Republican News Item, VOL. XV. NO 28 U. OF P.'S NEW PROVOST Edgar F. Smith Chosen to Succeed C. C. Harrison. Edgar Falls Smith is to be the next provost of the University of Pennsyl vania. He was chosen at a meeting of the trustees in Philadelphia, at which Provost Charles C. Harrison and fourteen members of the board were present. Dr. Smith is the present vice pro vost. and head of the department of chemistry. As Provost Harrison's re signation takes effect on Dec. 31, Dr. Smith will take up the work as head of the university on the first of the new year. BERRY MUST PAY $15,000 Court Gives Judgment Against Him on Guffey Note. Judge Joseph M. Swearingen, sitting In the common pleas court at Pitts burg, Pa., the Farmers' Deposit National bank judgment against Wil liam H. Berry in the matter of a note for $15,000 given to James M. Guffey, who discounted it at the bank. ' The court in making its decision said there was insufficient affidavit of defense. Foss' Election Bill $37,000. The successful campaign of Eugcnf N. Foss, Democratic candidate for gov ernor of Massachusetts at last week's election, cost him $37,000, according to his sworn return at lioston. This is $20,000 more than was expended by Governor Eben S. Draper, who was de feated. Mr. Foss paid $31,000 to the Democratic state committee, while the balance went to the Democratic city committee of Boston. Maine's Population Larger. The population of Maine is 742.371, according to the thirteenth census utatlstics. This is an increase of 47,905 or 6.9 per cent over 694,446 in 1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900 was 33,380 or 5 per cent. May Succeed Wilson at Princeton. It was rumored at Utiea, N. Y., that President M. W. Stryker, of Hamilton collego, may be called to the presi dent's chair of Princeton university, recently vacated by Governor-elect Wilson, of New Jersey. Died In Room Where He Was Born. John Beatty died in Latrobe, Pa., in the room in which he was born eighty four years ;igo. He was a grandson of Benjamin ' catty, who crossed the Del aware wit'i George Washington. Finds S2OO Pearl In Oyster. E. C. Penshl, of Stonington, near Shamokin, Pa., purchased a basketful of oysters at Shamokin and took them home. lie started opening them, when lie found a pearl valued at S2OO. Memphis Banker Ends Life. F. F. M Schas, president of the Continental Savings bank, of Mem pills, Tenn., and a widely known finan cier, committed suicide. shot him self in the head. Noise Burst His Ear Drum. While he was out hunting near the Buckliorn. west of Altoona, Pa., Grocer Charles J. Rarr scared up a rabbit He let go with both barrels of his gun, and the sound destroyed the hearing of his right ear. Michael Cudahy Seriously 111. Michael Cudahy, the packer, a multi millionaire, is seriously ill at his apart ments in the Blackstone hotel in Chi cago. The patient's son, John Cudahy, of Kansas City, was requested by tel egraph to hurry to his father's side. Arrest Doctor as Bank Looter. Dr. F. L. Moyer, of Williamsport, Pa., was arrested in that city for im plication with Arthur A. Dunphy for larceny of $15,000 from the Anglo- South. American bank, 69 Wall street. HARDWARE,^^P^(p whatever it may be—"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, jior 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 linft* 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, NOVEMBER 18, 1910. THOMAS H. CARTER. Democrat Will Succeed Him In United States Senate. THOMAS CARTER DEFEATED Democrat Will Succeed United States Senator From Montana. Senator Thomas H. Carter, Republi can, of Montana, will be succeeded in the next federal senate by a Demo crat, the official canvasses having re sulted in a net Democratic gain of two members, one each in the house and senate. Heretofore these had been claimed by the Republicans on unoffi cial returns. There are three candidates for the senate as Carter's successor, T. J. Walsh, a wealthy lawyer; W. C. Con rad, a milionaire banker and mining man of Helena, and it is supposed W. A. Clark, the Butte mining magnate. The legislature now stands 52 Demo crats and 50 Republicans. Bankrupt After He Is Elected. Benjamin K. Focht, of Union county, congressman-elect, filed a bankruptcy petition at Scranton, Pa. His liabili ties are $275,000 and assets $175,000. Congressman Benjamin K. Focht Is the Republican representative from the Seventeenth district, comprising Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Mif flin, Juniata, Perry, Snyder and Union counties. It is the largest congres sional district in the state. Congressman Focht is a native son of Lewisburg, where he still resides. He was born in 1803, and was educat ed at Bucknell college, Pennsylvania State college and Susquehanna univer sity. For many years he has been editor and proprietor of a Lewisburg weekly newspaper. During his nearly thirty years of public life he has served for three terms in the state legislature