Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor. LAPORTE ..77777777. PA. NEWS STORIES IN MINIATURE Minor Mention of a Week's Important Events. A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS Paragraphs Which Briefly Chronic!® the Events of Interest as Bulle tined by Wire, Wireless and Cable Foreign News. Washington President Tal't nominated Captain Alfred Reynolds to be rear admiral. The Anglo-American and Franco- American arbitration treaties were signed in the White House. The Senate, adding two amend ments, passed the House bill increas ing that body's membership to 433. The House passed the Cotton bill, reducing the tariff on cotton goods o£ every-day use 21.06 per cent., by a vote of 202 to 91. The record of a speech by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was putin evi ence before the House investigating committee, showing the Remsen Pure- Food Board was maintained expressly to aid manufacturers. Personal A daughter was born to Countess Szechenyi (formerly Gladys Vander bilt. William Hammerstein, the New York theatrical man, admitted he had married his dead wife's sister, Miss Anna Nimmo, a week ago. A dispatch from Wilhelmshoehe says that the German empress has been stricken with a slight attack of anigina pectoris or heart dis^vse. Russell G. Colt haß been served with papers in a suit for absolute divorce. His wife, Ethel Barrymore, asks no alimony, but demands the custody of her child. The action will be tried in New York, which recognizes only one ground for divorce. Mrs. Waldorf Astor has won the hearts of the Irish M. P.s. She found them picnicking by permission in the grounds at Cliveden, England, and in sisted they ought to be guests at the house, telling them that was the way it would be in Virginia where she cams from. Then she amused them by talking politics. Sporting Joe Jackson is not only a hard hit ter and fast man but a quick thinker on the ball field. The town cup, offered by the city of Cowes Isle of Wight, was won by the kaiser's yacht Meteor. Lincoln Beachey, after returning from his flight to Philadelphia, per formed thrilling feats at the Nassau Boulevard aerodrome. So great now is Rube Marquard'a fame that lie has been put on an all National League team that is com pared with an all American League team. The record made by Lee Tannehill in the six games at American League park, New York, was notable. He had forty-nine chances and accepted forty eight of them, an average of eight a game. Ty Cobb's ambition to make 300 hits in one season won't be realized this year figuring, it mathematically. In 102 games Ty made 104 hits. That is 1.61 hits a game. Continuing at that rate he will make 247 bits. General Cotton prices rose sharply on gen eral buying, which started in Liver pool and spread to American mar kets. A dispatch from Lexington, Ky., Ky., stated that one hundred cases of pellagra were reported in Bell and Whiteley counties. Ten cars, carrying the ocean-to ocaan automobile party, reached San Francisco on the way to Los Angeles, Cal., from Atlantic City. Dr. Andrew S. Draper, State Com missioner of Education, in a letter made public at Albany criticised the educational chapter of the proposed charter for New York city. William Jennings Bryan, at Chica go, assumed »uil responsibility for the editorial recently published in his weekly paper criticising Congressman Underwood, and stated that he in tended to give the Democratic leader of Congress an early opportunity to discuss some other things. While trying to save John Duffy, fourteen, In swimming off a Brooklyn pier, Robert Stephenson, twenty eight, struck a submerged sand-pile and broke his spine. Both were drowned. Prehistoric relics throwing light on natural history and the lives of the Indians have been unearth at Madi sonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. The body of the girl fouud in the Hudson at Irvington, N. Y., was identi fied as that of Annie Eiben, who drowned herself because her engage ment was broken. Counterteit J1 certificates are Demg circulated in North Adams, Mass. Lieutenant Charles E. Brillhart, U. S. N., shot hlmßelf dead ill'the Hotel Astor, New York. The arbitration treaties were sent to the Senate, but owing to absentees action was delayed. Former United States Senator Ed ward Murphy, Jr., died at his summer home in Elberon, N. J. A combination of insurgents and Democrats directed the Senate Com mittee on Finance to report back the House cotton bill. Dr. C. D. Woodson has sold the ap ples in his orchard near Agency, Mis souri, for SIOO,OOO. The orchard con tains 260 acres and 10,200 trees. George B. McCabe, solicitor for the Department of Agriculture, was on the stand in the investigation of the Wiley charges at Washington. Boys found the headless body of a woman, undoubtedly murdered, in a Cincinnati sewer, and the police are unable to clear up the mystery. The House at Washington voted to take up the report of the committee which investigated the Day portrait mystery of the State Department. Admiral Togo placed a wreath on ! George Washington's tomb. Of Mount Vernon he said: "This place is beau tiful. A simple home for a great man." Protestant clergymen of New York denounced any such betrayals of the secrets of their parishioners as occa sioned the trial of Rev. A. J. Van denheuvel. Sammy Nassenfeld, fourteen, cross ed the ocean in the cabin of the Kais er