VOL. XV. NO. 33
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THIEF CAUGHT
IN RAT TRAP
Comes to Grief While Lootiog
Trenton Home.
Jason Meany, who comes from Chi
cago, says that ho is the original hard
luck thief. He faces a prison sen
tence at Trenton, N. J., all because he
put his hand in a rat trap.
While looting the home of Mrs. Jul
ian Voorhees, Meany dropped a dia
mond ring which rolled under a stove.
While groping for the diamond in the
dark he put his hand into a rat trap.
There was a sudden snap and the
burglar screamed in pain. Three of his
fingers were broken. So great was his
suffering that he made no attempt to
escape.
According to Meany, his first ex
perience in burglary was in Chicago
three years ago. He was trembling,
and in order to steady himself leaned
against a piano. Several keys sounded
and before he could flee he was con
fronted by a woman who held a re
volver in her hand.
NO MONEYFORGIFTS, SUICIDE
Unable to Buy Xmas Gifts For Wife
and Children He Takes Poison.
Rendered desperate by the thought
that lie wouldn't be able to purchase
any Christmas gifts for his crippled
wife and four small children this year
because of his depleted finances, due
to illness, Peter Popp, aged forty-two
years, killed himself at his home in
p .o»ie, N. Y., by swallowing carbolic
acid.
His wife was recently struck by a
falling tree, and as a result of the ac
cident one of her legs was amputated.
This added misfortune preyed upon
Popp's mind, and while his four chil
dren wore discussing their Christmas
prospects ho left the house, purchased
the poison, returned and killed him
self.
Murdered and Robbed by Bandits.
The authorities of Pueblo, Mexico,
have been notifid of the murder of
Manuel Vargas, a wealthy land owner
of Acrjeto, by bandits. The bandits
then bound the women and servants
and robbed the house of S3OOO in cash.
Senator Elkins Recovering.
Senator Stephen H. Elkins, who has
been seriously ill, is on the high road
to recovery, according to an announce
ment made on the floor of the senate
by his collsague, Senator Scott.
Hounded by Wife's Spirit.
A petition for divorce filed in Kan
sas City, Mo., by Marvin Minnear, a
bookkeeper, alleges that he has been
hounded by his wife's spirit and It was
more than he could stand.
The wife, Anna Minnear, says the
petition, declares she possesses power
to separate her spirit from her body
and send it where she likes.
Minnear alleges she accused him of
inconstancy, basing liar charges on her
power to have her spirit shadow him
and make report to her of all his
doings.
25 Years For Baby Slayer.
Judge Johnson sentenced Joseph D.
Green, of Oakview, near Clifton
He.~hts, to twenty years in the Me
dia, i jail for the murder of his In
fant son Earle and five years addition
al for shooting his wife.
Green killed his baby last Septem
ber, and was tried before Judge John
son last week. Twenty years is the
maximum penalty for second degree
murder.
Two Die In Electric Chair.
John J. Smyth, a bartender, who
shot and killed his wife and young
daughter at their home in Norfolk last
August, was electrocuted in the peni
tentiary at Richmond, Va. Jim Sit
lington, colored, who robbed and mur
dered a seventy-yeai old white woman
in Rockingham last August, also was
put to death.
Robbers Crack Safe; Get S6OOO.
Daring robbers blew a safe in the
wealthy residential section of Toledo,
0., escaped with S6OOO. The house
vfls partially wrecked by the force of
the explosion. It is the boldest robbery
In Toledo's police annals.
Republican News Item
JOHN B. DIETZ.
Friends of Outlaw Offer to Go
His Bail.
PLEDGE BAIL FOR DIETZ
Daughter Raises $22,000 Among Hunt
ing Friends of Family.
Due to the personal solicitation of
Miss Myra Dietz, daughter of John F.
Dietz, the "Outlaw of Cameron Dam,"
business men of Bangor, Wis., pledged
themselves In writing to furnish $22,-
000 ball for her father, enough to se
cure his freedom on the three re
maining counts against him.
The bonds will be signed as soon as
formally drafted. The signers are all
village merchants who have enjoyed
the hospitality of the Dietz family dur
ing the hunting season.
Carnegie's Big Fund For Peace.
Andrew Carnegie has announced hla
gift of $10,000,000 for the promotion of
international peace.
The announcement was made at a
meeting in Washington of twenty-two j
of the twenty-seven trustees who have
been selected to handle the fund. The
scope of the gift is wide. The trustees
are left practically unhampered to de
vote the income, which will amount
$500,000 a year, in the interest
world-wide peace.
