Republican News Item. vol. xv. no 20 Declares Milk Often Becomes Pol luted After Leaving Their Hands on Way to Con sumer. SANITARY LAWS ARE BROKEN "Don't lot's put too much blame on the farmers," says State Health Com missioner Dixon iu discussing the question of a pure milk supply, a problem that is troubling so many municipalities throughout Pennsylva nia. "As an old farmer myself who has led the reapers around the wheat field, swinging a cradle and then In the evening milking my share of the cows 1 am naturally favorable to the dairy farmer, but it is the close study of actual conditions that convinces me that the first disease germs often, per haps most frequently, get into the milk after it has passed out of the farmer's control. "The farmer appreciates more today than ever the necessity of keeping milk clean. He Knows that if it reaches the market sweet and pure the demand will be increased He is up against n difficult task to make money out of his milk dairy when ho has to constantly buy new cattle to take the place of those that have gone dry, become sick or died. Dairyman's Problems. "He must produce or purchase food for them, keep up the stable, pay his help, constantly replenish his supply of pans, buckets, etc., and haul this milk over all kinds of roads, through all sorts of weather and then receive for all this 4 or 4V2 cents a quart from the dealer. "The milk often begins to receive pollution on the railroad, when an at tendant takes off the lid of a milk can, helps himself to a drink and then re ph •' c ' drippingß of milk which ha 's lips going back into th jt- i. • 1 like an exaggera t ' i r.:e you a case. I re p ;i-;emaster who once lor medical advice. I I i ling with pulmonary 'i. When 1 advised him to 0 i.i i 'ii ! ilk he informed me 1 . i Vt.king a great deal of hauled milk in his bag ■ • li.it he was in the habit • ■I: of the lids of the cans. '.iti.;ns and along the Ft (. .lie i.:!!< dealers often purchase 1 • each o her. The purchaser sticks n.. ;or into the milk and then into .louth to determine the sweetness a.. . then into the second can until he tests as many cans of milk as he pro poses purchasing. Unsanitary Methods. "Only a few days ago a gentleman came into my office to tell me he had just witnessed his own milk man hand a street cleaner a drink of milk con tained in the lid of his can and then replace the lid. "I have witnessed over and over again milk men collect bottles from their customers, poke the index finger in the mouth of one and the thumb In the other to carry the bottles to his wagon. Trusting that they had been properly cleansed by the housewife, the bottles were at once refilled, caps taken out of a pocket which also con tained a handkerchief nnd then these bottles of milk were delivered to the next customers. It is not worth while to enumerate other Instances to make my point clear, that Is, we must not confine ourselves to the dairy farm In looking for conditions that render milk impure. Ouf municipalities throughout the state will have to keep their eyes open to the way In which the dealers and others are handling the milk after It has left the farmer's rnrp " HARDWARE whatever it may lie—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these thing*, nor spend yoiir 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. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1910. LEWIS NAMED FOR GOVERNOR Chosen by New Jersey Repi>' cans to Oppose Wilsot.. PLATFORM COMMENDS TARIFF Rate Making Plank Was Forced In by Insurgents and the Nominee —Taft Administration Endorsed. Vivian M. Lewis, of Paterson, com missioner of banking and insurance of New Jersey, was nominated for gov ernor at the Republican state conven tion, which met at Trenton. Mr. Lewis received four-fifths of the total vote cast on the first ballot, and Wi.sn the roll call was completed the counties which hadn't already done so hurried to make the nomination unani mous. The platform as adopted declared for a public utiltv commission, with power to fix rates, and for election and primary laws making the will ol the people sure and easily carried into effect. Other things in the platform includ ed an endorsement of the Taft admin istration; the record of the last con gresses; commendation of the tariff and of the appointment of a perma nent tariff board; an endorsement ol Governor Fort and the legislation passed during his term; the conser vation policy of the president and the extension of its principles to the state; an employers' liability law placing upon industry the burden of accidents; civil service; states' scheme of public highways and inland waterways; the expenditure of moneys received from automobilitsts on public roads, and the enactment of just legislation to auto mobilists and taxpayers, calculated tc promote reciprocal relations with oth er states. Was a Lively Convention. Notwithstanding the smoothness with which Mr. Lewis' nomination was accomplished, the convention was one \ of the liveliest Republican state a." j semblages seen for a good while. The committee on resolutions con- j ceded the rate-making plank of the