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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-03-24
Many Killed in Terre Haute.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March "a
Loss Of life and severe property
damage was caused by n tornado
which wiped out the southern part OF
Terre Haute at 10 o'clock tonight.
At II o'clock seven bodies had been
recovered. Seven were injured and
property damage Will reach into the
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars.
All wires were blown down in the
district affected. This prevented res
cue work. although every available
fireman and policeman was rushed TO
the stricken district.
Il is expected the death list will be
more than a dozen.
With no warning the terrific gale
swept down upon the district. Parts
of the Root Glass company's plant
We're nattened. The end OF the foun-
dry room Of the Garland factory. n
solid brick wall Is inches thick. was
oaVed in. Brick and stone structures
suffered alike.
Lightning set fire 70 many houses.
Men. women aud c.ildren were crush
Cd to death in bed. Some escaped tn
the cellars whole structures were
blown away by the force OF the wind.
Tho manned were rushed 10 hospitals
as fast as they were extricated.
Difficulty was experienced in OBJ
tanning doctors and the hremen were
LLable 20 cope with the flames which
swept the district. The heavy down
pour OF rain Is all that prevented
&c, res NJ injured from being burned
in the debris OF their homes.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-03-24

ST. PAUL. MINI. March 23.-An
UnconhrmCd report from Marshall
town. Iowa. tonight said there hal
been loss Of life at Acklcy. Woodbino
snc carroll. Iowa. as n result % a
storm which swept Iowa and Nebras-
IA TODAY
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
HOLLISTERVILLE.

Mrs. Del. Brown is improving at
this writing.
George Fessaden is suffering with
a bruised shoulder, the result of
runaway team last Saturday.
Rev. A. R. Reichert and wife have
returned home after spending two
weeks vacation with their parents at
Reading, Pa.
All the farmers are busy getting
ready to SOW oats, and plant po-
tatoes.
Mrs. Edmund Hartford has i'm
proved so she is able to be out again.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Frey and
family paid a visit to the latter's
brother, Norman Butler of Zion last
Sunday. Mr.. Butler had the misfor-
tune of being kicked by horse
which resulted in broken leg.
Mrs. Orr and son, of Scranton,
were visitors in town over Sunday.
The Misses Nellie and Mildred
Brown spent Sunday with their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown.
Rev. Reichert will have regular
services in the M. P. church on Sun
day at II a. m. "The Day of Pente-
cost" will be his theme. He will also
have services at East Sterling at 8
p. m. and at the Union church at
1880 p. m.
There will be no services in the M.
E. church on Sunday evening, but the
pastor, Rev. Russell, and Presiding
Elder L. c. Murdock, will be present
in the Sabbath school in the morning.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
mitchell FOR PORT COLLECTOR
President Names Head of New York
Board of Aldermen.

Washington, May S.-President Will
son sent to the senate the name of
John Purroy Mitchell, president of the
board of aldermen of the city of New
York, to be collector Of the port of New
York. 1t was said that during a con-
ference with Senator O'Gorman the
president had obtained the senator's
assent to the appointment of Mitchell.
This indicated that there would be no
fight on the nomination.
President Wilson addressed the fol-
lowing telegram to Mr.. Mitchell:
81 am with great pleasure sending to
the senate your nomination as collect
or of the port of New York. l sincere
ly trust that you will serve the public
by accepting the appointment"
President Wilson also sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the senate for
confrmation:
To be ambassador to Japan, George
W. Guthrie of Pennsylvania.
To be commissioner of pensions, Gay
lord NJ. Salzgaber, Van Vert, o.
To be register of the land office at
North Yakima, Wash, Richard Stro-
bach.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
800 REWARD, 500.

The readers OF this paper Will be
pleased to learn that there Is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
it's stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only posi-
tive cure now known to the medi-
cal fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing
it's work. The proprietors have so
much faith in it's curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Clay and Others Answer
City's Equity Suit.
SEEK $l5O,OOO FROM THEM.
Alleged Philadelphia Was Cheated Out
of That Sum Through Fraud In Con-
tracts-Responden Declare All
Money They Received Was
Fair and Legal.

