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THE ALLEN TOWN LEADER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 1911. QUITS BANK HE BORROWED FROM Casfcisr cl El Holly HtM Resigns. New things to be seen here this week that are of special interest. For instance: tank Examiner Objected to Lee's Loans and He Gave His Home and EASTER SUITS AND DRESSES Exquisite in style and make; representing the best manufacturers and reflecting the latest, most approved ideas. Beautiful Dresses made of fashion's most favored materials Among them are Dresses of Crepe de Chine, Foulards, Chiffon, Marquisette, Cotton Voile.

Rajah, etc. FOULARD SILK DRESSES In all the new spring designs, dots, stripes and small checks, trimmed with plain color messaline! high neck, sleeves and waist finished in bordered effect, narrow clinging skirt. CHIC DRESSES Of Rajah Silk, waist and sleeves prettily trimmed with piping, tunic skirt effect, a splendid model for functional or street wear. CREPE DE CHINE AND CHIFFON DRESSES With high or low neck, waist embroidered with silk, plain skirt finished at waist with heavy cord. MARQUISETTE AND VOILE DRESSES.

Trimmed with cluny lace, collarless, short sleeves, finished with silk piping, narrow skirt with tucked overpiece. others with Empire waist, trimmed with silk poplin. Other Real to Secure Debt. Mount Holly, N. March 15.

Frederick H. Lee, cashier of the Mount Holly National bank, resigned his position because objection had been made to the fact that be borrowed money from the bank. Mr. Lee had many friends on the board who wanted him to remain as cashier, but. there were others who thought It would be better If he resigned, and.

to avoid controversy he did so. The following statement was given out by Pearson Taylor and George M. Hillman, members of the directorate, at the close of the meeting: "Mr. Lee has insisted upon resigning as cashier. His resignation was accepted by a full board meeting.

Albert B. Walters, former assistant cashier, was selected to take Mr. Lee's place. "The total indebtedness of Mr. Lee is less than $10,000 and it is amply secured." It is said that Mr.

Lee borrowed Irom the bank with the knowledge and consent of several of the directors and there was nothing criminal in the transactions. A bank examiner, Prices Range From $15 to $30. Spring Women's Tailored Suits for at 1 5,00 and 1 895o however, recently objected to them, and the cashier gave his home, one of the finest properties in Mount Holly, and other real estate to secure the iebt, "I have not made up my mind just what shall do," said Mr. Lee after the board meeting. "I have good prospects, but no definite plans for the future.

I am going to stay in Mount Holly a while, but have severed all connection with the bank." 4 The bank, it was said, will hold Lee's property for him until he is in position to redeem it. He was also bonded for $20,000, and at no time Was the Institution in danger of losing Here Are Two of the good plain styles, fresh from the invoice: At $15.00 -Dark blue and black serge suits with white hairlines; the coats semi-fitted, single breasted, the skirts gored. They will especially appeal to the women who like plain styles. At $18.95 Suits of self-striped worsted and Scotch tweeds, short, coats, with mannish sleeve, cuff trimmed with buttons, silk lined gored panel skirt. Foulard Silks, Most Favored by Fashion for Spring and Summer.

They hold first place steadily, despite the beauties which press hard to usurp that enviable position Here are some new arrivals just unpacked: 1000 yards Foulard Silks in neat figured and fancy effects, large assortment of new spring shades, the correct thing for waists and dresses, on sale special the yard. 58c Shower Proof Foulard Silks. The famous Cheney make, superb in style, quality and finish, shown in fashion's favored shades for charming frocks. Priced per yard 75c and 85c money through his "borrowing. Fur thermore, the bank has a surplus of and other securities and is in excellent condition.

Lee's salary was $1500 a year, but lie is said to have lived in the style of a man with a much greater income, He and his wife entertained fre quently at their home here, which was one of the centers of social activity in the town, and both have many friends In Philadelphia. It, is estimated that Lee had bor rowed as much as $40,000 'from the Chinese crisis. The eventuality of ac bank, but the amount had been re PENSION BILL REDUCED ROBS WASHINGTON HOTEL COAL STRIKE AHEAD tion similar to that now contemplated JAPAN'S ATTITUDE duced until it is within the limit of the banking laws and is nflw so protected that the institution will not lose LOCKED CHILD IN HOME; SET IT AFIRE by Russia was clearly premeditated in the Russo-Japanese compacts of After Being Cut Considerably ft Is Reported Favorably to the House. Harrisburg, March 15. The bill to pension Pennsylvania veterans of anything.

