Republican News Item. VOL. xv. NO 10 AVIATOR WINS SHAMJSEA FIGHT Gurtiss Drops "Bombs" on Tar get Used as Warship. BROOKINS STARTLES CROWD After Dashing Through Surf In Dl plane, Does Fancy Stunts High In Air That Made Spectators Hold Their Breath. Crossing the sailing line of t'.ie yacht John E. Mehre, 2d, used as a target in place of a battleship at At lantic City, Glenn Curtiss, using or anges as "bombs," gave an exhimition ol his ability to drop high explosives on the deck of the craft. Fearing harm to the oilicials and Jadies on the yacht, Curtiss placed his missiles so accu lately alongside that spray was thrown over the gowns of the women. Then, whirling away, Curtiss took his plane far out to sea and beyond the range of anything but a twelve-inch gun. while the yacht passengers and watch ers shuddered at the thought of the possibilities had the bombs been spheres of real explosives and the tiini and glistering craft tlie object of real attack. "The trial shows absolutely that the day of the battleship lor attack 011 for eign cities is nearing its end," declared Colonel William Allen Jones, U. S. A., retired, formerly of the engineer corps. "Curtiss could have dropped a bomb on the deck of even that small craft with just as much ease and certainty as he showed when he spun them close enough to tlie vessel to show his ability without endangering the people on board. "As for hitting that swooping aero plane from the deck of a battleship, it would be practically impossible except with riile balls, and both driver and engine could be protected with the lightest sort of armor or bullet proof cloth," concluded the army official. Following his sham attack on the mock battleship, Curtiss dropped more orange "bombs" at a circul.% mark on the beach to show the ease ** li which he could hurl explosives into the camp of soldiers. After the sham battle Walter llrook ins gave another of his thrilling ex hibitions of his ability to handle the big Wright machine, by making a series of whirling turns, ending with a daring rush through the surf in which his runners were buried in a monster breaker. The crowd, who thought that the youngster was about to tumble in to the ocean, broke out into cheers when he lifted his plane into the air and landed safely on the beach. There followed such maneuvers and such dangerous stunts as probably never bol'ore have marked an aviation meet. Seems to Turn Completely. Most spectacular and thrilling of all was the feat that the aviator called the "bank." Apparently he turned com pletely over with his machine while hundreds of feet above the heads of the spectators. The daring aviator would take his machine to a good height so that it was plainly visible to all the dense and cheering throng. Then he would point the "prow" of his vessel almost straight upward, while his motor hum med busily. While in this almost perpendicular position lie gave his rudder plane a quick turn and whilred round and round, seeming to turn the machine upside down and clear over. Then came another stunt, little less wonderful, causing men and women below to catch their breath in aston- HARDWARE • be —"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these thing*, irne looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order - our store and let us solve the problem. We have ulard goods to choose from. When you think of •ink of COLE'S. "ARY PLUMBING. tention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot job work and repairing In all branches, prompt tted ole, - Dushore, Pa. RG'-ENN H. CURTISS. I : 1 I ! Aviator Making Flight Over i Surf at Atlantic City, i ]: i ■ ■ ■ , ;; '' 1 • «'I" A """ ' ' • "'•w - .-J**** IFTk.Ui t>,v Aim rktui 11-uan A.ssQclution ishment at the daring of the man. Brookins soared beautifully, then gave his rudder the required twist and went whirling around again, this time using one of his supporting planes as a pivot. It was for all the world like a dan cer whirling 011 one toe. This I'eal again brought out a chorus of cheers from the crowds. A sort of "zig-zag" or "criss-cross" was the next maneuver to cause the crowd to marvel. Brookins took his machine high in the air, then darted down about twenty yards to the right. Quickly reversing, lie would dart a similar distance down to the left. In this way, alternately darting to right and left, he descended to within about 200 feet of the crowds. Brookins was in the air eighteen minutes, showing the wonderful con trol he had of the machine. The meet ended formally on Tues day, the aviators being presented with the prizes won during the meet. Brookins received SSOOO for his feat in breaking the world's altitude rec ord. while Curtiss pocketed a similar sum for his establishment of a fifty miles straightaway race record. Twen ty-two flights have been made during the ten days of the meet, and the oili cials are happy over the success of the first affair of its kind in Atlantic City. Mule Kicks Boy to Death. Alonzo Shollenberger, of Joliet, aged nineteen years, employed as a driver at the Lincoln colliery at Pine Grove, Pa., was kicked in the region of the heart and neck by a vicious mule. He died instantly. The colliery was stop ped for the balance of the day. Justice Fuller Left $1,000,000. Under the terms of the will of the late Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of tlie supreme court of the United States, which was filed in the probate court at Chicago, the children of the jurist and their direct heirs will share equally in the division of his estate. This is estimated to amount to nearly $1,000,000. