Republican News Item. State T.Jhrarv VOL. XV. NO 12 WOMEN DROWN WHILE BATHING Vacation Trip Ends in a Double Tragedy. SISTER ESCAPES DEATH Mrs. Benjamin Ziff and Her Cousin, Miss Sarah Max, of Philadelphia, Lose Their Lives In River Near Weissuort. Pa. Two young women, one of them a resident of Philadelphia, and the oth er, a cousin, a former resident of that city, were drowned in the Lehigh river at Weissport, a small manufac turing town about lour miles southeast of Mauch Chunk, Pa. A third young woman almost lost her life at the same time. The women were Miss Sarah Max who was on a visit here, and Mrs Benjamin /iff. aged twenty-four years, the wife of a scrap Iron dealer, who formerly lived in Philadelphia, but moved here with her husband about a year ago. Last week upon her invitation her two cousins, Miss Sarah Max. aged eighteen years, and Miss Beulah Max aged twenty years, came onto spend a fortnight's vacation with Mrs. Ziff. Great preparations were made by Mr. and M,s. Ziff to entertain theii guests. These included the purchase of a rowboat for excursions on the river, the Lehigh at this season being an attractive place. The Misses Max brought along bathing suits for them selves and also one for Mrs. Ziff. While Mr Ziff was busy with his work the three young women walked down the tow path to a spot below the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, where they entered the water to bathe. At this point the river and the canal merge. The young women evidently miscalculated the depth of the water which was very clear. After taking only a few steps in the river they got to a spot where the bottom dipped abruptly, and they sank beyond .their depth. None of the three could swim and no help was near. According to the account of Miss Beulah Max, the sur vivor, they struggled and screamed with all their might. After an almost superhuman effort, although she was unable to swim, Miss Beulah reached shore. She was so exhausted she could not move to help them when she saw her sister and cousin drown. In the clear water she could see where they went down and where their bodies lay. Hoping against hope that if the bodies were taken out at once there might be a chance for resuscitation, Miss Max half staggered and half crawled to the nearest house, 000 feet away. When she arrived there she was so exhausted that for a time she could not talk. Her condition and the signs she made, however, told plainly of the accident that had happened. She was carried back to the river bank. Th ♦ . between gasps for her breath, she told of the drowning, and as she pointed into the water the bodies of the drowned women were seen. William Peed and William Emery dived and b ought the dead women to shore. Dr. Reber was summoned, and he, with the aid of the rescuers and others, worked nearly an hour until all hope of reviving the women was given up. Then the bodies were carried to the home of Mr. Ziff. The bereaved husband fainted and the rescued girl in is a precarious con dition from her experience. COLE'S HARDWARE^^^^y whatever it may 1»»» —"shall I buy? Don't poiuler over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Couie to our store ami let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from. When yon think of HARDWARE l,lillk ■>' 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. JAMES R. GARFIELD. Leader of Insurgent Republicans In Ohio. AVIATOR'S BIPLANE TURNS SOMERSAULT Machine Smashed, But Russell Wasn't Even Scratched. Turning a complete somersault in the air in a twenty-five miles an hour breeze on the aviaiion grounds east of Garden City, N. Y.. George Russell, who was flying in a Curtiss biplane, landed on the ground without so much as a scratch to show alter his re markable escape. The biplane landed on the ground with the engine in the air and the machine partly wrecked. Russell had made one very fast round of the course at an average height of about thirty feet. He main tained excellent control of his ma chine, regardless of the force of the wind, that repeately swung the after part of his biplane about in a most dangerous fashion. After one lap of the course Russell came down and ran along the ground near what is known as the "graveyard," for 300 feet at a forty-mile clip. When about to rise the soft ground of the "graveyard" caused the tail of his biplane to swerve just as his elevating planes were raised. In an instant the machine had turn ad a most complete somersault in the air and landed on its back. Russell was thrown free from the wreckage. Died Confessing Crime. Harry K. Johnson, a negro, who mur dered and robbed John 11. Hart man. a liveryman, on Dec. 8, was hanged at llarrishurg. Pa. He was cool to the last. Leaving his cell, Johnson admit ted "no injustice is being done." Lepps Into Niagara. Miss Clerher, a young dressmaker, formerly of Wilkes-Rarre. Pa., commit ted suicide by jumping into the Niag ara front the Second Sister island bridge. Murderer Dies at Stake. Henry Gentry. colored, who attempt ed to enter the room of a white wo man at Ilelton, Tex., and who later killed Constable James Mitchell who tried to arrest him. was burned at the stake by a mob. Rhode Island Growing Some. The census returns of Rhode Island show a population of 542,074. an in crease ol' 20.1! per cent, as compared with 428,550 in 11)00. