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In the new desirable styles for all sorts of gowns and waists are here in full force. Black, white and colored bands and appliques in rich designs. (Sold and silver iffeets in bands and all-overs. Fancy yoking, etc. Fancy Dress Silks* And Foulards in all the newest colorings, neat designs in light and dark shades. Cheyney's shower-proof Foulards are the most serviceable made. Beautiful patterns, 'J.'J inches wide for 85c a yard. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE STREET, WILLIAMSPORT - PENN'A. PRINTING TO PLEASE dlf Iflews ITtent ©fftce. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY APRIL 8, 1910. SUPREME JUSTICE j D. J. BREWER DEAD Striken with Apoplexy at HIl Home in Washington, D. C. IMPORTANT CASES AFFECTED Decisions Were Pending Involving the Constitutionality of the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Com panies. Washington, I). C. t April 5. —Asso- ciate Justice David J. Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States, died suddenly of apoplexy at hia home in Sixteenth street here. He was preparing to retire and had disrobed. He went to the bath room, and had been there but a mo ment or two when Mrs. brewer heard the sound of a fall. She ran to the room and found her husband lying unconscious on the floor. Mrs. Brewer telephoned for frienda and physicians, but when Judge A. M. Gould, Dr. A. H. Taylor and Dr. Ster ling Ruflin responded. Justice Brewer was dead. The only other person in the Brew- ! er home at the time was Miss Clara j Hall, a niece of Mrs. Brewer. Mrs. J. L. Karick and Mrs. A. P. Jetmore, daughters of the Justice by a former mariage, reached the home a few min utes after he died. Three cases of extraordinary im- ' portance possibly may be affected by 1 the death of Justice Brewer. They are that of the Government against the Standard Oil Company; that of the Government against the American To bacco Company, and that involving the constitutionality of the corpora tion tax. The last is, in effect, the j consolidation of a number of cases. The first two are actions under the Sherman anti-trust law for the disso lution of the corporations by injunc tion. Justice Brewer was the only mem ber of the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States who was not born in this country. His father, the Rev. Joslah Brewer, was a missionary at Smyrna, <n Apia Minor, and it 1» there that h« was born on June 20, 1837. He was graduated from Yale College in 1856, and from the Albany Law School two years later. In 1859 he began to prac tice law in Leavenworth, Kan., and two years later was appointed United States Commissioner. He was elect ed Judge of the Supreme Court, in Kansas and was re-elected in 1876, and again in 1882. His success In that ofllce attracted the attention of President Arthur, and in 1884 he was appointed Judge of tho United States Circuit Court. Five years later, when ho was fifty-two years old, he was called to Washing ton as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He became known as one of the great advocates in tho Supreme Court of individual rights against the tyran ny of the majority. In delivering an address before the New York State Bar Association in 18113, he said: "Here there is no monarch threat ening trespass upon an individual. The danger is from the multitude— the majority with whom lies the pow er." ENACTS DISFRANCHISEMENT. Bills Taking Ballot from Colored Voters Passed. Annapolis, Md., April 5. —The acts known as the Digges bills, which have for their object the disfranchisement of all colored residents who have not owned at least SSOO worth of property for two years prior to the time when they ask registration, but which will affect the race's vote only at State and municipal elections in Maryland, passed the House of Delegates. The bills need only Governor Crothers's signature to become law, they having . been passed by the Senate shortly before 3 a. m. to-day. NIGHT RIDER CONVICTED. First of One Hundred Indicted to Bo Found Guilty. Lexington, Ky., April 5. —Boone Bush, one of the alleged "night riders" charged with the raid on the town of Dycusburg on the night of February 3, 1908, was found guilty by a jury at Marion and sentenced to one year in prison. This is the first conviction of any of the alleged night riders arrested for the numerous raids