and four years In the state senate. He is the father of the ballot law now In use in this state. Feudist Kills Jailer. Wesley Turner, jailer of Breathitt county, was shot and killed on a street near the jail at Jackson, Ky., by "Bad Jake" Noble, a noted feudist and a prominent figure in tho Hargis and Cockrill feuda. No cause for the killing is known. Turner and Noble had been close frieads. Bade Wife Farewell; Drank Poison. Edward Walraven, thirty years old, a Camden, Del., paperhanger, commit ted suicide by drinking a phial of car bolic acid. Walraven loaves and wife and a daughter, whom he bade fare well before going to his bedroom to commit the crime. NEW EXPLOSIVE WRECKSWARSHIP Monitor Nearly Sink in Ex periment to Test Claim. ARMOR PLATE CRACKED Cat and Chickens Were Placed In a Turret Where Gunners Stand and Escape Uninjured. In an experiment to test the eftect of an uneonflned explosion of high explosive nitroglycerine, the mointor Puritan was badly damaged in Hamp ton Roads, off Fortress Monroe, Va., after two charges of 200 pounds each had been exploded against her after turret and side. In a sinking condition the vessel was rushed to the Norfolk navy yard. In the first test the armor of the aft turret was badly cracked. In the second explosion, which was against the side of the ship aft, the armor plate was badly stove and bad leaks developed below the water line, flood ing at least one big compartment of the ship. The rear end of the monitor, which was anchored in water only a foot deeper than her draft, immediately sank. Water began pouring over the after deck from the flooded compart ment below. Rush orders were sent to the Norfolk navy yard to have the monitor taken there and placed in the dry dock. Captain Austin M. Knight, president of the special board of naval ord nance, from the berth deck of the Pu ritan forward, manipulated the elec tric current which caused the two ex plosions by means of wires running to the big cylindrical nitroglycerine-gel atine charges. On board the Puritan with Captain Knight were several sail ors. In this test a cat and two chick ens were placed in the turret at points where the gunners would stand. The concussion from the shock outside acted largely outward. The cat and chickens were found alive after the terrific explosion. Each test was with 200 pounds of the high explosive. Willard P. lsham. Inventor of the explosive, was on the monitor Tallahassee, which was an chored nearby. Rear Admiral N. IS. Mason, chief of the bureau of ord nance of the navy; Chief Constructor R. M. Watt, of the navy; Drlgadier General Arthur Murray, chief of the coast artillery; Major Edward P. O'Hern, of the ordnance department of the army, and several powder experts were present. Inventor lsham declared that high explosive • with great outside concus sion are more dangerous than Inside explosives. Captain Knight, Rear Ad miral Mason and some of the others who witnessed the experiment ac knowledged that much more damage was done than they had anticipated. Captain Knight said the second explo sion was very severe. Immediately after the second test, the pumps of the Tallahassee and a tug were put to work pumping out the Puritan. The explosion alongside the ship bent the armor plates and burst holes in the hull below the water lino. $4,000,000,000 In Savings Banks. If the prosp rlty of the nation can bn reflected i" . deposits in savings banks, the year which i nded on June 30 must have be uner one for the Aineriirn |H The high ct s! < : docs not ap pear to have i" ' :;avings, ac cording to ii -u . ..piled In the treasury d ; Deposits * uings banks during the sod to mor« than $4,0(1 average de positor's ,wv» $ 145.22, fust $24.77 abov •? of the year before. Thei more savings bank depositor, tliu.. ..ere were a year ago and the total of the deposits has swelled $357,000,000 during the year. The statistics compiled in the treas ury department for the second time in the history of American banking In clude also the reoorts from 7145 na tional banks vu l '5,948 state and pri vate banks. State banking superintend ents co-operate with the national bank system to make what is practically a uniform report of banking conditions In the country. Banking capital employed In the United States Increased $80,000,000 during the year. Individual deposits in all the banks Increased more than $1,240,000,000 and the aggregate as sets increased $1,335,000,000. The banks, however, are holding about $31,000,000 less in cash than they did In 1909. FLIES FROM SHIP OVER SEATO LAND Ely Makes Spectacular Flight From Naval Vessel. WEATHER CONDITIONS BAO Daring Aviator Covered About Five Miles In Little More Than Five Min utes—Biplane Touched Water at the Start. Eugene B. Ely, the aviator, made the first successful flight from the deck of a naval vessel when his Curtis bi plane was started from a temporary launching platform upon the forward deck of the scout cruiser