Republican News Item. _ rttrtte Library VOL. XV. NO 26 AMERICAN GIRL KIDNAPPED IN MEXICO Carried Off From Ranch by Desperate Robbers. Grace, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Dr. B. M. Rolph, of Pender, Neb., has been kidnapped from a ranch near Chico.v, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Meager details of the outrage have been received at the American em bassy from Consul Miller at Tampico, who telegraphs that Segundo Selero and Leandro Mendoza, desperate men, robbed a safe, kidnapped the girl and then fled. Ilr. Rolph, accompanied by friends, is in pursuit. The kidnappers Joined friends, with whom they are headed for Huasteca, Vera Cruz. Consul Miller asks that rurales be sent to aid the pursuers, as tho situa tion is serious. He says that a clash is probable. The fate of the girl is in doubt. T. R. NOT A DICTATOR Colonel Says He Has No Power Except From People. "You don't have to be afraid of a dictator who has no power except as the people behind him give it to him. I haven't one bit of power except as you and people liko you give." shouted Colonel Roosevelt to a crowd that Ail ed the opera house at Lockport, N. Y. The colonel had been saying that some of his opponents thought he wantod to be a dictator of the United States. During his speech at the opera house he said: "Tammany makes the appeal that if you put it into power it won't behave as it has in the past, while we make the appeal that if you put us into power we will behave exactly as we have in the past." Comparing the records of Dix and Stimson, the colonel said: "Mr. Dix hasn't got much record and he's busily engaged in establishing an alibi for most of that." Gas Kills Men; Children Live, Two children lived for nine hours In a gas filled chamber after two grown men had been nsphyxiatod by the funics. Police broke >nto the voom of Michnel Slovenslty, forty years old, at Chicago, and discovered him and his friend. Hyman Infeld, sixty-three years old, dead. The children were uncon scious, but. were revived by physicians. A broken gas tube is blamed for the accKici't. Charged With Poisoning Wife. Dr. 11. G. Buck was arrested at Greensburg, Kan., charged with poi soning his wile. Mrs. Buck died about two weeks av;o Dr. Ruck was released on SIO,OOO bond and his pialiminary hearing was set for Nov. 14. The charge was brought against Dr. Buck by the father of Mrs. Buck. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak; winter clear, $3.85@4; city mills, fan cy, $5.75@G. RYe FLOUR quiet, at $4@4.10 per barrel. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, new, 90V4®91c. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local. 67%e. OATS steady; No. 2 white, 38c.; lower grades, 36V6c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 13® 15c.; old roosters, 10%@llc. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 17c.; old roosters, 12c. BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 33c. EGGS steady; selected, 34 ® 36c.; nearby, 30c.; western, 30c. POTATOES puiet, at 55«T58c. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE steady; choice, $6.75@7.10; ! prime, $6.40® 6.75. SHEEP lower; prime wethers, s4® 1 4.10; culls and common, $1.50(f|2.80; lambs, |4@6.50; veal calves, s9.So@>lo. HOGS active; prime heavies, me iliums, heavy and light Yorkers, $8.90; pigs, $8.90#8.95; roughs, $7.50©8. hardware_3H^® whatever it may lie—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to onr store and let us solve th? problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose fron When yon think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special" attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Ilot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1910. I CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. | After Flight With Wright Says ' He'll Take Up Aviation. VANDEffBiLT FLIES Young Millionaire Makes Fast Air Flight With Orville Wright. Cornelius Vandorbllt flew in an aero plane at Belmont Park, near New York, for the first time. Orville Wright took him around the aviation course In a biplane in an exciting flight of seven or eight miles. "It was the most glorious sensation that I over experienced,"' said Mr. Vanderbllt when he alighted. "I'm go ing to have one of these machines just as soon as one can be built for me." Johr.stone Is Highest Flyer. Ralph Johnstone, flying in a baby Wright for the first time, broke the world's record for altitude at the inter national aviation meet at Belmont Park, near New York. He went up 9714 feet. The Wrights were wildly excited when they greeted Johnstone after he had reached his hangar. Hoxsey was also present to extend his congratula tions. Tho previous record for altitude of 9186 feet was made at Mourmelon, France, Oct. 1, by Henry Wynmalen, a Hollander. • Drexel came down half an hour after Johnstone. His barograph registered 8370 feet. John B. Moisant, the daring Chicago aviator, flying the Bleriot in which he captured the Statue of Liberty prize, won the Aero Club of America's dis tance prize of S2OOO. In two hours he msule the course fifty-six times, a to tal distance of about eighty-seven and a half miles. Moisant made a sensational landing In front of the grand stand, smashing his propeller and breaking one wheel of his monoplane. He climbed out of tho machine uninjured, however. Latham was second In the race, with 35 laps, and Simon third, with 27 