Republican News Item
JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor.
LAPORTE PA.
GRIST FROM
THE WIRES
Latest Dispatches Ground Down
For Hasty Consumption.
WHOLE WORLD GLEANED
T"he Four Corners of the Earth and
the Seven Seas Are Made to
Yield a Tribute of Inter
esting News.
Washington
Ex-Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of
Rhode Island, has leased for a term of
years the residence of Hennen Jen
ningn in Washington, and will occupy
It early next winter.
Nearly fifty resolutions for investi
fligations still are pending before the
House Committee on Rules.
Postmaster General Hitchcock desig
nated fifty more post offices of the
first-class as postal savings deposi
tories.
Thomas D. Edwards, American con
sul at Juarez, Mexico, telegraphed to
the State Department that 13 Ameri
cans who had been arrested for violat
iiie state laws had been released un
der bond.
Personal
President Taft reached Beverly,
Mass., and began his first vacation of
any length since last spring.
Thomas A. Edison reached Aix-les-
Bains on his motor tour, expressing
delight at the vast vineyard industry
of Burgundy.
President Taft left Washington for
Rochester, where he addressed the G.
A. R.; then went to Beverly for three
weeks' rest before starting on a forty
day Western tour.
Sporting
C. K. G. Billings' famous trotter
Uhlan covered a mile on Goshen a
half-mile track in 2:03 3-4, making a
world's record.
Ty Cobb will take up minstrelsy dur
ing the winter, joining Lew Dock
stader's show for ten weeks after the
Lsseball season.
Miss Gabrielle Girard of New Brigh
ton, S. 1., arrived on the French liner
Espagne. She made a record for
mountain climbing, being the fourth
woman to ascend and descend Dent
Blanche, a peak nearly 14,000 feet
high, near Champery, in Switzerland.
Pitcher Dode Criss, famed as one
of the greatest pinch hitters the game
has produced, has been sold by the
St. Louis Browns to the Louisville
Club of the American Association.
On the occasion of the golden jubi
lee of Cardinal Gibbons in October, he
is to be presented with a rosary of
nuggets of gold in the rough mined in
Alaska and fashioned into a chain of
rosary beads by a miner.
James R. Keene of New York was
removed from the Berkeley Hotel,
London, to the Nursing Home in Dev
onshire Terrace, Bayswater.
General
Friends asked that the body of li
M. Gulick, rich theatrical man o:
Pittsburg, be disinterred in Greei.
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
In a special charge to the Mon
mouth County Grand Jury, at Free
hold, N. J., Justice Voorhees held that
the Councilmen, in repealing the ordi
nance prohibiting certain classes oi
Sunaay amusements at Long Branca
were equally guilty with the proprie
tors of the park in which these
amusements took place.
The Beef Trust again raised the
price of fresh meat and intimated it
would go still higher.
Depreciation in eight leading stocks
since July 22 amounted to $300,000,-
000.
Twenty-nine men were saved from
drowning off the New Jersey coast
between Normandie-by-the-Sea and
Seabright when the fishing boat Cus
tan was driven on the sands.
Residents of the Second Ward of
old Long Island City have demanded
the destruction of a pack of stray dogs
which have bitten many children.
A party composed mostly of citizens,
in five automobiles, raided the exclu
sive Hewlett Club at Hewlett, L. 1.,
in the driving rain at 1 a. m. The
names of several men found in the
club were taken and they were told
they would be summoned to court.
Roulette wheels and other gambling
paraphernalia were found in the club.
The house of E. M. Dichter of Dun
kirk was struck by lightning. The
bolt came down the chimney, tore the
plaster in the parlor occupied by eight
persons and passed out the front door
without injuring anyone
The year book of the North Ameri
can V. M. C. A. shows 536,037 mem
bers, a gain of 39,446.
Pursuit of the uegro who carried
away the son of an Oklahoma farmer,
living near Colbert, was abandoned;
the child was recovered; it was feared
tin 1 negro would have been burned by
u mob had ho been eantured
A bill signed by Governor Baldwin
will restrict the sale of liquor by drug
stores in Connecticut.
The Massachusetts Tax Commis
sion has caused the Lenox assessors
to add $600,000 valuation to the es
tate of Mrs. John Sloane, late of Lenox
and New York.
Oliver Lock, a negro wife murderer,
at Eddyville, I<y., Irolte the straps in
the electric chair, when the current
was turned on. The execution of sen
tence halted until restrapped.
In saving the farm house cf Mrs.
Grover Cleveland at Tamworth, N. H.,
from destruction by fire, Will O. Cook,
the caretaker, 50 years old, was fatal
ly burned.
