Republican News Item: VOL. XV. NO. 45 DOGS FOOD OF STARVING CHINA Million Natives Will Die Unless Help Comes at Cnce. ARE PRAYING FCR FOOD Missionary Says Crops In Famine Dis- ' trict Will Not Be Ready For Har vest Until June. Pathetic details of the sufferings from famine in Anwhei and other provinces of China reach the mission boards in New York in every mail. A letter came to the board of for eign missions of the Presbyteiian church from Rev. Thomas Carter, a missionary stationed at Hwai Yuen, In Anwhei province. "I never really Knew what the j Lord's Prayer meant until today,", he writes. "We came to a village where some Christians gathered for worship. To hear that company of men say 'Give us this day our daily bread' had a strange sound when we knew that not one of them had so much as seen bread for many a day, unless you call pressed sweet potato vines bread. Somehow that prayer must be an- . swered. We cannot let these people I starve." A million persons in the region just north of his station, Mr. Carter says, are to die of starvation before sum- j mer unless help comes from outside. He writes of the scene, as it im pressed him, in the following terms: "It would be hard to draw a picture of the famine district that would not be altogether misleading. The conn- j try looks much the same as any j stretch of country looks anywhere in [ China. Long stretches of good ricn ! fields are just beginning to be green j with winter wheat. "It is only as we look closely and J ask questions that we find out the real state of affairs. We look at the fields that looked so prosperous with the winter wheat, and we realize that those fields were all under water last , summer, the fields of ovef 2,000,1)00 of people, and that the wheat that we see will not be ready until June, and before that time, unless help comes, the larger part of the people that planted the wheal will be beyond us ing it. "And now we look again at the peo ple who have come down to meet us with their rice bowls; in the bowls there is no rice. The bowls contain chiefly hot water and some weeds gathered from the fields, mixed with a few grains of precious wheat bought with the relief money just given by the government, relief that amounts to about three cents gold given only to the very poorest, that is to about half of the population. "This is something of what famine means now. What it is going to mean soon we scarcely dare to think, for it is still five months before wheat har vest. Already in many places the bark is taken from the trees and eaten. "The country is perfectly peaceful, more so than usual it seems to the stranger, for there are no dogs to bark at the passers-by. They aer all starved or eaten, or both. The same is true of all the animals." Boy Frozen Aiong Road. Marshall, a nine-year-old son of J. Frank Vanbuskirk, was frozen to death near Lewistown, Pa. The boy had accompanied his father in moving household goods from Lew istown Junction to Alfarata, when a spring broke on the wagon. The boy was left with the wagon while the | father proceeded to Alfarata with a borrowed wagon. returning he found the boy un coifSt'teus from cold. The boy died shortly after reaching Alfarata. FIRST NATIONAL |BANK, HITJGKBSVILL3II, IP_A_. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEPF.R, Cashier Net Profits : 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Froutz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. |W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob I Vr, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A s Ball; Jolm ~u ]l uals and Firms solicited. ' Safe Deposite Boxes for. Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. AT SAN ANTONIO. I I Aeronauts Ready to Make Flight; i| 1 I j Troops, cn Parade Ground. j 1 I Li-7 ' 3*- \ ; I . V.•; | ' If - : . • *" « . ' . • OSES RAZOR TO SLASH SON TO DEATH Insane Metier Horribly Giit Lad Alter Using Hands and Feet. Only recently returned to Potts ville, Pa., from a private hospital a> Lebanon, Mrs. Benjamin J. Granger aged thirty years, a close reader oil the Albany child murder case, went' suddenly insane ai d killed her only | son, John Edward Granger, aged seven: years. The woman was discharged from' the hospital apparently cured of her ( mental trouble, but her sister has kepi j close watch upon her. The mothei took advantage of the temporary ah sence of her sister to carry out the crime. The unfortunate boy, a bright lad had been at school. After the midday meal the mother took her boy out tc an isolated section known as "The Pines." There she tied his hands ami | feet and stuffed a handkerchief down his throat to stop his cries. Using a razor, while he lay help less, she cut his throat from ear tc ear. The sharp blade was then useu | to slice the child from the neck dowr : his chest to bis abdomen. The boy made a vain fight for his j life. In his struggles he wrenched one J hand loose from the ropes, with which j it was pinioned. Just as the police and hospital au thorities arrived the mother was ap prehended in the vicinity of a public school house. Her face and clothing were covered with blood. The woman shrieked and screamed. She proved a terrifying spectacle to several hundred children as she ran up and down the street. Riders Renew Raids; Burn Barn. The night riders, who struck ter ror to the hearts of tobacco growers during the big tobacco war four years ago, -have reappeared near i J aris, Ky., i burning a big tobacco barn and de stroying in, ooo pounds of tobacco. The victim of their visit was J. C. Keller, a wealthy farmer, who has op posed the movement for an elimina tion of the white hurley crop this year. