Republican News Item.
VOL. XY. NO. 48
MINES PROVED
TOMBFOR 201
Death Roll ot Pancocst Col
iliery Is 73.
ALABAMA MINE ADDS 73
Nearly All the Victims In Southern
Explosion Were Convicts Only
Forty-five Escaped Death Blast.
Seventy-three mine workers, a few
ot them boys, lost their lives in the
Dunmore, also caled China, vein of the
l'ancoast colliery at Throop, near
Scrantou, Pa.
The Dunmore vein of the mine is 750
feet below the surface, making fire
fighting difficult. The colliery Is own
ed by the Scranton Coal company, af
filiated with the New York, Ontario &
Western company.
The fire which caused the mine hor
ror broke out from some unknown and
mysterious cause in the engine house
at the foot of the shaft. Many persons
attribute it to spontaneous combus
tion. At the time there were 300 men
and boys in the various veins and
chambers of the mine. The llames set
oil' accumulations of gas, which in
creased the difficulty and doubtless in
creased the loss of life.
The vicinity of the mine seethed
with excitement. It was difficult to ob
tain a coherent statement from any
one. About the head of the shaft were
gathered thousands of people, includ
ing the relatives and friends of the
men entombed. Ropes had to be
stretched to keep back the crowd and
to prevent a stampede when the bod
ies were brought out.
The company officials acted with
the greatest promptness when they
learned the extent of the disaster, but
once started the fire spread with re
markable rapidity. It caught on the
timbering of the shaft and spread
along tiie gangway. It seized upon
everything that it could devour and
Willi a wall of flame separated from
safety the men who were in distant
chambers of the Dunmore vein.
As soon as it was seen that the fire
was ballliug the efforts to subdue it
word was sent for the government
rescue car at Kingston, and this re
sponded, bringing lour men equipped
with apparatus, including helmets re
sembling those of divers, for penetrat
ing into smoke and the dreaded fire
damp.
This was the first test of the rescue
car and its crew. The helmeted men
were the only ones that could pene
trate into tlie affected gangway, and
they recovered the bo lies found.
Joseph Evans, head of the United
States mine rescue car, died. A de
fective rescue helmet caused him to
suffocate while working in the burn
ing mine.
The only man brought out alive from
the zone of the fire was Joseph Vick
ers, a fire boss. Viekers finding the
fire was becoming dangerous, accom
panied by a companion, ran down the
gangway to give the alarm. Before
they had gone far their lights went
out. Viekers realized his danger and
started back. He missed his compan
ion. He managed to get by the worst
place on his return, but had gor.e only
a little way beyond it when he was
overcome by smoke. Hours later he
was found by the fire fighters.
Record Price for Barley.
Parley made an entiiely new high
price record in Chicago. Up to $1.13
n bushel was paid. The rise readied
2 cents to 4 cents, making a total
gain of" more than 20 cents in the
last two weeks. Scarcity of the grain
has developed sharp competition be
tween maltsters, and brought about a
boom excelling anything of the kind
previously known in the trade.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
HTJQHESVILLB,
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. SOUPS,
Banking Business. W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Render, Jacob Per,
, . c . Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz,
Accouotsoflndivld- J. A. S. Bull, John Bull'
uals and Firms
solicited.
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Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year.
3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
GOVERNOR TENER. |
Will Play Base Ball For
| Charity.
® 1910, by Amorioan Press Association.
TENER TO PLAY BALL
Governor "Signs" to Cover First In
Game For Charity at Capital.
For the first time probably in the
history of the state a governor of
Pennsylvania will don a uniform and
l>arti< ijiale in a base ball game.
Governor Tener agreed to rover first
base in a horsehide sphere battle that
will be fought for charity on April 21.
The game Willi take place on the
grounds of the Harrisburg Country
club, and many former college stars
will participate.
Mrs. Olmsted, wife of Congressman
M. E. Olmsted, is taking a nactivo
part in the charitable work.
Receiver For a Church.
The court appointed a receiver for
St. George's Catholic church, of Shen
andoah, Pa., a parish which has 8000
members and is the largest congrega
tion in that section.
The receivership is the result of an
equity suit brought by the late Arch
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, to com
pel the officers of St. George's to sub
mit to his authority.
The congregation took the position
that they would recognize the arch
bishop and the priest appointed by
liirn in all spiritual affairs, but they
claimed that the law of Pennsylvania
gives every congregation the right to
manage its own financial affairs.
Millionaire Publisher a Suicide.
After listening to the tragic story
unfolded by the opera Quo Vadis,"
in which two of the characters in
the last act end life's difficulties by
self-destruction, Craige Lippincott,
sixty-five years of age, millionaire
president of the J. 1?. Lippincott com
pany, publishers, of Philadelphia, left
the Metropolitan Opera House and re
turned to his home at 218 South Nine
teenth street. In the morning he was
found dead by bis valet in bed, with a
bullet wound in his right temple.
