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NEW CASTLE NEWS WEATHER vOLUME XLV No. 249 NEW CASTLE, PA, TUESDAY, UNE 16, 1925. 22. PAGES. THREE CENTS A COPY STORM COSTS ONE LIFE HERE TWELVE PERSONS DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Bell Telephone No.

4000 (Prtvat ExcllaiiH) Telephone Your News Items to N'tv Castle's Newsy Newspaper. Claims Engineer's Terr ific Sto rm Does Japanese Vessels Ordered To Scene Reel Star In Real Romance jj Grmt Damage Monday Scores Injured When Speeding Train Hits Rail Split By Storm Night In New Castle 'Workman At Mahoningtown Takes Hold Of Dangling Live Wire Many Lights and Phones Put Out Falling Trees in. Many Parts of City btorm Breaks Heat Immigrant Train With 182 Passengers Aboard From Chicago To New York Derailed. WRECK OCCURS NEAR HACKETTSTOWN, N. J.

Accident Occurs At 3:30 O'clock This Morning Passengers Asleep In Beds At Time (International News Srvlct) HACKETTSTOWN, N. June 16. Twelve persons were killed and appropriately fifty injured, several of them perhaps fatally, when a Trees and poles wore uprooted, wires knocked down, much property and one man. William McCracken, a machinist's apprentice employed by the Pennsylvania railroad, killed, as the result of ibe terrific rain and electrical sl.orm which swept over the city Mondny evening near 6:00 o'clock. McCracken, who was 22 years of tfge.

was at one of the company'? camp cars near the baseball grounds in the Seventh ward, with a companion named Corey. About 7:00 o'clock the lights went out. Grasps 2200 Volt Wire. The two young men went out into the yard to see if they could find the trouble and Corey heard McCracken say: "Here it is," at the same time reaching out and grasping a wire; It was a 2200 volt high tension wire which had blown down from the P. 15.

overhead- His death was instantaneous. was ihe son of Mr. and Mrs. Wni. T.

McCracken of Jamestown. by whom he is survived. In addition he is survived bv a brother. X. P.

McCracken of the Seventh ward, and two sisters. Mrs, K. Stems, of Xcw York City, and Mrs. Harry Whittleburger of Swedesbom. Logan, Jacqueline By Central Press.

LOS ANGELES. June IS. Quellhe Logan Is going' to continu her screen career despite her taai honeymooning now with her new Wave. held Thursday at I o'clock at Vhile this was the only death re- tel! point to the belief that sow Castle and the country immediately lOrth of the citv cauch; the. tail i end of a western storm which raged Eastern Ohio.

On the Pulaski road the barn on the property of Fred Robinson came in for a severe buffeting which caused considerable 'lamaee. property damage has been reported from the New Wilmington road district other than shattered trees but i of these there are many. Contrary 1 to expectation the heavily wooded Ir.Hs at Cascade Park escaped al most i i disheveled a few flow- rolice 1-iromcn Busy. The storm kept the police and departments of the city on the mo for about two hours. I While the Are department 'ins one call after another of the play of lifchtning a tall of rain, the police we p.

m. from box 54. play of lightning was the lis' alarm. Employes ot Block company. South sparks and thought lulled It.

Thera On p.fi Two) WHO IS THIS? Coo lid ge Launches Measurement Wrong! to the State Constructs Company for resurfacing Nesha Avenue. The contract pn ras S7.352. A. certain sum is ig withheld, according to city re developed, in counc ncii eeriee ii that ardage and that, the cit: pay for 5700 instea ards. He estimated 4 onncil said today.

City Engineer Miller sked lo appear before Girl Murderer Re-Acts Scene In Court Room Pretty Dorothy Perkins Goes Through Actual Movements In Slaving Of Her Lover, SHOWS SIGNS OF MENTAL DISTRESS Young New York Girl Slayer Making Valiant Fight For Freedom Case About Over. tlnternatloril Servlrii NEW YORK, June 10. With gun in her hand, Dorothy Perkins, bobbed haired 1" year old murder I trial defendant, iras forced to! surrounding the; shooting of Thorn-1 as Templeton when she was re-1 called to the witness stand today, i Dorothy gave evidence jntal distress mpelled her to igic pantomine. the eo through but she quick lins Action Noted. of the district Templeton.

Dorothy then Pitt Company To Get Contract Tabulation Shows Scanlon's Bid Is Not Lowest Submitted. sewage disposal pla S32S.517.B0. They I'd the ero second low bidders. to checks, representing of the bul price, m. til that Scanlon -bidder.

The bid 400,000. The city he wag pro vi! DEATH RECORD Economy Program British Slaying Outcome Of Long Standing Trouble British Consulate Lodges Protest Demanding Capture And Punishment Of Killers. TROUBLE CAUSED BY ROAD CONSTRUCTION William McKenzie, British Subject, And Miss Mary Duncan Injured By Warring Chinese. t.VKHAl, Juno 1(J. Tho of wmtam McKeaiJilos i subjert and an employe of tiic- Municipal Electricity and the wounding of Miss Mary Duncan, is believed (o have been tho outgrowth of a long standing dispute between tho Chinese and the municipal council over tho extension of tho forelpi settlement, roads into Chinese tcrri- Th Chlnoso claimed such exten- art "Infringement or slgnty.

