Republican News Iterr vol. xy.~ no. 42 RAILROADS LOSE FREIGHTRATEWAR Interstate Commerce Commis sion Forbids Increase. MUSI RETURN TO OLO RATES Increased Tariffs by Both Eastern and Western Lines Must Be Withdrawn After March 10. The interstate commerce commis sion has decided against the railroads in the important increased freight rates cases that have been pending lor several months. The decision ol the commissing is sweeping beyond all anticipation, even by the shippers, it declines to allow a single increase by the 600 or more railroads in the east and the middle west. 11 throws aside as unsubstantiated the contention of the railroads that they must have increased revenues to meet the increased cost of equipment and operation, and by its decision cuts Off between $50,000,000 and $(>0,000,000 a year in revenue which the railroads had expected to realize from the pro posed increase On the other hand, it means an annual saving of that amount to the shippers of the coun try The commission orders the carriers to cancel the proposed increases by March 10, and notifies them that In the event of failure an order will be entered continuing the present rates for two years, thus preventing the carriers from making any changes in that period The railroads may now appeal to the newly created commerce court, and it is tho opinion of many of their lawyers that this step will be taken. » The text of the decision says, with reference to the eastern roads: "We dislike to tie up by hard and fast orders these commodity rates, and we have concluded as to all the rates involved in this proceeding to simply require the defendants to cancel on or before March 10 their advanced tariffs on ♦file and «ssttire4 their for mer rates, which are the rates now In effect. If this requirement is not com plied with the proposed rates will be suspended, the necessary findings of fact made, and the usual two years' order issued as to all tariffs in- volved." , In the western the decision says: "We do not say that the carriers may not increase their income We trust they may and confidently believe they will. If the time does come when, through changed conditions, it may be shown that their fears are realized or approaching realization, and from a survey of the whole field of operations there is evidence of a movement that makes against the security and last ing value of legitimate investment and an adequate return upon the value of these properties this commission will not hesitate to give its sanction to increases which will be reasonable." "It is the law that tariff rates shall be just and reasonable and alike to all for like railroad service. "In construing this law the courts have given general direction in a number of cases and by all standards that have been set this commission, all of its members concurring, finds the proposed rates to be beyond the limitations placed by law upon the carriers. We shall ask the carriers to withdraw the proposed tariffs forth with through their agents and attor neys in fact, who have filed them. If such action is not taken on or before March 10, 1911, the commission will further suspend these rates, make an appropriate finding and issue an order directing the maintenance of the present rates for a period of two years from that date." FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGhHESVTI-LE, IF-A.. CAPITAL STOCK ; $50,000 \V. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDt J, Cashier Net Profits, 75.000. „ TT ,„ DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm - Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sunes, Banking Business. W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, ...... Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j. A s< Ball> Jolm Bu „ uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. JUDSON C. CLEMENTS. Georgia Democrat Who la Head of Interatate Commerce Commission. Mb* < <Vi vMhB Five Burned to Death. Supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp during the night, two houses at Oneida, near Hazleton, Pa., occupied by Gabriel Gerotsky and Michael Slovak, Hun garians, were burned and five mem bers of the Gerotsky tamily lost theli lives in the flames. Gabriel Gerotsky, the father; his daugters. Annie, twelve years old, and Mary, aged eight years, and his sons, Michael four years old, and Gabriel, two yea: s old, were burned to death. Mrs Gerotsky and John, a crippled son, escaped. The crippled boy was awakened from his sleep by the crackling of the flames. He and his mothei went downstairs to investigate, but could see no fire, and returned to the sec ond floor togo back to bed. When they reached the top of the stairs the flames, which originated in the Slovak home, had eaten their way through to their home and shut off tbe<slecpivg ur*mhcrj of the Gerotsky family and they could not be reached The Slovak family was awakened in time and escaped from their home in safety. Big Landslide In Panama Canal. Without warning and upsetting all theories and all estimates, 500,000 cu bic yaids of rock and