Republican News Item. VOL. XVI. NO. 2 FINISH FIGHT IS ON AT JUAREZ Rebel Army Attacks Federal Stronghold in City. HUNDREDS HAVE REEN KILLED Many Americans Slain In Fierce Street Fight and Bullets Slay and Wound Non-Combatants In Center of El Paso. The third day's fighting in Juarez opened with a desperate onslaught by Madero's insurrectos in the strong holds in the center of the city held by General Navarro's garrison. It is said hundreds have been killed and wound ed in the fighting. Supported by superior artillery, the loyal troops held the rebels in check most of the day, but the latter, pour ing into the city from the foothills and from every direction and advanc ing by rushes, occupying houses in their advance, finally gained the cen ter of the city. Many Americans enrolled In the rebel ranks were killed and a number were shot in El Paso, despite efforts of the United States troops to keep the crowds of spectators back from the banks of the Rio Grande, the nat ural international border. Throughout the day the fighting did not cease for a minute. Thousands of cartridges were expended, hundreds of shrapnel shells were exploded be tween tlie Mexican brothers in an en deavor each to exterminate the other. Hack and forth they fought, first the Insurrectos gaining and carrying a trench, then falling back under the heavy f.re of the rallying federals. The insurrectos fought their way into the heart of the town, captured the bull ring and Cowboy park. Then they ad vanced slowly against the main strong hold of the federals in the old church, the postofiice, the jail and the munici pal buildings, all grouped around the Hidalgo plaza. Every inch of the route was con tested, and it was a slow, steady fight. Darting from behind one adobe wall to the other, the inj-'.irrect«« Palling back from one roof to another, the federals retreated into the big buildings that gave them safety. Rebels Fire Buildings. The insurrectos used their two home-made cannon with splendid ef fect, except that they had black pow der and their smoke easily drew the fire of the federals. The insurrectos were able to silence the federal big guns in most instances after they got into the city, and for a time the fed erals had nothing more than their rifles and hand grenades for the de fense of the town. In the middle of the afternoon the federals got a field gun onto the roof of the old church and drove the insurrectos back from the old plaza to the trenches near the river, firing shrapnel at them as they fled. Two of the shrapnel shells fell into El Paso, one in the yard of the El Paso laundry and one into the Santa Fe stock yards. The bursting shrapnel scattered the insurrectos and killed and wounded many of them. As the insurrectos fell back they be gan to set fire to the buildings about the plaza. The torch was applied to the postofflee. The fire spread rapidly and soon started in another part of the city. Throughout the fighting the casual ties were heavy on both sides, and the wounded and dying were left in the hot sun, without food, water or medi cnl attention. There were two doctors with either command, and as the fight ing was at close quarters the wound ed fell thick. On an arrangement between Colonel Steevsr, of the United States army, commanding tho border guard, and FIRST NATIONAL BANK, BCTJGH3:ES*V"XLXiI3, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits 75.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Win. Front®, John 0. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W. C.Front/,, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, , Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Front®, Accounts oflndlVld- j j. A . S. Ball, John Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. GENERAL NAVARRO. I ========== ! Mexican Officer In Command of Federal Troops at Juaraz. Senor Tories, Mexican consul In EI Paso, many of the wounded, who had managed to roach the international bridges and had been held back by the United States troops, were allowed to come to El Paso hospitals. The included several Americans. The contending forces in Juarez have no hospital organization or medi cal corps, FO that tho wounded are for the most part left without any more attention than can be had from their unskilled comrades. Lying in the streets, under tnc broiling sun, begging for water, gap ing wounds draining their life blood and staining the ground crimson scores of fighting men of both arm es give tragic evidence of devotion to a cause and loyalty to a purpose—the last and highest devotion of which hu man kind is capable. Death has already claimed several hundred, it is declared. lJterally shot to pieces, brains scattered, organs blown out, the dead lie where they have fgallen. So fierce is the fighting that neither side will permit a moment's truce for a hospital corps under a white llig to remove the wounded and dead bodies from the zone of fire. The city of Juarez is practically de serted except for the federals and the rebels. The American patrol on the El Paso side of the