Republican News Item.
VOL. XV. NO. 32
CONGRESS CONTEST
NOTICE IS FILED
White Alleges 6000 Votes For
Heald Were Bought.
The first formal move made by Rob
ert C. White, of Georgetown, Del., the
Democratic nominee for representa
tive in congress at the last election,
and who was defeated by Congress
man William H. Heald, in protesting
against the seating of Congressman
Heald in the Sixty-second congress as
a representative from Delaware, was
made when Mr. White went to Wash
ington and filed two notices of his
proposed contest, one with the clerk
of the house of representatives and
the other was left with his representa
tive to be served upon Mr. Heald.
In his notice Mr. White alleges that
about 6000 votes were bought for Con
gressman Heald at the election on
Nov. 8. Mr. Heald has thirty days in
which to file his answer, after which
the matter will be referred to the com
mittee on elections of the house, to
gether with the testimony in support
the matter will be referred to the com
of the petition.
The taking of evidence in this state
will be started at once. The other
plans of Mr. White have not beer
made public. He is allowed S2OOO fo
expenses and so far he has retained as
his attorneys Thomas F. Bayard, the
chairman of the Democratic state cen
tral committee, and former State
Chairman Willard Saulsbury, both of
Wilmington; ex-United States Senator
R. R. Kenney, of Dover, and John M
Richardson, of Georgetown. He will
also retain counsel in Washington.
TAFT GIVES MEDAL TO HERO
South Bethlehem Man Who Saved
Bluejacket's Life Is Honored.
President Tat't presented to William
E. Snyder, chief electrician, attached
to the scout cruiser Birmingham, a
medal of honor for saving the life of a
bluejacket who fell overboard in
Hampton Roads last Januady.
The thermometer was near zero at
the time and a strong tide was run
ning, but Fnyder dived into the wa
ter and, al'lcr some difficulty, succeed
ed in saving his shipmate.
Snyder is from South Bethlehem,
Pa. He appeared at the White House
just prior to the cabinet meeting.
Addresses Xmas Cards Then Ends Life
With gaily decorated Christmas
cards about him, the body of Ferdi
nand Sailor, a watchmaker, was dis
covered in a room at a hotel in Balti
more. Saner had committed suicide by
shoo! inn. He had employed the last
few minutes before ending his life in
directing the cards to his friends in
Hungary.
Church Gets Bulk of Eddy Fortune.
The will of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover
Eddy, which will be made public in
Boston within a few days, it is said,
leaves practically the whole of her sl,-
500,000 estate to the Christian Science
church.
The board of directors of the church
is to have the final decision as to the
form the bequest will take, it is said.
Ex-Congressman Henry M. Baker, of
Bow, N. H., a relative, it is under
stood, is named as administrator. The
will was drawn in 1904, in Concord,
N. H.
Not a dollar is left, it is said, to
George W. Glover, of Lead, S. D., or
to Dr. E. J. Foster Eddy, the son and
adopted son, respectively, of Mrs. Ed
dy. Both recently received substantial
sums from her estate.
Bequests of from SIOOO to SIO,OOO go
to Mrs. Eddy's household staff. Calvin
Frye, one of her advisers, gets $lB,-
000, it is said, and Rev. Irving C. Tom
linson and Mrs. Laura E. Sargent also
are beneficiaries.
Members of the board of directors
and other leaders of the mother church
are not mentioned in the will.
HARDWARE'S*
WHEN you think of buying hard
ware you naturally ask yourself W
thig question: "What kind of
stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or "».n 1 "
whatever it may be —"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things,
nor speud your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order
catalogs. Coroe 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 tbink of COLE'S.
SANITARY PLUMBING.
We give special attention to Pipit 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, DECEMBER 16, 1910.
WILLIAM H. LEWIS.
Appointed Assistant Attorney Gen
eral by President Taft.
FIGHT LEWIS' APPOINTMENT
Opposition Develops to Colored Lawyer
For Assistant Attorney General.
