VOL. XV. NO. 34 2 OARIN6 AIRMEN FAIL_TODEATH Hoxsey and Moisant Killed Whan Machines Drop. DEATH WAS QUICK TO EACH Former, Who Held Altitude Becord, Falls at Los Angeles, and Latter Dies at New Orleans. Arch Hoxse.v, whose awful death by falling COO feet in his aeroplane at the aviation meet at Los Angeles, Cal., shocked the world, will be cremated and buried in Pasadena. Hoxsey's mother, Mrs. M. S. Hoxsey, at Pasadena, is bearing up well under the strain, but it has been decided that it would not be wise to permit her to see the horribly mangled body of her son. For this reason the body will be placed in <a sealed casket and cremated immediately after the lune:al services. Hoxsey held the world's altitude record, which he won by ascending 11,474 feet, and a day later sailed ma jestically 4000 feet above the highest mountain in California. When ho was killed Hoxsev was re turning from a trip into the clouds, lie was within GOO feet of the earth, doing the spiral dip, and cheers were gong up to meet the conqueror of the higher air, when his machine seemed to stop, shudder and whirl over and over to the ground. As in the New Orleans tragedy, the rear elevator, rendered useless when the momentum was gone, flipped around helpless to aid the fated machine. Hox.jey vainly endeavored to right his cralt by warp ing the main planes and by use o? the rudder. Vain attempts, there, for be fore sufficient momentum was gained the frail structure crumpled upon tho earth, the heavy engine being torn loose. Only a fc.v farm hands saw Moisant hurtle to his death, but Hoxsey's end came before the horrified gaze of thousands who had come out in the pleasant afternoon to watch the bird men darting here and there through the air. The day's pleasure ended when an announcer, sadly lifting his mega phone, droned out the message: "Aich Hoxsey has been killed. There will be no more flying." Five Children Die In Burning House. A fire that destroyed throe houses in Minersville, Pa., resulted in the death of the five children of John Mar kasavage. They ranged in age from two months to eight years. The infant was burned to death, while (he other four were slightly burned, death having been caused by suffocation. All of the children could probably have been saved if tho par ents had not lost their heads In the excitement following the discovery of the fire. They rushed out into the street, tho mad clad and the wife scantily attired. Not having a perfect understanding of English, they informed volunteer rescuers that all were out of the house. When the father realized that bis children were still in the house he rushed back. He was seriously burned trying to rescue them. The fire followed the overturning ol a lamp. Many of the boarders had not yet retired and easily made their es cape. After the fire had been extin guished the bodies of the dead chil dren were found up in bed as though they had never awakened after the fire started. Besides the home of Markasavage two other buildings were burned, the home of Simon Kanipsky and that oi Philip Schules. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESVILLE, IP.A.. CAPITAL STOCK j $50,000 I w. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, I 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Win. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Hanking Business. Fronts, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, . «... Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j j A s Ball( John m]] uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 22? 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Republican News Ittm. ARCH HOXSEY. Daring Aviator Was Dashed to Death at Los Angeles. 1311 112 AI~ - v y \ Two Daring Skaters Drown. Disregarding the warning of several spectators, seventeen year-old John Cook, son of C. E. Cook, of Bridge ville, and eighteen-year-old Clarence Clymers, of Philadelphia, the adopted son of M. n. Waters, were drowned at Seaford, Del Cook, In company with G< *>rge Ruos, Jr., aged sixteen years, HOII of Postmaster Ittios. of Uridgeville, came to Seaford for an outing. Joining Cly mers, they went to Williams' dam to skate. As the lads approached the pond they we. c warned not togo OD it. but they paid uo heed to the warn lug. They were several yards from shore when Ruos broke through, and Cook, going to his assistance, fell in also. Clymers, seeing their perilous nosi tion, went to their assistance, but he also broke In. Huos was rescued, but Cook and Clymers sank from sight and did not rise again. Their bodies were found several hours later. Gives College to Church. The announcement has been made in New York of the transfer of the business college at Port Arthur, Tex., to the board of education of the Meth odist Episcopal church as a gift from John W. Gates. The value of the donation is estimat ed at $250,000, and the church pledges itself to raise $50,000 within the next five years for additional building and equipment and to maintain the col lege. Rev. J. W. Legrone, of Port Artur, acting for the church, took over the property. It will be known as the Port Arthur Collegiate Institute. Emperor ot Austria May Retire. Archduke Franz Ferdinand for the first time represented Emperor Fran cis Joseph in receiving the Aust.ro Hungarian delegations at Budapest. This Is regarded as a step taken b> the aged emperor for the purpose of preparing the country for his ap proaching relinquishment of the throne in favor of the heir apparent. Speaking on behalf of the emperor, the archduke expressed satisfaction at the good relations of the country with all the powers. The monarchy, he said, would continue its efforts to maintain peace. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1910. KISS KILLED BRIDAL PAIR Police Believe Poison in Chewing Gum Caused Oeatn. SUSPECT JEALOUS WOMAN Believe Some One Sent Poisoned Gum tc Mies Elosser at Cumberland, Md., and Death Kiss Followed. The mystery of the death of Miss Grace Elosser, of Cumberland, Md., and Charles E. Twigg, of eyser, W. Va„ her fiance, appears as deep us It did shortly after the bodies of the couple were found on the settee in the parlor of the Elosser residence on Sat urday, when the mother of the dead girl went into apeak to her. Twigg and Miss Elosser were to have been married Sunday night. It is suspected that a Jealous woman rival was the poisoner, carrying out her plot In a most crafty way. The mystery begun with the discov ery on Saturday afternoon of the pret ty girl and her llance sitting together, hand in hand, on a sofa in the parloi of their home—both dead. So swift, so instantaneous hud beeu the action of the poison upon them that they sat is if in life. The girl's mother went into the room, wondering only at the very long silence that sho had noted between the couple. She saw her daughter and the young man sitting in apparently the most natural fashion. They were holding hands and looking into each other's eyes. Then the mother suddenly gasped and stepped back. There was some thing uncanny, she saw, in the intent noss of the gaze the young man and woman had fixed upou each, other. There was that which gave a silent, vague alarm in the fixedness of their pose. She spoke to them. They did not ; answer. She went over to them. She spoke again and received no reply. Then she put a hand on her daugh ter's head and spoke again. "Grace —Grace," she said. And there was still no reply, so she gently shook her daughter by the shoulder. The mother screamed then and ran from the room. the girl's head had lolled to a side and the other woman had seen that the girl's jaw was drop ped and her eyes fixed in the piteous gaping of death. Then when others came It was found that the man, too, was dead; that both had been suddenly and absolutely stricken. The deadliest of poisons had been the medium. This was established by the autopsy of the coroner's physician, Dr. Thomas W. Koon. They had both taken cyanide of potassium. The man had more of the poison in his system than the girl In the holiday season there had been several boxes of candy in the house. But the medical examination showed conclusively that neither Miss Elossei or her fiance had eaten candy. He had, however, in his mouth a stick of chewing gum. He had taken scarcely more than two or three bites on it. It had not been masticated into a pulp. In Miss Elosser's mouth was no chewing gum. The strange likelihood is being con sidered by the authorities that the stick of chewing gum contained the deadly cyanide. Also that the young man. with the gum in Ills mouth, had leaned forward to kiss his sweetheart and that the kiss communicated the poison to her lips u kiss offered In love that was deadly—the kiss of whose tragic character the ardent be stower was In all Ignorance. This Is the only evidence that the authorities have so far secured to aid them In the way of solving the amaz lng mystery. It has been by no means proven thai the chewing gum contained the deadly poison. Dut it poems to be the only possible source lrujii which the young man and his swetheart could have taken Into their systems the deadly chemical. The candy that was in the Elosser home had been partaken of by all the members of the family without 111 effect. Moreover, chemical analy sis showed ail this confectionery to be harmless. The tips of the tongues of both Twigg and the girl who was to have been his bride were red and inflamed, quite as if they had been burned or bitten. Cyanlfle, of course, takes im mediate action. The mere touching of a grain of It to the tip of the tongue will cause death instantly. Engineer injured at Throttle. His skull fractured by a water plug striking him as he leaned out of his cab, Martin Diefenderfer, a Philadel phia & Reading passenger englaeroan, retained consciousness long enough to bring his train to a stop at the Mid dleport, Pa., station, a distance of 400 feet. Then he fell over unconscious, his limp body hanging from the cab. ANARCHISTS AT BAY DiEJN FIRE Made desperate Resistance Against London Police BURNED IN THEIR FORTRESS Cornered Murderers Battle