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1910. 11 KILLEO AT FORT MONROE Gon Explodes, Scattering Death Among Soldiers. WAS BOMBARDING ENEMY Wives and Children See Artillerymen Killed In Awful Disaster at Target Practice. Eleven enlisted men were killed qut right, three were fatally and three oth ers less seriously injured, and one commissioned officer was hurt in the blowing out of the breech-block of a twelve-inch gun at Fort Monroe, Nor folk. Va. The explosion occurred during an attempt to stop an imaginary fleet from passing the fort and thus reach ing Washington. Second Lieutenant George L. Van Deusen. of the Sixty-ninth company of coast artillery, had his leg broken. T ie Dead. Sergeant Harry G. Hess, of Phoebus, Va., gun commander. Corporal Charles C. Adkins, address unknown. Corporal Albert Bradford, Dorothy, W. Va. Private A. J. Sullivan. Perkins, Ky. Private Ray Duffy, Kenova, W. Va. Private H. Adey, Erandonville, W. Vn. Private C. W. King. Dayton, O. Private John W. Chadwick, Taze well. Tenn. Private A'fred W. Smith, New York. Private Judd E. Hogan, Geyer, O. Private James 11. Turner, Ripley, Tenn. The accident was due to the prema ture explosion of a full service charge of powder, but what caused it is un known and probably never will be. All who were in sight of the gun when it occurred were killed. Colonel Townsley has designated .a board of officers to make an investiga tion. Some of the men who were kill ed were literally blown to pieces. The gun was a twelve-incher on a disap pearing carriage, and, while it has been in service for several years, had not been fired in practice before tho explosion. Most of the dead lost their lives by being struck by burnt powder, which, before consumption, is in large grains and heavy. All the killed and wounded belonged to the Sixty-ninth company of coast artillery. Five batteries were engaged in the practice when the explosion occurred. The heavy guns were being fired ra pidly at two targets, being drawn by a tug four miles down the bay. About fifty shots in all were fired. One of the targets was completely destroyed and the other hit several times. Many prominent officers of the army and navy who went to Hampton Roads to witness what was expected to lie the greatest target practice of this character that had been attempted anywhere, saw the accident. It was the more horrible for the rea son that wives and children of several of the men killed, no danger having been expected, were permitted to see the target practice. A number of them witnessed the accident. The explosion was probably due to the premature ignition of a powder charge in which the breech block of a twelve-inch gun and powder were blown to the rear. Theft May Reach $600,000. A general alarm has been sent to the police throughout the United Statos and Canada for the arrest of Erwin Wider, cashier of the ltusso- Chinese bank in New York. Wider is charged by the bank's of ficers with having taken $70,000 in bonds from a safe deposit box. Counsel for Wider admitted that the young man's defalcation amounted approximately to $600,000, tho greater part of which was lost in stock spec ulation. Wider has not been seen for a week. The bank, it is said, believes he has hidden some of the securities. Woman's Sensational Suicide. In full view of the clerks in her husband's place of business at Wa verly, Va., and before they could inter fere, Mrs. Warner Granimer, wife of Councilman Granimer, took a 38 cali ber revolver from Ills desk, placed it in her mouth and fired a shot into her brain. Death was Instantaneous. Long continued ill health is assigned as the reason for the act. Rear Admiral Hawke Dies. Rear Admiral James Albert Hawke, retired, of Bristol, Pa., formerly medi cal director of the navy, died at the naval medical school hospital In Wash ington. He was aged sixty-nine years. His last active duty was at the naval hospital at Mare Island, Cal. FIND BLUE PEARL, LOSTJT AGAIN Story ol SIOO,OOO Gem Reads Like "The Moonstone." DISAPPEARED IN DOSTON Was Stolen From the Eye of Indian Idol and Traced All Over the World. Found In New York Pawn Shop. A blue pearl worth sloo,*ooo, stolen from the eye of a statue of Buddha in India, sought for five years all over the world and recovered in New York a few days ago, was stolen or lost again in Boston. Such is the strange narrative that Harris MacAdams, of London, tells. MaeAdams has the idea that some