Republican News Item.
VOL. XV. NO. 41
ALIENATION
, SUITSETTLED
Dr. McKim is to Be Paid
an Annuity.
A. 6. VANDERBILT INVOLVED
Accused Father-in-Law and New York
Millionaire of Alienating Affections
of His Wife.
It was learned in Baltimore that
Dr. Smith Hollins McKim will not in
stitute proceedings for the alienation
of the affections of his wife, who was
recently granted a divorce. An agree
ment was signed in New York to this
effect.
Those who were to have been de
fendants are Dr. McKim's father-in
law, Dr. Isaac E. Emerson, of Balti
more; his former wife, Dr. Emerson's
daughter, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
The agreement was the result of a
conference held in the office of Hersh
field & Wolf, lawyers.
Papers were signed at this confer
ence which release Mr. Vanderbilt,
Dr. Emerson, his daughter and Mrs.
Frederick McCormick from any legal
action resultant from Mrs. McKim
divorcing her husband. Dr. McKim
was awarded a sum of money which
will be paid in semi-annual instal
ments, as well as a lump sum which
was awarded chiefly for counsel fees.
When questioned about the matter,
Mr. Hershfleld said: "I can say this
much," he said, "that there has been
consummated an arrangement by
which Dr. McKim has agreed to end
all existing and possible litigation rel
ative to the alleged alienation of his
wife's affections. That is all."
The agreement reached was the re
sult of a series of conferences that
have been held for some time. Reports
have been made from time to time
that Dr. McKim intended to bring
suit against Mr. Vanderbilt for alleged
alienation of his wife's affections, and
there have also appeared reports that
an engagement existed between Mrs.
Jut linn and Vniderbilt.
Mrs. McKim and Mrs. McCormick
were great friends, and it. Is hinted
that Captain Emerson may marry Mrs.
McCormick when he secures his di
vorce.
It is understood that the sum in
volved will be paid semi-annually and
will be so payable until Dr. McKim's
death, with the proviso, of course, that
no action of any kind is brought by
him against any of those mentioned.
It is further understood that should
Dr. McKim die within five years a
sum of money is to be paid to his sis
ter, but that if he should live for that
length of time and die thereafter, the
payment of the annuity shall cease.
APPROVES INDIAN STATUE
House Agrees to Resolution For Fig
ure In New York Harbor.
The Goulden resolution providing
for a heroic statue of the North Amer
ican Indian on a federal reservation
in New York harbor, was agreed to by
the house. The Improved Order of Red
Men had endorsed the bill.
The project, which involves no ex
pense to the government, was started
in 1909 in New York, at a meeting of
army officers, Indian "warriors"" and
well known New Yorkers at the home
of Rodman Wanamaker, of Philadel
phia.
Carrie Nation Near Death.
According to word r ceived by Eu
reka Springs friends of Carrie Nation,
under treatment at a sanitarium in
Leavenworth, Kan., she Is unconscious
the greater portion of the time. The
physicians say she can survive only
a few days.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1910.
MRS. SMITH H. M'KIM.
Said to Be Engaged to Alfred G.
Vanderbilt.
PAID $35 AND SAW~
HUSBAND MURDERED
Wife's Confession to Sister
Heard in Court.
That she paid $35 to have her hus
band put out of the way and stood
and saw him murdered, was the ad
mission credited to Mrs. Lena Cusu
mano by her sister, when the latter
testified at the trial of Mrs. Cusumano
on the murder charge in the superior
court in Plymouth, Mass.
The sister, Mrs. Accuisa de Legart,
of Boston, testified that Mrs. Cusu
mano visited her home a few days be
fore the body of Frank Cusumano was
found in the surf, at Sunset Beach,
Hull, and in discussing his disappear
ance, said:
"My head told me to have him kill
ed. I paid $35 and had him killed."
"Are you sure he is dead? Aren't
they fooling you?" the sister asked.
The reply of Mrs. Cusumano, as given
by the witness, was:
"I saw it done with my own eyes.
They gave him one blow in the neck
with the axe."
"Where is he buried?" the ques
tioner persisted, according to her tes
timony.
"He isn't buried, but wrapped in a
quilt tied with wire and thrown into
the sea at 3 o'clock at night," Mrs.
Cusumano is said to have replied.
Son Marries Father.
