Republican News Stem. VOL. XV. NO. 39 REBELS BESIEGE MEXICAN TOWN Fired on Federal Troops Out side o! Juarez. READY TO ATTACK TOWN Many Americans Watched the Fight ing From the Texas Side of the River —Casualties Are Not Known. The Mexican rebels have advanced upon Juarez and are camped within two miles of the town. The rebels appeared at a point on the Mexican side of the river just three miles above Juarez. The feder als went out to meet them as they were watering their mounts at the liic Grande river. The rebels opene.l tire. As shots were exchanged, the fighting bodies moving down the rivei towards Juarez, the federals slowly • ailing back. Suddenly the rebel? veered oft into the hills and the fed erals after a wait returned to their barracks The rebels were soon down at the river again and declared they intend ed to hold the position until they could get their field guns in from the mountains and reinforcements could arrive Then they would attack Juarez, they said The rebels camped for the night where the fight occurred. The battle lasted but a short time, less than an hour, and only the federal's Infantry entered the fight. The federal cavalry remained behind the infantry and did not fire. Several hundred Americans watched the skirmish from the Texas side and bullets fell among them. Pascual Orozco commanded the in eurrectos. He was located by corres pondents sputhwest of Juarez, al ready marching around the town to the pdhijt where he was attacked. He had nvarchod from the point where he fighting and retired Sunday evening, rsoutheast of Juarez, around to the west of the town and to the »<>*<»!; he hit t.he river and started down the stream. It was there that the fight opened He stated to the correspondents that he had two moun tain guns back in the hills and that he would wait until he could bring these up before attacking Juarez. As the federals retired to Juarez the insurrectos came back from the hills, down to the river where the fight had taken place. They talked and joked with the Americans on the opposite bank of the river and the Americans tossed them money. As the night wore on the federals retired into the hills just a short distance fro mthe river, and their camp fires could be seen plainly. The number of federals wounded or dead in the battle is unknown, but one riderless horse dashed out of the foothills and three federals were seen to fall. Reporters were forbidden to cross the river wheer the fight had taken place. Gorilla Kills Bulldog. A battle to the death between a go rila and an English bulldog, in which the gorilla was victorious, was fought at New Iberia, La., with almost the entire male population of the t.o*vn as spectators. Much money was wagered. A pen twelve feet square and eight feet high, with seats on all sides, was arranged fort.V? combat. The dog and gorilla were placed in the pen at mid night. Two and a half minutes later the dog was dead. The dog leaped at the gorilla imme diately aft-r being placed In the pen. The gorilla caught the dog just as a man catches a base ball, then bit quickly through the dog's skull into the brain, broke its back and tore it to pieces. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HTJGHESYILLE, IPJL CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, I 75000 * DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W.C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A St Ball> John Bul] uals and Firms i solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1910. SIR WILFRID LAURIER. I I Premier of Canada Asked to Defeat Proposed Reciprocity. » u - j ' X • J* \ w v; ftijr if : ■ Terrific Glast Recks New York. Forty tons ol dynamite exploded on (he .Jersey water tront in the middle of 5,000,000 people and 5,000,000 things happened. Radiating l'rom the North river end of pier No. 7 in the Jersey Central's freight terminal in Communipaw, the concussion rocked Manhattan from end to end. Jersey trembled for many miles bad; of the marshes. Away out in Long Island people started up iu trembling buildings and thought it was an earthquake. Everywhere the skyscrapers vibrated and spilled win dow glass into the streets. In the immediate neighborhood of the explosion the destruction w is so complete that it was next to impos sible to determine the number of the killed or the precise reason a car load of dynamite and a quantity sored in two lighters let go It is probible that thirty men lost theii lives and that twenty-five of these were blown to pieces near the pier end. Old Guard Beaten In Senate. By a piece of very clever parlia mentary maneuvering on the part of the Republican and TDe Democrats in the senate the Republi can "old guard" was out-generaled and the resolution for the direct elec tion of senators by popular vote was made the unfinished business of the senate. This means that the resolution to submit this constitutional amendment to the states will be before the senate to the exclusion of all excepting privi leged business until a final vote is had. The overthrow