Republican News Item. VOL. XV. NO 29 DOPED MIDDIES TO DISCREDIT NEW COOK Two Employes Accused oi Tempering With Food. Suspected of complicity in a mali cious attempt to make as many of the midshipmen at Annapolis, Md., ill as was possible and thereby cast dis credit on the recently appointed chief cool; at the United States naval acad emy, C. J. Ridgely, commissary stew ard, and William Harris, second cook, both colored, have been suspended. The two men have been forbidden to enter the naval academy pending the completion of a rigid Investigation into the "doping" of the middies food. For several days more than a score of midshipmen have been attacked with intestinal trouble which weaken ed them to such an extent that they had to be sent to the hospital. Many others were practically incapacitated for work in their classrooms. A number of the members of the football team were affected and con siderably weakened physically. This was especially serious in view of the near approach of the final game with West Point. Investigation, under the supervision of Captain Coontz, the commandant, has practically narrowed down the cause of the sickness to the sugar used in tea, coffee and desserts. Sam ples of the food have been sent to Washington for analysis. It is alleged that Ridgely wanted Harris appointed head cook, but his recommendation was not accepted. It is alleged that an effort was then made to discredit the man who was selected by the authorities, by tampering with the food. The typhoid fever situation at the academy is about the same. No new cases have appeared and those ill are all doing well. 68 WEDS 17 Bridegroom a Widower Eight Years When Bride Was Born. Henry Dickson, sixty-eight years oi age, and Miss Mary Barkowitch. aged seventen years, both of Tunkhannock, near Wilkes-Barie, Pa., were mairied in Soranton by Rev. Dr. G. C. Lyman. Dickson is n farmer and he had been a widower for eight years when his new bride was born. The young bride after the marriage said: "I'm sue we will be very happy, as he is so good, and I know he will take good care of me." Dickson met the young girl a year ago and has been courting her ever since. A short time ago she got per mission from her parents to marry him. ADMITS KILLING WOMAN Confronted by Razor, Man Confesses In Center County Jail. When he was confronted with the fact that the authorities had found his razor with blood spots on it, Bert Delige, now in jail at Bellefonte, Pa., for the murder of Mrs. John Baudls, of Scotia, on Oct. IG, confessed that he did the deed when intoxicated. Mrs. Baudis was on her way home from visiting a neighbor, when Delige grebbed her, threw her down and cut her throat from ear to ear. His case will come up for trial in December. Steamer With 450 Passengers Overdue The big coastwise steamer Bear, of the San Francisco Portland steamship line, carrying 450 passengers, is now more than three days overdue at San Francisco on her southward trip, and the company's oflices are besieged by inquiries. The Bear was scheduled tc arrive In San Francisco early on Mon day. HARDWARE,^^^^^! 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 our store .and let us solve the problem. We have a fine\ variety of standard goods to choose from. When you think of HARDWARE thi,,k 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 25, 1910. STOCK SWINDLE OF $5M00,000 Federal Authorities Raid Offices and Arrest Firm. HUGE FRAUDS ALLE6EO Wholesale Swindle In Shares of Com panies That Have Failed —Big Divi dends Were Promised, But None Paid. Federal officials raided the offices occupied by Burr Brothers, in New York, a corporation dealing in stocks and other securities. The raid was made on warrants charging the use of the mails to de fraud investors. Postoflice officials say that the con cern has sold to investors at par value between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 of stock in various companies, most of which have gone out of existence or become bankrupt, and none in a sin gle instance paying the dividends held out in the promises of the concern. The raid was planned by Warren W. Dickson, postoflice Inspector, in charge of the New York district, and Post master General Frank Hitchcock and Robert A. Sharpe, chief postoflice in speetor. The officers arrested were: Sheldon C. Burr, president; F. Harry Tobey, vice president, and Eugene H. Burr, secretary and treasurer. The three officials of the company arrested wore arraigned before Com missioner Shields and held in $20,000 bail each. Pending the furnishing oi bail they were sent to jail. Hundreds of complaints have been made against the corporation by in vestors. who charge that they have been swindled through false represen tations made to them concerning the profits that were being realized by those who put their money into the various oil, timber, copper, lead, zinc and gold companies. After the raid Postmaster General Hitchcock gave out an official memo randum concerning Burr Brothers. The firm was organized several years ago and in 1907 was incorporated with a capital of SIOO,OOO and later increas ed to $300,000. The memorandum says that among other companies the Burt Brothers are selling