Republican News Item. NO. 46 CLAN TO PROBE COALJOMBINE Resolution in Legislature Galls For Investigation. (jUEStION OF FREIGHT RATES Committee to Be Directed to Inquire Into Cost of Mining and Transport ing Anthracite and Other High Prices. A resolution introduced In the Penn sylvania legislature provides tor a investigation of the anthra cite coal industry of Pennsylvania and to frame laws to reduce the price of coal. As an inrlication that the proposed investigation will be thorough a com mittee is empowered to inquire into relations between mining and trans portation companies and great bank ing houses, which are said to be close ly affiliated with them, and which usually conduct their financial oper ations. The resolution, which is understood to have the approval of the Republi can leaders, gives the committee pow er especially to investigate freight rates, It being alleged that rates for anthracite are much higher than those for bituminous coal. In the preamble it is said that the excessive cost of transporting and handling anthracite Is due, In part at least, to "large fees and commissions paid by transportation companies to bankers to negotiate the sale of their securities and for loans of money." And also to "excessive fees, com missions and other charges paid to brokers, commission agents, sales agents, factors and middlemen." The committee is directed toil - particularly into the actual cost of mining and transporting anthracite and the proportion paid to labor. This with a view to determine whether the transportation rates for hard coal arc excessive as compared with rates charged for bituminous and other commodities for equal dis tances. Also whether the cost of anthracite to the consumer is in any measure due to "usurious fees and commissions paid by the transportation companies to private and other bankers who are in the directorate of or are clorely affiliated with "such transportation companies" for negotiation of securi ties. The committee is also further to "inquire into the relation of private and other bankers, brokers, factors and agents who are in the directora'e of the anthracite coal carrying com panies to the mining and sale of an thracite coal." rAAf Aaaaaa*4AAAAAAAAAAA W • • WV WwWwWVWwwVWWWwwVW^W | Has Liquor Got The Best | 1 of You? { J You know that drinking unfits a man for business. Em- ♦ X ployers recognize this and do not want a drinking man j £ around. No man will knowingly employ a victim of the ( • liquor habit in a responsible position. We can remove the £ 2 terrible craving for liquor, and positively cure you. Reliable 2 • references furnished if desind. X 5 Address in strict ;confidence. J j THE SWAINE REMEDY CO, j Li 7 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, Pa. 2 FIRST NATIONAL j|BANK, HTJO-HESVILLB, =P^_. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W c. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm - Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W.C. Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, . . na- -a Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflodivid- A s j.,h„ mi uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. WALLACb BASSFORD. Former Newspaper Man Secretary to Speaker Clark. News Writer Clark's Aid. The new secretary to the speaker o fthe house of representatives is to be Wallace Hassford, a former Kansas City, Mo., newspaper man. Mr. Hassford has been Champ Clark's private secretary for more than ten years and has taken most of the burden of managing Representative Clark's campaigns. Should the boom for Mr. Clark for president be carried to a successsful end Mr. Hassford will be secretary to the president. Morse Must Stay Eehind Bars. From sources close to the president it was learned that the pardon appeals of the bankers, Charles W. Moise, of New York, and John it. Walsh, of Chi cago, undoubtedly will be denied. It Is stated that the attorney gen eral's recommendation in both cases is adverse and that the president will follow its findings. Various reports as to the recommen dations of the attorney general have been current, and two weeks ago it was rumored that Morse was to be pardoned. This report was without foundation, for even friends of the banker had not expected anything better than a com mutation. It is said that the president will even deny a commutation. Reports that Mr. Morse is in a critical condition in the Atlanta peni tentiary are without foundation, ac cording to an unofficial statement by the department of justice. