Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - March 27, 1912, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY 31ST LOCK WEDNESDAY MARCH PRICa TWO ROOSEVELT IS Decisively Beaten in New York Primaries and iu Indiana State TAFT WINS ALL ROUND Will Have 83 of 90 New York and 18 Out of 30 in IN Prominent Rivals For Roosevelt and Taft In State Convention ANGRY COLONEL BOLTS His Followers Hold Rump Con and Raise Loud Cry of Crushing defeat came Tuesday of this week in two states to Theodore tho third term own state of New the primary ballot for which he and his followers have so fiercely resulted In the election of out of the 90 elate delegates for leaving only 7 to console the It is possible that these figures may be re vised by later returns to Tafts ad In Indiana the state con vention was so thoroughly for Taft that the Roosevelt followers bolted in disgust and In New York city the ratio by which tho Totes ran against Roosevelt was S to and up the In the district containing the considerable city of I t tbe ratio was 4 to 1 nere to that the fonner president and his friends are prepar Prom the Roosevelt headquarters a ing to bolt the Chicago cry of fraud has been It being contended that Roosevelt voters were TAFT WINS intimidated at the polls and his era prevented from exercising their former United Stuff a Senator Al bert former Vice Fairbanks Ilar By IL clear majority of 105 tie Taft j forces controlled the Indiana state Indiana instructs For and Colonels Crowd Cry March the adopted resolutions scathingly Colonel Roosevelt for heretical political policies and vention and chose as delegates to the bleachers against President Taft Chicago convention former Vice with a perfect score In the Re dent Harry publican State convention here yester Joseph Oliver ana James j The test which developed a Besides Instructing this delegation majority for Taft of came on the for William the convention matter of minority report of the de credentials committee seating contest his ing Roosevelt which was his tabled by 772 to third term Tbe big four to the National referendum and recall and the recall convention Is former Vice President ot decisions advocated by Roosevelt In Captain Harry his Columbus platform speech were of Indianapolis Joseph of especially scored In the south and James of As tbe Indiana delegations stands to Taft has M Instructed gates and Roosevelt Seven district resolutions containing a stinging re are yet to be and buke for the Roosevelt Columbus plat of these It appeared at the convention and the third term If 1ft t Tuesday that Roosevelt would carry 5 and Taft making the final division tjon to two a of 30 delegates IS for Taft minority of the Roosevelt contingent and 12 for Roosevelt Taft a convention that was do not concede these figures ATTEMPT MADE TO Chief Executive of Island Fired Upon Stand ing in SHOT COME FROM RIFLE Fired From tho Top of Build of the By Telegraph to the Rock March at was made to assassinate Mayor today while he was standing in the doorway the The wouldbe assassin was not The shot came from a rifle from the top of a building and just missed the may ors head and was imbedded in tho wall companies of state troops are now Mayor Schriver recently began a cam lign to rid the city of undesirable per so he hot bis enemies he wanted to oust bis political Mutterings of discontent have been growing for several The other ay the editor of a weekly newspaper an article which denounces Mayor Schriver and the mayor hat the issue of the paper be suppressed Announcement of the publication was made at a mass meeting of opponents o the after the a arge crowd went to the newspaper offici o get copies of the The mayor were angered by the fact tha tayor Schriver had physically chastised 10 editor of tiie paper for previous edi The police ordered be crowd from in front of the er office and several arrests were matte Last night the body of Frank Potts of Winona was found in a It was reported that be had been killed in the disturbance in front of the newspaper Feeling ran high and a muss meeting was called for Petitions for the recall of Mayor Schriver nud Commissioner Hart were circulated at the A crowd gathered after the swearing vengeance for the attacks made on the crowd at the newspaper Some of the rioters declared that the police had murdered although physicians announced that the man probably died of The sheriff decided that the militia RICARDO MARTIN be necessary to preserve and wired to Governor tn ths meantime the sheriff swore in as many deputies as he could and the police called out all members of the department to clear the PRICE OF FOOD SOARS WHEN PACKERS GO FREE March V for Taft and 8 lor Roosevelt SUNSHINE IN TAFT an of the acquittal of the pl R the Plans had been made by the advanced all The rise vote of 213 to amid a scene of j failure of the printer or the board of great The House of Lords elections to deliver Virtually at oclock to receive the nowhere in the entire city were there and on