the stock of the Buick Oil company, a concern with $5,000,000 capital. The memorandum further states as follows: "They have also organized the fol lowing oil companies: Carolina Con solidated, capitalized at $1,000,000; Coalinga Aliadin, capitalized at $1,000,- 000; Kern-Western, capitalized at $750,000; New York-Coalinga, capital ized at $500,000; Coalinga Crude Oil, capitalized at $400,000; Peoples Asso ciated Oil company, capitalized at sl,- 000,000. "All the stock in these companies has been sold except a part of the two first named. While all the companies are still in existence, none save the first four named is doing any work at, the present time. "The Burr Brothers have also organ ized, promoted and sold the stock in the following mining companies: Raw hide Tarantula, with a capital of sl,- 000,000; Montezuma Mining and Smelting, with a capital of $1,000,000; Golden Fleece Mining, Milling and Re fining company, with a capital of SSOO, 000. "Practically the entire stock in the companies has been sold to the public and at the present time all these com panies have gone out of existence. "They have also sold large amounts of stock in the Red Top Mining and Leasing company, capitalized at sl,- 000,000; Long Beach, Mexico, and Ari zona Mining company, capitalized at $1,500,000; Nevada Goldfleld Mining MRS. PANKHURST. One of the Leaders of the London Suffragettes. c .J and Smerting obmpanT, capitalized at $5,000,000; United Standard Lead and Zinc, capitalized at $1,000,000; Flor ence Consolidated Mining and Leasing company, capitalized at $1,000,000; Round Mountain Central Mining, capi talized at $1,000,000; Cobalt-Portage Mine company, capitalized at $1,000,- 000; British-American Copper Mines and Smelter company, capitalized at $5,000,000; Arizona Copper Mines com pany, capitalized at $1,500,000; Search light Canlna Gold Mining company, capitalized at $1,000,000; Holcomb Au tomatic Engine company, capitalized at $5,000,000; Cottonwood Copper com pany, capitalized at $1,000,000. "All of these companies are at the present time out of existence. "They also sold the stock of the Vltak company, a $1,000,000 corpora tlon, which is now In the hands of a receiver, and they are at the present time also engaged in the sale of lots In Lincoln, N. J. "It can safely be said that they have sold stock at par value from $40,000,- 000 to $50,000,000 In the various com panies; have an extensive suite of of fices In the Flat Iron building, in New York, and at times have had offices In Cleveland, Chicago, I,os Angeles and San Francisco. "In every instance they have prom ised large dividends on the stock sold, in addition to an increase In the value of the stock, but not in a single case have any of the companies paid any dividends, and, as stated above, practi cally all of them have been complete failures." 200 Feet Through Bewer. Wriggling through an eighteen Inch sewor for 200 feet, E. E. Adamson, a plumber, of Washington, found a dia mond ring valued at SI2OO. The ring had been lost by Miss Har riet Shadd. The loss had worried her to such an extent that physicians who operated on her for appendicitis sev eral days ago doubted whether she would recover. The doctors now think the news of the recovery of the ring will aid greatly in restoring its owner back to health. Big Fire at Harrisburg, Fire that for a time threatned to sweep the business center of Harris burg, Pa., destroyed three business buildings on Market square before it was gotten under control. The buildings burned were occupied by the David W. Cotterell Stationery company, the Harrisburg Hardware company and the Hoimea Seed com pany. The three structure.-, were complete ly gutted and the I -son buildings and contents will < :c< od $150,000. Dr. Crippen'b Pather Dead. Myron H. Crl'non, age.l eighty-three years, father o: Dr. Haw ley H. Crip pen, under senVnce of death in Lon don for the murd. r of his wife, died in Los Angeles, C~'iMcndless and pen niless. His death, due to the infirmities ol age, was hastened by grief over hie son's crime. Five Children Die at Sea. Five children died on the steamer Carpathia on the voyage from Trieste to New York. When the ship got into port she was held at quarantine for the transfer from the steerage of fifty-three chil dren, all 111 with minor contagious dis eases. Divorced From Brutal Wife. Because his wife pulled his hair and barred him from the house, the court at Norrlstown, Pa., granted a divorce to George W. Maglll. Pastor Commits Suicide. Rev. J. O. Klndstrom, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church at Alta, la, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He is believed to have been insane. UNEARTH PLOT TO KILLMEXICANS Diaz Was to Be Spared in Wholesale Assassination. ALL OFFICIALS MARKED Revolt Spreads Over the Whole Re public and Oiaz Government Is Fact to Face With Serious Revolution. Documents found in the house ot a revolutionary at Mexico City, Mex. are said to have revealed a conspiracj for the wholesale assassination 01 prominent government officers, Includ lng Foreign Minister Creel, Vice Pres Ident Corral and other prominent Mex leans, among them Editor Spindola owner of EI Imparelal