laps to his credit. Grahame-White, flying in his sixty horse power Bleriot in the speed race against McCurdy, overturned In front of the grand stand nnd was buried un der the machine. Helpers lifted the machine off him and he walked out limping slightly, waving his hand to tho crowd to let them know he was not seriously injured. His machine wag damaged. Although his machine turned turtle, Grahame-Whlte won the speed race, his time being 14.34.12. McCurdy waa second, with the time of 25.43.04. Boiler Explosion Kills Two Man. Charles Hitch nnd George Ovlatt were killed and Arthur Miller was fa tally injured when a threshing ma chine boiler exploded five miles from Lapeer, Mich. AERONAUTS TELL OFJIARDSHIPS Snowstorm Caused Post and Hewley to Descend. NEARLY LANDED IN LAKE Sky Ballors Suffered Greatly During the Four Days They Sought Civili zation In Wilds of Canada. Hawley and Post, of the balloon America 11., which left St. Louis on Oct. 17 in the international balloon race and landed In the wilds of Can ada, reached Quebec, having taken eleven hours in traveling the 227 miles from Chicoutini by the Lako St. John railway. They traveled 1355 miles in forty six hours and established a new record for balloons. Both men are In excellent health and spirits, notwithstanding their strenuous experiences of the last ten days. Many interesting new details of their flight were given out by the aero nauts. Their course into the wilds of northern Quebec was rather more wes terly than that of the Dusseldorf, which landed near Kisklslnk, due south of Lake St. John, for the Amer ica 11. in soaring north of Lake St. John left the big inland sea to the Immediate east, obtaining a fine view of It and crossing first over the As huapmouchouan river and the village of Peribonca, Just south of Lake Tschotogama. It was on the shore of Lake Tschotogama that Hawley and Post fell In with the hunters who piloted them Into the pathway of safety. "We were doing our best," said Mr. Post, "to fly to tho utmost limits that the continent would allow. We knew perfectly well where wo were when we passed over Lake St. John on Wed nesday, the 19th, and we made up our minds that If possible we wouldn't descend until we got to the coast of Labrador. On Wednesday afternoon, however, the weather, which had been threatening all day, began to make US very apprehensive. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon snow had already began to fall and soon our view of the earth beneath was almost entirely obscured. We judged that this meant tho end of our trip, for It would have been madness to have pursued the journey In a blinding snowstorm. "Furthermore, the extrome cold had caused our gas to contract and we had begun to fall rapidly. We only had six and a half bags of ballast left, when at last very reluctantly we decided to effect a landing. We at once began to look around for a good landing place, but owing to the rapidity with which the snowstorm overtook us we had to trust pretty much to luck. "We found ourselves dropping di rectly into a large lake, which we af terwards discovered to be Lake Chllo pan a. We immediately threw out sev eral bags of ballast and rose slftwly and heavily In the snowstorm. Madly we threw out more ballast, for the lack of ready response by the balloon had alarmed us and made us think for a moment that we should possibly per ish in the lake—a miserable ending to such a splendid Journey. "Bit on a terrific gust of wind the balk ■ whirled aloft, carrying us In a few seconds beyond the lake. Then we at once let out the gas and came down safely on the side of a huge hill. It is unlikely that tho balloon will be re covered. "We really suffered greatly from the cold as we tramped slowly away from the America 11. We were seriously hampered by the goods we had to 1 pack, for It was absolutely necessary j to take along the heaviest clothing, I besides the remaining food. Frequent- I ly we made through streams of lc« cold water. So cold was the weather that at times our clothing was frozen j to our bodies. When we came across the trappers the fourth day we could have cried for joy. We were about all in." Bit on Cartridge; Dead. Joseph Deponti, the five-year-old son of Frank Deponti, of Haverstraw, N. Y„ while getting ready for school, ' picked up a pistol cartridge and put It ! into his mouth and bit on It. The car- 1 trldge exploded and the bullet went' upward through the boy's brain, killing him Instantly. Four Miners Killed by Explosion. Four miners were killed by an ex plosion in the mine in the Anaconda company property at Butte, Mont The men were engaged in blast-, Ing, and it Is presumed they waited too long to get out of the way. Find Farmer Dead In Wagon. Ellas Wagner, seventy-two years of age, an Exeter township farmer, drove to Reading, Pa., with a load of pro duce to attend market. Several hours later he was found dead In his wagon, having died of heart disease. MUTILATED SOOT BEVEALSMURDER Twu Hunters Find Headless Corpse Near Reeding. POSSIDLY A PHILADELPHIAN Head, Arms and Chest Are Missing and No Clue to Identity—Was Dead Probably Two Months. A mysterious murder was discovered by gunners on the Neversink moun tain, near Reading, Pa. The body of a man, with the head, arms and chest missing, was found, partly covered by leaves. The body had been completely and cleanly cut through as by a dissecting knife just below the Juncture of the arms