"Lines of future action," says M-
Carnegie, "cannot be wisely laid dowi
Many may have to be tried, and, hav
ing full confidence in my trustees, I
leave to them the widest discretion as
to the measures and policy they shall
from time to time adopt, only promis
ing that the one end they shall keep
unceasingly in mind until it is attain
ed is the speedy abolition of interna
tional war between so-called civilized
nations."
Mr. Carnegie's ten million gift is de
signed as much for the continuance
of tbe peace movement after he Is
gone as it is for its promotion now.
Crops Are Worth Billions.
Final estimates of the Important
farm products of the United State-s
for 1910 announced by the crop report
ing board of the department of agricul
ture are as follows:
Corn, 3,125,713,000 bushels of weight,
from 114,002,000 ncies; total farm
value, $1,523,968,000, or 45.8 cents per
bushel.
Winter wheat, 4f>4,04-1.000 bushels of
weight, from 29,427.000 acres; to:al
farm value, $413,575,000. oi 89 1 cents
per bushel.
Spring wheat, 231,399,000 bushels of
weight, from 19,778.000 acres; total
farm value. $207,808,000. or 89.8 cents
pet bushel.
All wheat 695,443.000 bushels of
weight, from 49,205,000 acres; total
farm value, $621,443,000, or 89.4 cents
per bushel.
Oats, 1,126,765,000 bushels oi
weight, from 35,288,000 acrea; total
farm value, $384,716,000, or 34.1 cents
per bushel.
Tobacco, 984,349,000 pounds, from
1,233,800 acres; total farm value, $91,-
459,000, or 9.3 cents per pound.
! . Rice, 24,510,000 bushels of weight,
equivalent to 5,930.000 bags of 186
: pounds, from 722,800 acres; total farm
; value. $16,624,000, or 67.8 cents per
bushel.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1910.
JOHN 0. (IVES
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Oil King's Last 6ifl to the
University.
HIS TOTAL IS $35,000,000
Original Plans Carried Out and Others
Must Aid the Institution—Son and
Representative Quit as Trustees.
John D. Rockefeller has completed
the task he set for himself in the
founding of the University of Chicago.
Public announcement was made of
a "single and final gift" of $10,000,000,
which includes all the contributions
that Mr. Rockefeller had planned to
make to the university. This sum,
which is to be paid in ten annual in
stallments, beginning Jan. 1, will make
a total of approximately $35,000,000
that Mr. Rockefeller has donated to
the university.
Mr. Rockefeller says he now be
lieves the school should be supported
and enlarged 1/ the gifts of many
lather than by those of a single donor.
This he believes will be belter accom
plished if the public unders* n;ls the
limit of his contemplated a sistance.
The founding of new departments he
leaves to the trustees, as he says
funds may be furnished by Oilier
friends of the university.
Up to the present time nearly $7,-
000,000 has been donated to the uni
versity in addition to Mr. Rockefeller's
gifts.
With the announcement of Mr.
Rockefeller's final donation came the
resignation of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
and Fred T. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's
personal representative, from the uni
versity board of trustees.
In enclosing these resignations, Mr.
Rockefeller explained that he was only
carrying out a conviction that the in
stitution should be "controlled, con
ducted and supported by the people"
with whom up to this date he had
been simply co-operating.
Mr. Rockefeller's idea, it is un
derstood, is that he is turning over
the institution and its endowment to
Chicago and the west, and in doing so
withdraws frpm any further represen
tation in its control.
The official announcement of the
benefaction was made at the quarterly
convocation at the university. Presi
dent Martin A. Ryerson, of the board
of trustees, read a letter from Mr.
Rockefeller, which boie the date of
Dec. 13, and was addressed to the
president and trustees of the Univer
sity of Chicago.
Christmas Box For Taft.
President Taft has received a Christ
mas box of "goodies" from his Aunt
Delia Torrey.
Miss Torrey lives at Hillbury, Mass.,
and is celebrated ar> a maker of apple
pies. She is determined that the presi
dent shall have in the White House
all ithe good things he used to enjoy
as a boy.
The big box contains all sorts of
jams and jelllies of the kind the presi
dents mother used to make. The good
ies were stored away, but some of
them will aprcar cn the table at
Christmas.
Miss Vivian Gould to Wed.
The marriage engagement of Lord
Decies and Miss Vivian Gould is offi
cially announced in London.
Miss Gould is the second daughter
of George J. Gould, of New York. Miss
Gould is in her nineteenth year. Lord
Decies wa9 foi' four years old on
Dec. 5. He is a distinguished soldier,
being lieutenant colonel of the Seventh
Hussars.
Huge Oil Well In Mexico.
The biggest oil well in Mexico has
just been brought in t,-. Juan Casiano
by Ed Dopeny, of Los Angeles, Cart.,
and associates. It Is blowing at the
rate of about 30,000 barrels a day.
Ground to Pieces by Roller.
