REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM P\iblishecl by C. S. DAUBERMAN, Lt LAPORTE PA. Free speech is unrestricted ait m baseball game The unloaded revolver kills more than the unsinkabie ship, for it never rests. Hay is selling in Cincinnati at S2O a ton, but what of it? What's the price of gasoline? In pay-as-you-enter cars the particu lar woman to pay fares must be se lected on the spot. Letter paper is to cost more, but the lover will be expected to writ* long letters Just the same. Europe reports an eclipse of the sun, but China's Sun continues to shine and break into the newspapers. The rain falls more on the Just than the unjust, for the latter attach them selves to any umbrella in sight. A scientist announces that coffee Is frequently the cause of divorce. Some coffee is capable of worse things than that Harvard knows a lot, but she has had to acknowledge that Bhe doesn't know how to keep the college elms alive. Los Angeles chorus girls are said to be out on a strike. If they don't like their Jobs why don't they go into poli tics? The bide of the whale is said to be two feet thick in some places. Thiß makes the whale the politician of the sea. The baseball season of 1912 bids fair to be quite as highly seasoned as the baseball seasons of other years have been. Cincinnati women want a curfew for men only. When a man has to be chased home it is plain he needs oth er inducements. A train ran a race with a cyclone in Kansas —and won. The cyclone must have rubbed the earth too close and got full of friction. "Imports of diamonds have fallen off heavily," says the New York World. Perhaps all the hotel clerks are now eupplied with 'em. A society woman in New Jersey died while playing bridge. The game is often a shock to its players, but nut often such a fatal one. The Princeton student who has in vented a pocket for a woman's silk stocking evidently Isn't devoting all his attention to his studies. In Ohio it has been held criminal for a candidate to give a voter a cigar. The recipient of the cigar very gen erally endorses that principle. Massachusetts man who fell heir to millions has bought a farm. He is now in a position to raise chickens and still keep out of the poorhouse. The Hagerstown, Md., public library keeps an automobile that delivers books from door to door. Those books must have been ordered by telephone. An optimist is a man who believes that the anthracite trouble will soon be settled, so that coal will be plenti ful and reasonably cheap next winter. On Mars a year Is 730 days long. It seems evident that some of the ladies have adopted the Martian cal endar without saying anything about it. The price of eggs in China now is five cents a dozen, but unfortunately for economical housekeepers, it is 8,000 miles to China by the shortest v way. e- It is said that the Egyptians knew about appendicitis 7,000 years ago. Which may afford a clew to how they got the money with which to build the pyramids. According to a scientist the older a* etar is the faster it moves. Long prac tice in dodging vegetables and other similar tokens from audiences surely ought to count. A college professor has discovered that a woman scratches a match with An outward movement. Those sheath gowns are certainly doing their share In emancipating the sex. The famous Mona Lisa Is said to be In the United States. The only clue the art detectives have to trace her is that she wears a smile which will not come off. In these days that is some identification. "Chicago has discovered a girl wirn a perfect foot," says the Toledo Blade Did the poor girl lose the other one? A preacher Informs us that no mau has a right to tell his wife a lie —not even a harmless one. And yet WE have boen told that self-preservation Is the first law of nature. Writing paper Is to advance in cost but it is too much to expect that thi rise will teach some impetuous states men the excellence of the old rule "Never write; send a man." TAFT WELCOMES KAISEITS FLEET German and American War Ships Exchange Salutes. HEADS OF NATIONS TOASTED Salutes from All and Call Returned — American Naval Officers Give a Din ner on Board the Florida to Guests in Our Waters. Fort Monroe, Va. —With all the cere monies which a friendly war fleet ex tends to a visiting squadron in a home port, the German warships Moltke, Bremen and Stettin were welcomed to American waters here. President Taft, Secretary Meyer and an official party came from Washington on the >acht Mayflower to extend the welcome of the Nation to Admiral von Rebeur- Paaschewitz and his officers and men. With the Presidential party was Count von Bernstoff, the German Ambassa dor. Salutes of twenty-one guns for the President and fifteen for the Secretary of the Navy were fired by both fleets as the Mayflower headed into Hamp ton roads. The