Republican News Item. VOL. xv. NO. 40 RECIPROCITY BIUMSSES House Rotifles Measure by Vote ot 221 to 92. LONG AND BITTER DEBATE Legislation Now Goes to the Senate, Where Its Fate Is In Doubt —Almost Solid Democratic Vote For It. The McCall bill, embodying the ad ministration's reciprocity agreement with Canada, was passed by the house of representatives, 221 to 92. Presi dent Taft received the news of the big vote in the house with great satisfac tion. A majority of the Republicans pres ent voted against the measure, the division being 78 ayes and 87 nays. The Democratic vote was 143 ayes and 5 noes. A majority of the Repub lican insurgents present voted for the bill. The McCall bill now goes to the senate. What its fate will be in that body is problematical at tlii3 time. President Taft believes that if a fili buster can be avoided and a vote tak en the bill will pass. He is insistent that the senate shall act one way or the other, and has indicated that he would call an extra session of con gress if it does not do so. The passage of the bill in the house came at the end of a long debate which at times was as bitter as any that has been heard on the floor of that chamber in years. The fight was confined almost wholly to the Repub lican side. Democratic members joined in from time to time and taunted the majority members for their lack of unity. The Democratic leaders also said that the reciprocity agreement was good Democratic doctrine and declar ed they were glad to welcome Presi dent Taft and many of the house Re publicans into the Democratic fold. The suggestion came from the Repub lican side that Mr. Taft and Champ Clark might be rivals for the next Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Clark claimed that in a contest ol that sort be would win "hands down." A final vote was reached only by the application of a cloture rule, that shut off all amendments and even dis pensed with the reading of the bill. This proceeding was decided upon on ly after Mr. McCall, in charge of the bill, had failed to get unanimous con sent to do away with calendar Wed nesday. If that had been secured, he said he would have been glad to let the debate continue for another legis lative day. The Republicans opposed to the bill fought the rule to the very last, denouncing it In caustic language. They directed their fire especially against the Democrats and accused them, on the eve of going into power in the house, of enforcing a "gag rule" as drastic as anything against which they had so eloquently inveigh ed in the past. Oklahoma City State's Capital. The Oklahoma supreme court, in a decision rendered, declared that Okla homa City is to be the permanent cap ital of Oklahoma. Adherents of Guth rie say they will appeal to the United States supreme court. Locomotive Blows Up; Kills Six. The boiler of a Missouri, Kansas & Texas locomotive exploded in the round house at Smithville, Tex., kill ing six employes. $216,500 For Vassar. Committees of the Alumni Associa tion of Vassar college, in session in Chicago, announce gifts to the college that total $216,500. FIRST NATIONAL .BANK, BCTJO-HIES^rXLXjE, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75 " 00 °" 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 8 Bal]) John Bull uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910. SENATOR CLAPP. Presents Resolution to Probe the Copper Trust. ASKS COPPER TRUST PROBE Senator Clapp Offers Resolution to See If Law Isn't Broken. Investigation of the copper trust is contemplated in a resolution introduc ed by Senator Clapp in the senate. The resolution directs the attorney general to make inquiry concerning the relations between the United States Metal company and the Amal gamated Copper company and the Anaconda Copper company, with a view to determining whether the re lation does not constitute an unlawful merger in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The resolution was referred to the committee on the judiciary. RUSSIAN FANATICS IN'FRENZY Congregation Vows Not to Sleep, Eat or Drink Until Priest Is Sent Baok. Fanatical scenes are being witness ed in Tsaritsyn, Russia, wlie:e the whole Greek Catholic church is suf fering self-imposed deprivations in protest against the transfer to another parish of the priest Heliodorus, the reactionary leader. Recently the holy synod announced the transference of the priest from Tsaritsyn to the diocese of Tula. The announcement threw the parishioners into a religious frenzy, and with Helio dorus they took a solemn vow not to sleep, eat or drink until the order of the holy synod has been rescinded. Thousands of persons are cooped up in the church, where a service with lighted candles continues uninterrupt edly day and night. Many of the wor shippers are on the point of suffoca tion and the suffering of all