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A ESTABLISHED APRIL 14, 1873L ALTOONA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1910. TWELVE PAGES ONE CENT. TA FT AT ELLIS ISLAND. BLACK HAND MEN SENTENCED. The President Visits Immigration and i Wellma Station at New York.

Italian Conspirators Who Worked Luzerne County Get Heavy Sentences. New York, October 18. President Taft made his proposed visit to the Wilkes-Barre, October 18. The five Italians of Hazleton, this county, who Ellis Island immigration station to where he was met by William were convicted in court of Black Hand crimes, were sentenced this WILL GBI STEP DOWN AND OUT? morning by Judge Garman. Jos.

La- Blowing Very Southern Coast ross, Dominic Piccolo and Luigi Bellatrona were Sentenced to pay fine of $1,500 each and serve six years in the Eastern penitentiary. Party Picke'l Up at tea Raymond Bellatrona was fined $1,500 and given three years in the peniten tiary. James Laross was fined $1,500 Williams, commissioner of Immigration. Secretary Nagel, of the department of commerce and labor, came from Washington to make the trip with the president. The party had their lunch on the cutter Immigrant and the president expected to meet a number of men of prominence during his trip, some politicians, in all probability, among them.

The president enjoyed going to the theatre tonight Early in the day he gave up all idea of going to Philadelphia to witness the second game of the world's baseball championship series. The cutter Immigrant had several narrow escapes from serious collis and given four and one-half years in the penitentiary. Before sentence was pronounced, State Chairman Dewalt James Laross made a plea for mercy claiming that he and the other pris oners were unjustly convicted. Appears to Know the Intentions of The county authorities had been on the track of the Italians for near ly a year before they rounded tLcm Thus Bringing: to Close One of the up and secured the necessary evi Great Hurricane is Also Working In-ward and Great Loss is Feared. ions in the Hudson river during the thick fog which prevailed.

Just as the Immigrant approached the lower dence to convict. It was brought out at 'the trial that the prisoners ter Most Thrilling of Trials bay the cutter ran into a regular rorized their fellow, countrymen in DECLARES HE WILL the lower end of the county, and if nest of tooting ferryboats nosing their way to and from the Jersev the well-to-do-Italians refused to pay afternoon in discussing the rescue of shore. In the murk the little steamer was several times seemingly on the noint of helne run rinu-n anH nnrc EPISfCOPAL CONVENTION! over money on demand, their lives and property were threatened. In several instances the houses of Ital Chairman Hicks, of the Keystone her husband. "We are safe and well'', had to make an exceedingly sham! Nc Racial Lines Are to be Drawn ians were wrecked witn dynamite.

Party, Declares Kis Opposition to Fusion. turn to avoid a collision with the The district attorney believes that The Other Work Done. This message was received by Mrs. Erie ferryboat Goshen. QFCR0SS1NGTHE0CEAN Commander and His Crew Rescued by the Mail Steamer Trent.

Cincinnati, October 18 An the conviction of the five men sentenced today will have a wholesome KEY WEST SUFFERED! Three Lives Were LostJj One Time the Wind Registered Ninety Miles. Wellman who was with her daugh amendment to the constitution of the effect, and that Black Hand crimes ters and Mrs. Yaniman, wife of tne chief engineer of the airship, at one BERRY AND GIBBOKEY FIRM MADE SARCASTIC Protestant Episcopal church calling will not be so numerous in the of the beach front hotels. for the establishment of missionary districts along racial lines was votea After expressing her sorrow at the TALK AT BANQUET down decisively by the houso of de failure of the enterprise, Mrs. Well-man continued: "I shall have little to say until Mr.

THEY DRANK WOOD puties at the triennial convention of CAUGHT SIGNALS OF DISTRESS that body today. The negroes have long wanted a bishop of their own, JACKSONVILLE IX A PANIC; John Brisben Walker. Hearst's Wellman has arrived. We must be proud of the men who risked their Lives aboard the America, but I knew ALCOROL AND DIED but the vote today was of such a character as to quiet any suggestions Right Hand Alan, Spoke in Kansas City. that Mr.

