v/OL. XiV. NO 23
FIRST NATIONAL BANKJ
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CAPITAL STOCK
$50,000 w C. FRONTZ President.
Sui P ll,s and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier.
Xet Profits, '
75,00 °- DIRECTORS:
Transacts n General lll< FrontZj John C. Lftinlj 0. W • Soiigs, j
Banking linsiaess. W - O.Front«, Frank A.Reertor, J.C.J. POT, j
Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz,
Accounts oflndiviil- A s r j ull joh» Ball. I
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STOVES and RANGES,
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HE A T
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House furnishing Goods, Tools of Every;
Description, Guns and Ammunition
Bargains that bring the buyer back.
Come and lest the truth of our talk.
A. lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap.
We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base
Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove.
Hot Air, Steam and Hot' Water Heating and
General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting.
£? junto 130 I usfi ore, Fa.
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offering.
Underwear Outing Flannels
You will make no iiiir-t if you In the newest fancy stripes, checks
will select] T winter* underwear and odd designs. We are selling
here. We have all grades—men, some very excellent values for
women and children. 7c, Bc, 10c.
Silks and Velvets for Millinery
Light weight I'eon Velvet-, just the wanted kind forhat trimmings, in
all the lly;ht and dark shades for *I.OO a yard. Mescaline Silks in thejnew
shades, for millinery use, also staple colors in Moire.Silks. These are both
special good values for 7-">c a yard.
Misses' and Children's Winter Coats. Black Taffetas 75c
to $1 25 per yard, Dress Trimmings, Dress
Ginghams and Ribbons
ercoAFOßTAfM^na^
Lightweight Velvets, just 110 better made. They are tilled ; with pure
white cotton and covered with pi tin or figured sateen or silkoline. Prices
From s'.oo to $3.85
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Republican News Item.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 ,1909.
A. T. 8 T.HOW RULES
WESTERN UNION
Passes Into Hands of American
Telephone aud Telegraph
Company at Once
GOULDS LOSE THE!!! CONTROL
Plan to Aid Public Ivy Better Service
—Postal and Cormr.ersial Cable
Company Largnot Stockholder In
the American Corporatisn.
New York, N. Y.. Nov. 23.—Control
of the Western Union Telejjrapta Com
pany, long regarded an om of the
chief properties in which the Gould
family was interested, has passed into
other hands.
Announcement came from the head
offices of the American Telephone aad
Telegraph Company, tha operating
corporation of the Ball system in B«s
--ton. that this company had obtained
tlie control of a substantia minority
interest in tho shares of tha Western
Unien. and George J. Gould late in
the day acknowledged in a formal
statement that the interests he repre
sented had sold a laiga pert ml their
holdings to the telephone company.
While the move had ba«n forecast
for months in the financial district,
its actual consummation causad a
stir, and poisons familiar with tha
telegraph and telephone situation In
the Uulted Stair* saw ia the an
nouncement the first long si.ee
ultimate control of wire conuuuaiaa
tion by interests which will work in
complete harmony.
Officers of the Postal Telegraph
Company said yesterday tiiat tihe Pes
tal would remain independent, sad
this statement was regarded a« »e«-
sislent with the announcement fro®
Boston, inasmuch as the Maokay Com
panies, a veluntary association which
owns the entire capital etoek of the
Postal and Commercial Cable com
lmnies, is the largest iadlvitfaal stock
holder in the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company.
Both in rutting down eipeaees aa '
in the combination of effiee fwrses
wherever there lias been rivalry and
duplication of effort heretofore it lc
figured that total outlay for equip
ment and office expense will be lea
sened by a very large percentage.
With the American Telephone and
Company dominating the Weetern
Union and working hand in hand
with the Postal many persons foresee
elimination of competition, and a riv
alry which at best will be entirely
friendly. Officers of the Bell system
believe the telephone company will
save $75,006,000 in new construction.
It is understood that the Gould
stock taken over by the telephone
company represents about 2» per
cent. of the outstanding 555.717.6f0
capital stock of the Western Untea
the total authorized amount of which
is $125,000,000. Acquisitions frowi
other sources, it is said, bring the
amount of Western I'nion stock held
by the telephone company te about
28 per cent, of the totnl outstanding.
This is the biggest corporation
merger since the formation of the
Steel Trust.
HAD T CONFESS
Thief Admits Robbing Gas Meter,
Causing Girl's Death.
Philadelphia, Nov. 31—Conscience
stricken and unable to sleep for two
days by knowledge of the crime that
ho had committed. John McDavitt oen
fessed to smashing a gat meter in
the Meyer Building, No. 1711 South
28th street, to steal $2.75, and causing
the death of Martha Ryan, who was
asleep In an upper room. The con
fession of McDavitt. implicating two
companions In the robbery, may send
them to the gallows.