Birmingham, which was anchored in Hampton Roads, off Old Point Comfort, Va. It was the most spectacular flight ever seen in this country. After many hours of p/eparation Ely finally climbed into his machine. He had been delayed for several hours by flurries of hail and rain. He was anx ious, however, to start in spite of the adverse weather conditions. Finally his aeroplane was stated down the platform, which was Inclined at an an gle of about five degrees. His machine gathered momentum rapidly, Ely mak ing a slight miscalculation In controll ing the levers, which made his ma chine dart down toward the water. The wheels to the tip of his pro peller just barely touched the water. He succeeded in righting the machine and by skillful maneuvering of the control levers It darted upward like a seagull. Ely rose to a height of about 100 feet and flew about five miles to ward Willoughby Spit, just opposite Old Point Comfort, where he landed safely. During the flight a biting wind and rain prevailed, which prevented the aviator from identifying the land marks. Machine Touched Water. It was Ely's original intention to fly from the deck of the Birmingham to the Norfolk navy yard, a much greater distance, but he was prevented by the adverse weather conditions. As his machine touched the water the spray Hew into his goggles, almost blinding him, which prevented him from continuing the flight to the navy yard. His propeller blade was also slightly chipped by contact with the water, but not sufficiently, however, to interfere with the flight. Every spectator on the naval vessels and the other craft which were gath ered in the roads breathed hard for a moment when it looked as if the ma chine would be unable to rise from the surface of the water. Ely had no difficulty, however, in managing the machine, and sent It upward by sud denly tilting the elevating planes. They responded instantly and the ma chine traveled swiftly upward in al most a straight line to Willoughby Spitt. He saw the land directly ahead of Willoughby Spitt and descended there without difficulty. He covered about five miles in a little more than five minutes. His machine traveled at the rate of about fifty-five miles an hour. A launch from the scout cruiser picked Ely up and placed him on board the destroyer Roe, on which he returned to the Norfolk navy yard. Was Slave to Gypsy King. Stranger than fiction, and almost un believable, Is the remarkable deathbed statement of Miss Jessie Habersham, daughter of H. O. Habersham, a prom inent canning broker of Baltimore, Md., who died at the Seton hospital In Cincinnati, 0., a few hours after giving birth to a baby girl. According to the girl's statement she was stolen from h home in Bal timore five years ag • a band of gypsies, sold to one i ..e tribe for S9OO, and then, under hypnotic influ ence, compelled to be the slave and wife of the king of the gypsies. The loni search of the past five years in every niche and corner of the United States, it is said, has ruined the girl's father's health, so that the sister superior, who notified him of his daughter's death by telegram, re ceived a telegram stating that he WHS too sick to come to Cincinnati at tho present time to prosecute the abduc tors. The shock of the girl's abduction, I it was further said, was too great for her mother, who died several mouths afterward. Miss Habersham was twenty-five years old. Her large brown eyes and perfect features showed that she had been very pretty, but her years of suf fering had emaciated her face. She said that she had been enticed away from home by an old gypsy woman, who belongtd to a tribe that was stay ing near the Habersham home. She was then sold by this woman to her nephew for S9OO and compelled by him to work hard and to endure more than the hardships of the ordinary gypsie.j. AVIATOR AND WIFE. Eugene B. Ely Made Daring Flight Over Sea. Photo by American Press Association. Girl Offe Herself as Lottery Prize. Miss Lavone Livingston, twenty years of age, latelv from Petroskey, Mich., born in Virginia, offered her self as a capital prize in a lottery which she requests one of the Ta coma. Wash., newspapers or some society to conduct. She says the law doesn't prevent lottery prizes offering themselves. Getting her ideas from the play of "The Lottery Man," Miss Livingston proposes to soil her 10,000 tickets at $1 oach. The man getting the lucky number will be entitled to her and halt' of the money. If the winner be unwilling to marry her he forfeits his half; if she be unwilling to marry him she forfeits her half. If both are un willing the" divide the money. She wants foreigners and certain kinds of men barred Should a married man win she will he released from marry ing the winner. The girl declares she is In earnest, her motive being "I need the money." U. S. Benator Clay Dies. United States Senator Alexander Stephen Clay died suddenly at the At ) ata, Ga., sanitarium, to