Republican News Item. VOL. XIV. NO 48 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, i3:Tja-i3:ES"vixaii^i, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75 000 - DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Win. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Soues, „ w ,„ W C.Frontz, Frank A.Renter, Jacob Per, Banking Business. ~ ~T m « i t> .. r * Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter l rontz, Accounts oflildivid- j A s Bull) John Ball. uals and Firms solicited. Safo Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. HARDWARE,!®!SIJiff stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or SSS-T""*,. whatever it may he—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a line variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give spdeial attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water ' Hot Air Heating. Geueral job work and repairing In all branc) -a, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. Season's Best Dress Goods There's nothing lacking in our Dress Goods Department., We can't imagine how you can fail to find what you want here at any paice from 50c to SL'.OO. Stocks are large and varied; fabrics are new, many of them are exclusive. The prices are down to the low est notch. Serges, Htnriettas, Batistes, Wool Taffetas, Panamas, Diagonals, Striped effects, Tussah Royal and neat Fancy Suitings. Ladies' Kid Gloves. In all the wanted styles of Gloves and fashionable new shades for spring wear. Good gloves for SI.OO. The very best for sl.f>o Ladies' New Suits and Gowns. From scores of shoppers, ',buyers" would be more accurate, we hear expressions of delight at the attractive styles we are showing at the low prices they are marked. Dress Trimmings. In the new desirable styles for all sorts of gowns and .„re here in full force. Black, white and colored bands and appliques in rich designs. Gold and silver iffects 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, 23 inches wide for 85e a yard. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE STREET, WILLIAMSPORT - FENN'A. PRINTING TO PLEASE "U"' Hews Item ©ffice. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY APRIL 15,1910. RORBERS KILL TWO 111 RAID ON A BANK Four Desperadoes Enter Pitts burg Surburban Institution and Begin to Shoot CASHIER AND TELLER SLAIN Thieves After Getting $5,000 Rids Back and Forth Through Town Shooting at Citizens —Three Men Wounded—Search for Murderers. Pittsburg,. April 12.—Four masked men robbed the Victor Banking Co. at McKees Rocks, a surburb six miles below Pittsburg, at .8.30 o'clock p. m. and got away with $5,000, after shoot ing down and killing the manager and the cashier of the bank and wounding three other people, one a woman. The men stepped from the shadows outside the bank as those inside were about to close It for the night, and while two of ine men stopped outside with drawn revolvers and warned away all passing pedestrians, the others entered the building and began to shoot. The men killed were: FRIEDMAN, SAMUEL, the manager, hit by three bullets while he was trying to protect $5,000, which lay on the counters of the bank. SCHWARTZ, IGNATZ, the cashier, died an hour or so later In the McKees Rocks Hospital. The injured were: ENC'O, MARY, employee of bank; slightly Injured trying to save Friedman and Schwartz. KING, ROBERT, citizen; shot down In street by robbers as they ran with the plunder; at McKees Rocks Hos pital; will live. MILKO, ANDREW, mill workman; hit by stray bullet. The robbers, Jumped on horses Just outside the town and escaped with the $5,000. McKees Rocks, and Schoenville, ad joining, were both terrorized for about thirty minutes during and after the shootir.g. After mounting their horses the four robbers rode up and down through the town shooting right and left. It was then that King and MUko were shot, while trying to stop the robbers. The location of the Victor Bank Is lonesome after nightfall. It Is on the dividing line between Schoenville and McKees Rocks, and many of Its pat rons are the workmen of the plants of those towns. It Is a bank for foreign ers, and also has conducted a steam ship agency. Last Saturday was pay day at most of the works and there was about $25,000 In the bank this evening. Only $5,000 of It appeared on the counters, however, the rest being locked In the big safes. SOCIALIBTB ELECT A MAYOR. Party Wins First American Victory In Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., April 11.