CONCERNS RUSS! Lone Thief Holds Up Clerk With Pis tol and Steals Cash. Washington, March 15. With thb White House and police headquarters each one block away and the United 1907 and 1910. Japanese Prepare For War. Lee has been cashier, of the Mount Holly National bank for ten years, Telegrams from Harbin say that the Russian press in the Far East has for weeks baen talking of Japanese prep filling a position his father once held The demand made upon him to trans States treasury just across tne street, a lone robber entered the office of th Ohio Operators Have Until Monday to Come to Terms.

Columbus, March 15. Tom L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, reiterated his declaration that 10,000 miners in the Tuscarawas field will go on a strike on Monday unless the operators come to terms. The strike will call out miners in both Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The fight is over a question of wages.

fer his real estate as security is filatiisr, Probably Denoted, is Also Missing. arations for war and declaring that the Civil War presented by Mr. Der-shem, of Union county, was reported favorably to the house, with the total appropriation reduced from $2,500,000 to $1,900,000. The bill places the issuance and control of the pensions In the hands of the auditor general and makes a to have been due principally to the lippjii May Side WKii China in tectorial! Dispute. their railways are being made adapt bank's unfortunate experience in the ed to the transportation of troops.

The staff of the Chinese railway and the past with trusted employes. held up the clerk at the point of a pistol and robbed the cash register of $50 in cash. Several hundred dollars in the ho tel safe were overlooked. New Haven, March 15. With Thirty year ago a cashier named Kelly embezzled $15,000 and was sentenced to state's prison for eight ARE PREPARING FOR WAR scale of $5 per month for each person who served a year- or less; $6 for those serving between one and two years and $7 for those serving over years.

The second defalcation occurred the house burned to the ground and the ashes so hot that her husband and neighbors cannot yet makean investigation, but- with sure trace that last summer, when Heller, the assist ant cashier, disappeared with $18,500 LONDON PAPERS HAIL TAFT ARBITRATION 'DEA two years. JURORS FEAR TO SERVE Camorra Trial Delayed Because Talesmen Flee For Safety. Viterbo, Italy, March 15. The t'ial of Enrico Altano and the other mem the bank's funds. China's Distrust and Resentment For The municipal corporations also reported out the Hecht bill to J.

HAM LEWIS IS NOT A DUDE employes generally have been replaced by Japanese and armed soldiers. Huge barracks, it is asserted, are under construction at the principal stations, and the Japanese commissariat is gathering reports of the quantity of grains held in private stores in Kwangtung province. Simultaneously the Chinese viceroy of Manchuria addressed a secret project to the throne rega-ding Manchuria and proposing the gradual limitation of the rights of foreigners, a diminution of garrisons, the exclusion of gunboats from the Sungari and Talu rivers and the increasing of the Chinese garrison to' 100,000 men, at provide for an extra mill of state tax Russia Is Responsible For Failure of Amicable Negotiations. St. Petersburg, March 15.

The on all property subject to state tax indignantly Denies Charge, Although ation for road building. Other bills reported out were: He Has 365 Neckties. Endorse Suggestion and Even Chicago, March 15. Who is, the Permitting boroughs to unite in the there was a padlock on the outside of the house which would keep all in- side from escaping, the disappearance i of Mrs. Alfred Selttbraddie, from Ciin- 1 ton, is keeping this whole vicinity on edge.

Missing with Mrs. Selttbraddie is her three-year-old daughter. They had no friends in this country, though they were very well to do, and it is feared that in a moment of insanity Mrs. Salttbraddie left the child in the house, locked it and set It on fire, then wandered away. She had been very homesick for Russo-Chinese imbroglio has developed situations of considerable concern to this government.

greatest dude In the country? Champ Suggest Allianc construction of water plants, prohibit ing use of alum in filter plants, limit VI Clark says J. Hamilton Lewis. Russia has awakened to the fact Colonel Lewis denies it and points ing public utility franchises to thirty years and prohibiting discrimination bers of the Neapolitan Camorra for murder is confronted with serious obstacles. A provisory jury has been selected In part, but difficulties have been encountered with the talesmen, many of whom either offered pretexts for not serving in the case or fled. The authorities are making strenuous efforts to obtain men qualified and willing to sit fn the jury box, but fear of the Camorra and threats that have been circulated during the last month offer almost insurmountable barriers to the "coruscating Beveridge, of In London, March 15.

