Republican News Item. JR. * State Library VOL. XV. NO. 37 PHILLIPS DIES OF HIS WOUHDS Author Passes Away During a Coughing SpelL ATTACKER HAD DELDSIONS Goldsborough Held Enmity Towards Author Because Novel Contained Characters Taken From His Family. David Graham Phillips, the novelist, who was shot six times on Monday af ternoon by Fltzhugh Coyle Goldsbor ough in Grammercy Park, died at the Bellevue hospital in New York. Mr. Phillips had been vomiting blood during the day, which symptom told the physicians that the perfora tion in the lung caused by a bullet which had entered the right chest and had passed out of the body near the left shoulder blade, was not healing. Dr. Eugene Puller, Mr. Phillips' per sonal physician, gave the patient what relief he could, but the patient's con dition became especally alarming. The excessive pain of his abdominal wound during the day, the constant leakage of blood into the throat from his lung and intestinal sufferings following the administering of ether on Monday, had worn the novelist out. During a severe spoil of coughing he died. At his bedside were Mrs. Frevert, his sister; Mr. Harrison Phillips and Dr. Fuller. Senator Beverldge, who roomed with David Graham Phillips at Depau uni versity, had been at his bedside dur ing the day, arriving from Washing ton, but he was compelled to leave for Washington again shortly after wards. Many magazine writers, novelists and artists visited the hospital, but none of the callers except Senator Beveridge were permitted to visit the patient's room. Many of the visitors and others had sent floral gifts, and after they learned of the death of Mr. Phillips these were arranged about his bier. More evidence showing that Golds borough held enmity toward Mr. Phil lips was learned, but at best no one seemed able to piece enough of this evidence together to show why Golds borough should have gone to the ex treme of shooting Phillips or, for that matter, why Goldsborough, unless his brain -were normal, should hold any enmity at all. Stories that the violinist shot the novelist because Mr. Phillips had writ ten a novel in which characters in one of his books, which Goldsborough thought were taken from Goldbor ough's own family in Washington, whero Mr. Phillips lived for a short while, were repeated to Harrison Phil lips, and he was asked whether or not the publishers of the book had not sent out press notices at the time the book was published to the effect that some one had objected to the novel on the score that it caricatured members of a certain family. Harrison Phillips replied that he re membered that notices of this charac ter had been sent out when the book left the press. He was asked whether he thought these notices were merely the work of the publisher's publicity department or founded on fact. He said that so far as he remembered they were founded on fact. He said, how ever, that neither he nor his brother nor sister knew the Goldsborough family. It was learned also that almost a year ago Goldsborough went to the city hall to complain to Mayor Gaynor about persons annoying him. During this visit the violinist mentioned to the mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson, the name of David Graham Phillips, but not with any especial show of ani mosity. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUO-HBSVILLE, ZPJL CAPITAL STOCK ji $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75,000 * DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. } V . C.Fronte, Frank «rnl e r, Jacob Per, s Lyman Myers, W. T. Roedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A 8 Bal]i John Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910. OAVIO GRAHAM PHILLIPS. Popular Magazine Writer Shot Down In New York. MRS. JR., ROBBED OF JEWELS Gems Valued at $35,000 Stolen From Her Home. It became known that while the family of William Thaw, Jr., were at dinner Tuesday night their residence in Pittsburg, Pa., was robbed of Jew els to the value of $35,000. Included In the valuables is a pearl necklace worth $17,000, the property of Mrs. Thaw. She is a rister-in-law of Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White. Also she Is the mother of Wil liam Thaw, 3d, who recently took as his bride Miss Gladys Bradley, of Bridgeport, Conn., the sister of Mra, Anthony J. Drexel-Biddle, of Philadel phia. A half hour before dinner Mrs. Thaw had been to the closet where her jewels were kept, with a view to selecting those she would wear. Only her maid was in the room. After lock ing the door as usual, Mrs. Thaw Join ed the family in the dlningroom. She was absent perhaps thirty min utes. Upon her return she went to the closet for the pearl necklace. The door was locked, but when she looked for the necklace it was gone. Hastily opening the other cases, she discov ered all had been emptied of their con tents. Calling out that her jewels were gone, Mrs. Thaw aroused the house hold. Then It was seen that the thieves