river permits wo men and children to come across at any time in any numbers seeking safety. The Juarez sausage factory, a new industry, was burned, as was a big building east of Juarez. These were followed by the burning of the post office and other buildings. Bullets have been falling in El Paso ill day and another El Pasoan was killed. Vincent Pasedes, nineteen years old, a barber, standing in the door of his home in the International rooming house, was shot through the heart and killed immediately by a ball from the Mexican side of the river. His sister was standing near him when he was shot. Mrs. Macedonia Garcia, while stand ing in a room at her home on Ninth street, was struck in the shoulder by a stray bullet from the Mexican side. It came out of her neck. While on her way to church, Yne? Murola, aged eighty-four years, was struck in the head by a stray bullet and severely injured. Delmonico Alarcon, who lives near Washington Park, was struck in the back while standing in an alley. He may not recover. Jesus Varela, a girl, eleven years of age, was struck by a stray bullet while in bed at her home on Seventh street. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1911. R. R. TRAINMEN IN SESSION Delegates From U. S. and Can ada Assemble at ilarrisburg. REPRESENT 300,000 MEN Only Questions of General Interest to Trainmen Will Be Considered—Paid Out $2,000,000 In Accident Claims Last Year. Ilarrisburg. Pa.. May 10. —The tenth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, an organization that represents 300,000 men in the United States and Canada, was opene d here in the Casino theater, with W. G. I.ee, of Detroit, the grand master, in the chair. Only delegates from the 847 lo;lges were admitted. They will meet morn ing, afternoon and evening during the next two weeks. Their sole object is a betterment of the conditions of their employment, which they hope to ac complish through the enactment of na tional legislation. The question of wages is not to be discussed. Only issues that are of gen eral interest to the brakemen, conduc tors, baggagemen, switchmen, yard men and flagmen in the employ of the railroads of the United States and Canada will be under consideration. One of the chief topics will be the suggestion of federal legislation defin ing tho employers' liability and work men's compensation for death and in |ury. The trainmen take the position that the railroads should be held re sponsible for personal mishaps to the men in their employ, or, broadly, that the industry should bear the brunt ot misfortune in service instead of the man. In turn, if the cost of such re sponsibility is to add to the expenses of the railroads, then the public should be willing to share. The Brotherhood paid out more than 12,000,000 last year in death and dis ability claims. The records show that an employe was killed or disabled in every five anil a half hours during the year. Fifteen were killed or totally dis abled among each 1000 policy holders. Since the organization was formed twenty years ago more than $22,000,- 000 has been paid to widows and or phans of the members. The interstate commerce commis sion's report for the year ending June 30, 1910, shows that one railroad em ploye was killed every two hours and fifteen minutes. One was injured every six minutes during the fiscal year re corded. Much of this mishap is blamed on the cars that are not classed as standard equipment. The convention is likely to pass a resolution aimed at equipment betterment. The various reports to be read be fore the convention will be most grat ifying to the members. The active membership in good standing will he shown to total more than 117,000 More than $2,225,000 is in the treas ury. The increase in the membership| since the convention two years ago is more than 17,000. On August 1, 1905, the Brotherhood had fewer than 17,000 members, having lost more than 10,000 during the previous years as a result of the American Railway union, the Debs strike and the financial condition of the country in 1903-04-05. Dies In Pit of Hot Glass. George Dehaunt, a blower at the Fairmont Window Glass plant in Fair mont, W. Va., met a fearful death when he fell into a pit of molten glass. He was blowing a piece of glass, when suddenly it broke and he lost his balance, failing into the pit. In his fall he came in contact with a lot of broken glass that split his skull, tore out an eye, cut off an ear and almost severad one arm. Taft Promotes Accused Captain. President T.'ut sc.;t to the senate the nomination of Captain Austin M. Knight to be a rear admiral. Over the protest of Secretary of the Navy Meyer Captain Knight was ac quitted by court martial of responsi bility for the sinking of the monitor Puritan in Hampton Roads during ttie tests of high explosives. Thirty-six More Postal Savings Banks. Postmaster Generul Hitchcock has designated thirty-six additional post offices as postal savings depositories, which, including the ones previously selected, will make a total of 129 de positories established since Jan. 1. Among the offices just designated were Steelton, Pa., and Staunton, Va. $87,000 For Mine Victims. A total of $57,000 has been collect ed for the relief of the families of the Pancoast mine fire victims, near Scranton, Pa. There are thirty-one widows and 110 orphans to be cared for. A committee of Scranton and Throop citizens will look after the disbursement of the funds. 