The afternoon diana, the flowing white front and that China's deep-seated distrust and resentment is responsible more than anything else for the failure of amicable negotiations. an estimated annual cost of 000. between localities. 1 Bills passed finally were: ministerial lawn bowknot of Champ Clark himself and the cute peglegged Enabling counties to issue bonds in Japan is said to be making warlike trousers of Speaker Cannon." eid of construction of inland water preparations. Colonel Lewis possesses a wardrobe ways.

This bill is designed to aid In The Novoe Vremya makes the un Itemized as follows: construction of the Lake Erie and some fime for her home in Germany, and neighbors fear that this has worked upon her mind to such an extent as to make her irresponsible. The husband returned home from Ohio river ship canal. usual intimation that there is discord in the government over the measures to be undertaken -against China. tutes to sit in judgment on the Ca-N Twenty business suits, 20 pairs of shoes, 10 cutaways and. tuxedos, 40 suits of Bilk underwear, 5 suits of evening clothes, 10 soft hats, 365 neck Requiring common pleas courts to entertain jurisdiction in all divorcee Puzzle to Washington.

Washington, March 15. Officials of the state department and the Chinese legation here are puzzled to find a reason for the sudden delivery of an ultimatum by the Russian government to China in connection with the negotiations regarding Russian trade relations in 111 province. The disagreement is of long standing. oiurisis. cases papers-welcome with enthusiasm the cordial support of President Taft's known wish for a general Anglo-American arbitration treaty, given in the house of commons by Sir Edward Grey.

It is assumed that the American ex-; ecutive cherishes the hope that ah amendment to the existing arbitration treaty will remove the present pro-, hibition in article 1 against the submission to arbitration of questions of vital interest to the two, parties or In-, volving their honor. The foreign secretary referred to President Taft's recent arbitration speech as "bold, courageous and pregnant with consequences," and added that he believed that the British gov-1 Soldiers Near an Outbreak. The situation is revealed in dis ties, 5 silk tiles, 20 fancy vests and 50 Appropriating $690,000 to reimburse townships which abolished work tax shirts. work and found the house a heap of smouldering ashes. The fire had evidently been set in several places.

As soon as the ashes cool an investigation will be made to see if it is possible to find the bodies. The woods under act of 1905. A representative of one of the large silk dealers, with his finger to his Nevada to yote on Woman's Suffrage. Carson, March 15. The senate passed the bill submitting the question of woman's suffrage to a vote of the people.

The assembly already had passed it. lips, whispered a profound secret. quieting dispatches ftom the army of occupation on the Chinese frontier. These advices describe a disturbance among the soldiers over the poor quality of the food provided for them. An outbreak was only prevented by Providing means whereby courts may name persons on petition of the insurance commissioner to examine corporations maintained for beneficial have been searched for the woman and the child.

"Colonel Lewis," he said, "buys no neckties. He buys a yard of silk and folds his own neckties." and protective purposes. the tact of the commanding general, GENERAL MARKETS It is said that the sii.ua ion created Oil Trust Officer Dies at Desk. New York, March 15. William P.

Howe, assistant treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died suddenly in his office in the Standard Oil building. Acute cardiac trouble was given as the cause of his death. Mr. Howe was sitting at his desk when he was stricken. Strong For Reciprocity.

Oswego, N. March 15. A vo'e of business and trade organizations favors the Canadian reciprn. agreement almost unanimously. Wilson May Buy Gen.

Grubb's Home. Edgewater Park, N. March 15. General E. Burd Grubb has closed PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak: Colored Man Kills Wife.