German ships had been at an chor several days Just inside the \ ir ginia Capes. As they steamed slowly into the Roads, convoyed by part of the welcoming squadron, the big Am erican battleships and cruisers at an chor, the Louisiana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Delaware, South Carolina and Utah, dressed ship to welcome the foreigners. Bands on the after decks of the flagships Florida and Moltke exchanged national airs as the Germau ships between the Ameri can lines, turned about in a graceful circle and drew up alongside. The Moltke anchored near the Florida. Admiral von Rebeur-Paaßchewitx with his officers immediately called on Admiral Ward, the senior American commander present, aboard the Flor ida. The two sailor princes, Henry of Iteuss and Christian von lies sen, took their places in the party merely as lieutenants of the line. As President Taft and the welcoming party aboard the Mayflower steamed by in review of the combined line of ships the Jackies of both fleets man ned the rails. The Germans cheered The Mayflower then took up a position near the Moltke and President Taft went aboard to welcome the German Admiral. Following these formalities officers of both fleets were taken aboard the Mayflower for luncheon with the President and his party. When the German officers arrived in Washington there was an exchange of I official visits and a luncheon at the German Embassy. The officers were guests at dinner at the White House. The squadron then moved up to New York, where another round of enter tainments was waiting. COLONEL OPPOSES ROOT. Attacks Senator as Barnes Man and Candidate of Bosses. Oyster Bay.—After an all day con ference with the main leaders of his campaign, Colonel Roosevelt an nounced he would not stand ior Sena tor Hoot as temporary Chairman of the Republican national convention. There was a strong intimation that the Colonel took a flat-footed stand as to Root because of rosy reports that many souTTrr n delegates are prepar ing to climb aboard his band-wagon. Recalling that in his belief, "Mr. Root has ranged himself against the men who stand for progressive princi ples within the Republican party and is put forward by the bosses and the representatives of special privilege," the Colonel says he is unalterably op posed to the senator as temporary chairman. He also attacks Chairman Barnes as the man who is demanding Root's selection and says President Taft has turned everything over to Barnes as representative of the bosses and the special interests. To abandon the fight against Senator Root at this time, Colonel Roosevelt says, would be a betrayal of progressive princi ples and would be regarded all over the country as an evidence of weak ness. PENSION FOR SCHLEY'S WIDOW. Senator Rayner Declares Loop of Brooklyn Saved Day at Santiago. Washington.—Recognition of the services of the late Admiral Schley was accorded by the Senate when, by a vote of 41 to 11, the pension of his widsw was increased from SSO to $l5O a month. The lower figure had been set by the committee according to its established rule of limitation, and the increase came as an amendment pro posed by Senator Rayner of the Ad miral's State of Maryland. He said the "loop" at Santiago saved the day. HOUSE BARS "TRUST" VESSELS. Wireless Bill for Passenger Steamers Goes Through. Washington.—Steamship lines, for eign and domestic, were hard hit in the House when the Humphrey bill closing American ports to all vessels whose owners violate the Sherman law and the Alexander bill requiring complete wireless equipment on all vessels enrrying more than 50 pas sengers, were passed, both by unani mous vote. The Alexander bill is identical with the Senate wireless bill. GERMAN FLEET VISITS AMERICA The German battleship fleet is here seen departing from Kiel for the trip across the Atlantic. The flag ship Moltke is leading. ROOSEVELT AND WILSON WIN Colonel and Governor Sweep New Jersey by Large Pluralities FARM DISTRICTS FOR TAFT Smith-Nugent Opposition to Governor Was Only Strong in Spots—La Follette Vote Light—Vote was Only 50 Per Cent. Trenton, N. J. —Sweeping victories were scored by Col. Roosevelt over President Taft and by Gov. \Vil6on over the "uninstructed" Democratic opposition in the New Jersey Presi dential primaries. Roosevelt captured the delegates to j the national convention. For a time it looked as if E'resident Taft might have six delegates, but later returns swept these districts from his list. The vote on both the preferential and district delegates was about the same in the two parties. About 60 per cent of the registered Republican vote of the State was cast at the primaries, the polls for which opened at 1 p. m.and closed at 9 p. m. On the Democratic side only one third of the registered vote was cast, and the interest was very much less keen