ol the "old guard" by a series of skirmishes in parlia mentary tactics followed and annulled an earlier decision of the senate to make the Alaskan coal land bill, a conversion measure, the unfinished business. Sheriff Is Slain; Police Chief Shot. Deputy Sheriff George Munford was killed and the chief of police, A. O. Glover, of Wilson, N. C., was probably fatally wounded by a colored despe rado. The officers were attempting to arrest the man on advices from Dunn, where he was charged with breaking into a store Splinter Kills Wood Chopper, George Rarig, a young wood chop per of Conyugham valley, near Ila zleton, Pa., died of lockjaw, contract ed through infection of a wound caus ed by a splinter in one of his fingers three weeks ago. "Pennsy" Orders 1000 Cars. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has given the car shops at Altoona, Pa., an order for 1000 dongola cars. The order will kep the car shopmen busy for several months. DEMANDS DEFEAT OF RECIPROCITY Montreal Star appeals to Pre mier licrlei. IT WOULD RUIN CANADA Calls Agreement a Cunning Trap to Save Taft at Expense of Canadian People. Tha Montreal Daily Star appeals to Premier Laurier for the defeat of the reciprocity trade agreement between the United States and Canada. It says: "Theer is only one .man in Canada who can avert the menace that lurks in reciprocity. That man is Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He is the master of the situation If he appeals to the loyalty of his followers, there is too much reason to fear that they will vote the agreement, through. "But it is equally true that. If Sir Wilfrid Laurier declares that, on sober second thought, he dare not recommend this astounding commer cial revolution to a people to preserve their independence, the agreement will not be ratified "Moreover, stich a declaration from Sir Wilfrid Laurier would be far more welcome to the bulk of his followers, both in and out of parliament, than a bugle call to stand up and vote —and possibly die politically—for a bargain which may save the success of Taft in Republican politics, but which will eventually terminate the career of Canada as an important nation. None of us realized the inward meaning of the shrewdly framed offer of the long headed American government when we first saw it. It was as cunning a trail as was ever laid The master bargainers at Washington haven't losl their skill." The Star then goes onto say that reciprocity, as suggested, would cut confederation &t a half dozen vital points and adds: "The provinces by the sea will fee. isolated, thefr industrial future neg|»- tw«x*, t*ie arteries that lead to oui Canada will collapso through starva tion and the Americans will think of them only as a collection of fishing villages. "Quebec will become the 'backyard' and lumber camp of New England. Our farm products will give the New England factories cheap food for their work people—without ultimately rais ing the price for our farmers; and our forests and mines will feed them with raw materials until they are lit erally eaten out by the enormous ap petites of American industrialism. We will be lucky, indeed, if the national hemorrhage stops there The exodus of our sons and daughters to the New England factory towns, which has been so severe a drain in the past, may well bleed us to death when Mon treal has been strangled in its own dead railway lines, when the killing of the new transcontinental has killed the legitimate hopes of Quebec city, and when our other promising Indus trial towns have found tlieir home market flowing merrily over the hor der. "Today Sir Wilfrid Laurier has the ball at his feet. He is the one man to save the situation. The Canadian pen pie never watched him so eagerly, so anxiously, as they are doing at this moment. Thousands of his best friends hope that he will see the true bearing of the tremendous issue which lies in his hands and that they can add an other jewel to his err . n as a patriot statesman who loves his country so well that he wouldn't think twice of risking her life to put profits in the pockets of a few clamorous people. "This is not a business matter he is considering; but the political fate of Canada. In the se.il of Sir John A. Mac Donald, with tire- eyes of the em pire builders ol his'ory on him, with all the future waiting to award its Judgment, he it. .. -< . ; for or against I he annexation of Canada to the Amer ican union." To Mine Coal at Night. For the first time in the anthracite region an effort will be made this week to mine coal at night and run it through a breaker. This Is to be attempted at the Auchincloss leaker of the D., L. & W. Coal company, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The entire Auchin closs breaker is operated by electric ity, the coal being picked and cleaned by a patent cleanser and picker, that dispenses with breaker boys. "Holy Roller" Released. Robert Bachman. the "Holy Roller," who, in a religious frenzy at Naza reth, Pa., strangled little. Irene Smith, his six-year-old niece, on April 27, J 908, and who was sent to the Norris town asylum, is now a free man. He was recently pronounced sane, and the court decided he could not be convicted under the Indictment, and Bachman was discharged. UECIES WEDS VIVIEN GOULD Ceremony look Place in St. Bartholomew's Church. HONEYMOON IN THE SOUTH Titled Couptp Wilt Salt For Egypt .