While trying to jump over a board
that protected the rollers at the Morea
collliery, at Mahanoy City, Pa., Har
mon Regard, eighteen yeasr old, fell
into the machinery and waa literally
ground to pieces.
9 DEAD, 155 HURT
IN EXPLOSION
Dynamite and Gas Wreck New
York Power House.
MANY BUILDINGS DAMAGED
Street Car Was Hurled Upon Automo
bile. Crushing Out the Lives ot
Four—looo Shaken Up by Detona
tion.
Nine persons lost their lives, 155 oth
ers were injured, many of them not
seriously, and 1000 or more were shak
en up in New York in an explosion ol
car lighting gas tanks and dynamite.
The explosion occurred In the new
six-story power station of the New
York Central railroad under course ol
construction at Fiftieth street and Lex
ington avenue. The power house took
fire after the explosion and the in
terior was practically burned out.
On a technical charge of homicide
the police took Into custody Albert
Segaratt, motorman of a train which
bumped into and broke one of the gas
pipes near the sub-station. This acci
dent is blamed by New York Central
officials for the explosion.
Segaratt said he tried to stop the
train with his brakes and reversing
levers, but could not do 80. The explo
sion occurred twenty-seven minutes af
terward.
The dynamite explosion picked up a
northbound trolley car, carrying about
a dozen high school students, lifted it
in the air and sent it crashing down
upon an automobile which was passing
along the other side of the street. Four
of the passengers were killed and ev
eryone in the car was injured. One of
the passengers killed was a woman.
What became of the chauffeur and
occupants of the automobile, if any,
could not be determined. The body of
a man found on the sidewalk nearby
was believed to be that of the chauf
feur.
Ceilings and windows in hospitals,
schools and apartment houses for
many squares about, were shattered
by the explosion, which caused in
numerable minor hurts of workmen
and persons in the affected territory.
Fire Chief Croker says that in his
opinion the first explosion was that of
lighting gas and the second explosion
that of a hundred weight of dynamite
that lay within fifty feet of the gas
tank.
The windows of all the buildings
overlooking the excavation were shat
tered; walls were smoke-blackened,
and in many cases cracked and riven;
a cloud of smoke hung over the scene;
bodies were scattered here and there,
and there was the incessant clatter of
ambulance gongs. The Grand Central
cut looked as if a battle had been
fought in it.
Clamoring hundreds besieged the
Fifty-first street police station, where
the dead were taken. There were many
piteous scenes as the identifications
were made. The police had all they
could do to calm anxious mothers,
wives and relations of persons who
were thought to have been in the vi
cinity at the time of the disaster.
The damage to the power house and
other buildings has not been estimat
ed, but it was stated that it will likely
exceed $500,000.
Toomey, a patrolman, was on Lex
ington avenue when the shock came
Just ahead of him a girl was killed,
one of her legs being blown off, while
Toomey himself was blown across the
street and his uniform almost com
pletely torn from him. He got up and
was starting to help in the rescue
work, when he fell unconscious.
A gang of more than fifty bricklay
ers, sixty feet in the air on the big
power building near the scene of the
explosion, had a remarkable escape
from death or serious injury. An air
cushion, formed by the explosion be
low, hoisted up the big scaffold on
which they were working, tilted in
wardly and tossed the men over the
wall they were building and upon a
firm scaffolding on the inside. Only one
man of the gang was injured and ho
only slightly.'
Two.
"Her feet are a sight."
"Yea; she has a pair of spectacles."—
New York Press.
H. V. HILPRECHT.
University of Pennsyl
vania, Who Has Resigned.
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Hilprecht Withdraws.
Following his resignation as pro
fessor of archaeology at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia,
Dr. Henr.an V.-HHpreoht has MISO
resigned as curator of the Babylonian
and Semetic sections of the university
museums, and his withdrawal has been
accepted by the board of managers of
the museums.
From now on Dr. Hilprecht will not
be connected with the university in
any way. Samuel F .Houston's resig
nation from the board was accepted
at the same time as that of Dr. Hil
precht.
Finds $5550 In a Box.
James E. Marle.v, an undertaker of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., discovered in a box
which he thought contained worthless
papers a bequest of $5500, made to
him by Mrs. Bridget Mosier, who died
at his home in November.
Before Mrs. Mosier died she called
Marley to her bedside and gave him
the box, with instructions not to open
it until after she was dead and buried.
He put the box away and thought no
more of It until Friday, when, opening
the box, he found that it contained
government bonds worth $5560 and a
letter signed by Mrs. Mosier stating
that she left it all to him. The Marley
family had taken- care of Mrs. Moaier
for many years, but never knew that
she had any money.
Weds Legless Man.