Objections to the proposed appoint
ment by President Taft of William H.
Lewis, colored, former football star
of Harvard, and now an attorney of
Boston, as an assistant attorney gen
eral, are being presented to Attorney
General Wickersham.
President Taft's intention to appoint
Lewis was learned semi-offleially at
the White House several weeks ago.
Booker T. Washington, the colored ed
ucator, called upon Mr. Wickersham
to urge his approval of the appoint
ment.
City of Rome Buys Beef.
Acting on the initiative of Mayor
Nathan, the municipality of Rome is
negotiating with the Swift company,
of Chicago, for the importation of 0000
tons of Argentine meat early in 1911.
The object of the movement is to
compel the lowering of the present
high prices of fresh boef.
Child Makes Swimming Record.
By swimming under water fifteen
feet at the Brooklln, Mass., natatorium
recently, Miss Mlldren Wyman, seven
years of age, has undoubtedly set up a
record for a swimmer of her age.
She has been swimming for two
years and knows all the strokes of the
fancy performers.
Man Pawns Own Coffin.
The high cost of living has forced
M. L. Breman, of Atlanta, Ga., to pawn
his coffin. Some time ago Breman
bought a coffin for his own use be
cause he could "pick it up at a bar
gain." He needed money, and not hav
ing anything else to "soak" he had the
coffin carried to a pawnshop.
Tight Shoe Costs a Leg.
Robert Shapple, of Pottsville, Pa.,
lost his leg as a result of wearing a
tight shoe. His right foot was rubbed
to a blister and the new leather poi
soned it to such an extent that gan
grene set in. Hip leg was amputated
below the knee.
For Minimum Pension of sls.
A modification of the service pen
sion bill so as to provide for a mini
mum pension of sls is proposed in a
bill introduced by Senator Dick, of
Ohio. The present rate 13 ?12.
M'KINLEY'SNATAL
DAYIN DOUBT
May be February 26 Instead
ot January 29.
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CONGRESS' OATA CONFLICTS
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Directory Issued While He Was Presi
dent Gave Birthday as Jan. 29, Bui
Six Other Directories Give the Feb
ruary Date.
January 29 is known from one end
of the United States to the other as
"McKinley day," but the admirers of
the martyred president in his native
state of Ohio and elsewhere through
out the country will be astonished to
learn that Jan. 29 is probably not
President McKinley 'B birthday anni
versary at all.
It is true that in one of the con
gressional directories issued when Mr.
McKinley was president the date of
his birth was given as January 29,
1843. But in all the directories pub
lished during McKlnley's six terms
as a member of the house of represen
tatives the date is given as Feb. 26,
1844.
The first sketch of Mr. McKlnley's
life which appears in the directory
Issued at the beginning of the first
session of the Forty-fifth congress Mr.
McKinley wrote himself. There are two
or three editions of the directory each
session, and before each edition waa
printed a proof of this 6ketch was seus
to him for revision. He must have
seen it dozens of times after he origi
nally wrote It, and a man Is usually
supposed to know the date of his own
birth, but there was nevor a sugges
tion that the date waa wrong. The
same can be said, howaver, of the
date of Jan. 29 published in the direc
tories during Mr. McKinley's term as
president.
It was commented upon by members
of the Ohio delegation as remarkably
that up to this time the question has
never been raised. Senator Dick, Rep
resentative Keifer, of Ohio, who says
he has talked birthdays and ages with
President McKinley dozens of tiroes;
Representatives Cassldy and Howland,
of Cleveland, and other members of
the delegation seem to accept the date
of Feb. 26, 1844, as correct.
One thing is certain, the members
of the Ohio delegation are sufficiently
Interested in the proposition to make a
thorough inquiry. If McKinley day <s
really Feb. 26 they don't want Jan. 29
celebrated as such, but that Is the
date accepted for some reason or oth
er, and they propose to find out why.