Philadelphia, May S.-Former Di-
rector of Public Safety Henry Clay,
John II. Virgins & Co., John r. Wig
gins, Willard H. Walls, Francis X.
Worley and Ira H. Boston have filed
answer to the equity suit brought
against them BY which the city seeks
an accounting Of approximately $780,
coo, which. it is alleged, the municipal
ity was cheated out of through manipu-
lation and fraud in contracts for bath
houses and police and fire stations.
Clay, Virgins and Walls were con-
victed of conspiracy and sentenced to
prison for term of eighteen months
to two years. They have an appeal
pending in the superior court.
In their answer to the civil action
they make general and specific denials
to every averment in the suit for an
accounting. Boston denies that he is
now or ever was a stockholder in the
Virgins company or that he was as
sistant treasurer. He declares he was
merely an employee, receiving a week
ly salary.
1--WE were at no time" the defend
ants say, parties to any scheme or
device to cheat the city, and we were
never enabled, individually or collect
lively, to bid without competition for
! the several contracts in question. AL
tentative proposals to which reference
! is made in the bill of complaint were
based upon written or oral require
ments Of the city communicated to us
as prospective bidders and to all other
parties contemplating a proposal for
the municipal work.
1--WE also deny that the acceptance of
our bids by Clay was in fraud of the
city, but, on the contrary, was In con-
formity with the rules and regulations
Of the department and the require
ments of the act of assembly. We aver
that the contracts awarded to Virgins
& Co. We're for amounts reasonable,
proper and lawful and were never In
any instance in grossly eXorbitant and
fraudulent amounts or greatly In eX-
cess of the fair market price Of the
work as defined by the customs and
usages of the trade in which we are
engaged"
The respondents then deny that they
were in receipt of exclusive informa-
ton which the city charged gave them
advantages over competing bidders
Virgins & Co. aver that they were
only able to obtain such information
as to the character of work expected
as was available to all bidders.
In conclusion the respondents declare
that all the money they received under
the various contracts were fair, reason
able and legal payments for the build
ings erected, and they ask that the
city's suit for an accounting be dis
missed.
The equity list in common pleas court
No. will be called in June, when it is
expected City Solicitor Ryan will ask
for the fixing of day for the hearing
Of the suit against Clay, Virgins and
the other defendants
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

race, then your answer is right, and
you may go right up to the head
of the class.
+ +
Richard Roberts Goes to
Hospital for Second Time.
The condition of Richard Roberts,
of Marble Hill, formerly of Homes
dale, was so serious that on Satur-
day last he was removed for the sec
ond time to a Scranton hospital,
where on Tuesday he was operated
on. Mr.. Roberts was taken to the
hospital under the direction of DR..
Voigt as a last resort. This is the
case of the man who was struck on
the head by monkey wrench that
was dropped by workman at the
No. IA washery. The wounded man
was taken to the State hospital, but
his condition became more serious
after his return to Hawley, an alb
scess forming in his head. DR.. Voigt
was called in the case last week,
and he advised his removal to DR..
Burns private hospital. Mr.. Rob-
erts came through the operation in
greatly weakened condition, with
almost no hope whatever of his re-
covery.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
TWO MOTORISTS KILLED.
Hurled Into Creek Fifty Yards Below.
Said to Be Joy Riding.


