Republican News Item.
VOL. XV. NO. 49
OFFERS TRUCE TO
ARRANGE PEACE
Mexican Government Favorable
to Armistice Terms.
REBELS ABANDON BORDER CITY
Under Cover of Night Insurrectos Flee
From Agua Prieta, Which Federals
Occupy at Once.
A proposition for an armistice, pend
ing negotiations for a settlement of
Mexico's internal troubles, was re
reived by the department of foreign
relations in Mexico City from Wash
ington, presumably from Dr. Vasquez
Gomez.
A reply was returned In which it
was indicated that the government
looked with favor upon the suggestion.
Rebels Evacuate Agua Prieta.
It was evident from the looks of the
Agua Prieta streets when the federals
entered after the rebels had silently
stolen out after the raking fire poured
into the town, had been more effective
than the rebels admitted.
Fifty bodies were found lying in the
streets, buildings were perforated and
many adobe residences were shelter
ing wounded non-combatants, includ
ing several women and children. ✓
Part of the iusurrecto garrison was
scattered in the abandonment of the
town. Throwing away their guns nnd
leaving their horses, they lied in dis
order in different directions. The prin
cipal portion of the rebel command,
however, retired in good order toward
the mountains south of the city. Two
insurrecto commanders, Balazario
Garcia and Colonel Medina, deserted
their men and lied across the border,
where they surrendered to the Amer
ican troops.
The victorious federal force which
occupied Ihe town numbered about
1200 men. 1 ieutenant Colonel Reynal
do Diaz, nephew of President Diaz,
was in supreme command. Under him
were Major Luis Medina Barron, of
the rumles, and Commandant Fran
cisco Chiapa, formerly prefect of the
town of Montezuma.
Despite the fact that Uie United
States troops compelled the residents
of Douglas to keep far from that side
of the town nearest the fighting. John
Hamilton, an American, was struck
in the breast and probably ia' ally in
jured by a Mexican bullet while stand
ing in the central part of Douglas.
Several others were wounded, among
them Oscar Goll, a newspaper man,
who was shot in the head.
This incident, following the killling
of two Americans in Douglas last
Thursday by stray bullets, and coming
immediately after President Taft's
warning to the Mexican government
and the direct demands made upon
both rebels and federals by Colonel
Sliunk, commanding the United States
cavalry at Douglas, to avoid firing
across the frontier, is fraught with
menace of serious international com
plications.
A force of 1500 federals attacked the
rebels, intrenched at Agua Prieta, the
Mexican border town, practically ad
joining Douglas. They were driven
back and the rebels held every posi
tion which they held when the fed
eral advance began.
When they were finally in action
the steel missiles tore up the ground
and passed through houses in the
American town as well as ploughed
up the turf protecting the rebels, who
say their loss is light.
The hail of bullets from the federal
machine guns fell far within the con
fines of the city of Douglas. It was
evident from the outset that the bat lie
was to be decisive. Doth sides exhibit
ed desperate courage.
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I COUNT BERNSTORFF.
German Ambassador Has No
| Intention of Resigning.
Photo hv 4 - Frosw .AssorMntlon
GERMAN ENVOY WON'T QUIT
Count Von Berr.storff Says He Hopes
to Stay Heie as Long as He Can.
"Why, no, 1 have no intention of re
signing my diplomatic post," sa d
Count Von Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, who was at the pier in New
York to see his wife and son depart
for Europe.
"1 am going to stay as long as I
can. I want to stay because 1 like It
here. About Dr. lllU's resignation, I
can say little save that 1 am sorry he
is giving up he post."
House Passes Direct Vote Plan.
By a vote of 290 to Hi, the Louie
passed the resolution providing for the
election of Ignited States senato.s bv
direct vote of the people.
Even these sixteen dissenters —
fifteen Republicans and Representa
tive McDermott, of Chicago, a I)enio
crat, would have voted for the resolu
tion had the amendment offered by
Representative Young, of Michigan,
reserving to the federal government
the power to prescribe the manner of
holding elections and the qualifications
of voters been adopted.
This amendment was similar to tho
one which was adopted in the senate
in the last session and resulted in the
defeat of the resolution. It was voted
down, 190 to 121, and when it came to
a vote on the resolution itself, Re
publicans and Democrats alike almos'
fell over one another in their efforts
to be recorded in favor of the propo
sition.
The resolution confers the power to
prescribe details for the elections on
the state.
Boxing In New Jersey.
