Republican News Item.
VOL. XV. NO 15
DOCTOR ENDS LIFE
AS WOMAN DIES
Suicide Follows Fatal Result
ot Illegal Operation.
FOUND LIFELESS IN HOUSE
Double Tragedy Startles New Ger-.
mantown, Pa., When Bodies Were
Discovered by Neighbor of Woman.
The bodies of Dr. liussell Campbell
and Mrs. Ira Morrison were found at
the home of the Morrisons in New
Germantown, Perry Mon
day morning.
A neighbor discovered the body of
the woman lying across the front door
step, and further search revealed the
doctor's body in his room.
Hasty examination showed that the
woman had died from internal hem
orrhages, resulting from an operation.
The theory is that Dr. Campbell per
formed the operation some time dur
ing the night, and on discovering the
fatal result killed himself. Mis death
was due to cyanide of potassium.
Dr. Campbell was twenty-four years
old and a graduate of the Medico-Chi
rurgical college in Philadelphia. He
was a son of Dr. Hans Campbell, a
well-known physician of Path Valley,
Franklin county. A few months ago
the young man went to New German
town and set himself up in practice,
taking a room at the home of Ira Mor
rison, a local dealer in cattle.
Morrison went to Dry Run, fourteen
miles away, on Saturday to attend a
picnic and to buy cattle, and remained
over Sunday. He hastened home
when notified of the tragedy.
About 11 o'clock at night David Kra
mer, a neighbor, thought he heard
moaning in the Morrison house as he
passed, but as no light was visible
he concluded ho was mistaken. At 6
o'clock in the morning, Luther Ray
passed the Morrison home and saw
two bare feet protruding from the half
open front door. Running up the steps,
he was horrified to find the body ol'
Mrs. Morrison in her night, clothes
and bathed in blood. Sliif w'.-i dead.
Hurrying on into the house, Ray found
the body of the young doctor in his
room, dead on the floor. Beside him
was a partly empty vial of cyanide of
potassium.
Dr. Campbell s hands were bloody
and his shirt was spattered with
blood. The instruments with which
the operation had been performed on
Mrs. Morrison were found in such con
dition as to leave no doubt of what
had taken place.
A coroner's jury was hastily sum
moned, and word was sent to Dis
trict Attorney Rice, who hastened to
the scene from New Bloomsfield. The
jury found a verdict to the effect that
Mrs. Morrison had died from the ef
fects of an operation, and that Dr.
Campbell had died from poison taken
with suicidal intent, as a result of the
disastrous outcome of the operation.
Mrs. Morrison was thirty-five years
old. Dr. Campbell had been pracicing J
at New Germantown only about six
months. During all of that time he
had boarded with the Morrisons.
A New Trotting Record.
Driven by Charles Tanner, of Cleve
land, C. K. G. Billings' black geld
ing Uhlan established a •->w world's
record by trotting a mile ' the North
Randall track, near Cleveland, 0.,
without; a wind shield, in 1.58%, beat
ing Lou Dillon's record by 2V* sec
onds and coming within one-quarter of i
a second of equaling the record made
by her, with a wind shield, Oct. 24,
1905, when she trotted a mile at Mem
phis. In l.r.S'A.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1910.
PRESIDENT MONTT.
Qhilean Executive Died Suddenly
In Bremen.
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PRESIDENT MONTT DEAD
Chile's Chief Executive Succumbs
Suddenly in Bremen.
President Pedro Montt, of Chile,
who was a passenger on the steamer
Kniser Wilhelm dor Grosse, from New
York, Aug. (5, died in Bremen from a
recurrence of heart failure, due to a
recent attack of angina pectoris.
President Montt left New York last
Wednesday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse, on which Mayor Gaynor was
shot by a would-be assassin.
Senor Montt was sixty-four years
old. a son of Manuel Montt, who was
president of Chile from 1851 to 18GL
For thirty-live years he had been a
prominent political figure In his
country.
Steel Cage for Millionaire Baby.
Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. lfi. —A steel
cage on wheels, cunningly wrought by
a skilled craftnian and safeguarded by
locks of the most complicated design,
for the morning's ride of Vinson Mc-
Lean, America's $100,000,000 baby, Is
the latest and most startling novelty
which too fond parents have taken
to protect this little Croesus against
kidnapping.
This steel perambulator has follow
ed as a result of the recent attempt
of burglars to break into the mansion
of the McLeans at Bar Harbor. The
McLean baby is now .as carefully
guarded from all, save his nurse and I
Detective Warders, as If he were a
little prisoner held as hostage.
126,000,000 Gallons of Whisky Used.