Christopher C. Wilson, former head
of the United Wireless Company, and
two associates were taken yesterday
to Atlanta Prison, where they will
serve their sentences.
George Stahl, sixteen years old, ar
rested as a witness of the Coatesville
lynching, was denied freedom on ha
beas corpus and held without bail on
a charge of murder.
Beulah Binford said she no longer
loved Beattie, was afraid of him and
weald not marry him should he be
acquitted.
A dispatch from Chesterfield Court
House, Va., stated that the defence of
Henry C. Beattie, Jr., on trial for the
murder of his wife, will attack the
story of Paul Beattie, a cousin, who
asserted at the Coroner's inquest that
he purchased the gun with which Mrs.
Beattie was murdered.
Many industrial, health and acci
dent insurance companies were se
verely criticised at the convention of
State Insurance Commissioners at
Milwaukee; it was declared that many
such concerns resort to every form of
trickery and deceit to escape honest
obligations.
All manner of devices are in use by
l-lopkinsville, Ky., horsemen to secure
immunity from the bite of a small
green fly infesting that region. Mules
are encased in sacking, the coverings
for the legs consisting of cast off
trousers.
San Francisco's registration for the
coming primary and municipal elec
tion is 103,000, against 91,493 two
years ago.
The Brooklyn League gave out a
statement saying it favored amend
ments to the present city charter rath
er than the adoption at this time of an
entirely new one.
President Taft, Secretary Stimson
and Gifford Pinchot will address the
National Conservation Congress in
Kansas City in September.
The State Conservation Commission
asked the upstate Public Service Com
mission to compel lumber roads in the
Adirondaclcs to use oil burning loco
motives.
Two more victims of the Lehigh
Valley train wreck at Manchester
died, making the death roll twenty
nine.
The death roll of the Canonsburg
Opera House stampede was reported
at twenty-six, all of whom died from
suffocation; twenty-five were serious
ly injured; a break in the moving pic
ture film, causing a bright light on
the canvas, was given as the cause of
alarm of fire by a small boy, which
started the stampede.
An electrical storm struck Egg Har
bor, N. J. The water reached the
middle dam which guards the large
Gloucester cranberry bogs Within a
half-hour the water flooded the bogs
and the surrounding country.
Gen. Otis, owner of the Los Angeles
Times, whose plant the McNamara
brothers are accused of dynamiting,
was threatened over the telephone
with death if he failed to give SIO,OOO
for the McNamaras' defense.
Arthur Rhooes, teller of the bank in
Dolgeville, N. Y., killed himself in Lit
tle Falls when on the first vacation
he had in three years.
Labor unionists in Denver and
throughout Colorado have purchased
a coal mine near Erie, Colo., which
promises to furnish them fuel on 20-
year contracts at a price lower than
current rates.
Tim Murphy sued Mont Tennes, his
former partner, alleging Tennes con
trols the gambling situation in Chica
go and boasted that he had agreed to
pay $50,000 for protection and obtaiu
a like control in New York.
Foreign
It was expected that Marquis Saion
ji would be intrusted with the forma
tion of a Japanese Cabinet in succes
sion to that of Count Katsura, re
signed.
The maximum terms which France
will offer to Germany to settle Moroc
can disputes will be submitted to the
full cabinet; meantime they are held
in complete secrecy.
Venezuela is recruiting everywhere,
and everybody in the state of Falcon
capable of bearing arms is taking to
the mountains.
Wor was resumed on the British
railways, though some men held out,
owing to the companies attempting to
deprive the striers of their seniority
in favor of the men who did not goon
strie.
C. E. Holway, the American, won a
quater mile race at Sydney, N. S. W.,
defeating Trembat'a by three yards.
Time, 50 4-5 seconds.
The Pope received in audience the
Cardinal Archbishop of Rio do Janei
ro, and bestowed tne apostolic bene
diction on the churches in South
America.
The Lusitania, a day late, sailed
from Liverpool with the Campania's
passengers as well as her own.
A revolutionary plot implicating
former President Da">'a was discov
ered in Honduras.
SIG HURRICANE
AT CHARLESTON
Fatal Storm Devastates South
Carolina City.
ESTIMATE $1,000.000 DAMAGE
Damage Done to Rice Industry—Fer
tilizer Mills Suffer Greatly—Wind
Reaches Velocity of 94 Miles an
Hour—Blows in Eight-Foot Tide.
Cahrleston, S. C. —For more than
thirty-six hours this city was ravaged
by a storm which rivaled in fury that
of 1885. A hurricane unroofed houses,
felled trees, chimneys, and other high
structures, broke wires in all direc
tions, and whipped up the waters of
the harbor so that great damage was
done by a high tide to homes and
shipping.
