Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 4 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESTILXjE, IP.A-- CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Win. Front*, John C. Laird, C.W. Sones, „ . . .. . „ W C.Front/., Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, Banking Business. Lyn]Ml Myer>i w. T. Reedy, P«er Front*, Accounts oflndivid- j \ y Bull, John Ball. uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Rent, One- Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME s^EPO SITS: COLE'S Up-To-Date HARDWARE stove, waalier, cutlery, gun," —or i" whatever it may l>e—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over those things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. A\ e have a tine variety of standard goods to choose from. \\ lien you think of HARDWARE t hi » k of 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. Season's Best Dress Goods There's nothing lacking in our Dress Goods Department, AN e can't imagine how you can fail to find what you want here at ail) paice from 50c to 82.00. Stocks are large and varied; fabrics are new, many of them are exclusive. The prices are down to the low est notch. Serges, Henriettas, Batistes, 00l I utlVtas, 1 auamas, Diagonals, Striped effects, Tussali Royal and neat I*ancy Suiting. l -. Ladies' Kid Gloves. In all the wanted styles of fJloves and fashionable new shades for spring wear. Good gloves for 81,00. '1 he very best for 81.00 Ladies' New Suits and Gowns. From scores of shoppers, ',buyers" would be more accurate, we hear expressions of delight at the attractive styles we are showing at the low prices they are marked. Dress Trimmings. In the new desirable styles for all sorts of gowns and waists are here in full force. Black, white and colored bands and appliques in rich designs. Gold and silver effects in bands and all-overs. Fancy yoking, etc. Fancy Dress Silks* And Foulards in all the newest colorings, neat designs in light and dark shades. Cheyney's shower-proof Foulards are the most serviceable made. Beautiful patterns, 23 inches wide for K. r >c a yard. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE STREET, WILLIAMSPORT - ' PENN'A. PRINTING TO PLEASE * I H J_ tbc IKlcws Iftem ©fficc. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MAY 27, J9lO. EDWARD VII LAID TO REST Vine Kings Followed the Body in Funeral. .. ROOSEVELT REPRESENTED OS Royalty of All the World In Great Cortege That Marched Through Dense Crowds In London. London, May 20. The funeral ol King Edward VII. at Windsor was-' Due of the most gorgeous and mourn lul pageants of recent times, and m many respects surpassed that of Queen Victoria nine years ago. Ed tvard VII. now rests near his mother, Queen Victoria, and his father, who lied forty years ago. From Westminster hall, where the body of the sovereign had lain instate three days, to Paddington station and thence through the pleasant Middle sex country to Windsor, the route of the funeral procession passed through rows of somberly clad Englishmen, at testing by their solemn demeanor the genuine sorrow they felt for the final passing of their king. It was a day of atiicial mourning, to be sure, formally ordered by the dignitaries of the realm, but it wun also a day of genuine heartfelt sorrow among the populace. In that respect it resembled more the February day of nine years ago when the last scene in the long drama of the life of Victoria the good was acted than those earlier days, of unhappy memory for England, when the people rejoiced almost openly over the death of some particularly scapegrace roy alty. As Victoria was mourned, so is her son. The twenty miles from Lon don to Windsor seemed to give forth an almost audible sigh as the train ronveying Edward's body moved slow ly to its destination. Edward's Charger In Procession. The funeral was headed by a mul titude of iiA-n prominent in the British and foreign military and naval ser vices. Immediately behind the gun carriage came Prince Louis of Ba.tten berg. King Edward's charger came next, led. anj then the royal stand ard. Behind came a cavalcade of royal personages, King George leading. The kaiser rode on his right and the Duke Df Connaught on his left, a few paces to the rear. In ranks of three rode the kings of Norway. Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Den mark, Portugal and Belgium, the Aus trian heir apparent, the Ottoman heir apparent. Prince Fushlmi, of Japan; Urand Duke Michael, representing the czar; the Duke of Aosta, representing the king of Italy; Prince Kuprecht, of Bavaria; the Duke of Sparta, the crown prince of Roumania, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Duke Ak brecht of Wurtemberg, the crown prince of Servia, Prince Henry of Rus sia, the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-Streletz, the frown prince of Saxony, the Grand Duke of SaxoCoburg and Gotlia, the Prince of Waldeck-Pyrniont, Prince Mohamed Ali of Egypt, Prince Tsal Tao. uncle of the emperor of China; Prince Charles of Sweden, Prince Al bert of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Ar thur of Connaught, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the Duke of Fife, Prince George of Cumberland, Prince Alexander of Battenberg, the Duke of Teek, Prince Alexander of Teck, Prince Francis of Teck, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Prince Andrew of Greece, Prince Philip of Saxe-Co burg and Gotha, Prince Dunllo of Mon tenegro, Prince Christopher of Greece, the Due d'Aiencon, Comte d'Ru and three other Orleans princes, the crown prince of Siam. Prince Leopold of Co burg and Prince Wolrad of Waldeck- P.vrniont. The crown equerry. General Ewart, rode along behind this company of mounted rolayties. Then came a glass paneled coach and pair, in which the <.ueen mother, the dowager czarina and Princess Louise and Princess Vic toria rode. A similar coach followed. occupied by Queen Mary, the queen of Norway, the Duke of Cornwall and his Bister, Princess Mary. Then there were four coaches filled with princesses be longing to or immediately related to the British royal family, and another carrying the Chinese prince and the members of the Chinese mission, all the foregoing being royal. Mr. Roosevelt, the special ambassa dor from the United States, and M. Pichon, the French foreign minister, rode side by side In the eighth car riage of twelve near the end of the procession. Lord Stratheona, Sir G. Reid and Mr. Hall-Jones, representing Canada, Australia and New Zealand respectively, rode together In the ninth carriage. Other carriages were filled with members of the royal suites. After these came detachments of English, Scottish and Irish police as delegations from those forces, follow ed by a detachment of the London fire brigade. The arrival of the funeral train at Windsor was announced by the firing of minute guns. The roadway from the railroad station to St. George's chapel was lined with soldiers, who presented arms as the body of the king passed on its gun carriage. With solemn dirges the procession moved up the road, accompanied and follow ed by the officials whose hereditary and personal right it is to attend at the very last honors to be paid to a deceased British sovereign. There were the kings at arms, the heralds and the pursuivants, the lords in wait ing, the lord chamberlain and the lord steward and a host of others. The last touch of mediaevalism camp when Sir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty. as Garter king of arms and therefore chief heraldic officer of Great Britain, under the earl marshal, announced In solemn ringing tones that the last earthly scene dealing with "his most excellent majesty Edward VII,, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas king, defender of the faith, c-mperor of India," was closed. RECOVERS HIS VOICE Speech Restored by Violent Attack of Coughing. Wilkes-Barre. Pa., May 25.—Nelson Keillor, a hotelkeeper of this city who, after being speechless for the past three weeks, went to Philadelphia on Monday to consult a specialist, recov ered his voice in a peculiar manner before he saw tile physician. He had just alighted from the train at the Reading Terminal when he had $ se vere attack of coughing, and when it ended he found he had recovered his voiee and that it was as strong anil clear as ever. It was so good that he went to the base ball game and yelled for llughey Jennings' Tigers and re turned home Tuesday. LIGHTNING KILLS TWO MEN Dozen Others Stunned as They Come Out of Mine. Mount Carmol, Pa., May 25. —A bolt of lightning struck and killed two men. William Bednarski and Josepli Schlaminskie. A dozen men had just reached tht surface from tne Sioux mines on their way home from work when the bolt fell. All were severely shocked. Two of the men lay unconscious on the ground, and tiie other men hur ried for physicians. Two doctors re sponded. and found that both men had been killed. Bednarski's body showed no marks whatever, but Schlatninskie's legs were burned to a crisp. GREAT DRYDOCK SINKS The Dewey Reported to Have Gone Down In Manila Harbor. Washington May 25. —A report was received here from Manila. Philippine Islands, that the floating dry dock Dewey, which was towed from the At lantic seaboard to Manila, a wonderful feat, was sunk there in seventy feeL of water. According to the account the valves had been opened and for some unac countable reason could not be closed, in time to prevent the mammoth dry dock from sinking. It Is believed that the Dewey can be raised, but that her intricate ma chinery may be ruined. Senator Has Whooping Cough. Washington, May 25.