Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 11 PENNSY SETTLES „ WAGE DISPUTE Agree to Change in Working Conditions. ADOPT MILEAGE PAY SYSTEM Ten Hours to Be a D;»y's Work and High Pay Runs Protected—Employes Guaranteed Twenty-six Days' Work Each Month. A tentative settlement of the Penn sylvania railroad wage dispute was reached at a long conference in Phila delphia between General Manager Myers and the subcommittees of the employes. Both sides feel confident that a plan of settlement has been reached, and only the appearance of some new differences in the working out of details can prevent an amicable agreement. The terms of the settlement have the New York Central award as a basas. The company will effect a change in the working conditions, changing l'rom tiie "trip" system of pay to the "mileage" system. Men now holding runs with high pay are to be protected. A minimum of ten hours as a day's work is to be estab lished. and the six hour minimum is to be abolished. Men are guaranteed twenty-six working days a month. The men assert that the settlement is due to a clearing up of misunder standings. The company asserts it lias made no concessions other than those offered six weeks ago. No further conferences are to be held between the committee and Gen eral Manager Myers, unless some un foreseen developments arise. The de tails of the plans of settlement will now be taken up by the representa tives of the several divisions with the general division superintendents, to be worked out as they apply to the condi tions of the particular divisions. There are seven general divisions of the sys tem. A. B. Garrettson, president of the Order of Railway Conductor heme dlately after the conference left tie city on the Pennsylvania eighteen hour limited for Cedar Rapids, to at tend a meeting of the board of diree tors of his organization. W. G. Lee, president of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen, will re main in the city for a few days to be on hand in case his presence is re quired. Both sides deny that any marked concessions were made. Officials of the company declare that what the men wanted was $4.04 for a minimum day of ten hours, and what they got was $3.63. The men say the clearing up of mis understandings marked the coming to gether of both sides. They point to President MeCrea's statement issued last Friday as proving to them that the company misunderstood the de mands of the men. • At both conferences all efforts to impress General Maiager Myers with the contention that the company had always educated its men to expect higher pay for the same class of work done by men on competing lines was abandoned. The men now declare the only concessions to be granted was on the amount of pay on overtime, in which they accepted 37 cents an hour, instead of 40 cents an hour. A. B. Garrettson declares that all the men asked was a change in the working conditions, which they ob tained. Tiny Bank Deposits. There are many small savings banks in Germany which accept deposits of lit pfennigs (2V_. centsi. COLE'S iSSI " Up-To-Date HARDWARE^jIIffS whatever it may he—"shall 1 buy? Don't ponder over these thing*, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE think 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. POOR MAY HAVE FARMS. Jacob Riis and Jane Addams Head Philanthropic Society. II 1 I P Photo by American Press Association. TO MAKE FARMERS OF POOR Philanthropists Offer Tempting In ducements to People of East. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago; Jacob Kiis, Rev. Lyman Ab bott, W. .1. Bryan and others have or ganized an association to buy large tracts of land near Greeley, Colo., and cut it up into small farms and garden plots. These they will sell to deserving families in the east who want homes in the west, but are without means. The association will accept payments in easy installments in cash or will take a share ol' the crops. Interest will be charged. The scheme will not be entirely philanthropic, but will give the promoters only a moderate profit. ARRESTED FOR USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD Five Men Worked Premium Scheme at Easton. Alexander Simon, Simon Corner, A1 exander Palmer, 11. K. Curtis and Ben jamin 10. Corner were committed to the Gaston, Pa., jail, charged with fraudulent use of the mails. Tin ar rests were made by postal inspectors. The accused are said to have made a handsome thing out of a premium scheme they worked in a variety ol ways. They started to do business a? the Globe Weekly Journal Publishing company, of Portland, Me., and latei were known as the New York Pre mium company, of New York city. Trouble arose after the complaint ol victims to their publication subscrip tion plans that they could never get the premiums offered. The officers arc after a man named YVeingartner, whc was associated with the New York end of the game. One of the schemes used by the can vassers for the company was to sell eighty-nine books for 10 cents apiece one book at a time, and when all waf sold for a total of the subscriber was to get a premium of $5. The books were cheap affairs and cost, one ol the canvassers admitted, about 1 cent each. