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DEMOCRATS WIN
FOUR DISTRICTS
IN N.Y. ELECTION
"Uphold Wilson" Plea That
Helps Defeat G. O. P.
Candidates
•New York. March 6.—Democrats
were elected to the House of Repre
sentatives in each of the four Con
gress districts in this city in which
special elections were held yester
day. They succeed Democrats who
resigned. The districts were the
Seventh and Eighth in Brooklyn, the
Twenty-first in Manhattan and the
Twenty-second, partly in Manhattan
and partly in the Bronx.
The Republicans had hoped to
capture the seat from the Twenty-
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first district, as it. was believed to
be Republican by several thousand
under a redistricting made by the
Legislature.
The big feature of the elections
was the first exercise of franchise by
women in New York state. They
(polled ninety-one per cent, of their
registered vote, which is an extra
ordinary thing in a by-election.
It was significant that they cast
31,858 votes out of a total of "8,192
in the four districts. They voted
t early, seemed to have made up their
minds what they were going to do
before they received their ballots and
they asked few "foolish questions."
The women, It was contended by
the Republican leaders later, seemed
to have voted for the Democratic
B candidates on the ground that by so
doing they would better uphold the
hands of the President. This plea
* also affected many men.
l It was not an uncommon sight as
. the day wore on to see a woman
5 with a net market-bag over her aj-m
5 go Jnto a polling place, or to see one
I wheeling a baby carriage up to 4
; barber shop or plumber's office,
, where the election board was meet
ing, park the carriage and baby in
, front and walk In to cast her ballot
. with the others.
But the women workers at the
polls attracted little attention. Ther*
I were usually two at aach voting
place, one commissioned a watcher
by the .Democratic forces and one by
r j the Republican.
The Representatives elected are as
follows:
1 Seventh District —John J. Delaney,
(•! to succeed John J. Petzgerald, elect
| ed by a plurality of 3,166 over John
i S. Gaynor, Republican.
Eighth District—William E. Cleary,
]j to succeed Daniel J. Griffin, by a
J plurality of 4,744 over Wilmot L.
i Morehouse, Republican.
Twenty-first District Jerome F.
■ Donovan, to succeed Murray Hulbert,
> by a plurality of 2,102 over John A.
[ Bolles, Republican.
> Twenty-second District —Anthony
J. Griffin, to succeed Henry Bruck
s ner. by a plurality of 6,148 over
t Richard Furlong, Republican.
t 11 KM KM BUR FATHER JOHNSON'
Father T. B. Johnson was the re
■ cpient, last evening, of a purse con
' taining S4SO, presented by five-year
[>old Miss Sullivan, on behalf of the
. members of Cathedral parish. The oc
casion was an informal reception at
• the church prior to his leaving for
; Cornwall. Lebanon. The Hassett Club
' alsM paid tribute to Father Johnson's
' popularity with a silver loving cup,
presented by Edward Sourbier.
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May Sell Thompson
Land For $3,600,000
Pittsburgh, March 6—Trustees in
the bankrupt estate of J. V. Thomp
son, of Uniontown. filed yesterday in
the United States Court a petition
asking permission for the sale of
Greene county coal lands owned by
Thompson, but subject to heavy in
cumbrance.
I Judge Orr n-.ade an order requir
ing the referee in bankruptcy to fix
a day for a hearing.
According to the petition filed, ne
gotiations are under way for the
blanket sale of the T "operty, but it
Is necessary to get seventy-eight
holders of mortgages and 1,580
Judgment holders to relinquish tem
porarily their clafms in order that
the property may be disposed of with
clear title. Holders of, these claims
reside in ten different states and
abroad.
The petition recites that the trus
tees have entered into an agreement
with Joseph G. Butler, of Youngs
town, 0.. for the blanket sale of the
coal lands at SSOO an acre, or a to
tal of 3,627,546.
JURY ASK FOR WATCHMAN
Columbia, Pa., March 6. —The cor
oner's jury in the inquest held on the
death of Harry T. Grab, killed at the
crossing of the Philadelphia and
Reading railway, last Saturday, has
rendered a verdict in which they
call upon the borough council to de
mand of the railroad company that
they place -gates and a watchman
at said crossing day and night, as it
is on the Lincoln highway and is con
sidered dangerous.
FIRE COMPANY SMOKER
Hummelstown, Pa., March 6.
Members of the Chemical Fire Com
pany held a smoker In their parlors
in East Miiin street on Tuesday
evening. Following the business
meeting, a lilncheon was served.
Mrs.- John H. Weiss, Mr. and Mrs.
John E. Fox and children, of Harris
burg, and Dr. V. Webster Fox, of
Philadelphia, visited at the home of
the Misses Mary and Elizabeth Fox.
yesterday.
