOtVHSHIP ORDINANCE PRESENTED PROVIDES FOR MEAT AND MILK INSPECTION Flffl IIS GUI) Rev. Billy Sunday Extends His Thanks to The Daily Notes Wheeling, W. March 13, 1912. D.

H. Fee, Canonsburg, Pa. My Dear Mr. Fee I want to personally thank you for your splendid and fair editorial of the 8th. Jnst.

I receive so many knocks (and expect to receive them as long as I fight the element that opposes our work) it is like an oasis in the desert to read an editorial such as you or some of your assistants have notice also that your whole editorial column seems to be in the proper line, and am going to use some statistics in my booze sermon here next Sunday which I have gleaned therefrom. Go to it and jar the gang that would sacrifice home, mother and native land for a few paltry dollars which they reap from the damnable whisky business. You will have my prayers, and if I can at any time enter the arena in the Pennsylvania situation as regards local option, prohibition, you'll find me on the job. With kindest personal regards and all good wishes, 1 am Cordially yours, W. A.

SUNDAY. (My assistant, Rev. L. K. Peacock, from Houstonville, brought this article to my attention.) Physicians and Health Board Members Ask Council to Enact Measure REFERRED TO SOLICITOR Would Require Tubercular Test for Dairy Herds Supplying Local Market i Strongly recommended by the board of health and a number of Can-onsburg physicians, steps were taken at last night's meeting of the town council to provide for the inspection of meat, meat products and milk sold to the people of Canonsburg.

Besides i this and the resignation of J. A. Fife, who will remove soon from the Third to the Second ward, there were no other features to thejneeting. Drs. J.

C. Kelso, A. L. Runion, J. B.

Donaldson and E. A. Cahill, T. E. Muuce, deputy state veterinarian, TO ILplSELF Alexander Seaman, AgedJ 48 Years, Sends Bullet into His Brain BODY FOUND BY DAUGHTER Had Complained of Severe Pain in His Head-Leaves Wife and Two Sons Washington, March blooil streaming from a hole in his head where he had shot himself a moment before, Alexander Seaman, aged 48 years, one of the best known, and most prosperous farmers of Morris township, was found dead this morn ing in a wash house near his home, where he had committed the acj No reason except that of temporary in-' sanity can be given as a mothe.

Mr. Seaman had complained for some time about severe pains in hi head and had been taking medicine but no thought entered the minds of any of the family that such action I. (Copyright) S. GILMORE DICKSON CONVICTS ARE KILLED IN RUNNING FIGHT Only One of Escaped Prisoners from Nebraska Penitentiary Taken Alive DIES WA LONG and F. W.

Townrow and John Dixon, deep from w-a(eP trough for aDOUl members of the board of health, 40Q fm that the road is aimost im-were present and presented a draft pagsabe funner invetigation of a proposed ordinance which would, oan be made ouncil gave a stack o( if enacted, provide for the inspection boar(ls the for a temporary Of meat and milk in the borough. waii All the physicians present spoke in Three who own property ln favor of the proposed ordinance, an.I;that section of Buffalo Hill which is Councilman W. H. Richards, who atjwitnin borough limits asked for the close of the discussion, moved the Becond time that the road up the that the solicitor prepare such an ordi-. hm h.

niad naBBable. Thev said that was contemplated. Mr. Seaman own-t M.h ft grocery and coal wagons would not deliver goods. It was explained to them that the road had been laid out by a man who had sold his lots there to another person, who, in turn, had sold the lots and, since council had never taken over the street, that body is not responsible for Its condition.

The matter had been placed in tha hands of the street committee, but that committee reported that it had been too muddy to take a look at the street. Building permits were granted to J. C. McGilvery, who will build an al-j dition to his property in East College street, and to Bertha Blaustein, who will build a twosHory dwelling at MANY SHOTS Omaha, March 19. Two of tii3 convicts, John Dowd and John Taylor, who escaped last Thursday from the state penitentiary at Lincoln, and Harry Blunt, an innocent victim of their murderous attempt to gain liber ty, are dead as the result of a battle between the bandits and officers the law Monday afternoon.