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1910. INQUEST DEEPENS 1 CRIPPENMYSTERY Physicians Cannot Determine Set of Corpse. —— i -jptv | NO TRACE OF THE DOCTOR Several Witnesses Recited the Known ; Details of the Crime, But Nothing New Was Brought Out. Interest in the mysterious murder ( of which Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, formerly a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y., is suspected, centered in the in quest In London, Eng., over the body that is believed to be that ol Belle Elmore, the physician's actress wife. While an unremitting search was made in New York, Philadelphia, France and Great Britain for Crippen, the inquest opened with the hope that physicians and experts would be able to clear away some of the mystifying circumstances of the case. Instead of clarifying the situation, ' the inquest only enveloped the crime in deeper mystery. Far from estab- , lishing the identity of the victim found in Crippen's cellar buried in quick lime, the physicians were unable to state definitely even that the portions of the body recovered were those of a woman. The formal evidence adduced at the inquest added nothing material to what was already generally known. The only startling fact developed was that the experts were not even in a position to state definitely whether the boneless mass of flesh <.ug up tin der the cell&r floor was that of a wo man. Because of this it was decided to adjourn the inquest for a month to give Dr. Pepper, examiner in surgery at. the Royal Army Medical college, opportunity to make a complete ex amination of the pieces of flesh. Several witnesses recited the history of the known occurrences surround ing the tragedy from the time that suspicion first fell upon Dr. Crippen to the hour of his flight and the discov ery of the body. The Police Story. Dew, an inspector of Scotland Yard, took up the thread of the narrative. Hi' said that he first visited Ethel l.e Neve at the Crippen residence. The woman on that occasion told him that BELLE ELMORE. she was Crippen's housekeeper. Later the inspector went to Crippen's office and had a talk with the doctor. At this time, the witness said, the doctor admitted that all of the things which he had previously told of his wife's death were untrue. He said he had quarreled with Mrs. Crippen on the night of Jan. 31. and that following the quarrel she had left him, saying that she intended to join a man who, the doctor said, he believed lived in Chicago. With the body uncovered in the cel lar, the inspector said, ho found a piece of string and a man's handker chief, which might have been used to strangle the victim, including the jacket of a suit of pajamas, the trou sers of which were subsequently found in an upper room of the house. The witness added that he had not heard a word from Crippen or Ethel Le Neve since July 9. when they left the Crippen house. On that day they sent a note to the servant, saying: "Do not worry. We are going to the theater." Questioned in detail as to the find ing of the body. Dew said that at the first of his examinations of the house he found some loose bricks in the basement floor. He removed the bricks and dug Into the earth beneath. At a depth of two feet he uncovered the mass of human flesh. The largest piece was less than twelve inches in length. Not a bone was discovered. The pieces of flesh semed to have been carved off the skeleton. The head, foot and hands were missing. Quick lime covered the gruesome object. Dr. Thomas Marshall, one of the sur geons who conducted the post mortem examination, testified that he had not STRIKE LEADERS REJjCT PEACE Offer of Arbitration Refused In Grand Trunk Dispute. 16,000 MEN NOW 001 Railroad Company Closes Shops, Forc ing 10,000 Uninterested Workmen Into Idleness—Freight Traffic Tied Up. "We're the arbitrators now. There has been su(Helent arbitration, and I don't think there will be any more," said Vice President Murdoch, of the Order o£ Railway Trainmen, at Mon treal when the proposition of the min ister of labor for arbitration of the Grand Trunk strike was broached to hi in. Vice President Berry, who is as sisting Murdoch, expressed a similar opinion. Both said the matter hail gone too far for arbitration. The offer of the minister of labor, on behalf of the government, was to appoint a board of arbitration on the trouble between the company and its employes, the finding to be binding on both, and the government to bear all