Rapid propa- nnda including dlroct appeals to OJunteer troops to torci- road work recently has been circulated by the student's The British consulate, it is understood, is lodging a strong protest demanding the capture and punishment of the Christian Science Monitor Has Story On Cathedral Here Evidence that the cornerstone Saying of the-Ancient Accepted Scottish RIto Cathedral attracted national attention is seen In the fact that the Christian Science Monitor, of Boston. -carried a rather lengthy article under date of June 10. The Monitor is a paper of national circulation and the article referred to would be seen by people in every state la the Union. AT CONVENTIONS A. L.

Conn of this city. Supreme Representative of the Protected Home Circle In in Philadelphia. where he Is attendee the Suprerr Meeting of the order In he Be levue-Stratford Hotel, which is ing held today. From Fhlladelph: he win pro to Atlantic City and wj return June 1 9. er-by, with kmorucle, 0 inntUT (hi- heat Or tho iluty the nickels he's trying to his boyish treble ki'cps pij- auu p)- his this ol' tender yew tlo rear, for back of him stjinds 1 mM i aii dnv he stflnUs the Dolling sun.

beguiling tlu his ieo cold pop ii Of Hankow Strife Warships However Are Devoid Of IMarines Are Merely On Scene To Render Aid TOKYO. June Japanese government today ordered four more destroyers to proceed from Sasebo naval base to Shanghai, making ten Japanese warships In Chinese waters. The additional ships are expected lo roach Shanghai Wednesday, One will probably proceed to Hankow and another 10 Kiukiang. The destroy Mystery Seen In Slaying Of oman Uniontown Police Seek Mo- tive For Killing Of Mrs. Bessie McCoy Early Today.

VICTIM IS SHOT; THEN SLASHED WITH KNIFE Neighbors Discover Body Lying On Bed With Invalid Brother-in-Law Probe Started, (ItTLLim) UNIONTO WN Pa June 16. Attracted by screams at the home of Peter McCoy, at Grays Landing, near here, to-1 day, neighbors found. the body; of Mrs. Bessie McCoy, Peter's sister-in-law, with a bullet hole in the forehead and her face slashed several times. The body was lying on a bed with Peter McCoy, a tuberculosis victim.

room tor some time. To Question McCoy. Authorities said McCoy would be questioned Immediately with a view 10 establishing the identity of tt-i slayer. Detectives discredit the suicide theory because there was no near the McCoy residence when Mrs. McCoy was believed to have The woman had been living at since the disappearance ot her band, Matt McCoy, several ago.

neighbors said. When persons living nearby sponded to the cries for help, they found the door to McCoy locked. He urged them to break In, did. According to McCoy's story, he awoke and found the body be- side him. He immediately shouted Police investigators asserted McCoy told them he quarreled yesterday with his slstcr-ln-law about some money she would have Inher- The slain woman was 3 5 years old and is survived by five small children.

uthorities hope to develop clues to the murderer's identity by means of fingerprints on the sheet, near head, where 6omeone apparently wiped blood', they stated. GOES rO HUNTINGDON. Sheriff William G. Andrews left this morning with Merl Sinclair wha was sentenced to Huntingdon by Judfie Emery on a charge of breaking and entering a building, Marriage Licenses a i Castle Cjatle Casi; Arthur Stump Mabel G. Taylor Lawrence Means Dorothy G.

Darby GeorKE E. Gibson Edna L. Earl Clinton M. Ford. Dora M.

Shrefler George N. Book Marparet H. Cooper Dale C. Myers Sarah L. Brown Lawrence W.

Hennon Margaret E. Hasbac Bessemer I New Castle i special five car tram on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, speeding from Chicago to Hoboken. N. was derailed at Bockporr, three miles from here, early today. Following is a partial list of the dead and injured in the Lackawanna wreck at Rockport, near here, today: The dead: Helen Wagner, five years old.

Henry Stetfens. Chicago, Tho injured: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Keimig. Mrs, Henry Karling, Miss Jeanaette Jur-gensen, Joseph Sauer, Charles Sauer, Irene "Wenglemein.

Mrs, Wemtlemeln. Rhlnhold Pesehke. Joseph Lafoide, Joseph Brunner, Helen srunner. Theodore Jiirgon-sen. Mr.

and Mrs. Clondel. Mr. and Mra. Bernherdt, Mary Zlnk, Mrs.

Theodore Biast, Charles Hock, Clara WestlebBrg, Louise Kaufman, Chicago; John Irion. Chicago; Michael Deltner. Chicago; John H. Hansen, Chicago: Mrs. Caroline Mooch.