21 NATIONS GIVE CARNEGIE MEDAL "Benefactor of Humanity" is Title Conferred on Him. PRESIDENT PRAISES HIM Representatives of 160,000,000 People Present Gold Medal to Great Philan thropist For His Efforts For Peace. Andrew Carnegie received in Wash ington what he called his greatest mark of honor, when twenty-one American republics bestowed on him a gold medal, bearing on one side tlio words "Benefactor of Humanity" and on the other "The American Republics to Andrew Carnegie." According to John Barrett, director general of 'he Pan American Union, it was the lirst time in history that such a tribute from so many nations had been paid to an individual. Senor De Zamacona, the Mexican ambassa dor, made the speech of presentation; Secretary of State Knox presided, and President Taft spoke in eulogy of the gilts which Mr. Carnegie has made for the cause of peace on this hemisphere and throughout the world. Members of the diplomatic corps and men high ia official life filled the hall of the Pan American Union build ing where the ceremonies were held, and for the erection of which Mr. Car negie gave almost a million dollars. In accepting the medal Mr. Carne gie told of his feelings on being in formed of the honor conferred upon him by the Pan American conference at Buenos Ayres. "1 was sitting at my desk in the Highlands of Scotland last autumn," he said, "when a telegram was handed to me, which 1 opened and read with out seeming quite to grasp the mean ing of the words. I was stunned! Was 1 dre.iijing? 'Could such things be and overcome us like a summer's cloud without our special wonder?' "My hands went to my forehead and I bent my hoad to my desk. Slowly the truth developed and established itself and I began to realize what it all meant. Truly, my friends, I never before felt so completely overwhelmed and crushed as it dawned upuii me that the honor which the conference 1 had voted to confer was without par allel; 1C0,000,000 people forming twenty-one sovereign nations, bestow ing upon poor me an honor the like of which had never before been be stowed upon a human being." Referring to President Taft's ad dress a year ago when he voiced a sentiment for a reign of peace among the Pan American republics, Mr. Car negie said: "Thus the president's first invitation to establish a reign of peace was prop erly made to you. Much has taken place since then. He recently held out the olive branch of peace, and it in stautly was accepted by the other branch of our English-speaking race wit hsuch enthusiasm, not by one but by all parties, that today we have every reason to believe that war as a means of settling disputes between the two branches of our race will soon become a crime of the past." In offering thanks to the nations, through their diplomats present for the honor bestowed upon him, .Mr. Carnegie asked them to accompany the expression with the ardent wish on his part that prompt action should be taken by the twenty-one republics to establish a reign of peace by adopting President Taft's policy ot submitting all disputes to arbitration. Father Accused by Son of Murder, John W. Poole, a wealthy farmer, residing near Fowler, Ind., who was accused by his son Emory of the mur der of Joseph Kemper, a German em ployed on the farm, a year ago last December, admitted to Sheriff Frank Shackleton and Marshal John Bow man that he had killed Kemper, but that the killing was accidental. Poole's statement caused great ex citement in Fowler, which was sec ondary only to the stir produced by the finding of Kemper's body on the Poole farm. Poolo was arrested at one of his farms north of Rensselaer, where he had been for two weeks. On the way over from Rensselaer Poole was greatly excited and feared he would be mobbed when he arrived at Fowler. He lay In the corner of the automo bile and concealed himself with a rug. It was just before they arrived that Poole first told the sheriff and mar shal that he was responsible for Kem per's death. He said that on the Sun day of the killing he was climbing over the fence at the back of his house with a shotgun in hand, being In pursuit of a rabbit running across the yard. Kemper, he says, was stand ing near. Poole declared that in get ting over the fence the gun was dis charged and the full charge from the gun blew off Kemper's head- | DUCHESS MARLBOROUGH. Her Mone> Backed Looters of Sac.tsd Mosque. King Sclomor.'s Ring and Crown Loot. The operations of the Anglo-Ameri can syndicate of excavators at Jeru salem threaten an interesting diplo malic affair. According to Constantinople dis patches, the Turkish government takes a serious view of the incident and has sent high