Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - July 17, 1906, Altoona, Pennsylvania CITT AGENCIES the Mirror is always on sale cane SEWS st SEWS bet 10th aad Badge St bet PL and 12th St 1. 12th St JL Sth aad St. 4ti Et AVERAGE WET TION DUBING 11.OO8 ESTABLISHED JUNE 13, 1874. SUFFOCATED JULY 17, 1906. TWELVE COLUMNS Fire in Park This Causes Death of Two THREE OTHERS BADLY Many Inmates Narrowly Escaped With Their is About Twelve Thousand Press July Couway was suffocated ia his room and Neal manager of the Park ou Second avenue and Boss died later from injuries and three men were badly injured in a tire which destroyed the Park hotel early this A number of the inmates of the building narrowly escaped with their The damagE 13 about twelve thousand McCurdy Sued for Kew July A. former president of the Mutual Life Insurance lias served through Ms De- lancey papers ia a suit which calls upon him to account for About of tie disbursed through funds durms his Girl by July the 14-year-old daughter of Mrs. Minnie living jast on Saturday for a three visit LATE NEWS Items Caught Just Before Our Press M. D. Shearer of Johnstown is friends in Wilt has accepted a clerkship with E. F. the Eleventh avenue Mrs. Charles P. wife of the proprietor of the is in F. Brunton and wife left yesterday afternoon for where they will spend a couple of weeks J. M. of the Green Front grocery on Eleventh street left yesterday an overland trip to Margaret Wolf of 2203 Eleventh nue is suffering with the scarlet This is the only case of contagious dis- ease in the Misses Anna and Ella 1505 Eighteenth street have returned from a two vacation at Atlantic New York and Coney Mr. Gerst engine dis- patcher at Hollidaysburg round with his left for New Coney Island and other The new Dougherty building now be- ing erected on Chestnut site the will be a hotel instead of an apartment as was at first Mrs. Clayton Means aad young son of 1012 Bridge street on Atlantic ex- press thip morning for she trill visit her Mrs. tin The High Avenue A. C. challenge the Bellvue A. C- for a game of ball on July 23. on the brickyard Answer through the Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Pollard and three i CHRISTIAN City Crowded Today With the Hosts of the Church Church the Session This Afternoon at 1.30. The Christian of Altoona are busily engaged in welcoming to the city the visiting delegates who are ar- riving to be present at the seventeenth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor which con- vened in this city this afternoon and which will continue over Wednesday and Judging from the large number of Christian Endeavor people from various parts of tiie state who have already arrived in the the convention will be one of the best at- tended ones held in the history of the Up until late this afternoon almost 1.000 delegates had registered at the Second Presbyterian the headquarters of the The en- committee has arranged for the accommodation of or more and it thought that almost that number will be in The from Reading and other points in the eastern parts of the state are expected to arrive on the late afternoon Several delegations from Pittsburg and rounding towns arrived this forenoon and swelled the attendance many The state D. arrived in the last night with the local was busily en- gaged during the day in arranging for the The state Rev. Dr. RobenT G. and the state J. Henry about noon The other arrived officers are expected late this afternoon and Merrell and left j At the Second Presbyterian church in- of tie city was abducted three negroes near her The says sae lost consciousness and she revived was lying badly in a JOHN ADAMS Boy Stunned by Fall Froia Bridge and Landed in Ditch Con- Two Feet of While on his way back to yesterday morning from Sheridan where he had gone to catch a baugh train at John A. Adams of 1330 Eleventh this fell off the stone bridge at ed in a ditch containing two feet of water and was He was so stunned by the fall that he was unable get of tne A slight gash we Ms right eye the only mark me bung Adams for Con- at He went there a week re- mains brought home last John D. Adams was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams and was aged 24 He was reared in this city and was a. graduate of the Isenberg sines college and the Scranton He at one time was a pasSenger brakeman on the Pittsburg Mrs. Pollard's sister at Mrs. D. Four carloads of immigrants went west on the section of Pacific Four of the foreigners got One of them was a wearing a cap and The heavy rains have been a great help to the street commissioner m keeping the paved streets but they seem to have no effect whatever on the mud and filth that the floor of the Seventeenth street A dog belonging to Louis the East Twelfth street junk be- came vicious this forenoon at the home of the rear of 30 Washington and bit a child residing in that The police were in- formed and the animal was shot by Cor- nerman Lloyd The members of Council 120. Young of this hold their