motion of Lord it sufficient ballots for all the voters to passed its first usean ln a ver large number of Premier Asquith oa leaving the Honse election districts no ballots at all had managers however for a dramatic They had rented another and at a signal to have been given by cenU for k and bacon anj 10 The former Congressman Fred they to the cost of packing house products were to hava bolted the main j was attributed on Change to active But Only Gloom in their program was checkmated by Dv shorts and to sympathy The with the bulge the price of March proceeding was so shares advanced 2y that aside from naming for on the Chicago Slock Exchange are conducting the campaign of the rest of the jump ujj onel Roosevelt are downcast The except Instructions for was ward making a total advance result In Indiana yesterday Is the until two hours the of 6 cause for tbe difference In offer The c test will be carried to the Chicago Addren of Director In charge of tbe the campaign r There was a large in the Taft In a statement Issued rMt says that the flEht for Taft members of the Baptist church last when last sas that tbe tight for Taft of 30 to tlle National con Parcels spoke on the words found has been vention been Instructed for h chl f John Senator tbe Roosevelt manand the Roosevelt forces have had no comment to make Seven district conventions are yet Tue raised the aiter aml a ro ca of thc of as she narrated nt The election of four am a ro ca o c s s The o four Roosevelt would Ung drawn from her large instructed for Taft for h tlon for a second term by the Indiana final division of the Indiana is most Tbe outcome ot this first state convention cannot help but have great weight with Republicans throughout the en Tire country who are looking for party success in Excluding the returns from New York the Taft managers now claim 163 delegates Instructed for 17 for 2 for Senator Cum mins and 10 for Senator Besides the four in two Taft delegates from the Eighth Alabama two from the Ninth two from tie Eighth Mississippi and two from the Second Georgia district were instructed for tbe president Tbe State Central committee ot Arkansas by a 82 to 3 Indorsed the Taft ad and urged that both state and Congressional delegates for be in decisive defeat of Roosevelt in on her chosen and drew jail to greater devotion by the message of love which she This hidun of the evening the series ol special services will be meeting at A cordial invitation is ex tended to all these which ICi first stop for leu minutes at Fort yesterday leads many He reaches Chicago In be held during this week and next the There Colonel velt will hold a reception to several In thc evening he will deliver two one In the downtown sec tion and the other on thc west He will stan for Louis at arriving there at Thurs Other places to be visited during the trip are Cedar Albert SL Paul and Minne and Kalamazoo and Colonel Roose velt expects to return to Xew Ifork Taft Wanted at President William Howard of tho United this morning was extended an Invitation by a large dele gation of to lend his pres ence to the celebra tion of the loyal war governors meet Ing In Altoona neit There Is a possibility that he will accept and for the first time during his adminis tration will honor Altoona with a visit of more than five or ten minutes in length occasioned by tho changing of engines on trains carrying him cast and west through tbe city when travel ing on tbe Pennsylvania EIGHTYTWO PERISH IN Ten of Nearly Five Score Workers in Mine With Their MATCH IGNITES FLUID Carelessness of One Victim is Said to Have Caused West Virginia DEAD ARE Searching Party Aided by the Ventilating Which Were comment has aroused by the recent Oriental bail which was given by anil Ricardo and was attended by over 100 prominent society all of whom were masked and garbed in tho of the far eastern The fact that such a gay shouM he in has brought forth no end of criticism from tho WHS IIS FIRST F to Put Minimum Wage Scale to Vote of i By Telegraph to the March government won its first important victory in the coal strike negotiations today when the federated Miners adopted a re solution to put the question of accepting or rejecting the minimum wage to ballot of the rank and life of the SCORES A GREAT VICTOR IU REV TON Secures Delegates T for Roosevelt ti the Chi cago By Telegraph to the New March complete returns from yesterdays pri mary election show that New York state will send a delegation to the Re national convention at Chicago that will vote as follows Taft Roosevelt The Taft leaders are Thousands of striking miners have jubilant while it is said the Roosevelt tired of idleness and are returning to j adherents threaten to have the election Consequently Premier Asquith set alleging is confident that a referendum vote would be largely in favor of the Tbe Minimum Wage passed Its hird reading in tha House of Commons As a result of the woeful Dix will be asked to declare the election illegal and to call another elec This