Republican News item. VOL. xv. NO. so HOLD ACCUSERS IN DYNAMITE CASE Four Are Charged With Kid napping McNamara. BACKED BY LABOR UNIONS Iron Workers Prefer Charges Against Counsel, Prosecutor and Chauffeur, Alleging McNamara Was Kidnepped After His Arrest. Packed by all the influence of or ganized labor as represented in In dianapnlis, Ind., by the international officers and six organizations, a move ment lias been started to force there turn to that city of J. J. McNamara, secretary treasurer of the Iron Work ers, on the ground that he was taken unlawfully out of the state. The proceedings began when Wil liam J. Lurns, the detective; Walter Drew, of New York; W. J. Ford, of I.os Angeles, and Frank Fox, driver of the automobile in which McNamara was taken from the city, were arrest ed and placed under SIO,OOO bonds each. G. A. Badorf, agent for Drew, was also arrested and sent to jail until could be arranged. The general charge against the men is that they conspired to take McNa mara out of the state "without due process of law." It is alleged that McNamara did not have an opportunity to consult coun sel and resist extradition after his ar rest last Saturday evening. After Gov ernor Marshill had honored requisition papers for McNamara, Magistrate Col lins turned him over to Sergeant Hos sick, of i.os Angeles. He was put into an automobile driven by Fox and tak en to Chicago Saturday night, bound for I.os Angeles, to answer an indict ment charging him with complicity in a dynamite explosion at the Llewellyn Iron works. The affidavits against Drew, Ford and Fox were made by J. J. Keagan, a labor union leader of Indianapolis and a member of the Indiana legisla ture. McNamara was arrested on Satur day night for alleged complicity in the dynamiting of the I.os Angeles Times building, and a requisition having been signed by the governor, was taken out of Indianapolis in an automobile and sent to I.os Angeles. It is charged that though McNa mara was not turned over to a detec tive sergeant from Los Angeles until Governor Marshall had honored requi sition papers from the governor of California, he had not been permitted to consult with counsel or to make a plea of resistance to extradition be fore Police Judge Collins when he was identified as the man named in the warrant for his arrest. It was In Fox's automobile that Mo- Narnara was taken to Chicago on Sat urday night, to be placed aboard a train for Los Angeles. There is no doubt in the minds of the detectives and police officers that J. J. McNamara is the head of the dynamiting organization that has blown up more than 100 buildings in the past three years. They are satis fied that McNamara is not only the head of the criminal organization, but that he was its inspiration and has directed all its movements, purchasing the dynamite to be used in explosions, the clocks by which the dynamite was exploded and deciding where and when the explosion should occur. The evidence at hand shows con clusively that the movement was not aimed specially at opponents of the international union, of which Mc- Namara was an officer. Such confine ment of acts of violence womd have attracted attention to the bridge and FIRST NATIONAL BANK, IP-A.. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEPF.R, Cashier. Net ProGts i 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W. C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, . Lyman Myers, \V. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j. A s . Ball) J()hn Bu „ uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. WILLIAM J. BURNS. Detective Who Caused the Arrest of Alleged Dynamiters. structural workers alone, and the dy namiting of tlia I.os Angeles Tiiuea building, the wrecking of houses on which non-union carpenters were em ployed and on structures on which non-union men of other trades were employed in other places was a part of the system to distiact attention from the ironworkers as the prime movers in the conspiracy against life and property. The finding of dynamite in large quantities in the actual possession of McNamara, both in an old stable that lie had rented and in the basement of the American Central Life building, in which lie had stored a box of the explosive after having gotten the con sent of the custodian, is regarded us conclusive evidence. Clothes Seized For Cebt as He Bathed When John Spivok, of Riverside, N. J., came out of the bath he hid not a stitch of clothing to put on his back, as his wearing apparel ha J been seized as collateral for his hoard bill. Officer Morton reported the case to Squire Zeigler, who decided that Spivok must have his clothes to wear before the would allow him to appear o nthe street. Jumped Down Smokestack. Pat Teeling, a trusted inmate of the state insane hospital at Agnew, near San Jose, Cal., climbed to the top of a sixty-five-foot smokestack and jump ed down inside it. Reedsville Man Kills Eagle. Emery Ayers, of Reedsville, Pa., shot and killed a bald eagle, measur ing six feet from tip to top, adjacent to Lewistown. When killed the bird was circling ovor a brood of