Local Items. Read M. Brink's ad. Master Leonard Collins is visit ing relatives iu Sayre. Samuel Kennedy is spending a few days in Williamsport. Miss Mary Harris of New York City spent Saturday with Frances Moran. Mesdames T. J. Keeler and Rob erts were shoppers in Dushore Monday. A son was born to Mr, and Mrs. L. R. Bussler on Tuesday, May 23, 1911. Ellery Crossley of Williamsport upent Sunday with his parents in this place. Henry Carpenter is suffering from a severe attack of pleural pneumonia. W. J. McCartney of Sonestown* was a business man in the county seat one day last week. The Sullivan County M. D's. held their annual meeting at the Laporte Hotel Thursday. The members of the Sonestown Rod and Gun Club are enjoying an outing on Loyalsock creek. Grant Carpenter is working for the Lake Mokoma Company in their ice house at Williamsport. George Upmann left on M >nday for Binghamtou, N. Y., where he will work for Henry Stepp at the carpenter trade. E. V. Ingham and family have returned to their summer home in Eagles Mere, after spending the winter in Atlantic City, N. J. A Memorial sermon will be preached to the survivors of the Civil War of Laporte and vicinity, by Rev. E. B. Davidson at the M. E. church on Sunday, May 28, at 10:30 a. m. The public is cordial ly invited to attend. Among those who attended the Knights Templar parade at Wil liamsport Tuesday were: Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Meylert, Rev. and Mrs. C. 11. Doupe, Mrs. Robert Mason, E. Jessie Wrede, Thos. E. Kennedy and Lee Fritz. Once again the youthful progeny risks the laying on of the shingle that he may enjoy the thrills of the first spring swim, hut by heck, who can blame him with the mer cury trying to win the height rec ord from the aviators and old Sol urging him on ? Whew ! We recently received a post card from Rev, D. L. Dixon, former pastor of the Laporte M. E. church, now located at Trevorton, Pa. Mr. Dixon says he likes his new home very much. He extends best wishes to his Sullivan County friends. It has been intimated by a local wit that the future "white hope" is to hail from Laporte and judging from recent pugilistic exhibitions it does look as though this were the locality to select Jack John son's successor to the man punch ing belt. If the proper publicity is given the modern Sampson, we will no doubt soon hear a voice from the far west saying: "Come on yo' white trash an' get yo' med icin'." Memorial Day . The sur/ivors of the Civil War of Laporte and vicinity will meet at the M. E. church on Tuesday, May 30, 1911, at 2 o'clock p. m., for memorial services. The public is cordially invited to be present. Committee on choir music, F. AV. Meylert. Committee on flowers, E. Jessie Wrede, Jean Ingham, Reba Lovelace, Helen Maben, Al berta Heess, Alta Gumble, Mattie Stafford, Frances Kennedy, Jennie Vogel, Julia Rose, Ellen Buseh liausen, Florence Vogel, Beatrice Mason, Eliza Stepp. Wm. W. Loeb, Secretary. Connell—Hood Case Affirmed By Supreme Court. A case passed upon by the Su preme Court which is of interest to the people of Sullivan County, is that of Mrs. Paul C. Hood versus the Connell Coal and Mining Com pany. Paul C. Hood was killed by a fall of rock in the Connell coal mines at Berniee. His widow brought suit for damages, alleging that the company had been negli gent in not providing better and more props. The case was tried in the Sullivan County Court l>efore Judge Charles E. Terry, and a ver dict for $4,750 was returned in fa vor of Mrs Hood. Judgment for the company not withstanding the verdict was asked for, also a new trial both being re fused by the judge. The case was then carried to the Supreme Court with the result that Judge Terry is aflirmed and Mrs. Hood will re ceive the amount specified in the verdict, together with interest, Charles M. Culver and David E. Kaufman of Towaiula, and J. G. Scouten of Dushore were the at torneys for Mrs. Hood, while E. J. Mullen of Laporte and S. T. Me- Cormick of Williamsport appeared for the defendant company. SHUNK. The following attended the Ma sonic parade at Williamsport Tues day: Messrs O. J. Williams, Fred Williams, Jesse Williams, F. L. Kilmer, Howard Kilmer, and Mit-s Helen Williams. Mrs. J. R. Biddle who has been spending some time in Williams port receiving medical aid, returned home Friday. The ice cream social given Sat ur day evening by the"Truth Seek ers" was a success in every way. Will those who borrowed the cake kindly return it? W. H. Fanning and wife called on Mrs. J. R. Biddle Sunday. Harry Shadduck has moved his family onto the farm that he re cently purchased of Jethro Buttin. As Rev. Mizener was unable to be with us, Rev Frazer delivered the baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening. C. N. Porter and lady visited at the home of Frank Boyle at Estel la Saturday. D. M. Soper and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stone. Have Fire Scare. A few