Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor. LAPORTE ..IT PA. WEEK'S NEWS STORIES RETOLD Events That Made a Stir Con densed to a Paragraph. WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING News of Interest That Trickles From the White House and the Various Departments Catalogue of Crimes and Casualties. Washington The Senate was in session only ten minutes and adjourned out of respect for the memory of the late Senator William P. Frye. The government crop report showed a tremendous decline in the condition of the principal grains. Secretary MacVeagh, after a con ference with Chicago bankers, decided to withhold his ruling as to the stat us of security holding companies. The Steel Trust probers voted not to require George W. Perkins to ans wer questions concerning personal campaign contributions, and he was examined as to other matters. Attorney-General Wickersham re ported on the case of the National City company. It was said bankers were prepared to comply with possi ble Government demands as to their "security company" business. Solicitor McCabe of the Department of Agriculture admitted altering a Federal court decision, striking out the words "benzoic acid" before hav ing it printed as a Government docu ment and employing an expert under terms for which he aided in making charges against Dr. Wiley. Personal The ttt. Hon. Sir Samuel Walker, lord chancellor of Ireland since 1905, Is dead. Smith Ely, former mayor of New York, who died on July 1, bequeathed $915,000 to charitable and religious in stitutions. Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the aviator who lost his life at New Or leans, won her pilot's license trom the Aero club, after having devoted a single month to the study of the art of flying. Rev. Dr. G. C. Richmond of Phila delphia said he would continue to de nounce the "projected Astor-Force disgrace" and do all he can "to make it impossible for that wedding to be solemnized by a clergyman of any faith." Sporting Eighteen men started from Brus sels on an aviation circuit of Belgium for prizes aggregating $7,000. Pitcher Krapp of the Clevelands, watches the bases sharply and is quick as a flash at fielding ground balls. Secretary Barnard of the Cleveland club says Harry Davis hasn't signed j any kind of a paper whatever toman- i age the Naps next season. General Testifying before the Stanley Steel probers, George W. Perkins denounced the Sherman Anti-Trust act as de structive to Big Business. Suit was brought against Senator Lorimer by a Chicago firm to recover SO,OOO for work claimed to have been j done on his summer home. Major Moy of Plainfield has sued J the Courier News for slo,uoo, alleging j libel in an article saying the mayor 1 had misused $ IS6 of city funds. A bitter fight in the building indus- j try was looked for in New York as j the result of tho strike of the White- j btone Association of Marble Polishers ! and Cutters. Rioting continued in the Brooklyn car strike, twenty-five persons being hurt and about fifty arrested; the po lice "strong arm" squad put many mobs to flight. Representative Beckemeyer, a wit ness before the Lorimer investigating committee, asserted that he received SI,OOO for voting for Lorimer and frankly admitted that he lied when he \ denied bribery before the Cook County Grand Jury. A mob of 400 men battered down the doors of the Coatesville (Pa.) hos pital, dragged out Ezekiel Walker, a negro charged with killing Special Policeman Rise on Saturday night, carried him half a mile manacled to his hospital cot, and burned liim alive. The Controller of the Federal Treas ury, Mr. Tracewell, construed the last naval appropriation act to mean that "every" employe in a shipyard where government vessels are build ing must enjoy an eight-hour day. A dispatch from Fort Wayne. Ind., stated that a Pennsylvania railroad train had been wrecked at that place; four persons were reported killed and tihrty injured. Henry Clay Loudenslager congress man from the first New Jersey dis trict, is dead in Paulsboro. N. J. I A Milwaukee dairy will pay |5 I gallon for milk from Pauline, the White House cow, while she is on ex hibition at a dairy show. In order to provide elk for a new park in Denver "Buffalo" Jones guar antees to drive 10,000 wild elk into the proposed park in 30 days. Wilbur Wright arrived home and : talked of progress in aviation in Eu | rope and the loss of life racing had caused. / . Fort Wayne, Ind., W. C. T. U. learn ed with amazement that a local brew er had secretly paid the rent of their soft drink booth at the county fair. Henry Clay Frick retired from the directorates of three railways, and his