VOL. XVI. NO. 7 DISASTER IN STORM'S WAKE Three Persons Killed In Allen town; Two In Johnstown. DAMAGE WAS WIDESPREAD Trees and Fruit Injured by Hail and Duildings Struck by Lightning and Burned. One of the most severe storms ex perienced in years passed over Phila delphia Monday evening. Telegraph reports indicate that t lie storm area extended from Washington to New York. Locally the storm was characterized by incessant lightning, a high wind and heavy rain. Two severe thunderstorms, with ex cessive lightning, passed over Phila delphia, doing great damage to all kinds of property. Telegraph and trol ley wires in all parts of the city were blown down, signs and signboards were ripped up and on the streets found it difficult to keep their footing. Lightning Fires Residence In Camden. During the prevalence of a high wind, rain and electric storm the house occupied by M. C. Mahon, 305 Warren avenue, Camden, N. J., was struck by lightning in the rear part and was set. on fire. Members of Battery B, Field Artil lery, who were in the Third Regiment armory, which is immediately in the rear of the house, finding that Mr. and Mrs. Mahon were not at home, sent in an alarm of lire and then proceeded to carry every pieec of furniture to the houses across the street. The fire caused about SSOO damages to the building, which is owned hy Hiram Ilallinger. I.ast week the porches of the row of houses fell into the street. ALLENTOWN HIT HARD Three Men Killed ar.d Much Property Damaged. Three men were killed and damage was inflicted amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cloudburst that hit Allentown, Pa. "Chain lightning," that blinded the onlookers, was accompanied by terri fying thunder. A gale that rose to seventy miles an hour blew down trees by the hundreds in every part of the city. The trees tore down electric ' light and trolley wires. The rain was like a cataract. With in five minutes streets were gutterful and the water flooded over the side walks into cellars. Houses were un roofed in every section of the city. To add to the damage the storm brought with i hail whose like was never seen here. There were hail stones ranging in size from a hickory nut to a boy's fist. The hail smashed window panes on the exposed side of almost every house in town. At Tenth and Union streets a light ning blast smashed a tree, which fell on a house in which Mrs. Carrie Al lender conducted a boarding house One side of the house was built, of cor rugated iron. A high tension wire carrying 13,000 volts fell against the iron side of the house. Two men in tiie house, Hannibal Dotterer and Ir vin Cackenbach, were electrocuted and Mrs. Alleinler shocked into in sensibility. John Wagner, a friend of the men killed, rushed into the house in a heroic effort to rescue them. As he touched Dotterer's body he was shock ed unconscious and lie died as he was being carried into a house ocross the street. COLE'S Up-To-Date HARHWARF | dßiggH whatever it may l>e~''shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order 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. We 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. Republican News Item. RELICS OF THE MAINE. Fittings Recovered After Pumps Lowered Water Around Wreck. fe.-'-i . . -K* ' r • © 1911, by American Press Association. WORK ON MAINE THURSDAY Pumping Will Be Resumed In Pres ence of Bixby. The pumping of water out of the cofferdam around the wreck of the hat tleship Maine in Havana harbor will be resumed next Thursday. To be pres ent when the pumping begins Briga dier General William liixby, chief of engineers, has left Washington for Ha vana. The process of clearing the watei from around the wreck will take sev eral days. The pumping will be done cautiously in order that the great dam may not become weakened. To avoid any strain the engineers will make an examination of the dam alter there moval of every five feet of water. STOPS TRAIN AND SAVES DROWNING BOY Brakeman Plunges Into Rivei and Rescues Lad. Stopping the train when he saw a small boy drowning in the Susque hanna river near Wilkes-Barre, l'n. Frederick Stoker, a Delaware, I.acka wanna & Western work train brake man, jumped from the train, plunge-:! into the river and rescued the boy. The youngster, a boy of about ten years, had gone in bathing alone and the current of the river, which had been swollen by recent rains, seized him and swept him away. Stoker hoard his cries for help an the train approached him and told the engineer to put on speed and run to a point ahead of the boy. There was a lively race for a minute, and when some twenty-five yards ahead of the boy Stoker jumped off and plunged in and got the boy to sho'-e after a struggle. The lad was soon revived. Indo-se Parcels Post. The Connecticut house of represen tatives pasred .a resolution request ing the Connecticut senators and rep resentatives in congress to favor a parcels post act in line with the Sul zer bill. Four Drowned In Lake. Pour men were drowned when the sand carrier .1. W. Marshall was over turned by wind in Michigan, off Gary, Ind. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911. DIRECT VOTE PASSESJENATE Provides For Election of Sena tors by the People. THE VOTE WAS 64 TO 24 If House Concurs In Amendment Res. olution Will Goto ths States Fot Ratification. The United States senate passed the resolution proposing an amendment tc the federal constitution providing i'oi the election of senators by direct vote The action of the senate marked the successful culmination of an effort that has extended over more than a quarter of a century to bring this question before the state legislatures The resolution was passed by the sen ate by a voie of G4 to 24, two-thirds of those present, of 59, being necessary to carry the proposition. The resolution as adopted, however, carried with it the so-called Bristow amendment, which will necessitate its return to the house of representatives, which had already passed it. If the house acts favorably upon the resolu ion in its amended form, which seems likely, it will goto the states for iati fication as an amendment to the Unit ed States constitution. The Bristow amendment retains tc the federal government power ovet the manner, time and place of holding elections for United States senators The southerners opposed the amend ment on the ground that it would give the federal government power to in terfere with tho so-called grandfath ers' clauses of the constitution of the southern states. The vote on the Bris tow amendment was a tie, 44 to 44 and Vice President Sherman cast the vote which tacked the amendment to the resolution. Upon the vice president may event ually rest the responsibility for the failure of the resolution, for southern senators declared that it would never be adopted in its present form by the legislatures of southern states. These are the senators who voted against the resolution on the final pas sage: Bacon, Bankhead, Brandegee, Burnham, Crane, Dillingham, Fletch er, Foster, Gallinger, Heyburn, John ston, I.ippitt, Lodge, Ivorimer, Oliver Page, Penrose, Percy, Richardson, Boot, Sinoot, Terrell, Williams and Wetmore. COMMENCEMENT AT LEHIGH Highest Honor Prize Is Won by a Chinaman. The commencement day exercises at Lehigh university were held in the Packer Memorial church in Betlile hem, Pa. Eighty-two young men received di plomas and degrees, mostly in tech nical pursuits, at the hands of the in stitution's president, Dr. 11. S. Drink er, who is this year celebrating his fortieth year of graduation from Le high. To a Chinaman has fallen tho high est honor prize of the year. The Ce lestial, Chimin Chu Full, of Nnn Ziang Kiang Su, China, is a sopho more, and lie captured the Wilbur S2OC scholarship. The annual alumni graduation ad dress was delivered by Dr. Talmadgc, of Salt Lake City. SUES TOBACCO TRUST Seeks to Recover $1,200,000 Damages Under Anti-Trust Law. The hearing in the federal court be fore Judge H. G. Conlor of the case of the Ware-Kramer Tobacco company, of Norfolk, Va., against the American Tobacco company and others, for sl,- 20(1,000 damages, under the Sherman anti-trust law, was begun in Halelgh, N. C. The Waro-Kramer company was forced into bankruptcy two years ago and charges that this was caused by illegal methods in restraint of trade by tho American Tobacco company. "Affinities" Preacher's Undoing. Rev. Dr. Walter E. Price, pastor of the exclusive and fashionable McKeos port, Pa., First Presbyteran church, was ousted from his charge by orders of the Red Stone Presbytery. Dr. Price, who was one of the most promi nent ministers in western Pennsylva nia, was reported to have had "affini ties" among the young society girls oi his congregation. He is married and bas a family. "White Slaver" Fined S3OO. Judge Cross, in the United States district court in Trenton, N. J., im posed a fine of S3OO upon Giovanni Albertalli, who had been found guilty of violating the federal white slave law. Albertalli applied last week for a new trial, which was refused. MEXICO CITY ROCKEDBYQUAKE Capital Thrown Into Panic and 63 Are Killed. SCORES WERE WOUNDED Many Soldiers Are Among the Dead. Buildings Collapsed and National Palace Is Damaged. A violent earthquake shock, the most severe which has visited Mexico City In ten years, shook the city. Many buildings were wrecked by the earth tremor, which lasted for six minutes, and at least sixty-three per sons were killed, seventy-five wounded and property worth SIOO,OOO wrecked. When the work of searching the ruins is completed it is possible that the list of dead will be increased somewhat, as hiding hero and there throughout the city there doubtless are many wounded, who, with tradi tional fear of the authorities and gov ernment hospitals, are anxious to evade discovery. Fissures were opened in the street, several large buildings collapsed and scores of adobe houses crumbled upon their occupants. Several persons were killed through the collapse of tho building