annual outing at near 23. Ar- rangements have been made for an en- and a pleasant time is A program of amusements be carried out the cial cars will be provided to take the picnickers to the John charged with assault and battery and was a. bearing this morning before j Alderman J. in default was committed to jail to await a trial at court the division and later was employed by the The charges were preferred bv Mrs. Pennsylvania company in this He left the company about a week ago and took a posit on with the Kerbaugh company at Sang Hollow as He was a ber of the Catholic church is by his one Miss Elizabeth at and a Adams of also by his Miss Alice of 1112" Twentieth to he was married on June Sth The young couple had been living at 1S02 Fifteenth but Mrs. Adams was visiting in Pittsburg and fied by telegram last night of her returning at once to The remains can be viewed from 7 to 9 m. The funeral will be private and will be made in St. John's THE ACCIDENT Clarence aged 12 soa of Harry Ricedorff of 2-506 Union while playing ball fell and broke bis left arm the elbow and the The injured member set by Dr. C C. Griffin of Bakers station a laceration of the forehead while in the shops W. H. Shaffer of 725 Chestnut working in the boiler shop fell a jagged piece ann. of iron lacerating his the young -son of Mr. E. M. had a. narrow cape from death The little claims that on clay afternoon struck breaking her nose and cutting her ears and A Bad Man Invades the Classic Precincts During the Dark Hours Last and Gives the Fair In- mates a Terrible Last about 12 while the said and quiet old burg of bursr and the denizens thereof were their accustomed slumbers a night marauder made a forcible entry into the Hollidaysburg seminary and while he did not secure much lucre he gave the inmates the scare of their The despoiler of other people's goods made entrance by forcing a door in the wing of the and evidently miliar with the surroundings and in- turned on the electric lights in the school halL He then proceeded to the door of a room on the second floor occupied by Miss Lizzie a. in the which he also Miss Silk was aroused from her slumbers by the sound of the breaking and on discovering the ence of the intruder lost no time making her exit towards the third floor another hotly pursued by Mr. She into the room of Walker several laps ahead cf her pursuer and that the alarm was immediately and vociferously given may cot be The nocturnal visitor proceeded no wiio 10 months while j but returned to 3 j. j put a good sized screw in his and attempted to swallow tci with the result that it stuck in The child was nearly choked to death before the mother esting obstruction of 1111 Fourteenth as an engine room and helping himself to SS and for what purpose ably no one but his can let out by the same route ire The entire household by time was awake and it is only fair to presume that it stayed awake the part of the remaining night was the of an This morning the townspeople were o'clock evening at tae informed early or late but Altoona rie was putting an in- jector on engine No. 2920 and while so the engineer closed the tank valve which caused the hose to blow off. The clamp attached to the hose k the left lejr force that the bone was Mabol a student at the man's who spending vacation at her home in this city at 1313 Thirteenth with an accident on Sunday She with a company of young people were spending the day at Reese's and in the spirit of fun jumped from the top of a. small building to the a distance of ten In com- Tng in contact with the ground the right ankle turned and several of the ments were torn out of The young woman was given temporary re- lief and upon being brought to the city was given surgical attention by Dr. WEATHER ily 13, 6 p. temp. 74" illy te Ibe time of this writing no clue been as to the identity of The are making the On account the late rains ing with the completion of the Green avenue market building trie Wednesday market will be held in the East Side market bouse ADDITIONAL MISS MALVIN MILL Only daughter of W. H. and Josephine died this morning at 3.30 at the residence of the 112 East Fifth aged 19 4 months and 8 The de- ceased was a member of the Fifth nue Methodist church and a pupil of the Altoona high DEATH OF AN son of George A. and Mary Deanitt died this morning m 7c30 the dence of tho 204 bureaus have been reading and writing tables and many other things furnished which will add to the comfort and con- of the visiting The meetings will be held in two Second Presbyterian and the Eighth Avenue Methodist EpiscopaL In case the attendance should be so large that these two churches will not the visiting it has arranged to hold meetings in one cr several of the other churches of the The work of the convention began this afternoon at 1-30 by the state of- holding a conference at the Second Presbyterian A meeting of the executive committee also took place and the afternoon's program concluded with a prayer The meetings this which will