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1910. TROOPS WONT CS3SS BOSDER Mobiiizstiun in Texas a Pre cautionary Movent. EEACY FOR ANY EMERGENCY Will Be There In April, and If Inva sion of Mexico Takes Place It Musi Be at Will of Congress. There is no intension on the part ol the administration to order the troops now ill Texas to cross the Rio Giande river. President Tal't has nevei thought of issuing such an order. Under the constitution he is com j rnander-in-chief ot' the army and navy j but under the constitution also it is the right of congress to declare war He never suspected, one of iiis close friends said, that anybody in the i country would think that he could con 1 template such a step without the au I thority of congress. The paramount reason for sending i the troops to Texas was to be read> for any emergency which might arise The entire movement has been pre cautionary. The president acte.l so!el> with a view to protecting the lives ol Americans in Mexico and of Keeping intact the hundreds of millions of dol lars worth of property there owned by j United States citizens. The troops will be in Texas when i congress meets in April. If the revolu tion in Mexico grows and American J interests are threatened cougress will have an army of 20,000 men within easy moving distance of the trouble. The president believes that he has done his part. He has gone as far a? I he could go and hopes that it will not be necessary togo any further. !t| later congress feels that the lives andj property of Americans in Mexico ere in danger and interference is necesl sary, the president will follow its will, j Until congress gives the word, though, I there will be no movement of troops I ! at the president's direction except 011 the American side of the Kio Grande. I The president has paid not the j slightest attention to reports that in I surgents in congress, and notably in, the senate, intend to make political • capital out of this movement of troops. I He told friends that he cared abso lutely nothing for any adverse effect politically which bis action might have. He thought that American lives and property might be in danger, and he acted. If some insurgents in con gress wish to kick up a row the presi dent will not seek to call them off. He told lallers that be merely did what j he regarded as his duty under his oath j of office. He has not thought of the political effect his order might have. The reports that the troops are to j be withdrawn from Texas and the bor j der at the request of Ambassador de ■ la Barra was denied by the president I in conversation with friends. Senor de | la Barra, it is said, never requested : that this government withdraw the troops. In the eyes of government offi cials he could noc have ma4e such a request propeltl\. The troops are in the United States and for the present it is intended ti at they shall be used | in maintaining neutrality. The statement which has appea ed | from time to time that Wall street figured in the sudden dispatch of the troops to Texas also was discredited by men close to the president. REVOLT MAY END SOON I Limantour Will Surest Compromise to Diar. With certain powerful influences now at work it is believed the civil war in Mexico will cud this week. .lose Vyes' Lim'intour, minister of finance, arrived in Mexico City and will begin with President Diaz a ser ies of conferences, which it is expect ed will result in the announcement within three or four days of a reor ganized cabinet. Minister Limantour will present an explanation of the demands of the revolutionists and the- changes in the official family of President Diaz, as well as the institution of ce.tain re forms are confidently expected to ap pease the insurgents. In the meantime President Taft will confer with Ambassador de la Barra, and there is good ground for the as sumption that the troops now concen trated in Texas immediately will bo gin a series of maneuvers and re urn soon to their posts. In addition to this, when conditions are normal in Mexico a complete statement of things which actuated the mobilization of the troops will l)e issued by the White House. The hope of peare in Mexico also is strengthened by the manner in which the revolutionists have commented on the magazine article of Ambassador de la Barra and the significant spirit of expectancy with which the results of Senor Limantour's conferences in Mexico City this week are awaited \)y organs of insurgent sentiment. WASHINGTON'S j ASSAiLANT HELD Man Who Beat Colored Eflocatoi Waives Hsarinj. NO DATE FOR TIM SEI Head of Tuskegee Makes a Sweeping Denial of Misconduct —Received Hun dreds of Messages of Sympathy. Booker T. Washington, the notea colored e'ueator, did not take the stand in tl. 1 trial of Albert Ulrich, a | white man, accused of attu< king him 1 in the hallway of an apartment hou c | in West Sixty-third street, New York Sunday night. Instead, Ulrich waived examination. ; on advice of counsel, and was held fot 1 trial in the court of special sessions I at a date not made. The charge ot fe lonious assault was abatc;l to one ot simple assanlt, and bail reduced from ! $ 1500 to SSOO. As Ulrich walked out of the co'irt after furnishing the SSOO bail, he said: "I guess nothing will ever come of this." Dr. Washington rode away from the court in a city automobile with the borough president, McAneny, and Wil | liam .1 Flynn, deputy commissioner of ! police. As for the circumstances leading up ! to his West Sixty-third street experi ' ence and the charges that have been made against him, Dr. Washington said solemnly: "As I am a man of honor. 