is dis tressing to see. Heliodorus is a peculiar character. In 1907 he was credited with lead n? the "Black Hundred," the lower strat um of the reactionary forces, in Voro nezh province. He is bitterly anti- Semitic and patriotic to a degree that has been described as insane. He is not only followed blindly by those among whom he ministers, but fre qeuntly has been the recipient of marks of favor from Emperor Nich olas himself. Death Depletes Naval War College. Death and retirement has made serious Inroads into the staff of the naval war college at Newport, R. 1., within the last few months. The retirement of Rear Admirals Luce and Sperry from active duty removed two able officers from the staff and death removed Commander Frank Marble, another member of the teaching staff. Commander Marble was stricken with apoplexy. Mayor of Princeton Dies. Harvey 1,. Robinson, the mayor of Princeton, N. J., died at a hospital in Miami, Florida. ACCUSED MAN WAS TOWED HER Reading Police Point lo This as Motive For Wife Murder. _____ "! 112 ~ SHOT AND BORNEO VICTIM Officers Declare Vanaman Deliberately Planned to Kill His Wife to Wed Girl He Courted In Nearby Town. Matthew E. Vanaman is under ar rest in Reading, Pa., on the charge ol shooting and burning his wife, whc was at first thought to have been burned to death by the explosion oi an oil stove 'in her home early on Monday morning. The police say their evidence points to a dolibertely plan ned murder. The authorities declare a motive is revealed by the remarkable story ot Miss Ella Wessner, twenty years of age, of Blandon, who came to the dis trict attorney's office. learning that her persistent wooer was a married man, Miss Wessnei was overcome with grief as she toKl Assistant District Attorney Dumin that Vanaman had courted her during the past four months and promised to wed her at Wilmington, Del., the sec ond week in March. The girl kept her own counsel and her wedding trous seau had been prepared for the com ing wedding. "Wo will keep our wedding a se cret," he told me, were the words the girl told Assistant District Attorney Dumm. "Then we will go west to live," he added. The lack of money was the only remaining obstacle in the way of th.3 husband. When he called at the Ho meopathic hospital Monday night to secure legal proof from the physicians of his wife's death in order to secure payment of insurance funds, he was confronted with the charge of wife murder, and the only retort from him as he gazed upon his wife's corpse at the morgue later was:"l wonder how the bullet wounds got In her head?" All efforts to secure a confession from him failed and he maintained 3 serene composure In the face of a strong chain of circumstantial evi dence. An examination of the hus band at the hospital revealed addi tional evidence which made possible subsequent developments. His wallet contained an address which led to the location of Miss Wessner, at Blandon, and a receipt for 20 per cent of the cost of what afterwarsd proved to be the wedding ring which he had pur chased for his unsuspecting futuie bride. The only remaining evidence which the authorities have not secured is the revolver which caused the death of Mrs. Vanainan. The authorities think the husband, under pretense of feeling unwell, lay on a couch downstairs until he was sure that his wife and baby were asleep. Their theory is that at about 3.30 a. m.on Monday he crept to his wife's bedside and- shot her as she slept. "The bedding was saturated with kerosene," said Assistant District At torney Dunn, "and can be smelled plainly," he added. "The oil stove which the husband claims exploded Is not damaged, even after having bean thrown from the window." TAFT KEEPS HAZERS OUT Vetoes Resolution by Congress to Re instate Dismissed V. est Pointers. President Taft sen I to congress a message vetoing a jo'nt lesolution au thorizing him to reias'.ate nine former cadets of the West Point military academy. The cadets were discharged upon conviction of having violated the law prohibiting hazing. Customs Freud Discovered. A well laid devised to de fraud the customs of Santa Domingo, which are supervised by the United States, has Just been laid bare by customs officials in New York city, it appears from a statement authorized by Collector of the Port William Loeb, Jr. The scheme involved the packinh hrre of costly merchandise In boxes such as those in which dried fish are usually shipped and the ship ment to Santa Domingo of such boxes mixed with those in which fish really were packed. State Postmasters Named. The president nominated the fol lowing postmasters: Augustus M. High, Reading, Pa.; Joseph W. Pascoe, Easton, Pa.; William Pearre, Cumber land, Md.; William C. Birley, Fred erick, Md. She Saw Lafayette. Mrs. Cornelia D. Burnley, who was present when Marquis de Lafayette