Wellman has always con-sidercd the venture as a scientific ex- along this line that might be made in ihe near future. The America Has Undoubtedly Broken All Records as to Time in Air and it Was Too Much for a Party Local Weather Officials Are of, the Opinion That Savannah Is In the Line of the Storm. periment and his own words will be Philadelphia, October 18. The withdrawal of Senator Webster Grim and the substitution of a democrat who would draw the votes of every one opposed to the election of the republican candidate for governor was predicted by State Chairman Arthur G. Dewalt of the democratic party in a speech here tonight at a mass meeting in the first congressional district.

Senator Dewalt declared that "Within two days a candidate will be named whom no democrat can refuse to support." Following the receipt of Candidate In the houso of bishops today, the best able to tell his conclusions Kansas City, October IS Without provision that gives a clergyman lati of Friends Who Met In Chicago. Mrs. Wellman, her daughters and Mrs. Yaniman left for New YorK tude in marrying the innocent party mentioning the name of Colonel to any divorce was repealed. this evening.

Theodore Roosevelt but by his description making it obvious that it Tomorrow the house or. nisnops. win Chicago, October IS Daniel J. elect bishops to the new -missionary districts and dioceses, rnese will in Key Atlantic City was swept with a wave of excitement when the first message telling of the rescue of the was he of whom he was speaking Orennan, of -Columbus, Arthur West, Fla, via Havana, Ooy 18. The tropical hurricane has been sweeping over the' John Brisben Walker, of New York, clude bishops of Wuhu, China; Kear tober which Lowrey, of Milwaukee, tnd Clem O' crew of the America was flashed ov Grim's offer to withdraw in the event ney, Arizona; North Texas, uk-lahoma, and San Joaquin.

er the wires. Business in many places was dropped and the telegraph West Indies and, southern, -waters for! in an address before the Knife and Fork club tonight, made a sharp attack on the former president. On Board Steamship Trent, at Sea, 12 midnight, October 18. To the Associated Press, New York: We sighted the airship America at 5 a. m.

today. She signalled us by the Morse code and the wireless played a wonderful part in requesting me to stand by her till daylight. We kept a boat close by her till A commission was appointed in the past five days, took Key. West wires were besieged with queries for of the selection of a candidate who could unite the opposition of Tencr, members of the state committee spent the day discussing candidates and Mr. Walker pointed out that a the house of bishops today to bring up at the noxt meeting three years in its grip yesterday and tore away; tho roofs of houses, shook a republic was just as much enlight debating whether or not anything ence, in New iorK, Christian education, not provided in of buildings from their foundations, ened as its average citizen.

Such a citizen, he said, failing to read and would be gained by withdrawing Mr. blew vessels from their moorings and the public schools." keep himself informed on public Grim. No decision was arrived at but the name of former Mayor Guthrie, of Neill, of Savanna, 111., died today after drinking wood alcohol. The men were railroad switchmen and with a number of friends indulged in a drinking bout on Monday. All became ill Monday night.

As a result of the deaths the police have arrested four men who were in the party Monday, pending an Investigation. Although friends of the dead man declared they had drunk nothing but beer and whisky the police found a pail half full of wood alcohol in a room where the men had been drinking. did other damage, tho extent of which i questions, might easily be induced to cannot be estimated. follow the lead of the popular idol. Pittsburg was prominently mentioned.

SHE REFUSED TO W. V. Hensel, of Lancaster, and for "Of said the speaker, "it The first mutterings of the storm would not be an ordinary man who were heard on Thursday; wind blew mer Judge James Gay Gordon, of this city also had supporters. and a deluge of rain came down. This ACCEPT HIS LOVE dawn broke, when she signalled that she could not launch her lifeboat and asked me to keep close in order that a line might be attached.

We made several futile attempts- to attach a line; then, the America wirelessed that she would come down to the water as soon as possible and drop her boat if I could stand by and pick the boat up. Meanwhile our lifeboats kept as Chairman Hicks, of the Keystone could do this. It would require some supreme demagogue, some quintes-cence of fake, some one equipped more information. Bulletins telling of -the rescue were placed in front of newspaper and telegraph offices, in the windows of cigar stores and in the windows or almost every business place in the city. Men and women left their offices and places of employment to read the news and Operator Miller, on the million tlolar pier, the sole wireless man on 'the island, was forced to disconnect his telephone in order to carry on his work.