With John Barrett and William Mc-
Qillough, McDavitt said he broke into
the cellar of the house and wreacbed
the meter from the gas tube be#cre
committing the theft.
NEW VACCINE FOR PNEUMMM
Dr. Leary of Tufts Medical Seheel
Offers It to Doctors Free.
Boston, Nov. 22. That a great step
forward is piobsble in the treatment
of pneumonia, is the important an
nouncement from the Tufts Medteal
School, being tho presentation te the
medical world of a new vaoeine, ene
for tho treatment «112 pneumonia.
The new vacoine for pae;imonla is
the discovery of the laboratories of
pathology and bacteriology of Tufts,
of which Dr. Timothy I.eary is tbe
chief. In his statement Dr. Leary
announces thst the new pneumocec
cus vaccine will be given to any reg
istered physician of the State who ap
plies for it, absolutely free of cost.
NEIGHBORS BANiSH
BANKER FROW TfiWN
Stories Told by Little Girls Result in '
Matches E*ile from Little
Falls.
Little Falls, N. J., Nov. 23.- Ad- i
| verse public onlnion, aroused by j
stories told by little girls, has forced
I Charles Matches, 5R yoars old, vice
president of the Little Falls National
; Bank, seoretary of the Board of ffidu
i option and of the Little Falls Building !
; and Loan Association and prominent
ta the local insurance flold, to become
an exile from the towu is which lie
was born and in which ho baa held
1 a conspicuous place for twerity years. |
Is and his wife left here and wait to
; Moatfliair Heights, where the Mother
lof Mrs. Matches livoa. That was the
■ culmination of a scandal which Uas
been talked of in Little Fails for many
■ dsv3. His hasty removal is attributed
j to the fact that a committee of promi
j Kent citizens waited on him and in
j formed him that if be did not agree
| to laave the State of New Jersey at
| onus and never return t'uey would
have him prosecuted for practises of
; which tligy accused him and the j
stories of which had aroused the ad
j verse public sentiment. It is asserted
| lis agreod to go. Anyway, lie went
away with his wife and all their be
longings, and members of ttoe com
mittee ware infuriated wbrn they
Warned that, far from leaving the
j ULate. he merely was going only a lit
i tie way beyond die township line and
i w#uld sottle in Montclair Heights.
P.sfore Matches went away lie ad
! rolttsd the committee had waited on
| h!m in bis home and had allowed him
i twenty-four hours in which to leave
! town. He *aid ho married a little
| more than a year ago, and that his
wife has berm lonely in Little Falls.
During the afternoon there was
some disquiet over a story that the
| ooaaty authorities had begnn as in
j ve»ti«sKloa and indictments might re
i suit, aid that there was a serious
| Quewtie* as to those concerned not be-
I Ing liable for compounding a felony.
Ne verification of this, could be had.
Assistant Prosecutor Rsiph Shaw
lives hsre in Little Falls, but is not
•n duty owing to a death in his fam
ily.
BUMPERS CHOSEN
| Federation of Labsr Re elects Sen
tenced Official at President.
T wen to, Nov. 23. —After unanimous
; ly re-electing President Samuel Gem
\ p*rs, Second Vice-Preslflent .lehn
| Mitchell, Secretary Frank Morrison
| and other executive officers, and select
ing St. Louis as the place for holding
j the next meeting, the twenty-ninth an
j mial convention of the American Fed
| eiatioa of Labor, which had been in
»f'*eirrn here for two weeks, adjourned. |
Uncertainty as to whether an ap- |
pt»al to the United States Supreme
Court will be allowed in the Bucks
j Stove and Range (or/e-npt proceed-
I ingo and the possibility ffcat Gonspers,
I Mitchell and Morrison may have togo |
' to jail, hurg like a cloud over the clos
j ing convention and the renomination j
| of the trio wss the signal for noisy j
' demonstrations of approval.
THREE BfIJP jHJTE
Mine Caves in at Mount Hope, N. J.,
S(XS Fc?t Selow Eurface.
Iforriatown, N. J., Nov. 22. —Three
{ tuen were buried alive in lha Leonard '
j mine of tho Km pi re Steel and Iron !
Works, at Mount Hope. The men are
I under thirty feet of dirt and recite ,
! In a drift 500 feot below the surface. |
| They are Andrew Betner, Michael Ros-
I aack and Frank Krana. j
According to the miners who were
j in the drift at the time of the oave-in
| and who narrowly escaped with their . '
i lives, there was no warning of the | t
, disaster.
WILLIAM M. LAFFAN DEAD
Publisher of the "Sun" Succumbs to
Operation for Appendicitis.