Miguel S. Macedo, sub-secretary or the government, was also listed l'oi death. President Diaz was to be tak en, but his life spared because of hi* past services to the country. The bodies of those killed weie to be suspended from electric light wire* In the streets. The building of El Im partial was to have been destroyed with dynamite. The papers exposing the conspiracy were discovered during a raid by the police on Sunday. Three employes of El Imparcial had been furnished with the explosive and were instructed to use it at the first report of the upris ing, which was planned for last Sun day. The seizure of the plans on the day upon which they were to be executed is thought to have had a great effect in heading off the rebellion. The government of President Diaz Is now face to face with a serious rev olutionary movement. Francisco Ma dero, reputed leader of the rebels, is believed to be near his home in Coa huila. • Three bodies of revolutionists at tacked the military barracks at Ori zaba and liberated and armed the pris oners from the adjoining prison. Tho attack was well planned and ex ecuted. The revolutionists, who num bered 800, divided their forces. A group of 100 stationed on the summit of a nearby hill threw dyna mite bombs into the barracks. When the soldiers fled from their quarters and charged their assailants the other party of 200 revolutionists attacked the prison. Beating down the guards and forcing an entrance they liberated all of the prisoners and then armed them. The Fifteenth Mexican Infantry then charged the revolutionists and drove them back into the woods after a hot light. The number of casualties can not be learned. REBELS HOLD SEVEN TOWNS Whole Republic Is In Revolt and Hun dreds Have Been K ill led. Throughout the entire province of Chihuahua, Mex., and extending into Durango, to the south, actual warfare has begun with varying success to the rebel forces and defenders of the gov ernment. At Puebla the government forces captured forty revolutionists and they were immediately put to death. On the other hand it is reported that San Antonio, San Andres, Torreon Ranch, Mlnaca, Enclnillas, Guerrero and the surrounding country in tho state of Chihuahua, were taken by the revolutionists, who confiscated all the stores, military equipment and sur rounded all catfle and horses. Chihua hua Is under martial law. Practically all of the surrounding country is in the hands of the rebels, according to good authority, and an attack on Chihuahua is expected. The whole republic is affected. There are reports of general fight ing at Orizaba, Rio Blanc, Anogales and Santa Rosa, a group of manufact uring towns in Vera Cruz, whither troops have been sent. Some of the mills, it is said, have been fired. These are cotton manufacturing towns and there are 10,000 employes in Orizaba alone, all said to be against the gov ernment. DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY 63 House Figures Give Republicans 163, Democrats 227, Socialists 1. The Democratic representation in the next house of representatives at Washington will be 227, as against 168 Republicans and 1 Socialist, according to the roster of the house. These fig ures give the Democrats a majority of 63 and a plurality of C 4. Taft to Be Dinner Guest. President Taft has accepted an invi tation to be the guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania So ciety at the Hotel Astor, in New York, on Jan. 21. | RALPH JOHNSTONE. j Holder of Altitude Record for ■ Areoplanes Killed. Photo by American Press Association. Johnstone Killed In Flight. Ralph Johnstoue was killed by a drop of 800 feet in his runaway biplane at Overland Park at Denver, Col. He tried to remove his helmet after he struck the earth, gave a few short gasps and expired. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. From the time lie lost control of the machine until it struck the earth it turned three complete somersaults, and it is a question whether something broke or whether the machine was broken by the strain of these evolu tions before it struck the ground. When the crowd saw the machine whirling downward there was a scat tering, and the space on which it fell was clear of people until tne t rash. Then there was a rush to the spot where Johnstone's crushed and bloody body lay. Police were the first at his side and lifted the motor which bore him down. Then the crowd was driven back and a canvas stretcher secured to remove the body. Forced backward by the officers, the crowd next rushed to where the lighter parts of the ma chine lay in a tangled heap thirty feet away, and before the police could prevent it the framework "and every thing had been broken or torn to bits and caiTled away by souvenir fiends. Congress to Probe Delaware Ballot. Senator Dupont may not be returned from Delaware as senator without the washing of much dirty linen. The Democratic house in the Sixty second congross is to inquire into the ways of Delaware politicians and poll tics. It is charged there were grave frauds in the election to congress of Representative Heald, and as he repre sents the state at large, a contest be fore one of the election committees cf the house will bring