j platform to the insurgent element of ] the- party, who demanded the advo- j cacy of the proposition that authority be given to the public utility commis- j sion to supervise transportation rates in New Jersey. One of their loaders also presented a minority report to the convention embodying other "new idea" planks, but these were rejected. l The adoption of the rate-making plank was regarded as a signal vie-1 tory for Mr. Lewis, who objected tc' the public utility plank drafted by j United States Senator Kean. Congress- 1 man Gardiner and State Senatoi t Wakoloe, and which was advocated by former Attorney General Thomas N, McCarter, who is a Republican leadei' and at the same time president of the j Public Service Corporation. Lewis, who depended upon organi- j zation delegates to give him his nom ination, is convinced that the senti-j ment among voters in the state is strongly for a greater supervision of the corporations of the state, anil sc' informed the organization. He is said to fear that he cannot be elected ovei | Dr. Woodrow Wilson, president ol j Princeton university, and the gubernu- 1 torial candidate for the Democratic! party, unless his party takes advanced i ground on the subject of a more strin-1 gent control of corporations by the-' state. Great Miners' Strike Ends. Thirty thousand roal miners of Mis souri. Kansas, Arkansas and Okla homa, who have been on strike f'oi five months, returned to work. 11 VIVIAN M. LEWIS. Nominated For Governor by New Jersey Republicans. m ■ i H R iflEßS&i«£i JfIHIM iiiw su Zeppelin Airship Burned. If anything could discourage the In trepid apostle of aerostatics, Count Zeppelin, it would appear to have been furnished when the Zeppelin VI., the latest model of his aerial invention, was torn by the explosion of one of j the three motors located in the stern gondola, near Baden-Baden, Germany. Three of the airship's crew were seri ously injured. The accident happened as the dirig ible was being slowly worked into her shed. The defective motor had been j operating as usual, when suddenly the crew were whirled from their posts in the rear gondola as the craft trem bled and lurched. There was a sharp report, a flash ol flames, and in a moment the immense fabric of silk canvas was afire. The crew, hardly realizing what had hap pened, tumbled over the sides of the j airship, barely escaping with their j lives. The fire spread so rapdly that the shed was soon destroyed. Jersey Democrats Name Wilson. President Woodrow Wilson, 01 Princeton university, was nominated for governor by the Democrats of New Jersey in their state convention held nt Trenton. I)r. Wilson won handily on the first ballot, with a vote of 749V6, 1 41V£ more than he needed. Frank S. Katzenbach, of Trenton, who ran against Governor Fort two years ago, received 1172 votes. He had some support, as did Mr. Wilson, in all the counties. Senator George S. Siler ran third, with 210 votes. Mayor Otto 11. Wittpenn, of Jersey City, got 7CV& votes. 74V?> of which slipped from Loader Dob Davis' grip in the Hudson county delegation. Immediately after the result had been announced, there were a dozen motions to make the nomination unanimous, the backers of the defeat ed candidates joining lustily in the hurrah. Girl Accuses Preacher. Rev. J. 11. Arnold, forty years old, r Holiness preacher, was arrested at Pu laski, Va., charged with criminal as sault upon Lizzie Collins, a fourteen year-old girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Collins. Arnold and his wife were on the train on their way to Radfor. The train stopped not far from Pulaski and the little girl got away and ran back to Pulaski, where told the chiel of police the story of a vicious as sault. Upon discovering that she had escaped, Arnold left the train and went back after her. When he appear ed he was arrested. 2,185,283 People In Chicago. Chicago's population is 2,185,283 is the announcement given out by the census ofßce. During the past decade the Windy City has added 480,708 to her population, which in 1900 was !,• (108,575. The per cent of growth foi Chicago was 28.7. just 10 per cent less than New York, nnd but 2.7 better than the rate of growth of the borough oi Manhattan. HOW 6AYNOR FELT WHEN SHOT Mayor's Own Story of His Sen sations and Thoughts. WAS NOT AFRAID TO DIE He Was Not Surprised When He Real ized He Was Shot, as He Had Ex pected to Be Assaulted —Scores Yel low Papers. Mayor William J. Oaynor, in a letter to his sister. Miss Mary E. Oaynor, of Utica, N. Y„ which is printed in the Now York Evening Post, tells in an interesting manner of his impressions at the time he was shot on the steam ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Orosse. The mayor says that he has not read a line of what has been publish ed of the shooting, nor does he now remember the name of the man who shot him. Going over the incident ol the shooting. Mayor Oaynor wrote: "I was standing on the deck talk ing with Commissioners Thompson, Lederle, Edwards, the corporation counsel, Mr. Watson; my secretary, Robert Adamson, and several friends, who had come aboard to see me off. Mr. Montt, president of Chile, and Mrs. Montt had just by, and 1 had spoken a few words with t!