Wilhelm 11., and until the ship was coming up New York bay it was not known that he was a stowaway. When 1,500 feet in the air at Atlan tic City the release clutch of a para chute, with which Howard Bennett was to drop from a balloon, refused to work, and the aeronaut, having punched a hole in the balloon, had many escapes from death before final ly dropping in the ocean. Pallegrine Scaglis was arrested in St. Louis. The New York police be lieve he is responsible for the mys terious shootings which ended the lives of three brothers named Cardi nal!. One of them was killed each year. Scaglis's scarred face gave the detectives their first clue. Foreign The remains of Edwin A. Abbey, the noted American painter, were cremat ed at Golders Green, London. Mile. Marving, the woman aviator, while monopianing at St. Etienne. France, lost her nerve and collided with a tree. She was unhurt. A mutiny at Cherbourg, France, among men and petty officers of the torpedo flotilla led to 200 being placed under arrest. The Germans are busy Germanizing Agardir. They are building a dancing stage and already have opened a beer house ashore. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Yanderbilt of New York were guests of King George and Queen Mary at dinner on board the royal yacht off Cowes. A new Canadian river, at least 300 miles long, has been reported to the government. It is the Black Crow, a tributary of the Porcupine. On September 5 at Kiel the Kaiser will review the greatest array of Ger man war craft ever assembled, com prising 140 vessels and 25,000 men. The office of the International Har vester Co. in Odessa, Russia, was en tered by armed bandits who seized SI,BOO after wounding the manager. Antoine Simon, Pres'dent of Hayti, left Port-au-Prince on board a Hay tian cruiser, leaving the revolution ists in undisputed control of there public. Ex-President Simon of Hayti board ed a Dutch steamer bound for Jamai ca; as he left the harbor of Port-au- Prince the three Haytian warships sa luted. President Taft is figuring conspicu ously in the Canadian elections. His reciprocity utterances are quoted more frequently than those of home statesmen. Lord Morley published a list of sev enty-six peers who had promised to vote for the veto bill: the Tory ex tremists were believed to number six ty-seven. Several political prisoners in the penitentiary at Chihuahua, Mexico, went on a strike when they were par doned, refusing to leave unless liber ty was given to the other prisoners. Spanish and Frencu labor men met in Madrid to protest against Franco Spanish military operations in Moroc co; the French delegates declared war would be opposed by a general strike. The Nicaraguan Gunboat Omatepe is at tne bottom of the Kama river. She turned turtle in one of the worst storms that swept the Gulf coast in years. The Omatepe was formerly the steamer Esther. The total immigration into Canada i in June was 40,009, an Increase of 16 per cent. Of these 27,974 came in at ' ocean ports and 12,035 from the Unit ed States. Mr. Balfour gave notice of a resolu tion to be moved in the House of Commons in further protest against I the government's method of forcing through the veto bill. | A general strike in the port of Lon -1 don was declared after 12,000 dock | laborers had struck because they did , net receive an increase in wages said i to have been promised. ARSON FOR HIRE TO COVER THEFT Cashier Admits Man Blown Up Was His Tool. WAS TRYING TO BURN BOOKS Prisoner Confesses His Purpose Was to Destroy Evidence of Speculations, and Implicates Bookkeeper, Who Denies Knowledge of Incidents. Jersey City, N. J. —The Jersey City police unearthed a crime wherein drink, larceny, bad companions, con spiracy, an attempt at burglary, friend ship, arson and the death of one of the conspirators by fire and explosion figured in dramatic details. The cen tral figure in the story is Samuel Brown, tall and slender, with finely cut features that show the effects of dissipation, a Mason and Mystic Shriner, with an attractive wife and a delightful home in No. 315 West 113 th street, Manhattan, who was ar rested and charged with arson in con nection with the fire on the preceding evening in the office of the Long Dock Mills and Elevator, No. 6S Pavonia avenue, Jersey City, of which he was cashier. A few hours before Brown's arrest Frank Walsh, alias "Lightning," an autcast, who hung around saloons in East Newark, died as the result of burns that followed an explosicn of gasoline in the office, whither he went to destroy books and check stubs that would incriminate Brown and to set fire to the building with the aim of giving the impression that burglars had cracked the safe, robbed it and committed arson to hide their crime. As the result of Walsh's death the additional charge of manslaughter or murder was made against Brown in the police court. A third man impli cated in the affair is Patrick B. Tim rnons of Newark, an expert book keeper, who, it is charged, sought to aid Brown in hiding the details of the cashier's thefts from the Long Dock Mills and Elevator. He denies that he knows anything about the affair that would incriminate him. Samuel Brown, cashier of the mills, has admitted a shortage of 12,500 in his accounts. He turned for help three months ago to Timmons. Tim mons, an expert accountant, tried to cover up the embezzlement, then found a way by which the evidence