and whippings In eastern Kentucky, although more than one hundred men were arrested and indicted in the past two years. Bequest to Mrs. Longworth. Boston, Mass., Mar. 30. Mrs. Nich olas Longworth is a beneficiary in the will of her late grandfather, George C. Lee, a wealthy banker of this city, who died recently. He leaves an in come of SIO,OOO to former Alice Roose velt. 232,000 RAILROAD MEN '| GET RAISED IN WAGES Penna. and Reading Grant Higher Wages—New Haven Raises Passenger Fares. OOOOOOOOODOOOOODOOOOOOOOOO| I How R. R. Men's Wages Will Be O Increased. H Pennsylvania, east of Q Pittsburg $6,000,000 O Pennsylvania, west Q of Pittsburg 4,000,000 g N. Y. Central, east Q I of Buffalo 750,000 g N. Y. Central system, Q west of Buffalo .. 500,000 g New York, New Hav- Q en & Hartford .... 500,000 5 Q Other New England Q Q lines 250,000 g Q Philadelphia & Read- Q g ing 1,500,000 g O Trunk lines other Q Q than Pennsylvania 9 Q and New York Q X Central 2,000,000 g Q New York - Buffalo Q X roads and coal g Q roads 1,000,000 O 0 Southern roads 1,000,u00 g © Lines west of Clil- O g cago 5,000,000 g S Total $22,500,000 g Cccccccccccccccccccccccoco Washington, April s.—Wages for the vast army of men employed on the big steam railways of the country, an army estimated to consist of not less than 625,000 men, are going up by leaps and bounds In an endeavor to keep pace with the greatly increased cost of living. The Pennsylvania Railroad system, employing almost 200,000 men, an nounced an Increase of 6 per cent, in the wages of approximately 195,000 men, and Involving to the company an additional expenditure per annum of about $10,000,000. Later In the day the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, one of the big coal carriers, announced a similar increase in salary, involving about 37,000 men. The added cost to the company is about $1,500,000 a year. The New York Central, and the lines it controls cast and west of Buffalo, has increased wages to the extent of $1,250,000 a year; the New York, New Haven & Hartford has male an increase which represents an additional expenditure of $500,000 a year. Other trunk lines. Southern lines and lines west of Chicago and the local roads have made wage in creases which, it is estimated, will cost them an added $9,000,000 a year. Thus, from the roads so far heard from, the aggregate wages of the rail road workers in 1910 will have in creased approximately $22,500,000. The New York, New Haven & Hait ford Railroad, which recently raised ■wages because of the high cost of liv ing, however, announced that on May 1 it will increase its passenger rates between this city and Boston. The in creases in fares amount to from 2 to 5 per cent. This would indicate that the traveling public will have to pay for the increase in wages. So far as can be learned, neither the Pennsylvania Railroad Company nor the Reading Company contem plates raising fares to the public in order to meet the added costs of wages. Ultimately, however, it is ex pected there will be some slight ad vance in freight rates. $7,500,000 PAY INCREASE. Pennsylvania Railroad Gives Notice of Concession to Employees. Philadelphia, April 4.—The Penn sylvania Railroad Company posted no tices that all employees of its system drawing less than s3oo per month in pay would receive an increase of 6 per cent., to take effect at once. The order, it was said at the office of the press agent, was made at the last meeting of the Board of Directors. Between 180,000 and 190,000 per sons are employed by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company. The wages paid out amount to about $125,000,000 a ar. The increase is approximately $7,500,000. GOT RICHMOND P. O. THIEVES. Fight and Chase in New York City Central Wind Up Hunt. New York, N. Y., April 4. — Two men arrested after a fight and a chase in front of the Grand Central Stai>on and the Hotel Manhattan were locked up at police headquarters charged with robbing the post office at Rich mond, Va., early on Monday morning of $85,000 worth of stamps and $3,000 cash. The post office inspectors and the police recovered $30,000 worth of stamps. The men arrested are Fred. Cunningham, of London, England, and Frank Chester, of St. Paul. Bribed to Vote for Percy. Jackson, Miss., Mar. 30. Testimony was given before the Hinds County Grand Jury by State Senator Theo dore Bilbe that lie