chickens. Fasts For 26 Days. While loading lumber a month ago William T. Marvel, of Seat'ord, Del., stuck a small splinter into his thumb. The accident happened on a Friday, and Sunday afternoon the pain was so excruciating that a doctor was sum moned, and upon his arrival lockjaw had developed. Everything was done to relieve him, but without avail. Fasting was ordered and Marvel was kept alive for twenty six days by hypodermic injections of morphine. Marvel has now recovered and he shows no ill effects from his fast and attack of tetanus. Plague Deaths Increase. The official figures of the ravages of the bubonic plague in the central prov inces of India show 95,884 deaths from the disease in March. The fatalities during February were 43,500. Killed In Roadway Race. John McCullough, formerly a jockey and horse trainer, was hurled from a two-wheelt'd cart and killed in a brush with another vehicle on the roadway at Asbury Park, N. J. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1911. IN EARNEST FOR PEACE IN MEXICO Negotiations Start in the Five Days' Armistice. MAOER3 IS INSISTENT Wants to Be Sure Reforms Will Be Carried Out —May Extend Truct to Carry on Negotiations. It has been learned in El Paso, Texas, that if there should be need of a longer truce than five days in which to conclude peace, the armis tice signed between General Navarro, of the federal forces, and General Ma dero will be extended from Friday, when the truce will expire at noon. Negotiations for peace have gone just far enough to put each side in possession of the outlines of the oth er's demands. General Madero has known and guardef for two weeks in formation as to what the government willl grant. He telegraphed to Mexico City the nature of his own demands. Following this, a long telegram was received from the Mexican capital, but no indication of its contents leaked out. Madero met the peace commission ers several times, but there has been no agreement as yet. There is a hitch now on how the arrangements will be carried out. Madero wants the federal govei nment to name commissioners who will be able to act in a binding manner for the federal government. He would obviate the necessity of car rying on so much telegraphic corres pondence with Mexico. One of the demands of Madero is that the provisional governors now on duty in the states of Chihuahua, Du rango, Coahuila and Sonora be allowed to remain in office until an election can be held, the federal governors for these three states retiring. Madero will also insist that his men must not be disarmed. If they disperse they are togo to their homes with their arms. This is to be the part of the federal guarantee of good faith. If good faith is not shown by the govern ment, then the war can be resumed if the federals break faith. Is Not a Surrender. Madero will insist that the disband ment shall not be in the nature of a surrender. He is willing, it is stated, to have a certain date set for ending the war, after which time all men in arms will be considered traitors or bandits. He will insist that ample time be given all the men in arms in all parts of,the republic to get informa tion as to the cessation of hostilities. All who return to their homes and cease operations by the date set are to be exempt from prosecution for any act of war they may have com mitted against the government during the time they have been in arms, up to and including tlie date set for final disbandment. Madero will insist that his men now in office in the four states named and the local officials whom they have put into office be retained, as he claims they have been elected in accordance with the popular will of the people and that their installation is the first step towards reform. Madero will consent to the other governors remaining in office pending the expiration of their present terms, meantime the no-re-e'.ection clause to be adopted in all states and by the nation, so that full and free elections will be held as officials' terms expire in the states and nation. As to the carrying out of the re forms offered by Diaz, Madero is will ing to accept the assurances of the cabinet and the rren who are acting In behalf of the cabinet and the presi dent —Braniff, Obrogon, Hernandez and his father. These assurances, the continuation of his insurrecto officials in office in the four slates and the re tention of arms by . I'.e insurreetos af ter returning to their homes, he be lieves, will be guarantees sufficient to proev the good faith W the govern ment. Madero admitted that Dr. Gomez is coming to El Paso from Washington to take part In the peace negotiations. Gomez Is the confidential agent of Madero in Washington and was can didate for vice president on the Ma dero ticket at the last election. Killed In Runaway. Frederick Major, steward of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting club, was thrown from a runabout at the en trance to the club's grounds, near Me dia, Pa., when the horse ran away. He died a moment after he was found lying on the ground. Adams to Succeed Pierce. It was announced at the interior