and the trunk. Where the upper part of the body is and who this victim of foul play was constitute a mystery on which the whole efforts of the Reading police and the Berks county coroner's office are directed. The man apparently had been dead two months, and it seems probable that he was a resident of Philadelphia. Copies of Philadelphia papers of Aug. 30 were found in his clothing, and a hat lying nearby bears the trade mark of a Philadelphia store. The rest of the clothing was unmarked. Gunners Find Body. George JKemp and Edward Btngft man, both residents of Reading, are the gunners who made the discovery. They were out for a day's shooting on Neversink mountain and had wandered in quest of game near Black Bear. There, almost covered by leaves, they stumbled across the body, mutilated and badly decomposed. The gunners were quick to realize that It was a case of murder, and hur riedly got into communication with the Reading police authorities. Coro ner Wagner and detectives Immediate ly went to the scene and searched for evidence a sto the man's identity and a clue to his slayer. Their search was rewarded only by the finding of the black derby hat about twenty feet distant from the body. They were baflled for the time being by the failure to find the arms, upper part of the trunk, and especially the head. If the head were found, they felt, the Identity of the man could be estab lished, and then tho motive for the murder could be uncovered. With this to work from the detectives were san guine of their ability to solve the mys tery of the tragedy. Coroner Wagner expressed the be lief .after careful examination of the condition of the body, that the man had been dead fully two months, indi cated by the fact that the newspapers found were dated Aug. 30. In addition to the derby hat, part of a white shirt also was found, but It bore no mark. The rest of the man's clothing consisted of a navy blue serge coat, with a vest to match, and gray trousers with a large stripe a little darker in shade. An empty wallet was found in one pocket with a keyring bearing a Yale & Towne lock key and a trunk key. A comb and a horseshoe nail completed the list of articles dis covered on the body. Woman Heard Three Shots. Strengthening the theory that the man was killed on Aug. 30 Is the tale told by Mrs. J. H. MacFarland, wife of the owner of a hotel nearby. She says she heard three shots flred on the night of Aug. 30 and thinks the man may have been killed on that occa sion. Mrs. MacFarland heard the shots about 11 p. m.and says she looked out of the window toward the hill to see what the trouble was. A moment later she heard an automobile start away as if it had stopped at the edge of the park. The motor dashed south ward on the Philadelphia pike. She could not tell how many persons were In the automobile, i the night was too dark. Kills Wife, Son and Self. Joseph Wallace, a prominent mer chant of Lawrenceville, Ga., on Tues day shot and killed his wife and thirteen-year-old son, fatally wounded his sixteen-year-old boy, drove two daughters away from home and turned the revolver on himself, ending his own life, at his home. No cause is assigned for the tragedies. Sees Husband Slay. With his wife and baby standing by his side, Frank Bell shot and killed Harvey Duncan and Charles Duncan In the railway station at McCarry, Miss. | After having shot the two men Bell boarded an outbound train and came| to Columbus, where he gave himself up. He refused to talk. j CALEB CONOVER 1555T- RAILROADER CONovcuf—• tmwwmU STORY o/- love,politics,intrigue, ' Pe - L VApr A RICH POWERFUL BOSS AND AN INTREPID YOUNG REFORMER BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE * COPYRIGHT 1907 BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNt^' that ever trailed Its steel shackle 3 across the face of the earth. Whether or not the Doss-guided Machine shall beat us to earth and hold us there for ever. We have tried reforming the party from the Inside, and we have failed. Hns the tirpp co-re to reform It from the outside?" He paused, and the an.; we." came. From the Conover hosts went up a shout of "No! No!" mingled with his.* and groan. Hut instantly, from.l great scattered mass of the audience, and from the Standish delegates on the floor, there arose an outburst of cheering that drowned the barking negatives of what had been but ten short minutes before a majority ot that convention. The effect of this outburst was di verse on its hearers. With StandUh himself It acted as a tonic, as an elec tric battery which gave him addcJ force and vigor for what he had yet to say. Karl Ansel it seemed for tho moment to stuplfy and paralyze. Con over's lieutenants it threw Into a state of consternation, which approachcJ frenzy, panic, demoralization. They ran aimlessly to and fro, conferring excitedly in hoarse whispers. Conover, alone, from his den at thii rear of the stage, smiled to himself and gave no other sign of interest. Standish was speaking again, an 1 now behind him stood Karl Ansel re covering from his amazement, and in tent'to catch his leader's every word. "I tell you," thundered Cllve, besldj himself with excitement, "we have got to act—and to act now. I tell you that the people of this State. Irrespective of party, are waiting for half a chance to throw off the yoke of the railroad —of the Machine. All over this coun try of ours bosses are being over thrown. They are going