—Milwau kee is the tlrst large city in the United States to elect a Socialist Mayor and Common Council. Emll Seldel, oppos ed by strong canditates In both the Republican and Democratic Parties, was chosen Mayor by about 6,500 plur ality In the municipal election. The Social Democrats also elected the six Aldermen-at-Large and carried four teen wards out of twenty-three, giving them a large majority in the Council. The Democratic canditate for May or, V. G. Schoenecker, Jr., ran second, and was about 8,000 votes ahead of the Republican nominee. Dr. J. Beffel. INVALID BUILT UP ESTATE. Leaves by Her Will SBOO,OOO to Bene ficent Institutions. Boston, April 8. —In connection with the announcement of public requests totalling SBOO,OOO by the will of Mar tha R. Hunt, who died In Somervllie, March 15, there was disclosed also the remarkable feat of an Invalid woman confined to her home for forty years. In increasing a legacy left her by her father In 1866 fourfold through wise Investments. The estate Is valued at over $900,000, and represents Miss Hunt's careful oversight of some 200,- 000 to which she originally fell heir. KILL BLACKHAND INFORMER. Lured Into St. Louie Clubroom and As sassinated. St. Louis, April 11. —Peter Cordone, a Sicilian, was murdered In the SL Louis headquarters of the Maila for giving Information about the Black Hand operations of some of Its mem bers, it Is said. Cordone was lured to the clubroom with an invitation to attend a celebration. His body was found riddled with bullets In the de serted clubroom. A score of Sicilians were arrested. Washington, April B. —The House passed a bill authorizing the free transportation through the mails of books and periodicals printed In raised characters for the use of the blind. INDICT F. N. HOFFSTOT AS THE BRIBE-GIVER -Steel Maker Charged with Conspiracy Also In Connection with ss2*- 600 Pittsburg Graft Fund. . J Prayers for Pittsburg Are Urged Q ; j by Bishop. § < Stirred by revelations of Q j graft In Pittsburg, Bishop Cort- Q < land Whitehead, of the Pitts- x 5 burg diocese of the Protestant o < Episcopal Church, appointed 0 5 Sunday as a day to be observed Q < throughout Allegheny County 9 3 "with special prayers and ser- Q < inons on civic righteousness, cor- 9 5 porate repentance and confes- Q 5 Bion, intemperance and political 8 5 chicanery, graft and fraud—on O ? any topic, indeed, which bears 8 5 on the present deplorable sltua- O 5 tlon In Pittsburg." § B<x»cocoooccooccxxxxxx:ooooß j Pittsburg April 12. —The promised sensation In the graft crusade caino, and even Pittsburg, accustomed as It Is to revelations of moral turpitude on the part of its leading citizens, is as tonished. The Grand Jury indicted the i following: Frank N. Hoffstot, president of the : German National Bank of Allegheny, and president of the Pressed Steel Car Company. i Emll Winter, President of the Work- Ingmen's Savings Bank & Trust Co., j of Allegheny. i Another sensation followed. In open , court President Winter acknowledged | the truth of the charge that he had given $20,000 to bribe former Council man Morris Elnstoin, by saying that he had no defense to offer. Sentence was postponed. The Indictments against Hoffstot , include two counts of bribery and one of conspiracy to defraud the city. The presentment reads that Hoffstot shall be ordered to appear as witness, "and in case he does not do ho Immediately that the District-Attorney of Alle gheny County proceed forthwith to extradlct him." I Hoffstot Is accused of paying $52,500 to Charles A. Stewart, a former Coun cilman, to adopt an ordinance naming three banks In which HofTstot was in terested, as the depositories of city funds. DRIVEN OUT BY ROCKEFELLER. Town on Franklin County Estate Re duced from 1200 People to 20. Albany, N. Y., April 11. —Consent ' was asked of the Public Service Com mission by Vice President Albert H. Harris of the New York Central to the abandonment of the station of the Ne>' York & Ottawa Railroad Com pai t at Brandon, Franklin County, in the heart of the William Rockefeller preserve. Mr. Harris Bald that while there was a population of 1,200 there In 1890, at present there are but four Inhabited houses aud a population of twenty persons. Chairman Stevens called attention to the fact that there wus but a sin gle public highway leading out of Brandon to Bay Pond, the next sta tion, the only road being a private one and the public being forbidden to use It. The residents of Brandon could not get to the railroad station without trespassing on the Rockefeller pre serves, he pointed out. ADMITS SPRINGneI-D MURDER. Bpencer Confesses That He Killed Miss Blackstone. Springfield, Mass., April 11. —Ber- tram G. Spencer, the young man who was arested confessed that he was the murderer of Miss Martha B. Black stone as well as the masked burglar who terrorized the women of Spring-, field for the last two years. Spencer declared to the police that he was utterly devoid of conscience, and that he never felt the least com punction in using a revolver to attain his ends. He made the further assertion that he had pursued his career of crime simply as a pastime and not because of a desire for profit from his rob beries. The prisoner said he had always stolen, and that. he attributed the mania to steal to a "hole" In the back of hts head. He declared that his father caused this Injury when he was a small boy In Lebanon, Conn. $322,000 FOR NEW CHURCH. Half from Rockefeller, Half from Other Members. New York, N. Y., April 12.