He did this only after he had been swamped with telephone queries for information. The entire Wellman party here are awaiting news of the time of landing: of the steamship Trent, and will push "to, Xow York by train or automobile to meet the returning explorers of the air. storm continued until Sunday, the wind's velocity not exceeding fifty with an unblushing effrontery, ca party, issued a statement tonight in which he declared his opposition to any fusion at this late day. He pointed out that members of his party would probably have to abandon pable of putting into the Ananias miles an hour. Then thero was a lull for several hours, but in the even Whereupon the Despondent Lover DENIES FRAUD CHARGE.

class every man or woman who could analyze his attempted deceptions; Shot Her and Himself She Will Recover. some practical politician who lias their party square in the event of a fusion candidate being agreed upon close to the airship as Finally she got all her nun in her ing tho hurricane swept over the island fiercely until by Monday, the wind registered ninety miles an hour, when the recorder was blown off. learned the art of being all things all men; who can be an enthu- boat and cut adrift at a height of as the time tos expired by which candidates can be nominated by petition. sastlc progressive in Kansas and about five feet from the water. New Castle, October 18.

An The South Beach section and the He denounced-the offer of fusion as owa- and write an endorsement of This proved successful. The "a trick of the democratic party. he Aldrich tariff in a New York plat gered because she refused hi3 attentions, George Johnson, 25 years old, America immediately rose in the air Census Enumerator Says an Injustice is Being Done to Tacoma. Portland, October 18. Staccy Corwin, the Tacoma census enumerator, whose name has been mentioned in connection with the alleged padding of the census returns of that city yesterday was discovered to be in Portland.

He is in the employment of a gas company. He asserts ment his Portland address has hem known to the census bureau at all times. western part of the city suffered the greatest from tho storm. The sea poured over tho low-lying shore and many houses facing the ocean wero and shortly afterward, at 8 o'clock, negro, tonight shot Mrs. Etta Ma PATRIARCHS MILITANT.

son, aged 23, also colored, and then 1 had the pleasure of welcoming on board Mr. Wellman and his five lieutenants and a cat. 1 then picked up the boat and proceeded. killed himself with the revolver. The shooting occurred at the home of CASHIER KILLED HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF Pensacola, Scene of a Sen B.

Andrews, H. E. Long and W. E. Rodkey All Named for Office.

Allentown, October IS. The Wellman and his crew are honor either wrecked or blown from their blocks. Tho pleasure resort, La Brisa, a largo wooden building, was hurled from its supports and hroken in half. The Consumers' Ice company's plant and the Havana Amer-. ica Cigar factory were badly damag Mrs.

Ellen Harris, who is Mrs. Mason's mother. While Mrs. Harris ed guests on board. department council, Patriarchs Militant, I.

O. O. adjourned at noon today, after making these nomina New York, October 18. The at was attending nn eva-nst-iium; uici.x- 11 1 A "There is absolutely nothing in tne charges concerning a great padding of the enumeration in Tacoma," said Corwin. "If the census officials have decreased the population of Tacoma to they have done Ta sation Tragedy Occurred Yesterday.

Johnstown, October IS. William H. Berry, Keystone candidate for governor, was asked tonight regarding the prospects of fusion, with a candidate other than himself or Grim. This was his reply: "Lee would have liked it very much if Grant had withdrawn from Appomattox." D. Clarence Gibboney, Keystone candidate for lieutenant governor, declared that he would not be a party to any fusion plan which did not take Berry into account.

"This is the people's fight," he said, "And Berry is their leader. If Berry were not placed on the proposed fusion ticket, even if not at the head, I should be utterly opposed to it." ing Jonnson weni 10 uiu uuuc aim insisted that Mrs. Mason marry him as soon as she got a divorce from, tempt of the Wellman airship America to cross the Atlantic ocean came to a thrilling and disastrous close tor day when the Birtish mail steamer coma a great injustice." Trent picked up Wellman and his tions of officers to be voted for in December: President, Department Commander, J. B. Andrews.