Norristown, Pa, May S.-Two motor
lists were killed when their machine,
going down Skippack hill and swerv-
ing in front of a trolley car of the
Schuylkill Valley Traction company,
hurled them to death in the creek fifty
yards below. The machine was the
property of William j. Gerstley, Jr,
a wealthy liquor man of Philadelphia,
and it is said that the chauffeur had
taken the car out without his permis-
sion.
The automobile was going at the rate
of fifty miles an hour. On the car were
the members of the baseball team Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company's
auditors department, and the players
were joking with the motorists, asking
them to show their speed limit and let
out few kinks in their machine
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
ADJOURNMENT STILL IN AIR

June ~ Now Suggested For Windup
of the Legislature.
Harrisburg, Pa, May S.-Sugges-
ton for date for final adjournment of
the legislature is again "in the wind"
June IL this time being advocated as
the closing day. No one seems to know
who originated the new proposition.
An agreement by both the senate and
house Is necessary on final adjourn
ment.
Speaker Alter has pronounced him
self against setting a date for adjourn
Ient until the legislature finishes its
Work. Particularly is he anxious that
Jle consideration be given the public
utilities bill, the workmen's compensa-
ton act and the nonpartsan ballot.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
LOOKOUT.
Lookout, MAY s

LUUhUUI, May 8.
Miss Nora Cuddie of Equinunk,
was a guest of Mrs. j. G. Hill and
Miss Evelyn Lane the last of the
week. .r
John w. Cole, William Varcoe and
Floyd Bruce attended lodge at Long
Eddy, N. Y, on Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Clauson, of
Honesdale, spent Sunday at E.
Teeple's.
John Ewain and Myrtle Ewain, of
Equinunk, spent Sunday at Virgil
Young's.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
WILSON TO NAME COMMISSION
New Industrial Body In Place of That
Nominated by Taft.

Washington, May S.-President Will
son was asked by Senator Hughes Of
New Jersey to appoint a new federal
Industrial commission to take the place
of that named by President Taft,
which failed of confirmation in the
senate.
Senator Hughes told the president
that there were several serious indus
trial disputes throughout the country
which should be investigated by such a
commission. One Of these is the Pater-
son silk strike. 1t is understood that
the president agreed to name the new
commission shortly.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Shoots Wife; Kills Himself.

Boston, May s.-Wilham Mahoney
in a family quarrel at his home in
East Cambridge shot and probably IA
tally wounded his wife and then turn
ed the gun on himself, dying instantly.
Three children, who witnessed the
shooting, were not harmed.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Tri- State Leaaue.

AT Allentown-Atlantic City, Z; AL
lentown, 1.
At MISUNDERSTANDING 8; VIII
mington, 5. tfi
At Trenton-York. 8; Trenton, 2.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
What the School Directors Did
At Monday Nights Meeting.

At Monday nights session of the
Hawley Board of School Control but
little of a special nature was trans
acted. The teachers asked for an ad-
vance in wages, but their request
was not granted. There was one
change in the faculty, that of Miss
Lee, of Waymart, who will be sue
ceeded by Miss Smith, of Newfound-
land The remainder of the old fac
ulty were all reelected.
All bills for current expenses, in
Guiding teachers salaries, amount
ing to $500, were read and ordered
paid.
Settlement with the borough tax
collector was effected. There were
generations amounting to 1915.
The exoneration list numbered
about rs persons. The generations
were made for various causes, some
of which were that persons assessed
were dead This is one of the evils
that arises from assessments being
made by copying from the old rec
ords instead of by personal vista
ton.
The cash balance on hand on April
80 last was $2,36S.99.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

Ross-A thief now in a cell has In
vented burglar alarm.
Hicks-He should have invented
something that would have alarmed
him before he became a thief.-New
York Tribune.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

Clarence H. Mackay's army aviation
cup is being packed preparatory to ship
ping 1t to Washington, where 1t will be
presented to the war department through
the Aero Club of America. Military air
men of the United States army will COM
pete for the cup In a series of flights
Second Lieutenant Henry H. Arnold OF
the Twenty-ninth infantry was the win
ner of the flight at College Park. Nd, in
October, 1912.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schlager
Are Home From Panama.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schlager
were expected to arrive home from
Panama on Wednesday. They recent
ly left the zone and stopped over for
few days in Brooklyn, N. Y, with
their brother-in-law, Charles Lang.
The stop at Brooklyn became a
necessity on account of Mrs. Sch
layers not being in good health,
thus necessitating their making the
homeward trip by easy stages.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Camp Fire Girls to Assist
In Memorial Day Affairs.