than in the Republican contest, i because Woodrow Wilson was unop ■ posed by any other candidate. Gov. Wilson carried the State by a : towering majority. In the preferential j place on the ballot Gov. Wilson ran J without a rival, but the Smith-Nugent J machine in the Democratic organiza- I tion, which had placed in the tield un ! instructed delegated at large and dis j txict delegates against Gov. Wilson, i sustained a crushing defeat. Only two |of the Congress districts in Essex ( j County, the Smith-Nugent stronghold, elected delegates not pledged to Gov. Wilson. The indorsement given Col. Roose velt was even more pronounced than that for the New Jersey Governor. ! President Taft was badly beaten in al most every county. The delegates-at large will be for Roosevelt, having been elected on the same ballot as the district delegates. In some of the districts Col. Roose j velt received ten votes to every one j cast for the President. But in both } parties the vote was very light. Little interest and no disorder char- j acter.zed the contest. The vote for : Senator La Follette was negligible 1 The President showed his greatest strength in the farming districts. In j one of tl e towns in which he spoke, within a few minutes of the opening of the po'ls, he was beaten by 40 to 1. Col. Roosevelt carried Jersey City by 3,700 over the President. He also swept the Oranges, Montclair, Eliza beth, Newark, Paterson, Atlantic City, Cape May, Bayonne and Hackensack. Roosevelt carried the sth Congress District, made up of Union and Morris counties, by a small vote. The vote in Union, the bailiwick of Senator John Kean, was close. Roosevelt carried Mercer, the home of United States Senator Briggs, by a majority sufficient to give him the 4th Congress District. He carried the Ist District, comprised of Camden, Glou cster and Salem counties, which had i been deemed a sure Taft district. He swept Passaic County, the 7th Con gress District, by a 2 to 1 vote, despite the great showing made in Passaic and Paterson for President Taft when he spoke there. The delegates at. large elected for Col. Roosevelt are John Franklin Fort, Everett Colby, Frank R. Jess and Ed gar P. Bacon. The delegates at large for Gov. Wilson are James E. Martine, John W. Westcott. Nicholas P. Wedin and John Hinchliffe. VOTES FOR OHIO WOMEN. Constitutional Convention Adopts Suf frage Clause. • | Columbus, Ohio. —The woman suf- I frage proposal was passed by the Ohio Constitutional Convention by an over whelming vote. This was the third i and final reading, and the charter j makers may now submit the proposi- j tion to the people in any manner they ' please. . When passed on the second reading I the clause contained a provision that | it bhould be submitted separately. I FIVE MAKE CONFESSION OF RECEIVING BRIBES Atlantic City Officials Inform Detec tive Burns of Graft—Many Men Are Involved. Atlantic City, N.J. —Harry F. Dough erty, one of the four Councilmen from the Third Ward of Atlantic City, was held for the Grand Jury's action on charges that he accepted a bribe of SSOO for voting in favor of an ordin ance involving the building of a sl,- 500.000 concrete structure in the place of the famous boardwalk that now runs for seven miles along the ocean front. Dougherty's arraignment followed the confession, of four other members of Council that they had accepted bribes to vote in favor of the same or dinance. A fifth man confessed that he had been the go-between in the payment of the money. The total number that may be in volved before the ripping off of the lid | has been completed is put at between thirty and forty. Wallace J. Palmer, a rich reai es tate man, is he who confessed that he served for hire as the go-between in the bribery, which now appears to have been in behalf of a project that was deliberately planned as a trap by William J. Burns, the detective, who has acted as the agent of a company of men from whom tribute had been exacted. Burns began his work in Ap ril, 1911. It reached a culmination Wednesday afternoon. That night these four men confessed: S. S. Phoebus, a councilman from the Second Ward and until recently the millionaire owner of the Hotel Windsor. James W. Lane of Chelsea, repre senting the Fourth Ward. Lane is head of the Lane Paving Company, whose advertising catch line is "If it's concrete it will pay you to see us." William Malia, representing the Third Ward, and owner of a hotel in Atlantic avenue, where the bribe I money was paid over to three of the group. Gustav Kessler, representing the Third Ward, a man whose wealth is said to exceed $250,000, and cousin of Commodore I,ouis Kuehnle, for fifteen years Republican boss of Atlantic City and of Atlantic county. Atlantic City has been turned up side down in this way because a band of public spirited business men, pro prietors