one, perhaps ail East Indian devotee, a Buddhist priest, perhaps, followed him first to New York and then to Boston, awaiting his chance to steal the pearl, to him priceless because of its sanc tity. Of course Wilkie Collins told very much the same story, infinitely better, in"The Moonstone." MacAdams says that as the tempor ary possessor of the blue pearl he was only an agent, a messenger. He was acting for Major Pirie, of the Seven teenth Lancers of his majesty's army. Major Pirie, in turn, is acting for a firm of English solicitors, who repre sent the Rajah Rana. In the posses sion of this Indian potentate stands the temple whose statue of Buddha, despite ceaseless watch and guard, was despoiled of the blue pearl and other sacred gems that adorned it. After ceaseless search for years, says Mac Adams. the blue pearl was located in New York in the hands of a certain pawnbroker. At Major Pirie's urging MacAdams hurried from Lon don to New York. There he paid $38.- 000 to the pawnbroker, who thereupon handed over to him the blue pearl and ten pawn tickets for other gems that once adorned the inscrutable Buddha. MacAdams says that the New York pawnbroker never saw these other gems, but bought the tickets from the person who pawned the blue pearl. MacAdams says he engaged passage of the Zeeland, due to sail from here Tuesday. In New York he was full of the idea that some one with de signs on the pearl was following him. So he bought a small pigskin case, de signed to be worn on the wrist, like the watch of a golfer or an automo bilist. In the case he put the blue pearl and the ten pawn tickets and wore the case strapped to his right wrist day and night. Taking train in New York, Mr. Mac- Adams arrived in the South station here. He wished to get some small change from his trousers pocket and found difficulty in thrusting his hand In his pocket; the pigskin case was in the way. He unstrapped the case and later, he thought, after getting the change from his pocket, he strapped the case to his wrist again. But he is not cer tain of this. He took a taxicab from the station to the Hotel Touraine, con gratulating himself that the blue pearl had progressed safely so far back to Buddha's orbit. MacAdams arrived at the hotel. The blue pearl, recovered with infinite pains and at enormous expense, was gone; the pawn tickets were gone; the pigskin case was gone. Never was a cleverer trick done by East Indian juggler—or by a Now York crook. MacAdams said that he has put the case in the hands of detectives here. They will continue the search for the SIOO,OOO pearl. So. it will be seen, the strange story which MacAdams tells does not end like "The Moonstone." The blue pearl will not shed its soft luster as Buddha's eye—for some time, at least. Was Pawned by Actress. A blue pe*rl figured in New York last summer. The pearl was said to be a perfect oval, weighed 12Vfc grains and was worth $140,000. It, too, had been stoleu from the eye of an Idol In a monastery in Lahore in 1879. This pearl was sought by His Highness Jagagit Singh, rajah of Razahs, of Ka purthala. The sacred gem had been traced all over the world and finally into the hands of the late King Leo pold, of Belgium. That gallant king, the tale ran, gave the pearl to Cleo de Merode, who, needing money, as always, pawned It. Share For Mrs. Longworth. An inventory of the estate of George Cabot Lee, of Newton, Mass.. who died March 21, shows It to be valued at $1.602,821, of which $1,569,821 is personal and $93,000 real. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who is a grand daughter oi Mr. Lee, receives one twelfth of the property. HUNTINGTON WILSON. Assistant Secretary of State Will Protect U. S. Trade. »PVRIGHT BY CUNKDINBT U. S. Takes Issue With Norway. Crossing diplomatic swords with Norway, the state deuartment at Washington declared Bluefields. Nica ragua, to be an open port. This action was taken by Hunting ton Wilson, acting secretary of state, in replying to protests from New Or leans commercial interests against Norwegian recognition of the lilue fields, Nicaragua, blockade. Norway, it was said, was misin formed of conditions there. The block ade was declared by Madriz, who is the defacto president only in the west ern part of Nicaragua. Norway's "misunderstanding" was laid by the state department to Mich ael J. Clancy, consular representative of Norway at Bluefields, anil until Thursday vice consul of the United tates at the same port. Acting Secre tary Wilson announced that Clancy's resignation as vice consul had been accepted, his service in the dual ca pacity being against the law. In connection with the stni"inent that Norway was mistaken about Blue iields being blockaded, the state de partment. in its reply to the New Or leans interests, quoted at length from various instructions given weeks ago to AIM rli an naval officers in Nicara gua