visted the University of Virginia in 1825, is dead in Charlottesville, Va., at the age of ninety-three. FAMILY OF SEVEN KILLED BY GAS Father, Mother and Five Chil dren Found Dead. BRIDE-ELECT ONE OF VICTIMS Deadly Fumes From Tube Detached From Gas Stove Filled the House and Overcame Family In Their Sleep. Seven persons, including the father, mother, three sons and two daughters, were asphyxiated by gas in their home at 1 Pearl place, in the roar of 228 Christian street, Philadelphia. The dead are: Hyman Berkowitz, forty-two years old, a fruit huckster; Mrs. Rose Berkowitz, forty years old; Minnie, eighteen; Michael, twelve; Israel, nine; Rebecca, seven, and Paul, live years old. The family was killed by the acci dental loosening of a rubber gas tube from a gas pipe running across the main living room, and the flooding of the house with the illuminating gas. Not one of the family was able to get out of bed before being overcome by the fumes, although the three young est children showed evidences of hav ing tried in a feeble manner to escape the overpowering gas. A particularly sad feature of the deaths was that of the oldest child, the daughter Minnie. She was to have been married within two or three days to Louis Weinstein, a merchant. The girl's trousseau was all finished and was found hanging on the sec ond floor, covered with cloth to pro tect it from dust. The Berkowitz family retired early. The father did not return home until after one o'clock. In the main living room down stairs is a gas stove in one corner under a window. From it there is a pipe which extends across the center of the room. From this pipe a rubber gas tube had been at tached which ran to the stove in the cerner. Berkowitz, the evidence showed, in crossing tlie room on his rotnrn home accidentally kicked the gas tube and detached it from the pipe and there upon allowed the gas to escape with full force. Ho went upstairs to bed and left the door to his room, where he slept with his three sons, and the alcove where his wife and her two daughters slept, wide open. In a short time the gas, which escaped with full force out of the pipe, had filled the house. To ail appearances no one made any attempt to get up when the escaping gas reached them. The smaller chil dren showed evidences of a struggle, as if partially awakened, but were not successful in getting away from the fumes. The youngest child, Paul, was half out of bed, but was the only one to have made any move apparently. Their bodies were not found until J. Marvin, a constable and collector, went to the home to collect the rent for the month. He pounded at the door and later hammered on It, but there was no response. Ho then went next door to the home of Samuel Smith. Smith told Marvin that he had not seen (he Her kowitz family, and, fearing that some thing had happened, gave Marvin a key to the Berkowitz home. Mis. Smith accompanied Marvin to the house, as did Rose Miller, who live.l one door away. Upon opening the door the investi gators were almost knocked over by the rush of escaping gas. The gas jet was found turned wide open. After it had been turned off the people has tened upstairs and there found the seven people unconscious and appar ently dead. 433 Members In Next Congress. There will be 433 members of the house of representatives in the Sixty third congress, as compared with 391 in the present hose. The bill reported by Representative Crumpacker, of Indiana, from the cen sus committee, providing for reap portionment on this 433 basis, was passed by the house. The Crumpacker bill —the senate will acquiesce as a matter of course— provides an Increase of forty-two members. The states of Alabama, Col orado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louis iana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia will gain one member each. The states of Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and Washington will gain two members each. Califor niar and Oklahoma will gain three members each, and Pennsylvania will gain four. New York will gain six, &nd all the others remain as at pres ent. The total of 433 was selected be cause it was the lowest number that would prevent any state from losing a representative. PHINCE OF WALES/ |[ Heir to British Throne Has the Measles. Prince of Wales Has Measles. Edward, Prince of Wales, and his brother, Prince Albert, have been at tached with measles at the naval col lege at Dartmouth, England, where there is an epidemic of the disease. The condition of the princes causes no anxiety. Coal Gas Killed Engaged Couple. Carbon monoxide (coal gas) poison ing lulled Grace Elosser and Charles E. Twigg, who were found dead in the parlor of the Elosser home, in Cumberland, Md„ on Dec. 31, the day before they were to be married, ac cording to the reports of two chemists