accepted a bribe of $645 from L. C. Dulaney, of Issa quea County, to vote for Leroy Percy in the recent United States Senatorial contest. SENATOR ALLDS IS | GUILTY OF BRIBERY New York State Senate by Vote of 40 to 9 Susta'ns the Conger Charges HE RESIGNS BEFORE VOTE Suddenly Quits When He Finds That Decision of the Senate is to Be Ad verse to Him—Movement to Investi gate Conger for Bridge Work. Albany, N. Y., April 5. —After seven weary weeks of investigation, the New York Senate convicted Senator Jo tham P. Allds, of Norwich, of accept ing a bribe of SI,OOO to influence bridge legislation. The vote against him was overwhelming 10 to 9. By the unexpected move of sending in his resignation Allds relieved the Senate of the painful duty of expell ing him. The resignation was sent on the advice of his attorneys, who were convinced he had lost and who desired to put the blame on political interfer ence with the Senatorial jury from Washington and elsewhere. Those who voted in favor of Allds were: Senators Coals, Grattan, Hold en and Kissell, Republicans, and Sen ators Cullen, Frawley, Grady, C. D. Sullivan, T. 1). Sullivan, Democrats. Senator Cobb Introduced a resolu tion providing for the appointment of a committee of five senators to pre pare charges against Senator Conger, growing out of the use of funds to in fluence members of the Legislature. Meanwhile, if Senator Conger has not yet resigned, this special committee will start his trial, and it is anticipat ed the trial can be completed in 48 ho'trs. While Senator Conger does not ex poet a favorable result of an investi gation. it is bejieved that his position is well stated by his counsel. Judge David M. Van lloesen, who remarked, emphatically: "Conger hasn't shown any sign of cowardice sine s this trial began, has he?'" After the vote was announced which showed so decisively the practical ava lanche against Allds, everyone was criticising Allds for not sticking it out to the finish. There were those who believed that Allds had an idea that his resignation would eliminate the whole bribery proposition immediately from the senate, but that idea was quickly shattered when such Republi cans as Senator Cobb let it be known that the Senate wanted to vote on the charges with Allds in or out of the body. Allds was consequently to gala nothing by resigning. GRAFT ENDED BY GAYNOR. New York Police Merely to Report Ex cise Violators. New York, N. Y., April 4. —Police- men either in uniform or in citizen's dress will not hereafter, during the administration of Mayor Gaynor, be permitted to enter saloons to detect violations of the Excise law, nor will they be permitted to make arrests for such violations on the spot, as has been the practice where liquor deal ers did not pay for "protection." Mayor Gaynor laid down the law in a letter he sent to Police Commis sioner Baker. He directed that in future, to stop police graft on this line, patrolmen shall be required to examine saloons from th ■ outside to see the provisions of the Raines law as to keeping bars exposed to view from the streets are complied with and that no persons are served with liquor or beer. The patrolman, the captain and the inspector are to make note of the evi dence in their books and turn such evidence of all violations over to the Police Commissioner. He is required in turn to submit the evidence In all cases to the District Attorney, who is to obtain warrants and prosecute the cases. QUOTED SENATE VOTES AT SSOO. Offered to Deliver Half Dozen in 1908 for $3,000. New York, N. Y., April 4. —Five hundred dollars in the senate at Al bany as recently as 190u, as Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., swore that W. 11. Buckley quoted them to him —$3,000 for a half dozen. Mr. Kingsley, who succeeded his father-in-law, John A. McCall, as presi dent of the New York Life, testifying at the fire insurance inquiry conducted by Superintendent llotchklss, said that in 1906, while he was in Albany trying to get through an amendment to the Armstrong law, Buckley, the in surance lobbyist and former employee of the insurance department, had come to him and proposed to "deliver" the votes of six senators for $3,000, each of the Senators to get SSOO for his vote. He rejected the proposition. King George read a message prom ising to convene a chamber to revise the constitution of Greece. Library PITTSBURG MAYOR ! JEERED AT MEETING Monster Gathering to Uphold Crusade Against Vice Attended by Many Prominent Persons. Pittsburg, Pa., April 5 —Mayor William A. Magee tried to sneer at 3,000 Pittsburg taxpayers who had gathered In Exposition Hall to protest against the vice in Pittsburg and was hissed and hooted from the hall. Mayor Magee thundered that if half of what is said about him and Ills ad ministration were true he would re sign and the rafters fairly thundered ■with the roars of "Please resign," "You're afraid to," &c. Julian Kennedy, the consulting en gineer, Prof. John A. Brasliear, the as tronomer, and others of equal fame had the meeting in charge. Mayor Magee came to the meeting unasked and took a seat on the stage, no attention being paid to him until charges had been made against the administration, when he jumped to his feet and asked Prof. Brashear the privilege of replying. This was grant ed him. "You people know a whole lot about the law, don't you?" began Magee, at which the crowd stood on chairs and Magee was hissed for fully ten min utes before he would make a move to sit down. "If half what has been said about me and my administration is true I'll resign my commission!" snouted the Mayor of Pittsburg as soon as he could be heard. A roar of catcalls and hisses greeted this, while hundreds of men shook their iists at the defiant little Mayor and dared him to resign. One man whose name was not learned shouted to the Mayor that he would jive him ?1,000 to resign at once. The crowd, composed of many of the best men in Pittsburg, stood on its feet and hissed the "Million-dollar Mayor" until he passed clear out of the building on the arm of John Morin, his Director of Public Safety. POOR FEEL PRICES NOW. Dairy Lunches Are Putting Up Rates on Meat Orders. New York, N. Y., April 4. —The high er cost of eating has now come to mean real hardship to tens of thou sands of clerks, stenographers, te'e phone girls, and others of the army of small salaried persons in the city. They have seen articles in the papers telling about the higher cost of living; but it seemed that still they could goto their dairy lunches and get the same old things for the same old prices. Entertainment stayed about the same, for moving picture shows are 5 and 10 cents, and the peanut galleries of the best theatres are still 50 cents. NO DIVORCE FROM INSANE WIFE. Boston Judge Holds She Was Sane at Time of Marriage. Boston, April 4. —Although Eva D. Salzberg was for a time insane previ ous to her marriage to Harry E. Salz berg, a Boston metal dealer, on May 25, 1900, and has since been commit ted to the Boston Insane Hospital on different occasions, Justice Raymond refused to annul the marriage, finding from the evidence that the woman was sane at the time of the ceremony. WOLTER PLEADS NOT GUILTY Counsel Demurs to the Indictment of Girl's Murderer in Vain. New York, N. Y., April 4. —In spite of his counsel's efforts to secure a de lay Albert W. Wolter, who is accused of killing Ruth A. Wheeler, was forced to plead before Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions to the indictment charging him with the murder. Wol ter entered a plea of not guilty and later in the day his trial was set down for April IS in Judge Poster's part of General Sessions. N. Y. Central Raises Wages. New York, N. Y., April 4. —W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central, announced that the wages of yard conductors and yard brakeinen would be increased three cen's an hour. The wages of all other em ployees of the road receiving a month ly salary of S2OO or less will be in creased 7 per cent. KILLS TWO WOMEN AND SELF. David Vesper, Gambler, Shoots Rich ards Sisters—No Struggle. I.orain, Ohio, April 4.—Miss Ruby Richards,' aged 40, of this city, and Miss Dorothy Richards of Chicago, her sister and five years her junior, were shot to death by David Vesper, aged 35, a gambler known in Cleve land and Chicago. Vesper then turned the gun upon himself, inflicting a wound in the head from which he died instantly. Vesper had beeu known as the friend of Ruby Richards for some years. She recently lost her chief source of income, and since that time, his friends say, Vesper drank heavily. Miss Dorothy Richards came from I Chicago about three months ago, and had since been residing with her elder ■ister.
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