A unique marriage ceremony was
one which was performed in Malone,
N. Y., when Rev. E. Scott Farley, pas
tor of the First Baptist church at
Herkimer, officiated at the wedding of
his father, Rev. E. J. Farley, pastor of
the First Baptist church of Oneonta,
to Miss Katherine Hawley, of this vil
lage. It Is the first time In the matri
monial annals of northern New York
that a son has been the officiating
clergyman at tlie marriage of his own
father.
LORDS VETO BILL
UP IN COMMONS
'A •————
Is Measure on Which Govern
ment Appealed to People.
HISTORY IN THE MAKIN6
Historic Change In Great Britain'i
Constitution Will Come With Iti
Adoption.
Premier Asquith introduced in the
house of commons in London the gov
ernment bill to abolish the veto powei
of the house of lords. If it passes ii
will accomplish a historic change in
the parliamentary system of Great
Britain.
The greatest controversy known in
England for several generations be
gan with both sides apparently deter
mined not to yield except to superioi
force. A full house faced Mr. Asquith
when he rose to make the customary
explanatory statement on the intro
duction of a measure of such moment
Tickets for seats in the public galler
ies had been exhausted weeks before
and the diplomatic and peers bal
conies were thronged with interested
ones.
The premier lost no time in letting
the opposition know that he felt the
country was behind him, and therefore
did not hesitate to reintroduce the
bill without a change of a word in
the form in which it had its first read
ing last year. The measure, he said
had gone before the electorate at the
recent elections and had been en
dorsed by the return of its support
ers to the house of commons with s
majority of 126.
Mr. Asquith declared that when the
lords rejected the budget of 1909 they
committed political suicide. History
would say that it was the most stu
pendous act of political blindness evei
perpetrated. Hereditary in origin, ir
responsible In the exercise of its pow
ers and overwhelmingly partisan it)
its actual composition—that was the
body to which the law intrusted th€
right to delay and check the consld
ered decisions of elected represents
tives of the people.
The premier said he did not propose
to dispense with a second chamber.
They had already suffered enough
from the evils of what was practically
a single-chamber government; but the
country required an immediate remedy
for the present evil, and could not
await a release from tho dangerous
and intolerable situation until the long
and laborious process necessary for
the creation of a new second chambei
had been completed.
Mr. Asquith was followed by A. J
Balfour. The leader of the opposition
commented upon the absence of aj)
evidence of a confclliatory spirit in the
premier's speech. All were agreed
he said, that there should be a modifi
cation of the relation of the twt
houses, but the reconstruction of the
house of lords should be the subject
of cautious deliberation. The bica
meral system must prevail, and the
hptise of commons must be the pre
dominant partner.
"Mr. Balfour said he was convinced
that some leaves of hereditary was
necessary for the second chamber. He
desired a peaceful arrangement, and
he would do much so that a great
struggle might be settled without con
troversial violence, which it was es
pecially desirable to avoid in a coro
nation year; but there were some is
sues so great that 110 compromise was
possible, and if fouerht out they must
be carried over tho heads of the Un
ionist party.
Brown Defeats Wolgast.
Knock-Out Brown, of New York, de
feated Ad Wolg.ist, lightweight cham
pion, in a six-round fight in Philadel
phia.
Brown carried the battle to Wolgast
In every roun-1 IT I vas wonderfully
strong and aggressive and Wolgast
took many hard knocks. It was Wol
gast's stamina and ring generalship
that prevented Brown from knocking
him out, but at that on several occa
sions the champion was hard pressed.
Gets Thirty Years For Murder.
The jury in the case of Cyrene Leo
Hammond, in Mays Landing, N. J.,
who was charged with the murder of
Henry Foote in Atlantic City, in No
vember last, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree.
The court sentenced Hammond to a
term of thirty years in the state prison
at hard labor.
Wedded 91 Years; Woman Dies.
Mrs. Francis Esper, 108 years old,
said to be the oldest woman In Colo
rado, died in the arms of her 111-
year-old husband from burns received
when her clothing caught fire from
an open grate at her bona in Flor
ence, Colo.
Mr. and Mrs. Esper had been mar
ried ninety-one years.
RECIPROCITY OR
EXTRASESSION
Tatt Issues an Ultimatum tn
Congress.
ALSO WARNS DEMOCRATS
. ifiif
Ceclares Attempt to Revise Tariff as
Rider to Reciprocity Treaty Will Be
Promptly Vetoed.
Through Representative McCall, of
Massachusetts, President Taft notifies
congress and the country of his inten
tion to call a special session of con
gress in the event of the failure by
the senate to vote on the Canadian
reciprocity agreement.