New York, N. Y„ Nov. 22.—William '
11. La (fan, successor of the late <
Charles A. Oauu in the management
of the Now York Sun, and publisher
of that newspaper for the last twenty
five years, died at his home in Law- '
ronce, L. I. An operation for a Men- ,
dicitis hRd been performed on Men
' day. He was well known as a nan i
j of letters and an art connoisseur, and I
his influence in journalism was far- 1
I reaching.
KiLLEI BY FALL FR&H HORSE i
I Eugene Linger, a Newark Silversmith,
Victim of Aecident. i
Madison. N T . .1.. NOT. 22. —An hour I
i after he bad bot n thrown by his sad- <
die horse Eugene linger, president i
and treasurer of the firm of I'nger
Brotivers. silversmiths, of Newark,
died at his home here. In falling Mr.
i I'tiger's head struck a stone in the '
i driveway, and a hemorrhage of the |
brain resulted. He was sixty-eigbt '
years old.
lies OUT OF
DEATH'S JAWS
! Twenty of the Men in the Cherry,
111., Db&ster Arc Brought
Up Alivo
TMT MIL! SAFETY BARRICADE
Walled Up a Chambsr So That tlie
Gas Ceuld not Reach Them and
Then Sat Down to Wait—Had a Lit
tle Food, Which was Divided Up.
Cherry, 111., Nev. 23.—One week to
the mlnul» after fire started in the
St. Paul mine, entombing more than
three hundred miners and bringing
upon them what looked like inevita
ble weie rescued. Al
most the last hope for life had faded
away.
There was then some reason to be
| lieve that others were alive in the
I mine. Same estimates went as high
as 188. This aroused the reacuers to
a frenzy ef labor. The rescuers will
work nigkt and day until it is settled.
Hysteria and humor wore intermin
gled la the stones incident to the de
liverance of the men, who had sat
during the slow passing hours and
days with death at their elbow, into
fresh air and into the arms of their
families.
In spite of their long burial and the
accepted belief that a short time un
let such conditions seems an age,
some of the men thought that it had
keen only twenty-four hours since the
ilre started.
Cut off by the flames in one of the
tunnels the men had rushed in terror
o the shaft, where eaca-pe was im
,K>ssible, »u4 then buck to a chamber
it the further e»d. Assembled here
mder the leadership of George Eddy,
>ne of the mine examiners, who was
below when the fire started, the eu
trapned naon. panting with exeitemen-t
•itid fear, took counsel.
Soon after they had arrived at the
chamber some rocks and dirt fell into
the pftseage. partly blocking it. This
fortuitous happening helped them to
arry out an idea they already had.
The men under Eddy's direction be- j
gsn to add to the obstruction. They !
made a barrier between themselves j
and the noxious gases which in a
short time would certa'nly stifle them
if permitted to enter.
V hen the entrance had been closed ;
the men sat down to wait for deliver- i
ance or death.
When hope was nearly gone, the
miners seught consolation in prayer, j
and as it seemed that human aid could :
not reach them, they were led by Wil- j
11am Clellend and Walter Waite in
song.
The men, suffering from intoJerable
thirst, lapped up the trickling water j
from tlie c-oal rifts which they had ;
broken open. Banded together in j
their light for life, they battled day j
*r.d night, not knowing the possibil- j
ity of rescue without hope.
The relief corps, while working,
heard the cries of the men behind tlie ,
debris of rock of tlie wreckage. They !
worked like demons to reach the im- j
prisoned ncn. In a short time they
had br»keo down tlie barrier and car
ried two ef the men to safety.
'?"ie condition of most of the men is
marvellous. They inquired for their
homes and children.
When the first two living men were
brought to the surface the scene was
dramatic in the extreme. Screams of
}oy were heard on every side.
John Semmick was among the liv
ing brought gut. His wife and two .
children are delirious with joy and
threw themselves on the ground, kiss-
Ir.R the feet of the rescuers.
Hundreds of men women and chil
dren flocked madly to the shaft as
the news spread like wildfire.
Dr. Howe, the physician in charge
of the rescuing party, said this is the
li.oet remarkable recovery in the his
tory of mine disasters in the world.
NO MORE FOBTMLL j
Game is Deelared Too Dangerous for
Lade of New York City.
New York, N. Y., Nov. 22.—Football
as a recognized sport by the official
hep.ds of New York public schools has
boon abolished.
Aotion looking toward the elimina
tion of the most popular branch of
ar-ort in the schools was tuken by the
Heard of Superintendents of New
York public srhtels at a meeting. .