confusion was due to the if Commons was loudly cheered by all he After strike lasting nearly a month and involving the whole coal country in the miners have thus recognition of the principle they eat out to But they are still dissatisfied because the not specify the amount of the minimum The leaders declare their de to keep up the strike until hey have secured guarantees of a wage of five shillings or or the district by the arrange acceptable been received when the polls as prescribed by at 9 la the Fifteenth Assembly district in Brooklyn not Republican vote was owing to the non arrival of According to the police this was the only case where a whole assembly district was without The Roose velt people may be joined by the Demo crats in demanding another The Tuft forces elected every candi date for state commit teeman and district leader throughout the Interest in the Democratic situation was swamped by the general excitement over the Re publican In two district contests in Manhattan Tammany won HOUSE HAS BOTH REPORTS y Telegraph to tha March ouse today received both the majority nd the minority reports on tbe bills re ising the wool Tho Democratic report attacks the ata by the Tariff the minority report praises the cards HOSPITAL Frank of Jersey was to the Lock Haven hospital n Tuesday for John of was as a medical patient on Reuben of was 4mitted as an operative patient on Albert of Bear was for medical treatment Tues the victim of a rail road accident on Sunday a deep gash was inflicted on Is Is getting along but e Is still confined to his 300 BUILDINGS BURNED IN INDIA LOSS By Telegraph to the March swept the Indian city of on the Afghan frontier destroying over 300 buildings and doing damage to the amount of more than Peshawar has a population of Stork Far in During the 3ear 1911 there were births and deaths in Clinton which were officially reported by the 10 registrars of vital statistics in this district Tbe births far ex the being while only 463 persons died in the county during the Each registrar re 25 cents for recording every birth and which amounted to This sum Is paid by County Treasurer Thomas who Is now sending out the various By Telegraph to the March sion in the mine of the Coal company claimed a total of 83 Im last of tbe bodies being taken from the mine at 11 oclock this Dur ing the work of directing the removal of bodies Deputy Mine Inspector Nich olson was overcome by black damp and taken oat just in time to save his The families of the victims are without food or and state aid will be asked for March two men were killed yesterday by a gas explosion in the Jed Goal Coke com mine at a half dozen miles from Only eleven men escaped alive and one of these died within an hour after being brought to the Last night 33 bodies had been located and the rescuers hoped to have them out parties have covered all of the mine by 3 oclock this morn ing and expected to have all tbe bodies out by noon Relief Work Began When the explosion occurred probably only tbe 11 men working at the foot of the shaft had for their They readily made their way up the cages which were not Though some of of tbe fans were they continued to operate with the fortunate result that enough air was present to admit searching par ties Less than half an hour after the news of tbe explosion had been communi to this place relief measures were in Oxygen helmets and other appliances were rushed from the plant of the United States Coal Coke com a United States Steel corporation mine a government mine car enroute was turned buck on telegraphic orders from Washington and another car was started from The first car reached here shortly after The experts immediately conceded that ail in Che mine were State mine Inspectors promptly or parties and began tbe explorations of As the were cleared oat and they began searches of the lower levels they im mediately began to come upon killed almost Other mines nearby sent experienced foremen to lead hundreds of volunteer who Socked Jo the scene as tbe news spread abont tbe Women Kept to Their The usual scenes or horror and grief which attend mine disasters were lack No families of the miners crowded abont the mouth of the Women kept within their homes their grief from publio Tbe explosion was caused by au ac cumulation of gas in one of the mine According to some reports that reached one of the miners care lessly lighted a match and the explosion The mine was inspected last Friday and pronounced Preliminary investigations have not divulged the cause ot tbe Some local mine men are inclined to re gard it as a physical Bar in this vicinity have been show ing low readings for the last week without the usual The families of the dead men find themselves in sore Work baa been very slack at the aid will be in the Two of persons moving from one farm to an ed through this city attracted more than or One In particular ot nine loaded wit assistance being 1 who furnished on The other was cot four while the live e ot 12 also Be the