—Senator John Walter Smith, of Maryland, returned to Washington for the first time in more than a month. He had been ab sent on account of Mrs. Smith's death and his own illness. The senator has the whooping cough. He contracted it a few days ago and thinks he caught it from some of his grandchildren. Washerwomen Organize Union. East Orange, N. J.. May 25. —A un ion of washerwomen. Just formed here, has raised the rate of pay from $1.25 to 91.75 and $2 a clay, and cut down the hours from nine to eight, beginning June 1. Huge Mob Witnessed Executions. Paris. Mfl.v 25.—Three men were guillotined in France and at Algeria Huge mobs witnessed the exhibitions, and as each head was held aloft it was greeted with cheers. MYSTERIOUS OAS . KILLS RANKER Lethal Fumes, Following Chem ical Explosion, Fatal. TWO OTHERS OVERCOME Nature of Experiment a Secret and Action of Noxious Vapors Puzzle Best Medical Skill. New York, May 25. —A lethal gas, emanating from the mixture of chemi cals that exploded In a laboratory in Scranton, Pa., and which caused a congestion of the lungs, as in pneu monia, caused the death here of Charles Coulter Dickinson, founder of the Carnegie Trust company, and one of the most prominent figures in New York'B financial world. Mr. Dickinson Inhaled the noxious and deudly fumes last Monday. Much mystery still surrounds the cause of the explosion of the chemicals. Imme diately after the accident Mr. Dickin son was brought here, but he grew steadily worse. Physicians were mys tified by the action of the noxious vapor, and their work to overcome the congestion that followed the inhala tion of the gas was futile. The chemical experiment that Mr. Dickinson went to Scranton to witness had to do with an investment he in tended making. Its nature is still be ing kept a secret. Brother Tells of Accident. S. C. Dickinson, a brother, said that some time ago he and his brother were invited togo to Scranton to wit ness an experiment with a new chemi cal. They left New York on Monday of last week and went to the labora tory of their friend. There they met the chemist who was to perform the experiment. "I lingered in the main room of the laboratory." he said, "after my brother and our friend went into the small room where the chemicals were being prepared. The chemist called out for me to come, as they were ready. I started for the other room, and just then there was an explosion. "I rushed in and found all three- men gasping for breath and almost uncon scious. The room was filled with a strange, stifling gas. My brother was taken to a hospital and Kept there over night. As he did not improve he was brought to a hospital in this city the next day. Baffled the Physicians. "The case was a strange one. My brother's lungs became congested Just as though he were suffering from pneumouia. and his condition baffled every treatment which the physicians could devise. "Dr. James K. English, my brother's physician, found himself helpless and he called Into consultation Drs. Jane way and Del a fie Id, who were com pletely puzzled by the features of the case. We even sent to the chemist who performed the experiment, and who had suffered only slightly, In the hope that he could suggest an anti dote, but he could do nothing. "My brother grew steadily worse un til he died." Mr. Dickinson said that he attributed his own esc ape to the fact that he was in the main room of the labora tory, which was only partly filled witn the gas. He said that the condition of the man who had accompanied them was serious. His reuson for conceal ing his name is that he fears some blame will nttach to him for having induced them togo to Scranton. _» PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. j The Latest Closing Prices For Product and Live Stock. PHILADELPHIA FLOUR dull; winter low grades, $3.50® 3.70; winter clear, $4.40<a<4.75; city mills, fancy, $5.75(fi>6. , . , ' RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel, $4 25<ff 4 40. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, sl.o7®' 1.10. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local, "69 (fi 70c. OATS steady; No._ 2 white, -is 48V»e.; lower grades. 47c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 18<f? lSVfcc.; old roosters, 14c. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 18c.; old roosters. 14 lfuTTER quiet; extra creamery,' 29 l Ac. ner lb. EGGS steady; selected. 25 @> 27c.; nearbv, 22c.; western, 22c. POTATOES quiet, at 28©30 c. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) CATTI.E firm; choice, sßijjS.lo; prime, *7.750 8. t SHEEP steady; prime wether*. Jj.lO (fi.5.75; culls and common. $2 504: ' lambs, $4.50® 8.50; veal calves, $8.50 (fi 9. HOGS steady; prime heavies, me diums and heavy Yorkers. $9.85; light Yorkers and pigs, $U.85©9.90; rough 3, 98(j<ti-75. 