had taken nothing but the contents of the closet. A hurried call was sent to the police. Thirty-three detectives, under the personal supervision of the superintendent, are working on the case, while a score or more of plain clothes men are scouring the city in search of the suspects. Famous Yachtsman Dies. Captain Charles Barr, the nated American yachtsman, who three times saved the A erica's cup, died sudden ly of heart trouble at Southampton, England. Captain Barr appeaded to be in perfect health and was break fasting with his family, when sudden ly he placed a hand upon his heart ?ud with a cry of pain, fell forward In the arms of his wife, dead. PRESENTSSCHOOL CODE OILL Act Would Reorganize Educa tional System, ALTERS PRESENT METHODS Divides State Into Four Districts and Gives School Boards Power to Levy Taxes. Senator Tustln, of Philadelphia, in troduced the school code into the Pennsylvania senate. This bill lacks some of the features which made the code of two years ago unaccept ' le and Is expected to pull through. _<ne of its chief provisions enables the Philadelphia school board to float its own loans and imposes on the school district, as distinct from the city, a proportion of the municipal debt. By enabling the school district to as sume its own loans the Philadelphia debt limit will be Increased about $30,- 000,000. Elective school boards of fifteen members in Philadelphia and Pitts burg, each member to serve six years; the right of the Philadelphia board to levy a separate tax not to exceed six mills for school purposes and to make loans for building new school build ings; division of the state into four classes of school districts, the first class embracing Philadelphia and Pittsburg; and the divorce of the school control in any way from city councils are the important featuies of the code. The school districts of the second class, according to the new code, will be made up of those having a popula tion of from 30,000 to 50,000. In Philadelphia and Pittsburg the school boards will have fifteen mem bers, all of whom will be first appoint ed by the courts, one-third for two years, one-third for four years and one third for six years, and at the expira tion of their terms their successors will be elected bi-annually at large for terms of six years. This method ha* been followed, it is explained, because of the demand that a board which has the right to levy school taxes and to borrow money for improvements should be elective rather than ap pointive. The important feature of the code is that which gives the Philadelphia board the right to levy a separate tax and to make loans. This will give the city the opportunity of borrowing ad ditional millions when the school loans are taken over by the board. The sohool loanß cannot exceed 2 per cent of the valuation of the city. The school board will be required to pay all school expenses, Interest and sinking fund charges on all school tax. The new code provides for a state board of education of seven members, to be appointed by the governor for six years, the term of one to expire each year. The board members are to serve without pay, and their function will be largely advisory. They will have the power to investigate school problems and recommend new legisla tion. The code calls fcr the accumulation of a state school fund by revenues from the forest lands of the state. The revenues aie to be kept intact, only the income from them being used. Medical Inspection for every child In the schools of the state Is a feature * «he bill. One section gives superln idents and supervising principals the power to select, recommend, adopt and make changes of text books. PLEA~FOa EDITOR President Taft Asked to Pardon So cialist Serving Jail Term. Representative Campbell, of Kansas, petitioned President Taft for there lease from prison of Fred D. Warren, a Socialist editor Warren was ..eni*-;:. Ed recently for having offered a reward in printed form of SIOOO for the return to Ken tucky of former Governor W. S. Tay lor, of that state. Grafted Shinbone Into Arm. Surgeons in Boston are Interested In the operation that was performed by Dr. Frederick J. Cotton at the City hospital upon William Favor, In which he removed a portion of Favor's shin bone and grafted it Into his arm Favor's arm was crushed under a car It was found necessary to taXe out about two and a half inches of tht bone of the upper arm. A sliver oi bone was taken from Favor's leg and placed within the aperture of his arm Apparently the injured man is doing well. Canada's Trade. Trade figures for the first nine months of Canada's present fiscal yeai •how that the total trade amounted tc $677,999,628, an increase of $65,511, 960. The Increase waa entirely in im aorta. PAUL MORTON DIESSODOENLY President of Equitable Life Victim of Apoplexy. WAS STRICKEN IN HOTEL His Family Was Summoned, But He Died Before They Arrived —Was Sec retary of Navy Under President Roosevelt. Paul Morton, president of