Altoona: vice president, Brigadier General II. E. Long, Altoona; treasurer, Brigadier General J. S. Ilatroff, Philadelphia; assistant adjutant general and secretary, W.

E. Kodkey, Altoona; department crew from the wreck of tho, airship her present husband, from whom she is living apart. Her refusal was followed by two shots from Johnson's revolver, one entering the left check and the other miles on the North Carolina coast. The news of the rescue came in two ed. Tho handsome residences of M.

Darnell and N. B. Rhodes were blown down. The new government wharf was pounded by tho heavy waves until sections of it were broken away. The damage to tho electrio company's plants amounts to $50,000 while tha naval station will cost many thou-sands of dollars to put In repair.

Only three lives are reported lost. Alexander Johnson, colored, his wife and four children while attempting to. leave their homo near South Boach, were caught by tho waves. The mother and father each carried two i of the children. The father while the mother and two of the chil-' dren wero drowned.

wireless messages from Captain Grim at DuBois. DuBois, October IS Webster Grim and Thomas H. (Ireevy, the democratic state candidates Clearfield today and DuBois Although no arrangements had been made in advance a fair sized crowd greeted the sneakers here tonight. Senator Grim devoted the larger aart the back of the head, and Johnsons suicide. She will probably recover.

town of the Trent, on reporting to Pensacola, October IS B. chashier of the Citizens' National bank, shot and instantly killed his wife and tnen committed suicide early today. The bodies were found tonight in the Bushnell home by officers of the hank. They found the two dead in bed with bullet holes in their heads. Mrs.

Bushnell was lying as if in sleep. No motive can be ascertained for the crime. Both were prominent In social and church affairs. BushncU's accounts at tiie bank are said to be in good shape. chaplain, George W.

Morton; assistant inspector general, William L. Heiston. the company agents here and another informing the New York Times of results of the expedition in which it had taken a leading part. Both wireless messages practically told the Tener at Bradford. Bradford, Oetourr 18 The republican candidates had a busy after of his address to relating the cir GAGE BROKE; ONE MAN DEAD A large rally was held at the auditorium tonight at which the Key-sVmo candidates were warmly received.

Mr. Berry did not refer in his speech to the fusion movement except to say that he did not see why the Keystone party should "surrender to a foe which was already beaten." He reviewed the capitol graft scandal and the "bossim" which he same story. Capt ain Down reported that at 5 o' noon in Mckean couii'y. John K. clock this morning he first sighted 'lencr, spoke to a crowd from an cumstances of his nomination.

Mr. Greevy discussed tariff and replied to a statement mailn by John M. Reynolds, the republican candidate for lieutenant governor last night, re the airship in distress. Signals of automobile the streets of Kane, and told his bearers that he had seen too distress and calls for help were given IG GLASS PLAN For three hours the Trent maneuver said dominated the democratic and ed in the heavy sea way to get along republican conventions. garding the fact that the working man pays no tax and said that te tariff is indirectly a most burdensome tax.

side of Wellman and his wrecked com Somerset, October IS. A heavy cage broke from its fastenings at the top of a shoft at the Quema-honing Coal company mine today and Mr. Gibboney spoke on the "Eighth BURNEDTO GROUND pamons. I he entire party were final Jacksonville, October 18. With every telegraph wire in the, state south of Jacksonville down, tha centre of the West Indian hurricane' cannot be located.

The velocity of the wind is increasing hourly here.j The loss in the city of Jacksonville up to 6 o'clock tonight was heavy! although with tho prevailing semi-j panic condition it was not possible at iy taken aboard, and the cat also, ward republican club of Philadelphia' and flayed the republican organiza which was taken along as the mascot, shared ill the rescue. Captain Down crushed three men at work 150 feet below. tion generally from the days of the Cameron regime to the present day. many ninth inning finishes to ht frightened out of the race for gov nor. He said he would issue a statement later this week which, he thought, would place him right be fore the people relative to the charges of a Phiiadelpuia newspaper.