Wheeling Robert Meyers, her log
less lover, into the office of Alderman
P. J. Mclnerney. at Pittsburg, Pa., An
na Reilly, a pretty brunette, blushingly
said: "Alderman, we fant to get mar
ried."
Meyers was unable to get out of the
wheel chair in which his bride had
taken him to the alderman's office and
several men were called into help and
to act as witnesses.
Meyers lost both legs last February
in an accident on a railroad, where he
was employed as a brakeman. He
had met Miss Reilly two years ago,
and she refused to give him up in
spite of his misfortune.
Appoints Negro Port Collector.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Charles A. Cotterill,
of Toledo, 0., to be collector of inter
nal revenue at Honolulu, Hawaii. Cot
terill is a negro, and his appointment
was forecasted. A protest from Hono
lulu that a resident of that city should
be appointed was unheeded.
$10,000,000 Xmas Cash to Stockholders
Standard Oil company stockholders
received checks for the final quarterly
dividend of $10,000,000 for the current
year. Eroin 1802 to 1910 the company
has distributed to shareholders $357,-
929.620 out of net profits of $072,202,-
964.
"Eli Perkins" Dead.
Melville Delancy Landon, better
known as "Eli Perkins," humorist, au
thor and lecturer, died at his home in
New York at the age of seventy-one
years. He had been ill for several
years.
75C PER YEAR
FAMILY SLAIN; HOUSE
BURNED TO HIDE CRIME
Colored Attacks Girl and Mur
ders Three.
Nathan Montague, a negro, who
committed three capital crimes, either
one of which is heinous enough to se
cure a death sentence in North Caro
lina, will be lynched if the people of
the vicinity of his crime, in Hester
township, Grauvilllo county, are able
to get him.
After assaulting J. L. Saunders, an
old farmer, and his granddaughter, he
raped another daughter of Saunders,
Miss Mary Saunders.
After satisfying his animal passion
he murdered Mary Saunders and then
committed arson by setting fire to the
dwelling. Before burning the dwelling
he killed the old farmer, already un
conscious from blows delivered when
the flend first broke into the house.
The little grandchild was burned in
the house.
After discovering the crime the of
ficers traced the thrice murderer, rap
ist and house burner. When found he
had blood and hair from his victim
whom he had assaulted on his coat.
He broke down and confessed. At
present he is in jail at Durham and a
heavy guard has been placed around
the jail. Feeling is intense.
BONUS FOB STEEL E«tPLOYES_
About $2,700,000 to Be Distributed by
Corporation.
The United States Steel Corporation
has announced in New York its plan
for distributing a bonus to the officers
and employes of the corporation and
subsidiary corporations in accordance
with its annual practice.
The sum to be distributed for 1910
amounts to approximately $2,700,000.
The amount is determined by the- an
nual earnings.
The bonus will be paid 60 per cent
in common stock at S7O a share and
•40 per cent in cash. Last year the
bonus was paid 60 per cent in cash
and 40 per cent in preferred stock at
Si 24 a share or common stoik at S9O a
share. This year the usual opportunity
will be given to subscribe foi shares
of the corporation on a basis of sll4
a share for preferred anu s7l a share
for the common stock.
Canadian Bank Closes.
The Farmers' bank, which was or
ganized five years oga, with head of
fices in Toronto, Can., and thirty-one
branches in various towns and vil
lages throughout Ontario, has suspend
ed payment. The capital stock of the
bank is $1,000,000, with about SOOO,OOO
paid up. The deposits In the various
branches are, roughly speaking, about
$1,400,000.
Battleship Texas Contract Awarded.
The contract for building the 27,000-
ton battleship Texas was awarded to
the Newport News Shipbuilding com
pany, the lowest bidder, at $5,830,000.
Knapp Confirmed For Commerce Court
The senate in executive session con
firmed the nominatlou of Martin A.
Knapp, of New York, as chief justiie
of the commerce court.
Kills Brother In Duel.
In a shotgun duel at Gainesville,
Oa., H. S. Worley, twenty-five yea:s
old, was shot and killed by hi 3 brother,
Leonard Worley, thirty years old.
The brothers quarreled at a dance.
Returning home, each secured a gun
and met in front of the home of the
younger.
After exchanging shots the brothers
calmly reloaded. At. the second ex
change the younger brother fell dead.
The elder Worley was captured after
an all-night chase.
Chile's Minister Is Dead.
Senor Don Anibal Cruse, minister
from Chile to the United States, died
suddenly at the Chilean legation in
Washington. Death was due to heart
disease.
The news of Senor Cruse s death
spread quickly about official Washing
ton and came as a shock to many, for
on Saturday night he was a prominent
figure at the banquet of the American
Society for the Judicial Settlement of
International disputes.