The arU«n is aaore sweeping than
any that h«s yet been taken against
the feme, as it included in its effect
the abolition of the game at a large
number «112 institutions.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier declared in the
Canadian House nothing in the new
French treaty could be construed U3
discrimination against the United
States.
75C PL R YE a
j WORLD NEWS C_
TIIE WEEK.
i Covering Minor Happenings Fro: j
All Over the Clobs
DOMES-TIC.
The First Church of Christ, S •n
--tist, gave its llrst recognition to oii r
Christian Science churches by ha uj
read from tiie pulpit the order ind
time of service in various churc£ie.
Boston reported that Mrs. Stet -on
would resign as a trustee of the New
York Christian Science Chinch :tud
would give up her $5,000 a year sal
ary.
James J. .Hill said national extrava
gance had grown to an extremely seri
ous height.
St. Paul Mine at Cherry, II!., was
flooded with water, which failed o
quench the fire, and the opinion \* s
general that tlx* 300 entombed mim -a
were dead. Gov. Deneen was a>V d
for troops to quell a riot expo i 1
when the news is told the mines'
families.
One human being is killed an hour
and one injured every ten min;
said \V. 11. Park to tiie Nbw York i d
New England Association of Rail*
Surgeons, but he reported prop.' ;
was being made in safeguarding li:
John M. Briggs, an independent I -
dealer, testified in New York that ' e
hunted Charles W. Morse with a :
volver for two weeks because the Ire
Trust persisted in spoiling the crop
of rivals on the Hudson liiver.
f'anon Peters declared that the ' i
ereibe in socialism is d:ie to The A
F. Ryan, tiie late E. H. Harriman. 1
in genera! to tit# way great bush' s
affairs «re being conducted.
Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson appea d
before the directors of the Ho ' r
Church of Christian Science in I!
ton. and her hearing was begun < n
charges that may lead to c-xeo. r.u
riiunieation.
j Evidence tending to show that li e
I American Ice Company sent boats o
! the Hudson River early in 1900 o
break up the ice (if rival com pan.' s
was given in the anti-trust case.
WASHINGTON.
The Vnite«i .Slates intends to o!>' . i
speedy reparation from Nicar;.':
Ibe transport Buffalo is under !i
orders for Panama, and the Pr
j will probably be sent 'to C<> ; ity
whenee they could carry marine- o
enforce demands.
Addressing ibe National Pre s Ci b
at Washington. Henry tie
precated the tendency toward sen a
tionalism in newspapers.
The Attorney-General and Seere!:,: y
MacVeagli were told by the Cabin -t
to collect all money due from ihe
Sugar Trust and to prosecute all per
sons involved in the sugar frauds
The Civil Service Commission as
serted that twenty-two assistant
weighers at the Custom House ia
New York were involved.
Gifford Pinchot is said to have \v. -
ten a peremptory letter to Preside, t.
Taft, demanding that be choose i"»-
I iween_ tbe Chief Forester and Se> . -
I tary Ballinger.
Mr. James B. Reynolds, for:;:-
| Assistant Secretary of the Tree; i
j denies tbe charge that he had hii:-; -
ed the sugar fraud investigation.
Tiie United States Supreme Co
sentenced Sheriff Shipp of ( hatt:.r•
ga and two others to ninety days 1
three men to sixty days' imprison i.
i because of the lynching of a n <»
! while his case was pending before i ;
; court.
! There is good reason to believe th t
• the scandalous state of affairs -
closed in connection \\ i:h the ov
tions of the sugar trust will be
a subject of discussion at a C.-V
■ meeting.
FOREIGN.
i The Viceroy of Pe-Che-Li h:>i '
punished for failure to carry o;:i
' ceremonial prescribed at tire !>:■■:
; the Empress Dowager.
President Zelaya, of Niraragu-i. -
j ported two revolutionist;, defeated : i
battle before Greytown. anil that i > *
again open to commence.
Eugene Iliggins and his party .1
all the crew escaped from the wn
j ed Varuna, which was buiii;; | e
j ed to pieces on a rockboutid part of
, the coast of Madeira.
; Official estimates place the da:.:. ■
in Jamaica from tlvo storm at -i, "e -
000; five steamers were wreikod, but
only the Avalon is a total lo.;s.
j The Salvation Army is piannin. to
establish farm colonies in Newfou
land.
Lord Lansdowne. opposition !e. 1 >r
in the House of Lords, will move
jection of the budget, whit h v.-ill
. mean a general election in Januarj.
Advices from Kingston, Jamui
say that about fifty persons wc,.>
drowned in the floods, on the north
coast and that the property loss w: 1
not be less than $1,250,030.
China and Japan sent assuran.
to the State Department that the
cent treaties between those coum -i
would not exclude Americans fr • t
milling along the South Manche.u
and Antung-Mukden railways.