convene in the two churches will be the beginning of the real work of the At the Presbyterian church the address of welcome will be given by the Rev. Warren pastor of Christ's Reformed church of this and president of the Altoona City and the response will be made by the Rev. T. D- D- of vice president of the state At the Eighth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church the address of come will be given by the Rev. Walter L. pastor of the Broad Avenue Presbyterian church and president of the Blair county Bishop B. Grubb of another of the state vice will State Secretary Lathrop and State Treasurer Shauff will give their annual report at both The members of the Christian En- deavor which has been training for the convention for the past will be present at all the meetings and out interesting musical Tomorrow beginning at S a special known as the quiet will be held at the First United Brethern East Twelfth A very important feature of the con- vention be the noonday prayer which will be held for the men of the city at various points be- tween 12.30 and 1 o'clock at on and Meetings will be held at the Altoona silk at Ninth avenue and Fourteenth at Eleventh avenue and Twelfth at avenue and Fourth street and at the Juniata snop nent Christian Endeavorer workers will .be present at these meetings and will address the of the Christian chorus will sing. one is invited to be present at these open air but a special invitation is extended to the THE DISORDERLY j GOOD TO DOINGS IN POLICE STANDING Yesterday's Hearing in tte Case cf the j MAYOR WALKER TELLS i Cases Brought Before 'the Mayor and j Numbers aad Names of Those War Italians Arrested Saturday Night J ABOUT the Aldermen of this j Go Into Serried on Ninth j j H Middle division crews marked up The police court room at city hall I Application Came from Han Who Gave j their grievance and 3 Nos. 12, 28, 41, 37, the His Residence as Ninth each preferred the Good Record as Game and thereby after Refuses to jl 5-pwial crews after 10: Nos. 9, 3, 6, firm Asphalt Filler Contract arrested 7 j American Asphaltum and Rubber nue and street bv ra Nash and Company Because Price Is Too was not large enough to bearing of the forty-six ed Sunday in a zt j Ninth avenue and Fifteenth after hearing the evidence of j men and several persons wno in the vicinity where the to have occurred thf was adjourned until this in was resumed in common council i The defendants were charged M ith j disorderly An j the time set for the hearing ing the sidewalk in front of city j To the Members of was crowded with In response to Magistrate Snyder called for information concerning the case for trial the court room of F. B. as packed almost to 1 beg to say that he has for Collie time City Solicitor Hare represented the j one of the state of of his position Kept on the charge of d One of to have a on a man and to stab i Extra Extra i Albert F. Mayor Walker list night sent to and Thomas 1L and J wardens in the s P. looked after the j duties t interests of the forty-six j raveling about the in Tony and Cassatta were j he gave his residence in the there to interpret the language of their I Ninth this The appended Setters are mv chief source of tion concerning and fitness fellow but their were not last as none of the defendants were as a Patrolman M. A. Davis was the first witness He said that about 9 o'clock Sunday night the Italians at the boarding house were dancing and playing the asked a j unwise man out front to tell the Italians to EBENSBURG SPECIAL TAKEN OFF. Announcement was made yesterday by the railroad company that the has been taken off the This train left burg every Saturday at noon to who desired to it their families at the summer resort Fewer are ing the summer there now and as a re- sult some of the hotels have A SOUVENIR BOOK FOR THE Messrs. William F. Gable Co. have gotten up an unique souvenir for the Christian Endeavorers in the shape of a note book which will be handy for ing notes of the convention It also contains tion about Altoona .is well as a few notes concerning the origin of the Endeavor which will want to Gable are giving these booklets out at their store to all those who may a INVEST YOUR AT 6 PER The Fame B. Association is ing 6 per on all withdrawals of Last series at 128 ing about 10 per cent. Subscription lipt for stock is now You may save a dollar a month xis or By our plan we loan money any time during the provided there is money in the Money loaned promptly and no unnecessary afc Alexander keep quiet or they be William a complained to him about the and he sent for the police aad they surrounded the house and made a wholesale arrest of everybody in the The noise had and most of the Italians were in bed when the raid was The officer said that there was nothing gar or obscene in the conduct of the but they were violating a city He said he had no warrant and that one man and his wife were in bed when lie denied that he offered to leave the man and his wife go if they would give him