the Equit able Life Assurance Society, was stricken with apoplexy just after he had gone to the Hotel Seymour, In New York, for the purpose, his friends said, of keeping an appointment with Paul L. Kiernan, the lawyer. Mr. Morton died an hour r "4 a half later In an apartment just vacated by Mr. Kiernan earlier In the day and just a few minutes before his wife and brother, Joy Morton, of Chicago, reach ed the house. Coroner Feinberg, who Is a physi cian, and Coroner's Physician O'Han lon agreed, after they had examined Mr. Morton's body and had talked with Joy Morton concerning his brother's condition that death was caused by apoplexy due to a rupture of a blood vessel In the brain, which resulted from artero-sclerosls, from which Mr. Morton was found to be suffering with in the past month. It was explained that a hotel maid had noticed Mr. Morton apparently in a faint in the hallway outside of suite 55, on the fifth floor. This suite had been vacatd by Mr. Kiernan and he had moved to a larger suite. The maid notified the telephone operator, and the manager of the hotel rushed up to the fifth floor. He helped the maid to assist Mr. Morton into the vacant suite. Word was sent for Dr. Henry Pearson. When Dr. Pearson reached Mr. Mor ton's bedside he was unconscious, and It was apparent to Dr. Pearson that he had suffered a stroke of apoplexy. Then word was telephoned to Mr. Mor ton's house and to the Metropolitan club. Mrs. Morton was informed over the phone that her husband had faint ed at the Seymour, and was asked to come to the hotel at once, but he was dead before she arrived. Paul Morton was born in Detroit, May 22, 1857, and went to Nebraska with his parents six months later. He began his railroad career in the land department of the Burlington road In lowa. In May. 1873, he was employed In the general freight office of the Bur lington road at Plattsmouth, Neb., and from there he went to the general freight office in Chicago, being ap pointed assistant general freight agent of the Burlington in 1878 at the age of twenty-one. He occupied this and bet ter positions in the freight service un til 1886, when, at the request of the management of the Burlington, he took the position of general passenger agent. From the position of general pas senger agent he was selected for the general freight agency, and remained with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in that position until 1890, when he en gaged in the coal and Iron business as president of a coal company operating In lowa and Illinois, and vice presi dent of what is now the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. He remained with those companies until the end of 1895, when he accept ed the vice presidency of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, in charge of its commercial affairs. In 1904, largely owing to his per sonal friendship for President Roose velt, he accepted the secretaryship of the navy. In doing this he sacrificed a salary of $25,000 for one of SBOOO. Mr. Morton was credited with pos sessing an Independent fortune, vari ously estimated from $1,000,000 to $2,- 000,000, having made nearly $1,000,000 on the sale of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa railroad to the Vanderbilts. In deciding regarding President Roose velt's offer, therefore, the monetary consideration did not enter Into the question. In 1905 he was elected president of the Equitable Life Assurance society at a salary of $150,000 a year. Mr. Morton, in 1880, was married to Miss Charlotte Goodrich, an accom plished and popular young woman of Chicago. They had two daughters. BRIBERY IN SENATE FIGHT West Virginia Legislator Makes This Charge and Bolts Meeting. On the first ballot in the legislature at Charleston, W. Va., W. E. Chilton received 62 votes for United States senator, full term, more than enough to elect. Clarence Watson, for the short term, received 57 votes, two short. Hubbard, of Wheeling, bolted the house meeting, charging bribery in caucus. PAUL MORTON. Pre.tiOent of l"r|u,table Life C-c:;'.y Lies Sjddenly. Mrs. Martin Gets Seven Years. Seven years in prison was the sen tence imposed upon Mrs. Caroline B. Martin for the part she played in the death of Ocey Snead, her daughter, by Judge Ten Eyck at Newark, N. J. Mrs. Martin, who had pleaded non vult to manslaughter when arraigned on an indictment charging her with murder, apparently expected a much lighter sentence and became greatly agitated when she learned her fate. The body of Ocey Snoad was found in a half-filled bath tub in a partly fur nished house in East Orange, N. J., Nov. 29, 1909. The indictment of Mrs. Martin, the victim's mother; Mrs. Vir ginia A. Wardlaw and Mrs. Mary W. Snead, Ocey's aunt and mother-in-law, for murder, followed. Mrs. Wardlaw died in jail. Mrs. Snead faces trial, but it is said that the indictment against her will be nolle prossed. Coal Mining Is Dangerous. More than 29,000 fatal accidents oc curred in the