expenses in connection therewith. The offer was submitted in the form of a letter to President Hays, of the Grand Trunk, and to the head officials of the unions involved, anil is now under con sideration by them. It is thought that from the fact that President Hays had already made an offer to arbitrate the difficulty, that the company at least will accede to the proposal. Advices from all divisional points of the Grand Trunk in Canada, and from Port Huron and Detroit, indicate that the company is having greater difficulty in keeping its trains moving than was at first apparent. At some points no tickets are being sold be cause of the inability of the company to guarantee a complete journey. Freight jams are reported at Toron to. Hamilton and other points, while the yards at Montreal are lined with freight which the company is unable to move. An official of the company predicts that the entire train service will be resumed within forty-eighi hours, basing his prediction, he said upon the company's apparent ability to secure all the new men it wants. Many of the men shut out of the shops have taken train service, and the union officials bitterly denounce the company for closing the shops at this time and thereby forcing 10.000 men into idleness. They declare that such a move will be ample justiflea tion for a sympathetic strike of the engineers and telegraphers, alKiough there is no indication of any such move. The latest calculation of the num her of men rendered idle by the strike and lockout runs to lfi.ooo. About 100.- 000 others are Indirectly affected. Union officials here say that the ob ject of the Grand Trunk in closing its shops is to force these shop employes, many of whom are old trainmen, to take the strikers' places. The union officials add that if this is the inten tion, it will not succeed. Boy Fatally Gored. While he was tending a herd of cows at his father's farm, just out side of Altoona, Pa.. Emery Wysong, aged eight years, was attacked by a large Holstein bull, Which some boys had previously been teasing. The boy fled, but was quickly caught in the bull's horns and tossed in the air. When he came down the Infuriat ed animal gored him in the back, and as the lad rolled over ripped the tlesh o ffhis ribs, exposing his lungs, then galloped away. Despite his horrible in juries, the boy walked 600 feet to his home. He will die. Avengers Kill Wrong Man. Albert Lehr, thirty-eight years old, was killed by five Italians, employed on a section gang, while he was stand ing on the platform of the Lake Shore depot at Kendallville, Ind. The shooting is thought to be the outcome of the accidental killing of an Italian by a Lake Shore freight train three weeks ago. The Italians blamed the engineer and threatened vengeance against him. Lehr was probably mistaken for the engineer. Peon ante to nnn a trace or tne nones, and could not swear, on anatomical grounds, whether the members were those of a male or female. Pieces of flesh, he said, had given rise to some debate among the medi cal men. but so far he had been unable to definitely decide the sex. The mur derer, the surgeon said, had not only obliterated the cause of death, but also the sex of the deceased. The witness said that a microscopical examination, which might disclose more than was now known, was proceeding. 1| =1 JAMES M. GUFFEY. ~~ Receiver Appointed For Million- ! aire Oil Man. '' * * * | Guffey Fails For $7,000,000. Colonel James M. Guffey, multi-mil lionaiie oil man, and Democratic lead er, has failed. His business affairs have been put into the hands of a re ceiver. This announcement was made in Pittsburg. The exact nature of the failure is not yet known, and no defi nlte figures have been given out. It is announced, however, that Colonel Guf fey's liabilities are less than $7,00J, 000, and that his assets are easily worth $17,000,000. Inability to realize on his assets, which consist largely of coal lands in West Virginia, is said to be the rea son for Colonel Guffey's embarrass ment. John M. Galey, one of Mr Guffey's creditors, and a former busi ness partner, went into common plea-' court. No. 4. and asked for a receiver for the oil and coal king. John S. Willard, of Pittsburg, was appointed receiver and was placed un der SIOO,OOO bond. Colonel Guffey Issued a statement expressing regret that it had become necessary that his affairs be placed in the hands of a receiver, but that it would afford protection to himself as well as to all of his creditors. "My assets are more than double IIK amount wf my obligations, and I do not expect the receivership to con tinue for any great length of time," said Mr. Guffey. The receivership bill filed alleges that Colonel Guffey has not the ready money with which to meet the claims of some creditors who have threatened to sell his collateral. These creditors