occupied by the street railway power plant. The National Palace had one of its walls cracked and the keystone of one of the arches was displaced. The ancient cathedral of Santo Do mingo was damaged. The oscillations moved from north to south. The dead in the adobe houses cannot be numbered at pres ent. The shock was most severely felt in the western part of the city, though buildings in the central part of tho capital were rocked. The only for eigner known to bo dead was a China man. Warehouses at the central station collapsed and an angineer was killed. A private boarding school building was wrecked, but none of tho occu pants was injured. At Buena Vista the railway tracks were twisted. The shock was followed by an ex plosion of gas at the artillery bar racks, which added to the horror of the scene. The shock lasted six minutes, and many public buildings, including the city barracks and the Belem prison, are in ruins, while pavements were ripped up in every direction. All lights were extinguished by tho shock, and the darkness added to the terror of the thousands that rushed to the streets for safety. Six soldiers are known to have been killed under the falling walls of the barracks at Santa Coamo, and the of ficials of the ruined prison had nar row escapes from death. Millionaire Shot by Women. W. E. D. Stokes, owner of the Ho tel Ansonia, in New York city, who is now sixty-five years old and a multi millionaire, was shot three times by two young women, who say that he came to their apartment to get letters wirtten by him before he was married last February. Mr. Stokes is in the Roosevelt hos pital with injuries described as being trilling. The girls say that in the scuffle, which was carried into the hallway outside their rooms, Mr. Stokes took a random shot at them, but he didn't hit anything. Lillian Graham, who said in the station house that she was twenty two years oirt in:l a singer, and Ethel Conrad, three years her junior, were the two girls, who had a small apart ment in the Va: una, at 225 West Eightieth street. Graham said that she and her married sister lived together at the Ansonia four years ago and that they knew Stokes at that time. She had some letters which Stokes had written her and Mr. Stokes began to phone to her about them. He didn't like the idea of having Miss Conrad where she could lay hands on them, Miss Graham says that Stokos told her. Stokes went to the Varuna and they discussed the question of letters. She was alone In the sittlngroom with Stokes and Miss Conrad was In the adjoining bedroom. She says that she told him the letters were destroyed, but that he doubted her word. Then Stokes came toward her, so she told the detectives, and tried to choke her. She had a revolver handy and she aimed It at his legs and fired. Miss Conrad came running in from the other room, and she, too, had a pistol. Both girls opened up again, but either they didn't shoot straight or else they intended to shoot low. The three bullets that struck Stokes lodged in his right leg. In the hall way, he says, three Japaneso servants In the employ of Pat Casey, the vaude ville booking agent, appeared. Stokes told the police that the Japs came to the door and held him while the girls fired at him again. RODMAN WANAMAKER. Carries Largest Insurance of Any Person In World. -^*j| Insured For $4 C '" Although he , the unique dlsti ,»elng the most heavily insiu„u person in the woild, Rodman Wanamaker, son of Joi.n Wanamake" and vice president of the Wanamaker establishment In Phi a delphia, has added another $600,000 to his list of life policies. When death removes tho merchant there will accrue to his family from life insurance alone the sum of $1,5 >O, 000. The policies embrace almost eveiy known form of life insurance. Rodman Wanamaker Is about forty three years of age. His health is good, and he works ten, twelve and sixteen hours a day. 8-Year-Old Girl Confesses Robberies. Seven silk dresses, a savings bank with a considerable sum of money in it, two poc-ketbooks, one containing $3 and the other $1.50; five r.mbrellas, two white parasols, a red sweater, three pairs of silk stockings, three rings, Ave stickpins, a gold-handler! umbrella and a shirtwaist, the loot of an alleged eight-vear-old girl thief, were recovered by Chief of Police Kil leen, of Luzerne, Pa. The child is Anna Garry, whom Chief Killeeu arrested an J who con fessed after an hour of_ questioning, that she had robbed six houses durin-' the last week and had hidden I.e. plunder under several porches, one at her own home and the others nearby. She had sneaked into the houses when the people were out or were occupied in the front or back. Killed and Buried Wife. Marshall Taylor, of Freeman, near Farmington, Maine, who was ai rest ed, following the discovery of the body of his murdered wife buried in a shallow grave behind the house, con fessed that he committed the crime. Taylor said that he killed his wife on the night of May 12 and buried the body immediately in