moments of genuine fright and lively movements were given the people at Laporte Hotel on Friday evening of hutt week by the explosion of a lamp in the second rtoor hallway. The lamp was set ting on a shelf in the hall and when discovered was blazing and smoking, with the fire extending down into the oil chamber. An attempt was made to reach a win dow with the lamp but it dropped to the Hoor and bursted, splashing the oil about the staircase which immediately took fire. An alarm was sent through the house and in a short time a crowd was on the scene and quickly smothered the fiames. No damage of any account resulted as the fire was extinguished before it had burned through the linoleum on the Hoor. Mrs. M. Bugano. Mrs. M. Bugano suffered a fatal stroke of apoplexy at her home in Tannery on Tuesday about noon. The lady had gone into the garden to work when she suddenly dropped dead. She was about fifty years of age and is survived by her hus band, one son, John and three daughters, Mary, Anna and Effie. Funeral services will l>e held today (Friday) at the Church of the Sa cred Heart, Catholic. Foust—Croman. At the Episcopal Rectory, on Monday, May 22, 1911, Samuel Jacob Foust and Miss Vergie Alice Croman, both of Picture Rocks, were united in marriage by Rev. C. H. Doupe. The young couple will reside in Picture Rocks. RAMON CORRAL. Vice President of Mexico* Who Reeigned From Diaz's Cabinet. yg/Jp HQHjHnpi m SEEKS PROSECUTION OF STANDARD OIL Senate Wants tn Know What Steps Have Been Taken, Information as to what steps had been taken for the criminal prosecu tion of the officers of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, under the recent decision of the supreme court, was demanded of the attorney general by the senate, which adopted without discussion a resolution of in quiry offered by Senator Pomerene. The resolution names specifically John D.-Rockefeller, William Rocke feller, Henry H. Rogers, Henry M. Flagler, John D. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne and Charles M. Pratt. Although dead, H. H. Rogers is named in the resolution as one of the officers of the Standard Oil. The resolution sets forth that the supreme court held the corporation to be illegal, and in effect, Its officers guilty of effecting a combination in restraint of trade. Therefore, the reso lution continues, the seven men named are amenable to criminal pros ecution and the demand is made "that the attorney general of the United States be, and he is hereby directed to inform the senate of the United States what, if any, prosecutions have been begun, or are now pending against the said Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, or the said constituent companies or individual defendants above named or any of them for viola tions of said sections 1 or 2 of said Sherman anti-trust law." WOMAN'S BODY IN RIVER Was School Teacher Who Disappeared Three Months Ago. The body of Miss Marianna Sutter ly, the school teacher from St. Mary's Hall, in Burlington, N. Y., who had mysteriously disappeared about three months ago, was found floating in the Delaware river off Edgewater Park. The body was discovered by a thirteen-year-old boy named Briscoo, who was rowing a boat in midstream when he discovered the body. He towed it to the shore, where it was im mediately identified. Miss Sutterly was clad in the same blue tailor-made suit which she wore on the night of her disappearance. There were no marks upon her body. She had been in ill health for some time before her disappearance, and it is believed that she may have commit ted suicide. SCIENTISTS REVOLT Minnesota Congregations Withdraw From the "Mother Church," A. E. Smith, of the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, in Minneapolis, Minn., gave to the press a copy of a resolution adopted at a meeting of the church members by which, by a vote of 93 to 3, the members decided to withdraw from the "mother church" at Boston. The reasons given are that "since the death of Mrs. Eddy the Christian Science board of directors have abso lute authority to control the teach ings," and that the board condemned Christian Science as taught by Abbot Smith, who was a personal student of Mrs. Eddy. The congregation, therefore, decided to become a Christian Science reform ed church. The statement also an nounces that similar action was taken by the Second Church of Christ. Sells Library For $250,000. William Beer, who has been for twenty years librarian of the How ard library, New Orleans, La., haa an nounced that he had sold his famous library of Americana, in New York, for $250,000. The collection consists of 5000 or more Items, Including man uscripts, maps and imprints. The sale was made to a New York man whose name was not disclosed. Crushed In Bread Mixer. Joseph Rhiner, a baker of Hartford, Conn., had climbed into a power bread mixer to scrape it out, when by some accident the machine was set In mo tion and he was drawn feet first inio the cogs and roiled up to the waist. He will die. HUSTON MUST SERVE JAIL TERM Supreme Court Affirms Convic tion of Capitol Architect. 