-em. Mr. Adamson pointed out that the ship was dressed with flags for me, but 1 said I did not think it could bo for me. "My next consciousness was of a terrible metallic roar in my head. It filled my Head, which scented as though it would burst open. It swelled to the highest pitch, and then fell, and then rose again, and so alternated until it subsided into a continuous buzz. It was sickening, but my stom ach did not give way. 1 was mean while entirely sightless. "I do not think I fell, for when I be came conscious I was on my feet; 1 suppose they saved me from falling and they were supporting me. My sight returnod, so that after a while 1 could see the deck and the outlines of .the crowd around me. I became con scious that 1 was choking. Blood was coming from my mouth, and I tried all I could to swallow it so those around me would not see it. "But 1 found I could not swallow, ;md then I knew my throat was hurt. It seemed as though I was dislocated. I struggled to breathe through my mouth, but could not, and thought I was dying of strangulation. I kept thinking all the time the best thing to do. Near to the Infinite. "I was not a bit afraid to die if that was God's will of me. I said to myself, 'Just as well now as a few years from now.' No one who contem plates the immensity of Almighty God and of his universe and his works, and realizes what an atom ho is in it all, can fear to iie in this flesh, yes, even though it were true that he is to be dissolved forever into the infinity of matter substance and mind from \Y f Hich he came. "In some way I happened to close my mouth tight and found I breathed perfectly through my nose. 1 then be lieved I could keep from smothering. But I kept choking and my mouth kept opening to east out the blood. Mayor Oaynor in the lottcr scored certain newspapers for the manner in which they had attacked him, say ing: "Such journalism is, of course, in absolute defiance of the criminal law, and it did enter my mind to publicly call on the grand jury and the district attorney to protect me from it, but 1 was weak and feared people would say I was thin-skinned. But the time is at hand when these journalistic scoun drels have got to stop or get out, and I am ready now to do my share to that end. They are absolutely without souls. "If decent people would refuse to look at such newspapers the thing would right itself at once. The jour nalism of New York city has been dragged to the lowest depths of degre dation. The grossest railleries and libels, instead of honest statements and fair discussion, have gone on un checked." STRIKES GAS AT JOHNSTOWN Well Drilled In His Back Yard Gives Forth a Steady Flow. While drilling for water on his prop erty at Johnstown, Pa., Oustav Rand ier struck gas. The flow was with considerable pressure and continues strong. Handler had sunk his well to fi depth of forty feet, when he encoun tered solid rock. After setting off n blast of powder he attempted to entei the well, but soon discovered the pros ence of gas. He threw a lighted paper into th« well and the gas ignited. So far as if known it is the only gas well evei opened In this section of the state. GREAT LABOR WAR FEARED IN ENGLAND Serioos Unrest in the Ranks of Labor. The Industrial situation throughout England is daily growing worse. Prolonged stoppages In separate trades have been numerous before to day, but the present crisis involves at the same moment three groat indus tries of the nation. Coal, cotton and shipbuilding stand in the first rank of importance by reason both of the num bers of work people dependent upon them and the value of their product. The relations between employers and employed have become definitely nostile, and in each case the cause if similar. Small sections ii working men have defied the agreements en tercd into by the trade r.s a whole and their recusancy threatens to para lyze the entire industry. The Morning Post, which is thor oughlv alarmed, says that the serious unrest in the ranks of labor brought the country to the brink of n disaster difficult to parallel in indus trial history. Man and Wife Held «s Poisoners. Charged h> an information from Connecticut with poisoning a whole dinner party at Darien with arsenic. Pierre Heritier, twenty-five years o! age, a French butler, and his wife, Honorlnc, were arrested in New York city by Detective Drown, from police headquarters, and William H. Ilren nan, chief of police of Stamford, Conn. Pierre and his wife were engaged at an employment agency in this city by William L. Searlcs, who is a retired wool mrechant. The butler, according to Chief Brennan's story, to be unsatisfactory, and Mrs. Searlcs discharged him on the morning of Sept. (J. Honorine, who had been a maid servant in the house, decided to go with her husband, and the two re turned to this city. That night Ida l'innow, the Searles' cook, made biscuits for a dinner party at which there were seven people. Im mediately after the dinner all the party became violently ill. Doctors were called in and said that