department in Washington that Sam uel Adams, of Chicago, will be appoint ed by President Taft to succeed First Assistant Secretary Pierce of that de partment. RECIPROCITY 1 PASSES HOUSE IIGP' Soes Through in Form It Game From Gcmmiftee. THE VOTE WAS 264 TO 89 Amendments Enlarging Free List Were Voted Down on the Ground They Would Break Agreement With Canada. President Taft won a substantial victory when the house of representa tives passed the Canadian reclp;ocity agreement by a vote of 21>G to 89. The bill got 45 more votes than it did in the last session, the vote on Its for mer passage having been 221 to 92. Seventy-eight Republicans, one less than a majority of representatives of t' t party in the house, voted against the measure. Sixty-four Republicans uphold the hand of the administration. Eleven Democrats deserted their party organization by voting against the ad ministration bill. The bill, which has President Taft's entire approval, practically is identi cal with that submitted at the last session. In the course of the debate on the measure, amendments for free lumber, fresh moat, canned meat, shingles and laths were voted down on the ground that they would break the Canadian agreement. The debate was concluded with the speeches of the frhree leaders in the tight, Representatives Underwood, of Alabama: McCall, of Massachusetts, and Daizell, of Pennsylvania. Crowded galleries heard the concluding speech es, Mrs. Taft occupying a seat in the executive gallery. Representative McCall declared that the farmers of tlie United States had been pushed forward to hide the real interests opposed to the agreement lie said that he spoke in behalf of all Republicans who were in favor of the measure. He ridiculed the "eulogies upon tiie farmers," which lie said had chaiacterized the majority of the speeches against reciprocity. "The farmer is not the sad eyed monstrosity tiiat lie has been painted in the house," declared the speaker. "The opening up of the cheap lands of Canada to United States markets would not be injurious to this coun try," said Mr. McCall. In a final attack on the bill Mr. Daizell, of Pennsylvania, declared the agreement had been made without au thority of law; that it had been made without popular desire for it and un der the guise of a measure to reduce the cost of living. He held that neither the preside) ' nor congress had the right to make an agreement with a foreign country involving revenue questions. Mr. Daizell called the agreement a "bungling piece of statesmanship," and further characterized it as an "open, avowed, free trade measure," declaring that its passage would threaten the whole policy of protection to American industry. Body Is Exhumed; Murder Exposed. Post mortem examination of the body of William E. Warrington, who died in the city jail at Easton, Md., after it had been exhumed in Odd Fellows' cemetery, proved that he had died of a fractured skull, received, it is al leged, when he was thrown into a cell after arrest, and while he pleaded his innocence of the charge against him. Charges of murder, it is expect ed, will follow. The body was exhumed at the re quest of the boy's mother, Mrs. John Newell, who declared that her son was murdered by the police. The ex amination was attended by a large crowd, including women and children, but several of the latter were forced to retreat when the body was brought from the grave, and surgeons began cutting it. Warrington's death occurred on Dec. 17, and shortly after the inquest was held and everyone exonerated. Burial followed. Mrs. Newell refused to be lieve that her son had died of natural causes and received a report from the undertaker that the neck of her son was discolored, and that it appeared to him as if the neck were broken and caused death. Mrs. Newell made an investigation and placed her evidence of police bru tality before Magistrate Stengle. He ' communicated with Governor Croth ers, who ordered the body to be ex humed. Pari. Still Third City. Paris retains its position as the third largest city in the world, the census taken last month showing that the city has a population of 2,84G,986. The figures in 1906 were 2,703,393. The French census as a whole has shown a drift of population from the country to the cities. HENRY S. BOUTELL New Republic of Portugal. ® mi. lAhrary . association. Quote Taft to Boost Free List. Quoting President Taft in an effort to show that the Kepublican policy of a high protective tariff has proved a j failure, the Democrats brought into the house, with a favorable report from the committee on ways and means, their "farmers' free list bill." i The report on the bill, presented by Representative Underwood, chairman of the committee, is a merger of Dem ocratic political argument, based very largely on the utterances of the presi dent, and an analysis of the proposed exemptions from duty. The report shows that the free list bill would reduce the tariff revenue $10,01ti.495, based on the importations for the last fiscal year, an amount de scribed as "Inconsiderable in compar ison with the great saving