Charles Morley, the third member of the trio which escaped from the state prison after killing three officials of that institution, saved his life bv surrendering to the officers wim whom he had fought a running battle over two and a "half miles of country with horses on the gallop. The three escajwd convicts were within striking disance of the hoped-for goal of satety when the final struggle for liberty occurred. They had covered the stretch from Lincoln to within ten miles of the Omaha City limits, where they had expected to receive the proteceSon of friends. From the moment of their escape the three men had employed the same desperate methods to protect themselves from recapture which featured their escape from prison, and they did not hesitate at the crucial moment to attempt to sell their lives as rvnumprn AiHANutU Murdoch and Iron streets. The per-jtient also suffered from tuberculosis, rnits were granted on motion ofj Mr.

Dickson was born at the old Schade. toll house, on the pike, nearly oppo THIR1Y TW0 HEN MEET DEATH WHEN LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES San Antonio, Texas, March 19... least 32 men were killed and parts their bodies strewn for blocks around when a big passenger engine in the Southern Pacific shors blew up here Monday morning. The engine stood in a square formed by the house, blacksmith shop and copper round house, all cf which were wrecked. A lirTf TT1 Af tVt WinrtrimtK'A Annul, .1.1 tl a house several blocks away and serl- ously hurt a woman.

Most of the injured were strike-: breakers who took the places ol Southern Pacific shopmen who went on strike here several months ago. Most of them are from the North and East. Twntv of the todies have been' identified, tut what is believed to be 12 more is little more than a tangled mass of fragments cf human flesh and that probably never will be separated into the dozen bumans it represents. These fragments were found jammed into crevices about the buildings wrecked, in the streets anl entangled in machinery of the shops. OF GOOD MEN IS i El Country Suffers From This More Than From What Bad Element Does ANTI-SALOON MAN SPEAKS On Sabbath morning the pulpit of the Chartiers United Presbyterian church was filled by the Rev.

E. G. Humphrey, superintendent of the Pittsburg district cf the Pennsylvania AntiSaloon League. Mr. Humphrey gave a very interesting and instructive address.

His general proposition was that with regard to matters governmental the country has suffered more from the bad citizenship of good men than from the evil accomplished by bad men. Not a battle for temperance has been lost in recent years that was sot lost by the indifference of good men. In one district in Illinois 964 saloonkeepers sent a very disreputable man to the legisla ture. In the same district there are 264,000 Christian voters. What were they doing? In another district the saloon people were very strong, but the church people organized and sent a minister to the legislature.

Hard work through organization did it The county local option law in Indiana was repealed through the indifference of Christian voters. Many counties ln Ohio went wet for the same reason. Indiana will win back her law, but in the meantime hundreds of men will be ruined. Maine went dry by 75S votes last fall, but 30,000 Christian voters did not go to the polls. In 1910 thousands of Christian voters stayed at home from the election in Pittsburg, enough to enable the whisky people to carry the state.

They said they "did not want to get mixed up in dirty politics." Christian people will have to wake up' and go to work in earnest before i much Is accomplished for temperance in this state and nation. If you would have a crowd at your BAD CITIZENSHIP dearly as possible. It was a futile; public sale, he bid in lots 59 and 100. attempt, because they were armed tnegG h9 a8 agreement Former Well-Known Insurance Agent Passes Away at Local Hospital HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH! S. r.illmnrp nirksnn.

fnrmpriv en in incron, here, died at the Canonsburg hospital at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning following a long illness. His death was not unexpected, as his condition for some days had been steadily becoming worsyr About a month ago he was removed from his home in East Pike street 'o the hospital, where he un derwent an operation for appendicitis. So far as the operation was concerned, it proved successful, but the pa- site Morganza, February 29, 1S64, the son of William and Margaret J. (Fer guson) Dickson, who survive. The father was born in Ireland, but in 1S56 came to America, and for a time was employed in the Berry flour mill at Canonsburg.

October 4, 1859 he married Margaret J. Ferguson, dauahter of Thomas a stonemason in Canonsburg, who died in 1S64. To them were born eight I children, four sons and foer daughters, namely: Thomas Bower Hill; Lizzie wife of G. A. Cmmm, Canonsburg; S.