acquaintances said he might soon j quit business altogether to devote J more time to his art collection. Booker T. Washington will not be ; allowed to speak in Representatives ! Hall of the Texas capitol during his I proposed visit to Austin in September I and October. Classis of Grand Rapids West, of the Christian Reformed denomination, adopted a report demanding that all members of the denomination resign from labor unions. John Dixon, eighty-nine years old, who at the battle of Vera Cruz saw- Gen. Santa-Ana of the Mexican army lose his wooden leg in escaping, died in West Plains, Mo. The Public Service Commission, 2d District, has denied the application of the Buffalo, Rochester & Eastern Railroad company to build a line from Troy to Buffalo. The New York State Superintend ent of Insurance, in his report on the life companies, said that the year 1910 was a prosperous one for those concerns. Chicago wholesalers admit that meat prices will soar to new high re cords as a result of drought in the cattle raising country. Chicago claims the 2,500,000 popula tion mark, and says her new directory will prove it. A warrant was issued in Ketsap county, Wash, for the arrest of Linda Marfield Hazzard, known as the "star vation doctor," on an information charging murder <in the first degree; several of her patients are said to have starved to death. The Albany (N. Y.) County Savings bank began a suit against the adminis trators of the estate of Senator John Raines, alleging that the defendants had failed to comply with the terms of a bond and mortgage issued on the dead man's holdings cf real property. Suit was filed by the United States government in the Federal Circuit court at Columbus, Ohio, against six railroads and three coal mining con cerns, charging a combination in re straint of trade, and asking that the combination be enjoined from continu ing business. Miss Jennie Irwin Martin, clubwom an and lecturer of New York, wrote to Rev. Dr. Richmond saying she knew Mrs. Force and Miss Force and pleading with him "to save this young girl from an awful fate." Bishops and others continued to denounce the coming marriage. Admiral Togo inspected the United States warships in course of construc tion at Philadelphia, and it was said was more impressed with them than anything he had seen during his tour; a change was made in the admiral's itinerary to enable him to see the United States fleet manoeuvres, off Provincetown, Mass. Foreign Mulai Hafid, the sultan of Morocco, is ill with typhoid fever. A minor operation was performed on the Pope's knee to relieve pain. The Kaiser's yacht Meteor finished alone in the race for the gold cup at the international regatta. A general strike has been declared at Cadiz, Spain, and most of the shops and factories have been closed down. The veto bill came before the House of Lords shorn by the Com mons of the amendments previously made by the peers. Vienna authorities prohibited the importation, exportation or transit Si' second-hand •.•lothing from Trieste, where there are 20 cases of cholera. By a vote of 256 to 159 the House of Commons adopted a ministerial res olution calling for the payment of $2,- 000 a year to each of its members as salary. Edison was profoundly interested in the proceedings of the House of Com mons, though he found them lacking in excitement, and the eminent mem bers of Parliament paid him distin guished attention. General Antenor Firmin, the Hai tian leader, who it was thought might cause a new revolution by liis claims to the presidency, quit politics for good. Troops were ordered from Alder shot to the East End of London to deal with the rioting strikers; virtu ally no foodstuffs were handled at the Port of London. The Carlton hotel, London, was partly destroyed by tire, and Jameson Lee Finney, an American actor, was burned to death. The (•mage caused by the burning of the Carlton hotel, London, was estimated at nearly $300,000, all cov ered by insurance, including the be longings of the guests. The French steamer Emir, bound from Gibraltar to a Moroccan port, came Into collision with the British steamer, Silverton and foundered im mediately; twenty-seven passengers and crew were rescued and eighty-six were drowned NEGRO LYNCHED IN PENNSYLVANIA Taken from Hospital and then Burned at Stake for Murder. PITEOUS PLEA FOR MERCY Thrice Thrust Into Flames—Victim Beaten Back Into Fire After Drag ging Bed From Blazing Fagots —Mob Quietly Dispersed. Coatesville, Pa.