George F. Miller, of near Hum
melstown, is critically ill at his
h- r_e.
Archie Shefflar, one of the High
Sctcol pupils whD figured in the fatal
Paxtang sleighing accident last
month, is able to walk about with
the aid of a cane.
Prof. Charles S. Davis, of Steelton,
was a guest of Prof. Walter A.
Geesey yesterday.
MlSs Marjorie Nissley has re
turned from a visit among friends in
Sunbury.
Mr. and Mrs. George Light, of Har
risburg, visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Light, South
Railroad street.
HONOR ROLL OK SCHOOI,
Liverpool, Pa., March 6. —The hon
or roll of the Liverpool primary
school for the sixth month is as fol
lows: Harry E. Ritter, Jr., Guy
Lower, Elmer Murray, Emmit Dress
ier. Lee Kerstetter, Clarence Barge,
Earl Shumaker, Clarence Kersteter,
Robert Zink, Allan Ritter, Elizabeth
Kiser, Mildred Coleman, Sarah Helen
Deekard, Merle Williamson. Hilda
Dressier, Gladys Relchenbach. Aiflfc
Derr, Frances Watts, Mary Moretz
and Margaret Barner. Rewards of
meifor excellent work were
awarded to, A class, Mary Elizabeth
Shulcr. B class. Guy Lower; C class,
Harry E. Ritter, Jr.; D class, Gladys
Reichentach. Teacher, Puera B.
Robinson.
WHEAT HARD HIT
BY THE WEATHER
Reports Coming Here Indi
cate That Much Damage
Has Been Done to Grain
Reports coming to the State De
partment of Agriculture on the con
dition of -winter wheat and rye are
declared by the bulletin of the de
partment to be "varying" and in
some localities it is stated that con
ditions "art< anything but favorable"
due to the wet autumn, farm work
delays and late planting.
"Many farmers are now reporting
wheat at about sixty per cent, of the
normal condition at this time and
in some instances farmers state that
the condition is poorer than they
have ever known," says the bulletin
discussing reports on the two ce
reals.
Secretary of Agriculture Patton
makes *\ call in the bulletin upon all
local draft boards which-granted de
ferred classification to young men
who asked it because of agricultural
pursuits, to see that the men who
went into industrial or mining work
during the winter either go back to
the farms or are given another clas
sification. The secretary urges that
men who have been given deferred
classification because of agriculture
get back to the farms as soon as the
farming season opens.
Secretary Patton says: "The farm
tabor situation is serious and all
available taelp must be given the
farmer if Pennsylvania is to produce
its maximum ceop of corn, oats,
buckwheat, wheat, rye and vege
tables. The state will try to assist
the farmer in every way possible and
has arranged to place forty tractors
in different sections to help prepare
the land for the season's crops. Many
agricultural claims for deferred
classification have been allowed the
young men of draft age, but during
the winter they have drifted to the
cities or to work other than agricul
ture. It is only just to the thousands
of other young men of the state who
j have been called to the colors, that
those allowed agricultural deferment
should get back to the farms at
once, and perform the farm work
which gave them the deferred clas
sification.
"I think that it should be the duty
of every district draft board to go
over the agricultural claims allowed,
and unless all young men effected
are found actively engaged in farm
ing by April 15, then their status
should be changed, and they should
be reclassified, placed in Class I and
inducted into military service.
"Let us give every aid possible to
i the production of bumper corn crops
this summer and the preparation of
a record wheat acreage next fall."
MRS. PRISCILLA LIKENS DIES
Duncannon, Pa.. March 6. —Mrs.
Friscilla Trego Lukens, aged 84
years, died at her home at Benvenue,
Reed township, Dauphin county, on
Monday morning. Mrs. Lukens had
been an invalid for a long time. She
was born at Millersburg, Dauphin
county, and was the widow of Ashel
Lukens, who died several years ago.
She lived the greater part of her life
at Benvenue and died in the house
in which she was married. Two sons
and two daughters survive, Harry E.
Lukens, of Benvenue; John E. Lu
kens, of Willlamsport; Mrs. Samuel
Garman, of Millersburg, and Mrs.
Maggie C. Whitman, of Elkhart,
lnd.; one brother and one sister*
George O. Neal, of Newtown, Bucks
county. Pa., and Mrs. C. A. Swegard,
of Philadelphia; also twenty-two
grandchildren and twenty-one great
grandchildren. The funeral services
were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
the Rev. Mr. Marks, pastor of the
United Brethren Church, officiating.
Burial in the Presbyterian cemetery.
HURT AT STEELWORKS
Hummelstown, Pa., March 6.