Patrolman Wicks testified that he went to the patrol box to make his report he found Mr. Snyder and Officer Davis in lie listened to No matter what popular opinion may be on the men who are fitted for the duties of policemen are not Apparently hampered by the unwise provisions of ordinance which the appointment of a pardoned but bars the good citizen who has committed the offense of not lived in this city for one the borough of has for some been advertising for a suitable person for Although they are willing to pay the same wages paid they are having trouble find a There are numbers of our best citizens who would not make even a mediocre However successful they may have been along higher they are fitted by nature for the duties of Because of the paucity of applications at the beginning of the I was compelled to take some chances ou the The country is ous and not good men were the noise about ten minutes and I to assume disagreeable Americans would them Americans would not be allowed to carry on that way and it should not be tolerated from for- He said there were about twenty that were not in bed when the arrests were Snyder of 142S Eighth avenue testified to the racket made by the Italians in their celebration and stated that it could be heard a block away annoying Mrs. J. B. Reighard said she thought the noise was by one man ing and playing the The did not her and she went to bed at 9 k and was soon The other witnesses Thomas Blair William James Weaver They all testified to the Italians making erable but that there was ing vulgar or obscene in their The case was brought to an abrupt of a police Of the selections made upon own unbiased only one was a misfit and he wus promptly asked to The who were found to be unqualified appointed at the solicitation of men and I always be ready and willing to give the request of the councilmen or any citizen careful consideration in provided c. rm j ajn satisfied that the request is based solely on personal fitness on the part of the than political personal friendship or ness I am primarily re- sponsible for- the character and of the men appointed and I hope that I be allowed to use ray best I will probably make mistakes in the as I have in the but I am honestly to give our citizens the best protection possible j iv when Attorney Greevy ithe possible with the raw material So far swearing of each of tue When the case was resumed this ing in common council chamber all the Italian defendants were present and a hundred Sergeant Wertz looked after the interests of the Among the witnesses examined were Johnson of 813 Fifteenth aware M h fi of been So far as this particular case is con- I am persuaded that the dence provisions of ordinance would be more honored in the breach than the as we are sacrificing a good nan whose qualifications as an undisputed and whose personal quaintance with potential law Tr i v. law u 01 fell Brumbaugh of 805 I or the 13 fill in your the J. B. of 811 Harry Coble of 805 question is I will withdraw his name and in the future sacrifice paramount to street and Charles Bolick of Fifteenth They all testified that there was j card the juggling beer v 11 1 1 S. H. ag and the peace generally disturbed j The letters to which the mayor re- by the defendants to the annoyance of ferred are communications commending the i Whiteman for the fearless and the defendants were j tory manner in which out put on the stand and through an inter- duties as a game for gave their The natio nof witnesses was The communication received The examination of witnesses until after the noon by Select common the was until 7 o'clock this at 1 OI to the same If it is the intention of to put defendant on the was to there will be a few other common the or the contract lor to the company plunge a long the charge of a long lino arrested and to give kill for a. hearing fore Alderman double duct Frank Mr. g and PORTER ALSO employed porter the the one about bail was 5100 on Alderman the following the Albert a this morning from tne him about in other articles belonging 10 ui prisoners in police court connected with the last Patron during his with the hotel always been noted Fred and at times and fined Mat was with large sums of money and finals belonging to the It was Information was made before man of the Tenth by Chester E. Griffith against John H. for desertion and non- support of his wife and five small found that some forty dollars be- There also another charge j longing to the bar for The case also missing from bis be heard at -S o'clock Wednesday Henry Rosenthal has obtained i not discovered that he was missing until the proprietor came to open up the bar when he found that the cash drawer had been About ten dollars were Upon further it s a warrant for the rone's arrest and an Patrolmen Murphy and Spangler at arrested one is bein made to locate at avenue and Ninth Reed was trouble at VALUABLE HORSE A valuable horse was stolen from the home over grocery He stable of Charles Green a double bit axe on his