The president's determination in
this matter is clearly disclosed In a
formal statement given out by the
Massachusetts representative as he
was leaving the White House after a
conference with Mr. Taft. Opponents
of the reciprocity plan in the senate
have been hoping that the special ses
sion talk would prove groundless, but
the statement knocks the last prop
from under them on this score.
Representative McCall, obviously
speaking by authority of the president,
not only makes it clear that congress
will be called back if the senate fails
to vote on the agreement, but also
serves notice that members who
block action on reciprocity at this ses
sion will be held responsible for any
business depression or disturbance
that may result from attempted tariff
revision by the Democrats in a spe
cial session.
The McCall statement goes further.
Through it President Taft emphasizes
his warning to the Republican party
that unless they are prepared now to
yield something in the Interest of a
reasonable policy of protection an op
position will spring up that will wipe
from the statute books "the last trace
of a protective tariff."
The McCall statement conveys a
plain intimation to the Democrats that
President Taft will veto any tariff re
vision that is not in keeping with his
own -*heorj» of protective principles.
This obviously is intended as a warn
ing to the Democrats that any at
tempt by them to tack the reciprocity
treaty to a radical tariff revision
measure in a special session would be
blocked by executive action when the
measure reaches the White House.
Representative McCall's statement
makes It apparent that Mr. Taft is not
talking special session by way of a
threat. The president's attitude is pre
cisely as outlined in these dispatches
more than a week ago. He feels obli
gated under the formal agreement
with Canada to call a special session
in the event of the failure of congress
to act before March 4 next.
The agreement between the two
countries pledges each to use its "ut
most efforts" to bring about the pas
sage of the legislation. The president
feels that his power to call an extra
ordinary session of congress Is includ
ed in this "utmost efforts" pledge and
that he is in honor bound to fill it.
TO HONOR CARDINAL
Will Erect Gibbons Hall at Catholic
University at Washington.
A movement is to be projected by
the American hierarchy of the Catho
lic church to erect a $200,000 building
at the Catholic university at Washing
ton, to be known as the Cardinal Gib
bone hall.
This gift to the university is tc
commemorate the fiftieth anniversary
of Cardinal Gibbon's ordination to the
priesthood and his twenty-fifth yeai
as a member of the Sacred College ol
Cardinals. The funds to meet the
cost of this building will be collected
in all of the Catholic dioceses in the
United States.
Ground will be broken on June 30,
which will be the cardinal's anniver
sary day. The building will be of gray
stone, in Tudor Gothic arcltecture. It
will have a frontage of nearly 20fl
feet on Michigan avenue and will ex
tend along the west line of the univer
sity grounds. Gibbons hall will be used
for dormitories and administration of
flees.
Takes Himself to Jail.
It was a much surprised man when
Warden Collins, of the Northampton
county jail, in South Bethlehem, Pa.
opened the prison door in response
to a knock and was then handed a
paper committing the bearer, James
McGuire, to Jail for thirty days. Mc
Guire promised Squire Enrlght that he
would goto jail without an escort.
Lyncher Gets Fifteen Years.
Oliver Timmons, the third man tc
be tried on the charge of murder in
connection with the lynching of Carl
Etherington, the Anti-Saloon league
detective, in Newark, Ohio, last July,
was sentenced to serve fifteen yeari
in the Ohio penitentiary. He was con-
DR. HARVEY W. WILEY.
Chemist Calls Us a Nation of
Drug Fiends.
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Calls U. S. Nation of Drug Fiends.
After Dr. H. W. Wiley, the noted ]
chemist of the department of agri-j
culture, declared in New York |
that we are a "nation of drug fiends" ;
and are wasting billions of dollars ow
ing to careless regard for health. Dr.
Eugene H. Porter, commissioner of
health of New York state; Processor
A. C. Abbott, of the department of hy
giene at the University of Pennsylva
nia; George L. Flanders, president of
the Association of State and National
Food and Dairy Departments, and oth- j
er eminent men at the luncheon of
the Republican club made Insistent de
mands for a national health board. |
"We don't seem to care anything
about our health," said Dr. Wiley. "We
are the drug habit nation. We don't
feel satisfied unless we take "some
thing for everything.' We are a coun
try of drug fiends, drug slaves. The
present indiscriminate sale of drugs
threatens the public health fully as
seriously as does impure food."
Archbishop Ryan's Funeral.
One of the most imposing funeral
hervices that ever took place in Phila-:
delphia occurred when the body of the
Most Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, archbishop ,
of Philadelphia, was interred beneath !
the high altar of the Cathedral of St. !
