Republican News Item. VOL. XIV. NO 43 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CAPITAL STOCK $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.Son«, „ , . „ . w C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob ler, Baojing Business. Ly * man MyerS) w T Reed y, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j g John Ball. uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 peroent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. No Placl Oc6 this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOOD HEATERS; ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A. lot of second band stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stc res anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The New Foulard Silks Are now being shown—The line is comprised of high-class foreign and domestic fabrics in the very prettiest dainty figured designs, polka dots, fancy stripes, etc., in all the new colors that will be in demand this season. Shed-water Foulards and double width kinds. FOR 85C TO $1.50. The Finer Sort of Linens. Our Linen department hasjtuade great strides toward the letter class of goods the last two seasons, through our care to have reliable Linen only, and selling them for just what they are, pure if all Linen, union if they contain anything else, has done much to bring people here when they want the best Linens for table or ssdeboard. Ladies' New Tailored Suits. You have but to glance ait our Suit department to realize what an elaborate assortment of new stylish suits are being offered for your se lection. Every day brings more styles to choose from at right prices. Silk and Hercerize d Cotton Fabrics For street and evening wear. These coine in all the newest shades, either plain or fancy Jacquard designs; also Wash Foulards. 35C TO 50C A YARD. SHOPfiELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE: STREET, WILLIAMSPORT - PENN'A. PRINTING TO PLEASE && mm Iftews ITtem ©ffice. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY MARCH 18, 1910. HARRiSBURG FRAUD SENTENCES UPHELD Pennsylvania at Same Tim* Brings Suit to Recover $5,000*- 000 Spent on Fittings ,„.l FOR CAPITAL CONSPIRATORS Graft Sentences Sustained —Men Con- j vie ted of Capitol Fraud Must Serve , term* —W. P. Snyder and J. M. Bhu- I maker, Charged with Conspiracy. Philadelphia, Mar. 15 —The convic tion of William P. Snyder and Jamea j M. Shumaker, charged with conspiracy to defraud the State In connection j with the furnishing of the State Capi tol, was affirmed by the State Supreme ■ Court here. Snyder was a former Auditor General and Shumaker a former Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds. Snyder and Shumaker were convict ed in the Dauphin County Court in Harrlsburg on December 18, 1908, and sentenced to serve two years each and to pay a fine of SSOO each and the cost of prosecution. John H. Sander son of Philadelphia, who had the furni ture contract for the Capitol, and Wil liam L. Mathues of Media, formed State Treasurer, who paid the alleged fraudulent furniture bills, were con victed and received a similar sentence at the same time. Sanderson and Ma thues have since died. The cases were carried to the Su perior Court, which affirmed the Dau pHin County Court, and an appeal waa then taken to the highest tribunal In the State, which to-day upheld the lower courts. Attorney General Todd, comment- j lng on the decision, said: "It is all over and the men must goto prison." Harrlsburg, Pa., Mar. 9. —Actions In equity for the recovery by the State of at least 15,000.000 alleged to have 1 been Illegally paid to contractors for the furnishing of the new State Capi tol were entered In the Dauphin Coun ty Court to-day by the Attorney Gen -ral's Department. The actions are against the contractors, John H. San derson, now dead, and the Pennsyl vania Construction Company, the State officials having to do with the awards of the contracts and the ap proval of bills in payment, Archlteot Joseph M. Huston and the sureties of the contractors and State officials. The snlts are the outgrowth of the Capitol Investigation oonducted In 1907 and are enUrely separate from the criminal actions brought more than two years ago. BLOW-UP KILLB EIGHT. Seventeen Hurt In Accident Near Chicago. Chicago, Mar. 14. —Eight persona were reported killed and seventeen in jured, many of them probably fatally. In an explosion at the works of the American Maize Products Compaiiy at Roby, Ind. The explosion occurred In a detach ed building of the plant and was pre ceded by a tire. Starch in au over heated kiln 1B supposed to have been the cause. It was known that twenty-nine workmen were In the building at the time. Seventeen of