otlicials to Jerusa lain to investigate charges that the foreigners carried away sacied relics hidden in the Mosque of Omar from the Romans in A. D. 70, when the city was sacked by Titus. Meantime the whereabouts of the archaeologists and the nature of their spoils is a mystery. The expedition with the prizes embarked at Jaffa, fifty-four miles northwest of Jerusa lem, on April 19, boarding Captain Parker's yacht, which had been await ing them, and setting sail before the people of Jerusalam learned what they had done. It is probable the yacht is now headed for England. There is no doubt that ttae excava tors hoped to discover the* A"rR Covenant and the Seven-Rranched Candlestick, but a dispatch says it is believed the explorers found Solomon's crown, his sword and his ring, and an ancient manuscript of the Rible. The Duchess of Marlborough and members of the Armour family of Chi cago are reputed to be among the backers of the expedition. Forest Fires Sweep Village. Forest fires are raging with unpar alleled fury in the vicinity of Wil liamspart, Pa. Hundreds of fire fight ers are combating the flames, and the outcome is doubtful unless rain falls soon. Sonestown was swept by flame 3 and sparks from forest fires started the conflagration. The village to the north of this city is the center of State Senator Sones' lumber opera tions and his loss will be heavy. In the absence of the male popula tion of Sonestown, who were fighting forest fires nearby, the women fought the flames that wore devouring their homes. When the men arrived the fire had destroyed several residences and a dozen barns. Help was sum moned from Muncy and Nordmont, and a portion of the village was saved. Bill to Pension Widows of Presidents. A bill, the object of which is to give pensions of SSOOO each to Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison, widows of former presidents, was in troduced in the senate by Senator Root, of Now York. A similar meas ure received favorable action in com mittee at the last -lougress, but failed of passage. COLE'S Up-To-Date jpllK. HARDWARE^^^^^P WllEN'you think of buying hard- : thig question: "What kind of ';■' '>..._/\ stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or — —— * whatever it may be —"shall I buy? 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As they will not be available to na tional banks for the basis of circula tion, the treasury cxpectsthat the en tire offer will be subscribed by In vestors. Secretary MacVeagh, as far as is known, has not changed his intention of making the loan a popular one and giving preference to the smaller sub scriptions. Much interest attaches to the price the tseasury will accept. The v bonds could sell as high as 108 _ return to the holder the highest net proceeds of any government bond now outstanding. Four.d Drowned After 17 Days. The body of Eugene Gould, of East Stillwater, was found in Swartswood lake, near Newton, N. J., after a hunt of seventeen days. It was believed that he had been drowned with a com panion. but no trace of the bodies ol either was discovered until Sqrire Unangst discovered Gould's body. Refuce Bail For IWcNamara. The application of John J. Mi Ma mara for the fixing of bail on the charge of dynamiting was ;'i allowed by Superior Judge IJordwell in l.os Angeles, without prejudice and with leave to renew it at any time. TAFT'S POLICY UNCHANGED Army at Border Will Enforce the Neu trality Laws. President Talt made knownj his de termination to ley of Ififn-tntprfCTrnrp- jtrthe Mexican re.>o lution so long as there remains any hope of a settlement of affairs there and protection oi Air.e ican life and property through oilier means than by armed intorven. ion. Though the renewal of host lit es . t Juarez has troubled the president a great deal, he is; still l'r.r from the ond of his patience and hag no intention as yet of abandoning h:s o.To U to keep the fighting away 112 oin the bor der line and to keep American resi dents of border towns away Iron the danger zone when fighting is in pio gress. The confidential reports of the war department state that revolution ex ists in all but two of the states i:i Mexico and that only a few of them seem to have.any connection with ho Madero revolution. This situation in creases the difficulty In handling the question, as there is no reliable head that can be dealt with. The president went over the situation with the cabi net. The reports received by the war department were submitted by Secre tary Dickinson, but no statement was made as to any decision made. Ousted For Urning a Trade Unicn. Second Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Stewart admitted bel'oie the house committee on the civil service- niat clerks had been discharged from U>o government service for activity in pro moting the organization of a trade union. Ti e clerks were removed from the St. Paul office. They wer good clerks, Mr. Stewart said, bit. v "pernicious activity" ' 'noun'.ed to i:i tubordination.
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