the din ers were suffering from arsenic poi soning. After heroic treatment every one recovered. Investigation of this wholesale sick ness ended when there was discovered in the flour barrel from which the flour tha went into the biscuits had been taken a liberal sprinkling of a powder that contained arsenic. j aft's Attitude on Second Term. Taft a attitude toward a second term in substantially this: He isn't actively seekng a second term. He is devoting himself solely to the duties of his of fice and to the redemption of the pledges made in the Republican na tional platform. He has found the du ties of his office exacting, if not irk feoe, but he hasn't said, as has been re ported, that he was willing to step aside in 1912. On the contrary, the president will respond to a < pi 1 for a second term if he is satisfied that his friends and the country want him. He has not thought of deserting his friends. This is substantially the attitude that President Taft outlined to his supporters before he left Washington, and his mind has not changed. The president himself declined to comment on the reports that have been publish ed of his wMlingnoss to stand aside in 1912. but his attitude is well known to his friends. Sherman's urotoer a Jcr.icc.'at. Word was received in Rochester, N Y., that Richard W. Sherm n, of Utl ca, brother of Vice Pier .(font Sher man. will be a candidate for st.re en gineer and surveyor at the l)eii jcratu state convention. Martin Schenck, oi New York, a former state engineer will also be a candidate. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESVTILE, PA 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. \\ . Sones, Banking Business. w - C.l-Von, z , Frank A.Rmior, Jacob iVr, Lyman Myors, \\. I. Koecly, I <*t,or Froiitz, Accountsoflndivid- J. A. 8. hall, " John Bull, tuils and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. SUite Library fOU PER YEAR NEWS FROM MAINE PLEASED BERRY Gubernatorial Nominee Elated Over Democratic Victory. HE ATTACKED TARIFF DILL Independent Republicans Quit Key stone Party, Disgruntled With the Bryanite Outfit. [Special Correspondence.] Philadelphia, Sept. 20. An exhibition of partisanship which startled and disgusted the few inde pendent Republicans present was given by William H. Berry at a meet ing in this city a few nights ago, when the Keystone Party nominee, unable to suppress his jubilation, spoke ex ultantly of"the good news from Maine." Not only did he express intense gratification over the Democratic vic tory In the Pine Tree State, but he followed this up with an attack upon the Republican tariff and the Taft ad ministration, which so incensed Re publicans that the little coterie that wete there left the hall, determined to have nothing further to do with his candidacy. Yes, Perry ha i "heard the good news from Maine," and his old-time Domocratic spirits were revived; he could not help but rejoice in a tri umph for a party with which he fought for so many years. While he is s» bolter this year from tl.e Guffey Dem ocratic state organization, Berry still holds allegiance to the national De mocracy, particularly to the Bryan wing of that party, for which at Den vor he deserted Ouffey tor Bryan— Guffey who had done so much for him, nominated him and financed his cam paign for state treasurer, and even though he was then getting SBOOO a year salary from the state treasury, loaned him $15,000 upon collateral which when put up at public sale real ized but S7OO, and then suit had to be entered in court in an effort to obtain payment of the balance, $14,300, with not a dollar's worth of interest paid upon the loan. While Berry's ingratitude to Guffey is not a matter of public concern, and is not a factor in the present political campaign, Perry's adherence to the Democracy, his intense loyalty to the Bryan leadership, is the subject of widespread comment. Could Not Stand Berry. In this city, especially, Perry's nom ination upon the independent ticket at once estranged thousands from that movement who might under certain conditions have been inclined to favor an independent Republican for gov ernor. Others who at first declined to say what attitude they would take in tho campaign, have since come out squarely in favor of the full Republi can ticket. This was the logical outcome of the revelations as to Berry's financial dealings with Guffey, followed by Berry's erratic course upon the stump, has flambouyant and rambling oratory culminating in his sensational and un called for attai k upon the newspaper men of the state simply because they published the facts relating to his get ting money from Guffey, the same Guffey'who was himself a heavy bor rower from bankroll Pittsburg hold ing state funds, which Perry was the custodian for the taxpayers, and Perry's gratuitous insult to every Re puolican Is his public felicitations with the triumphant Democrats of Maine and hit' denunciation of the framers of the new tariff act, in which the in dustrial, farming and business inter ests and the welfare of every wage ('4 n< luilid on i URI' I
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