these were res cued badly burned. Of the twelve un accounted for several are believed td have escaped unhurt. The rest were burned in the ruins of the warehouse* MRS. BOTKIN DEAD. Noted Poisoner Expires In Ban Querv tin Prison. San Francisco, Mar. 14. —Mrs. Cof> delta Botkln. serving a life sentence at Sun Quentln for the murder in 1891 of Mrs. John P. Dunning, of Dover, Del., by poisoned chocolates sent through the malls, died at the peniten tiary. Mrs. Dunning was the wife of a former San Francisco newspaper man, with whom Mrs. Botkln was Infatuat ed. Dunning died several years ago In Philadelphia. EDITOR APOLOGIZES TO FIBH. Congressman's Bult for Libel for Being Called "Welcher" Is Withdrawn. Poughkeepsle, N. Y., Mar. 14. —The libel suit of Congressman Hamilton Fish against the Poughkeepsle News- Press for $50,000 damages for calling him a "welcher" was settled in the Supreme Court at Carmel, Putnam County, without a trial. Frank B. Lows, attorney for the newspaper, apologized In open court for the publication, and announced that The News-Press would print a complete retraction. Col. John I. Rogers Dies. Denver, Mar. 15. —Colonel John I. Rogers, a prominent attorney of Phila delphia, and for twenty years the big gest stockholder in the Philadelphia National League Baseball Club died here to-day of heart failure. MORGAN PLANS BIG MOTOR CAR TROST Combined Capital of Companies Men tioned Is $91,000,000 and Year ly Output 70,000 Cars. New York, N. Y.. Mar. 15.—Wall Btreet believes that J. P. Morgan is grooming the automobile manufactur ing trade preparatory to leading It into a mammoth corporation that shall ex ercise In the automobile field an lnbu ence as powerful as that exercised In the steel trade by his billion dollar Steel Trust, and as that to be exer cised In the copper markets of the world by his proposed billion dollar copper merger. This was Indicated by the announce ment that J. P. Morgan & Co. had pur chased the majority of the stock of the Everltt-Metzger-Flanders, or T. M. F. automobile manufacturing company of Detroit, for the purpose of com bining it with the Studebaker com- I-any. The combination of these two com panies, it was pointed out, would, with the General Motors Company as the unit for the Middle West and ths United Motors Company as the unit for the East, lend itself readily to any larger combination that might be con templated. It Is In this way, Wall street re called, that Mr. Morgan forms all hla great Industrial combinations. First he forms independent concerns into units and then amalgamates these units Into one big entity. It is Intimated that within a few years the automobile manufacturing business of the country will be aB com pletely monopolized as the Standard Oil Company. Is, If not more so. These units were suggested aa like ly factors In a combination: General Motors Company, control ling about one dozen automobile manu facturing concerns, the principal be ing Rainier, O'dsmoblle, Cadillac, Bulck, Oakland and Rapid and Reli ance trucks; present capital, $60,000,- 000. Estimated yearly output, 40,000 cars. United Motors Company, controlling Maxwell-Brlscoe. Columbia and Brush present capital, $16,000,000. Estimated yearly production, 15,000 cars. Stiidebaker Company, controlling the & M. F„ Studebaker and Flanders fears "present combined capital about 115,000,000. Estimated yearly output, 15,000 cars. Total present capitalization, $91,- 000,000. Estimated total output, 70,000 cars. Estimated output this year of all companies in the United States, 200,- 000 cars. NATION WIDE BTRIKB MAY BE. Pennsylvania Federation of Labor Passes Resolution. New Castle, Pa.. Mar. 14. —The ninth annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, In session here, unanimously passed a resolution ask ing that in the event of an arbitration of the Philadelphia strike question failing, the American Federation of Labor call a nation-wide strike of or ganized and unorganized workmen. The resolution passed wns present ed to the delegates by W. D. Mahon, President of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employees. The permission was granted and Mr. Mahon In a stirring address ask ed for the motion to pass the resolu tion. The motion was forthcoming promptly and passed with a unani mous rising vote, the delegates cheer ing. The resolution waS forwarded by wire to President Gompers. LILLIS IS RECOVERING. But It Is Uncertain When He Can Be Removed to His Home. Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 14.