yesterday forenoon between the hours chasing wife around the room of 9 and 11 and although the into the Tie threatened to kill lice were notified of the theft at once wife and then dissect he and diluent search was made the ing all the tools such as a j ing animal has not yet been aad other the Seventeenth street As a result of the grocer and brother of the owner of the at and shortly before dinner met two a two horse was on the of the city in a. to was hitched the stolen unhitched their steep one of the or Life and W. H. both were arrested yesterday evening on a warrant Aiderman in which John C. the man wao the from the buggy and hitched up the stolen his brother's but thinking that the men had purchased the animal passed them without further It charged amin with killing horse and demolishing the After watching and waiting lor eral to capture some it is conduct in a stable in Tenth alley Fourteenth and Fifteenth not several hours he had The men were heading for WRECK NEAR A rear-end collision after- the police were successful near on the afc 1- Special Officer Diddle resulted m wrecking a number or cars ana delaying trame Patrolmen Ake ing raided -able Qf the and K with and Irvin tour colored men who The gave names at of this dt were hc and were slightly train No. 3033 was Robert Jones Joe on the track J. K. manager of of a mye At this point there Altoona Gas arrested is a curve in the When on a Alderman j supply No. 666. also in which he is turned the sharp curve K ran by E. Mouit with larceny by bailee the rear end of No. 303S- A of Moffit ber of cars were piled up over tracks when Mr. Harper was general Nos. 2, 3 and 4. of the whom he had bfen he TO VISITING CHRISTIAN some kept them at the gas company's j a invitation to When Mr. Mr. ifc QUr store the You are Moffit alleges that Mr. Lane to conie and though f r Y 11- you may not want to We are ways glad to show our goods we sale or Ours is counted among the finest and most com- stocked jewelry stores in the ed the Mr. Lane will given a 1'earinir With the intention of getting revenge a Slav of East made information before T. D. Crawford against A. j we handle only the very best kerski a fellow whom he of jewelry as as the many charges with on a i other accessories that should be found which Drabut i jn a We are boarded with and the a special display of things in order to net his money due him for souvenirs tnis of for had the of we at popular low boarder j jeweler and ing thai Christmas his Eleventh some beer to ilic boarders decided that to have would be cutor had nn in WHERE TO You work in the EAST ALTOONA Blair is the ideal place for J. J. Irvin A. and O. on One on t u vas held Members of council de- GANG OF IMPUDENT that the company bad agreed to Altoona seems to be with a ilo the for it gang of go from door to and they wanted to first ascertain whv door begging for something to eat and the contract price raised before Some of them are the ing the The company's and impudent A specimen of this bond was also held over until next class of genus went to a house in the Third ward yesterday and trere asked the for i Mayor sidewalk thing to saying tbat he was where He was given a handout of time and to fill up avenue bread butter several pieces of i from when they cake of better ni their in t 5Jp short distance west of the other in with Ac filmed avenue at IT POUNDS Eleventh and j Murphy Farrel are On all the newspapers the VM him robbing hiw of the received a from the Streit Shoe Shop to discontinue their j An ordinance Tor an electric light at j it i shoe ately sent to the the ren and they were was so crowded that it impossible to wait on any more i If you want a common sized city lot ou can iret one That is too with the completion of the market the Wednesday will be held in the East Side The ordinance for the removal of it- were assured the sale would continue at i snow from fire passed fie same low cut prices as soon as the diminished the The report of the special committee merits would be It appointed at last meeting lo inquire happens that mei chants stop their j into the ownership of the because it does not pay but fourth street bridge this is the first instance in which the for- I The bond of E. A. tor sewer mer reason was But of construction was in this case the prices do the the sale is the greatest Altoona has ever Over pairs sold last week The Baby Singer at the 1504-6 Eleventh Weather Public worki with negative the petition ot Thomas D. Leader resisting proponed at and Tenth Received and Common council resolutions concurred in: To lions Huber Co. for tax for 1901; fpr pipe between Lloyd and street to carry off wa- to SUIT we reduce the and in many at greatly reduced Dark i Blue Unfinished and Gray and double breasted are Suits formerly and are now CLOTHING FOR BOYS EXTRAORDINARY LEOPOLD The Willis Russell class dance at the park casino this LEOPOLD SAND AND Estimates on excavating and Purity Ice JULY 19, This Ticket Will ADMIT ONE CHILD 5 to 12 Yenrs FOR ONE JUHE Olf