earth slid into the Pioneer cut, just opposite the town of Culebra, iu the Panama canal. It is one of the worst slides the canal commission engineers have had to contend with, and it is worse than any previous slide from the fact that the others could be explained, even were predicted. The latest 112 'alanche of dirt changes canal plans materially. It. makes it seem necessary that the entire prism shall be enlarged sufficiently to pre vent any occurrence of the sort after the completion of the canal There seems to be no doubt that all of Gold Hill will have to be removed, in itself a considerable undertaking. And 335,- 000 yards of the slide itself represents waste. His Heart Split In Two. A Hungarian baker, named Kavaro, first name unknown, died suddenly at his home in New York. The man's body was sent to the morgue and Dr. O'Hanlon found that the man's heart had split In two. Dr. O'Hanlon says that this proves that those who say a person cannot die of a broken heart are wrong. He found loss of tone in the muscular tis sues due to insufficient blood supply. A strong emotion might cause the break in the heart in this condition. Kavaro was sixty years old LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1910. SENATE REJECTS OIRECTjLECTION Vot3s Down Resolution to imeno Constitution. DEFEATED AY "LAME OUCKS" Members Whose Terms Expire With This Congress Voted Against Popu lar Election of United States Sena tors. United States senators will not be elected by a direct vote of the people The resolution to submit to *.ho stales an amendment to the constitution pro viding for a direct vote was defeated tn the senate. Nearly all of the senators whose terms expire with this congress, gen erally known as "lame ducks," voted against the resolution. Fifty-four senators voted for the res olution and thirty-three voted against it. A two-thirds vote, or in this case fifty-eight, is required to pass a reso lution for a constitutional amend ment Following is the way the senators voted: Yeas Bailey, Beveridge, Borah, Bourne, Bradley, Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Burton, Carter, Cham berlain, Clapp, Clark (Wyoming), Clarke (Arkansas), Culberson, Cul lom, Cummins, Curtis, Davis, Dixon, Dupont, Frye, Gamble, Gore, Gronna, Guggenheim, Jones, LaFollette, Mc- Cuniber, Martin, Nelson, Newlands, Nixon, Overman, Owen, Paynter, Per kins, Piles, Hayner, Shively, Simmons, (Maryland), Smith (Michigan), Smith (South Carolina), Stephenson, Stone, Sutherland, Swanson. Saylor, Thornton, Warner, Watson, Young Total, 54. Nays—Bacon. Bankhead, Brandegee, Bulkeley, Burnham, Burrows, Crane, Depew, Dick, Dillingham, Fletcher, Flint, Foster, Gallinger, Hale, Hey burn, Johnston, Kean, Lodge, Lorimer, Money, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Percy, Richardson, Boot, Scott, Smoot, Talia ferro, Tillman, Warren, Wetmore To tal, 33. Senator Gallinger at first voted aye, but later said it was an inadvertence and asked to bo recorded in the nega tive. The absentees were Senators Al drich, Crawford, Frazier and Terrell, of Georgia. It was announced that had they been present Frazier would have voted aye, Terrell nay. There was no announcement about Senator Aldrich. Senator Crawford entering alter the roll call was complete, said he had been delayed by a stalled street car and would have voted aye. This would have made the maximum vote possibly for the resolution fil'tv-six. When the resolution was declared lost there was no demonstration, but from the Democratic side on the floor there were several modulated calls of "Good! Good!" The Sutherland amendment had made the measure unpopular with some of the far sjuth ern senators. Senator Borah, who has been In charge of the resolution, was gratified over the result. "While," he said, "I would like very much to have had four more votes, yet 1 am gratified with the results. When it is demonstrated that the sen ate stands within four of two-thirds, it is certain that the real fight is over. "The resolution will be again intro duced at the next session of congress, regular or extraordinary, and urged unremittingly. The friends of the measure may rest assured that the subject will not be permitted to be forgotten. The ne:t congress, in my judgment, will pass.3 i'avorably on the resolution." GORE BnTDEHY FAILS House Finds Mo Evidence In Indian Land C;^es. The house < v. .' 'ee which inves tigated Senatn.