—Within a half hour the members of the Fifth ▲venue Baptist Church, of whom Joha D. Rockefeller Is one, pledged $821,000 tor building a new church at Forty* sixth street and Fifth avenue, wfaere the present edifice stands. Dr. Chas. F. Aked, the pastor, made an unex> pected appeal tor funds from the pul pit because, he said afterward, he wanted to see how much he could raise from unpremedlated sifts. One | half of the sum was given bf Mr. Rockefeller. RELIGIOUS FANATIC MURDERS PREACHER Frank Skala, Editor of a Pitts* burg Periodical, Is Shot Down by a Russian ELDER ALSO MORTALLY NORT Holds Congregation at Bay with Two Pistols and Escapes by Seizing Farmer's Horee and Buggy Under Threat of Death. Pittsburg, Pa., April 12. —The Rev. Frank Skala, editor of the Christian Journal, a Belgian religious publica tion, after preaching a sermon In the Second Presbyterian Church Mission at Woods Hun, North Side, was shot dead as he stepped outside the church, by Michael Rewdicz, a Russian religi ous fanatic, who also tried to kill Eld er John Gay of the church luls.-iou. Gay Is In a hospital with three bul lets in his body. The murderer es caped. Mr. Skala has been considered the leader of his people in Western Penn sylvania. Last Sunday Pastor Andrew Kovac announced that Editor Skala would occupy the pulpit in the pas tor's absence. The little mission was crowded. Rewdicz, who Is understood to belong to many Russian societies, attended the services. He took excep tion to Skala's sermon, and rising, de manded in a loud voice that he be heard. "I will answer your questions after church and outside the church," said Mr. Skala. Rewdicz sat down, and Skala appeared to forget all about the Incident, for when the service was over lie left the building with Elder Gay. lioth had been invited to take dinner with one of the parishioners. They were passing among about 150 members of the congregation who had stopped to chat when Rewdicz came to meet them. "What can I do for you, my good friend," said Mr. Skala, attempting to seize Rewdicz by the hand. The Rus sian was excited and continued to ges ticulate and planting himself in front of Mr. Skala, he pulled a revolver from his poeket and shot him through the breast: Mr. Skala dropped dead. As Gay started to run he was shot through the buck. Gay lay apparently dead, but Rewdicz shot him twice more. Many persons were trampled in their haste to get away when the crazed man began shooting. A few remained near and some threw stoned at Redwicz, who waved his revolver threateningly aa he backed np the steps into the little church. A crowd of 500 soon collected, but the murder er held them all at a safe distance with his revolver. At the end of half an hour, with a revolver In each hand, he stepped out of the church doors, drove the crowd away and started for the street car line. The crowd chased him for a few blocks and he turned and fired several shots. He soon came up with a farmer in a buggy and or dering him to alight he took the ve hicle and fled into the country. Late In the afternoon the horse was found wandering five miles from North Pitts burg. Redwicz came to America two years ago and in March came to Pitts burg. He is thought to have become demented over religion and Russian secret societies. KILLS HUSBAND IN BEDROOM. Wife Says He Had Treatened to Kill Her In Quarrel. Pittsburg, Kan., April 12. —Walter Caldwell was shot and instantly killed by his wife, Mary Caldwell, in their bedroom. Immediately after the shoot ing she went to police headquarters and surrendered. She is In Jail. She sale her husband had been with another woman during the even ing, for which she upbraided him, that he quarrelled with her about the affair and Anally began pulling her out of bed, saying he would kill her, and that as he did so she got a revol ver from under her pillow and shot him twice In self-defence. ROOSEVELT CALLS ROOT. Wants Senator to Meet Him In Europe —Latter Is Reluctant. Washington, April 11. —It Is under stood here that ex-President Roosevelt has invited Senator Ellhu Root togo to Europe and meet him. But the Sen ator, it appears. Is reluctant to accept the Invitation, fearing that the object of the meeting might be misunder stood. Loses Life from a Canoe. Pittsburg, Pa., April 12. —William Knlpe, 17 years old, of Wllklnsburg. was drowned when he and his brother in-law, Ernest M. Johnson, opened the canoeing season In the Allegheny Riv er. The men of whom they rented a canoe had argued that It was pressing the season, and had tried to persuade them to take a skiff. SUIeUWMy 7g( , pER yEAR ORGIES TO OE PROOED RY ANGRY GOVERNOR Denunciation of Jersey Assemblymen Who Danced Hoochee-Coochee with Women In Capitol. Trenton, N. J., April 12.