to the effect that Madriz was to be prevented by force of arms from interfering with legitimate American trade entering Bluefields. Four Children Burned to Death. Four children were burned to death in a fire that consumed the barn of John Adams, a prosperous farmer at Rasselas, near Ridgeway, Pa. The dead are: John Adams, aged ewelve; Mike Adams, aged nine; Jo seph Adams, aged live, s. ns of John Adams, owner of the barn, and Mich ael Bosik, aged nine, a nephe-.v of Mr. Adams. The children had been helping to make hay and had preceded a load to the barn. George Adams, an older son. was driving the wagon and had taken the team into the barn, when he heard the cry of fire. The big load of hay completely blocked the entrance and there was no way ol' escape. George managing to get out over the hay. Pay Fines to Cet Help. To save the wheat' # rop of Scott county, a number of fanners appeared before the county judge at George town, Ky., and paid the fines of ten prisoners in the jail to get harvest help. Fines ran as high as SJO. The prisoners wont willingly. 426 Cans of Frozen Eggs Seized. United States Marshal Henkel. 011 an order made in the federal court, seized 426 cans of frozen eggs at a cold storage warehouse in New York. The order alleges that the eggo are unfit for human consumption. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESYIILE, 3?J±. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. RFEDFR, Cashier Xet Profits, 75,0()0, DIRECTORS: Transacts a General WIN, Front*, &<>lm C. Lair.l, C. \\\ SOUPS, Banking Business. W - C.Frontz, Frank A R,,,ler, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, \\ .I. Keeciy, Peter Prontz, Accounts oflndivid- J* s. Ball, John Bull, uais and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Re nt, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR SHOT TO DEATH IN A CLOSET Bitter Feeling Between Rivals Ends in Murder. In a quarrel over a woman at Nas sawadox, near Cape Charles, Va., Nathan Wyatt, twenty-five years old, shot and killed Aimer Satchell, thirty five years old. Bad feeling had existed between the two men for some time. The men met on a road, when Satchell drew his gun and fired upon Wyatt, ball en tering his arm. Satchell then ran to the home of a brother of Wyatt's and concealed himself in a closet. Wyatt, after procuring a revolver, followed Satchell to the house, and, breaking down the door of the closet where he was concealed, shot him over the heart, killing him instantly. After the shooting Wyatt surrendered to the authorities. RECORD BREAKERS Coast Artillery Company Makes 11 Hits In 11 Seconds at 2150 Yards. All of the previous records for ser vice practice with 3-inch guns were broken at Sandy Hook on Tuesday by the gunners of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth company, Coast Artil lery corps, commanded by Captain Carroll Power, stationed at Fort Tot ten. This company held the record for last year's practice and has bettered it, making 11 hits in 11 seconds, at taining a figure of merit of 150. This was nearly twice that of last year. The prat lice was held at Battery Mori is, Port Hancock, N. J., at a tar get (owned by a steamer at the rate of five mile! an hour. The size of the target is B feet by 24 feet, and the range was 215 ft yards. STEEL EARNINGS INCREASE Total Net For June Quarter $40,170,- 960, Against $29,340,491 Year Ago. The board of directors of the United States Steel corporation declared the regular quarterly dividends of I*4 on the common and 1% on the preferred Reports for the quarter ending ,lun« 30 showed net earnings of $40,170,960. The earnings the quarter endin? June 30. lf>o9, were $29,320,491. The directors report that unfilled orders on hand June 30 were 4,267,794 tons, against 5,402,514 in the March quarter and 4,057,939 in the June quar ter of 1909. DEATHIN RIDE FROM FUNERAL Lancaster Girl Thrown Out and Killed In Runaway. Mabel Buch, seventeen years old, was thrown from her carriage when her horse ran away while she was returning from a funeral near her home at Hahnstown, near Lancaster, Pa., and was instantly killed. Bertha Miller and Martha Martin, who were with her. jumped and escaped injury. 111 at Salina. Kan. The records of the government weather bureau at Salina. Kan., were broken Tin day, when the thermome ter reached the 111 mark. This was the third consecutive day that tlie temperature has been up to and above 109 degrees. Deat:i in Ice uoid urinK. Alfred Young, Wiatherly, em ployed on tHe farm of Hiram Sehule/r. in Evergreen Valley, near Hazlet.on. Pa., dropped over dead in the field after drinking a glass of iee cold lem onade. Twenty-five Perish In Huneary Flood. Twenty-five persons perished in a flood that followed a cloudburst at fie town of Dees, in Hungary. The dau.a ie to property and crops was heavy.
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