c-f the large hotels, bankers anci others, came to the conclusion about two years ago that the political : ring was getting a little too raw in its j work. They associated themselves to j gether and went down into their pock j ets. Some say they have spent at least SIOO,OOO already and will spend more before they get through with it. OUR MARINES IN CUBA. Gomez Consents to Their Guarding Property of Americans. Havana. —American marines were landed at Daiguiri for the protection of property there, owned by citizens of the United Stapes. President Gomez telegraphed Gen eral Monteagudo, the commander in chief of the Cuban army, who is at the scene of hostilities in the Province of Oriente, stating that the General might permit American marines to land on Cuban soil to guard foreign property. The dispatch added that the Cuban forces then might retire from guard ing such places and devote themselves to pursuing the insurgents. Business is at a standstill and opera tions on all public improvements have stopped. This has thrown thousands out of employment and they have their choice between starving and joining the revolutionary forces. General Estenoz, with 4,000 men all armed with new Krag-Jorgensen rifles, occupies a practically impregnable . position on Mount Gloria. BATH BANK CLOSES DOORS. Private Institution With Deposits of $650,000 Has Largely Overloaned. Bath. N. Y. —The George W. Hal lock Eiank of this village failed to open itß doors. The institution was . started in 1849 by the late William | llubbel and his son-in-law, the late G. iW. Hallock. The present condition of ' the bank is due to overloanlng. It has , approximate deposits of $650,000. At- I torney Reuben R. Lyon, who is tem | porarily In charge, states that Ceposi i tors need not worry. I WILBUR WRIGHT, AVIATOR, DEAD First Man to Fly a Victim ol Typhoid Fever. PIONEER IN AIR NAVIGATIO How Wright Became the 'Lord of the Air'—Won Title in France Before His Countrymen Acknowl edged His Greatness. Dayton. O. —Wilbur Wright, pioneer of aviation, died at his home here, due to a relapse from typhoid fever, fol lowing an illness of several weeks. His father. Bishop Milton Wright, was at his bedside, as were his bro- j ther Orville, with whom he had been j associated in aviation; his sister, ; Miss Catherine Wright and his broth- j ers Lorin and Reuschlin, who were not so well known to the public. Wilbur Wright was the first man j in the history of the world to leavj j flat ground in an engine driven, hea- j vier than air flying machine. The Wright brothers, sons of Bishop Milton Wright, were born in Henry : County, Ind., Wilbur, on April 16, 1867, j and Orville four years later. They are of English extraction, the first an cesters in America having settled in Springfield, Mass., in 1736. Regarded at first with doubt be cause of the secrecy of their experi- ; ments and later forced into patent liti gation marked by bitterness, Wilbur 1 Wright and his brother, Orville, i to see honors. Wilbur Wright, dying | at the age of 45 and in the fifth year j of his triumph, lived to see the era of j aerial transport he had inaugurated j well on its way. Wilbur Wright demonstrated the j possibilities of aerial traffic when he | made the historic flight from Gover nors Island to Grant's Tomb and back in October, 1909. Four years after the first public j flights of the Wright brothers aero- j planes have flown in exhibitions in evry country of the globe. Washington.—Tributes to the mem ory of Wilbur Wright were paid here by President Taft, Secretary of War Stimson and army officers. President i Taft said: "I a»n very sorry to hear that the father of the great new science of earonautics is dead and that he had not been permitted to live to see the wonderful development that is sure to follow along the primary lines of the new science which he laid down. He deserves to stand with Fulton, Steph- i enson and Bell." STANDING OF THE CANDIDATES. Headquarters Give Out Their Latest Information. Washington.—The standing of the Presidential candidates, according to the latest information received at the respective headquarters, is as fol- I lows: Republicans. Delegates in convention 1.078 Necessary for nomination 540 Claimed for Taft 580 Instructed for Taft 526 Claimed for Roosevelt 586 Instructed for Itoosevelt 458 Instructed for La Follette 36 Instructed for Cummins 10 Democrats. Delegates in convention 1,094 Necessary for nomination 728 Instructed for Clark 350 Instructed tor Wilson 204 Instructed for Underwood 84 Instructed for Harmon "5 Instructed for Marshall 30 Instructed for Baldwin 14 Instructed for Burke 10 CARRIES MAIL BY AIRSHIP. Bay State Aviator Delivers Bag to Carriers After a Three-Mile Trip. Lynn, Mass.