75C PER YEAR TAFT AS SPEAKER He Will Attend Five College Com mencements. Washington, May 25. President Taft was graduated from Yale thirty two years ago. hut he is to be one of the leading commencement orators this summer. Already Mr. Taft has accept ed invitations to attend commence ments at live institutions of learning outside of the District of Columbia, and it is possible that he will also be asked to participate in several of the local affairs, in addition to one he has accepted to date. The first commencement on the presidential schedule is that of Bryn Mawr, where Miss Helen Taft goes to school. On June 3 the president will be at Ada, 0., where the exercises o! Ohio Northern university are to be held. On June 18 the president will attend two commencements, one at Villa Nova, where he is to be made a doctor of jurisprudence, and the* other at Lincoln college, a negro institution. These two colleges are in eastern Pennsylvania, not far apart, and the president ca« easily make the dis tance between them, going possibly by automobile. On June 22 the president will go back to Yale to hear his son Robert orate at the commencement exercises. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS. Friday, May 20. Councilman F. S. Fernstrom startled the Salt Lake, Utah, city council by as serting that he had been offered a bribe, and charging Mayor J. S Bians ford with collusion with a contractor In changing the terms of a sewer pipe contract. Complete returns from Tuesday's election in Denver. Colo., show that Miss Ellis Meredith, a well known club woman, has been chosen election com missioner, her total of 20,997 exceed ing the combined vote of her seven men competitors. She is the first wo man elected to office in Denver. Saturday, May 21. Trade between the United States and Panama in the fiscal year ending next month will exceed $22,000,000. With the jail guarded by three com panies of state militia, Howard Harris, a negro, convicted of assaulting a white woman, was hanged at Thomas ville, Oa. After unsuccessful efforts to take her life with a razor and an axe. Mrs. J. H. Deal, twenty-seven years old, of Maiden, N. C., saturated her clothes with oil and set Are to herself. She leaves two young children. Traveling alone one-third the way around the world, ten-year-old Lois Heed McClure arrived at New Castle, Pa., from Bombay, India. The girl is a daughter of the late Rev. Reed Mc- Clure. of New Wilmington, Pa., a United Presbyterian missionary, who died two years ago. Monday, May 23. As the result of a fall against an Iron bed during a scuffle at his board ing house in Berwick, Pa., Steven Bar shun has died. While Mrs. W. H. French, of Craley ville, was preparing cQal oil to apply to an injured hog she was burned al most to death. Grieving over the dedath of her son from ptomaine poisoning, Mrs. John Holland died at Tiffiu, 0., and was buried with her boy. Previous smoking records were smashed by Walter W. Soergel, at Chi cago, who smoked an ordinary cigar for 115 niinutes and thirty seconds without relighting. Tuesday, May 24. A Are destroyed the dwelling of James Alexander, in Hazleton. Pa., and one of the inmates, Mrs. Kate In cern, was burned to death. Canaries constituted 80 per cent of the birds imported into the United States during the past year, nearly 375,000 of these pets singing their way Into American ports in 1909. The department of justice is investi gating the subject of the price of lumber in the United States to deter mine whether or not the lumber trust may be reached by the Sherman anti trust law. Porter, a twenty-six-year-old horse, has been given recognition by the Chi cago commissioners, who have for mally passed resolutions congratulat ing htm on his sixteen years of service and retired him, pensioned for life, to spend the remainder of his days in luxury. Wednesday. May 25. Two thousand coal miners in St. Clair county. 111., returned to work, having been out for two months. The miners got 3 cents a ton increase. Governor Sanders, of Louisiana, has signed a constitutional amendment submitting the proposal of a $4,000,000 ta xin support of the proposed World's Panama exposition at New Orleans In 1915. A resolution requesting the authori ties to prohibit railroads from using wooden mall cars was passed by the eighteenth annual convention of the Railway Mall Clerks Association of : America at Kansas City, Mo. The Grand Army post at Bethel. Mo., having dwindled from 100 members to ten, sold its property, consisting of muskets, cartridge belts, swords, flags, fife and drum, at auction, terminating the existence of a body organized over thirty years ago, .. .
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