—Jere F. LUlls, President of the Western Ex change Bank, who was assaulted Sun day morning by John P. Cudahy at the latter's residence. Is reported to be steadily recovering. Attendants at St. Mary's Hospital said, however, that It was uncertain when Lillis would be removed from the hospital to his home. Asked If his Injuries would be permanent, they said that would require some time to determine. The physicians say there now Is no fear of blood poisoning, suggested by the fact that the kitchen knife used by Cudahy was said to have been rusty. MEN WORTH SI,BOO EACH. Mining Company Fixes Flat Rate on Victims of Cherry Disaster. Chicago, Mar. 14.—With fifty claims of widows and other relatives of Cher ry mine disaster victims settled by payments ranging from SBOO to $1,200 per death, the St. Paul Mining Com pany has entered Into negotiations with counsel In something like 100 more cases to settle with the victims' widows at the rate of SI,BOO In each case. This rate of settlement was agreed upon at a conference between attor enys representing the widows and counsel for the mining company. PASTOR ROBINSON ACCUSED BY 61 Leader of Anti-Saloon League and Trainer of Missionaries Confesses His Sin THE CHURCH SUSPENDS HIM Pastor a Man of Fifty, Victim In Her Teens—Liquor Interests Credited with Exposure by Anonymous Let* ter to the Girl's Father. Herkimer, N. Y., Mar. 15. —Follow- ing a confession that he had ruined one of the most popular and attractive young women in his congregation, the Rev. S. D. Robinson, pastor of the First Methodist Church of this village, has been suspended by the Church Board. He has lied from town. The story of his downfall has been a great shock to the residents of this place, where both the pastor and hla unhappy victim have heretofore beea held In highest esteem. Robinson came to Herkimer to preach about three years ago. He had before that been pastor of a church at Fulton, N. Y., and was looked on as one of the most talented men In the Northern Conference of the Methodist Church. He was about fifty years of age. He and his wife, for whom deep sympathy Is now expressed on every hand, a most favorable Impres sion here froji the beginning. In addition to his church duties the pastor soon became active as a dlreo tor of the Folts Institute, a prepare tory school for missionaries located here, and he was the leading spirit la the anti-saloon league. Miss Abble Haynes was Just bud ding Into womanhood when the new minister moved to Herkimer. She Is s daughter of Dr. W. L Haynes, the local optician. It was less than a year ago. accord ing to a statement made by the young woman, that the preacher first took undue liberties with her. The little sister was at school one day and her mother had gone out shopping. It was an anonymous letter that first warned Mr. Haynes that all was not well. While the letter had not been directly traced. It Is generally believed that It came from some one connected with the liquor interests. Robinson at first denied Indignant? ly and defiantly that there was any truth In the charges and many of hla friends believed him. Then he was brought unexpectedly face to facs with the girl before a committee of churchmen. She repeated her charges In trembling tones with bowed head and Robinson, weeping, admitted she had told the truth. "I am the most miserable man la the world," said Dr. Haynes. "Our home Is ruined. I no longer have a home. It would be better If all of us were dead. My wife has gone com pletely out of her mind with grief and shame. There Is nothing left for us In this world. Only a father who baa loved a child as I have loved my llttls girl can know the misery of It all." ROOT POINTB WAY. Bays Hlnman Should Lead New York Benate. Albany. N. Y., Mar. 14. —United States Senator Elihu Root, presuma bly reflecting the wishes of President Taft, has taken active charge of the critical situation In the Republican party In New York State. On the eve of a conference of Republican Sena tors called to elect a successor to Senator Jotham P. Allds as temporary President of the Senate, Senator Root sent a telegram to State Senator Fred erick M. Davenport, of Oneida Coun ty, advocating the candidacy of Sen* tor Harvey D. Hlnman, of Blngham ton, a stanch supporter of the policies of Governor Hughes, as against Sena tor George A. Davis, of Buffalo, and Senator George H. Cobb, of town, rival aspirants for the leader ship. GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE SON. But Lewis Hopkins's Sacrifice Fall* and Death Comes. Washington, Mar. 15.—Francis Hop kins, 7-year-old son of Lewis Hopkins, grandnephew of Johns Hopkins, found er of the university that bears hla name, died of meningitis. The boy had lain In Providence Hospital seven weeks, and after sub mitting to two operations the physi cians decided that a third, with the transfusion of blood, probably would save his life. The father hurried here on a special train, and a quantity of his blood was transfused to his son. After the operation the boy rallied, but death resulted from exhaustion following his long illness. New Orleans, March 14.