The following figures announced i
by the Internal revenue service |
show that in the fiscal year ended j
July 31 the citizens of the United
States drank 120.000,000 gallons of
whisky and 59,000,000 barrels of beer
and ale. They smoked 8.000.0U0 cigars
and 7,000,000,000 cigarettes. Uncle
Sam profited by these facts to the ex
tent of $289,728,014, the total collected
as Internal revenue. Playing cards
contributed $565,524 in revenue, and
oleomargerine produced more than a
million dollars.
Civil War Veteran Dead.
John Newhard, a retired farmer,
died at Sanatoga. near Pottstown, Pa.,
aged eighty-six years. While appar
ently in good health, he told his wife
he would soon die, and a few hours
later he was taken 111. He had a
splendid Cfidl War record.
MAY RETURN 1
tTO THE STAGE
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Footlights Still Attract Former
Maybelle Gillman.
DESIRES EMOTIONAL ROLE
Wife of William E. Corey, Financier,
May Appear as Katherine In "Tam
ing of the Shrew."
Again the glare of the footlights is
said to have attracted Mabelle Gil
man, the wife of W. E. Corey, the
millionaire president of the United
States Steel corporation.
According to advices received In
New York by friends from London,
Mrs. Corey, who was a stage favorite
under the name of Mabelle Gilman
before her marriage, contemplates a
return to the stage.
Her intended return, it Is under
stood, is to be but for a short time and
to satisfy her f'osire to once more
appear on the stage. If satisfactory
arrangements can be made, she will
appear next May in"The Taming of
the Shrew." She is said to be anxious
to play the part of Katherine and to
have Mr. Lewis Waller portray Pe
truchio.
According to reports, Mr. Waller
has been approached about the possi
ble presentation of the production,
and it is said he regards It as a good
idea. Mrs. Corey wishes the piece
to be staged next May. Mr. Waller,
it Is said, Is to make a report to her
on the matter this week.
If Mrs. Corey appears in"The Tam
ing of the Shrew" it will be a new
venture for her, because she has
chiefly been associated with musical
comedy. Close friends of her's in
New York declared that they are not
surprised over the report that she
wishes to venture on more serious
lines.
They said that she always had an
ambition to become an emotional ac
tress. and felt convinced that she had
the necessary power to make a suc
cess in that role.
No matter what success Mrs. Corey
may attain, if she returns she will not
make a tour of the United States. In
fact, It Is said, she is determined not
to leave London.
GIRLS CHASED UP
__ A TREE RY HULL
Animal Attacks Picnic Party.
They Quickly "Shin It."
With a party of prominent Tren
ton people it wasn't "Has Any
body Here Seen Kelly?" but rather
it was "We've All Seen Kelly's
Dull," for Kelly's bull chased the en
tire crowd across a field, a couple
of fences and made it essential for a
pair of pretty girls to demonstrate
that climbing trees under compulsion
isn't so very hard.
In the party were Miss Grace Bul
lock, Miss Helen Howard, John R.
Howard, Miss Emma Robinson, Miss
Rachel South, Mrs. H. Klagg, Miss
Margaret Alpaugh, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Hulse and infant daughter,
Fred Bohlinger and Mrs. John Bohl
inger. They all live in Trenton or i
upper Bucks county, and the incident ]
happened on the estate of Magistrate
Robinson, where they had been spend- j
ing a day. Going home the party
cut across a meadow on the P. L.
Kelly estate.
In this meadow was a bull whose love
of the aesthetic didn't Include flame
colored parasols. He lowered his
head and went, head down and tall
up, right at the party.
Men atjd women "beat It" over the
field and a fence. Two of the girls
grabbed the child of Mr. and Mrs. j
Hulse and made for a nearby tree. I
One girl swung herself up Into the.
branches, reached down and took the
baby, and the second girl followed.
Later residents of that section arrived 112
and several pistol shotß fired at or
near tho bull quieted him.
Offered Money to Kill Man.
Anthony Ulgosh, Imprisoned at
Shainokin, Pa., with John Yuskow
sky on suspicion of having murdered
Joseph Wisloskte, of Mt. Carmel, has
confessed that Yuskowsky offered him
SIOOO to kill Wlsloskle.
Falae Teteh Choke Her to Death.
While she was sweeping. Miss Lillle
Kuntz, of Louisville, Ky., accidentally
dislodged her false teeth. They became
lodged In her windpipe and she was
Btrangled to death.
SHOOTS WIFE,
THEN KILLS SELF
Double Crime Occurred in the
Presence ol Children.