Mr. Tener reached Bradford this evening and was given an enthusiastic reception. He spoke from a stand in the public square and caused much applause when he toul of his stand in congress in voting for the tariff on oil. reports all the members of the crew James Kelly, superintendent rt well. Big Pool Players Meet.

Syracuse, N. October 18. In the first block of their 1(500 point pool match for the world's championship, Jerome Keogh, the champion, led Bennie Allen, of Kansas City, tonight by 213 to 171. The match will continue for two nights more. The America was abandoned where construction, was killed; Elmer Nau- ILICE DON'T gle was probably fatally injured, Bradford, October 18.

The plant of the American Plate Glass works at James City, near here, was burned tonight at a loss of over half a million dollars. The plant was insured for $350,000. Nearly 400 hands are thrown out of employment. the rescue occurred, in latitude 30.43 longitude 68.18. while Walter Wade escaped with less This brings to a climax one of the serious injury.

most remarkable flights by an airship KNOW CHARGE ever undertaken. That the climax was not accompanied by a tragedy is considered a matter of exceptionally good fortune as the dirigible had been GREAT BALLOON RACE STILL 0t this hour to ascertain if there had-been loss of life. That the property damage throughout tho state will total several mil-, lions and that there has been losg of life is not doubted here. Invariably the last messages received here last night from points south of Jacksonville reported hurricane wind3 increasing in velocity and a falling barometer. A forty mile wind here this morning had increased to sixty miles an hour at 4 o'clock tonight when it was still increasing and the barometer fell rapidly, standing at a fraction above twenty-nine inches early this MAY BREAK FROM 0.

S. STEEL San Francisco, October 18. blown far away from the usual lanes of trans-Atlantic travel and was al Mrs. Belle Lavin, a lodging house keeper at 2410 Mission street, was most outside the range of the coast arrested today in connection with pteamers plying between ports of the the Los Angeles Times building ex United States, Cuba and South Amer plosion. 1 She was arrested on a war ica.

er. The Dusseldorf II passed Reed City, at 6 o'clock tonight. Pilot Gericke came low enough to ask the way and then ascenifed. The range of wireless had swept rant from Los Angeles and will be taken to that city. The charge is the entire North Atlantic, bringing Cleveland, October 18 Discussing a reported movement among jobbers to break with the United States Steel corporation and handle the products of independent steel com withheld by the police.

St. Louis, October 18 Heading straight for Ontario, across the Great Lakes along the best balloon rente in America, Captain Von Aber-cron, a German pilot, with his balloon Germania, is believed tonight to be leading in the international race for the James Goraon Bennett cup. Ten balloons started from St. Louis late yesterday and so far as report no word from the airship for two days. The last word came at 12.45 Sunday off Nantucket It was forty-four hours after this that the rescue was accomplished by the steamer Trent.

WIR ELESS TOWE panies, the Daily Iron Trade Review today gives the following as the source of the jobbers'. complaint: to establish warehouses and handle its own products in a retail way. The building of the warehouse at Waver-ly, near New York city, was an important step in this direction. "A few weeks ago, however, the most radical action was taken in the withdrawing of price concessions made to jobbers by the steel corporation. Following this action the Carnegie Steel company a few days ago sent out twenty salesmen to represent its Pittsburg warehouse and scour the central west for warehouse orders.

Several were sent to Cleveland several to Cincinnati and others to different parts of the central west, including West Virginia." ed, eight are still sailing. The America has undoubtedly For a number of years after its traveling northeast. Six balloons are reported to have crossed Michigan, and others are thoughi to be either flying across Lake Huron, or to have passed it into Canaan. S. Louis Von Phul, of the Million Population club, one of the three American entrants, was forced to descend six miles north of Racine, this morning at 7:25 o'clock, because of a lack of ballast.

The French balloon Condor, Pilot Jacques Faure, landed four miles north of Two Rivers, late today. LOWN DOWN Somewhere within tne radius of broken all previous records both as formation, the steel corporation sola time in air and distance covered. evening. The only means of communication with the outside world is a single Postal Telegraph wire between here and Augustine. Communication by the Western Union was entirely cut off early this afternoon.