The New Jersey assembly passed a
measuie by Assemblyman Ford, of
Hudson county, which legalizes six
round boxing bouts. The measure pro
vides that these bouts be held for ex
hibition purposes and in the interest
of physical culture. It also provides
that the contestants must lie examined
before they enter the ring.
Secretary Commerce Commission Dead
Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the
interstate commerce commission, died
at his residence in Washington from
heart disease. Secretary Moseley was
sixty-five years old and had been sec
retary of the commission since its or
ganization twenty-four years ago.
Fire Chief Dies In Action.
John W. Sherwood, sixty-three years
old, president of the National Associa
tion of Firemen, and chief of the Neo
sho, Mo., ("9partment, died of heart
disease whi'.e directing the department
at a fire
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1911.
UNVEIL SHAFT TO
FRENCH HEROES
Recognition For Those Who
Fought For American Liberty.
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT
Monument to Nameless French Sol
diers and Sailors Who Were Killed
In 1781 Unveiled at Annapolis.
In memory of the French soldiers
and-sailors, who gained no individual
fame like the Marquise de Lafayette,
the Count Rochambeau or Baron Steu
ben, but who helped the thirteen col
onies to gain their liberty, a statue
was unveiled in the grounds of St
John's college in Annapolis, Md.
The President and Mrs. Tal't, Am
bassador Jusserand, of France; Secre
tary of War Dickinson and Secictary
of the Navy Meyer were among those
who witnessed the ceremonies.
The president and the French am
bassador spoke in memory of the
brave deeds of the unknown men who
lie buried beneath the shaft, and Miss
Amelie de I'au Fowler, a descendant
of the Count de Grasse, and the Count
de Chambrun, attache of the French
embassy and a descendant of the
Marquise de Lafayette, pulled the
cords that drew back the flags from
across the statue's face, while the
student band played the Marsellalse.
President Taft spoke in praise of
the unknown men, and Ambassador
Jusserand eulogized them for their
willingness and eagerness to cross a
sea to fight under an alien flag, in a
cause then uncertain, all for the prin
ciple of liberty.
Lafayette and Rochambeau and oth
er French generals, the president said,
were "with us so much in the strug
gle" for independence that we almost
forget they are Frenchmen, "But
here," said the president, "where the
»ien whose memory we celebrate are
unknown to us by name, the very im
personality of the occasion makes it
distinctly the gratitude of a nation to
a nation."
Following the unveiling the presi
dent reviewed the brigade of naval
cadets.
The monument is a simple shaft of
pink granite, thirteen feet high. On
a bronze entablature is shown in also
relievo sorrowing Memory, crowned
with the olive leaves of peace and
leaning upon her victorious shield,
watching the departure of a small
group of marching soldiers.
Above the heads of the marchers
banners are flying in the wind, and
in the background are seen the spars
of vessels. In the foreground are two
small grave stones, one inscribed "Ici
git un soldat de la France," and the
other "lei git un tnarin de la France"
(here lies a soldier, here lies a sailor
of France).
The exact spot for the memorial
was chosen only after painstaking re
search. It has been impossible to dis
cover the names of the dead, or even
their exact number. It is only known
that alive they defended the iield and
dead they still hold it.
GUILTY OF MURDER
Slayer of School Girl at Asbury Park
Sentenced to Death.
The jury in the case of Frank
Heldemann, on trial at Freehold, N.
J., for the murder of Mary Smith,
ten years old, at Asbury Park on Nov.
9, returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree.
The jury deliberated one hour and
forty-five minutes. Justice W. P. Voo
hees immediately sentenced Heide
mann to death in the electric chair at
Trenton during the week commencing
May 22.
Heidemann was barely able to stand
up and wept bitterly when sentence
was pronounced.
THREE 107 h,„ZRS KILLED
Five Other D ersons Injured When Car
Crashed Into Pole.
Three colored persons, one a wo
man, were killed, and five others, one
also a woman, were injured in Johns
town, Pa., in an automobile while re
turning from a dance.
The machine, running fifty miles an
hour, skidded, jumped onto a pave
ment and ran into a telephone pole.
The dead are Mrs. Floyd Washington,
John Mahoney and Eldridge Lewis
The injured are not dangerously hurt.
"Big Bill" Edwards Gets Hero Medal.
"Big Bill" Edwards, the commis
sioner of street cleaning of New York,
has received the medal which was
awarded him by the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission for saving Mayor
Gay nor from death at the hands of
James J. Gallagher on Aug. 9 last. Ed
wards received a wound and imperiled
his own life ingoing 4 to the mayor's
assistance. •
AMBASSADOR HILL
RESIGNS HIS POST
Decides to Retire From Berlin
Without Assigning Cause.