Gillmore, William Martin, Canonsburg; Cora Margaret P. and Ada residing with their parents, and Alvln deceased. S. Gillmore Dickson attended the township schools, then engaged in farming, after which he was employed for four years at the Pennsylvania Reform school. In 1S95 he ame to Canonsburg and engaged in the fire insurance business, in -which he was successful.

Ill health compelled his retirement on November 1, 2909. In 1898, Mr. Dickson was married to Miss Emma Hess of Chartiers town ship, who with two children, Agne3 J. and Mary survive. He was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church, but at the time of his death was connected with the Char- tiers United Presbyterian church.

In politics Mr. Dickson was a Democrat, but his Interest in politics ceased when he had voted. The winters of 1908-9 and 1909-10 he spent in the South, and during a part of the past winter, when his health permitted, he kept bookB for W. J. Elliott.

Funeral services will be held frwa the home, 119 East Pike street, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. At Cross Roads U. P. Church The trustees of the Cross Roads United Presbyterian church will, It is understood, build a parsonage in the near future. The building will be erected on the piece of land owned by the congregation near the church, and which the parsonage stood until it was burned down some years ago.

Mr. Mulholland, a student of the Allegheny Theological seminary, filled the pulpit of the church last Sabbath. You oan get what you want by us ing a Notes want ad. i 1 cu a imm near ucoiuva uiu. at Old Concord and yesterday had taken a load of his goods to the former place to which he expected to remove with his family.

This morning a daughter in law, -Mrs. Homer Seaman, heard a shot and upon investigating found Mr. Seaman dead in the wash house near his nome- Two sons and his wife sur Mrs. Seaman's maiden name jwas Stevens jciaysville. and her home is near 'i BRINGS SUIT IN EQUITY w.

Reynolds Seeks to Procure Title to Real Estate Washington, March 13. Alleging; that the firm of PoUs Bros. Fife of Canonsburg refuses to give hi a title to the property which he has purchased and for whichTie is willing to pay the price agreed upon, William, R. Reynolds of the same place has brought suit in equity against the firm, which is composed of M. Miller Potts, William B.

Poits and Samuel H. File, to prevent it from encumbering the property in any way "and to prevent any selling cf the lo s. Reynolds alleges that on October 15, 1910, when a number of lots in the Highfield plan were offered at i i was, $10 down and agreed to pay per month until the purchase price had been cleared. Reynolds further alleges that cn September 23 he paid $10, the same sum on October 13 and an equal amount was offered on December 27 which, so the plaintiff claims, the defendant firm refused to accept. On February 19, so the plaintiff avers, he offered to pay the bal ance due on the properties, but the defendants refiused to accept this amount, it is said.

And now the plaintiff wishes a deed to the proper' ty and therefore brings suit. 11 MM TO PRfACH TO MEN -'l)r. Luther K. Peacock of Houston, who holds the position of first assistant to Evangelist Billy Sunday, anl who is making good that position, preached to a large congregation in Bridgeport, Ohio, Monday eveningt)n Thursday evening of this week he will preach to "men only" in the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal church, the largest church in Wheeling, and it is predicted that the capa-ty of the church will be taxed to its utmost. Dr.

Peacock had an established reputation as an evangelist before he engaged with Billy Sunday, and his host of friends and admirers are confident that his powers are as yet far from being fully developed. To Speak on Sunday Revival Meetings The Rev. W. P. Aikin of the Char tiers United Presbyterian church went to Wheeling Tuesday morning to attend the Sunday evangelistic meetings.

He will return sometime on Wednesday and will give his "Impressions of the Sunday Revival in Wheeling" at the prayermeeting on Wednesday evening. nance, also spoke in its favor. One of the councilmen thought it a good plan to inspect the city water, but a physician remarked that it was be yond redemption. The inspection would cost the bor ouah about $1,000 a year, a part of the expense and the use of its laboratories being given by the State Sanitary Livestock board. Continuous inspection could not be maintained because of the expense, but it was thought that with inspection of any kind drovers and killers would be more careful in the stock sold to deal ers here.