Every year as Memorial Day ap-
proaches Hawley business men look
wise and begin to run their hands
down deep into their pants pockets,
for they know that is the occasion
when they are expected to pay the
piper" They expect to hire the band,
or, rather, to fork over the cash for
that purpose, and would feel hurt if
they were neglected or overlooked.
Barbara Frietchie Council, No. 3d.,
of the Daughters of America, has
charge of affairs in Hawley on Me-
mortal Day, and the Council COM
missioned Mrs. Helen M. Cooke to
look after band affairs, and she has
passed the work over to the Camp
Fire Girls of Hawley to do the So
Letting. The girls will not confine
their soliciting alone to the business
men, but every man in Hawley, no
matter what his occupation, will be
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

Gabe-Why do they say that the
ghost walks on pay day2
Steve-Because that's the day our
spirits Cincinnati Enquirer.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

~7OWN at the Eddy people are
D very much disturbed over
ksa56z the automatic bell that the
teYSsYet Erie railroad company in
stalled at the crossing early
in the the past winter, that is, we
think it is safe to refer to the past"
winter now that so much planting
has been done. But, about that bell:
1t is one of those cagedin affairs on
a post, the kind that is set going by
electricity. When an engine ap-
proaches the Eddy from either direc-
ton, at a certain point a something
touches something else, and that sets
the contraption in the cage on the
pole to ringing as if there is house
on fire, and it rings, and keeps right
on ringing until the engine passes
another place where a something
else is touched by something that
stops the clatter until another en-
gine starts the whole business going
again. If for any cause the engine
that starts the bobbery to ringing
stops for few minutes or for few
weeks on the tracks between the
something points, that clacketty
bell keeps right on the job. And
there is where the Eddyites are be-
coming sensitive and nervous. They
can't sleep in peace any more. They
can't begin to dream fast enough to
keep up with the clicketty-clack of
that bell, and they want something
done about it. They declare that the
automatic bell is a satanic device,
and that it should be suppressed as a
public nuisance. They wouldn't t
complain so much if they could only
set it at certain hour, and use it
as public alarm-clock; but they
can't do anything with it, and there
fore they want it removed, and they
want it removed right away. They
don't consider it prudent to wait un-
til their hair has become white from
worry, or has left them bald headed
as the result of sleepless nights, be-
fore asking for the gagging of that
bell. They want something done
now, to-day.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

A mighty spineless cuss is he
And always on the rack
Who waits for opportunity
To pat him on the back.
Detroit Free Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

There is trouble at the Eddy
Where folks live quite staid and
steady,
Trouble that is surely TROUBLE,
Causing Eddyites to yell.
Now they've only time to jaw it;
Soon they think they'll change and
law it,
Have some copper go and claw it,
Claw that automatic bell
Gag it, bag it, somewhere drag it
Where its presence none may tell;
Then the steady, rough and ready
People of the famous Eddy,
All will gurgle, Very Well!"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
A Little String of Hawley
Personals and Palaver.

Erastus Seeley, an Erie fireman,
was visiting friends at Kimbles early
this week.
G. H. Freethy, druggist, left Haw-
ley on Tuesday for a visit to Phila-
delphia, where he will attend a con-
vention of druggists and read an orr
ginal paper on the theme of cooper
ative insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shipman, of
New York, are making an extended
visit with relatives on Marble Hill.
Mrs. T. Leonard, of Scranton, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Corcoran,
of Marble Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Orr, of
Sayre, Pa, and Mrs. Anna Halligan,
of Scranton, spent Sunday with their
mother, Mrs. Orr, who has her home
with M. j. McAndrew and wife, of
East Hawley.
No, Main street has not as yet re-
ceived its summer oiling.
Mrs. Frances D. Woodward, of
Hoadleys, celebrated her 92nd birth
day anniversary at her home on Mon
day, April %. She is both mentally
and physically unusually strong for
one who is so near the century life
line.
Frank Stephenson is happy man.
He bought DR.. Lobb's horse, wagon,
robes and entire outfit. The doctor
has new Ford runabout, and didn't
care to maintain two equipments.
Who can give the writer the exact
date of the big Wind" in Ireland ?
Now, don't all speak at once, for it is
so confusing, you know.
Wild strawberries in the fields
about Hawley are in full bloom, and
If the blooms are not injured by
frost there will be very large yield
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Claude Watrous Taken to
A Scranton Hospital.

