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.
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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.
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he ordered a half-barrel and will
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GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak;
vinter clear, $3.25(&3.50; city mllla.
ancy, 5.25(&5.75.
RYE FLOUR firm, at sf>(o's.2s per
arret.
WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 93@93 , Ac.
CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, 61@62c.
OATS steady; No. 2 white, 4i)c.;
lower grades, 38V&C.
POULTRY: Live firm; liens, 15ffi
15%0.; old roosters, lOfrllc. Dresse 1
steady; choice fowls, loc.; old roost
ers, 11c.
BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 23c.
EGOS firm; selected, 20(5 22c.; near
by, 17',ic.; western, 17',«c.
POTATOES steady; old, per bushel,
55<?i 60c.
Live Stock Markets.
PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—
OATTLE lower; choice, $6.10® 6.25;
prime, $5.85@6.
SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $4 60
@4.75; culls and common, s2®"3; veal
calves, $7.50@7.75; spring lambs, $5
@B.
HOGS lower; prime heavies, $6.10:
mediums, $6.30@t>.35; heavy and light
Yorkers and pigs, $6.35; roughs,
6.40.