Miner Crushed to Death.
A sudden fall of many tons of earth
and rock in an ore mine belonging
to the Juniata Furnace and Foundry
company, near Beavertown, Carroll
township, Fa., killed John Heiges,
forty-five years old. Several other min
ers barely escaped the same fate.
Heiges was completely buried from
sight and his body crushed beyond
recognition.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1911.
REOPENS SWOPE
MURDER CASE
Dr. Hyde, Once Convicted, is
Released Under Bood.
SUPREME COURT DECISION
Physician Alleged to Have Kiled Mil
lionaire With Poison Capsules—Ap
plication For New Trial Attacks Tes
timony.
Dr. 1). Clark Hyde, convicted alter
a sensational trial at Kansas City,
Mo., of tlie murder of Colonel Thomas
11. Swope, a millionaire philanthiopi t,
was granted a new trial by the Mis
souri supreme court, sitting at Jef
ferson City.
Dr. Hyde has been in the county
jail at Kansas City nearly a year, fol
lowing a sentence to life imprison
ment.
When news of the court's decision
reached the county jail Dr. Hyde was
taking his usual promenade in front
of liis cell 011 the third floor.
His lawyers shouted up to him:
"You have been granted a new
trial."
Hyde stopped a moment, smiled,
i said "Thank you, gentlemen," and
proceeded on his walk.
When the other prisoners learned
the import of the news a minute later
they crowded around Dr. Hdye and
congratulated him For the first time
since his incarceration he mingled
among his fellow prisoners.
The news traveled quickly from
tier to tier, and as the prisoners, men
! and women, 011 the different tloors
heard it, cheering that had started in
Hyde's corner spread quickly through
out the entire prison. For fully five
minutes the demonstration continued.
A coincidence in collection wi.h the
Hyde decision is that it comes upon
April 11, exactly one year from the
date that his trial began.
An important point in the decision
remanding Hyde was "that the court
said Judge l.atshaw's action in or
dering Dr. Hyde locked up during the
progress of his trial was "improper
and unjustified."
The supreme court, in setting aside
the verdict of the trial court, remands
Hyde "to the custody of the marshal
of Jackson county without bail."
The court's decision was on an ap
peal of Hyde's attorneys for -a new
trial. He was sentenced July 5, 1910,
to life imprisonment by Judge Lat
shaw. On Sept. 211, 1910, his attor
news asked the highest court in the
state for a new hearing, charging er
ror in 255 points. These included the
following allegations:
That the indictments were illegel
and the evidence insufficient to sup
port the allegation; that competent
testimony was barred and incompe
tent testimony received; that preju
dicial remark? were allowed by the
prosecutor and bj v the court; that the
court should not have revoked Hyde s
bond during the trial, and that the
verdict was the result of passion and
prejudice.
The chief evidence atacked was that
of the Chicago and Michigan toxocol
ogists who examined the viscera of
the dead man, Colonel Swope. An es
pecial attack was made on Professor
V r aughn, of Michigan, who testified he
found strychnine in the liver of Colo
nel Swope.
Dr. Hyde was found guilty of mur
der May lti, 1910. His inability prop
erly to explain the purchase of cap
sules of potassium cjv.nide was chiefly
responsible for his conviction. He
said it was used to kill cockroaches;
the prosecution said it was to kill
members of the Swope family, and
asked: "Does a r.-.an kill cockroaches
with poison capsules?" Two days and
a half after the arguments ended the
verdict was returned.
NEGROES INVADING CANADA
The Exodus From Oklahoma to Al
berta Continues.
The exodus of negroes from Okla
homa to Alberta, Canada, which start
ed several months ago, is continuing
despite the fact that it is not being
encouraged by the Canadian govern
ment.
Twenty negro farmers from near
Fallis, Lincoln county, left to join the
colony in Alberta. They expect to take
claims and immediately build homes
and start their crops, after which their
families, numbering in all about 200
persons, will join them. It is said that
1 a colonization company is financing
! the negroes during the first season.
Denies Wife After 51 Years.
Mrs. Sarah Clark, of Newburyport,
Mass., petitioned the superior court
at Salem to order James W. Clark to
recognize her as his wife. She claims
that they were married in Nashua,
N. H., on June 6, 1858, and that they
lived together for fifty-one years until
two years ago, when her husband left
her, saying they were never married.
TOM L. JOHNSON
PASSES AWAY
Former Mayor of Cleveland
Succumbs to Illness.
PIONEER IN STREET RAILWAYS
Was Leader For Three-Cent Fares
and Earnest Advocate of Single Tax
Theories.
Tom L. Johnson, four times mayor
of Cleveland, is dead. His end came
as his weeping family sat around his
bed at the Whitehall, in Cleveland, O.