a trench he dug almost on 'he spot where she fell Taylor said that he had frequent quarrels with his wife of late and de termined to get rid of her. On the night in question lie induced her to take a walk through the woods behind the house, taking his shotgun along. When she stepped in front of him ho fired one shot at her head from very close range, killing her instantly. Then he dug a grave, placed the body it it, and after filling in tho earth cut spruce boughs with which he covered the newly turned earth. Two Girls Drown While Swimming. "Wo are going to swim by moon light," prattled little seven-year-old Clara Vengel, the daughter of Simon Vengol, a manufacturer of Rosehayn, near Vineland, N. J., to some of her playmates. By "we" she meant herself and Ida Wolstein, aged eight years. As soon as the parents heard of this they started on a wild run for ivfuddy run FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHIESVTI Lli], CAPITAL STOCK | $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits 75,000, DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm - Frontz, John C. Laird, C. W. Sonos, Banking Business. W - C.Frontz, Frank A.Ueedcr, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter trontz, Accounts oflndivid- i j A s Bal]) John 81111 uals and Firms solicited. 1 Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR a qtiarer of a mile away. On the thor». they found some of the girls' clothing. Search was immediately instituted, headed by Postmaster M. E. Darn hart. All night long grappling was kept up without result. Morning dawneil and the force of workers was supple mented by' hundreds, who gathered from every quarter. About 10 o'clock it was decided to open the floodgates, with the hope that the rush of water would stir up the bodies. Soon the nude body of the Vengel girl floated through the gates and the Wolstein girl was found a short disHaice away. The parents of the children are grief-stricken, as is the comn-Cnity, for the girls were favorites. Kill Eight Negroes In Ten Minutes. W. L. Botitlee and George S:ory are believed to have broken all records for rapid and deadly revolver shooting, when at La Branch, La., they shot and killed eight negroes in ten minutes. There was one wounded, which puts Story's score a bit ahead of Doutlee. . The negroes were members oft section gang and Boutlee is foreman. The blacks conceived a hatred for the "boss" and plotted to kill him. They engaged in a fight among themselves and when Boutlee rushed over to stop the row they turned upon him and one struck him over the head with a shovel. Boutlee fell, but sat up, and before he finished rising to liis feet had shot four times and killed four negroes. George Story, a conductor, heard the first loud talking among the negroes, looked at his watch and saw he had just ten minutes before train time. He ran down the track and arrived just as Boutlee finished shooting. Story then killed four negroes and wounded one with six shots, then returned and took his train out on time. Record Wheat Crop For This Country. A wheat crop, the like of which has never been harvested, will be gathered in the United States this season if conditions indicated by the govern ment crop report continue throughout the growing season. Agricultural experts estimate the crop this year will amount to 764,291,- 857 bushels, an increase of 68,848,857 bushels over that gathered last year. Of winter wheat the indicated yield is almost 480,000,000 bushels and that of spring wheat 284,000,000 bushels. While winter wheat will probal.lv yield less to the acre this year than the average for five years, spring wheat will show an increased yield of two bushels per acre over 1910 and a slight increase over the five-year aver age yield. Murdered and Robbed. In a little fringe of woods on tho edge of Paradise creek, near Nor folk, Va., a murder was revealed when a party of searchers out scouring the country in quest of J. L. Benton, a merchant, who had been missing from his home on Deep Creek shell road since last Friday, found him with a gaping wound in his face. Hobbery was undoubtedly the ruling motive of the crime and a shotgun was the weapon. Industrious and possessed of a large family to care for, Mr. Denton had ac cumulated considerable money, which he carried about with him wherever he went. He had in his pockets when he left his homo on Friday morning nearly S9OO. When his pockets were searched the money was gone. MAN DEAD, WIFE ARRESTED Woman Plunged a Fork Into His Breast. Mrs. Julia Glucoz is under arrest for having killed her husband, Joseph Glucoz, near Dath, Northampton coun ty, Pa. The woman and her nineteen-year old son say that (viucoz attacked her and knocked her do, vn while she wa preparing supper, and not until then did she attempt, to defend herself. Grabbing a fork from the table, sho plunged the prongs deep into the man's breast, puncturing the lung. Glucoz died ten minutes later.
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