With Po lice and Soldiers to the End Amid Showers of Bullets. Fighting to the grim end against desperate odds, "Peter the Painter' and "Dutch Fritz," reputed anarchists, went to their deaths in Ixmdon, Ens? land, shouting defiance to the laws. It is believed that four companions perished with them in the Ilames that consumed their den in Sidney street, not far from the heart of London. Only the charred bodies of the two desperadoes wanted for the assassina tion of three policemen at Hounds ditch two weeks ago had been recov ered. When their house had been riddled with bullets from the guns of police and soldiers and set on fire, the trap ped men clambered to the roof and theer made their last stand, Uring at the crowds below and Jeering their as sailants until the upper supports of the building gave way and the out laws were swallowed up In the seeth lug flames. Such a battle between officers of the law and criminals seldom ha 3 been waged. Dsieovered In their hidins place, the handful of terrorists stood ofT two half companies of Scots Guards from the Tower of London, several de tachments of armed police, a battery of horse artillery with three machine guns and a Galling gun and a fire bri gade, until their home was fired. The authorities sought to take tl\ men alive. It took them seven hours to get their incinerated bodies. Throughout the fight the greatest excitement prevailed, not only in the neighborhood, btu throughout the city, and it required 1500 policemen massed about the scene to keep back the Im mense crowds. Detective Sergeant Leeson was shot and seriously wounded, two other offi cers received bullet wounds and sev eral firemen were hurt by collapsing walls Two soldiers and three civilians were shot. Leeson was the only one seriously wounded. The scene of the battlo was near where the burglary was attempted when three policemen were mortally wounded. The police had found the headquarters of the anarchists and, surrounding the place, planned to cap tuer them. Detective Sergeant Leeson was re connoltering in the yard at the rear, when there was a Hash from one of the windows, the report of a revolver broke the silence and the sergeant fell back in the arms of brother officers, with a bullet in the lungs. Police reinforcements wer<» rushed to the place and a rain of lead was poured into the windows of the house. The anarchists responded and for hours the fight continued, the police being supported by the Scots Guards and artillery, though the latter did not bring their guns into play. Soldiers were posted on the roofs of nearby buildings, and fired continu ously at the anarchists, who appeared repeatedly at the windows and return ed hundreds of shots. The outlaws were armed with maga zine revolvers and had a good supply of ammunition, as was shown by sev eral explosions which marked the pro gress of the flames. Piles of straw were lighted near the house, with the idea of smoking out its defenders, and it is thought likely that the flames communicated with the building. At any rate, soon after these fires were started the house was ablaze and the anarchists driven from the top story to the roof, and finally went down in the ruins. Only when the building collapsed did the firemen venture to enter. Then they flooded the lower floor and re covered two bodies. It is believed that other bodies will be found. Kills Wife, Girl and self. William C. Strickler shot and killed his wife and nineteen-year-old step daughter, Deulah Kile, at their home. 2417 East Lafayette avenue, Baltimore, Md. Strickler then flred a bullet into his own body. Domestic trouble was given as the cause of the tragedy. Strickler was employed as a fireman at a power house. Steer Roping Winner. By roping two steers in one minute nine and four-fifths seconds, Joe Gard ner, of Midland, Tex., won the contest at the National Cowboys' second an nual reunion. O. K. Lawrence, of Sul phur, Okla., was second, and J. E. Weir, champion of New Mexico, was third. WILLIAM E. COREY. President of Steel Trust Tenders His Resignation. W. E. COREY RESIGNS President of U. S. Steel Corporation Will Retire. William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation since the resignation ol' Charles M. Schwab, the first president, seven years ago, himself tendered a formal resignation at a regular meeting of •he finance committee In New York To all intents and purposes the resig nation has been accepted. The finance committee passed upon it favorably, and it will come formally before the board of directors at their regular quarterly meeting on the 25th o» the month. That they will accept It there is no doubt. Even to some of the directors of the company Mr. Corey's resignation came as a surprise. In 1907, when Mr. Corey married Mabelle Gilinan, the actress, it was widely reported that he would be suc ceeded as president, and there was a faction of the board which rather openly favored his retirement. It is understood that Ills retirement has no relation to his domestic affairs. Moisant Killed at New Orleans. All