The identified dead are W. H. Smith,
Columbia, drowned under falling
wharf; Cutter, a motorman, drowned;
Ida Robinson, crushed by roof; Rosa
Robinson, crushed by roof; Alonzo J.
Coburn, engineer, killed by flying tim
ber; Eva Myers, drowned; Tom Dooly,
drowned.
The property loss is very large, es
timates ranging all the way from sl,-
000,000 to $2,500,000. Telegraph and
telephone service was completely de
moralized and the electric light and
power system was put out of commis
sion. Masses of wreckage cover the
streets, and the business of the city
was paralyzed.
The wind reached a velocity of 94
miles an hour with the result that
scores of houses have been wrecked.
Shipping has suffered greatly, many
large schooners having been blown
ashore.
The lower sections of the city were
entirely inundated for the period of
18 hours, caused by the high tide
blown in by the wind.
Great damage is feared for the
rice and Sea Island cotton industries.
The fertilizer mills were also damaged
badly. All of the mills lost their
smokestacks, water towers, heads of
houses, and some of their roofing.
The waterfront has suffered as it
has not done since the cyclone of 1885,
when great havoc was done. A half
dozen wharves have been knocked
away.
The trestle adjoining the Mount
Pleasant ferry wharf was blown down,
killing J. M. Smith of Columbia, and
Motorman Cutter of the Cousolidatel
Electric Co. of Charleston. A. J. Co
burn, a southern railway engineer,
was killed by a roof flying across the
railroad yard and hitting him in the
back. The others among the dead
are almost all negroes whose names
are unobtainable.
SAYS EEATTIE CONFESSED.
"I Wish I Hadn't Done It," Witness
Declares Defendant Admitted.
Chesterfield Court House, Ya. —
Showing intense emotion, Paul D.
Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie,
Jr., who is on trial here for the mur
der of his wife, declared on the wit
ness stand that the defendant told him
twenty-four hours after the murder
that he was sorry "he had done it," a
circumstance relating to the crime
that the witness hitherto had sup
pressed.
"I wish to God'l had not done it! I
would give a million dollars if 1 could
undo it! But, anyway, she never
loved me! She only married me for
my money! I'd like to know how
those detectives found out that there
was a No. G cartridge used in that
gun."
This is what Paul Beattie swore
Henry Clay Beattie said to him.
An hour before this those in court
had been deeply impressed by the tes
timony of Mrs. R. Y. Owen, mother of
the dead woman, as to the unhappi
ness of her daughter due to her hus
band's dissipation.
KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF.
Father Murders Three Little Ones,
Then Takes Cyanide.
South Tliomaston, Me. —Grief over
the death of his wife led Edward Ben
nett, a graduate of Oxford university,
England, who had been a resident of
this town tor the last six years, to
murder his three children and then
take his own life. Two of the chil
dren were killed by the use of chloro
form and the third by cyanide of pot
assium and chloroform.
To make his own death certain,
Bennett went to the water's edge and
there took a dose of cyanide of potas
sium and jumped in. His body was
found 200 feet off shore when the tide
receded.
His murdered children are Edward,
aged six; Barbara, aged four, and
Nancy, aged two.
RUSH CHICAGO SKYSCRAPERS.
Must Ee Begun Before Now if Height
is Over 200 Feet.
Chicago.—Work on no less than six
skyscrapers to cost more than $lO,-
000,000 will be begun ill the down
town district.
This unusual rush to the construc
tion of high buildings is the result of
a new ordinance limiting the height
of buildings to 200 feet, which goes
into effect at once. The present limit
on buildings is 260 feet.
G Cotist ""
JE|xi Harry Trying Cfrpenp
Here's a toast to every man,
Of every race, and creed and clan,
Who
By his manhood strong and free,
Digs from the earth, wrests from the sea,
Their treasures,
And whose arm and mind,
Leaves to his fellows —all mankind,
His heritage —his work.
So, here's to the man who digs the gold,
And here's to the man who makes the mold,
And here's to the man who mints the rim,
And here's to the man—good luck to him,
Who
By his strength of arm and mind,
Leaves to his fellows —all mankind,
His heritage—his work.
Here's a toast to the woman, too,
Man's comrade stanch, man's comrade true,
Who
By her womanhood soft and sweet,
Coaxed into light from its dark retreat,
Man's treasures,
That his arm and mind
Might leave his fellows —all mankind,
His heritage—his work.
So, here's to the man who digs the gold,
Who fashions its shape into wealth untold,
With water or wine—filled to the brim
We'll drink this toast —good luck to him
Who
By his strength of arm and mind,
Leaves to his fellows —all mankind,
His heritage—his work.