The dlscreparcy was discovered by
Representative Burke, of Pennsylva
nia, who had received an invitation to
a McKinley day banquet, had lost the
card and undertook to dig up the date
in a congressional directory.
WOULD ADOPT BAPTISM
Change In Presbyterian Book of Disci
pline Is Proposed.
At the meeting of the Pittsburg, Pa.,
Presbyterians Rev. John IJ. Schaff, of
the Western Theological seminary, re
porting for a committee of is
chairman, recommended the elimina
tlon of the words "sprinkling and pour
ing" from the book of discipline, and
the use of the word "baptize."
The adoption of the overture would
mean that Presbyterian churches then
could immerse men tiers just as they
are immersed in Bapiist and some oth
er churches.
Dr. Schaff urged itd adoption as be
ing a means of bringing the churches
closer together.
PLANS MEMOHIALTO LINCOLN
Bill Introduced b" 6*raior Cullom Pro
vides $2.0C(,,.0u •' or Monument.
A national memorial to Abraham
Lincoln, to be erected in Washington
at a cost of $2,000,000, is proposed in
a bill introduced by Senator Cullom, of
Illinois.
The bill names a permanent com
mission, to be composed of President
Taft, Senators Wetmore, of Rhode Isl
and, and Money, of Mississippi; Rep
iesentaM»es McCall, of Massachusetts,
anil Champ Clark, of Missouri. The
sum of SIOO,OOO is to be immediately
available under the bill.
New College Head.
Dr. George E. Vincent, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, was
dent of the University of Minnesota
at Minneapolis. He has accepted the
place.
National Museum Gets Peary Medals.
Civil Engineer Peary, the Arctic ex
plorer, has deposited in the National
museum at Washington the series of
sixteen gold and two silver medals
that have been awarded to him.
WHITE IS NOW
CHIEHUSTICE
Nominated by President and
Confirmed by Senate.
OTHER JUDICIAL PUCES
Willlis Van Devanter and Joseph R.
Lamar Named For Associate Jus
tices New Court of Commerce
Created.
The nomination of Associate Justice
Edward Douglas White, of Louisiana,
as chief justice of the United States
supreme court, which was sent to the
senate by President Taft, was con
firmed at once. The other nominations
sent in will be confirmed later. They
are:
To be associate Justices, United
States supreme court—Judge Willis
Van Devanter, of Wyoming, and Judge
Joseph Rucker Lamar, of Georgia.
To be judges of the new court of
commerce:
Martin A. Knapp, now chairman of
the interstate commerce commission,
for a term of five years.
Robert W. Archbald, of Scranton,
now United Stateß district Judge for
the middle district of Pennsylvania,
term of four years.
William H. Hunt, now a judge of
the court of customs appeals, term of
three years.
John Emmett Carland, of South Da
kota, for a term of two years. This is
a change from the original slate, Ar
thur C. Denison, United States district
Judge for the western district of Mich
igan, having been selected for this
place.
Julian W. Mack, now judge in the
appellate circuit court of the first Illi
nois district, term of one year.
To be members of the interstate
commerce Commission —B. H. Meyer,
of Wisconsin, and C. C. McChord, of
Kentucky.
The appointments to the interstate
commerce commiooion ai«s to nil the
vacancies caused by the elevation ot
Mr. Knapp to the commerce court and
the forthcoming retirement of formei
Senator Francis M. Cockrell, of Mis
sourl.
The commerce court is a court
created in the amendment in the Inter
state commerce act, passed in June
last by this congress. The law pro
vides for the appointment of five addi
tional circuit judges by the president,
who are to constitute the court. The
Judges so appointed are to serve on
the commerce court, and after being
relieved from that service are to be
assigned to work on the circuits as
circuit judges.
The law requires the president to
designate in the first appointments the
term of years during which the
appointed shall serve on the commeice
court, and the judge designated to sit
for five years on this court is to act
as presiding judge. Thereafter the
court is to be composed of five judges
to be designated by the supreme court
from the circuit judges of the United
States.