6UILTY OF CONSPIRACY Affirms Action of Lower Court, Which Sentenced Him to Serve Six Months to Two Years In Prison and Pay SSOO Fine. The supreme court of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg handed down an opinion in the case of Joseph M. Huston, the capitol architect, affirming the action of the Dauphin county court in refus ing him a new trial. According to his own counsel, the decision of the state's highest tri bunal means that the architect will have to serve his sentence to prison unless some new and now unknown means of obtaining another stay of execution is obtained. The convicted man has ten days before the decree of the court takes effect. The sentence imposed in the Dau phin county court by Judge Kunkel, and upheld last March by the superior court and now by the supreme court, was that Huston should serve from six months to two years in the east ern penitentiary and pay a fine of SSOO and the costs of the prosecution. The opinion in full was read by Chief Justice Fell as follows: "The order allowing this appeal lim ited the argument to the assignments of error which relate to the actions of the court of quarter sessions on send ing the jury back for further deliber ations after a verdict of guilty of de frauding the commonwealth had been presented to the court and the fore man of the Jury had attempted an ex planation of the verdict in a colloquy between himself and the trial judge. "After a consideration of the whole colloquy as it appears in the report er's notes of the case a majority of the court are of the opinion that the Judgment appealed from should be af firmed on the opinion of the superior court. Judgment affirmed." Huston was not in court. The ap peal on which the decision was based was taken on March 25 last in Phila delphia and argument began there on April 24. FOUR MEN LYNCHED Pearl Hunters, Robbed and Stripped, Found Hanging to a Tree. Swinging in the branches of a big tree in the deserted portion of Letch er county, near Compton, Ky., the nude bodies of four pearl hunters who. It is said, have found many valuable pearls within the last week, were found by a passerby. It is believed that the men were lynched by thieves and their bodies swung from the tree. One of the bod ies was Identified by Dr. F. H. Lewis as that of J. W. King, a pearl hunter, who found a pearl a few days ago val ued at SIOOO. The other three were not identified. The motive for the hanging has not been fathomed and feeling Is at a high pitch. The other three men are said to be from Oregon, who, attracted by the large finds along the Kentucky river at this point came to seek pearls. The bodies had been hanging in the open air for probably a day or two. No clothing or anything about the four men was to be found which would lead to their identification. There has been no trace of the guilty parties found. There has been no robberies in Letcher county in many months, and as there were no strangers in the neighborhood tho crime is shrouded In mystery. KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED Sent Up For Burglary Because There Was No Law Against Child Stealing. Judge J. C. Roberts, of the district court in Las Vegas, N. M., pronounced sentence on Will Rogers and Joe Wig gins, the confessed kidnappers of lit tle Waldo Rogers, on March 29 last. Rogers received five to twelve years in the penitentiary and Wiggins seven to twelve years. In the absence of a statute for kidnapping in New Mexico, the men were prosecuted for burglary, as they broke into a house to steal the child. Bridegroom, 72, Slays Bride, 30. Alois Elsenbarth, seventy-two years of age, living in St. Louis, Mo., killed his bride of a month with a hatchet and pitchfork and also seriously in jured his sister-in-law. At the police station Elsenbarth accused his wife, who was thirty years old, of trying to get his property. $2,000,060 Left to Jewish Charities. Jewish charities will benefit $2,000,- 0 0 by the will of Charles Wertheimer. of pictures and art objects, no died in London on April 25. Blew His Head Off. Sick and despondent, William Tay lor, sixty years of age, of Boontan, N. J., ended his life by blowing ofT tho top of his head with a shotgun. Crazed by Heat, a Suicide. Crazed by the heat, Jacob ITnanpait went into the woods near his home in Williams township, near Kaitcn, Pa., and hanged himself to a tiee. Lake Mokoma's New Boat. A largo new passenger boat will be a great attract ion and a drawing card for Lake M okoma this year. The boat will be over fifty feet in length and will comfortably seat seventy-five passengers. The con tract for the building of the boat has been let to A. W. Springstead of Geneva, N. Y., a first class boat builder. Mr. Springstead is now on the ground with a force of men at