Peter and St. Paul.
The services began with the chant-:
ing of the divine office. The anti- |
phonarians who performed this office
included Cardinal Gibbons, surround
ed by his assistants in gorgeous vest-;
inents.
With the end of the services the
officiating clergymen retired to the
aacrlsty, where the procession for tho
pontifical mass of requiem was form- :
ed. Last came the officers of the mass,
including Cardinal Gibbons, who pre
sided, and Bishop Prendergast, auxil
iary of this archdiocese, who was tho
celebrant.
With them walked Monsignor Fal
conio, the papal delegate to the Unit
ed States, representing the pope, and
Archbishop Glennon, of St. Louis, w..0
preached the funeral perm on.
With the return of the cortege to
the cathedral tiie body oi* the arch
bishop was conveyed to the crypt. I
Rothschild Left $145,000,C00.
The Neue Freie Pi esse figures that
the estate of Baron Albert von Ro hs
child, who died in Vienna on Suaday,
is worth $145,000,000.
Would Revise Tariff at tixtra Session.
If an extra session of congress is
called by President Taft the Demo
crats of the house will start at once
to revise several schedules oi' the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act. An authorita
tive statement to this effect was made
by Representative Underwood, of Ala
bama, who has been selected as chair
man of the new committee ou ways
and means.
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gtnteUM*" . YEAR
MINISTER VINDICATED
BY CHURCH JURY
Woman Accused Him of Im
proper Conduct.
After a spicy trial before an eccle
siastical body of the central Pennsyl
vania conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which lasted nine
hours, Ilev. Harry Daniels, pastor of
the West Street Methodist Episcopal
church, of York, I'a., and chairman of
the Anti-Saloon league, was acquit
ted of charges of alleged improper
conduct, made by Mrs. Edward M.
Strom, a pretty young woman, for
merly a probationer of his church.
Mrs. Schrom previously made an af
fidavit befoie a local alderman, charg
ing her former pastor with attempting
to induce her to come into his parlor
for purposes unbecoming the Christian
minister.
The woman alleges that Rev. Dan
iels, after she had entered the par
sonage, pulled down the blinds and
locked the door so that outsiders
couldn't peer in. She threatened to
make an outcry, which prevented him
from attempting further liberties.
When these rumors became current
upon the street, Rev. Daniels asked to
be heard before a church council
that he might vindicate himself
against the charges. Rev. Dr. W. W.
Evans, superintendent of the Harris
burg district, called a meeting and ap
pointed an ecclesiastical jury to hear
and try the case.
After hearing both sides, Rev. Dan
iels was found to be "not guilty" and
that there were evidences of conspir
acy, as he had proven a complete
alibi as to the dates made in the
charges upon which the offenses were
alleged to have been committed.
BOSS COX INDICTED
Cincinnati Political Leader Is Charg
ed With Perjury.
George 13. Cox, banker and so-called
political boss of Hamilton county, was
indicted by the Hamilton county grand
jury in Cincinnati, 0., on a charge of
perjury.
The charge was made a result of
a comparison of a record of the 19' 6
grand jury with testimony given out
by John A. Gibson, a former county
treasurer.
Cox testified in 10:'6 that he ha.l
not receive ! any portion of the gra
tuities which the rta'e iarestlsaii n
commission discovered lir.d been nil
by verlous b inks to a: 10.-.si thro :or
mer county treasurers.
Shot His Brother*
Charles Avery, twenty-two years of
age, shot his brother Calvin, thirty
seven years old, at the.homo of the
latter in Noblesville, lad.
Bad feeling had exieted between the
two brothers, and when Charles went
to the home of Calvin they met with
revolvers. Nine shots were fired. Cal
vin was shot through the right breast
and a lung penetrated. He can live
only a short time. He is married and
is the father of six children. Charles
Avery is unmarried. He escaped.
Rich Farmer Shot to Death.
Jeremiah Shaffer, sixty years old,"
one of the wealthiest farmers in the
vicinity of Somerset, Pa., was mys
teriously shot and killed near his
home. The bullet entered the back of
his head and there is no clue to the
murderer. State troopers with blood
hounds aer Investigating.
George IV.'s Gold Robe For George V.
King George V.of Great Britain has
decided to wear at the coronation the
imperial mantle worn by George IV.
instead of ttiat worn by Edward VII.
It is in a state of perfect pre-erva
tlon, is made of the finest cloth of
gold and is surrounded with a ieep
fringe of pure gold threads.