They had expected his at any
instant since Mr. Johnson was drug
ged into a fitful sleep Monday night.
Mr Johnson's last conscious words
were: "Oh, I feel so good," his lips
just tracing the words. "I had such
pleasant dreams; everything is all
right; I feel so happy." -
The coma which preceded death was
the sign that cirrhosis of the liver and
Blight's disease had run their course.
Mrs. Johnson, herself ill with grief;
his two children, Mrs. Elizabeth Ma
riani and Loltin Johnson, anj Mrs.
Loftin Johnson were the devoiTTl fam
ily group at the bedside when Mr.
Johnson's breathing stopped.
Began Work at 15.
Tom L. Johnson was born in Blue
Springs, Ky„ July IS, 1854. His father,
General William Johnson, a Kentucky
legislator, lost his fortune in the Civil
War, and at fifteen young Johnson was
thrown on his own resources. He got
a job as driver of a horse car in
Louisville, anil thus entered the busi
ness in which lie later made fame and
fortune. Later he became chief of po
lice of Louisville, but he soon became
interested financially in the street car
systems of Indianapolis, Cleveland,
Detroit and Brooklyn.
He was practically at the height of
a most successful career as a street
railway magnate, when, in 1888, he
retired from business to carry out
cherished ideas of social reforms,
among which was that of three-cent
railway fares. This idea had been im
parted to him by Henry George, whose
influence over Johnson's entire life
dated from the time when, on a rail
road train, Johnson bought a copy of
George's "Social Problems." loiter the
two became fast friends and worked
together on various reforms.
On George's advice, Johnson enter
ed politics, running first for congress.
He was defeated in his first campaign
on the free trade issue. Later he was
elected, serving two terms, from 1890
to 1894. Here one of his most note
worthy achievements was the ruse
by which he forced the printing of the
entire next of Henry George's "Protec
tion or Free Trade" into the Congres
sional Record and its free distribution
to the entire country.
Johnson was defeated in the Re
publican landslide of 1894, but in 1901
lie was elected mayor of Cleveland,
and he then began his rea' life's work,
that of establishing three-cent car
fare. For years he kept up the fight,
and as a result Cleveland today still
has the three-cent fare, although not
exactly under the conditions he ha I
hoped for.
His various terms as mayor were
marked by a continual fight against
special privilege, with the result that
he quickly won the title of "Mayor of
the Best Governed City in the United
States."
In 1903 he ran for governor and was
defeated, but he was elected mayor
again in 1905. He met final defeat in
1910.
Although he had been in poor health
since then, he had hoped to the last
to recuperate sufficiently to enter the
next mayoralty campaign. During the
last few months of his life most of
his time was employed in writing his
autobiography.
Johnson married early in life Mar
garet J. Johnson, daughter of the Con
federate colonel, Robert Johnson, at
Louisville. Mrs. Johnson and two chil
dren, Mrs. Bessie Johnson Mariani
and Loftin Edwards Johnson, survive
him.
WOMAN IS MAYOR
Declares She Is Going to Clean Up
Hunnewell, Kan.
Mrs Ella Wilsoir is now the mayor
of Hunnewell, Kan.
At the election she and O. M. Akera
were tied. At first It was suggested
that the two candidates draw lots
for the office. But that did not appeal
to the male voters. They said if Mrs.
Wilson could race to a tie she ought
to have the office. Therefore the
judges of election declared hei as be
ing elected.
Now she says she is going to clean
up Hunnewell. She proposes to coriei t
alleged infractions of the liqiioi una
"""jbling statutes.
TOM L. JOHNSON.
| Dies of Lingering Illness In
Cleveland.
HJL 3£i
wfflSßHklfc MSEHDEO
Widener Pays SSC" ~ •
The report froi Stjite Librnry
A. 13. Widener haa purcnaseu •me
Mill" was confirmed at Mr. Widene.'s :
office in Philadelphia. The price paid,
It was said, wau slightly in excess of
$500,000.
Prior to the sale of the celebrated
Rembiandt by Lord Lansdowne, an
option was given until March 31 to
the trustees of the British National
Gallery. A private subscription to
keep the painting in London had net
ted only $89,240 when the option ex
pired.
Kansas Farmer Would Die Poor.
I.ike Andrew Carnegie, John Booth,
an eighty-seven-year-old resident of
Manhattan, Kan., intends to give away
most of his fortune before he dies. j
Booth, of course, hasn't as big a
job as has the Laird of Skibo, but
he finds plenty to do giving away his
money to projects that he feels are i
worthy of it.
Last fall Mr. Booth much |
attention by a gift of sloo<l, which
made possible the establishment of a
children's playground In Manhattan.