WOMAN HAD FEARED HER FATE
Accused of Robbery, and Fearing
Arrest, Young Foreigner Committed
Double Crime.
Two children, aged four and six
years, saw Bartko Bcdnaj*ky flro two
shots into his wife, ManVe, and then
kill himself in the third-story hack
room of the house at 827 North Frank
lin street, Philadelphia.
The six-year-old hoy picked up the
ugly-blued steel weapon, fully twelve
Inches long and of .44-calihre, with
which the shooting was done, and
was holding it in his hands when
rPoliceman Regan, of the Tenth and
Buttonwood streets station, burst into
the room.
Lying across the floor of the little
room where Mrs. Bednarslsy died, was
her body, blood pouring from a two-
Inch hole at the back of her head and
from the wound in her breast made by
the heavy slugs.
In a room to the rear of this w-as
;he murderer and suicide, fallen upon
a bed, which was dyed red. He had
Mown half of his head and all of his
(ace off, shooting himself in the throat
Jirectly under the chin, the bullet
smashing through his head to the ceil
ing above, where it lodged.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Bednarsky
went to the Franklin street place,
which Is run as an apartment house
by Max Shodowsky. She had known
Mrs. Wilszwisky, who leases the first
floor, in Galicia, before she came to
this country, ten months ago.
Mrs. Bednarsky took the third-story
back rooms, told her friends that her
husband had become a criminal and
was wanted for several robberies in
Buffalo. She hail left that city be
cause she could no longer stand his
way of obtaining a living. But she
wrote from Franklin street to him,
telling him that if he would be honest
and get work he could come to this
city and start again.
He answered her, agreeing to her
proposal, and said he would come to
this city as soon as he could goto
work and earn the necessary money.
At this time ho was living in Buffalo
with a man named Carrol Fabian,
with whom he was very friendly.
On Saturday afternoon he rang the
bell at the Franklin street house and
was admitted by Mrs. Wilczwisky.
Husband and wife met joyfully, but
when he left, after a two hours' stay,
Mrs. Bednarsky told her friend that
she was not happy,as she did not know
where he had obtained the fare to
this city. Bednarsky came again on
Sunday afternoon and again Monday
afternoon. Carrol Fabian came from
Buffalo to her. and said that Bednar
sky had stolen $133 from him, which
he had buried in a can in the back
yard. He asked her to get the money
back.
Bednarskr came to see his wife. He
had been pleading with her togo to
housekeeping with him. saying that
he would work and support her. She
had told Mrs. Wilczwisky that he was
a bad man in Galicia, and had been
In trouble there. She knew he was
armed, and would not hesitate to
shoot. At least she told her friend
that she was afraid he would some
day kill her.
Therefore, when he went to the
third floor Mrs. Wilszwisky was also
upstairs. Her three children, Stanley,
aged six; Stephana, aged ten. and
Lily, four years old, were playing in
tho Bednarsky rooms. Stephana left
when Mrs. Bednarsky told her husband
of the visit of Fabian.
"I will not live with you unless you
return the money you stole," she said
clearly. "I can't do it."he answered,
according to Mrs. Wilczwisky. "I have
only S7B left. I paid sl4 for a re
volver in Buffalo."
Then followed hot, angry words.
She told him her opinion, that ho
was not fit to live with a decent wom
an. and that she preferred togo to
work to support herself rather than
be bound to a criminal.
Much Needed.
"There's one thing we need In this
country, and Dobody seems to be doing
anything to furnish us with It—one
thing that we need more and more as
time goes on.l wish I could Invent
or devise It. There will be a fortune
In it when It is perfected."
"What Is it?"
"Some kind of a device whereby peo
ple may be able to tell just how much
to applaud when they wnnt to make
the entertainer feel good without caus
ing him or her, as the case may be. to
mistake the demonstration for an en
core."—Chicago Record-llerald.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Famous War Nurse Who Died
In London.
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Famous War Nurse Dead.
Florence Nightingale, the famous
organizer of nursing in the Crimean
war, died in London, Eng. She was
ninety years old and has been con
fined to her home for years.
Florence Nightingale was the first
woman to follow a modern army into
action as a nurse, and in the Crimean
war galnod the title of "Angel of tho
Crimea." She was born in 1820, and
in 1840 entered the famous institution
at Kaiserwort, Germany, to fit herself
for a hospital nurse. She had just re
turned to England when the Crimean
war broke out.
She at once organized a corps of
volunteer nurses whom se led to the
east. At Scutari she founded a hos
pital, and until the end of the war
she was constantly at work adminis
tering to the troops, either in the
hospital or in the field.