—The city was dark at noon and the Government hydrographer said It was because vol canic dust from Mexico thickened th« clouds. 75C PER YEAR WORLD NEWS OF THE WEEK. Cwblj Minor Happtninp Fnß AQ o*«r Um Glob* DOMEBTIC. Millet's painting "Shepherd and Flock," was stolen from the Golden Oate Park Museum in San Francisco, being cut from its frame while many visitors were In the place. President Taft attended the funeral of his brother-in-law, Thomas K. Laughlln, in Pittsburg. Democrats of all sections are be coming interested In Mayor Gaynor, of New York, as possible nominee for the Presidency. Suffragist and antl-suffraglst ora tors discussed for four hours at Albany the resolution to amend the State con stitution so as to permit women to rote. Directors of the New York Central declare a quarterly dividend of 1 1-2 cent, placing the stock upon a 6 per cent, annual basis. Plot of four convicts to dynamite Dannemora Prison was discovered soon after the escape of two convlcta from Sing Sing. The annual report of the American Tobbacco Company 6hows more than 60 per cent, of dividend on |40,000,000 common stock outstanding. The recent large purchase of stock in the American District Telegraph Company by the Western Union gave the latter control of the former. The last big block of stock bought is said to have been the Qould holdings. In an address to the convention of the Master Plumbers' Association Mayor Gaynor of New York hinted ha was not opposed to open saloons on Sunday. , In a posthumous statement Mr. Piatt tells of a promise from Mr. Har rison to make him Secretary of the Treasury and of a campaign contribu tion of *160,000 In 1888. Philander C. Knox, Jr., Bon of the Secretary of State, was dismissed from a school at Providence because he refused to tell If he had married a young woman of that city; the lat ter admitted that they were married In Vermont on Sunday. Columbia University trustees an nounce a gift of s3t>o,ooo from an anonymous benefa^r. Despite the assertions of public offi cials to the contrary, canvasses by Philadelphia newspapers show that 100,000 persons have quit work to aid the striking car employees. S. J. Telfair, seventy years old. who has Just been awakened after a three days' sleep In Washington, says he was hypnotised and robbed of 135,000. WASHINGTON. Detailed reports are called for by the United States navy on the use o4 oil as a fuel. The funeral of Representative Jas. B. Perkins was held at Washington; the body was taken to Rochester. were passed appropriating slHio,ooo for the erection in Wash lnflln of buildings for the depart mWits of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor. By a practically unanimous vote the ■ub-committee of the House Naval Committee decided against bestowing any reward upon Commander Robert E. Peary until he had furnished furth 'er proofs that he had discovered the North Pole. The Standard Oil* Company filed its appeal in the United States Supreme Court, and several more briefs attack ing the corporation tax were present ed, one being by ex-Benator Foraker. President Taft, making public cor respondence with Mr. Moon, author Of the administration's injunction bill, nrgee its passage. The postoftlce appropriation bill waa passed by the House. It was reported from Washington that the United States might act as mediator between Peru and Ecuador If the King of Spain's award was not accepted. FOREIGN. The French government will re open all the accounts connected with the liquidation of Church property and hopes through cancellation of cer tain sales to recover some of the losses caused by defalcation. Great Britain Is aiming to check America's progress in the Orient. Timothy Harrington, M. P., former Lord Mayor of Dublin, is dead. British naval estimates for 1910 showed an increase of $27,805,000 over the preceding year's figures. China is sincere and successful la her fight against opium, according to Bishop Bashford, an American Metho dist Nicholas Tschaikowsky yas acquit ted by a Russian court, but Mine. Breshkowskaya was exiled for life. Over six thousand steerage pas sengers have left Southampton for America in the last fortnight The American Legation at Bogoto, Colombia, Is stoned, according to ca ble advices. Use of a corruption fund to control Parliament is chnrged to the Japan ese army by the independent press. The Toklo press is jubilant at what It terms America's failure in her Man churlan plana.
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