>n Feb. 18 ant' Reach London In Time For Coronation Festivities —beauti ful Floral Display In Church. Mi3s Vivien Gould, second uaugniei of Mr. and Mrs. George lay Gould, was married in St. Bartholomew's Episcopal church, in New York, to Major General John Graham Hope Horsley-'Beresford, fifth Baron Decies. The ceremony was perfoimed by Bishop David H. Greer, of the diocese of New York, assisted by Rev. Dr. Leighton M. Parks, the lector of tiro church. The crowd m the vicinity or Ht Bartholomew's church was so great that extra police precautions were ne cessary to prevent interference with the bridal party. Lord Decies practi cally had to be smuggled into the church. After the ceremony there was a re ception for a limited uumber at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gould, and later Lord and Lady Decies lei t in a private car for Palm Beach, Fla., near which place they will spend the first week of their honeymoon in a vill i owned by a friend of tlie bride's lallt er. Then a short stay will be made at the Jekyll Island club, and Lord and Lady Decies will spend a short tittie at Georgian Court before sailing for Egypt on the Carmanla on Feb. Is. They will spend two months on or about the Nile before going to Lon don for the opening of the season that is to be made by the coronation festivities. The gathering at the church was by no means what is ordinarily termed an exclusive one. True, the Invitations had. been limited and New York so largely represented. ; But,Jt was about as cosmopolitan a throng in several senses as litis ever been seen at a New York wedding in re cent years. The stage was largely in evidence. Then, besides, there were noticed here and there persons In oth er walks who were invited because Mrs. Gould knew they had a really friendly interest in the young bride. Lavish Floral Decorations. Those who got into the church saw what are said to be the most lavish floral decorations that ever graced a wedding ceremony in New York The decorators used spring shrubs, lilac, forsuthia, flowering erabapple, azeleaa and hyacinths in profusion for the chancel. From the high ceiling de pended great festoons of asparagus plunrosa. About the columns was Eng lish ivy, and along the walls wreaths of Alabama smilax. Then near the chancel rail was an abundance of palms. But the most effective of the whole decorations, in the opinion of many, were great torches ol Japanese, calla and rose colored lilies that were placed at the end of each pew. The general effect of the whole was of white and green, though here and there was a touch of eoloi. When the ceremony stnrie;i the church was packed. Home women did no more than stand up in their places and try to peer through bits of atmos phere untenanted by the lug head gear of their neighbors Others got up on the footstools, unci not a lew climbed upon the pews. Earl Percy and Lord Camoys head ed the ushers, followed by Robin Grey with Proenix Ingrahaiu. Moncure Rob inson with Robert H. Russell, and An thony J. Drexel, Jr.. with Francis W. Crowninshield. After them came the bridesmaids, all in simple white frocks and without hats. Miss Louise Crom well and Miss Hannah Randolph walk ed first, and came two by two, Miss Allison Pierce and Miss Enieline Holmes and Miss Hope Hamilton and Miss Annie Douglass Graham. Next came the four flower children, looking as solemn as mites can look on such an occasion, little William Beresford, with Gloria Gould, and Mar cus Beresford, with Diana Dalziel. A little behind them walked the maid of honor, Edith Gould, who is only thirteen. And now interest stood on tiptoe as well as on the benches. Father Escorted Bride. There was in interval, and then came the bride, leaning upon the arm of her father. She looked tiny, but was pretty and was smiling. As she went up the aisle people performed all sorts of contortions to get a look at her, but many coula not for the hats In the way. Most of those In the church could see very little of what was going on in the chancel for the same reason, but some could see that Lord Decies, in the blue unllorm of the Seventh Hussars, aud his best man, Lord Alas | IS NOW LADY OECIESTI Vivien Gould and St. Bartholo- | ( - j mew's Church Where She Wed.Jjj j (•» tan, by American Press Association, tali Oruhani, in a ; imilar uniform, had entered I rem the vestry. After Mr. Gould iia.i given away the biido lie re tired lu a -eat with Mrs. Gould Lord Deciea' "1 will" couldn't be heard halfway down the church, but the bride - was distinct. When it came to repeating "1 take thee, Helen Viv ien," the bridegroom did better. The choir sang "O Perfect 1.0ve," arid then, after the