coal mines of North America in the twenty years ended with 1908, according to a report of the bureau of labor. In the decade ending with 1908 the average fatality rate in North Amer ica was 3.13 per 1000, which was high er than the fatality rate in any other important coal field in the world. In tho United Kingdom the rate was 1.29 per 1000 employes; in Austria, 1.35; in France, 1.81, and in Prussia, 2.13. Charlton Loses. The habeas corpus proceedings that were brought by Paul Charlton to pre vent the extradition of his son, Porter Charlton, to Italy to stand trial there for the murder of his wife, was dis missed by Judge Rellstab in the Unit ed States circuit court at Trenton, N. J. Tills means that Charlton must go back to Italy unler.s the supreme court of the United States reverses Judge Rellstab's decision. Lloyd-George Coming Over. J. Owen Charles, a native of Wales and now a citizen of Scranton, Pa., arrived in New York city on board the Campania, announcing that I.loyd- George, chancellor of the exchequer, and the most distinguished Welshman in British politics, would be here in the fall to attend a Welsh festival in Luna Park, Scranton. Kept Child In Shed; Dies. Kaurt Stehr, three years old. of Nor folk, Neb., died from the effects of t!:e amputation of both his feet, which were frozen several weeks ago while sleeping In an unlieated woodshed. Henry Stehr, the child's stepfather, is in jail, awaiting an investigation of the case. you ask yourself whatever it may be—"'shall I buy? Don't ponder over these thing?, 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. "NVheu 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 STATUES WEAR PANTS ' First of Barnard Group Put In Place With Modest Drapings. The first of the heroic marble figures of the Barnard group of statues at the capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa., was put Into place and stripped of its covering and was found to be draped with plaster of parls. The treatment is in line with what Barnard is reported to have promised when his attention was called to the protests against the nudity of the figures. The men in charge of the groups say that the plaster will remain until orders are received from Barnard or state officials to remove it. CLUBS WIFE TO DEATH Fired at Her and Missed, Then Beat Her to Death With Gun. John McCombs, a farmer of near Indiana, Pa., fired at his wife with a rifle, and, missing her, clubbed her to death with the butt of the gun. He then went to the house of Jo seph Pratros, some distance away, and told him what he had done. Pratr. s refused to believe him, and was pre paring togo back with McCombs, when the man entered Pratros' barn and hanged himself. He was cut down in time to save his life. Child Witnesses Mother's Suicide. Mrs. Ida Brooks, forty-one years o!d, committed suicide by hanging herse'.f in the room she occupied at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saville, at Eighth and Crosby streets, Chester, Pa. Mrs. Brooks' daughter, Beatrice, four years old, awakening from sleep, saw her mother suspended upon the closet door. Lenient on Last Day In Office. Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, an his last day in office, iss.ed seven '.sou pardons and commutations to convicts In the state prison, several ol whom were serving sentences for mur der. Arkansas For Incoms Tax. The Arkansas house of representa tlves went on recard in favor of tht proposed income tax amendment tc the federal constitution by a vote ol 80 to 3 Finds Wife Dead Deside Him. Harry Haag, thirty-four years old, of 718 Walnut street, Wilmington, Del., awakened an 1 found his young wife dead in their bed beside nim. It is said she was stricken with apo plexy. The coroner io making an inves tigation. Haag is under a physician's care. She Wants a Husband. Mrs. K. Eberhart, of I'nion Hill, N. J., has written to Mayor Gebhardt, of Terre Haute, lnd., asking him to find a husband for her. Mrs. Eberhart says she has learned there are more men in the west than women. She writes as if she regarded Terre Haute as a far western city. All Mail Cars Must Be Steel. The house of representatives at Washington, after an extensive de bate, adopted a provision in the post office appropriation bill that after July 1, 1916, all mail cars used on inter state railroads shall be of steel con struction. Easton Minister Dies In New York. Rev. Edward Snyder, of Easton, Pa., died of heart disease in the Thirty third street station of the Hudson river tunnels in New York. In his coat was a notebook giving his name and address, and asking that in case of accident his wife should be notified. Flood Victim's Skeleton. The skeleton of one of the victims of the Johnstown, Pa., flood has been found near New Florence, twenty-two years after the flood. The bones will be interred in Grand View cemetery, where 777 other unidentified bod'es of the flood lie buried.
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