—Zacharlah Walker, a negro desperado, was carried on a cot from the hospital here and burned to a crisp by a mob of men and boys on a tire which they ignited about a half mile from town. The negro, who had shot and killed Edgar Kice, a spe cial policeman of the Worth Iron Mills, was first dragged to the scene of the shooting, begging piteously for mercy. He had been arrested by a posse after a seach which .had stirred the countryside. When the posse filially found him he was found hiding in a cherry tree, and with the last bullet in his revolver he shot himself in the mouth, falling from the tree. He was removed to the hospital and placed under police guard. A few minutes after 9 o'clock p. m., a crowd numbering almost I.OOU per sons appeared at the hospital. The j leaders were unable to gain admission, but they quickly smashed the window frames and crawled through the corri dor. A policeman who had been placed on duty to watch Walker was the only person in the building beside the nurse and patients. The leader of the mob placed his hands over the policeman's eyes, while others who had entered the building set about to take their man from the hospital. The lynching was accomplished only after the negro, mad from pain, had leaped from the blazing fagots piled over him and tried to escape, dragging the bed to which he was bound by his handcuffs. A crowd of 2,000 watched the mob leaders beat the uegro with fence rails and force him, shrieking, back into the flames. Three times he bounded up and I three times was thrust back, until finally his quivering body fell into tho j fire. Only then was the mob satis- I fled. The masked men walked back to the town and a half hour later they had dispersed. The only masks worn by the mem bers of the mob were handkerchiefs drown loosely over their faces. Coatesville is a town of about 10,- 000 persons, and is located on the main line of the Pennsylvania Rail road, about thirty miles west of Phila delphia. 18-HOUR FLYER WRECKED. Great Steel Cars Jump Tracks on Out i skirts of Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Ind. —Rushing at a | speed of about seventy miles an hour j to make up lost time, the Pennsyl- I vania special, one of the eighteen- ] hour fliers between Chicago and New York oil the Pennsylvania railroad, was wrecked in the outskirts of this city at a new switch. The two huge en gines and the baggage, buffet, and two sleeping cars rolled down an embank ment. This is the second Sunday in succession that the flier has been wrecked. Four persons were killed and more j than thirty injured in the smash. The Known Dead. ARRK'K, WILLIAM E„ freight engi-i neer, Fort Wayne, lnd. MALONE, POTIOR, Fort Wayne, engi-I neer of flyer. CREIGH, W\, Fort Wayne, fireman on ! flyer, SNYDER, VALENTINE, of Crestline, i Ohio, fireman on freight train. In leaving the rails the two en- j gines side-wiped a freight engine, and the three piled up, the freight engine j rising over the two others as they J rolled over the bank. The rails and roadbed are torn up j for half a mile. SENDING ICE TO PARIS. Norway Rushing Supplies to Mitigate the Intense Heat. Paris. —Norway is sending supplies j to lessen the ice famine in Paris. Ice i at present is costing Paris if 12 a ton, ' against $4, which is the normal price. | It is feared that before the end aa ■ much as S2O a ton will be demanded, j The heat here is intense and there | seems no prospect or hrpe of its abat- I ing. Drought Boosts Beef Prices. Chicago.—That the drought in the j Southwest is responsible for the rise J in the price of beef is the opinion of the packers. Mob Shoots and Burns Negro. Durant, Okla.—A mob of 500 whites captured and shot to death an uniden tified negro who yesterday attacked and shot Mrs. Redden Campbell, near here, and afterward burned the ne gro's body. Lynched for 'Phone Insult. Faroersville, Tex. Commodore Jones, a negro, who it is alleged used insulting language in addressing a white woman over the telephone, was ha used by a mob here. m M J For the Hostess J "Can" Shower. At a Jolly affair given for a bride who had lived in the town all her life, and was a great favorite, the hostess asked each guest to bring a "can" of something for an emergency shelf. Then she gave this "can" con test, reading the questions, each one keeping account of tho number an swered. 1. Though this can Is a can, you all will agree. The run Is termed thus, because it | holds tea. 2. This long, narrow can holds so precious a stock, That oft you will find it has more than one lock. S. The most wicked can, tho' safe from police. Should you search for its heart you will find it in grease, t This can is a can that delights you and me. It always is "open," and likewise Is free. j 5. Where breezes blow, and surges roll, With swelling form and manner proud. This can In triumph rides the waves. The sailor's living and hts shroud. n. Here's a can which, bear In mind, I.lves on others of its kind. 7. They say empty cans will produce the most noise, But if properly filled, this will startle the boys. 8. Most cans are hardly fit to eat, Yet you'll like this kind, nice and sweet. , 9. The waltz or the glee or the bold and martial strain, Each one, as his favorite, indorses; But for those who prefer oratorio style This can sweetest music discourses. 