Labor's Changing Ideal
ORGANIZED labor's ideal of a
short workday changes with
varying conditions. At one time
it was customary to work 12 or
more hours per day, but as civilization
advanced the working day has been
steadily reduced.
In reducing the hours of labor the
unions have been chiefly instrumental,
as they have in various trades estab
lished a sorter workday and then fol
lowed it up by legislation wherever
they have been strong enough.
Though "eight hours" may be the
objective which organized labor now
seeks to accomplish, it does not fol
low that eight hours is ideal, or that
it will be the goal of the future. The
short-hour movement rests funda
mently upon necessity.
"The constant improvement in ma
chinery and consequent displacement
of labor, together with the further dis
placement of labor by the tendency
toward consolidation in all lines of in
dustry, must ultimately compel us to
choose between three things: First,
we may shorten the hours of labor to
distribute opportunity for employment,
or, second, we may tax property to
support the idle, or, third, we may
have revolution."
This masterly and unaswerable sum
ming up of the underlying causes of
the short-hour movement was by a
statesman, no less than the late
Thomas B. Reed.
It follows that as long as machinery
and methods continue so to improve
that less and less hours are required
for productive labor, the ideal work
ing day will be shorter and shorter.
Labor does not expect to live with
out work —it complains that there are
too many who live without work, and
Labor Day Beginning
Terence V. Powderly, the man who
was largely instrumental in organizing
tho Knights of Labor nearly forty
years ago, tells the Washington cor
respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle of
the first Labor day. In 1881 there
was a parade of 20,000 labor men in
New York city, and one of the officials
said to another on the reviewing
stand: "Well, Jack, this is Labor day,
all right, isn't it?" Tho remark at
tracted attention and a reservation
setting aside the first Monday in Sep
tember for a celebration of labor's
was iv»tr®duced in tho New
it would like to make the hours short
enough so that all will have to work.
It notes that banking and profes-
men work five hours or less,
and hopes to reach the same Ideal
some time.
To provide work for the idle affects
the supply of and demand for labor
and favorably affects wages—as all
short-hour trades well know—but the
desire of the worker to have some
time for recreation and amusement
stimulates the demand for shortef
hours.
As our wage-earners become better
educated they become more deter
mined to have more of the benefit of
labor-saving machinery.
They desire more leisure that their
industrial life may be prolonged.
They desire their fellow-men to be
employed.
They desire good wages and realize
that to preserve them their fellow
men must bo employed.
The late George E. McNeill, called
the father of the eight-hour move
ment, said "Eight hours for work,
eight hours for rest, eight hours for
what we will."
This seems like an equitable divis
ion as long as eight hours is tho ob
jective, but as invention follows inven
tion, it is likely the figures will have
to be revised.
The ideal Short hour workday is the
shortest day possible that will give
good wages, and give the largest meas
ure of freedom, recreation and enjoy
ment to the worker, enabling him to
support his family, educate his chil
dren. and lay aside something for the
rainy day.
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
York legislature. While it was pend
ing Oregon passed a law establishing
the holiday, the first state in the
Union to do this. New York was the
second. Later states to the number
of thirty-three passed similar laws,
and in 1594 the day was recognized
by the national government and is
row observed wherever It has juris
diction. The language of the govern
ment resolution was to the effect that
on that day employers and employes
should get together to discuss their
general welfare. That result has not
been generally observable an yet, but
perhaps we shall nork up to it eventu
ally.
WORLD FAMOUS SCIENTIST
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Guido Blenio, who was awarded a
gold medal at the International Ex
position, Turin, Italy, in 1909, in com
petition with 142 chemical experts
tfrom all over the
world was cured by
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and strongly recom
mends them. When
visited by our repre
sentative at his New
York office, Mr. lile
nio said: "I did not
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kidney trouble had on me until I ap
plied for life insurance. The doctor
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heard of Doan's Kidney Pills and be
gan using them. I improved rapidly
and in a short time had no symptom
of kidney disease remaining. I again
applied for insurance and this time
was promptly accepted."
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New York City.
Remember the name—Doan's.
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Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A PARADOX.
Manager—Has your new play plen
ty of life in It?
Playwright—Sure. Why, eight peo
ple are killed in the last two acts.
Heard In St. Louis.
"Let's drop in this restaurant."
"Oh, I don't believe I care to eat
anything."
"Well, come in and get a new hat
for your old one, anyway."
The next time you feci that (wallowing
sensation Rargle llamlins Wizard Oil im
mediately with three parts water. It will
save you days and perhaps weeks of mis
er}' from sore throat.
It isn't difficult to induce the other
fellow to compromise when he real
izes that you have the best of it.
Mrq. Winslows Soothing Syrup for Children
teething. nofteriH the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle.
The trouble with giving advice is
net many want to take it.
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