which he was taken ten days ago for special treat ment. Senator Clay had been desperately ill for a long time, but death wasn't expected so suddenly. He was chatting with Mrs. Cfcty and his son when he gasped and in a moment was dead. Dilation of the heart is given as the cause of death, but it is generally un derstood that Senator Clay was af flicted with cancer of the stsmaeh. Senator Clay was in his fifty-seventh year and had been in the United States since 1896, having been chosen to succeed General John B. Gordon. Value of Jersey Railroads. The New Jersey board of assessors filed with the state comptroller at Trenton a statement showing that the property of railroad nnd canal companies in this state has been as sossod for the year at $29(1,921,520. The tax which the corporations will be obliged to pay amounts to $5,542.- 611. Of this amount $4,103,fi30 will bo devoted to state uses and $1,468,980 will bo '•eturned to the local taxing districts. Girl of Eight Saves Brother. stripping of her coat like a "grown up," eight-year-old Martha Stauffer, of Enisworth, a suburb of Pittsburg, I'a.. Jumped into a pond and rescued from drowning her three-year-old brother, who had fallen into it while throwing stones. The child swam to the bank in four feet of water, supporting her little charge. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HTJQHESYILLE, IPA.- CAPITAL STOCK 1 $50,000 | wC. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier. Net Profits, 75,000, DIRECTORS: Transacts a General ! Win. Front®, John O. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W. C.Front/., Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A s> Ballj John BuU uals and Firms solicited. ' Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR PAYS FORTUNE f»R PAIR u HORSES Blue Ribbon Roadsters Sell For $25,000. Walter Winans, the American multi millionaire, who never saw the United States until two years ago, and E. T. Stotesbury, of Philadelphia, fur nished the biggest show horse deal ing sensation at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, that has per haps ever set society agossiping, when Mr. Stotesbury sold to Mr. Win ans his blue ribbon roadsters, Lugano and Oomo, for a sum said to be the greatest ever paid for show animals. While the actual price paid for the pair that beat Mr. Winans' crack Eng lish roadsters was not officially an nounced, gossip has it that Winans wrote a check for $25,000 and handed it to Mr. Stotesbury, completing the deal. The transaction was made imme diately after the judging of class 13, for roadsters in harness. In this event Mr. Winans had entered his fa mous Bonnie View and Rip, and it was not even accorded the V. H. C., or very highly commended. Mr. Stotesbury's pair, however, carried the blue ribbon out of the tan bark oval in dashing style. Winans proved himself a good loser and as good a sportsman when he ven tured to ask Mr. Stotesbury at what price he valued Lugano and Como. Stotesbury's answer, it is said, was $25,000, and the men then departed arm in arm from the oval. They con cluded the transaction in front of the stable of Mr. Stotesbury. Winans was seen to hand Mr. Stotesbury a check and then ticked his name over the doors leading to the stalls of the prize winners. Lugano is a t ■ mare, 15 hands 2 inches tall, and Is . x years old. Como is a bay gelding of the same height and age. The horses are entered in Other classes during the remainder of the week. Sold Her Sister to Chinaman. When a Chinese merchant of New York city made an offer of $250 for a white girl under sixteen years of age, Irene Stuber, American wife of Tom Lee, a Chinaman, lured her thirteen year-old sister to New York from Scranton, Pa., to sell her, according to the story told in court by the girl's mother. A missionary rescued the girl from <i Chinese resort. Tom Lee was sentenced to the penitentiary and Irene Stuber was sent to the reforma tory. Fell Forty Feet to Death. Stepping upon a rotten board while lie was repairing the roof of the en gine house at the Lock nidge furnace of the Thomas Iron company, at Allen town, Pa, Henry Ritter. boss carpen ter, fell forty feet. He landed head foremost on a sand pile and died of a broken neck. Princess Killed by Burglars. Princess Zigianova, a descendant of the ancient dynasty of the czars of Georgia, was murdered \ -glars In her country home near 1 . Russia. Everybody 13 Cents Richer. If each person in the United States were to have his proportion of the money in circulation he would be 13 cents richer this month than he was last. The emulation per capita is now $35.01, six oents better than at the same time last year. Wife Murderer Convicted. Guylia Toth, who killed his wife at Bernardsville on Sept. 6, was convict ed of murder in the first degree In the Somerset court at Somerville, N. J. Toth Is twenty-three years old and his wife was twenty-one.
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