THE PRESIDENT ACQUIESCES
His Resignation Will Take Effect on
July 1 and Caused Great Surprise In
Washington.
Dr. David Jayne Hill, of Rochester,
N. Y., ambassador from the United
States to Germany, has resigned his
post. The resignation lias been accept
ed by President Taft.
Neither in Mr. Hill's letter of resig
nation nor in the president's letter of
acceptance is any reason given for
the ambassador's action.
The president thanks Mr. Hill for
his services at Berlin and says that he
is glad to know that he will remain
there until July 1, when the resigna
tion goes into effect.
While Ambassador Hill's resignation
was a great surprise to official Wash
ington and to the diplomatic corps,
it is argued that the fact that he is to
remain at his post until July 1 indi
cates that there was nothing urgent in
his action.
Belief is geenral that his retirement
is in accord with the custom of past
administrations to appoint new am
bassadors to all important posts.
Changes have been made by Presi
dent Taft at all such places except to
Great Britain and Germany.
in the case of Great Britain Presi
dent Taft offered the mission to Dr.
Eliot, of Harvard university, who de
clined.
Accepting the resignation, the pres
ident wrote under date of April 13:
"It is with great reluctance that I
accept your resignation and i elieve
you of a mission which you rave dis
charged in a manner which I so highly
appreciate both as to the actual work
of the embassy and as to your rela
tion to the government to which you
are accredited.
"I am glad it will be convenient to
you to retain your post until the Ist
of next July."
It was learned that while the re
signation oi Dr. Hill had come as a
surprise to the general public, lie had
such a step in contemplation for some
time. It also was stated that Ambas
sador Hill probably will retire to pri
vate life.
Reports of friction between Dr. Hill
and the state department were in cir
culation, but no confirmation was ob
tainable from any source.
One of the chief reasons, it is said,
which prompted Dr. Hill to relinquish
his position, where the president
would have been willing to allow him
to remain, is that Ambassador Hill's
bank account does not warrant him
continuing his residence in Berlin.
Having been a college professor and
not a wealthy man seeking diplomatic
honors, he is comparatively a poor
man and unable to keep up the pace
set by the diplomatic corps of the
German capital. The salary of the
American ambassador, $17,500 a year,
is not sufficient to enable him to main
tain his establishment in keeping with
the splendor of the kaiser's court.
lowa Elects U. S. Senator.
Judge William S. Kenyon, insurgent
Republican, was elected United States
senator to succeed the iate Senator
Jonathan P. Doliver, on the sixty
seventh ballot in the lowa legislature.
The victory came with the second
ballot of the day, and followed a
stormy session.
Judge Kenyon received seventy-eight
votes, just enough to elect, against
twenty-six for Supreme Court Justice
Horace E. Deemer, his Republican op
ponent.
Judge Kenyon will take the seat now
occupied by Lafayette Young, the Des
Moines editor, who was appointed by
the governor to serve until Mr. Dol
liver's successor should be elected. If
the legislature had adjourned without
an election Mr. Young would have had
to retire from the senate anyway, as
a gubernatorial appointment only
' holds good until the legislature lias
either elected or had adjourned, hav
ing failed to elect.
Baby Drowns In Barrel.
Hazel Dorris Engle, aged two years,
{he daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
E. Engle, of near West Chester, Pa.,
drowned in less that a foot of water.
The baby fell into a half-barrel, which
was used to contain water for a mor
tar bed. The infant was taken out
alive, but her death followed a few
minutes later.
Child Strangled With Bran.
Floyd Burkey, five years of age,
of Pittsburg, Pa, wos strangled to
death with bran used in feeding the
horses. Th. child was at play iu a
barn and while throwing bran abnut
some of it lodged in his esophagus.
| FIRE CHIEF CROKER.
Head of New York's Department
i Resigns.
' -
New York 1 .ie Chief Quits.
Edwin F. Croker Hands In His Resig
nation to Take Effect Many 1.
Edwin F. Croker, chief of the New
York city fire department, handed in
his resignation, to take effect May 1.
John Ken lon, the deputy chief, was
at once designated by Fire Commis
sioner Waldo to be acting chief of the
department.
"Hoosier Poet" Can't Use His Hands.
James Whitcomb Riley, the "Hoo
sier poet," who has been ill for some
time, will never be able to speak in
public again, according to Miss Clara
Farr, who visited him in Indianapo
lis. Mr. Riley informed her also, she
said, that he had entirely lost the use
of his hands. He is dictating some new
poems to be included in a new edition
to be issued this spring.
( The Aeroplane In War.