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1911. CHARRED RUINS YIELD BODIES Known Dead in Kew York Horror is 143. PITIFUL SCENES AT MORGUE Firemen Find Bodies Beneath Sioe ■Aralk and Pick Up Arms and Hands In Building—Women Hysterical at Sight of Charred Victims. Fire that destroyed the Asch bui.d ing, at Washington place and Greene street, in New York, cost the lives of 143 employes of the Triangle Shirt waist- factory, which occupied the three upper tloors of the building. Nearly all the dead are gi.ls. llow the firs started will perhaps never be known. A corner on the eighth floor was its point of origin and the three upper floors only were swept. On the ninth floor fifty bodies were found; sixty] ree or more per eons were crushed to death by jump ing, and more than thirty clogged the elevator shafts. The loss to property will not exceed SIOO,OOO. First Danger Sign Hideous. Pedestrians going home through Washington place to Washington square were scattered by the whiz of something rushing through the air be fore them —there was a horrible plop on the pavement and a body flattened on the flags. Wayfarers on the opposite side of the street shaded their eyes against the setting sun and saw the windows of the three upper floors of the build ing black with girls crowding to the sills. "Don't jump! Don't jump!" yelled the crowd, but the girls had no alter native. The pressure of the maddened hundreds behind them and the urging of their own fears were too strong. They began to fall to the sidewalk in e terrible rain of flesh and blood. Four alarms were rung within fifteen minutes. Before the engines could re spond and before the nets could be stretched or the ladders raised, five girls had fallen from the eighth and ninth floors so heavily that they broke through the glass and iron roofs of the sub-cellars and crashed through the very streets into the vaults below. In an hour the fire was out; in half an hour it had done its worst; prob ably the death list was full in twenty minutes. Firemen who had begun to wade through 'he water iD the bar ment before it 'ad been pumped out felt arou id in the waier under a hole in the sidewalk vault lights of Greene street, a h'.le made by falling bodies, many times, but discovered nothing beneath the surface of the water. One of the firemen happened to look up ward while passing the spot and so found two bodies of young women, beneath which he and his companion had walked many times. The two dead girls \vre lying on a lattice of steam pipes about four feet below the hole in the vault lights. The girls' bodies had broken the concrete and glass vault lights of the pavement and had fallen through the sidewalk hole to the steam pipes. Twelve hours later firemen working In the cellar of the building came across a body at the foot of the shaft of the two freight elevators on the north side of the building. It was so badly burned and mutilated that the firemen were unable to tell whether it was the body of a man or that of a woman. Find Fragments of Bodies. Charles Aichman, of fire patrol No. 12, found part of an arm and shoulder near the north end of the cutting room of the eighth floor, where the fire started beneath a pile of west plas ter and bits oi' wcrped sewing ma chines. Shortly after this a hand was found on the window ledge of the filth floor, evidently broken from the wrist of a faring body. Two charred arms and a burned foot were found on the ninth floor. The windows of the burned floors begin so close to the floor that the sills are just a few inches below the knees of one standing by the window. It was evident that many girls, there fore, whether they wanted to jump or not, must have been shoved out of the windows by the press behind them. Max Blanck, one of the proprietors of the Triangle company, said it was against orders to smoke in their lofis. The reporters while clambering over the debris on the eighth floor where the fire started, saw amidst the half burned poeketbooks, shoes and other bits of clothing, a scorched cigarette box. In another part of the building were a number of half-smoked cigar ettes lying on the floor. Chief Croker said he believed the flre was caused by a smoker who tossed either a match or a lighted cigarette .on the floor among the piles of inflamable flimsy stuff used In the manufacture of waists and lingerie. [ NEW YORK FIRE HORROR. ! Creeses Show Windows Where ! Girls Jumped—Searching Ruins. ' ; > @ 1911. by Americnn Pross Association. When tlie body found at the foot of the freight elevator shaft had been sent to the morgue there was a row of fifteen pine coffins stretched along the south side of the covered pier and sixty-nine along the north side, each rontaining a body which In most cases V.