10. Now who would elect in a can to re side, Yet this as a shelter Is known far and wide. 11. A can of most sagacious mind. 'Tis "frugal, prudent, shrewd," you'll find. 12. That a horse should use cans seems indeed strange to say, Yet If pressed to have one, he'd not utter a nay. 13. To put cans in poems no one Is in clined, Yet cans of this sort in some poems you'll find. 14. In tubs and in barrels men have ven tured from land. And In cans of this kind, so I under stand. 15. Now here is a can that is yellow and round, 'T would seem little prized, for it grows on the ground. KKV. 1. Canister. 9. Cantata. 2. Canal. 10. Canopy. S. Candle. It. Canny. 4. Candid. 12. Canter. 5. Canvas. 13. Canto. 6. Cannibal. 14. Canoe. 7. Cannon. 13. Cantaloupe. 8. Candy. Musical Entertainment. After the meeting of a musical club the hostess had this little diversion: One played the melody of the follow ing songs, the titles being unan nounced. "Star-Spangled Banner," "Marching Through Georgia," "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "Hail Columbia," "Home Sweet Home," "Yankee Doodle," "When Johnnie Comes Marching Home Again," "Auld Lang Syne," "America." The guests wrote down the names Dressing Gowns THE gown on the left is a pretty gown 'of cream Viyella, cut Magyar and trimmed with col lar and cuffs of turquoise Vi yella; the right front is taken over to the left side, where fastening is formed by buttons covered in blue. A girdle draws the gown in at waist. Materials required: Five yards Vi yella 33 inches wide, 1 yard blue for trimming, 9 buttons. opposite the numbers, the pianist say ing as she played, "No. 2," etc. After each piece the. hostess held up an ob ject. which illustrated a terra used in music, for instance, "Time," was a small clock; "measure," a yardstick; "key," a door key; "'flats," two flat irons; "lines," a pair of nursery lines; "sharps," a carving set; "tie," a gen tleman's tie; "bars," small clothes bars; "staff," a cane; "a whole note," a dollar; "a half-note," a half dol lar; "a quarter-note," a silver quarter. The ice cream was in shape of mu sical instruments and the bonbons were in small pianos, violins, etc. "Ship" Contest. For a guest going abroad, the hos tess had this contest, giving the ques tions at the table: What ship has no soft berths? Hard ship. What do Quakers prefer? Friendship. What ship requires the best men? Sea manship. What ship should saints sail in? Wor ship. What ship held only twelve persons? Apostleshlp. What ship should always protect its passengers? Citizenship. What ship should right Itself even when capsized? Clerkship. This ship is possessed of every "fac ulty"? Professorship. Is looking for a mate? Courtship. Always "has a house under It? Senator ship. What ship Is always fastened to a peer? Lordship. Always managed by moro than one per son? Partnership. What ship is made for one of Its own hands? Stewardship. What ship la never overloaded? States manship. MADAME MERUI. 1- —-t IN pquc The rogue of fusehia has but little abated. Above all others, tho season's fab ric is voile. Square and round neck bodices are equally popular. FashioYiable are royal purple para sols with white silk linings. Sailor collars of satin or silk are now veiled with black or white chif fon. Satin and velveteen are predicted as the leaders In suit material for tho fall. ' Nothing seems to diminish the popu larity of tho collarless bodice or gown. A novel and pretty conceit from Paris is colored sashes and shoes to match. Irregular shapes and plenty of un curled ostrich plumes mark the latest large hats as a rule. Their prominence in the coronation celebration has brought rich oriental fabrics' again to* the fore. Sweet peas in their delicate pink, blue, lavender and pink shades arp ideal for the afternoon hats. A real kimono, in style, is the sec ond. It is made up In Japanese cot ton crepe, edged down front and on sleeves by bands of sateen of the same color aa design on crepe. A sash draws the gown in at the waist, and is loosely knotted at the left side of front, where ends are left hanging. Materials required: Seven yards cotton crepe 28 Inches wide, Ift yards sateen. ALL OFF. The