invocation, the organ pealed out Mendelssohn's Wed ding March and people crowded to the ends of the pews to uet a look at the couple. Lady Decies bore hersell with grace and dignity, and Lord Decie3 looked the gallant soldier of his rec ord as be bore his bride past the ad miring throng. After the wedding party r.nd family had passed there aws a rush for the street and the sidewalk was soon filled with people waiting for their carriages and automobiles. Only the first fe wwords of the choir's "Lord, Who at Canas Wedding Feast," were heard. Costly Wedding Gifts. The list of wedding gifts received j bv the bride is as extensive as an in- j ternational wedding is usually respon- ! bible for, and there were rare jewels, quantities of gold and silver plate, rare books, prints and paintings in abundance. Mr. Gould gave his daughter a su perb coronet of diamonds, tipped with, nine pear-shaped pearls, together with a corsage of diamonds and pearls. Mrs. Gould's present is a long chain studded with diamonds? to which are attached as pendants a pink pear shaped pearl and two marquise cut diamonds, a soutoir of penis and two rings, one set with rubies ant dia monds and the other with a large pearl, surrounded by smaller one-" Miss Helen Gould's giit is a dog collar of matched pears, set with dia l mond bars. From her brothers the; bride received a bracelet set with soli- j taire diamonds, and from her grand- i mother, Mrs. Kingdom a brooch ol , diamonds. Mr. and Mrs Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., her brother in law an 1 sis ter, gave a gold vanity case with a diamond monogram. The Duke and Duchess of Con naught sent Lord Decles a solid gold ink set. Many gifts await the couple In London. Fellow officers of Lord Decles in the Seventh Hussars are giving him a silver tea service. 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 j catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have !a line variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE ,112 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 MORSE WITH MONEY LOSES TWENTY DAYS Banker Convict Loses Good Behavior Allowance. Chailes W. Morse cannot win back the twenty days good time he lost a lew weeks ago for a breach of prison rules in the- Atlanta penitentiary. Although the penitentiary warden and Superintendent l.adow were in favor of remitting the time, Attorney General Wickersham after a review of the case declined to approv* it. Morse was found with money in his possession and told several stories of where he got it His contradictory explanation cost him twenty days which had been applied to the usual allowance for good behavior. KILLED IN MINE Worker Fell Three Hundred Feet Down Shaft. John Claherty, a shaft worker for the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre foal com pany, was instantly killed by falling down the new Dundee shaft at South Wilkes Carre, Pa. Claherty hail been working at the mine lor some time. He lost Ms foot ing on some timbers and fell a dis tance ot !;00 leet, beir g dashed to pieces. Baby Takes Aeroplane Ride. Robert l.awson three and a half years- old, is '.ht youngest aviator ever seen on the aviation field at Gar den City, 1.1.. it not in this country. He and his father, Frank M. I.awson, went for a ride over the snow blan keted course with William Milliard in his Burgess biplane Kills Self Hunting Hawk. Hearing a commotion in his chicken rard, Edward Cotton, whose farm ia about five miles from Trenton, N. J., saw a hawk. Getting his rifle, he ran hack toward the hennery and tripped, falling on the gun, which was dis charged. The bullet ento.'e.l Cotten'i head, kiling him. Cider Barrel a Bee Hive. When John K I!. Hayes of Monr<o, N. Y„ discove ed bees crawling abjut the floor of his furnace n;om he In vestigated and saw they were coming from the bunghole of what he sup posed to be an empty cider barrel. The barrel was heavy, so he poked a stick into it, and this, when with drawn, was covered with honey. Hayes plugged the hole and rolled the barrel out into the yard When the bees were, thoroughly chilled he knocked in the barrel head and found 250 pounds of honey. The honey has a cider flavor. Young Watterson Found Insane. Ewing Watterson, the son of Colo nel Henry Watterson, of Louisville, Ky., was declared insane at Kingston, N. Y. The commission recommends that he be committed to a state lu natic asylum until discharged accord ing to law. On July 1. 1910, Ewing Watterson, who lived on a farm in Saugertles, without cause, shot Mich ael J Martin, a saloonkeeper, whom he had never seen, inflicting a severe wound Gives Cornell $300,000. Mrs Ilussell Sage has given $300,000 lo Cornell university at Ithaca, N Y., to be used in the construction of a women's dormitory or college, accord ing to a statement issued by Presid Schurinan The new building is to be known as the Prudence Risley hall, in mem ory of the mother of Russell Sage, and it will house 175 women students.
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