who tested the blood of the two vic tims. Heretofore the authorities have maintained that the couple met their death by cyanide of potassium, the coroner's jury rendering a verdict to that effect. The reports of Dr. Charles Glaser, of Baltimore, and Dr. R. L. Lynch, chief chemist of the health depart ment of the District of Columbia, the chemists employed by State's Attorney Robb, were made public. The reports are against the theory of cyanide poisoning and agree that death in each instance came from carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is a gas supposed to have been given off by a stove in the Elosser parlor. Dr. Glaser's report is at great length, while Dr. Lynch's came bv telegram and says samples show the presence of carbon monox ide, and that death was undoubtedly due to carbon monoxide poisoning. TWO MAIL POUCHES SIGLEN Contained Checks and Bank Paper Worth $500,000. Two mail pouches, which conta'nel checks and other bank paper valued at $300,000, were recently sloldn at Thalman, Ga., where the Atlanta, Ilir minghain & Atlantic railway crosses the Seaboard Air line. The pouches were dropped from the A., B. & A., to be picked up by the Seaboard. Before being picked up, however, some one made off with the pouches. One pouch was stolen on Jan. 19 and the other on Jan. 31, but postal inspectors who have been working on the case delayed making the thefts public. The inspectors so far are abso lutely withotu a clue. HARDWARE,^^^^^ 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 ot 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 I TUIA NNU« - - 17 SUto Library _ w . || |(j | HANG FOR MURDER ■ ■ Each Found Guilty In First Degree at Georgetown. Without tlio least visible show of excitement and with stolid and Im mobile faces, Earl Hugo Brown, alias Henry Williams, and James Sharp, two colored boys ,each seventeen years old, convicted of murder, faced Chief Justice Pennewill in George town, Del., when he sentenced them to be hanged in the New Castle work house on May 19. The crime for which the boys will give their lives is the murder of John Rogers, son of a farmer for whom the two lads worked. The murder was one of the most atrocious ever com mitted in Sussex county and occurred last June. In company with the colored lads, young Rogers, sixteen years old, went into a field to "sucker" corn. He took his gun with him to shoot birds, and after a short hunt returned and gave his gun to one of the colored boys an dtold him togo hunt while he took a nap nearby. The plan to kill Rogers was laid in the woods while he slept. The two col ored boys walked up behind the sleep ing lad and blew his head off. After killing him one went to the farm house after a shovel and both dragged his body about 400 yards through a woods into another field. Digging a shallow hole, they burled the body, hid the gun and shovel and returned to the house to eat supper with the parents of their victim. They told of the missing boy having gone hunting and helped search all night for Rogers. Early in the morning the body was discovered and the boys confessed to the killling. CREATE CHILDREN'S BUREAU Senate Passes Bill to Investigate Child Life. The senate passed the bill creating a bureau to be known as the children's bureau, under the department of com merce and labor. Senator Flint, of California, is the author of the meas ure. The bureau is to be under the di rection of a chief, whose salary is to be S4OOO a year, and is directed to "investigate and report on all mat ters pertaining to the welfare of child and child life, and shall especially in vestigate the question of infant mor tality, the birth rale, physical degen eracy, orphanage, juvenile del.n quency and juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations and accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several states and territories and such other facts as have a bearing upon the health, efficiency, character and training of children." Maine May Vote on Prohibition Again. The Maine senate,in session at Au gusta, voted, 23 to 7, to resubmit to the people the existing amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquor. The vote was on strictly party lines, except that Senator Chandler, Repub lican, voted with the Democrats, who are in the majority. The resubmission resoltuion will go before the house. New Cuban Minister. The Cuban senate has confirmed the appointment of Don Antonio Martin Rivero as minister to the United States. ( Cutting Down Trees Cost Town S4BOO. Because the borough of Consho hocken, Pa., changed the grade of a street and cut down twenty-six maple trees belonging to William Hollowell, a jury gave him a verdict of S4BOO against the county. Mr. Hollowell hai planted the trees fifty years ago.
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