SEEK DEAD in ST. LOUIS FIRE St. Patrick Blessing the Shamrock

brontrit STERLING GrALT EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ESTABLISHED OVER 4 QUARTER OF A CENTURY TERMS-91.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOL. XXXV EMMITSBURG, MARYLA N DA Y MARCH 13, 1914 NO.47 SEEK DEAD IN WOMAN INDICTED St. Patrick Blessing the Shamrock VERGARA FAMILY ASQUITH REVEALS ST. LOUIS FIRE FOR MALPRACTICE SEIZED HIS BODY HOME RULE PLANS Say She Performed Operations Believe 35 Bodies Are in Ruined Cabinet Gets Reports of Raid Ulster to Decide Whether It on Young Wives, Athletic Club Building, Into Mexico, Shall be Excluded. The grand jury in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., returned nine true bills against Mrs. Caroline West Lynch, alias Caro- SEVEN HAVE BEEN RECOVERED line West, of West Hazleton, who is NO EVIDENCE OF TORTURE A POLL WILL BE TAKEN charged by County Detective 1). T. McKelvey with performing operations on young widows and wives at her Flames Spread So Rapidly Scores Friends of Murdered Ranchman Re. home. stored His Corpse to American Soil, If Exclusion Carries Majority In King- Were Forced to Jump From Win- Mrs. Lynch is now under $6000 bail dom Is Needed to Subject People to dows—Thirteen Escape by Rope. for her appearance at the next term Not Texas Rangers. of court. New House. No conflict will arise between the The ruins of the Missouri Athletic Mrs. Lynch was convicted some federal government and the state of Premier Asquith, of England, and club's building, in St. Louis, Mo., time ago of practicing medicine ille- Texas over the recovery of the body his cabinet yielded to the demands of which was destroyed by fire, are be- gally and of "powwowing." She was of Cleinente Vergara, the American the anti-home rule forces of the Ul- ing searched for thirty-one missing never called for sentence, but lately ranchman slain by Mexican Federals. ster counties of Ireland. men, believed to be victims of the she has again started practicing, it is Further steps, however, demanding the In a formal address to the house of worst conflagration in the history of charged. punishment of Vergara's assassins will commons the premier outlined the pro- the city. Seven of the dead have been Signed statements have been pro- be taken. visions of a home rule compromise by recovered. The property loss is $350,. cured from eleven women, in which That was the status of the case af- which the people of Ulster province 000. they declare that they were operated ter a cabinet meeting. The officially may escape for a time at least the The blaze spread with such rapidity on in the Lynch home. Two young wo- accepted view was that Vergara was dominancy of a Dublin parliament. that for a time the entire retail dis- men have informed the county detec- lured across the border and murdered The terms of the compromise are: trict was threatened. So intense was tive that they gave birth to children and his body was subsequently recov- 1.—The counties of Ulster province the heat that the firemen were beaten in the home of Mrs. Lynch, but they ered by his own friends—not Texas will be allowed to say whether or not back several times. Every fire fighter declare they have never seen the chil- into Mexico as they desire to be excluded from the in the city was on the scene, and every dren. rangers—who crossed private individuals and not as an arm- operations of the home rule for Ireland piece of apparatus, but for four hours Attempts are being made to get evi- ed expedition. bill. the men were hardly able to get close dence of a very serious nature against meeting, at which 2.—A poll will be taken of the par- enough to battle with the flames, while the woman, and County Detective Mc- After the cabinet United liamentary electors on the question of the screams of the dying could be Kelvey has been told to spare no ex- the report of A. B. Garrett, Laredo, Mex., exclusion before the home rule bill heard above the roar of the fire and pense in running down the clews he States consul at Nuevo Secretary Bryan gave out becomes operative. the crash of falling walls. has obtained. was read, The hero of the conflagration was the following paraphrase of Garrett's 3.—If a majority favors exclusion, the county or counties wherein there the telephone operator, a small boy, MUST telegram. who remained at his post until the PAY TAXES "Consul Garrett went with Captain has been such a decision will be auto- Sanders, of the Texas rangers, and a matically excluded for a period of six flames actually were licking his tele- Oklahoma Oil and Gas Leases Now deputy sheriff Palafox, Tex., last years from the time of the first meet- phone board. Only then did he flee Subject to Revenue. to making ing of the new parliament. through the main entrance, passing Oil and gas leases in Oklahoma, es- Saturday for the purpose of 4.