of it might be destroyed. Walsh agreed—for a payment of $lO, it is said—to burn the contents of the safe in the office of the mills, which is one block away from the Erie Rail road station. DEAD AT 100 YEARS. Mrs. Susanna Tobey Retained Facul ties and Happy Disposition to End. Wareliam, Mass. —Mrs. Susanna K. Tobey died here aged 100 years after an illness of several months. Mrs. Tobey lived here for seventy-four years, having come from Middleboro, where she was born. Her early life was spent in North Middleboro and in 1835 she was married to Mr. Tobey on the day that Daniel Webster made his memorable address on the com pletion of the Bunker Hill Monument. COLEMAN CARNEGIE DEAD. Nephew of Ironmaster Victim of Pneumonia in Adirondacks. Glens Palls, N. Y. —Coleman Carne gie, of Pittsburg and Fernandina, Fla., a nephew of Andrew Carnegie, died at the house of Samuel Jenkins, an Adirondack guide, at Pattens Mills. BOY CAGED WITH HYENAS. Child of Five Badly Bitten by Beasts When Being Exhibited. Rapid City, S. D.—Kept in a cage with a pair of South American hyenas, which were being exhibited, and bit ten and scratched until he moaned when any one touched him, was the experience of a boy named Jenree, five years old, according to the charges of State's Attorney Denu, who caused the arrest of the child's foster par ents, Mr. and Mrs. James J. Johnson. The child was exhibited by a carnival company through Minnesota and lowa. The mother of the boy, who is now Mrs. Henry N. Weakley of Omaha, learned of the affair and has started proceedings to get possession of him. Casein Kills Game Fish. Callicoon, N. Y. —Complaints have been made from points north of here that the game fish in the Delaware river are being killed out as the result of refuse casein from the creameries being dumped into the river. No Hope for Pension Bills. Washington.—What possibly was the last chance to get pension legisla tion through the House at this ses sion was lost when Speaker Clark sus tained a point of order made by Fitz gerald of New York against the And erson Invalid Pension bill. Cholera In Italy Spreads. Washington. The epidemic of cholera in Italy is spreading. Al ready it has extended to Gonoa and PROPER TREATMENT OF COLTS DURING THE SUMMER'S HEAT Many Good Animals Have Been Aged and Made Dull try- Foolish Habit of Letting Them Run Unbroken Into Spring When They Are Three or Four Years Old and Then Putting Them to Work. Prize Winnlnk Draft Mare and Foal. (By J. M. REI-L, Virginia.) Try to be patient with your colt Mr. Farmer. Remember he Is green— yes, as green as the grass he eats so peacefully when you turn him out to graze and the harness no longer chafes his soft young body. All farmers know that a four-year old colt will stand more than a three year-old. Bone and muscle are better matured and generally better size, therefore, he Is better able to stand a day's work. But, when It comes to that, no green, unbroken colt should be expected to do a full day's work in the team of well seasoned farm or road horses. So many good colts have been aged and made dull by this foolish habit of letting them run absolutely un broken into the spring when they are three or four-year-olds and then catch ing them and putting them at hard, steady work just as the busy season comes on, when the crops need work, when the flies are rampant and when neither the master's nor the colt's tempers are at their best. Imagine a farmer starting out to mow hay with a green or half broken colt hitched alongside of a mule or a steady farm horse to a mowing ma chine, double row cultivator, corn planter, plow or harrow. All Implements need a steady, well broken team and at the same time a good driver, who, in order to do his best work has little time for else than quietly handling his team and imple ment at one and the same time. This man will not get much satis faction out of a day's work if he has to worry with a green, restive colt, who, chafing at the unexpected misery of heavy work In hot weather, starts up a little too soon or not soon enough, protests at having to walk in a straight line at a slow gait, etc. It is not impossible that he will balk, kick or rear upon what might be con sidered a very slight provocation, or no provocation at all to a broken, mid dle-aged farm horse. In that section of Virginia known as The "Valley" famous for its splendid line of stock, the farmers are very successful breeders of horses, notably heavy draft horses and their rule Is to break these big colts at two years old, never working them over half a day at time and beginning tho break irg-ln process in the late winter and early spring. The first link is to a wagon in a steady team and with a quiet team CHAMPION STEER SHAMROCK 11. Silage is going to be more used than In the past, and cattle feeders are com ing to the conclusion at last that It should not be ignored, says tho Na tional Stockman. Cheaper grains have been made by using silage as rough age, while gains have been made more rapid, especially where the cattle were fed only 90 days. The plan adopted In handling silage is to let the ear of the corn reach as advanced a stage of maturity as possible without firing the fodder. Many stock feeders in the upper edge of the corn be/t, where dent corn often fails to come to maturity because of early frosts, are using this silage method with the best of success, and for wintering