work on the boat. He expects to have it ready to launch in one month. A fifteen horse power en gine will propel the boat and she will lie a model of convenience. A boat, of this description has become a necessity owing to the increased summer business at the lake. Cottages Being Built At Lake Mokoma. Two fine new cottages are in course of erection at Lake Moko ma, one by Kdward Ladley and one by F. 11. Farrell. The former is located near the cottages erected last summer and the latter on Fountain Avenue near the lake. Contractor Win. 11. Rogers is put ting up both buildings. Clean Your Glasses. The most scientifically fitted glasses In the world will do more harm than good unless they are properly kept nnd correctly worn. It Is a strong state ment to make, but most people wear dirty glasses, even those who are fas tidiously careful in all other respects. Peering through any clouded nnd un certain window is a strain upon the vision. How much more must the strain be when the window is so close to the eye that it is almost a part of it! Glasses must be worn at the exact angle for which they were prescribed and no other. For this reason many people and all children do better In spectacles than in eyeglasses. The glasses should be fitted to the eye by tho optician, after which care should be taken not to handle and loosen the frame. If this occurs in the slightest degree they should again be fitted and tightened.—Youth's Companion. Meteoric Showers. How mnny know that the earth is getting larger each year from the fall of meteoric matter on its surface and that such matter is of no small weight? One hundred tons a day is the estimate made by Young. This, he says, would make a layer one inch thick over the entire earth in 1,000,- 000,000 years if we assume this me teoric matter to be three times as heavy as water. Rut another effect has to take place at the same time. As the earth is getting larger the force of gravity gets larger, and we are be ing attracted with more force toward the sun. But the centrifugal force keeping us away from the sun gets much greater, too, and, in fact, more so than the sun's gravity, the result being that we are gradually increas ing our distance from the glowing orb. —New York Tribune. Byron In an Ugly Mood. I have not yet read Byron's "Con versations," but there was an anecdote In one of the extracts which confirms what I heard long wince, but which I could not depend on before. lie had an aversion to see women eat. Colo nel was at Byron's house in Piccn dilly, Lady Byron in the room, and luncheon was brought In—veal cutlets, etc. She began eating. Byron turned around in disgust and said, "Gorman dizing beast!" and, taking up the tray, threw the whole luncheon into the hall. Lady Byron cried and left the room.— Told by llaydou, the Painter. Three Killed In Poker Fight. Three men were killed and one fa tally shot in a quarrel over a game of cards at Kaylor, near Kittanning, Pa. Dick Sendrio, a miner, shot and killed his brother Charles and Andrew and Rocco Braltis, brothers, and fa tally wounded Walter Spilish It Is said that during the game five aces were found in the deck. Dick was suspected and beaten. He took revenge by firing into the crowd and then tied. Historic Virginia Mansion Burned. Chesterville, the home of George Wythe, signer of the Declaration of Indejendence, at Hampton, Va., said to the the oldest residence in America, was destroyed by fire. It was owned by Mrs. Robert S. Hudglns and accu pied a site on Rack river. Local his torians say it was more than 175 years old. Family of Five Drown. The sudden capsizing of a small batteau fifty feet from the Mississippi river landing at Arkansas City, caused the drowning of five persons, all of one family. The dead are: Parma Wilson, Irma Wilson, Mrs. Annie Wilson. Edna Wilson and Viola Wilson, all of Eutaw, Miss. "Holy Ghost and Us" Bark Wrecked. The barkentine Kingdom of the Holy Ghost and Us sect has been stranded off Sangomer, on the west coast of Africa and probably will be a total loss. This information has been received in Portland, Me., fiom the National Board of Marine Underwrit ers in New York. ESSE bbs. gd waesagHa J PROFESSIONAL CARDS. $ fRANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attorney-at-liaw. Office in Keeler'w Block. LA FORT F, Sullivan County, I'A. £ J. MULLEN, Atto 112 n ey-at- La w. LA PORT K, PA OrFICK IN COOHTV BIJILDI NO IV BAR COT RT QUI)R K. J # H. CRONIN, ATTORNKY V AT LAW, HOTART PUBLIC. OFFICI OR MAIN hTKCKT. OU SHORE, PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Capital ... $25,000.00 Transacts a Keneral bnnking busimsH. .T. 1,. CHRISTIAN El>\V. I.ADI.KV PreHidcnt. Cashier. 3 per cent interest paid on time deposits, ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. Advertise in the News Item. j 3 CENTS A LINE ADS. ) EGOS FOR SALE— linfr Leghorn single or le comb. 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