—If a majority of the Ulster coun- through flame and smoke. Many of timated to be worth from $200,000,000 further investigation in the Vergara the Vergara ties favor exclusion, only the assent those who escaped death said that his to $500,000,000, were rendered subject case. They went to of a majority of the people of the warning had undoubtedly saved their to assessment and taxation by the de- ranch and examined witnesses who Vergara whole United Kingdom can bring them lives. cision of the state supreme court up- saw the horses belonging to under sovereignty of the proposed The figures on the dead and missing holding the state board of equaliza- taken by the Mexicans, and who also Dublin parliament. were given in a statement issued by tion's valuation of the Indian Terri- saw Vergara cross the river and those The declaration of terms brought a committee of the club, which sought tory Illuminating Oil company's prop- who saw him captured. The investi- prolonged cheers from the ranks of a record of every man known to have erty for the year 1911. Oh, send me some gation kept them up late Saturday shamrocks from that distant isle the Unionists and groans and hisses been registered at the clubhouse. For Tax experts have calculated the night, when they reached Coleman's where from the Liberals and Irish National- the thirty-one missing hope was value of omitted lease properties since On which Erin's patron and saint still doth smile! camp, two miles above Palafox, l concluded to re- ists. practically abandoned. 1908 and have taken steps already to they ate supper and Oh, how I will treasure and fondly lay main over night. Home rule in Ireland, with the four The fire is believed to have started place more than $100,000,000 on the "About 4 a. m. they were informed' Protestant counties of the nine coun- on the third floor, where the dining tax rolls in the oil counties on the Them near to my heart on St. Patrick's day! Vergara's body ties of the province of Ulster—Antrim, room had been. With incredible speed east side of the stat,e. that was on the Texas1 the Armagh, Londonderry and 0own—re- the flames spread, and before the first Ownership by the state of the bee side of river. Consul Garrett ' taining for six years their old stand- firemen arrived On the scene the en- of the Arkansas river to high water SERUM KILLS PATIENTS PASS WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILI. roused the chauffeur of his automobile and went five or six ing in the United Kingdom outside the tire upper part of the building was an mark was also declared by the state miles away to a Victims Were Inmates of Measure Goes Through Massachusetts point ranch,1 jurisdiction of the Dublin government, Inferno. supreme court in an opinion by Jus- County Hos- opposite San Enrique's Senate by Vote of 32 to 2. would, in the general opinion express- Within an hour the walls began to tice R. H. Loufborrow. pital—Crime Hinted At. about three miles below Palafox. "Toxic poisoning" death The proposed amendment to the "Mr. there found the body, ed in parliament, be the result of the buckle, and one after another fell in- The decision gives the state com- caused the Garrett of seven men who were constitution which would give women with a number of relatives of Vergara, compromise oftered. The view is gen- ward, carrying down the roof and plete title to the oil and gas deposits treated for blood disease at the county hospital the right to vote passed the Massachu- who had also been notified to come erally taken that there can Le Lee every story above the second. A mass beneath the Arkansas and other navi- in Los Angeles, setts senate by a vote of 32 to 2, with identify the body. Mr. Garrett doubt of the result of a referendum. of burning embers and sparks flew gable streams in Oklahoma, besides Cal., recently, accord- and ing to a report post-morten surgeons one pair. was informed that a small party of hundreds of feet into the air, and set- send and gravel, to which the state This is the first time George Vanderbilt Dies In Washington tled on scores of buildings in the also has asserted its rights. submitted to Coroner Hartwell. that such an Vergara's friends had gone over the amendment has ever passed either George W. Vanderbilt. of New York, neighborhood.

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