Milford, March 1 5. Mary Pow by China's quibbling has caused a realization that the Russo-Chinese relations are less satisfactory than had winter clear, city mills, fancy, ell, colored, was shot and instantlv Grassmere, his beautiful river front hifc, bLV steady, at S4S4.15 npr been thought. China's suspicion of killed by her husband, Ephralm Pow home here and has moved into bis of barrel. Russia's good faith and the resent WHEAT weak; No. 2 red.

new. 90 ernment and parliament would place the stacp of approval upon thesenti-ments expressed. The Evening Standard holds that "a real and natural dual alliance would be not that between England and France or England and Japan, but between England and the United States." If, says the Standard, these two ell, at their home here. The man used a shotgun, and the entire charge en ment of supposed aggression is 9lc. ficial residence as commander of the Soldiers' home at Kearney There is a report that Governor Wilson may blamed.

uukjn auiet; no. yellow. 520 tered his wife's head below the left 52 M.c. The sole course left open to St. Pe OATS auiet: No.

2 white. 36c eye. xne crime was witnessed by a small child. Powell met the father of Lightning Kills Woman. Kings Mountain, N.

March 15. During a severe electrical storm here Mrs. Delia Gordon was killed by lightning and her daughter, Mrs. Wallace, was severely shocked. lower grades, select the Grubb mansion as a year-found executive residence and may occupy the place within a fe weeks.

tersburg was a serious military action which will not shrink from permanent measures in Hi province. POULTRY: Live steady: hens. 16 the dead woman while being taken to 16c; old roosters, jail, tore loose from the policeman and struck the aged man in the face. Military circles, the opinion of ed steady; choice fowls, 17 old roosters, 13c. Cattle Worth $250,000 Eurn.

Fort Worth, March 15. Al which had great weight with Emperor BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 28c. EGGS firm; selected. 20 near WEATHER EVERY WHLKL. Observations of United Slate; weather bureaus taken at 8 p.

m. yesterday follow: Temp. Weather. Albany 40 Clear. Atlantic City 38 Rain.

Boston 34 Cloudy. Buffalo 40 P. Cloudy. Chicago 50 'Clear. New 6S Clear.

New York 41 Cloudy. 35 Rain. St. Louis 64 Clear. Washington 36 Rain.

Nicholas in reaching a final decision, most two areas of stock sheds burneJ by, 19c; western, 19c. consider the occupation of northern Manchuria along a line of demnrka- Dies After Eating Bark. Bangor, March 15. Twelve-year-old Raymond Lobb died in agony of convulsions from' eating some poisonous bark while out in the wood3 hunting for slippery elm. He died in an hour after reaching home.

fUTAJUES nrm; 5dS60c. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) 1 here, roasting to death between 500 and 1000 head of horses sheep hogs and seriously burning four men. The value of the dead animals is estimated at about $250,000 and the tion from Kwanchengtze to Kirin a possibility.

$2000 More Cabled to China. Washington, March 15. Continuing its attempts to relieve the distress of the starving millions of China, the American National Red Cross cabled $2000 more to the stricken people. The money came from popular governments could agree that the armaments of one should be available to resist an attack upon the other, there could be no more danger from aggression either in the Atlantic or Pacific regions. The Pall Mall Gazette says that Sir Edward's response to President Taft's suggestion "carries with it the full strength of English feeling and opinion." The Westminster Gazette expresses the hope that this great movement of English speaking peoples toward peace will go forward and prosper.

The Novoe Vremya prints a dispatch CATTLE lower; choice, prime, property loss $50,000. bHUF steady: prime wetie-B. $4.85 culls and common, 3.50: lambs, veal calvei. 1 from Mukden which states that 110 tons of gunpowder, 42 boxes of cavalry rifles and 70 boxes of Infantry rifles destined for Chinese garrisons in northern Manchuria have reached Mukden from Peking. HOGS lower: nrime heavies S7.20: Four Fishermen Drowned.

Gloucester, March 15. Four fishermen, the crew of the gasoline boat Hope, were drowned just inside the breakwater when the boat collided with the schooner Hallie Hecknaan." Sunday Ball Bill Killed. Albany. N. March 15.

After long debate the assembly defeated by a vote of 65 ayes to 73 noes the bill to legalize Sunday base ball gamea VjT amateurs, mediums, hevy Yorkers, light Yorkers and nies. 17.50? mntrha Weather Forecast. Rain or snow today; fair tomorrow; variable winds. Gutta Parch. Gutta pereha is very like caoutcbonc, bat is stronger, more soluble and Irsu elastic.

Political circles take great interest $66.50. Japan's attitude toward the Russo-.