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1910. ROOSEVELT TO 00 ON STUMP ___ Will Aid Senator Beverldge In Indiana. THEY ARE WARM FRIENDS I It Is Said the Colonel's Endorsement of lnsurc#:nt Is Not Significant—Will Speak For Lodge In Massachusetts. There was a new twist given to the senatorial contests that are going to take place in various parts of the country, when Colonel Roosevelt an nounced that he will goon the stump for Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana. He said that William Dudley Poulke and Lueian B. Swift, of Indiana, who arc close personal and political friends > had come to Oyster Bay, L. 1., to ask him togo to Indiana to speak for Sen ator Beveridge and he consented. The mere fact that the colonel has endorsed Beverdige, an Insurgent, who did not break with President Taft dur ing the last session of congress, is 110 wtaken here to be particularly sig nificant, for Mr. Roosevelt and Sena tor Beveridge have been warm friends for many years. The ex-president lelt no doubt in the minds of his inquirers in regard to the contest that Bever idge is engaged in as lie did concern ing Representative Poindexter. He made the announcement positively. The grand young man who ascended Sagamore Hill returned to the station with the same happy smile that other visitors have worn on similar occa sions. With startling reticence he ab solutely refused to tell what went on during his conference with the colo nel, but a short while later Mr. Roose velt himself left the eat out of the bag. He passed no comment, though, further than to remark that he will go out to Indiana next fall to speak in behalf of Senator Beveridge. Senator Beveridge came out flat footed against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and voted against it all the time. Ho was active In the passage of the statehood bill, but slipped up on his attempt to get through congress the Alaskan government bill. In the last , session, however, Senator Beveridge 1 helped the president pass the railroad ; bill and worked in harmony with Mr. ! Taft. He is said to enjoy the friend- 1 ship of the president. He is running, | however, 011 an anti-tariff and insur gent platform. Colonel Roosevelt is apparently un able to keep out of national politics, j even though he says he desires to for the time being. At the end of his trip to Boston last week, on which he was the guest of Senator Lodge, the col- | onel promised togo down east and aid Lodge in his struggle against Repre sentative Butler Ames, of Massachu setts. If he keeps all of these dates he'll be a busy Mr. Roosevelt, when you take the state scrap in New York this fall into consideration. Woman Heads Educators. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintend ent of the Chicago public schools, was elected president of the National Edu cational association at its forty-eighth annual convention in Boston. Mrs. Young is the first woman ever elected to this office, and her victory upset all precedents In that the asso ciation rejected the report of the nom inating committee ami chose the new president from the floor of the con vention. The vote was 617 to 376, the ques tion being 011 the substitution of Mrs. Young's name for that of Z. X. Sny der, of Colorado, in the report of the committee on nominations. The election of Mrs. Young was dis tinctly a victory for the women in the convention. Since the association con vened here the women delegates, led by Miss Grace E. Straehan, of New York; Miss Elizabeth A. Allen, of New Jersey, and an enthusiastic Chicago delegation, had electioneered vigor ously for Mrs. Young to make her the first woman president of the organiza tion. The nominating committee had de cided on Z. X. Snyder, superintendent of the Colorado State Normal school. Jersey Loses Tax Suit. The court of errors and appeals at Trenton. N. J., has rendered a decision setting aside the tax of $27,000 levied on Standard Oil stock owned by the lnte Mrs. Martha T. Fiske Collard, of Rhode Island, who died in Cairo, Egypt. The court held that the col lateral inheritable tax law of 1906 is not applicable to taxes assessed as legacies. The result of this decision probably means that the state will be compelled to refund from one-quarter to one-half a million dollars that had been col lected up to date under the act of 1906. ENGLISH FLIER KILLED IN FALL j J «»hl • G. S. Rolls, Nero of Double Trip i Across Channel, Loses Life. MACHINE DUCKLES IN AIR I Oaring Aviator Fell 100 Feet When Tailpiece Broke and Was Dashed to Death In Presence of Big Crowd. Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, third son of Lord Llangattock, and noted for I his recent double flight across the English channel, was killed at Bourne mouth, England, at the aviation meet, In which Armstrong Drexel so distin guished himself several days ago. The tragedy occurred in the pres ence of n great company of specta tors, a majority of whom were women and children, and many of the per sonal friends of the young aviator. The Wright biplane on which he was flying fell suddenly with terrific speed from a height of 100 feet. It struck the ground close to the crowded grand I stand, smashed Into a tangled mass, ! and before the doctors and their as ! sistants could reach the spot Rolls was dead. The event in which Rolls was com peting was for a prize for the aviator alighting nearest a given mark. The goal was directly in front of the grand 1 stand, where the spectators were massed. He had risen to a good height and then shut off his motor and was gliding in a broad circle toward the ! mark. Without warning the tail piece of the biplane snapped off. The machine gave a sudden lurch, and the frame work crumpled up in the air. When It struck the ground it was smashed to splinters. The doctors found that Rolls had sustained a fractured skull. The wreck of the machine and twisted stays surrounded the body so that there was difficulty in extricating the unfortunate man. Lord and Lady Llangattock. the par ents of Rolls, narrowly escaped wit nessing the catastrophe. They were yachting along the coast, and put In at Poole, near Bournemouth, intending to j attend the aviation meeting, but post i poned going until after noon. 1 Audemars, the Swiss aviator, had a ; close shave while making a trial flight. His monoplane overturned and descended swiftly to the ground, but he escaped without Injury. Captain Rolls had expected to come to the United States this fall to give exhibitions of flying and to compete in any meetings that might be held. Af j ter his flight of the English channel | he received telegrams of eongratula tlon from King George and Queen | Mary, and was given the gold medal of the Royal Aero club, and altogether j was one of the most conspicuous fig ures in England. GIRL VICTIM OF 3D DEGREE METHODS Tortured by Police to Make Her Confess Thefts. Sixteen-year-old Annie Slakus, a physical and mental wreck, accused the police of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., of vicious third degree methods in try ing to make her confess to a number of thefts. She says she was called vile names in her cell by some of the po licemen and detectives, that they threatened her if she did not admit the robberies, and that the detectives visited her cell in relays to question her. abused her. called her names, and that she was dragged about by her bare arms from room to room. She admits committing several thefts, but says she confessed to more In order to escape the third degree treatment. COAL MINE ON FIRE Oxygen and Ammonia Used to Revive Men Overcome at Work. Fire was discovered in one of the t slopes of the Harwood Coal company, » at Harwood, near Hazleton, Pa. All ' of the available men at the operation ! are fighting the flames, 112 A call was sent to this city for oxy • gen and ammonia to be used In revlv • Ing any who may be overcome. The '< cause of the fire has not yet been ! learned. I B. &O. Orders Fifty Locomotives. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad hat placed an order for fifty freight loco j motives, to be built by the Baldwin Locomotive works, of Philadelphia. TAXING THE COUNT. I] Johnson Standing Over Jeffries j After Handing Knockout. ■" i. 7- Photo by American Press Association. Woman Falls In Biplane. Baroness Delaroche, the first French woman to become an aviator, was probably fatally injured at Rhclms, France, by falling fiom a height of more than 150 feet. The baroness had flown around the field once at a height of 240 feet, when suddenly she appeared to be come frightened and confused at the approach of two other aeroplanes. She started to descend, but lost control of the machine. The aeroplane turned over and fell like a log. The baroness' arms and legs were broken. The doctors, after a careful exami nation, declared that the baroness' skull was not fractured and that she may live. While momentarily conscious the baroness explained that the rush of air from a motor passing over her head had frightened her, whereupon she cut the ignition and lost control of her machine. Leap From Train Fatal. Rev. Hugh Davies, of Wiles-Rarre. a Welsh Presbyterian pastor, who is widely known throughout the coal re gions, met a tragic death at Allen town, Pa. ' He was a passenger on a.Jersey Central passenger train, and was pre sumably on his way to visit his daugh ter, Mrs. M. A. Davis, at Skelly, Ducks county. lie should have changed cars at Bethlehem, but for so * • inexplic able reason he rushed to