Claude Watrous, an engineer on
the Erie railroad, was suddenly seiz-
ed with an attack of appendicitis late
last week, was removed to the
State hospital on Saturday and was
operated on at midnight, his condi-
tion being such that immediate oper-
alton was imperative Mr.. Watrous
is an unmarried man, about 80
years of age. His condition was con-
sidered as extremely critical, and his
friends entertained small hope of his
ultimate recovery.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

It's easy enough to be pleasant
When fate never makes us say. "OuchF
But the man worth while
Is the man who can smile
As he keeps the lid on his crouch.
Chicago Record Herald
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
The Laurel Wagons
On Hawley Streets Again.

1t was only a wagon loaded with
laurels, that was all. 1t stood on
keystone avenue on Tuesday, and
to the average passerby it was moth
ing but wagon load of common,
every day rubbish. AS a matter of
fact it was load of Wayne county
product undoubtedly going away to
beautify some wealthy mans
grounds, and soon we shall have no
laurel left. 1t is vanishing year by
year, and, ere we realize the fact,
the last load of it will have passed
from our midst. In the days of the
Spartans they crowned heroes with
laurel; but if we shall want to do
any crowning in dear old Wayne" in
a few years from now we shall have
to weave the chaplets of daisies and
buttercups. We are not Spartans,
however, and the only heroes in our
midst are heroes of peace.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09
Erie Telegraphers Are to
Get Fatter Pay Envelopes.

Sup't Eckles and Chief Dispatcher
Dan Mccoy, of Dunmore, went over
the Erie & Wyoming division of the
Erie railroad last Thursday and no.
titled the telegraph operators that
they had been granted an increase
of wages from to II per cent, dat
ing from May 1st. OF course this
news made the boys who handle the
keys feel pretty good, thank you!
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

asked to contribute, and to contrib
ute literally. Each girl has her own
list, so no one will be solicited more
than once, but he surely will be
touched" that once. ...
t /
A Nest of "Blue Birds
To Be Built in Hawley.
The Camp Fire Girls of Hawley
have rented very pleasant rooms in
the Murray building on Main street,
and will move into them on Friday.
The regular meeting place of the
Camp Fire organizations has been in
the parlor of their Guardian officer,
Mrs. Helen NJ Cooke; but her wig
wan was too small as the tribe in
creased, hence the removal to the
new quarters.
Another reason for moving into
larger quarters is that Mrs. Cooke is
now starting a Nest of Blue Birds,
which is very recent addition to the
movement. The girls that become
Blue Birds are too young to be reg
ular Camp Fire Girls. The elective
honors for them are much easier
than are those in the older groups.
The Blue Birds are regularly cos
tuned, the color being two shades of
the azure tint. The new wigwam
furnishes ample room for the work
and play of both organizations.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-09

King Alfonso of Spain arrived In Paris
with Premier Count Alvaro de Roma
nones for two days official visit. Presi-
dent Raymond Poincare and Premier
Louis Barthou. with all the members Of
the French cabinet were present at the
station to receive the royal party The
king and the president drove together
through the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
and the Champs Elysees to the kings
temporary residence at the Palais d'Orsay.
Artillery saiutes we're fired, and the route
was lined on both sides by troops, some
1000 infantry and 5000 cavalry being on
duty 4frffl