down to ruin In the wreckage of their own Ma chines; and It Is the PEOPLE who are downing them. The day of Bosslsm is passing—passing forever. We came Into this convention as free men. Some of us did. And I for one pro- I pose to walk out of It a free man. ff : we go before the people of this State In the midst of a silence In which the fall of the proverbial pin would j have sounded like the early morning ! milk wagon, Cllve Standish began the most unusual speech that a Mountain State convention had ever heard. "My friends —" From Shevlln's rooters came a vol ley of hisses and cat-calls, but the dis turbance and the disturbers were ! speedily squelched. "My friends," repeated Standish, his powerful voice echoing from floor to roof, "Abraham Lincoln freed the black men forty odd years ago. It' 3 i time that somebody freed the white brother. For years this State has j groaned under the tributo of a re- | lentless Machine, under the rule of a railroad that was all stomach and no conscience, till bowels and no j heart, all greed and no generosity. Our party—and with shame I say It — has been turned Into a vest-pocket as set of this vile corporation. For , months past, and more especially to day, you have seen what Its power Is, , as opposed to the power of the more honest citizens of our party. It won ! to-day, it won yesterday, and It won the day before. It always has won. It rests with us here to-day, now and In this hour, to decide whether a new Proclamation of Emancipation Is to be issued or whether the great Demo cratic party In the Mountain State shall continue to be the chattel, the credulous, simple, weak-kneed, back boneless, hopeless, helpless, victim of the greediest, most corrupt railroad ( FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGUESVH LIE, IF\A_- CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier Net Profits, 75,000, ' DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Will, Front'/, John C I,ainl, C. W. SOUPS, Banking Business. W.C.Fronlz, Frank A.Ree.ler, Jacob lVr, Lyman Myers, \V. T. Reedy, Peter Front 7., Accountsoflndivid- j A a Hall, JoJ.n Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Yenr. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR on the issue of honc;T> savernment as opposed to dishonesty, I tell you that we will win. It only needs a man with a match, and the nerve to use that match, to start a conflagration that will burn party ties to cinders nnd leave n free, emancipated people. "Let them call me bolter, if they will! Let them call me traitor, In grate, renegade! I would rather be a bolter than a thief. I would rather rip my party, dearly ae I love It, to rags and tatters, than to sacrifice my own self-respect any longer! "Yes, they may call me bolter, and properly so, for I am going to bols this convention! Is there a man who will follow me out of doors? Out of the filthy atmosphere of this Machlno ridden. Boss-owned convention into the pure sunshine of God's own peo ple?" "So I'm to throw it to Standlshf H'm! And yet you say you're not putting the hooks in me! If that | isn't cold, straight, nil-wool blackmail, j I don't know what is. You think you j owe me something because I didn't ] treat your father Just square. So you ; pay the grudge off by blackmailing ! me. Maybe your holy New England conscience is too near-sighted to see It's only in the devil's ledger that two wrongs make a right." "Do you speak from experienceT Because It doesn't lit this case. I propose nothing of the so-1." "Then what In thunder do you want?" snarled Caleb, ir.y.itilled. "If It ain't cash or—" "I want you to give Mr. Standlsh a fair chance. That is all. I want you to remove the embargo from his speeches and advertisements; to open the columns of every paper In the Mountain State to him. To promise not to molest him In any way, not to allow your rowdies to break up his meetings nor to prevent him from hir ing halls. Not to stuff the ballot boxes, falsify the returns, employ 'floaters' or—ln short. I want you to give him an equal chance with your self; to conduct the campaign hon estly, and to leave the Issue solely to the voters. Will you do this?" "And if I beat him at that?" "If you are elected by an honest majority, that Is no concern of ours. All I demand Is that you fight In the open and leave the result to the peo ple." Caleb thought in silence for a few moments. "If I do this?" he asked at last. "Then, on the afternoon of Election Day, my brother rhall turn over to you, or to your representative, the en tire Denzlow correspondence." "I have your word for that? Certi fied copies and all?" "Yes." "You don't lie. That's about the one foolish trait I've ever found in you. If I've got your word, you'll stand by it. Can't say quite the same of me, eh?" "I don't think that needs an an swer." "Can't turn over the letters to me now, on my pledge to—?" "I'm afraid not," said Anice, almost apologetically. "I must —" "And you're dead right. A promise Is such a sacred thing that It's always wise to keep your finger on the trig ger till the real money's handed over. Just to keep the sacredness from spoil ing. As I understand It. I'm to loosen up on Standlsh; and then if I lick him fair, you and I are quits? I'll do It. Such a fight ought to prove pretty amusing. It'll be an experience any how, as Sol Townsley. said when.Fa- Oontilined oil jwn<' 4.
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