George Blackburn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Blackburn, of West Sec
ond street, was severely injured yes
terday afternoon while at work at
Steelton. Being engaged in recharg
ing the batteries of a truck, Mr.
Biackburn was not aware of the ap
proach of another truck until it bore
down upon him and squeezed him
against tbe wall of the mill. He was
removed to the llarrisburg Hospital,
where It was found that his right
leg was severely cut and possibly
brol<<n. He also sustained other
minor injuries.
JACOLL CANS HAS STROKE
Hun.melstown, Pa., March 6.—Ja
cob Gans. aged 83 years, suffered a
st:cke yesterday. For some time
past Mr. Gans has lived at the Na
tional Hotel, but yesterday was re
r cving his effects to the home of
William Ludwig in West Main street,
intending to live there during the
spring and summer. He was remov
ed to the Ludwig home, where he is
in a critical condition.
COALI STOLEN' FROM CHI RCH
Halifax, Pa., March 6.—Some* thief
during Monday r.ight entered the cel
lar of the Ln'ted Brethren Church
and stole about half a ton of coal.
Entrance was gained by breaking
a glass out of the cellar window,
through which the coal was taken.
' GUESTS AT DINNER
Levisberry, Pa., March 6. —Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Erney on Sunday at
tended a dinner at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Erney at Steelton,
giv. n in celebration of the birthday
anniversary of Mr. Erney's mother,
Mrs. Sophia Erney, of New Cumber
land. There were twenty-two rela
tives present: Charles Ballets and
family. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Erney
and children, Gilbert and Helen; Mr.
and Mr*. Ralph Bankert, Scott O. Er
ney, hi New Cumberland; Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Lichtenberger, of Steelton.
and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Erney, of
Lewlsberry.
MINISTER RETURNS HOME
Lcw!stown, Pa., March 6.—The Rev.
and Mrs. A. J. Martin and sons.
Ilarrv and Donald, who occupied the
Methodist Episcopal parsonage for
the past three months, to-day re
turned to their home near McCon
nc-Hsburg. The Rev. Mr. Martin will
return each Sunday before confer
ence and fill the pulpit.
TERRY "LICENSE HEARINGS
■New Bloomfleld, Pa., March 6. —
Considerable opposition was pre
setted at the opening session of li
cense court here yesterday to grant
in-' a license to William S. McKay,
for the Central Hotel
at MarysvilleT- This case was still
under discussion when the court ad
journed until Friday morning. Re
li onstrances have been tiled against
all of the fifteen applications in the
county.
SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR KXLISTS
Camp Hill, March 6.—Robert L.
Myers, Jr., son of Robert L. Myers,
of Camp Hill, has rseigned his po
sition on the faculty of the State
Normal School at Shippensburg and
left the institution last Friday. He
enlisted at the recruiting station at
llarrisburg yesterday and left for
Columbus, Ohio, to enter the avia
tion service of the Army. At Ship
pensburg he taught general chemis
try and coached the athletic teams.
REDMOND, IRISH
LEADER, IS DEAD
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relieved the patient, but heart fail
ure intervened Tuesday night.
The physicians attending Mr. Red
mond issued the following announce
ment:
"We regret to announce that John
Redmond died at 7.45 this morning.
Owing to several serious attacks of
illness severe operation was faced
with great courage. It had become
imperatively necessary owing to an
intestinal, obstruction. This was re
lieved by the operation and for some
days satisfactory prosress was main
tained. After a fairly comfortable
day Tuesday, heart failure superven
ed during the night and after a few
hours, Mr. Redmond passed peace
fully away."
Fonglit For Home Rule
For more than twenty-five years
John E. Redmond fought for Home
Rule in Ireland and for a majority
of that time he was the recognized
leader of Ireland's "struggle for lib
erty." As chairman of the Irish
Parliamentary party—the National
ists—he exerted a powerful influence
in bringing about the creation of the
Irish convention organized in July,
1917, to devise a system of govern
ment for the island.
When David Lloyd George, the
British premier, in that year offered
two methods of settling the vexed
Irish question, it was Redmond, who
as spokesman for the Nationalists,
rejected the proposition for a parti
tion of Ireland and instead, accepted
Lloyd George's alternative plan for
the convocation of the Irish conven
tion in which Irishmen of nearly all
parties and creeds might meet in the
effort to compose their differences
and draft a constitution that would
afford justice to all.
. Hedmond was one of the delegates
to the convention which sat at var-
I ious times at Dublin, Belfast and
(Cork in 1917 and 1918.
In Commons Since 1881
Born in 1851, son of W. A. Red-
I mond, deceased, member of the
British Parliament from Wexford,
I Ireland, John K. Redmond had sat
' almost continuously in the British
House of Commons since 1881. There
his parliament fights for Homo Rule
earned for him the sobriquet of the
"stormy petrel of the House."