and advan tages to all of our people from the ad ditions to the free list provided for."i Quoting President Taft's recent Ca- 1 uadian reciprocity speeches, the report seeks to convey the impression that the administration is convinced that protective tariff rates are too high. "In several public addresses," it says,"he (the president) has admit ted that tariff rates are too high, that such rates have resulted in excessive ly high prices, felt especially in the in creased cost of living, which now bears heavily on our people, and that they have not received the long-p.om ised benefits of domestic competition under high protective duties." , Divided Victory In Catholic Case. The first of the pending decisions in the Catholic church cases in Pottsville, i'a., brought by the late Archbishop Ryan, was made when Judge Becluel informally stated irorn the bench that the three county judges are a unit r. J to the law governing the . conduct of Catholic cemeteries. The decision is that the lay mem- j bers of the congregations, under the ' laws of Pennsylvania, have supervis ion over all such cemeteries, and can manage the financial affairs, hire the grave diggers, etc. But on the questiqn of who is to be buried in consecrated ground, the court holds that the priest alone has authority, and that lay members can not decide whether a person has been in good standing in the church so as to entitle him or her to burial in a Catholic cemetery. This is a divided victory for the parties to the suit. HARDWARE^J^^jpE WHEN you think of buying bard ware you naturally ask yourself -a v.~< thig question: "What kind of V : i stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or — : — whatever it may be— "shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mailorder catalogs. Come 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 think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. AVe give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. 75C PER YEAR SitEL EARNINGS S.iQW DECREASE Fall Over $2,080,000 From - Previous Quarter. The United States Steel corporation reports earnings for the quarter end ing March 31, of $23,519,203. This compares with $25,990,978 for the quarter ended Dec. 31; $37,305,187 for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1910, and $;;7,01o,870 for the quarter ended March 31, 1910. The regular quarterly dividends were declared on preferred and com mon stock. The report gives the net earnings of the corporation for the quarter ending March 31 at $20,001,- 817. The board of directors re-elected all the old officers with the exception of W. B. Dickson, who resigned his po sition as vice president some toge ago. His place was not filled. Former Judge Elbert 11. Gary, chair man of the United States Steel cor poration, authorized a denial of a story that in the near future he •would re tire from ti e head of that organiza tion. SECOND BODY FOUND Deaths of Sisters Is Baffling Annapolis Authorities. Spa creek gave up the second of the bodies to the dual mystery that has bailled the Annapolis, Aid., police au thorities for nearly two weeks past, when the body of Miss Alice Shores, who disappeared with her younger HU ter, Mrs. Dora H. White, on then g.:t of April 5, and whose body was re covered on Sunday, came to the ur iace. Whether the women came to their deaths by drowning by ac< iilent or suicidal intent or by violence is still being probed by the authorities. Though the face of Miss Shores bears several pronounced marks of discoloration, nothing in the vny of the severe bruises as marked the ; ice and neck of .Mrs. White wa discov ered when the body was taken from the water. BURY SIX O'HARAS AT G*CE Family Which Saves L'p its Dead to Hold Anna! Fuiieial FiiJ^/. The annual funeral of the O'Hara family will lie held in Atlanta, Ga„ next Friday, when -i.. members ct numerous and widely m.rte trt cl n of hor&e traders and I'an-.srs will he laid to rest. It is the custom of ti.? O'l iv: l .* to bury the dead on ti c sa:n< it • JO ihat as many relatives a ; p.»s < .:n at tend the obsequies. When OIK- of TI>E clan dies the body is sen; to A: iia embalmed and held until April, Wi.en, together with all the others who have passed away during, the preceding twelve months, it is interred. The members who will be buried Friday were residents of Georgia, Ala bama and Kentucky. The family con nections extend to almost every south ern state, St. Louis and Washington. Many of them are wealthy. DYNAMITE CAP KILLS WOMAN Pricked Dangerous Article With Hair pin and It Exploded. A dynamite cap which Mrs. Rose Schultz, a widow, residing at Guth's Station, near Allentown, Pa., held in her hand while she picked at it with a hairpin, exploded. Both her hands were torn off and her face, chest and abdomen fright fully lacerated, exposing the intes tines. She was sent to the hospital at Allentown, where she died. Mrs. Schultz is the mother of throe children, one a nursing babe. The cap was found by her little boy. from whom she took it while he wa- pia.v in." with it.
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