All telephone wires are gone and the wireless station was dismantled late this afternoon. It is reported that a half of the buildings in the town of Mayport, seventeen miles below Jacksonville at the mouth of the St. John's river, were wrecked. Tho velocity of the wind was said to be seventy miles an hour. The population of Mayport is about 800.

100 miles, over Lake Huron dispatches indicate the American II, the St. Louis No. 4, the Helvetia, the a Jarge part of its product through jobbers, and seemed content to do so, making liberal concessions to tnem, The previous time record, that of dount Zeppelin, was thirty-seven hours. The America's time up to 8 'clock this morning would be three Savannah, October IS. The Azurea, the Isle De France, the Har- wireless tower, 208 feet high, was paying what practically amounted to commissions for handling the -busi burg IIS and the Dusseldorf II are blown down here at The ull days, or seventy-two hours.

The keeping close company with the lead ness. Gradually, however, the steel corporation manifested a disposition revious distance record was that of Jount Zepplin of 870 miles. The sea at Tybee is rapidly encroaching upon the island. Concrete walks to the pier are washed away and the Tybee road from Fort Screven to Point Station is wrecked. America's distance covered is some-phat conjectural, but it appears to be SHERIFF SERVED WARRANT bout equal to or greater than the "BAD MAN" IS AGED 13 YEAR Savannah, October 18.

Th. Keppelin record. The latter records, however, were made overland, where- lis those made by the Wellman party MOTHER KILLED pre practically Deyona comparison in he daring of a flight over the open Hayward, October 18 At the pcean, continues as such from start New York, October IS The out-, rushed into the room, the boy made him kneel with the others. finish. In this respect the Amer-ca's flight appears to be unique and SON break of a "bad man" aged 13 years who chose his school room as the scene of his rampage, caused a bor Without any parallel.

preliminary hearing of the case of John F. Dietz, his wife and their son Leslie, on a charge of killing Deputy Sheriff Oscar Harp at Cameron dam shortly uefore the capture of the Dietz family by a squad of deputies, Sheriff Madden admitted that he had wind here has attained a 50-mila velocity and the local -weather officials believe this city is directly in the path of the storm. Because of the unusual high spring tides much alarm is felt for the safety of lives and property along the ocean front at flood tide tonight. Tybee reports a gale blowing with the heavy seas breaking over the retaining walls of the government reservation at Fort Screven. The residents of he island are preparing to come to this city on a special train tonight, fearing a repetition of the disaster of 1803.

Lowlands in this territory are submerged. All vessels are staying is sort. i 1 Other pupils called Policeman O'Brien but the threat of the revolver halted him at the door. As the boy's attention was diverted a moment, O'Brien was able to close in and seize the revolver. Then he found the weapon unloaded ana so stiff in trigger action that George could not ing of Elmyra D'etz, admitted that he di.l not see a gun in the hands of any off of the Dietz children who were fired on by deputies shortly before the capture of Dietz.

Walter Burk, who was with Deputy Sheriff Harp the day he was killed, said he thought that the shot hich killed Harp came from, the Dietz barn, but he was not ure. Elmyra Dietz will arrive tomorrow to answer to a charge of shooting and wounding a deputy sheriff in 1306. She is ill from her wound. Atlantic City, N. October 18 'My greatest sorrow is over the ter-ible disappointment that it will be my husband and the men of the derland panic in St.

Francis parochial school in the Bronx this afternoon. The lad, George Masgreano, flourishing a huge revolver, terrorized his classmates and a male teach- not served any warrant on Dietz because he was afraid of the man. Pittsburg, Octoberf 18. Mrs. Elizabeth Lee was shot and instantly killed by a son at her home in Reflectorville tonight.

The boy was in a second story room loading a gun when the weapon was discharged and the load passed through the floor, strikimz his mother. Kmerica over their failure to reach The sheriff declared that Dietz was dangerous man and had defied of was one of the declarations Mrs. Walter "Wellman. wife of the er for ten minutes, forced them to have discharged it. Tomorrow the a corner and when Father James lad will answer for His outbreak in Merighi, attracted by the uproar.

ficers of the law. tea4 of the America expedition, this Tha sheriff, speaking of the shoot.