Mr. Knapp is named as a judge for
the second judicial circuit; Mr. Aarch
bold for the third judicial circuit; Mr.
Hunt for the ninth judicial circuit;
Mr. Carland for the eighth Judicial cir
cuit, and Mr. Mack for the seventh
judicial circuit.
Temple Company Enjoined.
The Temple Iron company, of which
George F. Baer is president, was de
clared an Illegal corporation by the
United States circuit court in Phlladel
phia.
The other features of the petition,
which involved the railroads serving
the anthracite regions, and alleged
agreements for the purpose of creat
Ing a pool for the control of the an
thraclte coal mining business, as well
a 8 the tonnage, were dismissed.
The decision was dissented from by
Judge Lannlng, who held that the en
tire petition should be dismissed.
The suit was directed against four
teen anthracite railroads and forty-five
other companies and operators, con
trolling about 90 per cent of the an
thracite coal lands of Pennsylvania,
and three-quarters of the output of
hard coal.
The case was argued in the United
States circuit court last February by
James C. Mcßeynolds, for the United
States, while a dozen or more proi.il
nent lawyers appeared for the various
defendants.
Pin Stuck In Her Lung.
While helping her mother sew Grace
Youngvlsh, of Shamokln, Pa., was seiz
ed with an epileptic fit and swallowed
three pins, one piercing the lungs.
Revised.
"Laugh and the world laughs with
you," or If it doesn't you needn't care.
—Albany Journal.
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EDWARD D. WHITE.
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Named by Taft as Chief Justice
of Supreme Court.
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Italy to Get Wife Murderer.
Porter Charlton, the youth who has
confessed that he murdered his wife,
Mary Scott Castle Charlton, last June,
thrusting her body into a trunk and
sinking it in Lake Como, Italy, and
who is now locked up in Hobokeu,
N. J., will be extradited to Italy for
trial.
The announcement that the United
States will honor the requisition of
the Italian government was made at
the state department by Secretary of
State Knox. It came as a decided sur
prise, the general impression having
been that this government would de
cline to surrender Charlton because of
the construction which the Italian gov
ernment has placed on the extradition
treaty between the two countries.
In the event of the state department
having refused the requisition, Charl
ton, although a self-confessed mar
derer, would have walked out a free
man, because the United States courts
have no jurisdiction to try the case,
Now the young man will be turnea
over to the Italian authorities as soon
as papers can be made out, provided
the extradition isn't attacked in the
United States courts on habeas corpus
proceedings.
It is practically certain, however,
that counsel for Charlton will take ad
vantage of their legal opportunties to
oppose extradition. The usual proce
dure would be to bring him into court
on a habeas corpus writ, by means of
which not only the merits of the mur
der case, but also the points involved
in the extradition, could be reviewed.
Charlton having confessed to the mur
der, will have to confine his opposition
to the legal points involved in the ex
tradition.
In any life imprisonment is
the severest penalty that may be im
posed upon him, as the laws of Italy
forbid capital punishment.
EXPLOSION KILLS TWO
One Was Blown to Atoms by a Pre
mature Blast.
Two men were killed by a premature
explosion in the mine of the Charleroi,
Pa.. Coal company's works.
The dead are: Job Williams, thirty
years old, driver in the coal mine, and
A ngelo Bernardo, thirty yearsold.
It is supposed that while Bernardo
was testing his cable an electric spark
In some manner reached the explosive.
Bernardo was blown to atoms, while
Williams, who was standing about
twenty feet from the explosive, was
hurled against the side of the mine and
instantly killed.
Hit Him.
Perkins—Did you see Morgan's new
machine?
Jerkins—Not In time.—Smart Set.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
HUGHTESVILLE, 3P.A..
CAPITAL STOCK
$50,000 W, C. FRONTZ President.
Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier.