Three years ago King Edward be
stowed upon her the Order of Merit,
the most exclusive distinction in the
gift of the British sovereign. The
membership of the order is limited to
tweiiiy-four, and In it at that time
were such men as Lord Kitchener.
James Bryce, John Morley, George
Meredith, Admiral Fisher, Sir Alma
Tadema and Sir William lluggins,
who died on Miss Nightingale's birth
day.
Woman Seriously Accused.
Mrs. Helen Barnhart, of Shiremans
town, near Carlisle, Pa., was arrested,
charged with sending poisoned candy
through the moils.
The arrest was made by Postal In
spector Lucas and Detective Ibach, of
Harrisburg.
Candy poisoned with strychnine was
maile dto Miss Beulah Mountz, of
Harrisburg, last week. The girl ate
some of the candy and was made very
ill. Prompt treatment at a hospital
saved her life.
Brooke Barnhart, husband of the
woman, left his home some time ago
and has been living with his sister,
Mrs. Frank Mountz, in Harrisburg,
where Miss Beulah Mountz also re
sides. The theory of the police is that
Mrs. Barnhart blamed her slster-in
law for separating her husband from
her. and that the deadly candy was
intended really for Mrs. Mountz.
Salesman Weds Rich Woman.
Mrs. Mary B. Train, who gave her
nge as seventy years, her home as
San Diego, Cal., and estimated her
wealth in the millions, was married
in Chicago to James Dibs, of New
York, a Syrian linen salesman, aged
twenty-three years. Mrs. Train said
that her income from rents alone was
$2600 a month.
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MAINE DEER TAKES
A BUGGY RIDE
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Horse Objects end the Vehicle
is Wrecked.
Francis K. Mitchell, a New York
man vacationing in Maine, had the
surprise of his life, while driving along
a road a few miles from Bangor. He
was sitting back in tlje seat enjoying
the beautiful scenery, when he was
startled to see a frightened deer
spring from the forest at the road
side and leap Into the carriage, fall
ing between the dashboard and the
horse. /
The latter kicked until the vehicle
was demolished. After both the horse
and deer hade kicked about for three
minutes the child of the forest man
aged to extricate Itself and ran back
into Its retreat, apparently none the
worse for its experience.
BIRO-MAN BEATS BIRDS
Aviator Wins Race Against Pigeons
in France.
The first aerial race between the
birds of nature and of man's produc
tion took place In the course of the
great aerial cross-country competi
tion at Amiens, France, and was
easily won by man. Forty-seven car
rier pigeons were released at Doual
at the same time that Le Blanc in his
Farman biplane started from the mark
on his fltty-mlle flight to Amiens.
Rushing without u tremor through
the calm air, the biplane soon out
distanced the birds, and when Le
Blanc reached Amiens the birds were
not yot in sight, the first pigeon arriv
ing Fix minutes and twenty seconds
after Le Blanc. Before the last of the
flock hud come In Legagneux, who had
started at the same time as Le Blanc,
but consumed nine minutes more on
the trip, arrived, beating the last pig
eon by twelve minutes.
Virginia Wardlaw Dies In Prison.
Miss Virginia Wardlaw, a woman of
middle age, who, with her two sisters,
is under indictment for the murder of
Mrs. Ocey Wardlaw Martin Snead —In
the bath tub mystery—died In the
housf of detention at Newark, N. J.
Her death, It Is said, will materially
affect the prosecution of her two sis
ters. Qeneral decline is given as the
cause of death. Miss Wardlaw at one
time was a resident of Tennessee.
Recently It was said that Miss Ward
law was suffering greatly from debility
due to her age and to confinement in
prison. On the strength of representa
tions made to the New Jersey courts
she was a few days ago transferred
from Jail to the house of detention,
where she could have more attention
and medical care. Rumors have been
circulated that she deliberately starv
ed herself, but they are authoritatively
said to be entirely baseless.
Girl, 13, Brains Youth.
Catherine Botti, aged thirteen years,
of Pittsburg, Pa., seized an axe and,
creeping unawares upon Pasquale
Bolpe, aged eighteen years, as he stood
in his doorway, crushed the youth's
skull, killing him Instantly.
The girl hysterically cried to eye
witnesses that she had "avenged her
wrong." Surrendering to the police,
she was placed in the Wllmerdlng Jail,
charged with murder.
Child Swallows Pennies.
After swallowing eight pennies,
little Dora Storic, of Miners
ville, l'a., la* at denth's dooi
until the dead weight of the coins In
her stomach was relieved by an
emr-tic. The pennies had been laid
aside for church, and none of the
family knew what became of them
until the little girl was seen swallow
Ine the last one.