The other day he gave S2OOO to the
Manhattan Young Men's Christian As
sociation, which needs funds to help
it in its work.
"I havi more than SIO,OOO, and-.J
don't need the money," Mr. Booth says.
"I am eighty-seven years old, and I
don't spend S4O a month."
The old philanthropist lives alone
in a two-room house in Manhattan. All
his sons and daughters are dead, and
he has no near relatives. His chief
ambition now is to give away all his
money before he dies, and of course
there are plenty of applications for it.
But Mr. Booth wishes to see that
the money is going to do some good,
and before any gifts can be obtained
from him it is necessary to show him
just how the money is to be spent
and satisfy him that his gift will ac
complish something.
Mr. Booth is a retired farmer and
ulll of his money lie has made from
the soil. *
Hero Fund Fcr Sweden.
Andrew Carnegie hns donated $2.V),-
000 for a hero fund for Sweden, it is
announced in Stockholm.
The hero fund for Sweden is tiie
sixth of its kind established by Mr.
Carnegie. In February lie-gave SIOO,- !
000 for the same purpose to Denmark.
Taft to Talk to Trainmen.
President Taft tentatively accepted
an invitation to address the tenth bi
ennial convention of tiie Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen at Harrisburg,
Pa., on Sunday, May 14.
General J. E. Pilcher Dies.
General James Evelyn Pilcher, c-f
Carlisle, Pa., surgeon, author and lec
turer, died at St. Joseph's hospital, in
Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Pilcher was witli
him when the end came.
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EPIDEMIC OF RABIES
| IN YONKERS, N. Y.
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Thirteen Persons Bitten by
Mad Degs.
Alarm over the epidemic of rallies
in Yonkers, N." Y., was increased
when information came from the New
i York city bureau of health that thir
teen Yonkers persons hart received
treatment there within the past two
mouths for mart rtog bites,
j The stale board of health will bo
asked to send men to Yonkeis to
shoot down every stray dog in the
streets. William Ceratto and Lawrence
Kearney, boys, were bitten on Tues
day. Both dogs are under observation.
| A horse biUen died of hydrophobia.
Not until the death of Abraham Na
: lion, of Park Hill, on Monday, was the
seriousness of the situation disclosed.
WiLL ACT ON RECIPROCITY
d'an Treaty to Be First Thing
Considered by Congress.
I Canadian reciprocity will be the
first thing considered by the house of
representatives.
| Accepting President Taft's pledge
that he would not prorogue congress
the house committee of Democrats de
cided to act on reciprocity first and
then to bring in a bill putting many
ol the necessaries of life on the free
list.
i The free list bill, which will ho
I brought into the house immediately
' after reciprocity, includes the folow
! ing articles: Agricultural implement.-',
such as plows, harrows, reapers, bind
ers and mowers; boots and sh' »s;
saddles and saddlery; wire fc:ic- ; .i!;;
I baling wire; cotton bagging and ties;
coarse sacks; burlap; lumber; flour;
dressed meats and meat p uAm ts, and
sfcwlng machines.
LLOYD, PUZZLE MAKER, DIES
Famous Expert Amassed Fcr'u. c of
$1,000,000 by Nirr.ble Wit.
Sam Lloyd, the puzzle expert, whose
problems huic inte.-_ji-*d not alone
the rising generation b-'t othevr?. <'ied
at his home ill Braoklya from a stroke
of apoplexy. He was seventy years of
p;;f. ' " "
i For many years Mr. IJoyd ha! L-ern
famous throughout lho country for his
popular problems for then liusemeiii
of newspaper ami nta/it'iito • i>. :•
In this unique callin 1.0 'ui'lL ,:j; .1
fortune that has been evtinictol ;ii
more than a million d Hers.
j New Minister to P_,:tjc,a! C.r!s.
Henry S. Bouiell, wh<- was re. viitly
appointed minister to Por.usal, * :.ie;l
on the Kronprinz .! !lie
North German Lloyd line. He was ac
companied by Mrs. Boutell and their
daughter, Miss Alice Boutell.
Military Prisoner Escapes.
Private .lames P. Conroy, a military
prisoner at Fort Adams, at Newport,
R. 1., escaped. He was recently sen
tenced to three years at hard labor
for the larceuy of government prop
erty.
Wealthiest Negro Dead.
i After a long illness John Trower,
reputed to he the wealthiest negro in
I the United States, died in German
, town, a suburb of Philadelphia, aged
sixty-one years. Mr. Trower, whose
fortune is estimated at $1,600,000, was
prominent in church work and had
founded a Baptist seminary in Down
iugtown. Pa.
Suffragettes to Meet in Louisville.
The National Woman's Suffrage as
sociation has accepted the invitation
of the Kentucky Equal Rights society
to hold its next annual enuvenHor in
Louisville, October 19 to 24, nclustve.