Net Profits,
. 75.000. DIRECTORS:
Transacts a General Wm - Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones,
Banking Business ;W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reader, Jacob Per,
Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz,
Accounts oflndivid- j A s . Ball> John Bul)
uais and Firms
solicited.
Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year.
3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
76C PER YEAR
GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA FLOUR quiet;
winter clear, $3.U5@3.90; city uii.U,
fancy, |5.75®r6.
RYE FLOUR quiet, at *4@4.10 per
barrel.
WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, new, 94Vfe
s@95MiC.
CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local,
56@58c. _ 1
OATS steady; No. 2 wbnfe, 38% c.;
■lower grades, 37% c.
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 13%
@l4c.; old roosters, 10% c. Dressed
steady; turkeys, choice, 25c.; choice
fowls, 17c.; old roosters, 12% c. . *
BUTTER steady; extra creSnjery,
32c. per 11)
EGGS firm; selected, 44@46c.; near
by, 39c.; western, 39c.
POTATOES quiet, at 58 @ 60c. bush.
Live Stock Markets.
PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—
CATTLE strong; choice, $6.25@6.50;
prime, $G<& ti.3o.
SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $4.20
(0i4.40; culls and common. s2® 3; veal
calves, $9.50@10; lambs, 84.50@6.85.
HOGS active; prime neavles and
mediums, $7.80; heavy Yorkers. S7.SO
@7.85; light Yorkers and pigs, $8;
roughs, $G.75@7.15.
Barrier Wins Prize and Makes Record.
Rene Barrier won the SSOOO prize
offered by a newspaper for a flight
over the city of Memphis, Tenn., to
President's island and return, a dis
tance of sixteen miles. Barrier's time
was 10 minutes 55% seconds.
John B. Moisant also competed for
the prize, making the flm flight in 18
minutes 16 2-5 seconds. He drifted out
of the course and thus lost to Bar
rier.
Barrier flew at the rate of 87 and
93-100 miles and hour, establishing a
new world's record for the distance.
His average height wa3 4000 feet.
Moisant, who covered a longer dis
tance, flew at un altitude of about 7000
feet.
Charles K. Hamilton was painfully
bruised when he made a rapid glide
of 200 feet to earth, his motor failing
at that height. The machine was com
pletely wrecked.
101,100,000 Live Under Flag.
In the United States and all its
possessions the Stars and Stripes pro
tect 101,100,000 souls.
This enormous number iB the official
estimate of the United States bureau
of the census, announced in connec
tion with the population statistics for
the country, as enumerated In the
thirteenth decennial rpn.ijs. It in
eludes the Philippines, Samoa, Guam,
Hawaii, Alaska and the Panama canal
zone.
Within its borders on the North
American continent, exclusive of Alas
ka, the Unit«r' States has a population
of 91,972,260 inhabitants. Wit.hin the
List ten years the states of the Union
had an aggregate increase in popula
tion of 15,977,691. which amounts to
21 per cent over the 1900 figures.
Boys Steal $60,000.
The Merchants' National bank, of
Manchester, N. H., on last Sunday
was robbed of $60,000 worth of col
lateral.
The affair was not made public until
Thursday. The bank's postofflce box,
which had been left unlocked, was
robbed of checks and drafts. The po3t
iflice inspectors suspected Arthur Sag
non, a French youth of eighteen, and
when he was questioned he said that
he and Ernest Harnois, aged sixteen
years, had taken the contents of the
box.
The drafts and checks, with the ex
ception of an $lB check, were found in
Harnois' room. Both boys were held
for the grand jury.
Farmer Nearly Killed by Hog.
Benjamin Holt, a farmer of near
Union Church, Md., four miles west of
Elkton, narrowly escaped being killed
by a hog.
Mr. Holt was driving the hog from
the barnyard into a pen, when the boar
attacked him, knocked him down and
tore his ear. Holt got up, but was
again felled by the hog. His clothing
was torn and he was badly injured by
the hog's tusks. Holt cried for help
and a farmhand, coming to his rescue,
shot the hog with a gun.