Big Roy—What did yer girl give j yer at Christmas, Bill? The Little Boy—De mitten. ITCHING AND BURNING SKIN | "About three years ago I was at- J tacked with a very severe itching and burning all over my body and finally my skin broke until my body looked like a piece of raw meat. I did believe that I could not stand the torture any longer, while all the time I was using the salve and the wash ordered by my physician without relief. When I was ( advised togo to a skin specialist I j went with no better results. My body | was covered with large white scales, with st»ales on my hands, arms and | lower limbs. In about one week my ; scalp was covered with scales which | looked like dandruff but became worse each day until at the end of another week the scales were as large as on a fish. The Itch in my head was un bearable. My hair was coming out in combfuls until it looked so bad I was ashamed togo on the street. "I used tar soap for a shampoo, but It took no effect. At the end of three weeks the back of my head was com pletely bald. I was a sight when I decided to try the Cuticura Ointment for the hair, and when I saw the won | derful results I decided to try the I Cuticura Soap and Ointment on my j body. After taking six baths In hot water with plenty of Cuticura Soap, and using three boxes of Cuticura i Ointment and one bottle of Cuticura Pills, I was cured. My hair has grown j more than an inch in length. "Hefore using the Cuticura Soap j and Ointment I lost all of my finger ! nails and my hands' were so sore I j could not put them in water. If I had | tried, them sooner I would have saved j a few hundred dollars." (Signed) Mrs. K. Detlefson, 651 Knickerbocker I Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 24, 191 J.. Although Cuticura Soap and Oint ' ment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be : mailed free on application to "Cuti | cura," Dept. 16 K, Boston. The Wreck. Mrs. Ronald H. Rarlow, the eastern golf champion, was talking at the Cape May Golf club about the benefits jof §ea air. "To look at the cottagers j and natives of Cape May," she said. [ "speaks of these benefits more elo j quently than I could do. How pale | and wan seem city people beside thes<j 1 brown, supple, vigorous men and { women! An excursionist from the city said to a fisherman on the beach the other morning: " 'Do you have many wrecks here?' "The fisherman looked contemptu i ously at the city man, who was in ■ bathing dress. He looked contempt uously at his hollow chest and white, thin legs and arms, and then he re plied: 'You're the fust I've saw this season.' " Serenity. "The true religious man, amid all the ills of tirpe, keeps a serene fore head and entertains a peaceful heart. This, going out and coming in amid all "the trials of the city, the agony of the plague, the horrors of the thirsty tyrants, the fierce democracy abroad, the fiercer ill at home —the saint, the sage of Athens, was still the same. Such a one can endure hardness; can stand alone and be content; a rock amid the waves —• lonely, but not moved. Around him the few or many may scream, calum niate, blaspheme. What is all to him but the cawing of the seabird about that solitary, deep-rooted stone?" — Theodore Parker. AT THE PARSONAGE. Coffee Runs Riot No Longer. "Wife and I had a serious time of it (vhilg We were coffee drinkers. "She had gastritis, .headaches, belch ing and would have periods, of. sick ness, while 1 secured a daily headache that became chronic. •/,. "We naturally sought relief by drugs without avail, for it is now plain enough that no drug •will cure the dis eases another drug (coffee) sets up, particularly, so long as the drug which causes the trouble is continued. "Finally we thought we would try leaving off coffee and using Postum. I noticed that my headaches disappeared like magic, and my old 'trembly' nerv ousness left. One day vife said, 'Do you know my gastritis has gone?' "One can hardly reali2<a what Post um has dune for us. "Then we began to talk to others. Wife's father and mother were both coffee drinkers and sufferers. Their headaches left entirely a short time after they changed from coffee to Postum. "I began to enquire among my par ishioners and found to ray astonish ment that numbers of th*m use Post um In place of coffee. Many oft» ministers who have visited our p: sonage have become enthusiastic ch: pions of Postum." Name given Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The If' Wellville," in pkgs. "Tt» *re'« a/ Errr renil the above letlenr one npprnra from tlm« to tf are trrnulae, true, and fair Intercut. / S.
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