under public scrutiny the conduct of the elections in the entire state, not of course as to officials other than members of the house, but at the same time it is ex pected to illuminate the general sub ject of election methods In Delaware pretty thoroughly. Inasmuch as the Anti-Bribery league had detectives watching at the polls on Nov. 8, it is supposed that It will have some evidence of interest to con tribute If there is an Investigation. It is charged that the buying of votes In Delaware is so nearly open and so flagrant that there Is little con cealment about it, and that enormous sums are used. The advantage of In quiry into the facts by a committee of congress is that it will have due authority to get at the facts. It iF pointed out that if an exposure of the truth does no other good, it may at least througfc publicity serve to help conditions. Tolstoi Is Dead; Wife 111. With her husband lying dead in thi bare room of a railroad flag station at Astopova, Russia, the condition FIRST NATIONAL BANK, FJ^- CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier Net Profits, i 75000 - DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Front'/, John C. Laird, C. U, Sones, Banking Business. W - C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Fronfcz, Accounts oflndivid- ; j A s 1{all) Johu Bu li. uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. ■»"' ZR YEAR of Countess Tolstoi rapidly grew worse, and physicians who have been attending her and the aged count be came seriously alarmed for her lite. After a desperate entreaty of the physicians for the privilege of sedng her husband alive once more, the countess was allowed to be present at the death of the author and social re former, which occurred on Saturday. She collapsed immediately after Tol stoi's last spark of life flickered out. It is understood that the body will be taken back to the village of Yas naya Polyana, where he was born and where he spent his youth. It Is be lieved that his known wishes In regard to his funeral will be obeyed. Whatever the form, however, which consigns the great seeker for truth to his last resting place, the ceremonies will undoubtedly lie witnessed by a gathering of the greatest men of Rus sia. Though he died without making bis peace with the church, from which he had been excommunicated, the great Russian writer is sura to be honored in death, even as in life, by superior intellects. Count Tolstoi died without regaining sufficient consciousness to enable him to say farewell or cast a lovin* 'oo» upon his wife and children. His last words were: "There are millions of people and many sufferers In the world. Why always anxious about me?" Admits He Killed Woman. Frank Mitchell, a foreigner em ployed by Peter Faulds, a farmer near Auburn, Schyulkill county, was arrested in Reading, Pa., and con fessed to Magistrate Mast that he had killed Mrs. Mary A. Richards, had beaten her daughter, Mrs. Faulds. and had robbed his employer of money during the latter's absence in Potts vllle. Faulds, returning home, found his house locked. Summoning a farm hand, they broke into the cellar and found the dead body of Mrs. Faulds' mother, Mrs. Richards, lying on the cellar floor, shot through the heart. On the kitchen floor was the badly battered form of Mrs. Faulds, uncon scious. Upstairs they found the draw ers all ransacked and a roll of bills containing S3B missing. Mrs. Faulds remained unconscious all night, and Is so dazed that she is unable to give any information of the killing. It was presumed that she de tected Mitchell in the act of rifling the drawers and was set upon and beaten and then tied to the bed. Mitch ell, going down stairs, shot Mrs. Rich ards when he was accosted by her. Mrs. Faulds succeeded in freeing her self and made her way to the kitchen, where she dropped over unconscious. Her condition is critical. He declares that he encountered Mrs. Faulds in her home and bound her hands and feet. Mrs. Richards, he says, then appeared on the scene and he promptly shot her with a shotgun. Covering her body with a blanket, he maltreated Mrs. Faulds, robbed the house and made his way to Reading. Ele was taken back to Pottsville. Engine Pilot Bore Corpse. When the Philadelphia express east bound on the Pennsylvania railroad steamed into the station in l.ancaster, Pa., it carried on the pilot the body of a dead man, a wagon wheel and the sent of the wagon, all unknown to the crew of the engine. l.ater it was discovered that the victim was Michael Tort, aged seventy years, a junk dealer of Lancaster, and that he had been struck at a grade crossing a mile west of of the station. His skull was fractured, leg and arm broken and chest crushed In. Quarter Meter Kills Girl. A quarter gas meter was the causa of the death of Miss Maria Curran, aged nineteen years, of Scranton, Pa. I.ate Thursday night the gas in the Curran home failed because nobody had a quarter to putin the meater, and the Jet in the young woman's room remained open. A few hours later her brother returned home and, placing a quarter in the meter, turned on the gas. The room occupied by the girl was flooded..
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