1 spoke to nobody, either on my way to the | bouse or in the vestibule. I certainly | followed no white woman, and I would 1 not know Mrs. Ulrich if 1 saw her. 1 1 do not recall that any one passed me j in the vestibule. I did not peep in a I keyhole, as 1 am accused of doing. 1 ! did not go into the house at all. I ! think, to do him justice, that the man j who struck me perhaps thought 1 was ! a burglar. Hut 1 certainly will prose ' cute him." In speaking of the assault Ulrich ' says: | "About nine o'clock Sunday night my wife took one of our dogs into the j street We live on the ground floor ot ] the house, 11 Vn West Sixty-third street. When she returned she said, that she had seen a colored man in the hall and that he spoke to her Mr. and Mrs. Ravette and Mrs. Knowles, friends of ours, were in the house at the time I went out and \ saw a man in the hall The man went, out of the vestibule door ahead of me when 1 came out." Ulrich said he saw the man re-! enter the hallway and later saw him "bending down at my door peering through the keyhole." Ulrich said! that the colored man swung a blow at his jaw when lie asked him what he was doing and that then he went after the man, who fell twice in his efforts to escape. Dr. Washington said he has received hundreds of letters and telegrams from prominent persons from all parts of the country expressing sympathy The communications, he said, wore from financiers, politicians, philanthropists and others. Among those who called in person were Jacob H. Schiff, W. J. Srhleffe lin, Borough President McAneny, Rev. Leighton Parks, Bishop Derrick (eel ■ ored), Alfred T. White, the Brooklyn philanthropist, and Isaac Seligman. Andrew Carnegie called up on the, 'phone later and called and spent half an hour in conversation. BABY SICK SHE SHOUTS FIRE Woman Sends In Alarm to Get Aid For Choking Infant. When baby becomes suddenly ill Bend in a fire alarm. This was effectively tried in Chi cago by Mrs. Mary Rothschild when her baby had a severe coughing spell. She rushed into the street shouting "Fire!" and the neighbors sent in fire alarms. Two companies responded. When a battalion chief asked where the blaze was, the reply of the bother was: "Never mind the fire! Baby's chok ing! Don't stand there doing noth ' ing; help me!" The fireman called a doctor and baby was soon himself again. Sings as He Is Hung. Pittsburg, Pa., March 22. —Singing the hymn of his childhood as he walk ed between two guards through the corridors of the Allegheny county jail, Steve Rusic was hung for the mudrer of Mrs. Beta Domboy, whom he shot ' Jan. 15, 1910, as she lay beside her ' sleeping husband and babe, because ! she refused to accept his attentions. The strong full notes of the song con tinned during the march to the gal s lows and while the noose was being ' adjusted and weer only stopped when the trap was sprung. | BOOKER T. WASHINGTON^ j j! i Noted Negrc Educator Was jj Assaulted In New York. >j I-n.l-nr y _ Steel Business Shows Increase. The annual report of the United States Steel corporation for the year ended Dec. 31, 1910, shows a volume of business done by all the subsidiary companies during that period of $703,- 091,414, as compared with $ti4'i,352,251 in 1909. Expenditures bv the corporation for its main subsidiaries included about $10,000,000 lor the Gary plant, about $3,900,000 for the Tennessee Coal and Iron properties, and for all other prop erties a tot ot $33,000,000, making a grand total of expenditures for addi tional property, extensions, construc tion and development work at mines oi approximately $53,000,000. The average number of employes in the service of the corporation and subsidiaries during 1910 was 218,435, an increase compared with the pre vious year of 22,935 The aggregate amount of payrolls for the year was $174,955,139, an increase of $23,291,- 745, or 15.3 per tent over the previous year. -•■ « *»» » Murder Suspect Arrested. Frank E. Heidemann, a German, i twenty-seven years of age, was ar j rested on an Atlantic City express i just before it pulled into the Ked j Bank station, charged with the mur j der of Marie Smith, the ten-year-old j school girl, who disappeared on Nov. | 9 last, and whose mutilated body was | found four days later in the woods along Deal lake. Heidemann was taken from the | train, placed in an automobile and I hurried to Freehold, where he was i placed in a cell in the county jail. | In a confession alleged to have been | made by the young German, he de- I clqres tl'.e murder was deliberate, and that his employer, .Max Kruschka, had absolutely nothing to do with the crime. It is understood that Heide mann says the crime was co.nmiited where the body was found. Deta is of the confession haven't yet been made public. Toll of Death In Mines. 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