% Gore s charges of at tempted bribt yin connection with J. P. McMurray's Indian attorney con tract in Oklahoma., made its final re port to the house. The committee found no evidence to show McMurray was involved. Girl Given SIO,OOO Heart Balm. Miss Hemietta French, the pretty South Dakota girl, who sued David H. Decker, Jr., a wealthy young civil en gineer, for breach ot promise of inn riage has been awarded a verdict of SIO,OOO by a jury In the supreme cour in New York. Justice Erlanger reseiv ed decision on a motion to set the verdict aside, declaring it was "ex tremely excessive." Girl Student a Suicide. Lena Gebhardt, seventeen years of age. a member of the senior class at the Englewood, N. J., high school, died a victim of a bullet which she admitted firing herself. Her eyes were failing and she was afraid she would not be able to graduate. HENRY C. FRICK. Pittsburg Millionaire Offers I $500,000 For"The Mill." =■ *YhHri FRJCTMAY GET COSTLY REMBRANDT Otters Ha't Million Dollars Foi "The Mill." It is reported in Londor, '.hat H. C. Frick is the American , offered $500,000 for Lord LansdowtitVj ous Kembiandt, "The Mill " Lord Lansdowne has had several offers for this picture and P. A. B Widener went up to $350,000, but with out avail. It is said Lord Lansdowne has of fered the National Gallery the option of taking the picture at the price of fered by Mr. Frick. Sir Charles Holroyd, director of the National Gallery, said that the mar quis had offered the nation the re fusal of the work and promised $25,- 000 towards its purchase. Sir Charles, however, despaired of raising the sum necessary unless some millionaire was prepared to pay the bulk of the sum, as in the recent case of Holbein's "Duchess of Milan," when $250,000 was given by an anonymous contribu tor. It is said that an American col lector has offered $500,000 for"The Mill." WOMAN'S BITES KILL NURSE Blood Poisoning Follows Lacerations by Maniac's Teeth. Miss Lillian Light, a professional nurse, who for some time was a dis trict nurse in Lebanon, Pa., died at her home from blood poisoning, re sulting from being bitten by a de mented w\ man, Mrs. John Kilmovislci, whom she was nursing. Miss Light was bitten in the chest and on her hands and arms, ending in blood poisoning, due probably to her run-down condition from overwork. A sister, Mrs. John Roberts, lives in Philadelphia. CHEESE KILLED HIM Farm Hand Ate a Pound and Died of Acute Indigestion. William Thomas, a farm hat?'\ who was employed at Gardnertown, near Newburgh, N. Y., and who evidently had take.; the advice of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to eat lots of cheese, came to Newburgh, bought a pound of cheese and, returning to the farm, made a meal off it with some crackers. It resulted in an attack of acute in digestion, and before medical assist ance could be secured he was dead. Thoiras was thirty years old. SWANSON REAPPOINTED U. S. Senator Will Serve Until Vir ginia Legislature Meets. Governor Mann, of Virginia, has reappointed Senator Claude A. Swan son, now Ailing the unexpired term of the late Senator Daniel. This reappointment is to cover the period between the expiration of Sen ator Swanson's commission on March 4 to thirty days after the next meeting of the state legislature. Death Ends "Playing Doctor." Katharine, the nine-months-old daughter of John Falstick, of Allen >town, Pa., died from a dose of carbolic acid. The children of the family had "played doctor" and gave her the poi son. U. S. Cruiser Ordered to Haiti. The United States scout cruiser Bir mingham was ordered from Mobile, Ala., to Port au Prince, Haiti, where she will replace the gunboat Dolphin and observe developments in the un settled condition of affairs in that re public. KILLS MOTHER, 6CY AND SELF I I Woman Driven Insane by Death ol Her Sister. GAVE POISON IN WATER Driven Insane by Grief Over Death o1 Sister, Miss Jeanette Lewis Gave Parent and Nephew Cyanide—Police Suspect Suicide Pact. Jeanette Lewis, twenty-five years of age, ol' Philadelphia, placed some cya nide ot potassium into a glass of wa- j tor and then induced her mother and her nephew, Edward Midlen, Jr., nine years old, to take a drink from it. Both died instantly. Then Miss Lewis drained a glass of the poisoned water. ! The murders and the suicide oc- 1 curred at the Lewis home, 57 West : Phillena street, Germantown, in the heart of the fashionable suburban dis- j trict. The motive for the crime, the police i say, was melancholia over the death of a sister, the mother of Edward Mid len, Jr., who died in the German hos pital. following an operation for gall stones. It is said the police have informa- j tion that Mrs. Lewis entered into a suicide pact with her daughter. Ac cording to the report, when the boy rushed into the bathroom Sarah Pol hainus, the maid; went to his assist ance, the child still held the glass con taining the poison in his hand. Miss Polhamus tried to take the glass from the boy, but his grandmother, who staggered after him, cried: "No, let him drink it! Let him drink it!" It was also said that Mrs. Lewis tried to find the eight-months-old baby of Mrs. Midlen with the intention of poisoning it, but she was unable to accomplish her purpose, because the infant was on the third floor in cus tody of its nurse. Miss Lewis was devoted to her mar ried sister, and during the latter's ill ness in the Germantown hospital she was daily at Mrs. Midlen's bedside. An operation was performed, and it was thought at first that. Mrs. Midlen would survive. Monday she suffered a relapse and died. When word was sent to the Midlen home Miss Lewis became almost fren zied in her grief. Her brother-in-law, himself struggling under the