Educated in Clongowes Woods
College, Kildare, and Trinity College,
Dublin, Redmond was called to the
London bar in 1886, and the Irish
bar the following year, but he never
practiced law. He devoted himself
almost wholly to his parliamentary
and political duties.
Redmond's eloquence and his
grasp of parliamentary procedure
won his early recognition in Parlia
ment and when in 1891 the Irish
party was disrupted, consequent on
the Parnell scandals, he became the
atcredited leader of the Parnellites.
In 1900 he succeeded In bringing
about an amalgamation of the two
leading Nationalist parties and made
his position as Nationalist leader se
cure.
Well-Known in U. S.
Redmond was well-known in the
United States, which he visited in
1908 nd 1910, and Australia, where
in 1883 he not only performed a
great service for his party in direct
ing the collection of a fund of more
than $50,000, but found a wife in the
person of Johanna Dalton, New
South Wales heiress and beauty.
The Irish leader's first visit to this
country proved a fiasco, but his sec
ond, made for the purpose ostensibly
of attending the convention of the
United States Irish League, at Buffa
lo. met with great success. Following
his attendance at the convention,
Redmond made a tour of all the
principal cities of the middle west
and the Atlantic coast, delivering a
series of addresses on the Irish
question which were later held re
sponsible for the British Cabinet
crisis of November, 1910.
The speeches brought the Home
Rule question to a head. The British
government took serious hold of the
problem and a bill was evolved,
which on presentation and discus
sion in the House of Commons result
ed in an impasse because of the
Ulster opposition. This was shortly
before the outbreak of the great
war.
Accused of Being Traitor
With the entrance of England into
the war, Redmond immediately de
fined his position as squarely with
the government in the earnest prose
cution of the war. His support of the
government won the unstinted praise
of Cardinal Gibbons and the open
and bitter condemnation of the Sinn
Fein party, members of .which at a
public meeting accused him of being
a traitor to the Irish cause.
1-Ie maintained his loyal position
even during the exciting days of the
Sinn Fein revolution, decrying the
rebellion, but attributing it to a Ger
man plotting in the United States.
When the rebellion had been put
down he used all the eloquence of
which he was capable ift pleading for
leniency toward the great mass of
the rebels, and in urging a speedy
settlement of the differences that
had caused the revolt.
His eloquent.address in the House
of Commons on October 18, 1916,
demanding immediate Home Rule
and the release of the Irish revolu
tionist called forth an answer from
Premier Lloyd George, in which the
premier addmitted that mistakes had
been made in handling the Irish sit
uation and urging all parties to unite
in bringing about a solution.
John E. Redmond was a brother
of Major William H. K. Redmond,
who was killed while fighting under
the British flag in Franco in 1917.
Major Redmond was a member of
Parliament for East Clare.
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COLUMBIA OWLS ORGANIZE
Columbia, Pa., March C. —Colum-
bi4 Nest of the Order of Owls, was
organized Monday night in Keystone
hall with a membership list of 427,
and the following officers elected: *
President, A. G. Beattie; vice
president, William Pensyl; invocator,
Elmer Irvin; warden, Charles Imler;
financial secretary, Albert Long; re
cording secretary, Aaron Nagle;
treasurer, Joseph R rsitfner: sen
tinel, Clarence Lowery: picket, Ed
ward Miller: trustees, Jacob L. En
glehart, Harry E. Crom, Morris Slc-
Millen, Charles J. Lindenberger and
Charles Rineer; organizer appointed,
Chief Burgess William M. D'Miller,
past president, and Dr. H. B. Roop,
medical examiner.
The Order of Owls has IG7 nests
in Pennsylvania, with 93,000 mem
bers, and in the country there are
2,800 nests and 582,000 members.
U. S. Will Take Over
Hog Island After the
War, Says Fletcher
Washington, March 6.—110g Island
shipyard, the largest in the world,
will be taken over and operated hy
the United States aftei* the war,
Chairman Fletcher, of the Senate
Commerce Committee, declared yes
terday. t
fits statement was made to offi
cials of the American International
Shipbuilding Corporation, who ap
peared before the committee to tell
their side of events which led up to
President Wilson's order of a crimi
nal inquiry.
IILAYS JUG EGG
Newport, Pa., March 6.—An egg
is now in the possession of R. S.
Klucker, of Newport, which meas
i ures 7%x8 inches.
DULL, SPLITTING,
SICK HEADACHE
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whether di>;i, throbbinu. splitting or
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drug store and get a dime paekago
now. Quit suffering—it's so needless
Be Bure you get Dr. James' Head
acne Powders—then there will be no
disappointment.'— Adv.