cattle its use is equal to pasturing them. Meanwhile the demand for breeding cattle Is showing a steady lncr'»as«, ster, generally a white man who l» used to the daily handling of horses. The writer visited that section two jears ago this month and while the guest of a well-known horse breeder, saw four full-blooded Percherons working to a manure spreader, a nine year-old-mare under the saddle, a three-year-old-stallion In the off-lead and a young mare under the line. The average weight of these splen did horaes was about 1,800 pounds each, but the remarkable part of the business wa' that these two young, vigorous stallions were working quiet ly with mares. Their teamster had them under perfect control, but they had been worked the same as two year-olds and had become used to farm labor by degrees. Of course, advice ia cheap and the farmers get lots of it and in this mat ter of working colts and green horses In the summer time they have heard It all—fitting on the harness, scraping the collars at night, washing off the shoulders and sparing the lash. I have only to say this, and I speak from experience: If the farmer don't go easy with the three and four-year olds at this season they will be old and sluggish long before their time. GIVE MILK COW GOOD TREATMENT Animal Should Have Access to Rock Salt at All Times — Should Not t>e Hurried by Dog or Horse. A small quantity of barrel salt should be given the cow once or twice a week; and she should have constant access to rock salt, either in the yard or pasture. Ingoing to and from the pastures, the cows should have the use of a good wide lane, so that they may not be hooked and jammed about. Do not hur ry them with a dog or horse. If the floors of the barn are of cement, a small quantity of sand should be sprinkled on the floor before the COWB are turned out or allowed to come In. This will prevent them from slipping. Care should be exercised, when they are running together, that heavy cows do not ride the young heifers when the latter are In season. Heifers are frequently Injured for life by this treatment; broken-down rumps being rather common i» some herds. and Illinois, Indiana, Michigan ana Ohio farmers are buying thousands of good breeding cows, paying as high as SSO per head, or more than killers will offer. Furthermore, west of the Missouri river, in the former range country, new farmers have fenced in the lands and are in the market look ing for pure-bred bulls in som<- in stances, although most of the demand now is for cheap bulls. The illustra tion shows Shamrock 11., grand cham pion steer, at the recent International LJve Sfliclt show. Timothy Hay. Timothy bay, when fed alone, is a very poor ration for any animal, but It is much worse for a growing one. It will fill, but he who feeds it will not ««t best results. NOTHING BUT AN AMATEUR Fair Damsel's Questions That Ra. vealed Callow Lover in His True Light. "Do you really and truly think I am beautiful?" she asked. "You are simply divine," he re plied. "But there are other girls whom you think more beautiful than I." "No, I don't think there Is a mora beautiful girl In the world than you." "There are other girls you think are just as beautiful, though." "You are more beautiful than any other girl I ever saw." "I suppose there are plenty of girls whom you consider almost as beautiful as I am." "I think you are far more beauti ful than any other girl that ever breathed." "Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?" "That was what I meant, If I didn't exactly say so." "O, well, goon. My goodness! Must I suggest everything nice that you say to me?" "What more can I say?" "Heavens! I'm not sit here giving you lessons. I thought the way you started out that you had made love before." IN THE COUNTRY. The City Man—Your father, I be lieve, cleared the land of everything. The Countryman—Yes—everythiiig but the mortgage. Ended Cat's Sojourn. Felix Smith of Easton, Pa., bought a cat the other day. He paid $5 for her. Why did Felix pay five bucks for the cat? Answer—Because she was guaranteed to be a good ratter. Did Felix have rats? We should say he did —the house was full of 'em! And the cat cleaned 'em out! No; that's the curious part of it. After tho cat had been on the Job a week tha rats were as plentiful as ever. Fell* couldn't understand it until one eve nlng he concealed himself in the base ment to watch the cat. About 9 p. m., as the cat sat with her eye on a rat hole, Felix says that rat after rat came out of the hole, walked up to the old cat, kissed her good-night and then returned to the hole. After that Fells kicked the cat out of the house. —Boa- ton Post. An Undefinable Definition. A few days after school opened in the spring a teacher in a Brooklyn school was testing the members of one of her old classes on what they had remembered of the definitions sh« had taught them during the preceding term. Finally she asked the bright boy of the class this question: "Now, Robert, tell me what a hypo crite is?" "A hypocrite," replied Robert with out hesitation, "is a kid w'at comes to school wit' a smile on his mug." The Ground of Their Love. "Let us have peace," said the Eng lish invader. "Can you not see that the white strangers love the redmen?" "Ah, yes," replied the intelligent In dian, "they love the very ground we walk upon."—Sacred Heart Review. 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