burden of his sorrow, sought in vain to soothe her. Miss Lewis refused togo to her | room, and through the hours of the night until daylight she walked about j tho house wailing. "My sister is dead; i she is dead!" Telephones For Poison. After the sorrow stricken family had partaken of breakfast Miss Lewis' went to the telephone and called the drug store of Dr. C. D. Lowe. According to Dr. Lowe the young woman represented herself as Flor ence S lyder, the trained nurse in charge of the infant. She said that she j wanted an ounce of cyanide of potas sium and would send for it. When asked the reason she replied that she wanted the poison for medicinal pur poses. To dissolve the drug it would have been necessary to soak it in water for a long time or else pulverize it. It is believed that when Miss Lewis receiv ed the drug she must have gone into some room unobserved and there crushed the crystals into a powder. Undetected she then emptied the pul verized poison into a glass of water. By some artifice she induced tho nine-year-old boy, who was nick named "Peach," to take a sip of the drugged water. Then on another p text she handed the glass to her mother anil watched her take a drink 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. AVe have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE «"» k °< 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 of the lethai potion. When she saw that the powerful drug was having Its I effect upon her nephew and mother, she went to her own room. She lay down upon the bed and drained the glass of all but a few drops, i The first intimation of the grim tra • gedy was given to Sarah Polhamua. She was cleaning in the bathroom on the second floor when the little boy, | gaspii.g and apparently in agony, stag ; gered into the room. Grandmother and Boy Fall Dead. " I'each! Peach! What is the mat ' ter?" she cried. The boy was unable to make reply. As Sarah Polhamus ad vanced to. help the child, his grand mother, suffering Intensely and exhib i iting the same symptoms as "Pdach," followed him into the room. The do mestic reached for a glass of water, but before she could place it to the child's lips he fell to the floor uncon ; scious. The girl turned to Mrs. I.ewis, 1 but she, too, lay ltmp on the floor. The domestic ran into the hall and shouted: "Miss Lewis, where are you? Your mother has fainted." There was no response, and the girl rushed into Miss I.ewis' loom, where she was | found unconscious upon the bed and apparently dead. Mr. Midlen was in the parlor on the first floor and Miss Snyder, the nurse, | was on the third floor. Both hurried I to the second floor in response to the cries of terrified domestic. Mr. Midlen, not realizing that the three were dead, rushed to the drug store and cried out to Dr. Lowe that three members of his family had faint ed. He asked the druggist to return to the house with him. The two hur ried back to the house, and Dr. Lowe, upon seeing the bodies, realized that they had Leen poisoned. Nine Slain In Indian Fight. In a battle sixty miles west og Tus carora, Nev., eight Indians and a po liceman weer killed and other mem i bers of an Indian band were captured. The batle took place at Kelly creek, Humboldt county, twenty-five miles north of Golconda. Sees Her First Snow. Six-year-old Catherine Kugler, of San Antonio, Tex., has come to live with the family ,of former Council man V. E. Ougler in Woodbury, N. J. The little miss never saw snow before until she came east, and thought it would make a nice icing for cake. Dr. H. W. Wiley Weds. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of pure food fame, acquired as chief of the bureau of chemist:.v, and Miss Anna Camp bell Kelton, the daughters of the late General Joseph C. KeUon, U S. A., were married in Wa. hington. House Passes Appropriation B Mr. Three appropriation bills, atiliioriz ing expenditures in excess o 1 $142,000,- 000, were passed in jig-time by the house of representatives The meas ures were the naval bi'.l, the diplo matic bill and the fortifications bill. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADEDPHIA FLOUR weak; winter clear, $3.50@3.75; city mills, fancy, $5.25® 5.75. RYE FLOUR firm, at $4@4.15 per barrel. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, new, 90 @9lc. CORN steady; No. 2 yellow, 51 52c. OATS dull; No. 2 white, 36@36%c.; lower grades, 35*£ c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 16@ leVfcc.; old roosters, Dress ed steady; choice fowls, 17c.; old roosters, 13c. BUTTER steady; extra creamery, 28c. per lb. EGGS firm: selected, 19@22c.; near by, 18c.; western, 18c. | POTATOES firm: 60@65c. bushel. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow; choice, $6.25© 6.50; prime, sti@o.2s. SHEEP steady; prime wethers, $4.t>0@4.80; culls and common, $2.50 @3.50; lambs, ssgi 15.25; veal calves, $9.50@10. i HOGS lower; prime heavies, $7: mediums, $7.40: heavy Yorkers, $7.40 @7.45; light Yorkers and pigs, $7.55@ 7.60; roughs, $6@6.40.
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