It is said that 10 or 12 dairies furnish Canonsburg with milk, of which number one might be classed good or very good, some fair, and a number as poor. It is also said that there are about a dozen meat markets, some of which are not in very good condition. Inspection would be made at slaughter houses and the business places as well. Dairies and slaughter houses, whether in or cit of the borough, if their products were sold here, would be examined. ln case the proposed ordinance is enacted, the following, would be in ef feet and would govern the selling of the products: No meat products or milk may be adulterated and the inspection would be made by a competent person appointed and to whom will be furnished necessary equipment He will in spect dairies, slaughter houses and business places in or out of the borough, and the milk and meat sold in Canonburg.

Licenes Would Be Required In order to sell meat or milk the vender must take out a license, which in other towns range from $3 to $10, and this must be displayed on wagons or in stores. Skimmed milk will 'not be sold unless the receptacle is plainly marked in large letters, soldered on cans or blown in glass, water and ice in milk are declared adulterations. Herds will be tested for tuberculosis and a physical examination made, and no milk or meat may be sold in Canonsburg if the cows are found to be diseased. Slaughter houses must be sanitary or they will be closed and fines will be imposed upon violations of the ordinance. A question was raised as to whether a tax could be placed on a man selling milk when it came from his own herd of cattle, although the right to Inspect was held to be clear.

Dr. Munce said that a court decision had sustained an ordinance of this kind. The tests for tuberculosis are made without expense to the owner of a herd in case he makes application, said Dr. Munce. The license would apply to the man who owned one cow, if he sold the milk, the same as it would to the man who owned 100.

Upon Richards' motion tjhe matter will be taken up after the solicitor has prepared an ordinance based on the model presented last night. Wants Walk Laid Several residents of South Central avenue extension attended the meeting and' asked that a walk of some hind be laid because the mud is The following bills were read and ordered paid on motion of Gowern: Robert Lutton, boarding prisoners 2.50 John Arnold, street work S.75 Thomas Wilson, street 16.63 Lou Wilson, street 16.63 Dan Wright, street work 5.50 W. J. Elliott, rent 3.00 1IITLE NEW IN THE OIL DISTRICT visit to the Canonsburg oil field this morning found very little change In conditions. Hihfleld No.

1 of Potts Bros. Fife was given a small shot yesterday afternoon, and the iwell was being cleaned out today. The hole has filled up about 700 feet with oil, and the indications are for a small pumpeu The drill is still at work in the Anthony well of Rutherford Co. The fifth sand has been punctured about 30 feet, and drilling is very slow owing to the heavy fluid in the hole. The Lee Thompson well of McCon-nell Co.

has not yet been completed but likely will be within a few ays and "71 will be put to pumping SIMBORS LI HOIitl SESSION Washington, March ,9. Highly enthusiastic, an unusually large number of supervisors attended the annual convention of the road supervisors of the county held this morning and afternoon. At the forenoon session the meeting was addressed by the Hon. John Banks Holland and E. F.

Ache-son, who spoke on good roads and what part the supervisors should take in the movement to secure Rev. Mr. Young Coming Tonight Rev. C. M.

Young of Oakmont, for many years rector of Trinity church, Washington, is the special preacher a SL Thomas church tonight Mr. Young has many friends in this place who will doubtless be glad to hear him again. Get your tickets for the big play "She Stoops to Conquer" at the box office of the New Theater, Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4:30. Reserved seats 50c, unreserved seats 35c. 1 38 It with shotguns and revolvers, while their pursuers had a full supply of repeating rifles.

1 Mill STARTS UP Washington Plant in Operation After Long Shut Down Washington, March 19. After more than, a year's' shutdown the rejuvenated and remodeled mill of the Washington Tinplate company yesterday resumed operations. It is expected the plant will be run for a long period without any shutdown as many orders are booked ahead. The rolling mill was put Into opera tion yesterday with 220 men at work Within a week or ten days when tho tin mills get into action fully 300 men will be employed steadily. The mail has been completely re modeled from top to botom and has been materially increased ln size anl capacity of production.

It is now considered one of the model tin mills of the country. EW CASKET FO! PAT PJL'I Old Veteran to Be Burled With Full Military Honors The William F. Templeton Post No. 120, G. A.

Washington, of Pat Bane was a member has taken charge of the body of the famous old veteran and if present arrangements are carried out the funeral services will be held on Wednesday afternoon. With full military honors the body will go to its last resting place in the Washington cemetery in the biggest casket ever brought into Washington the receptacle measuring well.