—-A successful attempt at carrying mail by aeroplane was made here by the sanction of the Post Office Department. Arch Freeman took up a bag con taining 2.000 letters and cards from At wood Park In Saugus, where a Post Office had been established, and de posited it at Lynn Common, where carriers from Lynn Post Office dis tributed the contents. V WAITERS'STRIKE CRIPPLEHOTELS Advance in Food Prices Because of Increased Wages. NEGRO STRIKE BREAKERS Strike May Spread to Chicago and Baltimore During Conventions — President of Hotel Association Urges Contribution. New York. —Hotel and restaurant iwners or Manhattan figured that if they are forced to grant the demands of the striking waiters and cooks prices in their establishments will be advanced at least 20 per cent. It was pointed out that if the charges are not increased several of the moderate price houses will have to close their dining rooms. Another Interesting de velopment in the strike situation is the prospect that the waiters who ex pect to be employed in Chicago and Baltimore when the Republican and Democratic conventions are held will take advantage of the crowds and will < demand a substantial increase in j wages under threats to strike and leave the hotels and restaurants in those cities tied up. Gus Sc.hult, manager of the Hotel Hermitage, said if the association re cognizes the union the moderate price restaurants and hotels in Manhattan will be compelled to charge 25 cents for bread and butter for each person. He gave the following table of pres ent and proposed prices: Present. Proposed. Oysters I -25 $ .30 Soup -25 .30 Cold meats 40 .60 Small sirloin steak .... 1.25 1.55 French fried potatoes.. .20 .25 Plank steak for two ..2.00 2.40 Roast chicken 1.25 1.55 Guinea hen 1.25 1.55 I Coffee, a cup 10 .15 ; Pastry 10 .15 Frank A. Read, president of the Ho | tel Association of New York, has sent a letter to all the members of that or- I ganization telling them that it favors ! spending $1,000,000 to block the plans j of the International Hotel Workers' j Association to force the hotels and res taurants here to recognize the union j and adopt the closed shop system. More than 3,000 negro waiters from | points south were said to be in town ready togo to work if needed. Upon them the hotel managements are re lying to smash the strike. It was estimated that fifty hotels | and restaurants have been affected by ! the strike. While the number of strik | ing hotel employes, including waiters, t buses, cooks and pantrymen, is guess i work, the strike leaders themselves not being able to give a figure, there i are in the neighborhood of 3,500 out, | the strikers insisting that there are at | least 5,000. Washington.—A strike among hotel ! employes here in sympathy with the New York walkout was forecasted at a largely attended mass meeting, at | which Grant Hamilton, national organ ! izer of the American Federation of I Labor, addressed the hotel workers j and urged them to organize. BABY BORN ON LOCOMOTIVE. Engineer Rushes Woman from Coun try to the Nearest Hospital. Duluth, Minn.—A Duluth & Iron , Range locomotive was running north | on its way to Tower, Minn., and a I short distance above Embarrass Sta | tion a little girl appeared on the track and flagged the engine. She cried out i that her mother, Mrs. M. Anderson, j was ill, and "Will you please take her I to Tower to the hospital?" The engineer was ready to help. I The family resided on a farm near | the track, and the sick woman was ; made as comfortable as possible in j the locomotive cab. After a few miles had been covered i the fireman told the engineer some | thing which caused him to open the i throttle another notch or two, and j the speed was soon enough to cause | the people along the line to stare. In | the vicinity of West Two Rivers the engineman became aware that the stork had paid its visit. The engine rushed onward with all the speed j that orders and necessary stops would i permit. Word was telegraphed ahead ! to have a conveyance in waiting. Then j mother and child were hurried to the ; hospital, where it was said both are | doing well. AVIATOR PARMALEE KILLED. 1 Last of Wright School Plunges 300 Feet to His Death. North Yakima, Wash. —Clifford O. i Parmalee, the last of the Wright I school of aviators actively engaged in flying, was killed at the Washington | State fair grounds in this city in the presence of his fiancee. He fell 300 feet. TWO AVIATORS KILLED Buchstatetter, Noted German Fij Falls with Army Lieutenant. Bremen. —Albert Buchstaetter, one of the best known of the German avia tors, and Lieut. Stllie of the German Army, were killed when their mono plane plunged to the ground just after starting on the Northwest Aviation Circuit of 425 miles. The monoplane rose and was taking a curve preparatory to straightening out for the long journey when the a cident occurred
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