—From nearly every pulpit In Trenton and other cities and towns In New Jersey there has burst a storm of denuncia tion of the astounding drunkeu orgy that uiarkod the closing session of the lower House of the one hundred and thirty-fourth Legislature of the State. Clergymen of Trenton, headed by the Rev. George W. Rldout of the Methodist Church, director of the Antl- Saloon League of New Jersey; the Rev. Hugh B. MacCauley of the Pres byterian Church, the Rev. Judr.on Conlin, the Rev. J. K. Manning, the Rev. H. Collins Minton and the Rev. Hamilton Schuyler, are organizing to demand that Gov. Fort call an extra session of the Legislature to investi gate what the Governor himself de scribed as "an affair that Is a disgrace to the State." It was after dawn when the revelry, horseplay and worse were over, tha legislators went to or were delivered at their hotels and the women, with day-light making a ghasily show of their rouged faces, decamped. It will be declared that a gro- p of notoriously disßolute women of Tren ton were brought to the Assembly a.id got a whole section of seats In t!:e gallery, where they conducted them selves so shockingly by yelling to members below, hurling confetti at them and singing to them that decent women were forced to withdraw. Among them were many young gi 1 students from the State Normal School who attend sessions of the Legistatuie to study government. Afterward. In a room off the gallery, the disreputable women with member* of the Legislature and attaches of the Capitol, indulged in wild revelry, with high kicklug and hoochee-coochee and Apache dances. All decency and re straint were abandoned. It is said. Foul phrases were flung across the floor of the House and echoed from the galleries. When the confetti gave jut the women took to throwing books. Legislators staggered on the floor or slept at the desks In undisgulsable in toxication. Drinks were served at the deitks of members. The coarsest and most undignified acts of horseplay and "rough house" were enacted, aitd all in all, the dignity of the State and the decency of tho com.auulty, !t 's asserted, were flonted in a way un paralleled. The church folks' anger Is increased by the fact that the Legislature de feated the local option bill, by which it was hoped to make much of Ne r Jersey "dry," and voted for Sunday baseball and full license of all Sunday amusements. ORDERS PULLMAN RATES CUT. Upper Berths to Be About 25 Per Cent. Cheaper. Washington, April 12. —After an In quiry extending for more than a year the Interstate Commerce Commission has reached the conclusion by a divid ed vote that Pullman car rates are too high and has ordered the Pullman Company and the Great Northern Railway Company, which operates Its own sleeping cars, to reduce the rates from Chicago to St. Paul and St. Paul to Seattle and other Western points. On upper berths the commis sion orders a reduction of approxi mately 25 per cent PAPER MAN'S BRIBE CHARGE. President Carey Tells of $25,000 Offer to End the Strike. Watertown, N. Y., April 12. — Presi ient J. T. Carey of the International Brotherhood of Pulp and Paper Mak ers, in a statement, asserts that a representative of the International Paper Company repeatedly has offer ed him a bribe of $25,000 to use his Influence In having the strikers go back to work not as union men. but as individuals, and to accept a 5 per jent. Increase In wages. Citizen Kills Burglar. Philadelphia, April 12. Caught breaking Into the house of Samuel Jennguenln, Reddy Gallagher, who has a police record as a burgler, was killed in a struggle with Jeanguenin. Sunday Rest for Railroad Men. Chicago, April 7. —The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has determin ed to make Sunday a day of rest as far as possible. Work in all departments of the road other than In those actual ly necessary to operate the system will be suspended, and the employees will have the day to themselves. A similar plan was announced last week by the United States Steel Corpor ation. Beven States for the Income Tax. Washlng'on, April B. Seven States have ratified the income tax amend ment to the Constitution, Maryland being the last State to act favorably. The States that have ratified are Ala bama, Illinois, South Carolina, Okla homa, Mississippi, Kentucky and Maryland.
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