Chicago: Mrs. Catherine Weist, Chicago; Mrs. Wagner. Mrs. Sophia Semlnger, Mrs.

Edwin Brun ner, Hulda Hsatimte, Rudolph Prosk, Phillip Schmidt, William Wisecheakeln. Mrs. Emma Reck- trmsind. John Heigh. The victims were on their way to New York to sail this afternoon on the Republic of the United (CratJjmid Ojl Pin Two) Against Riffs Gets Sanction Long Talked Of French And Spanish Campaign In Morocco Finally Is Outlined.

FRENCH DESTROYERS JOIN SPANISH FLEET Madrid Conference Wednes day Will Thresh Out Joint Campaign Plan Blockade Of Riff Coast. Tune 16. The long and Spanish jceut Rlffisn tribesmen Mai Emile Borel told the Cabinet at noon today. French warships now art lsh waters preparing to Spanish ships in naval T-a-o French destroyers are patrollinc: the Riff coa tsding it aainsi iiicomi At the discussions who conducted tho spanssn a montn ago. accompanied by a delegation.

left for Madrid for the Franco-Spanish conference starting Wednesday, The entire joint campaign in will be threshed out. at the I conference, according to plans. PARIS. .1 N. J.

Funeral services will Louis Petrucci Makes Attempt To End Own Life Fires Bullet Into Brain At Home On Division St. This Morning. UNCONSCIOUS WHEN FOUND .32 bbre a his head. and death when taken to the Castle hospital. Petrucci was found by Dte Logan.

Policeman Charles streth. Sergeant Menxlng, Lie Petru March and U1S beer tre r.t r. night ha complained ot pair, refrrrd if' p-rmi: a phyMria the tamil; he- promised to provide th Mrs. Petrttccl stated toda, going to bed he told his bet ruec' his bedside, Later, Petri) site had seen IS. was- sleeping in a nearby He made s.

bed by folding I (Contlnind On rnf Two) do not want to loan the money he-get back I in he lie again complained of pains. husband sh- This seemed tu worry him. Later tn the to do In the left to been in possession of the family beforo it was found besluo his unconscious form). Petnicci then weni ttpstalrs, where his oldest son. Tony, aged be room.

Jy acquired husband. Ralph James Gillespie, a real estate man. Like bis-wife, he ibi New Yorker. The ceremony said in the bride's homo here quietly, with 03 ly a few intimate friends pres- i St3tB AllfilllStS Examine Slayer: Report Filed Following Examination In Ceil States That No Insanity Found. LONG DRAWN OUT COURT FIGHT LOOMS DOS ANGELA, Mrs Young.

Los Angeles society leader, by her husband, Thomas dentist, who gassed her tn death with Soiaaofovm, promised toduy to become another court battle of alienists and attorneys. While three Jillenlsts for the state examined Young in his cell the self conlessed murderer employed attorneys and- despite hla statement after his arrest that he would not make a tight to keep ofr the gallows, began to battle for The state alienists reported their preliminary examination showed no tigns In Young. A complete report will bo filed today. WANT A MECHANIC You never need to have any but tlic besl mechanics '-our. Class i tied Columns will' furnish them.

I I NEW CASTLE Cutting Policies In Gov eminent Congress Clash Indicated. Treasury Against Revenue Cut Greater Surplus Economy For Two Years Plan. mwnuutlonil Vrrrm Srvlo Stafl OorrngpondtiLt WASHINGTON, Tune in. IPreslilent. twlny formally launched lib J030-JiiT cconortiy pr'opTini, aimed fit dnitlc cost cutting policies in FOverruncnt which riviy- he re-netted In un retraction in the' Slxty-Mnth Confircss.

At the president's direction de partment heads were requested by Budget Director H. M. Lord to attend the annual meeting of the err.rr.t;n;' business orRaniw.t.on June 2 2. 'lans lo secure ftrca-c- nfficlcn- nd fOiD): lie -eivn years will be outlined, according tc Coincident with the calling ol economy session came indica- Of in tween the admlnis' and i 5500,0 of the treasury will submit new legislation he opposes reva- reduction exceeding greater cut.wo'.iU orb- Lhe to meet expenfea, experts sairi. Surplus Shows Ijos.

The treasury- revealed that the surplus Tor 112 6 will be approxf-mately J250.000.000, compared l.o UU.0U0 esti- mate. Partially that the 1 923.. surplus will exceert the estimate of by 350.000,000. to -urnil lon a80 opposes an Divine Da.vni'er.l.s talked of 1 'rent action against in Morocco wl-l A. a aCm.

3. MONDAY'S SILHOl'KTTK business he knows the chap isburgh-0E foreign debts directly to tax v-gstowu duc.t0r,, holding that- It Is better ill s-o him tsirougn. ttio rel- knows ns The kief j( miike many bills. so.ncihi!ir for him to do. 1 "ie i'I(J nop and his h-m-1 Printed In The News was that ol Emery, of the Lswreuc.