are understood to lie banks in Pitts burg. Philadelphia and other parts of Pennsylvania. Frozen to Death In July. Frozen to death in July, with the thermometer around the 90 degree Kitten Led Baby to Death. Louis Zwiren, the four-year-old son of Julius Zwiren. a resident of Pieqs antville. near Caldwell, N. J., was drowned in a pond near his home while following a pet kitten. When his mother went to call him she look edtoward the pond and was surprised to see the kitten swim ashore. Later the body of the boy was found only a few feet from the edge of the pond. Taft Names Colored Man. Whltefield McKinley, colored, a real estate agent of Washington, has beer appointed collector of customs here the technical designation of the of!'.; < ueing the port of Georgetown, D C. Child Drowned In Tub. Hazel Best, twenty-one months old was drowned in a tub of water neat Harrisburg, Pa. She had been plnyinp about the tub and fell in wheu slit lost her balance. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, hugb:es"vti lie, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits. 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Front/, John C. Lair<l, Q. \V. Sones, Banking Business. W.C.Frontz, Frank A.Hee«ier, Jacob IVr, Lyman Myers, \V. I. Reedy, Peter Fronfcz, Accounts oflndivid- j. A . 8. Ball, ' John Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Depositee Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 700 i-£R YEAR T.R.FOR PROGRESSIVES IN OHIO FIGHT Admits His Stand Alter Talk With Insurgent Candidate. Theodore Roosevelt hopes the Ohio Republicans will adopt a progressive platform, but, taking an attitude in line with that of President Taft, he de clines to exert influence for any candi date in the ante-convention situation. He made this plain in New York af ter a conference with Judge Reynolds Kinkade, of Toledo, who was regarded as the second choice of those Ohio Re publicans who are supporting James R. Garfield, ex-secretary of the inter ior, for the gubernatorial nomination. It is understood that Mr. Garfield had a hand in Judge Kinkade's visit and that Garfield's supporters have agreed to throw their strength to the judge if Mr. Garfield is not nominated. Neither Colonel Roosevelt nor Judge Kinkade would discuss their confer ence, nor would either of them reveal the contents of the letter which Judge Kinkade bore from President Tai't, with whom he talked on Sunday. Colo nel Roosevelt virtually admitted, how ever, that his approval of the can.li dacy of Judge Kinkade for the Repub lican nomination for governor of Ohio had been sought, when he said: "I cannot support any candidate for a nomination. I can only say that I hope a progressive platform will be adopted in Ohio." PUT HER HEAD IN GAS OVEN Crazed by Death of Child, Delaware Woman Kills Herself. With her mind affected by the death of her eight-nionths-old child Mrs. Wade Blizzard, wile of a Georgetn 11. Del., merchant, committed suicide by putting her head In the oven of a -ias stove and turning on the gas. The lifeless body of th« woman was found iii" the kitchen when her hus band was awakened by the smell of gas. Since the death of the baby the woman has acted strangely and in sisted on sleeping down stairs, next to the room in which the body of (he child had lain. T\v > bottles of lauda num were found by her side in case the gas did not kill her. Liquor Sales Increase In "Dry" State. Although the county option law has operated to close 989 saloons in the state of Indiana, most of these having been closed since Jan. 1, 1909, the con sumption of whisky, according to the federal government report for the fis cal year ending July 1, 1910, has in creased. while the consumption of be.r lias remained virtually the same, in comparison with the preceding fiscal year. Ends Life With a Penknife. Charles Opdycke, twentv-flve years old, committed suicide at Flemming ton. N. J., by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. Brooding over his ina bility to accumulate wealth probably caused him to end his life. Kills Self to Escape Gallows. Determined that he would not be hung on the gailows as a murderer, William Turpin, a notorious negro gambler and speakeasy operator, who made his escape from the Sussex eount.v jail at Georgetown, Del., Sun day, returned to Seaford, and alter spending the evening with his sweet heart, ended his life by drinking a so lution of carbolic acid. In April Turpin, who is a southefln negro, instantlj killed Joseph ElllotA another negro, because the latter had won S2OO from him in a poker gama. He escaped, but later was captured and lodged in the county jail to await trial. On Sunday morning he and four other prisoners chiseled a hole in the jail wall and, leaping twenty feet to the ground, made a daring escape.
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