The life of an aviator would not he
safe if *ue approached within 1000
yards of the deck of a modern battle
ship.
This is an official deduction from
recent experiments held at the last
target practice on the southern drill
grounds off Cape Henry, Va., when a
team of bluejackets from the battle
ship Mississippi fired at a box kite.
They used the service rifle. If tho
three-inch guns of tho torpedo defense
battery are used an aeroplane would
not be able to approach within 100<"
yards of a battleship. During the re
cent practice, however, it was impos
sible to use the three-inch guns be
cause they couldn't be inclined at an
angle of elevation high enough to per
mit firing at the kites.
The ordnance officers of the Missis
sippi are considering the necessary
modification of the gun mount for this
kind of attack. It is probable that fur
ther experiments will be held later,
at which the- smaller caliber guns will
be tested in filing at box kites at dif
ferent ranges.
Taft at Double Drowning.
While galloping along the bridle
path in Potomac park at Wa-h'ngton
with Major Butt, his military aide.
President Taft narrowly missed wit
nessing a double drowning.
The president and Major Butt were
near the river and, seeing several boys
running in that direction, the presi
dent sent Major Butt to investigate.
A colored woman had thrown he.- boy
into the river and then jumped in her
self. Both drowned.
The president, after Instructing Ma
jor Butt to notify the police and the
harbor master's office, remained en tlie
scene until the police arrived.
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BOOM WILSON
FOR PRESIDENT
Jersey Governor a Democratic
Possibility in 1912.
The boom of Governor Woodrow
Wilson, of Now Jersey, as a Demo
cratic presidential possibility in 1912,
heard frequently in different parts of
the country, was launched in Balti
more at the first meeting of the an
nual convention of the National Asso
ciation of Shellfish Commissioners.
It was during the speech of Charles
K. Bacon, of Camden, N. J., who is
president of the association, that Gov
ernor Wilson's name was mentioned.
"He came to the front," said Mr..
Bacon, "with the mark of the machine
upon him, but he quickly dispelled all
doubt as to where lie stood on that
score and in a few weeks had won tlie
people of our state as no other man
had won them, and they are heart and
soul with this new kind of governor—
Woodrow Wilson—and we are going
to lend you this man in whom the
people can safely rest every confi
dence. Ho is not only the man of the
hour. He is the man of the future for
all America."
Great applause followed Mr. Bacon's
allusion to Governor Wilson, and after
his speech Mr. Bacon explained that
lie meant taat New Jersey would lend
Governor V ilson to the people of the
United States for four years as their
president.
KILLS WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN
Plumber, Who Feared Ti.ey Might Co
Blind, Then Commits Suicde.
Grant Rickert, a plumber of Vo-.i :gs
town, 0., attacked his wife and .»ve
children with a gun and axe and kill
ed them all. He then shot ;.ii i killed
himself.
Rickert feared he was going blind
and that the eyesight of his children
was impaired, neighbors, say. A sixth
child ran out of the house and c,id
neighbors that his father was h:!!ing
his mother. The children ranged in
years from five to sixteen.
Asks $20,000 Tor Hair Dyod C r f"i.
A snif !'•'•• . in:.muted In
New York city by Mrs Adeline K.
Lewison against Mines. Poll> and
Klark, hair tie-.-or.-, at 1435 Broad
way, was placed on the calendar < 112
the supreme coutt lor tiial Mrn
Lewison says her h-jir w • in i\ • I
gray in the San Kran i co .va t.. . .a,. •
and she employed Maie. l'olly to dye
it Mack. She says the dye 1 i -o ! her
hair green and canned a ia-.li 011 her
forehead.
Calls Special Eescion.
Governor Glasscock isst;e<! a call for
a special session of the West Virginia
legislature on May It! to enact a state
wide primary law, which shall include
provisions for the popular nominations
of United States senators, and to
amend the "corrupt practices act" so
as to prohibit bribery and fraud at
primaries, conventions and politi al
meetings of all kinds as well as at
elections.
Broken Bottle Kills Boy.
Harold King, twelve years of age,
of Loyalville, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
fell downstairs Monday in his father's
barn while he was carrying a two
quart bottle in his arms. The bottlo
broke and a piece of the glass sev
ered an artery in the lad's throat, so
that he died in five minutes.
For Coinage of Two-and-a-half Cents.
Every woman who loves the bargain
county and with joyful anticipation
reads a reduction to thirty-three and
one-half cents a yard, will be inter
ested in a bill introduced in the house
by Representative Sheppard, of Texas,
providing for the coinage of a two
and one-hali cent piece.