-as unrecognizable. The relatives or close friends who were looking for their dead at the pier morgue began to come to the pier an hour or two after the arrival nf the first. fcofly. With few exceptions those who arrived from the late fo;o noon were curiostitv seekers wno knew no one who worked in the burn ed building. There were frock-coated young men, carrying canes, who laughed and chat ted with weli-dressed girls, as the line jostled slowly eastward toward the pier entrance. And there were n any of these girls, who entered the sned ded pier laughing, who, after a mo ment looking at the horrors, fell in a faint to the floor. White-capped nurses had more to do with the handling of the lines than the police. It was a common sight to see a nurse leading an aged woman or one of middle age along the line of coffins. On the south side of the pier was a white enameled table, such as is used in operating rooms. Many times there would be heard a shriek and a nurse would clasp her anus around the woman, wiio had either begun to grow hysterical upon recog nizing her dead or who had fainted from the horror that lay stretched all about. A policeman or many of them and surgeons would then run to the spot and help the nurse lift the woman on the table until a stretcher could be brought to the spot. Then the woman, shrieking in a way that caused some of the curiosity seek ers who were entering the pier to hurry away crying without looking at the rows of mangled beings stretched on either side, would be carried to a room at the pier entrance to be re vived. A pale girl bent over a misshapen mass long and doubtingly. Then, with a final effort, she grasped a hand that protruded from beneath the canvas, and with a shriek collapsed. The blackened mass, she sobbed, had been her sweetheart, to whom she had be come engaged the night before the disaster. A ring on his finger told her of his identity. She asked if the dead man had a watch. They brought it to her, she opened it and gazed at her own features. Twenty Sicilian women became hysterical at once upon recognizing their kin in the pine coffins. A man whose face was marked by a sear of flame found his brother among the dead. The two had' worked side by side, pouring water upon the flre. A cutter identified his dead sweet heart by their engagement ring and her purse. It contained her week's wages, $3. The bodies of two siste:s, horribly mangled, sat propped up in their coffins, while a sobbing brother left them to search for his aged moth er, who also had perished. The flre had left him without a relative. liISDEK'rntJICTS PEACE IN MEXICO II Will Geme Insids of Month, Revolutionist Says. HZ WILL SOON RESIGN Declares He Will Hold Office Until Reforms Are Put In Force—Peace Conference Arranged. Francis I. Madero, Sr., father of | the provisional president of Mexico, I has arrived in San Antonio, Texas, | with his son, Gustavo, straight from I New York, and he has announced I that by arrangements which had been I concluded between himself and Jose I Yves Liinantour in Now York definite measures of peace between the insur ! rectos and the Diaz government in | Mexico were in process of being for j mulated. He even allowed himself to I prophesy that within thirty days there j would be peace over the entire terri tory of Mexivo -and without the inter vention of American troops. He also j said that President Diaz would re sign with i a few months. "There will be a peace conference i held within the next few days, pos j sibly in San Antonio, although it may ; be held in Mexico," he said. "I do not | know yet who will bo the representa ; tives of the Mexican government." Francisco Madero, Sr., Alfonso Ma j dero and Gustave Madero will be the j representatives of the revolutionary ! party at this conference, it was said j at the revolutionary junta. I This is a part of the program of conciliation that Francisco Madero ! outlined as the basis of the reconcilia | tion between the revolutionists and I the federal government: "There will be no armistice between I the Maderoists in the field and the fed ' eral troops opposing them during the time that whatever negotiations now j contemplated may be in the making. "Under no conditions will the reb- I els lay down their arms. They will | simply guarantee to disperse upon the ! conclusion of a final treaty, each man i carrying his arms to his home. "Peace will not become a fact un less two things are guaranteed: "A free election and the incorpora tion in the national constitution of a law prohibiting the re-election of all government officers. "Certain changes in the newly ap pointed cabinet, looking toward the inclusion therein of men who are known not to be allied with the old Diaz regime, must be one of the con ditions established before the revolu tion shall come to an end. Francisco Madero, Sr., said that President Diaz would probably con tinue to hold his office for a few month? longer while some reforms agreed to by the new cabinet are be ing putin force. In the meantime, said Senor Ma dero, the resignation of Vice Presi dent Corral will be received by the Mexican congress shoitiy alter it meets next Saturday. 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