New Orleans is mourning the death of John B. Moisant, who was killed by 'the plunging of his Bleriot monoplane at Haralian, near there, and the body was placed In a receiving vault to await his relatives' actions. He will be buried in Chicago. Moisant won fame at the meet at Belmont Park, N. J. Finding himself without a machine, he purchased one from a friend for SIO,OOO, and within ten minutes started on his winning flight around the Statue of Liberty, winning a prize of SIO,OOO. Moisant's aeroplane was a Bleriot monoplane, and in addition to the heavy engine in front of the main planes, he had fastened a tank holding thirty-five gallons of gasoline. Aviation experts believe that a sudden puff of wind stopped his machine dead in the air, and the heavy weight ahead drag ged the light framework behind it, flipping the then useless rear clevaior toward the zenith in derision. From this position partly back of the main planes, Moisant was flipped out, clear of the machine, and struck the ground on his head, breaking his nack. Ho died on a Hat car on which he was be ing taken to New Orleans. Bank Robbed of $6416. The State bank, of New Palestine, near Indianapolis, Ind., was broken in to and its safe robbed of sii4l6 cash. The door of the bank was opened with a skeleton key and the robbers seam ed to have no trouble in working the combination of the safe. HARDWARE JBFE WHEN you think of buying hard ware you naturally ask yourself w thig question: "What kind of stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or 4 i ■ ' ■"•"■ -i whatever it may be—"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 fine variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE think Of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. "We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. 75C PER YEAR 'BANDITS HOLD UP LIMITED EXPRESS Kill a Porter and Rob All Pullman Passengers. Southern Pacific passenger train No. 'l, the Overland Limited, westbound, was held up by two masked men at Reese, nine miles west of Ogden, Utah. William Dav.ls, a colored porter, waa shot and killed by the robbers. A. W. Taylor, another porter, was seriously wounded, and three passengers, one of them a woman, were slightly hurt. All the passengers on the train, num bering twenty-seven, were robbed of their valuables and S2OOO to $2500 in cash. After completing their work the robbers drove away in a wagon. The robbers did not attempt to en ter the express car, but devoted their entire attention to the Pullman cars, whore they made a rich haul among the California bound passengers. They held the train for more than an hour while they went through the posses sions of the passengers. No passenger escaped the robbers and the trainmen also lost their mon ey. watches and other valuables. The killing of Davis and the wound ing of Taylor were unprovoked. The two porters were in a drawing room of a Pullman, and made no move to re sist when the robbers entered. One of the robbers asked his confed erate: "What will we do with them?" The reply was: "Kill them!" Davis was shot dead and Taylor was desperately wounded. Turning to Hancock, a brakeman, who was holding the open sack into which the robbers were putting their loot, and who was an unwilling wit ness to the tragedy, the murderer ask ed: "Did I kill them?" "I guess you did," answered the brakeman. Taylor credits his escape from death to his feigning death when he fell to the floor wounded in the arm $111,500,000 IS MINTED $105,000,000 In Gold Turned Out In United States In 1010. The minis of the United States dur ing 19l(i scut out rnoie thr.n $111,500,- 000 in coin, of which neatly fiPS,OQO,- 000 was in goid. The total coinage of silver was com paratively ißsignificPi)', it being lea than $1,000,000. Three nii'lkm dollars in pennies and live-cm pi<ccs wore coined. More than 1,000,000 pieces wor < coined for the Philippine islands nnl nearly 1,000,000 pieces were co.nej on contract for Costa Kiea. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR fl m; winter clear, $3.65© 3.90; city mills, fancy, $5,756:6. RYE FLOUR quiet, at s4@4.lf> per barrel. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, now, 95 , /fe@96>*c. CORN quiet; No. 2. 50^@51c, OATS steady; No. ,'l white, 38® 38V6e.; lower grades, 27V4c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 15© lt>c.; old roosters, ll@liV4e. Dressed firm; turkeys, choice, 22c.; choice fowls, 16c.; old roosters, 11 Vie. BUTTER steady; extra creamery, 31c. per lb. EGGS firm; selected, 42@44c.; near by. 37c.; western, 37c. POTATOES steady, at 08©60 c. per bushel. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) CATTLE higher; choice, $r>.65@6.85; prime, $t>.40©6.00. SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $4.25 @4.50; culls and common, $2(03; veal calves, s9© 10; lambs, $5©5.60. HOGS higher; prime heavies, $8 43 @8.50; mediums, $8.50; heavy Work ers. $8.50@8.55; light Yorkers, $8.65® 8.70; pigs. $5.70@8.75; roughs, $7.70 © 7.75.
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